CUVIER MF.Livre Rare Book
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1831R150155085PILLOT.. 1831. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Bon état, Couv. partiel. décollorée, Dos satisfaisant, Quelques rousseurs. 470 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc hors texte avec serpente. Frontispice en noir et blanc avec serpente. . . . Classification Dewey : 508-Histoire naturelle
84901Stockholm Henrik A. Nordström 1821. 4 151 1 s. Samt. kartonert bd. Ryggdekor i gull. Farget tittelfelt. Ryggen mørknet. . unknown
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
1407719823.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
352896William Blackwood Edinburgh; and T Cadell Strand London MDCCCXXVII 1827. FIFTH EDITION FRONTIS LOOSE super octavo dark blue buckram boards gilt lettering to leather title plate on spine deckled page edges frontispiece 16pp xxiv 550pp VG- leather title plate on spine heavily cracked moderate creasing/wrinkling to spine moderate chafing to boards light to moderate scuffing to extrems moderate soiling to page edges light tanning & moderate soiling to eps prev. owners' names/details in ink to ffep moderate soiling to prelims ffep detached but present moderate foxing & age appropriate staining to pages throughout occasional cracking to gutters William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and T Cadell, Strand, London MDCCCXXVII (1827) hardcover
1407727664.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
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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
189336574W.H. Allen 1893. New edition. Fair/No Jacket. Publisher's decorated cloth Frontispiece of giraffes and t.p. loose advertisement for Wright & Company on front pastedown binding weak. Illustrated by Landseer and with numerous text figures this book is remarkably scarce in trade perhaps because of 'breakers' W.H. Allen hardcover
1831357965New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill. Good. 1831. Hardcover. Thoroughly foxed. Lower outer corner of rear cover is a loose flap. Covers have many marginal scrapes. Spine is faded. Spine labels are missing. ; Volume Three only out of Four. Full leather covers. . G. & C. & H. Carvill hardcover
1831357966New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill. Good. 1831. Hardcover. Small stain to lower margins of first half of book approximately diminishes thereafter. Most pages have very slight or less foxing but there is more on some. Covers have many marginal scrapes and some slight rubbing. Spine is faded. Spine labels are missing. ; Volume Four only out of Four. Full leather covers. . G. & C. & H. Carvill hardcover
1831357964New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill. Good. 1831. Hardcover. Thoroughly foxed. Covers have many marginal scrapes. Spine is faded. Spine labels are missing. ; Volume One only out of Four. Full leather covers. . G. & C. & H. Carvill hardcover
185882552Edinburgh: A Fullarton and Co 1858. Pages largely clean and bright. Some dampstaining and foxing to pages throughout. Binding partially shook but the majority firm. Front/rear gutters cracked. Some loss to front tracing leaf. Pencil markings to rear end paper. Hard edges tanned with some bumping. Moderate-heavy shelf wear to boards. Hard. Good Minus. 4to. A Fullarton and Co Hardcover
1023642417.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1023648342.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
