The Early Pleistocene Mohui Cave Site in Tiandong County, Guangxi, South China with 193 hand-colored copperplate engravings

with 193 hand-colored copperplate engravings

Original publisher’s brown cloth

“An immense work of botany where in … Miller illustrated

Falconer became interested in paleontology while stationed in India as an employee of the British East India Company

The Early Pleistocene Mohui Cave Site in Tiandong County, Guangxi, South China with 193 hand-colored copperplate engravingsPp. xvi,170; 20 full page color plates. Color pictorial laminated boards, lettered in black and in white, sm 4to. The text is in Chinese but there is a six page summary in English at the rear. Describes the early Pleistocene cave fauna of Mohui Cave which includes Gigantopithecus, Stegodon, and other elements of the Ailuropoda Stegodon fauna. It also presents teeth that were assigned to Homo cf. erectus but are actually those of an unknown ape. No