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1834deckert33736bc5G. Henderson 1834-1837. Hardcover. Good. 3/4 leather boards with marble maroon and gold title labels on spine 4 volumes of text and 4 volumes and color amazing amount of plates book showing wear about edges but all tight pages all vg G. Henderson hardcover
183137709New York: Carvill 1831. <p>Cuvier Georges L. C. F. D. baron 1769-1832. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. . . . Translated from the French with notes and additions by H. M'Murtrie M.D. 4 vols. 8vo. xxxii 448 2; xv 1 475 1; xx 575 1; xii 545 1pp. 20 engraved plates. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 220 x 133 mm. Speckled sheep ca. 1831 gilt-ruled spines slightly rubbed. Moderate foxing and browning but a fine copy.</p> . <p>First American Edition. See Dibner Heralds of Science 195 Printing and the Mind of Man 276 Garrison-Morton 327. The most influential exposition of the typological approach to animal classification representing the greatest body of zoological facts that had yet been assembled; it served as the standard zoological manual for most of Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century. Cuvier's view of animal organization led him to an early recognition of the balance of nature both with respect to the functional balance of parts in the individual and the interdependence of groups in the "network of nature." However Cuvier's adherence to the concept of species as rigid unchanging types rendered him unable to account for the immense variation within species populations. Coleman pp. 94-98. DSB. </p> . Carvill unknown books
183538516Paris, Crochard, 1835-1846, in-8, 8 tomes en 9 vol; , T.1: XXXIII, (1bl), 585, (1)pp.; T.2: VIII, 726pp.; T.3: (4), IV, 760pp.; T.4-1: XXVII, (1bl), 628, (4)pp.; T.4-2: (4), 691, (1)pp.; T.5: VIII, 503, (1bl)pp, 1tabl.; T.6: VII, (1bl), 559, (1)pp, 1tabl.; T.7: VII, (1), 656pp.; T.8: X, demi-basane verte de l'époque, dos plats ornés d'un large motif romantique doré, tranches mouchetées, Seconde édition de cet ouvrage capital qui fut publié pour la première fois entre 1800 et 1805. Elle est ici corrigée, refondue et augmentée par Georges Louis Duvernoy professeur au Collège de France et Constant Duméril qui fut le premier à enseigner l'anatomie comparée en France. Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) l'a revue lui-même. Cuvier fut le fondateur de la paléontologie des vertébrés et qu'il fut le premier à mentionner les théories des types morphologiques. Le tome 1 contient les généralités et les organes du mouvement des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 2, les organes du mouvement des animaux sans vertèbres, et l'ostéologie de la tête ; le tome 3, le système nerveux et les organes des sens ; le tome 4, les organes de la mastication, de l'insalivation et de la déglutition des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 5, les organes de l'alimentation des mollusques, des animaux articulés et des zoophytes ; le tome 6, la description du fluide nourricier, de ses réservoirs et des organes qui le mettent en mouvement dans les quatre types du règne animal ; le tome 7, la description des organes de l'élaboration et de dépuration du fluide nourricier, par la respiration et la sécrétion urinaire; et le tome 8, les organes de la génération et des sécrétions, avec une leçon complémentaire des organes de relations. Bon exemplaire en dépit de quelques rousseurs habituelles du papier de cette époque. Ex dono autographe signé de l'éditeur Victor Masson à son ami le Dr Barth Couverture rigide
1822101313Paris, G. Dufour & E. d'Ocagne, 1822, in-4, [4]-VIII-428-[1] pp, 18 pl, Demi-veau blond postérieur, dos à nefs, pièce de titre cerise, tranches cailloutées, Nouvelle édition de l'Essai sur la géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris, entièrement réécrite et considérablement développée. Elle est illustrée de dix-huit planches en lithographies ou gravées en taille-douce, dont la très grande carte géognosique des environs de Paris, coloriée à la main. Cuvier et Brongniart, amis et confrère, publient ici leurs études communes sur les formations géologiques du Bassin de Paris, entreprises à partir de 1804. Ce célèbre mémoire a paru simultanément dans le Journal des Mines et dans les Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle en 1808, sous le titre d'Essai sur la géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris; puis il est publié en librairie en 1811, accompagné de la carte géognosique en couleurs (Paris, Baudouin). Saut de page de 2 à 5, sans manque de texte. Bel état intérieur. Petites galeries sur le plat inférieur. DSB III, 526. Ward & Carozzi n° 565. Couverture rigide
