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1835037486London: Longman Rees Orme Brown Green And Longmans 1835. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine. Frontispiece Illustrated Title Page Illustrations In Text. Viii 688 Pp. Full Year With "Corrections" On Last Page. Recent Full Green Cloth Red Morocco Spine Label Retaining Original Preliminary And Final Blanks. Articles By Edward Blyth At Pp 40 "An Attempt To Classify The 'Varities' Of Animals." P. 198 "A Few Remarks On Hybrids." P. 325 "Observations On The Cuckoo" P. 364 " A Notice Of A Very Remarkable Individual Of The Common Shrike."; Charles Waterton P. 166 251 322 361 453 451 663; W. J. Clarke P. 1 "On Certain Meteoric Phenomena"; Etc. The Blyth Article Is The First Extended Discussion Of The Basic Principles Of Natural Selection; Darwin Read Blyth's Work Carefully And Was A Friend Of Blyth; Loren Eiseley's "Darwin And The Mysterious Mr. X" Is An Account Of Their Relationship With Some Errors But Generally Correct. Binding As New; Preliminary And Final Blanks With Browning And Light Chipping At Corners; Contents Fine Clean Square Unworn. No Names Or Marks. <br/> <br/> Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, And Longmans hardcover
1822B6522Paris: Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke. 1822. . A very good copy with marginal minor light spotting. Publisher's blind stamps to corners of plates. Edition: Second Edition. Binding: contemporary half red calf over orange calf title in gilt on upper board and spine spine with 6 raised bands spine compartments with gilt ruling and blind decorative central devices. Notes: The second edition contained in total 11 plate volumes in large folio and 24 volumes of text in octavo.<br>The Description de L'Egypte was a series of publications appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared in 1829 which aimed to comprehensively catalog all known aspects of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history. It is the collaborative work of about 160 civilian scholars and scientists known popularly as the savants who accompanied Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars as well as about 2000 artists and technicians including 400 engravers who would later compile it into a full work.<br> Size: Large Folio 670 x 515 mm Illustration: Illustrated with some superb folding large plates of panoramas and maps.<br>Volume 3 illustrated with 43 single full-page plates 20 double page plates 6 large folding plates of maps plans views and more.<br>Volume 4 illustrated with 58 single full-page plates 2 double page plates 4 large folding plates of maps plans views and more lacking 8 plates never bound.<br>Volume four missing plates 3 6 7 10 13 14 29 42 not bound originally.<br> Volume: Volume 3-4 out of 11 pl Category: Book Plate Books General; Book Africa Egypt; Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke. hardcover