Description: Steenstrup, Japetus; translated by Agnette Volsoe, Jorgen Knudsen, William Rees - THE CEPHALOPOD PAPERS OF JAPETUS STEENSTRUP, A TRANSLATION INTO ENGLISH...WITH A PREFACE BY RAGNAR SPARCK Copenhagen: Danish Science Press, Ltd., 1962, 1st 330 pages, illustrated Steenstrup was a Danish zoologist, biologist, and professor famous for naming and describing the giant squid 'Architeuthis dux' ('ruling squid') in 1857, previously famous in legend as the kraken. "The 24 papers contained in this volume represent the researches spanning half a century of the most astute observer of cephalopods that the 19th century produced" Dr. Gilbert L. Voss from his review of the book for The Quarterly Journal of Biology, U. of Chicago Press. Inscribed to Dr. Voss from Jorgen Knudsen, curator of mollusks at the Copenhagen museum and one of the translators. Gray buckram boards containing the original softcover book including covers, bound for Voss with his name at the spine foot. A few penciled marginialia by Voss, slight wave to top edges of pages at rear. Very Good
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Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
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Author: Japetus Steenstrup / Agnete Volsoe, Jorgen Knudsen, William Rees
Publisher: Danish Science Press Ltd.
Topic: Cephalopods giant squid octopus mollusca
Subject: Marine Biology 19th Century zoologists Denmark
