Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'un genre de polypes d'eau douce, à bras en forme de cornes
By: par A. Trembley ...
Contributors: Pronk, Cornelis, 1691-1759, ill; Schley, Jacobus van der, 1715-1779, engraver; Lyonet, Pierre, 1706-1789, ill; Bayer, Frederick M., former owner
Publisher: Chez Jean & Herman Verbeek
Published: 1744
Place of publication: A Leide
Language: fre
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Ctenophora; Hydromedusae; Cnidaria
Other titles: Mémoires pour l'histoire des polypes; Memoire sur le polypes
Notes: Folding illustration by P. Lyonet; headpieces by C. Pronk, engraved by J. v. Schley.

Woodcut title vignette, initials; engraved head- and tail-pieces.

Signatures: *-2*A-IK(-K4) L-2S.

Includes bibliographical references.

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SCNHRB has two copies.

SCNHRB c.1 (39088002497683) has ms. ink note on front free endpaper.

SCNHRB c.1 bound in contemporary mottled calf, with triple gilt fillets at outer edges; gilt tooled spine with raised bands; marbled endpapers and edges.

SCNHRB c.2 (39088011699063) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Dr. Frederick M. Bayer; with his monogram stamp on t.p. and last leaf.

SCNHRB c.2 has inscribed on front free endpaper: Girtanner 823.b (II.60.a); unidentified property stamp on t.p.

SCNHRB c.2 originally had laid-in by Bayer: Ischikawa, C. Trembley's Umkehrungsversuche an Hydra nach neuen Versuchen erklärt. Leipzig : W. Engelmann, 1890.

SCNHRB c.2 bound in half paste paper and vellum; with ms. label on front cover.
Table of contents: title: 1. mém. Où l'on décrit les polypes, leur forme, leur mouvemens, & une partie de ce qu'on a pu découvrir sur leur structure; title: 2. mém. De la nourriture des polypes ... Du tems & des moïens les plus propres, pour trouver des polypes; title: 3. mém. De la génération des polypes; title: 4. mém. Operations faites sur les polypes, & les succès qu'elles ont eu.