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39432Paris Hôtel de Thou 1788-1790. Four parts in four. 12mo 16.6 x 9.6 cm. 1699 pp. I 1788 359; II 1788 464; III 1790 24 432; IV 1790 8 408 pp.; 48 of 49 nicely engraved plates I: 12; II: 15 III: 11 IV: 10 depicting amphibians and reptiles in their natural surroundings. Contemporary uniform full calf. Spines with gilt vignettes borders and two red morocco labels each boards with ornamental gilt borders. Marbled endpapers. = This is the smaller sized edition that was published in the same years as the first edition in quarto published as Suite de Buffon. The last 12 pp. of volume IV contain an "Éloge du comte Buffon". The last two volumes half the work deal with snakes. Nissen reports 49 plates with a query. Two other contemporary editions have 48 plates as does this one. There is however no plate V in Volume IV. A nice clean set in attractive contemporary bindings. Nissen ZBI 2350a 2350b. hardcover
0282433228.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
41385Paris. Rapet. 1818-1819. 8vo. 20cm Eleven of twelve volumes wanting Vol. 6. With numerous c.250 engraved plate illustrations including frontis portrait bound in contemporary full tree calf full gilt decorated panels double black and tan leather labels wear on the edges a few spine edges chipped a very good internally fine and clean sound set. ~ Lacepede 1756-1825 invited by Buffon to work on continuation of "Histoire Naturelle." published "Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupedes Ovipares" first in 1789 which appeared after Buffon death. ~ Over six thousand pages of text plus indexes. Paris. Rapet. 1818-1819 unknown
1844015517Paris: Furne et Cie 1844. Two volumes uniformly-bound. Green cloth covers. Panelled spines with gilt lettering and designs. Previous owner's small book-plate front pastedowns previous owner's signature top of hal--title pages. Occasional foxing through text never heavy or obtrusive. Thirty-five hand-coloured full-page plates with tissue-guards. Missing Plate #8 "Le Tete et Le Basilic". This new edition contains an elogy on the author by Cuvier at beginning of Volume 1 and notes by De Desmarest. The first edition of this work was published in 1788-89 as a continuation of Buffon's work "Histoire Naturelle". 688-648pp. with the list of plates at rear of Volume 2. Lacepepd 1756-1825 was a French naturalist. He was awarded the Grand-Croix of the Legion of Honor in 1805. A very clean copy of this important work with beautiful hand-coloured plates. Text is in French. Please see photos. . Nouvelle Edition. 1/2 Green Leather. Light Corner Wear/No Dust Jackets. Suoer Royal Octavo. Furne et Cie Hardcover
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20471Paris Furne et Cie. 1855. Two parts in two. Large 8vo 25.8 x 16.7 cm. xii 668 647 pp.; 36 nicely hand-coloured steel-engravings tissue-guarded all after Edouard Travies. Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt lines and title. Marbled endpapers. = This is the second updated edition with all the attractive hand-coloured plates after Travies with the animals in their natural or sometimes not so natural surroundings. Attractively bound. It includes beautifully coloured plates depicting many amphibians and reptiles. Boards a bit rubbed more so at edges. Some text sections and tissue-guards foxed but mostly in the margins and only about 12 plates mostly in the fish section are touched. One fish plate detached otherwise very good. Adler I p. 14; Dean II p. 3 first edition; Nissen ZBI 2346. hardcover
