Pithecanthropus erectus. Eine menschenaehnliche Uebergangsform aus Java. Mit zwei Tafeln und drei in den Text gedruckten Figuren. FIRST EDITION

2 leaves, 39, [1, errata] pp, 2 plates, each with gacing explanatory text leaf (see photos); 3 text figures (see photos for figures 1 and 3, on pp. 3 and 17). Folio. Original printed boards, with black cloth spine. I am not sure whether the spine is the original cloth spine or a later one. Paper yellowed. NOTE ABOUT PLATES: Plate I with the adjoining leaf containing the explanatory text for Plate II is loose in the binding. Good. First Edition. Garrison-Morton 210 (online): "Privately issued first report on Homo erectus. The skull-cap of Pithecanthropus erectus (Java man), was discovered by Dubois at Trinil, Java, in 1891." NOTE ABOUT EDITIONS: This is the original edition. It should not be confused with a 1915 reprint in facsimile by G. E. Stechert in New York.