Footprints of the Creator or The Asterolepsis of Stromness
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, 1871. Hardcover. Brick cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. lxiv; 352 pp. with 67 bw woodcuts. Internally clean. Front end paper and first three signatures detached, and binding almost completely separated at front hinge. Most pages still in uncut signatures. Complete. Item #147269
Begins with a lengthy (lxiv) introduction about the author by his wife. The main subject is about the asterolepsis, specifically at Stromness, a parish and one of the largest towns in the Orkney Islands of Scotland. Asterolepses are a fish, "an extinct genus of placoderms from the Devonian of North America and Europe. They were heavily armored benthic detritivores with distinctive jointed limb-like pectoral fins." (Wikipedia).
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