188124746Paris: Furne Jouvet et Cie 1881. Hardcover. Very good overall. This edition with the magnificent hand colored steel engraved plates by Travies including the plates of whales was first published in 1856. <br /> <br /> The handsome plates are after Edouard Travies one of the best French scientific artists of the day and show the animals in their natural settings. Travies exhibited at the Paris Salon from the 1830s to the 1860s. The plates here include the following: Volume I: whales and dolphins: 5 plates; reptiles and batrachians: 15 plates; fish: 4 plates. Volume II: fish: 12 plates. These are some the finest hand colored natural history plates we have seen. <br /> <br /> The comte de Lacepede 1756 - 1825 one of the most influential zoologists of his time was professor in zoology at the Museum of Natural History . He contributed substantially to Buffon's noted 'Histoire Naturelle' by writing the parts on fishes reptiles and cetaceans whales dolphins porpoises.<br /> <br /> Large 8vo. Vol. I: xii 668 pp; Vol II: 647 pp; 36 magnificently hand colored engraved plates. Early black calf and cloth boards all edges colored. Spines chipped and cracked along boards; internally bright and clean copy. BMNH p. 1041; Casey Wood p. 424. OCLC: 5072548 locates 4 copies at the Smithsonian the University of Chicago University of Texas and University of Utrecht. Furne, Jouvet et Cie hardcover
1819123260Paris: Rapet 1819. Hardcover. Fair. 588 p. 21 cm. Frontispiece and 23 other engraved plates. Quarter leather with marbled paper boards endpapers and text block edges. Gilt trim on spine and burgundy spine labels. Lower spine chipped slight chipping to spine head corners worn dent in edge of front board. Dampstains. French text. <br/><br/> Rapet hardcover
18575310CB1857. Nouvelle édition pécédée de l'éloge de Lacépède par Cuvier. 2 Bände. Paris A. Delahays 1857. 8°. 654 S.; 574 1 S. Mit 33 kol. Stahlstichtafeln. Rote Halblederbände der Zeit mit Rückenvergoldung. Vgl. Nissen 2346 andere Ausgaben mit 36 Tafeln. - Vorliegende Ausgabe mit nur 33 Tafeln jedoch komplett identisch mit anderen im Handel gesehenen Exemplaren von 1857! - Mit Exlibris auf dem Vorsatz. Einband berieben. unknown
182724927Paris: F. G. Levrault 1827. First edition thus 8vo pp. 4 lxxii 73-321; engraved portrait of the author and 1 folding facsimile; some foxing but generally a very good copy in orig. printed paper-covered boards. This copy with an inscription on the front pastedown "A monsieur le Docteur Moreau . de l'Editeur" and with Moreau's bookplate. "Article extrait du 21e volume du Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles." Lacépède's text was first separately published in 1821 without Cuvier's éloge. F. G. Levrault unknown
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30805Assouline New York 2008. 4to. 232pp. Original boards in dustwrapper one short cut. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition. 200 coloured illustrations from the late 18th and early 19th Century. Assouline New York 2008. hardcover
18366649Paris: P. Dumeril 1836. Hardcover. Contemporary quarter leather bindings with marbled boards three volumes. Colored plates. The title pages call for 100 plates but this copy has 105 plates. Nissen ZBI and the other copy I have had collate with 164 plates; 6 additional ophidien plates and 53 additional plates of Poissons. P. Dumeril hardcover
038751833 - 1834 Bruxelles Th. Lejeune. 5 volumes LES PLANCHES DE L'ATLAS SONT RELIEES DANS LES VOLUMES CORRESPONDANTS - 238 x 155 cm - demi-maroquin brun quatre faux nerfs auteur numéro et sujet du tome estampés en or sur le dos tranches marbrées - 4 437 pgs - 440 pgs - 531 feuille blanche 536 pgs xi page blanche 335 pgs page blanche 33 planches lithographiées par Lejeune - en tout 185 planches parfois un peu brunâtre la plupart finement coloriée à la main - il manque 3 planches - et 33 planches en noir lithographiées - complet sauf 3 planches 218 plaches Nissen 221 planches - une table dans le volume 1 petite déchirure - les dos des tomes 2 et 3 sont restaurés en haut presque invisible - bel ex. - Nissen ZBI 2344 <br /><br /> 1833 - 1834 Bruxelles Th. Lejeune
1836180378vo. Bound in 3 cont. hcalf. Volume 1 with 2 small holes in back and a little loss of leather on frontcover along first hinge. Gilt backs a little rubbed. 448844804427 pp. Ocassionally a little brownspotted and some margins slightly dampstained. With 150 engraved plates not colored. <br/><br/><em>Nissen No 2345. </em> hardcover
