IXe Congres, Colloque VI: Les Plus Anciens Hominides

Pp. 464; some text-figures and photos.  Early green cloth, lettered in gilt, lg 8vo.  Union Internationale des sciences préhistoriques et protohistoriques, IXe congrès: Les Plus anciens Hominidés, Colloque VI.  This symposium was held in Nice, France in September 1976.  There are 36 chapters in this work on what was then thought to be the earliest records of the Hominidae.  At the time, this included “Ramapithecus” and other Neogene hominoids.  There are numerous other papers on Australopithecus, Homo erectus and others.  This work was actually a pre-print of the papers to be given at the symposium.  No later accounts of the symposium were ever published.  The original orange wrappers issued with this work French.  Small signature of former owner on the front endpaper.