Description

PUBLICATION DATA: Revised and extended by Charles L. Camp. San Francisco: Octavo (235 x 153 mm). Half-tone plates. Red Morocco gilt. 428 2ntries. 300 pages. Halftone images.
 
BACKGROUND: The origin of this book is what Wagner calls “an abortive effort” when it was first printed in the summer and fall of 1920.Further efforts led to a 1921 edition. “The second effort was more successful”. Eventually he turned to Charles Camp for this revised 1937edition (Wagner, Preface)..
 
WAGNER, Henry Raup (1862-1957) was an American book collector, bibliographer, cartographer, historian, and business executive. He was the author of over 170 publications, including books and scholarly essays, mainly about the histories of the American frontier and the Spanish exploration and colonization of Mexico. He also assembled tens of thousands of books and manuscripts and formed several collections from them (Wikipedia).
 
CAMP, Charles Lewis (1893-197). Although Camp revised Wagner’s bibliography, but he is best known as   a paleontologist and zoologist, working from the University of California, Berkeley. He took part in excavations at the ‘Placerias Quarry’, in 1930 and the forty Shonisaurus skeleton discoveries of the 1960s, in what is now the Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Camp served as the third director of the University of California Museum of Paleontology from 1930 to 1949, and coincidentally as chair of the UC Berkeley Paleontology Department between 1939 and 1949. Camp named a number of species of marine reptiles such as Shonisaurus and Plotosaurus, as well as the dinosaur Segisaurus.(Wikipedia).
 
CONDITION: Excellent.
 
B2320