1836NCÉuvLAC81Paris: P.Duménil 1836. 1836. 3 Volumes. 8vo. pp. 2 p.l. 488; 2 p.l. 480; 2 p.l. 427. with half-titles. 164 steel-engraved plates. original bds. rubbed some chipping to extremities. Paris: P.Duménil, 1836. unknown
1799016055Paris: Chez Plassan 1799. Hardcover. Near Fine. 4to. Brown buckram gilt lettered spine 3 18pp; 1 20pp. Text in French with Latin names of mammals and bird species untrimmed deckle edges light foxing with some light brown staining at lower half of text-block from aging text unaffected else near fine copy. Very scarce systematic list of mammals and birds by the famous French naturalist. Presents animals classified into their subclasses divisions & sub-divisions orders & genera. Chez Plassan hardcover
1833217270Paris: Chez Ladrange et Verdière 1833. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Roger after the painting by Hersent and 187 lithographed plates of fish whales serpents etc. from drawings bu Oudart and 2 large folding tables. 11 vols. 8vo. Contemporary quarter brown morocco and patterned paper boards gilt-lettered spines raised bands marbled edges and endpapers. Occasional faint dampstaining to outer margins in vols. 5 & 6 some light scattered foxing but overall a very handsome and impressive set. Engraved frontispiece portrait by Roger after the painting by Hersent and 187 lithographed plates of fish whales serpents etc. from drawings bu Oudart and 2 large folding tables. 11 vols. 8vo. Superb edition handsomely presented of the works of the great French naturalist and succesor to Buffon collecting his massive HISTOIRE NATURELLE DES POISSONS; . DES QUADRUPEDES OVIPARES; . DES SERPENTS; and DES CÉTACÉES. In addition the set collects Lacépède's lectures including the often omittted lectures "Discours sur la durée des espèces" and "Troisième vue de la nature". See DSB VII pp. 546-548.<br /> <br /> Complete as issued with all the lithographed plates occasionally found bound separately the set comprises:<br /> <br /> Vol. I. Discours. portrait 627 p 1 folding table.<br /> Vol. 2. Histoire naturelle des Cétacés. 412 pp. 20 plates<br /> Vol. 3 Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares. 624 pp 24 plates<br /> Vol. 4 Histoire naturelle des serpents. 557 pp. 23 plates<br /> Vol. 5 - 11. Histoire naturelle des poissons. 5: 501 pp 27 plates; 6: 596 pp. 24 plates; 7: 510 13 plates; 8: 512 pp. 23 plates; 9: 497 pp. 15 plates; 10: 459 pp 7 plates; 11: 544 pp. 11 plates and folding table. Mill/9/3 Chez Ladrange et Verdière unknown
91286Berlin Buchhandlung des Geh. Commerzien-Raths Pauli 1799. 8° Titelbl. m. gest. Titelvignette 2. Titelbl. m. identischer gest. Titelvignette Schmutztitel 1 gestochene Taf. Haifischfang; wohl fremd VIII 518 S. 9 handkolorierte gest. Taf. Nr. 1 - 9; Titelbl. m. handkolorierter gest. Titelvignette Schmutztitel S. 519 - 992 XII S. Register 1 Bl. Errata 16 handkolorierte gest. Taf. Nr. 10 - 25 1. Bd.: Neues Priv.-HLdr. dem Stil der alten Vorlage angenähert; 2. Bd.: Priv.-HLdr. d. Zt. ; jew. m. gold. Rückenpräg. u. Rundum-Grünschnitt Etw. berieben in Bd. 1 Titelbl. u. Bl. der Vorrede wasserfleckig Kopfschnitt etw. eingesogen selten etw. stockfl. Einband von Bd. 2 tlw. fleckig Ecken etw. bestossen kl. Nr. a. Vs. Exlibris a. Titelbl. verso erste Bl. min. stockfl. 010 Berlin, Buchhandlung des Geh. Commerzien-Raths Pauli, 1799 unknown
4-43279Bruxelles Adolphe Deros 1853 due volumi in-8vo gr. mezza tela coeva titoli ai dorsi pp. 654 574 con 29 bellissime tavole lit. del grande E. Travies a colori "gommé". Bruniture dovute alla qualità della carta e che interessano unicamente le prime ed ultime due/tre carte per volume. hardcover
12110Couverture rigide. Bon/1827. in-8. Paris F.G. Levrault 1827 in-8 portrait 4 LXXII 321 1blpp 1pl demi-basane noire dos plat orné. Rel. post. WELLCOME III 425. PREMIERE EDITION. Portrait de Lacépède et fac-similé d'une de ses lettres à son éditeur. Son éloge historique est de Georges Cuvier unknown
1790125865A Paris - Hôtel de Thou 1790. Hardcover. <b>Livre en français</b>. Couverture rigide. Reliure plein veau d'époque défraîchie. Pièces de titre manquantes. 408 pages. <i>ref. 125865</i> A Paris - Hôtel de Thou hardcover
