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ERDL, MICHAEL PIUS. Tafeln zur vergleichenden Anatomie des Schaedels. 20 lithographed plates of human and animal skulls, 10 of them outline duplicates. [6], 14 pages. Broadside, 608x456 mm, original wrappers, edges worn, backstrip partly cracked and reinforced on verso, contents loose as issued; occasional heavy foxing on text leaves, minor marginal foxing and soiling on plates, title and first plate toned; cloth clamshell case. Bookplate and stamp of the Benedictine monastery of Admont, Austria. Munich: [Gebrüder Minsinger], 1841
first edition of a monograph on comparative craniology with illustrations largely redrawn or revised from those in Johann Baptist von Spix's 1815 Cephalogenesis. Nissen ZBI 1303. RBH and JAP record one copy; none in ABPC.
