Author: Beneden, P. J. Van
Title: Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers. Quatrième partie (planches). Cétacés genre: Plesiocetus.
Description: Bruxelles, F. Hayez (Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique), 1885. Oblong imperial folio (39.2 x 57.0 cm), half-title, title page, 30 engraved plates. Uniform original printed boards. = This atlas, complete for the genus Plesiocetus, forms part of a larger work, written by the Belgian palaeontologist, marine biologist, mammalogist and Cetacea specialist Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden (1809-1894), on fossil whales from the Northsea Basin and consisting of five text volumes and atlasses in total. The text is not present. Some plates are double-sized and truly magnificent. Published in the museum's Annales, this part being Tome IX (planches). Half title and title detached; lower joint starting, scattered, very light foxing, mainly to the explanatory leaves, the plate much cleaner. Rare in any state. Nissen ZBI, 308.

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