Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India. Cretaceous fauna of southern India. Vol. IV 3. Ser. VIII. 3. The Echinodermata. [Complete].
by Stoliczka, F
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Calcutta, Geological Survey Office, 1873. Folio (34.8 x 24.7 cm). Title page, 59 pp.; seven lithographed plates. Contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spine with five raised, gilt-lined bands and gilt title. Marbled endpapers. = An attractively bound work published in the Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India with the descriptions and fine illustrations of many new and poorly known species, the vast majority being quite well preserved. The author is the Moravian zoologist and palaeontologist Ferdinand Stoliczka (Czech Stolicka (1838-1874). "Stoliczka studied geology and palaeontology at Prague and the University of Vienna under Professor Eduard Suess and Dr Rudolf Hoernes. ... In 1862 Stoliczka joined the Geological Survey of India (GSI) under the British Government in India after being recruited by Dr Thomas Oldham (1816-1878). In Calcutta he was assigned the job of documenting the Cretaceous fossils of southern India and published them in the Palaeontologia Indica, along with William Thomas Blanford. By May 1873 this work was completed with four volumes totalling nearly 1500 quarto size pages with 178 plates" (Wikipedia). This is the offprint, with double pagination. Some scattered, mostly light foxing, otherwise a very good, complete copy. Complete copies are rare, especially when contemporarily bound, as this one.
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- Palaeontologia Indica, being figures and descriptions of the organic remains procured during the progress of the geological survey of India. Cretaceous fauna of southern India. Vol. IV 3. Ser. VIII. 3. The Echinodermata. [Complete].
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- Stoliczka, F
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- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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