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19942091202133208756Hosei University Press 1994. Soft Cover. Fine. Volume: 1 Hosei University Press paperback
177514583AB1775. Volume 5 and 6. Paris L'Imprimerie Royale 1775 17 : 95 cm. With 30 engraved plates. Contemorary calf spine richly gilt back label. The plates show birds in their natural invirement at the river at the sea in the countryside etc. - Some minor stains otherwise fine. unknown
16-5760Paris: Libr. encyclopédique de Roret 1830. 18mo. 9 x 14.5. Original publisher's wraps.10 volumes. Engraved plates. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1350151465 Paris,: Libr. encyclopédique de Roret, 1830 paperback
173574286Paris & Genève Geneva: Chez Debure l'aînéChez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert 1735. Fine. Chez Debure l'aîné Chez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert Paris & Genève Geneva 1735 et 1744 19 x 25 cm 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume First edition of the French translation of these two texts by Stephen Hales. The translation of the first work originally entitled Vegetable Staticks published in 1727 is the first text published by Buffon. The translation of the second work originally issued under the title Haemastaticks in 1733 is by François Boissier de Sauvages. Our copy is complete with its 20 engraved figures on 10 folding plates for the first text and its folding plate at the end for the second. Contemporary full speckled blond sheep spine in five raised bands richly decorated with gilt compartments rolls and fleurons with a havana morocco title label marbled endpapers all edges speckled red. Headcap and two corners skilfully restored. A few leaves slightly browned. Rare French first editions of these two texts by Hales founder of modern experimental physiology. The Statique des végétaux describes one hundred and twenty-four experiments on plant physiology. Buffon precedes it with an important préface du traducteur in which he praises not only Hales Je ne connais rien de mieux dans son genre et le genre par lui-même est excellent. but above all scientific experiment emblematic of the emergence of modern science: Amassons-donc toujours des expériences et éloignons nous s'il est possible de tout esprit de système du moins jusqu'à ce que nous soyons instruits . c'est cette méthode que mon auteur a suivie ; c'est celle du grand Newton ; c'est celle que Messieurs de Verulam Galilée Boyle Sthall Stahl ont recommandée et embrassée c'est celle que l'Académie des Sciences s'est fait une loi d'adopter . The plates executed with great finesse depict the machines devised notably his famous water apparatus and the processes used by Hales to demonstrate the circulation of sap and the production of gases in the plants he studied. The second treatise following the research of William Harvey and Marcello Malpighi deals with blood circulation. It is in this work that Hales recounts his experiment on arterial pressure using one of his inventions a precursor of the sphygmomanometer. Chez Debure l'aînéChez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert hardcover
70171Paris F. Dufart An X-XIII 1802-1805. 21 parts in 21. 8vo 19.4 x 12.2 cm. Over 9000 pp. 308 finely engraved plates on 307 leaves; one large folding chart. Uniform contemporary polished tree-calf with empire style gilt borders and ornaments. Red and black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges speckled red. = A massive work and part of a larger series on various natural history subjects ranging from botany to entomology and from mineralogy to conchology but this is the complete section dealing with mammals. The first two volumes contain a general introduction to the Animal Kingdom followed by three volumes dealing with Man two with monkeys and apes one with whales and othere aquatic mammals and 13 with all other mammals including cats bears deer pachyderms bats marsupials etc. Sonnini was both the author and editor of this "suite de Buffon". The fine engravings are by Barraband Berthault Blanchard Duhamel Racine and others. Several plate numbers are out of sequence but none are missing. A few pecies for instance the guinea pig are described but not illustrated. Plate X and XI of volume 11 are on one leaf. Boards with some mainly minor rubbing; a few volumes with the leather on the boards not the spines more abraded. Some light in a few sections moderate age-toning and some spotting throughout; the plates generally cleaner. some paper loss in the margin of quadrupèdes volume 1 pp. 55-56; and volume 5 pp. 101-102 and 263-264; one gathering in volume 12 detached otherwise a very good unmarked and attractively bound set. Junk Rara p. 30; Nissen ZBI 2388. hardcover
