Descripción

Budapest, Franklin-Verein, 1887. 8vo (26.6 x 18.5 cm). 196 pp. (numbered 221-417); 27 lithographed plates [numbered XVIII-XXXXIII-XXXXIV (sic)]; the last being a combined, double plate; three very large, multi-folded tables. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen if not genuinely rare work on well-preserved Miocene floras by the Hungarian botanist and palaeontologist Moriz Staub (1842-1904). The three tables give an overview of the distribution of the faunal elements in time. This is an offprint from the Mittheilungen aus dem Jahrbuche der Kön. ungarischen geologischen Anstalt. Uncut. Wrappers (of inferior blue paper) chipped at edges and with tears - rear wrapper lacking the lower half. Binding largely perished; text and plates a bit age-toned; last, folding plate creased and soiled in corner, however, otherwise good, complete. Stafleu and Cowan, 12832.