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Vacek, Michael; Uber Osterreichische Mastodonten und ihre Beziehun- gen zu den
Mastodontarten Europas. Abhandlungen Geologisches Reichsanstalt, Bd VII Heft Nr. 4, Wien, 1877. Folio, pp. 45, 7 folded plates.
The work is complete and in a buckram binding with the original brown title covers bound in. Book plate on front paste down, small stamp on title page, archival repairs to outer margin of first text pages, text lightly toned. The plates are very clean. In very good condition.
Vacek; (1848-1925), a Czechoslovak vertebrate and invertebrate paleontologist, published extensively on both vertebrate and invertebrate fossils. His above often cited work is a detailed study of the mastodon fossils found in the Austrian Empire.