182918430Paris: Déterville and Crochard 1829. SECOND EDITION. With 20 full-page etched plates. Contemporary gilt green sheep-backed marbled boards. Ownership stamps of J.E. van der Dussen. A fine set. Second edition enlarged of this landmark in the history of zoology and comparative anatomy the most comprehensive biological work since Linnaeus. “Cuvier’s valuable work represented the fruits of a lifetime’s study of living and fossil animals. In his day Cuvier exerted an enormous influence on science. He played a leading part in the development of the science of palaeontology and stimulated the study of comparative anatomy†G&M. <br /> “It is in his classification of the animal kingdom into four main groups Vertebrata Mollusca Articulata and Radiata that he is so notably succeeded in giving a lead that has been followed by all his successors. . .Cuvier was the first to apply analyses and comparison to the entire animal kingdom. He also saw that this homogeneity in an individual should enable a competent naturalist to reconstruct a complete animal from any significant part of its anatomy†PMM.<br /> See PMM 276; Garrison-Morton 327; Dibner 195. Déterville and Crochard unknown
180547764Paris: De L'Imprimerie Impériale 1805. First complete French edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Quartos. Vol.1: xcvii 528pp 31pp. Vol.2: 460pp 84pp. Black leather over dark blue marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. The first full French translation of compiled research from the Asiatic Society of Bengal originally published in English as the periodical journal "Asiatick Researches" from 1788- 1839. <br /> <br /> The text throughout contains a vast array of information in various realms of scientific historical philosophical religious and/or cultural topics from different authors. Volume 1 contains a total of 33 plates of copperplate engravings including 2 fold-out while volume 2 contains 11 plates plus 2 folding tables one one which a table of Persian grammatical influence on North India printed on blue-toned Arches papers measuring 22 1/4 x 28". Some of these plates contain illustrations while others contain geometric figures mathematical calculations astrological charts and samples of texts in various Asian scripts including Sanskrit Arabic and Chinese. In addition to the numbered plates there are many other un-numbered examples in-text as well as statistical tables some full page. The text throughout is accompanied by copious scholarly footnotes. Of special note is a sections of beautifully rendered plates containing images of various Hindu deities. Also includes a large fold out steel-plate engraved Hindu Zodiac with 27 images. The final section of volume one contains corrections and additions followed by tables of meteorological data also included in vol.2. <br /> <br /> This French edition notably has been revised and supplemented with various additional notes from a number of distinguished French scholars and scientists of the era including zoologist Georges Cuvier 1769 – 1832 mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749 – 1822 naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 -1829 and entomologist Guillaume-Antoine Olivier 1756-1814. <br /> <br /> Text in French.