Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus color pictorial dust jacket lettered

color pictorial dust jacket lettered in black on the spine and in red on the front cover

From the series: Illinois State Museum Popular Science Series

some light foxing and browning to the text

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

and Franz Weidenreich

Theropithecus: The Rise and Fall of a Primate Genus color pictorial dust jacket letteredPp. 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