Oskamp on gorilla 1803
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2020-08-30
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GORILLA. OSKAMP, Dieterich Leonhard. Naauwkeurige beschryving van der grooten en kleinen Orang-Outang, gelyk ook van den Gibbon, de twee Aapensoorten, die het meest naar den Mensch gelyken. Amsterdam: J.C. Sepp en Zoon, 1803.
4to (265x215 mm.). (2), 22 pp. Renovated blue paper binding with new spine and corners. Printed title mounted on cover.
The first description of the western lowland gorilla published in the Boston Journal of Natural History. BM(NH) IV, p.1814.
Lacking the 2 hand-coloured engraved plates by J.C. Schultsz after A. de Lelie.
A translation was published in 1847.
Lacking the 2 plates. Binding worn, damages to spine.
