Author: Orlov, Y. A. (ed.)
Title: Osnovy Paleontologii [Fundamentals of Palaeontology]. Volumes 1 - 15. [Complete].
Description: Moskva, Akademia NAUK, 1959-1965. 15 volumes in 15. 4to (25.8 x 20.4 cm). Over 7,500 pp.; over 15,000 illustrations. Uniform green, blind-stamped cloth. Gilt title on spines and front boards. = A massive, profusely illustrated work. Published over a rather long period and rarely seen complete. Even individual parts are quite uncommon and several are hard to find. Written by numerous experts, and edited by the Russian zoologist and palaeontologist Yuri Alexandrovich Orlov (1893-1966). "Orlov studied zoology and anatomy at the State University of St. Petersburg under A.A. Zavarzin. He then taught from 1916 to 1924 at the Medical Faculty of the University of Perm, during the Russian Civil War turmoil under some very difficult conditions, and from 1924 to 1935 at the Institute for Brain Research and the Military Medical Academy in Leningrad. At that time, he studied the nervous system of arthropods. From 1925 he devoted his research interests to paleontology, the old love of his youth ... He taught at the Mining Academy in Leningrad and from 1939 at the Lomonosov State University in Moscow. He was the chief editor of a fifteen-volume series "Fundamentals of paleontology." [this series]. In 1967 he was awarded the Lenin Prize posthumously."(Wikipedia). In Russian with Latin nomenclature. The number of illustrations is truly amazing. Volume numbers written on spines; otherwise a very good, clean set.

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