<br /> <br /> Bindings with some light rubbing and/or bumping to extremities. Light scratches to the covers. Interiors with minor sporadic foxing and/or water stains to the margins of a few pages throughout although in general the pages are surprisingly clean and vibrant. Book blocks quite tight. Bindings in very good- interiors in very good condition overall. About the society:<br /> The "The Asiatic Society of Bengal" now simply known as the Asiatic Society was founded in Calcutta in 1784 by British scholar philologist and civil civil Sir William Jones 1746-1794 in the early years of the British Raj. Its purpose as set forth was the furthering of Oriental research of all kinds as well as the collection of manuscripts and other relevant materials. It began publishing the work and research of its members all distinguished scholars in its periodical journal "Asiatick Researches". A museum set up to house and display its holdings as well as act as a hub or research was established in 1814. At first only Europeans could become members but starting in 1829 Indian were allowed to join as well. De L'Imprimerie Impériale hardcover
183594469Paris, Crochard, 1835-1846, in-8, 8 tomes en 9 vol, 2 tabl. depl, Demi-veau fauve de l'époque, dos lisses, ornés de filets dorés et à froid, pièces de titre et de tomaison noires, Seconde édition de cet ouvrage capital qui fut publié pour la première fois entre 1800 et 1805, en 5 volumes. Elle est ici corrigée, refondue et augmentée par Georges Louis Duvernoy, professeur au Collège de France, et par le collaborateur et élève préféré de Cuvier, Constant Duméril, qui fut le premier à enseigner l'anatomie comparée en France. Grâce à la qualité de son travail d'observation, Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) a posé les bases d'une méthode d'analyse et de comparaison à l'ensemble du règne animal et a établi l'Anatomie Comparée : cette science, nouvelle branche de l'histoire naturelle, est née grâce à la collaboration scientifique avec Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, son ami d'alors. Sa méthode d'analyse et de comparaison à l'ensemble du règne animal le conduit à une classification reposant sur l'idée que les critères anatomiques et physiologiques des animaux sont dus à leur fonction et habitats et non l'inverse. Il décrit ainsi quatre grandes familles : les animaux vertébrés, les mollusques, les articulés et les radiaires. Cuvier est considéré comme le fondateur de la paléontologie et de l'anatomie comparée. Il a été le premier à appliquer la notion d'équilibre à la nature, en l'envisageant comme un immense réseau au sein duquel les espèces dépendaient les unes des autres. Cet esprit brillant, qui rédigea plus de 300 articles scientifiques et publia plusieurs monographies majeures, endossa plusieurs fonctions importantes : celles de professeur au Collège de France et au Muséum, de secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences ou encore d'inspecteur général de l'Instruction publique. Pourtant, sa croyance dans la préexistence des germes ne le disposait pas à admettre l'idée transformiste. À l'inverse, il tira avantage de sa gloire académique pour défendre la théorie créationniste : il s'opposa à Lamarck, qu'il railla jusque dans son éloge funèbre (1832), et à Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, qu'il affronta dans le débat sur l'unité de la composition. Le tome 1 contient les généralités et les organes du mouvement des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 2, les organes du mouvement des animaux sans vertèbres, et l'ostéologie de la tête ; le tome 3, le système nerveux et les organes des sens ; le tome 4, les organes de la mastication, de l'insalivation et de la déglutition des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 5, les organes de l'alimentation des mollusques, des animaux articulés et des zoophytes ; le tome 6, la description du fluide nourricier, de ses réservoirs et des organes qui le mettent en mouvement dans les quatre types du règne animal ; le tome 7, la description des organes de l'élaboration et de dépuration du fluide nourricier, par la respiration et la sécrétion urinaire; et le tome 8, les organes de la génération et des sécrétions, avec une leçon complémentaire des organes de relations. Wellcome II, 423. Wood, 307. Couverture rigide
1837099074L. Henderson 1837. First of This Edition. Half Leather. Very Good. 8 vols. with 576 colored plates - 4 vols. of text and 4 vols. of plates. Binding appears to have been done c. 1920's. All the title pages show moderate foxing. L. Henderson hardcover
