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Walcott, C. D.

Cambrian Brachiopoda. Part I. Text. - Part II. Plates. [Complete].

50,00 €

Schierenberg Bookshop Antiquariaat

(Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi)

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Walcott, C. D.

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Washington, DC, Gouvernment printing Office, 1912. Two volumes in two. 4to (29.0 x 23.1 cm). 872; 363 [plate explanations] pp., 76 fine text figures; 104 heliotype plates with explanatory text leaves. Original uniform brown, blindstamped cloth with gilt title on the spines. = Published on behalf of the United States Geological Survey, in their Monographs series, volume LI. Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) was an American paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. He was described by Stephen Jay Gould as 'the finest symbol that I have ever encountered for the embodiment of conventional beliefs'." (Wikipedia). Includes a very large index and excellent illustrations. Slight rubbing to edges, label removed from spines, corner of title page replaced with new paper, otherwise a very good, clean copy. Not in Nissen.
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