£120
FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR, 8vo, pp. xii, [ii], 256 + frontispiece, 1 folding map and 23 plates. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A little marked, some rubbing to joints, a touch of wear to extremities. Signed by Muriel D. Simpson to flyleaf, ‘East Anchorage, Helensburgh, Feb 11, 1939’.
The first English edition of Paleontologist and zoologist Eugen Wilhelm Pfizenmayer's 1926 account of the discovery and excavation of a preserved wooly mammoth in Siberia. His excavation and preservation of the specimen now known as the Beresovka Mammoth was instrumental in shaping our understanding of these animals; the carcass remains on display in St Petersberg.
This copy has been signed by its translator to the flyleaf.
