Beschreibung:

circa 31,2 x 24,5 cm., VII, 114 pp., 1 f., 19 plates. Original hardcover First edition of this documentation with 19 plates showing fossils with different species of fish. François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809-1872) was an important Swiss palaeontologist who taught in his hometown Geneva and published several works on zoology and geology, but his main field remained palaeontology.

Bemerkung:

- Uncut and in the original binding. Only minor light foxing in places, otherwise mostly clean.