Fraas, Oscar (Oskar Friedrich von); Aus dem Orient. Theil I. Geologische Beobachtungen am Nil, auf der Sinai-Halbinsel und in Syrien. Thiel II. Geologische Beobachtungen am Libanon. Stuttgart, Ebner & Seubert 1867 & 1878. Octavo, Theil I pp. viii, 222, colored frontispiece, 3 folded plates of fossils, numerous text figures. Theil II, pp. vi, 136, b/w frontispiece, 6 plates of fossils.

The set is complete and in the original calf and cloth, spines rubbed with gilt titles partially perished, minor light foxing, owner's blind stamp on title pages, very good. Very rare with both volumes present. Theil II is seldom seen.

A German anthropologist and vertebrate paleontologist; Fraas (1824-1897) was keeper of the geological and paleontological collections at the Naturalienkabinett, Stuttgart from 1854 to 1894. He is best known for his studies of mammals, pterodactyls and other vertebrates. He pioneered many early studies of fossils in Syria and Lebanon. The results of those studies are in the above two volume set. His son Eberhard (1862-1915) was to follow in his footsteps as a vertebrate paleontologist and continued studies in Syria and Egypt.