1817elala537Paris: Deterville 1817. 1817. 4 Volumes. 8vo. pp. xxxvii 540; xviii 532; xxix 653; viii 255. with half-titles. 15 engraved plates by Pierron after Laurillard. 10 folding engraved plates from another work bound in at end. contemporary quarter sheep gilt backs spines somewhat worn several joints cracked scattered foxing. bookplate 1825 ownership entry 1834 & rubberstamp on title of A.Chambion on titles. First Edition of Cuviers most comprehensive work which embodied the whole of his previous researches on the structure of living and fossil animals and laid the foundations of modern comparative anatomy. Here Cuvier introduced his famous classification system according to which the animal kingdom is divided into four main groups vertebrata mollusca articulata insects lobsters and radiata all remaining types. "This type theory is Cuviers greatest contribution in the sphere of systematization and represents although in a somewhat modified form the basis of all subsequent animal classification." Nordenskiöld Opposing the current view that the structure of an animal determined its functions and habits Cuvier maintained that an animals structure was due to its functions and habits. Throughj the exact study of the anatomy of living and fossil species he could reconstruct extinct forms from a few surviving bones. At the end of Volume IV pp. 95-170 is an important annotated bibliography of zoological literature. Brit. Museum Cat. of Natural History I 410. Brunet II 457 incorrectly citing date 1816. Casey Wood 307. Dibner Heralds of Science 195. Nissen 1013. Nordenskiöld History of Biology pp. 339-41. Printing and the Mind of Man 276. Sparrow Milestones of Science 42 Plate 134 pp. 31-32. Waller 11796. Wellcome II 423 incomplete. cfGarrison & Morton 327. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Paris: Deterville , 1817. Hardcover
1827139121London: Whittaker 1827. First. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. 196 plates out of 210 with 76 colored by hand. Handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 green morocco lightly worn some scattered foxing. London: George Whittaker 1827. First English edition. Very good .<br/> <br/> A near fine set with light scattered foxing of this classic zoological book- a standard for the first half of the nineteenth century.<br/> <br/> Whittaker unknown
1827139121London: Whittaker 1827. First. hardcover. very good. 5 volumes. 196 plates out of 210 with 76 colored by hand. Handsomely bound in contemporary 3/4 green morocco lightly worn some scattered foxing. London: George Whittaker 1827. First English edition. Very good .<br/><br/> A near fine set with light scattered foxing of this classic zoological book- a standard for the first half of the nineteenth century.<br/><br/> Whittaker unknown books
18372820Firenze, Per V. Batelli e Figli, 1837. 4 vol. de pl. (140 x 237) de 305 pl., X, IV + 304 pl., X + 312 pl., X + 301 pl., XIV pp. Demi-vélin ivoire, dos lisses ornés de chaînettes dorées, pièce de titre de basane havane. Plats, bords, coins et étiquettes frottés. Les volumes sont désolidarisés des reliures, un remontage du corps des ouvrages s’impose. En revanche les planches sont en superbe état.
1812A37982Paris: Chez Deterville 1812. 157 engraved plates some folding including a large folding hand-coloured map. . HB. 4 vols 4to 283x215mm orig. paper covered boards heavily rubbed/worn spines chipped gilt rules and leather title labels to spines; wide margins with edges uncut; some foxing and browning a few short marginal tears; one folding plate damaged - creased and torn with loss to several figures; 6cm tear to inner margin of another large folding plate.Pagination: Vol. I: 8 vi 120 20 viii 278 2 23 1; Vol. II: 4 10 12 21 1 33 1 30 24 20 6 140 43 1 20 4; Vol. III: 4 3 1 8 174 21 1 14 75 1 20 7 1 8 2 16 21 1 4 20; Vol. IV: 7 1 5 3 66 38 10 2 72 18 20 30 9 1 27 1 43 1 40 2 59 1 26 38 32 37 1 16. Scarce first edition of a work which laid the foundation of vertebrate paleontology Horblit One Hundred Books 20b. The separately paginated memoirs