63426Paris F. Dufart An IX-XIII 1801-1805. 28 parts in 28 Complete. 8vo 19.3 x 12.0 cm. Over 10000 pp.; 257 finely engraved plates. Uniform contemporary polished tree-calf with empire style gilt borders and ornaments. Red and black morocco labels with gilt title. Marbled endpapers. Edges yellow speckled with red. = A massive work by one of the most important zoologists of the late 18th and early 19th century edited by Sonnini. According to the title this work contains images of every bird then known to science. Comments by Sonnini are often added in the footnotes. Boards with some - mainly minor - rubbing a few volumes with the leather on the boards not the spines partly abraded. Light age-toning or offsetting to a few text sections volume 16 with paper absence in lower outer margin no text loss; volume 26 with a marginal damp stain in places several volumes lightly toned at the lower inner part the plates are generally cleaner and bright. Otherwise a very good unmarked complete and attractively bound set. Nissen IVB 160; Nissen ZBI 682. hardcover
51-7089Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1770. A selection of 14 engravings on old laid paper. 25 x 20.5cm. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:490179653. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1770 unknown
51-7088Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale1770. A selection of 21 engravings on old laid paper. 25 x 20.5cm. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:490179653. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale,1770 unknown
51-7091Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1770. A selection of 11 engravings on old laid paper. 25 x 20.5cm. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:490179653. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1770 unknown
51-7087Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1770. A selection of 16 engravings on old laid paper. 25 x 20.5cm. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:49017965.3 Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1770 unknown
51-7090Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale 1770. A selection of 17 engravings on old laid paper. 25 x 20.5cm. OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:490179653. Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1770 unknown
182930406London: William Orr 1829 1831 1832 c. 1833 1835. 1st edition. V.g./No Jackets. Full leather re-binds Title page of 'the domestic habits of birds' missing and confusingly it has the title 'faculties of birds' on the spine which is actually the title of another volume in the series. Owner's signature on half-title of some volumes. London: William Orr hardcover
1970239841970. GenÂve Edito s.d. circa 1970. Un vol. au format in-folio 387 x 292 mm de 1 f. de faux-titre 1 page de titre 1 f. de Table 1 f. de dÂŽdicace ˆ Dora Maar sur double-page 40 planches fol. 1 planche sur double-page n.fol. et 1 f. de colophon en ff. sous chemise ˆ rabats rempliÂŽs titrÂŽe et ÂŽtui-chemise cartonnÂŽ dos lisse de demi-basane havane titre dorÂŽ en long. Fac-similÂŽ de l'ÂŽdition Mariani de 1942. Un des exemplaires numÂŽrotÂŽs du tirage sur papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux. L'ouvrage recÂle outre l'ensemble des illustrations qu'il se doit de contenir une suite desdites compositions prÂŽsentÂŽe sous chemise titrÂŽe et illustrÂŽe. ''Curieuse publication pour l'ÂŽtude de la maniÂre de graver d'un peintre moderne trÂs estimÂŽ''. in Carteret. Cramer 84 - Carteret IV Le TrÂŽsor du bibliophile / IllustrÂŽs modernes p. 85 pour l'ÂŽdition de 1942. Infimes altÂŽrations affectant les coiffes de la chemise. Etui prÂŽsentant quelques t‰ches et abrasions. Du reste trÂs belle condition. b42961 unknown
1774FB640 /6A<p>Full leather binding black title plate. Gilt floral design on the spine. The <strong><em>Histoire Naturelle générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi</em></strong> English: <em>Natural History General and Particular with a Description of the King's Cabinet</em> is an encyclopaedic collection of 36 large quarto volumes written between 1749–1804 initially by the Comte de Buffon and continued in eight more volumes after his death by his colleagues led by Bernard Germain de Lacépède. The books cover what was known of the "natural sciences" at the time including what would now be called material science physics chemistry and technology as well as the natural history of animals. <strong>Georges-Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon</strong> 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788 was a French naturalist mathematician cosmologist and encyclopédiste. His works influenced the next two generations