Caratteri di Alcuni Nuovi Generi e Nuove Specie di Animali e Piante della Sicilia

Caratteri di Alcuni Nuovi Generi e Nuove Specie di Animali e Piante della Sicilia
by C. S. Rafinesque
Adopted for Conservation by
M. G. Harasewych
on September 13, 2012
Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia- Con varie osservazioni sopra i medesimi.

Caratteri di alcuni nuovi generi e nuove specie di animali e piante della Sicilia : con varie osservazioni sopra i medesimi

By C. S. Rafinesque. Palermo: Per le stampe di Sanfilippo, 1810.

Rafinesque is one of the more eccentric, polymathic, and under-appreciated figures in the history of the natural sciences. Born in Constantinople in 1783 and self-educated.  As a youth in Marseilles, he settled for a time in Italy where he researched, wrote, and published this work on the plants and animals, primarily the fishes, of Palermo.  He subsequently relocated to the U.S where he rushed headlong into American scientific circles. He traveled, lectured, and published widely on subjects in botany, zoology, anthropology, and linguistics.  Though never seriously respected in his own day, much of his work is now being reassessed.

Condition and Treatment: 

Poor condition. Original paper wrapper. Text with fold-out illustrations. Previously dis-bound with sections haphazardly re-attached. Several loose pages. Surface dirt.  Conservators will dis-bind. Dry-clean text-block and illustrations. Re-sew. Create cloth-covered drop-spine box.

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Adoption Type: Preserve for the Future