Elephants.- Camper (Pierre) Description Anatomique d'un Éléphant Mâle

Elephants.- Camper (Pierre) Description Anatomique d'un Éléphant Mâle, first edition, half-title, engraved portrait frontispiece (ink ownership inscription to verso), 20 engraved plates, some water-staining, occasional marginal fraying, later cloth, sunned and stained, edges uncut, [Nissen ZBI 798], folio, Paris, 1802. *** A classic description of the anatomy of the elephant. "Pieter Camper (1722-1789), the renowned Dutch physician, was not only an able naturalist but also a gifted draughtsman who did all the illustrations for this work. "Camper was highly esteemed in the scientific world, as is shown by his membership in most learned societies of western Europe." (DSB)

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