Descrizione

Lyon, Laboratoires de Géologie de la Faculté des Sciences de Lyon, 1970. Three volumes in two (text and atlas). Large 8vo (27.0 x 20.0 cm). 690 pp.; numerous text illustrations, tables and maps, 294 plates (several larger, folded). Uniform original black ring binders with uniform printed covers. = An excellent, profusely illustrated work, mostly based on well-preserved material and including several new species. In an old French tradition, plate numbering is complicated. Apart from those numbered 1-211, it includes plates 2B-6B, 8B, 14B-D, 15B-C, 16B-E, 18B, 20-21B-C, 22B, 23B-C, 24B, 25B-C, 26B, 28-29B, 31-32B, 34-36B, 38B, 49B, 52-54B, 57B, 59-61B, 63B, 66-67B, 69-73B, 75B, 77-78B, 85-87B, 112B, 116B, 118B, 121-126B, 131B, 149B, 173-177B, 181B, 184B, 187-188B, 191-193B (each on a single leaf, however), 206-208B. If a B-number is present, the first plate is given the additional letter A. An unmarked set, nearly as new, in its original ring binders.