many of which first appeared in 'Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris' are here reissued in revised form prefaced by the important 'Discours preliminaire'. Georges Cuvier 1769-1832 was an outstanding French naturalist who helped to found the fields of vertebrate paleontology and comparative anatomy. He was professor of comparative anatomy at the Mus�um d�Histoire Naturelle Paris. As Martin J. S. Rudwick states 'It is difficult to overestimate the huge impact of Cuvier on zoology paleontology and geology.' Significant and highly influential results of Cuvier's palaeontological and geological research were presented in a series of essays published in these four volumes Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupe`ds Paris 1812. Rudwick notes that Cuvier �called himself �a new species of antiquarian� who was using fossil bones instead of human artifacts as historical evidence. He therefore argued that naturalists such as himself could and should aspire to �burst the limits of time� � just as astronomers such as Pierre-Simon de Laplace to whom he dedicated his Ossemens fossiles had already �burst the limits of space". Vol. 1 includes Discours pr�liminaire in which Cuvier introduced the idea of geological �revolutions� to explain mass extinctions of prehistoric species. Other papers include an essay on an Egyptian ibis mummy brought from Thebes during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt; and with Alexandre Brogniart 1770-1847 an updated version of Cuvier's important stratigraphical memoir of 1810 Essai sur la G�ographie Min�ralogique des Environs de Paris which contributed to the concept of faunal succession in rock strata of different periods. In Vol. 2 Cuvier describes species of pachyderms found in recent alluvial deposits including elephants mastodons rhinoceros hippopotamus and tapir. In Vol. 3 Cuvier's recalls the challenges of reconstruing fossils of different species. Vol. 4 concerns fossil horses and pigs bears hyenas and big cats and concludes by describing fossil sloths crocodiles turtles and marine dinosaurs.Nissen ZBI 1011; BMNH Cat. I p. 409. Chez Deterville hardcover
18173707077Paris: Deterville 1817. Some foxing to the plates. Four volumes octavo 15 engraved plates by C.-L. Laurillard a handsome set with all four half-titles in original quarter calf over mottled papered boards gilt double spine labels in red & green. <p><p>First edition of this germinal work of natural history with three volumes by Cuvier himself and the fourth an important study of insects by his friend and colleague Latreille.</p> <p>Recognised as the father of comparative anatomy Cuvier published widely throughout his lifetime but this was his most famous and influential work and contained the results of all his previous research on the structures of living and fossil animals. It was based upon his vast knowledge of zoological anatomies and in it he applied Linnæus' system of nomenclature and classification to the whole animal kingdom in the process establishing his four great classes: vertebrate molluscous articulate and radiated.</p> <p>Cuvier's work is a benchmark for many reasons not least for the third volume present here which is actually the work of Pierre André Latreille Professor of Entomology at the Paris Museum: Latreille's contribution was not only a significant contribution to his field but he had earlier been heavily involved in characterising the insects collected on the Baudin voyage to Australia and the Pacific. In the present volume Latreille sought to update the foundation work of scholars including Fabricius within Cuvier's framework; as a result Latreille included here many Australian insects including two the 'Rhipcera' and the 'Heleus' noted for the first time.</p> <p>Cuvier born in 1769 was invited by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire to come to Paris in 1795. He took an appointment at the newly-formed Muséum nationale d'histoire naturelle where he remained until his death from cholera in 1832. He had first publicly canvassed his new quadripartite schema of the animal kingdom in an 1812 presentation to the Academy of Sciences but it was in this work that he first detailed how this proposed division worked in practice. Here each of the classes is discussed in a separate volume with volumes I II and IV by Cuvier himself; his organizations of fish families in particular 'were so soundly based that they have become orders or suborders in present classification' DSB.