Goldfuss, Georg August; Beitrage zur Vorweltlichen Fauna des Steinkohlengebirges. Bonn, 1847. Large quarto, pp. 28, 5 plates (1 folded).

The work is complete with its own title page. This is not an extracted work. It is in a modern archival folder with marbled covers. Binding is tight and clean, text has light soiling and early numbering at outer corner. In very good condition.
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Georg August Goldfuss (1782-1848), was a German paleontologist born at Thurnau near Bayreuth. He was educated at Erlangen and was subsequently appointed professor of zoology and mineralogy in the university of Bonn. He is best remembered for his massive work Petrefacta Germaniae (1826-1844), a work which was intended to illustrate the invertebrate fossils of Germany. In addition he published many early pioneering studies of fossil vertebrates such as the one above.