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JEAN-BAPTISTE CROIZET AND ANTOINE CLAUDE GABRIEL JOBERT
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du départment du Puy-de-Dome. Clermont-Ferrand and Paris: [1826-]1828. Volume I (comprising parts 1-9, all published), 4° (290 x 220mm). Half-title. Double-page lithographic map hand-coloured in outline, 8 lithographic plates of geological sections, 27 (of 48) lithographic plates of fossils. (Without the 21 plates of fossil deer as often, occasional spotting throughout.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked and recornered, preserving original darkened spine, new endpapers). Provenance: Yorkshire Philosophical Society (printed library slip and small stamps, sold in 1972 to:) -- Wheldon and Wesley.
RARE CLASSIC STUDY OF FOSSIL MAMMALS FOUND IN THE AUVERGNE GEOLOGY. In it the authors named, described and figured for the first time some of the most important and characteristic fossil species of the European Lower Pleistocene. The eleven Croizet and Jobert species names still in use include two sabre-tooth cats (Meganteron meganteron and M. cultridens), a fossil cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis), the early lynx L. issiodorensis, Hyaena perriei, the gomophere Anancus arvernesis and Rhinoceros elatus. L.D. Brongersma, 'Some notes on Bravard, Croiset and Jobert, "Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du département du Puy-de-Dome"' in J. Soc. Biblphy nat. Hist. (1938) 1 (5): 123-128; M. Rudwick Worlds Before Adam (2008), pp.218-224.
Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du départment du Puy-de-Dome. Clermont-Ferrand and Paris: [1826-]1828. Volume I (comprising parts 1-9, all published), 4° (290 x 220mm). Half-title. Double-page lithographic map hand-coloured in outline, 8 lithographic plates of geological sections, 27 (of 48) lithographic plates of fossils. (Without the 21 plates of fossil deer as often, occasional spotting throughout.) Contemporary half calf (rebacked and recornered, preserving original darkened spine, new endpapers). Provenance: Yorkshire Philosophical Society (printed library slip and small stamps, sold in 1972 to:) -- Wheldon and Wesley.
RARE CLASSIC STUDY OF FOSSIL MAMMALS FOUND IN THE AUVERGNE GEOLOGY. In it the authors named, described and figured for the first time some of the most important and characteristic fossil species of the European Lower Pleistocene. The eleven Croizet and Jobert species names still in use include two sabre-tooth cats (Meganteron meganteron and M. cultridens), a fossil cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis), the early lynx L. issiodorensis, Hyaena perriei, the gomophere Anancus arvernesis and Rhinoceros elatus. L.D. Brongersma, 'Some notes on Bravard, Croiset and Jobert, "Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du département du Puy-de-Dome"' in J. Soc. Biblphy nat. Hist. (1938) 1 (5): 123-128; M. Rudwick Worlds Before Adam (2008), pp.218-224.