Cambridge, MA, Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, 1897. In three volumes. Large 4to (two text volumes) and folio atlas (34.7 x 27.0 cm). ii, 359, [359-837 pp. 83 very fine tinted lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Uniform contemporary half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.

Very important and rare basic monograph on North American Crinoidea, very well illustrated after drawings by C. R. Keyes, lithographed by A. M. Westergren. It includes numerous new taxa. The work took three years to be printed and published. Meanwhile, first author, German-American palaeontologist Charles Wachsmuth (1829-1896) died after a long illness, and several species were formally named elsewhere, by other authors. Pictorial bookplate of the Samuel Hubbard Scudder Library of the Boston Society of Natural History on the front pastedowns; small blind-stamps of the society on front wrappers and titles, and their name in gilt on the lower spines. Some rubbing to the boards and spine feet. Blind-stamps to front wrappers and title pages; small, oval blind-stamps to a few plates. Otherwise a very good, clean, complete set. We found only one auction record, dating from 1964! Cat. BM(NH) 5, p. 2244. Not in Nissen ZBI.