Author: Aldrich, A. / A.A.Olsson / C.J. Maury
Title: Bulletins of American Paleontology. Volume 5.
Description: 1911-1917 478 p., 68 plates, contemporary full cloth with gilt title on the spine (spine rubbed). The rare volume 5, near entirely dealing with fossil molluscs from the New world. Includes: A. Aldrich (1911) New Eocene fossils from the southern Gulf States (24 pp., 5 plates, many new species based on well-preserved specimens); A. A. Olsson (1912) "New and interesting fossils from the Devonian of New York" (14 pp., 2 pls.; mainly on crinoids), and "New and interesting Neocene fossils from the Atlantic coastal plain" (1912; 34 pp., 5 plates, all marine molluscs), and "New Miocene fossils" (1916; 32 pp., 3 pls. of well-preserved subtropical marine molluscs); C. J. Maury "Santo Domingo type sections and fossils part I", and "Part II" (1917; together 300 pp., 42 plates, frontispiece, folded map of the Rio Yaqui, Rio Garubo, and Rio Mao region, i.e. the famous fossiliferous beds. With excellent plates of new and poorly known species, of which the vast majority in excellent state of preservation, and three plates with views on (type) localities, as well as a folded chart. Boards stained, otherwise a good copy, complete with the index.

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