PFIZENMAYER, E.W. Mammut (Elephas primigenius Blum.). Rekonstruiert unter Zugrundelegung der 1901 an der Beresowka-Kolyma und 1908 am Sangajurachfluß in Nordost-Sibirien aus dem Eisboden ausgegrabenen Kadaver. Stuttgart, Schweizerbart, 1929.
Colour-lithographed educational poster, 86 x 98 cm; tiny brown traces of humidity to lower margin, reaching up to 9 mm into the paper; unpacked from the original cardboard roll, with the same trace of humidity.
An unusually large and well-preserved depiction of the extinct relative of the elephant. Pfizenmayer had led expeditions to north-west Siberia in 1901-2 and 1908 in search of mammoth remains, and published the first proper scientific book on the mammoth.
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