Józef Nusbaum, General Principles of the Science of Animal Development (Embryology) [1887]

Year of publication: 1887.

Size: 22.5 cm.

Volume: 292 pp. + index.

Binding: Half-leather with visible scuffs.

Józef Nusbaum (later Nusbaum-Hilarowicz) published this book as a young assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, having studied under Aleksander Kowalewski and Ilya Mechnikov in Odessa. Later, as a professor in Lviv, he founded a school of zoology there and translated Darwin’s *On the Origin of Species* into Polish. *General Principles of the Science of Animal Development* is one of the first such comprehensive Polish works on embryology, written clearly and with an evolutionary perspective in mind. The text includes numerous woodcuts.

Notes on the title page, which is partially detached from the text block; one loose page. Half-leather binding with scuffs.

An item from the 18th Polish Antiquarian Book Auction.