of naturalists including two prominent French scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier. Buffon published thirty-six quarto volumes of his <em>Histoire Naturelle</em> during his lifetime with additional volumes based on his notes and further research being published in the two decades following his death. Ernst Mayr wrote that "Truly Buffon was the father of all thought in natural history in the second half of the 18th century". Credited with being one of the first naturalists to recognize ecological succession he was later forced by the theology committee at the University of Paris to recant his theories about geological history and animal evolution because they contradicted the Biblical narrative of Creation. Buffon held the position of <em>intendant</em> director at the Jardin du Roi now called the Jardin des Plantes. Buffon's <em>Histoire naturelle générale et particulière</em> 1749–1788: in 36 volumes; an additional volume based on his notes appeared in 1789 was originally intended to cover all three "kingdoms" of nature but the <em>Histoire naturelle</em> ended up being limited to the animal and mineral kingdoms and the animals covered were only the birds and quadrupeds. "Written in a brilliant style this work was read . by every educated person in Europe". Those who assisted him in the production of this great work included Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton Philibert Guéneau de Montbeillard and Gabriel-Léopold Bexon along with numerous artists. Buffon's <em>Histoire naturelle</em> was translated into many different languages making him one of the most widely read authors of the day a rival to Montesquieu Rousseau and Voltaire. In the opening volumes of the <em>Histoire naturelle</em> Buffon questioned the usefulness of mathematics criticized Carl Linnaeus's taxonomical approach to natural history outlined a history of the Earth with little relation to the Biblical account and proposed a theory of reproduction that ran counter to the prevailing theory of pre-existence. The early volumes were condemned by the Faculty of Theology at the Sorbonne. Buffon published a retraction but he continued publishing the offending volumes without any change. In the course of his examination of the animal world Buffon noted that despite similar environments different regions have distinct plants and animals a concept later known as Buffon's Law. This is considered to be the first principle of biogeography. He made the suggestion that species may have both "improved" and "degenerated" after dispersing from a center of creation. In volume 14 he argued that all the world's quadrupeds had developed from an original set of just thirty-eight quadrupeds. On this basis he is sometimes considered a "transformist" and a precursor of Darwin. He also asserted that climate change may have facilitated the worldwide spread of species from their centres of origin. Still interpreting his ideas on the subject is not simple for he returned to topics many times in the course of his work. Buffon considered the similarities between humans and apes but ultimately rejected the possibility of a common descent. He debated with James Burnett Lord Monboddo on the relationship of the primates to man Monboddo insisting against Buffon on a close relationship. At one point Buffon propounded a theory that nature in the New World was inferior to that of Eurasia. He argued that the Americas were lacking in large and powerful creatures and that even the people were less virile than their European counterparts. He ascribed this inferiority to the marsh odours and dense forests of the American continent. These remarks so incensed Thomas Jefferson that he dispatched twenty soldiers to the New Hampshire woods to find a bull moose for Buffon as proof of the "stature and majesty of American quadrupeds". In <em>Les époques de la nature</em> 1778 Buffon discussed the origins of the solar system speculating that the planets had been created by a comet's collision with the sun. He also suggested that the Earth originated much earlier than 4004 BC the date determined by Archbishop James Ussher. Basing his figures on the cooling rate of iron tested at his Laboratory the Petit Fontenet at Montbard he calculated that the age of the earth was 75000 years. Once again his ideas were condemned by the Sorbonne and once again he issued a retraction to avoid further problems.</p> De L'Imprimerie Royal. Paris. hardcover
1957mon0003335392Jonquieres 1957T. hardcover. Acceptable. . Copy 371. Slipcase is missing the sides detached and heavily tanned. Loose pages in good condition complete. Printed stiff paper wraps lighlty tanned. Jonquieres hardcover
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