Author: Courtiller, A.
Title: Éponges fossiles des sables du terrain Crétace supérieur des environs de Saumur étage Sénonien de d'Orbigny.
Description: Angers, Société Linnéenne de Maine et Loire, 1861. Large 8vo (24.1 x 16.5 cm). 26 pp., 40 fine lithographed plates. Original printed wrappers. = Rare monograph on fossil sponges of France by the French palaeontologist, malacologist, Porifera-expert and viticulturist, Auguste Courtiller (1795-1875). Finely illustrated by the author and including many new taxa. This is the first edition. A second, enlarged edition was published in 1874. Spine cover a bit damp-stained but otherwise a very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH) 1, p. 395.

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