Author: Bergmann, C.
Title: Ueber die Verhältnisse der Wärmeökonomie der Thiere zu ihrer Grösse.
Description: Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1848. Small 8vo. 116 pp. Contemporary marbled wrappers. = Early - rare - study on animal physiology and in particular the relation between an animal's size and its heat-production. This is an offprint from the Göttinger Studien, with its own pagination. OCLC reports only ten copies in libraries worldwide. Old (19th century) library label on front paste-down, a few stamps on the title page, some light foxing to the endpapers but text pages clean. A very good copy.

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