Cuvier

1830 · 43607 — London: Whittaker Treacher & Co 1830. <p>Cuvier Georges L. F. C. D. 1769-1832 and Pidgeon Edward. The fossil remains of the animal kingdom. 4 544pp. 49 engraved plates some double-page some folding folding table. London: Whittaker Treacher & Co. 1830. 221 x 142 mm. uncut and partly unopened. Original blindstamped cloth gilt-lettered spine some spotting. Minor foxing but very good.</p> <p> First Edition. This work was published as Vol. XI of The Animal Kingdom: Arranged in Conformity with its Organization 1827-35 an English translation of Cuvier's Le règne animal 1817 with additional materials. The present volume is "apparently a supplement Pidgeon prepared for Cuvier's Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles" Smith p. 188 and includes illustrations reproduced from that work. The question of human contemporaneity with extinct fossil mammalia is discussed on pp. 21-36: "The result then of all our investigations serves to prove that the human race was not coeval with the fossil genera and species: for no reason can be assigned why man should have escaped from the revolutions which destroyed those other beings nor if he did not escape why his remains should not be found intermingled with theirs" p. 22. Scheuchzer's Homo diluvii testis later shown to be the fossilized remains of an extinct giant salamander is discussed on pp. 333-334. OCLC states that this volume is called "Supplementary volume on the fossils"; however this notice is not present in this copy. Smith Georges Cuvier: An Annotated Bibliography of his Published Works no. 751 note.</p> . Whittaker, Treacher & Co unknown books