Siberian Man and Mammoth by Pfizenmayer E W (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Orange cloth with gilt lettering on spine, head, tail and hinges a little rubbed, corners a little bumped, end-papers a little browned, former owner's details on front end-paper, otherwise fine. Please contact me for more information or photographs if required.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Pullout map present. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> Age, and there are many legends and traditions about it. We have very life-like representations of it, handed down by the primeval inhabitants of Europe, who lived beside the mammoth and hunted it. Some of them painted and engraved pictures of these animals on the walls of their cave dwellings, and a series of these was found in the caves of the South of France and of Spain. The best known is the excellent drawing of a mammoth on a piece of ivory found in a cave in Dordogne, and first copied in 1865 by von Lartet in his book Reliquia Aquitanica. In 1789 a French explorer, Breuil, published two wall pictures found in a cave of Combarelles, also in Dordogne. These were engravings of an adult mammoth and a young one, and we can distinguish between them because in the grown animals we can see the contours of the body plainly through the covering of hair, while the calves are completely enveloped in hair, and seem almost as round as a ball. The pictures show th.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Illustrated with full page photogravure plates throughout. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Very light marking to original boards, else very good in slightly chipped and rubbed dustrapper. Unusual in dustwrapper. 256 p. Book.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: Bookplate of Stanley Newton. Physical description: xii p., 1 l., 256 p. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 23 cm. Notes: Translation of Mammutleichen und Urwaldmenschen in Nordost-Siberien (Leipzig, 1926). "First published in English 1939." Subjects: Gert s , O. F. (Otto Fedorovich) 1853-1905; Vollosovich, Konstantin Adamovich 1869-1910; Hunting society; Mammoths; Prehistoric peoples Russia (Federation) Siberia; Prehistoric peoples Siberia. 1 Kg.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: Bookplate of Stanley Newton. Physical description: xii p., 1 l., 256 p. front., illus., plates, ports., fold. map. 23 cm. Notes: Translation of Mammutleichen und Urwaldmenschen in Nordost-Siberien (Leipzig, 1926). "First published in English 1939." Subjects: Gert s , O. F. (Otto Fedorovich) 1853-1905; Vollosovich, Konstantin Adamovich 1869-1910; Hunting society; Mammoths; Prehistoric peoples Russia (Federation) Siberia; Prehistoric peoples Siberia. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Blackie & Son, London, 1939. Illustrated with b&w photographs, plates and text figures, and a b&w foldout map. 6.25" x 8.75". 256 pp. Brown cloth. Translated from the German. "A unique and absorbing account of two journeys to the far North East Siberia .for the purpose of salvaging the frozen corpses of prehistoric mammoths.includes most interesting.accounts of the.Yakuts and the nomadic Tungus and Lamut tribes.As the sole surviving member of the two expeditions, I wish to give an account of our experiences .". Travel by reindeer sled and river steamer in 1901-1902 and 1908. In addition to the wonderful material on excavating the mammoths, the book includes two chapters on hunting wild sheep ("On the Lena Delta. Hunting Wild Sheep") and moose ("The elk of Yakutsk. Homeward Bound", with other hunting and trapping throughout". Not in Czech. Very good in repaired but very good wrapper.

London and Glasgow, Blackie & Son, 1939. 8vo (21.7 x 15.1 cm). Frontispiece of a Siberian Mammoth, 268 [xii, 256] pp.; three folding maps, 29 mostly tinted photographic plates, numerous text figures. Original red cloth with gilt title on the spine. AND: Broadsheet (107.0 x 89.5 cm). = A well-illustrated work by one of the foremost authorities on fossil pachyderms, the German-Russian zoologist, palaeontologist, illustrator and explorer Eugen Wilhelm Pfizenmayer (1869-1941). These are the results of two expeditions to Siberia in 1901-1902, and 1908 initiated by the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Many photos showing the excavation of mammoths from Siberian permafrost. "Pfizenmayer worked for the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum from 1897 onwards. In 1901 he became a Russian citizen. In the same year he went as a taxidermist on the expedition of the Academy of Sciences led by Otto Herz (1856-1905), which examined the woolly mammoth carcass found on the Berjosowka in 1900. Pfizenmayer dismantled the carcass and arranged for it to be transported first to Irkutsk and then by train to Saint Petersburg. On the way he collected extant Siberian mammals for the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum. He also described the Yakut Laika. The Berjosowka mammoth has been shown in the St. Petersburg Zoological Museum since 1903" (cf. German Wikipedia). In this work, the author also described and illustrated some ingenious animal traps conceived by local hunters. Pictorial bookplate and label of the Torquay Natural History Society on the front pastedown. Edges a trifle spotted, the plates, and nearly all pages, however, clean and bright. An unusually well-preserved copy. We added a beautiful, large, chromolithographed poster of a young mammoth after a painting of Pfizenmayer, published in 1909.

Blackie & Son, London, 1939. Translated from the German. Illustrated with b&w photographs, plates and text figures, and a b&w foldout map. 6.25" x 8.75". 256 pp. Brown cloth, spine darkened. "A unique and absorbing account of two journeys to North East Siberia .for the purpose of salvaging the frozen corpses of prehistoric mammoths. includes most interesting and vivid accounts of the.Yakuts and the nomadic Tungus and Lamut tribes.". Travel by reindeer sled and river steamer in 1901-1902 and 1908. In addition to accounts of excavating the remains of mammoths, the book includes two chapters on hunting wild sheep and moose, with other hunting and trapping throughout. Not in Czech. Very good.