Verhandelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, Vol. 28, 1890
Amsterdam: C. G. Van der Post, 1890. Hardcover. Quarto, 11 x 9.5 inches, blue cloth gilt, good or better with ex-library marks: bookplate on pastedown, ink stamps and perforated stamp on title page, a few more old ink stamps to the next few pages after the title page, including a withdrawn stamp, rest of the text free of marks, spine with call letters in gilt at base, text tanned.. Each contribution with its own title page. A volume from the Dutch journal of the Royal Academy of Sciences. With six essays, four in Dutch and two in German: Hoffmann on the development of hearing organs in reptiles, Rauwenhoff on the sex generation of Gleicheniaceae (a family of ferns), Hagen's anthropological study of the Dutch colony in the East Indies at Insulinde, VAn der Stok's meteorological and magnetic observations at St. Petersburg, Batavia and Prague, and Sissingh on the measurements of Kerr's Phenomenon when magnetisation is parallel to a mirror specific surface. With 18 mainly lithographic plates. Good. Item #H32864
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