Die Huftiere aus dem Obereoza'n von Ma'hringen auf der Ulmer Alb [The ungulates from the Obereoza'n of Ma'hringen on the Ulmer Alb]

By Wilhelm Otto Dietrich

In German. 1936 first edition E. Schweizerbart (Stuttgart, Germany), 9 x 11 3/4 inches tall softbound in brown printed wraps, 164-207 pp. plus four full-page plates. Mild bumping to lower tip of book. Prior owner names and stamp to front cover. Covers mildly soiled and edgeworn. Prior owner stamp to title page. Otherwise, a very good copy - clean, bright and unmarked. 

The author, Wilhelm Otto Dietrich (1881-1964) was a German paleontologist. In addition to mammalian paleontology, he curated the collections of the Geology-Paleontology Institute and Museum of the Humboldt University of Berlin of foraminifera, corals, bivalves and gastropods. In mammals, he preferred the African fauna from the Tertiary and Quaternary, particularly elephants, predators and ungulates, but also monkeys and rodents. Association copy: Prior owners include Otto Heinrich Schindewolf (1896-1971), a German paleontologist who studied the evolution of corals and cephalopods, and Craig Black (1932-1998), a respected vertebrate paleontologist and professor who served as curator and later director of Carnegie Museum of National History, and from 1982 until his retirement in 1994, director of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.