Fauna del regno di Napoli
Subtitle: Animali articolati: Crostacei; Aracnidi
Contributors: Costa, Achille, 1823-1898
Publisher: s.n.
Published: 1838
Place of publication: Naples
Language: ita
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Arthropoda; Arachnida; Crustacea
Other titles: Crostacei, Aracnidi
Notes: Achille Costa assisted in completing the Crostacei section after the death of O.G. Costa.

Includes bibliographical references.

BM (Nat. hist.), v. 1, p. 389

Bibl. zoologica, I, Bd. 1, s. 1633-1634

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SCNHRB copy 39088009178690 is imperfect: t.p. wanting. A hand-written title is penciled on front free endpaper.

A few pages from Crostacei appear to be wanting, and some pages (and the Catologo) are bound out of place. For a full collation of the complete work, with dates of publication for the various parts, see the Sherborn article.

Includes 29 leaves of plates (27 from Crostacei, out of a total of 29, and 2 from Aracnidi, out of a total of 4, in various foliations).

Tipped in at front: part of photocopied article by C. Davies Sherborn from Journal Soc. Bib. Nat. Hist., v. 1 (1937), p. 35-41, "On the dates of publication of Costa (O.G.) and (A.) Fauna del regno di Napoli, 1829-1886"; another copy of the same article (p. 35, 39-42 only) is inserted at the end of the volume.

Stamps on front free endpaper: Library, Div. of Crustacea; Invertebrate Zoology, Crustacea. Stamp on p. [1]: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, May 31, 19[??]; accession no. 195124.

Includes some ms. annotations in pencil throughout, in an unknown hand.

Blue buckram library binding with white-lettered spine and decorated endpapers.