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Tableau Élémentaire De L'histoire Naturelle Des Animaux. French Edition

[Frederic Cuvier, Antoine de Jussieu, et al, illus Pierre Jean Francois Turpin ]Biblio.com

Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali

1837Flo442Complete set of the plate volumes from the first Italian edition of the monumental French Dictionary of Natural Sciences 1240 finely engraved plates with splendid hand colouring numbered 1 to 1200 but with multiple bis platesThe plates by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre worms and zoophytes shells insects and crustaceans birds mammals fish herpetology and Pierre Jean Francois Turpin botany. Newly engraved by Italian engravers Corsi Verico Cignozzi Luigi Giarre Stangli Bozza Zignoni etc.Includes many extinct fossil species and dinosaurs as well as recently extinct species such as the Bubal Hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus auroch Bos urus quagga Equus quagga quagga Cuban red macaw Ara tricolor etc.Several critically endangered species such as the Screwhorn antelope Addax nasomaculatus and European eel Anguilla anguilla as well as endangered species including the Chinese forest musk deer Moschus berezovskii Indian rhino Rhinoceros unicornis Orang utan Pongo pygmaeus silvery gibbon Hylobates moloch polar bear Ursus maritimus white-fronted spider monkey Ateles belzebuth Green sea turtle Chelonia mydas etc.The original published in France from 1816-1830 was the work of well-known scholars including Frédéric Georges Cuvier Antoine Laurent de Jussieu Charles Dumont de Sainte-Croix André Marie Constant Duméril Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest Hippolyte Cloquet Henri-Marie Ducrotay de Blainville etc. This Italian translation was published in Florence from 1830 to 1850.All the plates directed by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin 1775-1840 one of the greatest botanical artists of the Napoleonic era along with Redoute and Bessa. When serving in the French army in Haiti in 1794 Turpin met botanist Pierre Antoine Poiteau and switched careers. His skill as an artist was recognized by botanists such as Poiret Humboldt Duhamel du Monceau and Candolle. Turpin provided the majority of the plates for Flore Medicale. Turpin drew all the botanical plates in this work along with his son who died tragically at age 18.Jean-Gabriel Prêtre 1768-1849 was a Swiss-French natural history painter who illustrated a large number of books for Cuvier Louis Pierre Vieillot René Primevère Lesson Comte de Lacépède Richard Achille and many other French zoologists.Half morocco spines with gilt title and volume labels in leather marble paper boards with a wood-grain pattern boards scuffed and worn. Some spotting to the index text pages at the front of each volume but most plates clean and bright on very white paper the fine stipple engravings with vivid colour. A few plates with childish colouring a few with large spots of foxing or age toning and one torn with loss of lower 3cm. Ex-libris bookplates of Periclis Staderini in all volumes. Bindings have been treated with a protective celloluse coating. V. Batelli e Figli hardcover

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