Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.) with illustrations on its external form and internal structure there are early ink marginalia

there are early ink marginalia in Latin on some pages

slightly creamy paper that is generally unblemished

Finely engraved map with vivid original hand-coloring (53 x 62 cm

but they were never formally organized into his encyclopedia

Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius, Linn.) with illustrations on its external form and internal structure there are early ink marginaliaPp. (4), 2 68; 8 full page monochrome lithographed plates (15 total lithographs many are two page). Recent green one half straight grain morocco leather over English marbled boards, green endpapers, 4to (293 x 232 mm). According to DSB X, p. 261, "The attention of the scientific community was first focused on Owen in 1832 when he published Memoir on the Pearly Nautilus. which was based on a single specimen of this delicate organism that was previously