De Ranis Observationes: accessit Caspari Bartholini th. f. de nervorum usu in motu musculorum epistola

Pp. xiv (half-title, title, dedication, preface, eimio viro), 1-108 (includes text + epistola + breviaria capitum); 3 folding text-figures bound in at page 76.  Old stiff pale-pink paper wrappers, 12mo (18.6 x 11.6 cm).  This is Oliger Jacobaeus’ dissertation on frog anatomy and ontogeny.  This is the first book published that is devoted exclusively to frogs.  The text is in Latin and Ancient Greek.  From the private research collection of Cornell University herpetologist Kraig Adler with his small bookplate on the verso of the half-title page.  Very small circular stamp at the base of the title page (not intelligible).  Rare work seldom offered.