O Gadach bez Sensacji.
by Marya ska, Teresa
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- first
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About This Item
Warsaw: Wydawnictwa Geologiczne, Muzeum Ziemi pan Warszawa, 1970. Duodecimo. Original yellow wrappers printed in black with a black and white photo of fossilised dinosaur skin to the upper wrapper. Folding map. Diagrams and illustrations from black and white photographs throughout the text. Contemporary price sticker to the rear cover. Wrappers a little tanned and rubbed, tail of spine bumped. A very good copy. First edition, first impression. A rare copy of this charming, illustrated booklet on dinosaurs published by Warsaw's Museum of the Earth. WorldCat only locates one copy, at the National Library of Poland. The detailed edition statement records that this book was submitted for typesetting in October 1969 and approved for printing in March 1970, with the order number dated 1969, for a total of 5,200 copies. Though the date 1979 appears above the statement, this is a typo, likely for 1970 (many thanks to Philip Penka of Bernett Penka Rare Books for the translation). Author Teresa Marya ska (1937-2019)) was a leading dinosaur palaeontologist associated with the Museum of the Earth at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, where she as vice-director between 1976 and 2006. "Her research was initially on invertebrate palaeontology. Her thesis concerned the Bryozoa, but she was always interested in vertebrates and looked for an opportunity to study them. Eventually, she was invited to participate in the Polish-Mongolian Palaeontological Expeditions to the Gobi desert, and became an active, highly appreciated participant of all four expeditions" (Borsuk-Bia ynicka & Jakubowski, "In Memoriam: Teresa Marya ska", Acta Palaeontologica, volume 64, number 4, 2019). Marya ska's first dinosaur research was on the ankylosaurs, and her magnum opus on their anatomy and taxonomy was published in 1977. She then worked on specimens of the pacycephalosaurs, protoceratopsians, hadrosaurs, and oviraptors, and many of her discoveries were made while working closely with her colleague and friend Halszka Osmólska (1930-2008). She was also a co-author of several chapters of The Dinosauria, one of the most important scholarly reference works on dinosaurs, first published in 1990 and "unparalleled for its comprehensiveness at the time" (Borsuk-Bia ynicka).
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- Bookseller
- Alembic Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 681
- Title
- O Gadach bez Sensacji.
- Author
- Marya ska, Teresa
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Wydawnictwa Geologiczne, Muzeum Ziemi pan Warszawa
- Place of Publication
- Warsaw
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- Biology|Natural History|Zoology|Paleontology|Dinosaurs|Popular Science|Women in Science
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