</p> <p>Throughout his career Cuvier held to the premise of Le Règne Animal that the four branches were fundamentally different and that any similarities between them were due entirely to common functions rather than common ancestry. He did not believe that is that there was any evolutionary adaptation a stance which put him in open conflict with his contemporaries such as Buffon Lamarck and Geoffroy. This led to the famous debate between Cuvier and Geoffroy at the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris in 1830.</p> <p>Cuvier's towering position in the French natural sciences should be seen in the context of a very cynical view of his ambitions towards intellectual ownership of the science on Freycinet's voyage an idea explored in correspondence between Faujas de Saint Fond and Louis de Freycinet.</p> </p> . Deterville unknown
1837Flo442<p>Complete set of the plate volumes from the first Italian edition of the monumental French <em>Dictionary of Natural Sciences </em></p><p>1240 finely engraved plates with splendid hand colouring numbered 1 to 1200 but with multiple bis plates</p><p>The 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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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 <em>Flore Medicale.</em> Turpin drew all the botanical plates in this work along with his son who died tragically at age 18.</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>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.</p> V. Batelli e Figli hardcover
182557403Paris: Dufour et E. D'Ocagne 1825. Third edition. Quarto 32cm. Seven volumes complete in modern half black morocco green cloth over boards titled in gilt on spines and fronts; modern marbled endpapers; vol. I: vi194340pp; vol. II part I: ivIV2371229-232pp; vol. II part 2: iv239-648pp; vol. III: iv412pp; vol. IV: iv514pp; vol. V part 1: iv4051pp; vol. V part 2: iv 5471pp; 277 engraved plates including frontispiece one plate with hand color and 2 maps 1 letterpress folding table. Straight and sound with occasional scattered browning and soil a few page corners neatly restored one plate margin trimmed close to image area but largely clean and bright: Very Good. Third edition of the work in which Cuvier demonstrated the reality of extinction through detailed examination of fossils; a cornerstone work in paleontology biology and geology. Earlier editions appeared in 1812 and 1821-24. When Cuvier began his research in the late eighteenth century it was generally believed that no species had ever gone extinct. "Taking for his field the little-known fossil quadrupeds and applying to them the principles of comparative anatomy Cuvier astonished the world by reconstructing prehistoric forms of animal life whose existence had never been suspected" Glass Temkin & Straus Forerunners of Darwin 253. He established extinction as a fact demonstrated that the age of the earth was greater than six thousand years and did much to establish the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology. <br /> <br /> However Cuvier forcefully opposed pre-Darwinian theories of evolution. In the introduction to Ossemens Fossiles later published separately as Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe 1826 Cuvier argued in favor of catastrophism-the theory that violent catastrophes like the Biblical flood had caused extinction events and shaped geological features. This theory left room for contemporaries to infer a divine force that caused catastrophes and created new species; thus his research "provided a safety valve . . . between the push of geology and the drag of theology" Forerunners 255. His theories were in part disproven by Darwin and Lyell who demonstrated that both species and geological formations undergo gradual change over time; but Cuvier's ideas about catastrophism were vindicated by more recent research into mass extinction events caused by volanic eruptions and asteroids. This edition not in Ward/Carozzi. Dufour et E. D'Ocagne unknown
