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1630Flo472<p>Very good print of bears from the <em>Dictionary of Natural Sciences</em></p><p>Polar bear and brown bear</p><p>Stipple copperplate engraving with superb colour in very good condition</p><p>Brown bear Ursus arctos arctos and polar bear Ursus maritimus vulnerable.</p><p>Illustration by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin engraved by Carnonkel</p><p>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.</p><p>Pierre Jean François Turpin 1775-1840 was a French botanist and illustrator. He is considered one of the greatest floral and botanical illustrators during the Napoleonic Era and after.</p> F. G. Levrault hardcover
1630Flo406<p>Very good set of the Mammals and Birds volumes from Cuvier's huge <em>Dictionary of Natural Sciences</em> bound in one</p><p>Complete with all 100 engraved plates of mammals and 119 engraved plates of birds</p><p>Animals include the extinct quagga and white-fronted icterus. Birds include the extinct orange-wattled kokako Alagoas curassow and Cuban red macaw.</p><p>All the illustrations by Jean-Gabriel Prêtre under the direction of Pierre Jean François Turpin and engraved by Louis Massard his wife Madame Massard and daughter Mademoiselle Massard Mademoiselle Coignet Rebel and his wife Madame Rebel Carnonkel David Victor Guyard Plee Bourey etc.</p><p>Part 1 Mammifères: Title page 13pp table of plates index 100 engraved plates; Part 2 Ornithologie: Title page 16pp table of plates index 119 engraved plates.</p><p>Part of Cuvier's massive <em>Dictionary of Natural Sciences</em> that was published in 60 text volumes and 13 plate volumes from 1816 to 1830.</p><p>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.</p><p>Pierre Jean François Turpin 1775-1840 was a French botanist and illustrator. He is considered one of the greatest floral and botanical illustrators during the Napoleonic Era and after.</p><p>Half brown leather with gilt title spine rubbed red cloth boards stained and scratched marble endpapers book block solid. All plates mounted on hinges text and plates with foxing and spotting to edges pencil numbers to all plates but engravings very crisp and sharp.</p><p>Good uncoloured set of this increasingly rare series by two giants of natural history illustration.</p> F. G. Levrault hardcover
1618BIBLIO-18290F.G. Levrault Strasbourg ; Le Normant Paris first edition thus 1816-1830. 60 vols 19th century cloth with red leather spine-panels small 8vo 20 cm. averaging approximately 550 pp per volume. A scarce set comprising the 60 text volumes of this massive and well-regarded work but without the 12 volumes of plates and one of portraits. Vastly expanded and revised from the 1804-06 edition which had run to 6 volumes only the Dictionnaire was under the general editorship of Frederic Cuvier and included contributions from many of the leading scientists of the day; the articles on physics and chemistry for example being written by Lacroix Fourcroy and Chevreul. A later plan to revise and update this 1816-1830 Dictionnaire progressed no further than the issue of a single supplementary volume A-Aye in 1840. An ex-library set with the text complete and in reasonable condition but many bindings in need of repair. Most volumes have wear with some loss to the head and tail of the spines and the majority have some rubbing to the leather spine-panel; subject to this about 38 volumes are Good about 14 volumes have one or both boards detached or are split along one or both joints and about 8 volumes have loss of part or all of the spines. Textblocks are all intact complete and generally Good save for some usually light foxing. Each title-page has a small old library stamp of the Geological Society and a manuscript inscription at the foot noting the Fund through which the volume was bought; each half-title has a small library mar; each front pastedown endpaper has a label setting out the library regulations and "Geological Society" is gilt-blocked at the foort of each spine. Overall Good for the contents save for the library marks and Fair for the bindings. F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg ; Le Normant, Paris, first edition thus, 1816-1830 hardcover
