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182525929London: G. B. Whittaker 1825. Very good condition. An appealing hand colored copper engraving depicting a red platypus from 'The Animal Kingdom' by Baron Cuvier. The hind limb of this male platypus clearly showing the venomous spur. English zoologist George Shaw wrote in 1799 of a specimen sent to England that it had an extraordinary "conformation" appearing to have the beak of a duck grafted on to the head of a quadruped. <br /> <br /> Engraved by Edward or Harriet Griffith and signed "Griffith" in the image. 5 1/4 x 8 1/4" on paper 5 7/8 x 9 1/4" full impression mark visible. G. B. Whittaker unknown
1833H5151Paris: H. Fournier 1833. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition 1833 bound in somewhat later deep red morocco backed red cloth boards 369 pp with half title frontispiece and single page table at rear. Very good moderate foxing throughout. Rare on the market. H. Fournier hardcover
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
183125690sD11London: Whittaker Treacher and Co. 1831 The Class Reptilia arranged by the Baron Cuvier with specific descriptions by Edward Griffith and Edward Pidgeon481pp plus 110pp being a synopsis of the species by J.E.Gray.56 full page engraved platesSmall chip to spine title panel with no loss of text.Book size 250x165mm. Whittaker, Treacher and Co. hardcover
183120391G. & C. & H. Carvill. Good. 1831. Hardcover. Full leather bound cover is scuffed caps are rubbed corners are bumped and frayed but cover is in good condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Book plate of former owner on front paste down. Pages are toned with heavy foxing and in good condition. Two B&W plates. . G. & C. & H. Carvill hardcover
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
1851031567London: William S. Orr & Co. 1851. Book. Illus. by Thomas Landseer. Fine. Full Leather. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Brown leather with gilt edging over boards gold stamped Upper Canada College front and back. Colour frontis 33 additional colour plates by Thomas Landseer with a little offset and 300 b&w line illustrations throughout. Marbled edges sporadic foxing. Prize copy ink inscription to end paper Upper Canada College 1853. From the introduction "The present work is a complete Cuvier as regards the central part of the arrangement; it is not a mere translation but in some respects a new book embodying the original one." Fine copy. William S. Orr & Co. Hardcover
1827ZB1183242London: Geo. B. Whittaker 1827. 498 pp. b&w plates; late 19th century plain green cloth book plate to the front paste down small hand stamp to the series title page an occaional light bit of foxing to the plates else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. London: Geo. B. Whittaker hardcover
1833ZB1183241London: Whittaker Treacher & Co. 1833. 540 pp. b&w plates; late 19th century plain green cloth covers rubbed book plate to the front paste down minor foxing to some early plates else internally clean and tight. - If you are reading this this item is actually physically in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties taxes or fees required by recipient's country. London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co. hardcover
186486089Paris : Librairie de Firmin Didot 1864. 225x140mm. 4 planches graves 2 tableaux dpl. broch. Couverture dÕorigine non rogn sans rousseurs. 532 Librairie de Firmin Didot unknown
1828156631828. A Paris chez VerdiÂre et Ladrange 1828. Un vol. au format in-8 217 x 139 mm de 1 f. bl. vi - 364 pp. et 1 f. bl. brochÂŽ sous couverture d'attente de l'ÂŽpoque de plein papier taupe. ''On espÂre que le respect pour les savants ˆ qui nous devons tant de dÂŽcouvertes et le dÂŽsir de rendre justice ˆ leurs travaux et d'en faire sentir l'utilitÂŽ aussi bien que les difficultÂŽs s'y montreront ici partout'' Table : Chimie - MÂŽtÂŽorologie - Hydrologie - MinÂŽralogie - GÂŽologie - Physiologie - Anatomie - Botanique - Zoologie - MÂŽdecine - Agriculture - Technologie. Louandre et Bourquelot III La LittÂŽrature franÂaise contemporaine p. 121. LÂŽgÂres marques d'usage affectant dos et plats. Manque en tÂte du dos. InÂŽglaes rousseurs dans le texte. Du reste bonne condition. b42961 unknown
1822k011A.801GB: William Blackwood Edinburgh 1822. Frontispiece and 5 plates all heavily spotted/browned.Some spotting to title page and next leaf. Main text is very clean and tight. Endpapers and edges marbled. Contemporary full leather with gold monogram and crown on front cover. Gold on lack title label. Covers and spine are clean. Spine has been reglued and is starting to lift again. Book is in very good minus condition with minor but noticeable signs of wear and/or age. . 4th Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW. William Blackwood (Edinburgh) Hardcover
1822008238Edinburgh : Strand London.: William Blackwood; and T Cadell 1822. 4th Edition . Hardcover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. JAMESON Professor. In contemporary full calf gilt edge tooling joints going edges rubbed. Spine gilt tooling raised bands gilt titles to torn green calf label edges worn. Internally frontis 5 vi-xxiii 1 1 2-454 pp 5 plates frontis ink ms ownership name to tp R. Bill London 1822 and then ms ink notes throughout in his educated hand to text and margins many pages extra sized and folded for his notes short repaired margin tear at C1. <br/> <br/> William Blackwood; and T Cadell hardcover
