Batavia [Jakarta], Dienst van den Mijnbouw in Nederlandsch-Indië, 1932. Large 8vo (26.4 x 18.3 cm). 15 pp.; two text figures on one page, in black and red; two maps in the text, of which one partly coloured; six plates with explanatory text leaves. Original printed wrappers.

Rare contribution to the knowledge of the hominids of East Asia and the third description of a new Homo from that region, after Dubois's Pithecanthropus erectus, and Sinanthropus pekinensis (Black, 1927). It consists of a part written in Dutch titled Homo ( Javanthropus) soloensis, een Plistoceene mensch van Java. Voorlopige mededeeling [ Homo ( Javanthropus) soloensis, a Pleistocene human from Java. Preliminary report], and a two pp. English summary. "Due to the tools found with the fossils and many of their more gracile anatomical features, Solo Man was first classified as a subspecies of Homo sapiens (dubbed Homo sapiens soloensis) and long thought to be the ancestor of modern Australo-Melanesians. More rigorous studies in the 1990s have concluded that this is not the case (Wikipedia). W. F. F. "Frits" Oppenoorth (1910-2000) was a Dutch palaeontologist and anthropologist. Published in the Dienst's Wetenschappelijke Mededelingen 20, with two unrelated palaeontological papers. Wrappers lightly soiled, otherwise a very good, clean copy.