183441646Quatrième édition, revue et complétée au moyen de Notes additionnelles et d'un Supplément laissés par l'Auteur, 21 vol. in-8 br. et 2 vol. in-4 reliure moderne demi-basane à coins blonde, dos à 5 nerfs, Edmond d'Ocagne, J.B. Baillière, Crochard, Levrault, Roret, 1834 - 1836, ; T. I 1e P. : 16 pp. (Prospectus) et 256 pp. ; T. I 2e P. : pp. 257-587 ; T. II 1e P. : 2 ff. , 240 pp. ; T. II 2e P. : pp. 241-500 ; T. III 1e P. : 271 pp. ; T. III 2e P. : pp. 273-435 ; T. IV 1e P : 2 ff. , iv-368 pp. ; T. IV 2e P. : pp. 369-691 ; T. V. 1e P. : 3 ff., 240 pp. ; T. V. 2e P. : pp. 261-464 ; T. V. 3e P. : pp. 465-687 et 1 f. d'errata ; T. VI : 452 pp. ; T. VII 1e P. : 256 pp. ; T. VII 2e P. : pp. 257-533 ; T. VIII 1e P. : 2 ff., 272 pp. ; T. VIII Complément 1e P.. : pp. 255-463 et 2 ff. ; T. VIII 2e P. : 332 pp. : T. IX 1e P. : : 240 pp. ; T. IX 2e P. : pp. 241-501 et 1 f. d'errata ; T. X 1e P. : 256 pp. ; T. X 2e P. : pp. 257-497 ; Atlas Tome I : 2 ff., 88 pp. (explication des planches, manquent les explications des pl. 155 - partiellement - à 161) , 161 planches numérotées ; Atlas Tome II : 106 pp. (explication des planches), 1 f. n.ch., 100 planches numérotées de 162 à 260, avec 219 bis, et 18 planches numérotées de A à S (pas de planche I)
183481161834 Paris: Edmond dOcagne, Baillière, Levrault, Crochard, Roret, 1834-1836. Complet en 10 vol. in-8 (13 x 21 cm) de texte et 2 vol. in-4 (22 x 27,5 cm) datlas. I/ 2 ff. n. chiff., xxiv-587 pp. + 2 tab. dép.; II/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 500 pp.; III/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 435-[1] pp.; IV/ 2 ff. n. chiff., iv-691 pp.; V/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 687-[1] pp.; VI/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 452 pp.; VII/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 535-[1] pp.; VIII/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 462-[1] pp. [tome VIII, 1ère partie], 2 ff. n. chiff., 332 pp. [tome VIII, 2ème partie]; IX/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 501 pp., 1 f. n. chiff.; X/ 2 ff. n. chiff., 494 pp., 1 f. n. chiff.;Atlas I/ 2 ff. n. chiff. [faux-titre, titre], 1 portr. grav., 94 pp. [explications des planches], 161 pl. grav. chiff. 1 à 161; Atlas II/ 106-[1] pp. [faux-titre, titre, explications des planches, impressum], 100 pl. grav. chiff. 162 à 260 (y c. 219 bis, pl.253 chiff. 255), 1 carte dép. chiff. pl. A, 17 pl. lith. chiff. pl. B à S.Quatrième et plus complète édition de cet écrit fondamental sur la paléontologie des vertébrés composé par le célèbre naturaliste Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) et édité par son frère Frédéric. Cette somme est illustrée dun portait de Cuvier gravé par Lorichon et de 261 planches dossements dessinées par Cuvier, Laurillard, Huet, et gravées par Couet, Canu, Coutant, Sauvage, la plupart dépliantes et regroupant toutes de nombreuses figures. À cela sajoutent une carte géognostique des environs de Paris, dépliante et rehaussée en couleurs, 1 pl. dép. représentant des coupes géognostiques des terrains de Paris, 6 pl. lithographiées de coupes de terrain, 1 carte en couleurs des bassins géognostiques de Paris et de Londres, ainsi que 9 pl. lith. de divers fossiles. Sobres et élégantes reliures de lépoque en demi-basane glacée olive à petits coins. Dos à quatre nerfs plats marqués de filets dorés et bordés de pointillés. Auteur, titre et tomaison en capitales dorées. Roulette végétale en queue. Ex-dono manuscrit sur toutes les pages de gardes: «donné par Mr Adolphe dEichthal / Paris 1845». Adolphe dEichthal, né en 1805 à Nancy et mort en 1895 à Paris, financier et politicien, sera notamment président de lassociation pour lavancement des sciences dans les années 1870.Rousseurs éparses. Dechirrures aux pp. 87 à 96 du tome III. Reliure et planches en très bon état. Désirable exemplaire de ce mythique ouvrage de sciences naturelles bien complet de toutes les planches.
