Author: Walkhoff, [F.] O.
Title: Menschenaffen (Anthropomorphae) Studien über Entwickelung und Schädelbau herausgegeben von Dr. Emil Selenka Professor in München. Vierte Lieferung: der Unterkiefer der Anthropomorphen und des Menschen in seiner funktionellen Entwickelung und Gestalt, and Part 6: die diluvialen menschlichen Kiefer Belgiens und Ihre Pithekoiden Eigenschaften.
Description: Wiesbaden, C. W. Kreidel 1902. 4to. 119 pp. [(numbered [209]-327); 59 text figures (mostly [x-ray] photos). Original printed wrappers and original quarter linen portfolio over printed boards. = This monograph also form a part of Selenka's Menschenaffen (Anthropomorphae) Studien über Entwickelung und Schädelbau. Written by the German dentist Friedrich Otto Walkhoff (1860-1934) who was a pioneer of X-ray dental diagnostics. In 1903 he published the results of radiological studies which proved that Homo neandertalenis was not a malformed modern Homo sapiens. In the current work, he already made use of Röntgen photography. Small private owner's stamp in the title page margin. Some wear to the portfolio spine; a few pencil underlinings, otherwise very good, clean. Cat. BM(NH) 5, p. 2256.

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