78/2359 [Zoology]. Boddaert, P. Brief aan (...) Johannes Oosterdyk Schacht (...) van den Twee-Koleurigen Kikvorsch. Epistola (...) de rana bicolore. Amst., M. Magérus, 1772, 48p., Dutch and Latin text, 3 contemp. handcol. engr. fold. plates, modern cl., large 4to.

- Frontcover sl. soiled. Contents fine.

= Nissen, ZBI 435; Landwehr, Dutch Books w. Col. Plates 36. One of five treatises of an unfinished work entitled "Musaeum Schlosserianum", describing the "Wunderkammer" of J.A. Schlosser. First and only edition of Boddaert's description of the nocturnal giant leaf frog, a native species of the Amazon.