Author: WENDT, HERBERT. Title: Before The Deluge. Translated from the German by Richard and Clara Winston.
Description: First English Edition; Med. 8vo; pp. xii, 419; 40 pages of b/w. photographs, text illustrated with several line drawings, index, bound in original green cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, very good copy. The book is a fascinating tale of the colourful, idiosyncratic, dedicated men who, through their excavations and researches in every part of the world, arduously and excitingly pieced together the story of life on earth. An informative work which unfolds the entire scope and meaning of palaeontology. The book was first published in German under the title Ehe Die Sintfut Kam, in 1965.
Keywords: natural history palaeontology
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- Book number: 112785