183424924Paris: E. d'Ocagne 1834. Fourth best and most extensive edition edited by his brother Friedrich Cuvier; 10 volumes text in octavo 2 volumes in quarto; hand-colored folding map of the environs of Paris hand-colored map of London folding copper-engraved cross section of the terrain of Paris 15 lithograph plates 2 hand-colored 261 engraved plates 80 double-page 3 folding 1 with some strengthening in the margin; recent maroon morocco-backed marbled boards gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; occasional spotting but generally a fine handsome set uncut. Horblit One Hundred Books Famous in Science 20b citing the 1812 first edition in 4 volumes quarto: "Inauguration of vertebrate paleontology." Norman 556 citing the same: "In the 1790s Cuvier began publishing a series of papers on fossils that laid the foundations of modern paleontology. These were reissued in revised form in Ossemens fossiles with the important preface entitled 'Discours préliminaire' setting forth Cuvier's influential geological theory of 'revolutions' in the earth's history." <br/><br/> E. d'Ocagne hardcover books
182594468Paris, G. Dufour & E. d'Ocagne, 1825, in-4, 5 tomes en 7 vol, portrait-front, 279 pl, Demi-basane racinée de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de roulettes et de fleurons, Troisième édition, augmentée, des Recherches sur les ossements fossiles, parues pour la première fois en 1812. Les planches gravées sur cuivre, dont de nombreuses dépliantes, comprennent des figures d'ossements et de fossiles, 3 cartes et des coupes stratigraphiques de géognosie parisienne (dont 1 grande dépliante, 1 carte à simple page aquarellée et 1 très grande carte dépliante aquarellée). Ouvrage fondamental de la paléontologie dans lequel Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) s'est attaché à reproduire les animaux disparus à partir des collections ostéologiques du Muséum. Il ouvre sur le célèbre Discours préliminaire, "Discours sur les évolutions de la surface du globe", titre sous lequel il est publié à part la même année : cette exposition fixe définitivement les idées créationnistes de Cuvier, qui défend la thèse que tous les fossiles ont été créés par les catastrophes du passé; autrement dit, il y aurait eu autant de cataclysmes que d'âges fossiles, chaque espèce disparaissant de la surface de la terre lors de ces bouleversements, dont le dernier coïnciderait avec le Déluge de la Bible. Cuvier est considéré comme le fondateur de la paléontologie et de l'anatomie comparée. Il a été le premier à appliquer la notion d'équilibre à la nature, en l'envisageant comme un immense réseau au sein duquel les espèces dépendaient les unes des autres. Cet esprit brillant, qui rédigea plus de 300 articles scientifiques et publia plusieurs monographies majeures, endossa plusieurs fonctions importantes : celles de professeur au Collège de France et au Muséum, de secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences ou encore d'inspecteur général de l'Instruction publique. Pourtant, sa croyance dans la préexistence des germes ne le disposait pas à admettre l'idée transformiste. À l'inverse, il tira avantage de sa gloire académique pour défendre la théorie créationniste : il s'opposa à Lamarck, qu'il railla jusque dans son éloge funèbre (1832), et à Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, son ancien ami, avec lequel il entra dans une controverse violente. Provenance : Jules de Vaucelle, avec ex-libris armoriés sur les contreplats. Bon exemplaire. Charnières frottées, rousseurs éparses. Nissen ZBI n° 1011. Couverture rigide
1812154897Paris: Chez Deterville 1812. hardcover. very good. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 154 splendid copperplates many folding and and an additional folding hand-colored geognostical map of Paris and vicinity. Each volume several parts with distinct pagination. 4to bound in early calf-backed boards with red leather labels spines are brittle and somewhat damaged at edges uncut edges. Paris: Chez Deterville 1812. First edition. Internally excellent copy with wide- margins and only faint scattered foxing.<br/><br/> Through the method of reconstruction of what ancient mammals must have looked like on the basis of bone and other fossil remnants "Cuvier created the science of paleontology in the modern sense. At the same time he largely reformed the system of zoological classification by introducing fossil animals into it" Nordenskold. "His concept of geological revolutions which he believed to be a regular and natural part of earth's history was used to explain the mass extinction of species from previous opochs" Norman 566. "A landmark in the history of science" Horblit 20b.<br/><br/> Chez Deterville unknown books
1812154897Paris: Chez Deterville 1812. hardcover. very good. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 154 splendid copperplates many folding and and an additional folding hand-colored geognostical map of Paris and vicinity. Each volume several parts with distinct pagination. 4to bound in early calf-backed boards with red leather labels spines are brittle and somewhat damaged at edges uncut edges. Paris: Chez Deterville 1812. First edition. Internally excellent copy with wide- margins and only faint scattered foxing.<br/> <br/> Through the method of reconstruction of what ancient mammals must have looked like on the basis of bone and other fossil remnants "Cuvier created the science of paleontology in the modern sense. At the same time he largely reformed the system of zoological classification by introducing fossil animals into it" Nordenskold. "His concept of geological revolutions which he believed to be a regular and natural part of earth's history was used to explain the mass extinction of species from previous opochs" Norman 566. "A landmark in the history of science" Horblit 20b.<br/> <br/> Chez Deterville unknown