Reichert, C. – Ueber die Visceralbogen der Wirbelthiere im Allgemeinen und deren Metamophose bei den Säugethieren und Vögeln.

Very rare first and only edition. Karl Bogislaus Reichert is famous for his pioneer research on cyclo theory. Together with Ernst Gaupp he was co-architect of the Reichert-Gaupp theory. The present work, in which he investigates the ear of mammels, complex organs of preception, give a detailed knowledge about anatomy and morphology of the ears. The Reichert-Gaupp theory were the background for the studies on the huma ear. – “First description of the visceral arches in vertebrates” (Garrison/Morton 482). At the Universities of Königsberg and Berlin, he was pupil of Baer, Joh. Müller and others. – See Hirsch/Hübotter IV, 752; Nordenskiöld, History of Biology, p. 398-400; NDB, vol. 21; DSB p. 360 ff for extensive articles; not at Wellcome, Waller, Josephin. Bibliothek. – Spine missing, edges a bit rubbed.