Author: [Barrande, J.] Waagen, W. [H.] and J. [J.] Jahn
Title: Systême Silurien du Centre de la Bohême. Ière partie: recherches paléontologiques. Continuation éditée par le Musée Bohême. Vol. VII. Classe des echinodermes. Famille des crinoïdes. Texte, 40 planches et 33 figures dans la texte. Par le prof. Doct. W. Waagen, et le Doct. J. Jahn. Traduit par A. S. Oudin.
Description: Prague, Raimund Gerhard, 1899. Large 4to (33.5 x 27.0 cm). v, 215 pp.; 58 fine, lithographed plates [numbered 40-79] with explanatory text leaves, and some with printed overlays. Contemporary blind-tooled purple cloth with gilt title on the spines. = Rare part of an enormous series on all aspects of Bohemian Silurian fossils. Each volume was printed in only 250 copies. See Zittel, and DSB. From 1840 to his death Joachim Barrande (1799-1883) collected, described and drew the fossils of the central Bohemian Basin - this area has been called the Barrandian ever since. The strata of this basin are Proterozoic - early Paleozoic in age. At that time 'Silurian' might be applied to strata that today are in the Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian or Devonian system. The results formed the outstanding monograph 'Système silurien du centre de la Bohème', which appeared in eight parts forming 28 quarto volumes. Because this work is so comprehensive, its drawings so accurate and its descriptions so fine, it is still used as a reference book by palaeontologists. The Echinodermata were published over a long period of time and this part, exclusively dealing with the crinoids, was published posthumously, and mainly the work of Barrande's successors, Wilhelm Heinrich Waagen (1841-1900) and Jaroslav Jiljí Jahn (1865-1934). It was preceded by a part on other echinoderms, namely the cystidées (the long extinct Cystoidea), also written by Waagen, hence the plate-numbering starting with 40. A two by two centimeter chip in the front board cloth, near the spine. Otherwise completely intact. Some large but pale spots on a few text pages, but internally mostly clean. All parts are rare, especially in this good state. A very good copy of this rare work. DSB I, pp. 468-469; Nissen ZBI, 235; Zittel, pp. 445-456.

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