‎Barrande, J.‎
‎Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Ière partie: recherches paléontologiques. Vol. II. Classe des mollusques. Ordre des Céphalopodes. Supplément et série tardive.‎

‎1877 Title page, 84 beautiful lithographed plates [numbered 461-544]on thick paper with explanatory text leaves, roy. 4to, publisher’s blind-tooled black cloth with gilt title on the spine. Privately published. Old library stamp and author’s dedication on title, spine missing, but about half of spine with the gilt title inserted loose. Otherwise a very good clean copy.Part of a large series on all aspects of Bohemian Silurian fossils. Each volume was privately printed in only 250 copies. From 1840 to his death Barrande collected, described and drew the fossils of the central Bohemian Basin - this area has been called the Barrandian ever since. At that time 'Silurian' might be applied to strata that today are in the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian or Devonian system. Because this work is so comprehensive, its drawings so accurate and its descriptions so fine, it is still used as a reference book by palaeontologists. The Cephalopoda (mostly ammonites) were described and figured in volume II, which consist of nine parts, and two supplements. All parts are rare. This is the complete plate supplement. The accompanying text is not present.‎

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