Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus in black cloth-covered clamshell box

in black cloth-covered clamshell box with gilt title/author label on the box spine

Schlegel early work was mostly herpetological in nature

and Franz Weidenreich

original white dust jacket

Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus in black cloth-covered clamshell boxPp. xvi, 536, numerous black and white photos, line drawings, graphs and maps. Publishers original brown cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial printed dust jacket, lg 8vo. The jacket blurb states this unique volume provides a comprehensive and up to date examination of all aspects of the biology of the Old World monkey genus Theropithecus, an animal which evolved alongside our human ancestor. Small signature of former owner on