Author: Capellini, Giovanni [1833-1922]
Title: Balenottere fossili e pachyacanthus dell'Italia meridionale [bound together with 3 other palaeontological papers by Capellini]
Description: Roma, [Reale Accademia dei Lincei], [1877-1879]. Later boards. 29x22cm, (114) pp. Recent binder's blind boards. Caption-titled. Single-side lithographed plates. 16pp lithographed plates.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This is a single volume containing 4 papers extracted from "Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Memorie della Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali" ca. 1877-1879, all authored by Giovanni Capellini, all concerning Italian palaeontology. Each with caption titles. Includes: 1) " Balenottere fossili e pachyacanthus dell'Italia meridionale" [1877, Reale Accademia dei Lincei, Anno CCLXXIV, pagination runs 611-629 + 4 lithographed plates; 2) "Balenottere fossili delle Colombale presso Volterra" [1879, pagination runs 205-210]; 3) "Gli strati a Congerie e le marne compatte mioceniche del dintorni di Ancona" [1879; pagination runs 139-162 + 3 lithographed plates]; 4) "Gli strati a Congerie o la Formazione gessosa solfifera nella provincia di Pisa e nei dintorni di Livorno" [1879,pagination runs 375-427 + 9 litrhographed plates]. Capellini held the first Italian chair of Geology at the University of Bologna, established the geological museum at Bologna - named Capellini Museum- and was instrumental in creating the International Geological Congress.

Keywords: Italian Palaeontology, History of Geology, Italy, Fossils, Paleontology, , , ,