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1852 - Steenstrup, J.J.S.
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Steenstrup, J.J.S. On the Alternation of Generations, or Reproduction and Development through Alternating Generations... Copenhagen, C.A. Reitzel 1842. xvii, (i), 140, (ii) p. 3 folding lithographic plates based on the author’s drawings. Contemporary marbled boards; some stamps erased from the title page; some slight browning. The first comprehensive presentation of the phenomenon of metagenesis, or the alternation of sexual and asexual phases in the reproductive cycle. See Norman no. 2009 and D.S.B. XIII, pp. 115–119. This is the first German edition, published in the same year as the first Danish edition. An interesting associated copy from the library of the great zoologist von Baer, bearing his bookplate and some handwritten annotations, likely also by von Baer. First edition from the library of Karl von Baer. - 69.
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