1810241880Paris: Imperiale 1810. paperback. very good. xvi 299pp. 4to wrappers. Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale 1810. Large Paper edition. Very good.<br/> <br/> Report on zoology chemistry meteorology and medicine by the noted zoologist and scientist.<br/> <br/> Imperiale unknown
181079759Paris: Imperiale 1810. First Edition. hardcover. very good. xvi 394 1 pages. 8vo 1/2 brown calf rubbed. Paris: L'Imprimerie Imperiale 1810. Very good.<br/> <br/> Report on zoology chemistry meteorology and medicine by the noted zoologist and scientist.<br/> <br/> Imperiale 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
181720421Paris:: Chez Deterville 1817. First edition. contemporary quarter sheep gilt and marbled boards. Old stamped ownership signature on each front free endpaper; some light rubbing to the bindings. A very attractive set. 8vo. 15 engraved plates. PMM 276. Half-titles present. Chez Deterville, 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
183158343New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo 23cm. Full sprinkled sheep titled on brown leather spine labels top edges stained grey all edges sprinkled; plain endpapers; vol. 1: xxxii4482pp; vol. 2: iiv-xvi4651pp; vol. 3: xx5751pp; vol. 4: xii 5451pp; 20 black and white engravings. Multiple nineteenth- and twentieth-century ownership marks to front endpapers. A sound set scuffed but straight some joints cracking but still holding firm lacking two of four spine labels internally browned and foxed: around Very Good. <br /> <br /> Cuvier's work "laid the foundations of comparative anatomy": "in his classification of the animal kingdom into four main groups Vertebrata Mollusca Articulata and Radiata" he gave "a lead that has been followed by all his successors" Printing and the Mind of Man 276. His friend Pierre André Latreille assisted with the section on arthropods. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 6757. For the first edition see GARRISON-MORTON 327. G. & C. & H. Carvill unknown
183725143London: G. Henderson 1837. First edition. Hardcover. Very good overall. Full collection of the engravings from the four volume atlas neatly trimmed just outside the margin retains all printed text and beautifully laid out in an album complete with the title page. A full suite of plates for this edition a total of 435 plates Mammalia 48 Birds 67 Reptiles 30 Fishes 70 Insects 104 Arachnids 6 Crustaceans 38 Annelides 10 Molluscs 38 and Zoophytes 24.<br /> <br /> The classic work of the French naturalist Georges Cuvier 1769 - 1832 containing the results of his extensive research into the structure of living and fossil animals.<br /> <br /> Folio album 108 pp 4 plates laid down to a page marbled end papers. In an early binding quarter green buckram and dark green buckram boards. Covers slightly dusty the cloth spine intact with some cracks; small amateur cloth repair at front board. The plates at the last leaf with some toning otherwise bright and clean. G. Henderson hardcover
18359023845London: Whittaker and Co 1835. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in half leather and marbled boards five raised bands on the spine. Stamped title and rules on the spine. New endpapers. Light foxing to original endpapers and title page else fine. <br/><br/> Whittaker and Co hardcover
1854618549London: Wm.S. Orr & Co. 1854. Translated and adapted to the present state of science by Edward Blyth Robert Mudie George Johnston and J.O. Westford. A large handsome half-bound hard cover with gilt detail and tooling to green leather spine and a fully gilded pageblock. Includes three hundred engravings on wood and thirty-four on steel. In fine condition for the age with a full colour frontispiece. General shelf and handling wear including rubbing and wear to leather at bumped corners. The complementary boards are notably worn some scores to rear with rubbing to both causing colour loss. Worn at board edges. Within wear includes paper splits at both hinge points with blemishes to endpapers especially rear watermark to title page at leading edge foot tanning and foxing to initial pages and a small closed tear at the spine point head of the beautifully illustrated vibrantly coloured frontispiece. Throughout there are occasional spots of foxing but overall the content is clear and unmarked and in remarkable condition for its age. Page 557 contains a small pressed flower. Additional photographs or further details are available upon request. CN. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Wm.S. Orr & Co. Hardcover
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
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
186118429Paris: Firmin Didot Frères 1861. LATER EDITION. Contemporary gilt green morocco-backed embossed green cloth. A fine set. Later edition of this important chronological collection of biographies in praise of French scientists. Composed by the secretary of the Academy of Sciences these festschrifts were read aloud during public sessions. The speeches address such famed scholars as Pierre Lassus Antoine-François de Fourcroy Henri Cavendish Nicolas Desmarets and André Thouin. The first volume covers the years 1800-1813 the second 1815-1826 and the third 1827-1832. Firmin Didot Frères unknown
