Fossil Metacarpals from Swartkrans

Pp. (2), 18; 2 full page photo-plates, each with a descriptive leaf of text.  Publisher’s original gray stiff wrappers, lettered in black on the front cover, sm folio (12 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches).  From the series: Fossil Mammals of Africa, no. 17.  Napier describes and compares two hominin metacarpals from Swartkrans Cave; he concludes one metacarpal is assignable to Paranthropus and the other to ‘Telanthropus’ now called early Homo. Publisher British Museum (Natural History) Publisher Place London Date Published 1959 Date Published Estimated No Edition First edition Number of Volumes 1 Reprint No Condition Near fine Condition Description Small bump to bottom corner of spine, a tight and clean copy in near fine condition. ISBN Limited Edition