Author: Tzwetaev, Marie
Title: Nautiloidea et Ammonoidea de la section inférieure du calcaire carbonifère de la Russie central
Description: St. Petersburg: Eggers et Cie, 1898. First edition. Pp. viii, 46, (1), 6 full page halftone plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text. Publisher's original gray printed wrappers, sm folio. Mémoire du Comité Géologique, volume VIII, no. 4. Text in Russian with twelve-page summary in French. The first owner of this volume was invertebrate paleontologist T. Soot-Ryen with his name stamp on the front wrapper and title page. It was later from the research library of Mackenzie Gordon Jr. (1913-1992) who was an American invertebrate paleontologist with his name stamp on the front wrapper and title page. Gordon was an expert on Carboniferous fossils. Gordon worked for the United States Geological Survey for 40 years, from 1941-1981. He was research associate at the National Museum of Natural History from 1981 to his death in 1992. Wrappers a bit chipped along the spine, some edge wear to wrappers; a tight copy in very good condition..

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