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Iconographie complète de Coquilles fossiles de l'éocene des environs de Paris.
1904-1913 2 vols (complete). 12, 22, 20 [1], 110 unnumbered p, 110 pls, roy. 4to, loose in printed covers (one back cover missing) as issued (in a simple cloth drawer. Added is the Avertissement leaf, and of volume 2 the title-page page, index and errata, are in two states (22 and 21 pages)George Pissarro made the fine photographs and Cossmann is responsible for the scientic work. Scarce monograph on the eocene fossil molluscs from the Paris basin. Seldom offered for sale but indispensable for those studying this fossil fauna.
Iconographie complète de Coquilles fossiles de l'éocene des environs de Paris.
1904-1913 2 vols (complete). 12, 22, 20 [1], 110 unnumbered p, 110 pls, roy. 4to, loose (as issued) in a nice custom made cloth box. Added is the Avertissement leaf, and of volume 2 the title-page page, index and errata, are in two states (22 and 21 pages). Good complete, uncut copy, but without the different covers of the several installments..George Pissarro made the fine photographs and Cossmann is responsible for the scientic work. Scarce monograph on the eocene fossil molluscs from the Paris basin. Seldom offered for sale but indispensable for those studying this fossil fauna.
Iconographie complète des coquilles fossiles de l'Éocène des environs de Paris. Tome 1er Pélécypodes. Tome 2e Scaphopodes, Gasteropodes, Brachiopodes, Céphalopodes et supplément.
1904-1913 34 [12 (i), 21] p., 110 [45, 65] plates with explanatory text leaves, folio (32.0 x 25.0 cm). Original printed wrappers.Rare complete set in the original wrappers of this famous atlas of Eocene molluscs (and brachiopods) from the Paris Basin. Mainly from Lutetien, Bartonien and Cusien stages, these faunas are known to be extremely rich and well preserved. A few species are introduced here as valid names, in particular on the last plate of volume 1 "supplément". Around 1900, the French palaeontologist and malacologist [Alexandre Édouard] Maurice Cossmann (1850-1924), was the leading expert on the Eocene Mollusca. He had an enormous amount of material at his disposal which accounts for the quality of the photographed specimens. Pissarro was responsible for the fine photographs. A smaller, printed leaf, "Avis aux souscripteurs" has been added. A few short tears in the wrapper edges, otherwise a very good, clean set.
