Princeton, NJ, The University, 1901-1906. Large, thick 4to (33.2 x 25.7 cm). 482 pp.; 65 plates. Burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Spine with red morocco label with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed wrappers bound in.

One of four volumes of expedition reports dealing with Patagonian palaeontology. In contrast to several other volumes in this series, this one is rare. This section includes two important malacological works, viz. Part I. The marine Cretaceous invertebrates, by Timothy William Stanton (43 pp.; ten tinted, lithographed plates - all showing new molluscs, described by Stanton), and Part II. Tertiary invertebrates, by Arnold Edward Ortmann (288 pp.; 29 plates - a few with echinoderms, bryozoans and brachiopods, but mostly bivalves and gastropods). Also included is Part III. Mammalia of the Santa Cruz Beds, Marsupialia, by William John Sinclair (128 pp.; 26 plates - one being a large, folded map of the southern ocean and Antarctica, with supposed former "land bridges"). The plates are excellent. A 22 pp. index completes the volume. Provenance: pictorial bookplate of the Australian palaeontologist and malacologist Jeffrey Darl Stilwell mounted on the front pastedown. A very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH) p. 1615.