Author: Davidson, T.
Title: British fossil Brachiopoda Volume I. [including] A monograph of the British Tertiary Brachiopoda. Part I. [AND] A monograph of the British Cretaceous Brachiopoda. Part I. [AND] A monograph of the British Cretaceous Brachiopoda. Part II. [AND] A monograph of the British Oolitic and Liasic Brachiopoda [AND] Appendices, index.
Description: London, The Palaeontographical Society, 1854-1855. 4to, 273 [23, 117, 100, 30, (iii)] pp. 68 [56, 1, 8, 0, 3, 0] text figures, 42 [9, 2, 12, 19, 0 (numbered A, I-XVIII)] lithographed plates. Contemporary polished half calf over grained boards, spine with five raised, gilt-lined bands, red morocco label with gilt title. = Between 1851 and his death Thomas Davidson (1817-1885) produced an enormous monograph on the British Brachiopoda in the Palaeontographical Society's monograph series (the last volume being published in 1886). In total six volumes were published, of which this is the rare complete first. It includes the description of the brachiopod anatomy by Richard Owen, the description of the shell morphology by William Benjamin Carpenter (1813-1885), and the Pleistocene to Jurassic (perhaps late Triassic) brachiopod species, many of which were new, by Davidson himself. The whole volume consists of Palaeontographical Society memoirs 10, 15-17, 21, and 26. Boards and spine rubbed. Some scattered foxing, mainly to several plate margins. All plates stamped, touching figures. Front joint split. Rather a working copy. Nissen, ZBI 1047.

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