| Item Description: | Atlas does not have separate title page; 33 x 50 cm.
Michael Laird, bookseller, description: A pioneering work, containing extremely large and astonishingly detailed lithograph illustrations on malformations of domestic and agricultural animals by Ernst Friedrich Gurlt (1794-1882), an authority on animal teratology. The work is devoted to the pathological anatomy of of domestic animals and is of considerable interest to veterinarians. The 35 gigantic lithograph plates depict more than 100 finely executed figures, illustrating a wide spectrum of animal malformations. It is a remarkable fact that NO complete sets of Gurlt's masterwork are listed in Rare Book Hub, which documents more than 8 million rare book transactions. "This work remains one of the best descriptive works on mammalian teratology today. It was the first treatise to apply the Linnean binomial system of taxonomy to the entire spectrum of malformations." (J. Bruce Beckwith, "Congenital malformations: from superstition to understanding" in: Archiv für Pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie und für Klinische Medicin, October 2012, 461:614-615). |
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