Author: Beneden, P. J. Van
Title: Description des ossements fossiles des environs d'Anvers. Première partie. Pinnipèdes ou amphithériens.; Deuxième partie. Cétacés. Genres Balaenula, Balaena et Balaenotus.; Troisième partie. Cétacés genres: Megaptera, Balaenoptera, Burtinopsis et Erpetocetus.; Quatrième partie. Cétacés genre: Plesiocetus.; Cinquième partie. Cétacés genres: Amphicetus, Heterocetus, Mesocetus, Idiocetus et Isocetus.
Description: Bruxelles, F. Hayez (Musée royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique), 1877-1886. Five parts in five. Folio (40.0 x 28.0 cm), half-titles, title pages, [I (1877): 139 pp., eight partly coloured maps, one larger map, 16 text engravings; II (1880): 83 pp., several text engravings; III: (1882): 90 pp.; IV (1885): 40 pp., one text engraving; V (1886): 139 pp.]. Original, uniform printed boards. = This is the complete text of a large work by the Belgian palaeontologist, marine biologist, mammalogist and Cetacea specialist Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden (1809-1894) on fossil whales from the Northsea Basin consisting of five text volumes and five atlasses in total. The first part deals with seals and related groups, the other four deal with "true" whales, such as balleen whales. Even the text parts are well-illustrated with reconstructions of the skeletons showing the parts that are known in a different shade. Published in the museum's Annales. Some light, marginal foxing, but mostly clean. Rare in any state. Nissen ZBI, 308.

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