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1833A38373London: Whittaker Treacher and Co. 1833. viii 540 60 fully or partly hand-col plates. . HB. 8vo recent buckram leather title piece. Fine clean copy. Fine hand-coloured engraved plates.Nissen ZBI 1015; BMNH 410. Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. hardcover
183244684London: Whittaker Treacher and Co 1832. First edition in English 2 volumes in 3 4to 137 engraved plates 4 hand colored; slight spotting and staining extremities a little scuffed else an about fine set in contemporary 1/2 green morocco handsomely gilt. Volumes XIV and XV of the complete work. Whittaker, Treacher and Co unknown
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18374270FB1837. Zweite verbesserte und vermehrte Auflage. Stuttgart Hoffmann'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung 1837-39. 1. Abteilung: VIII 296 S.; 2. Abteilung: 2 Bl. Inhaltsanzeige paginiert X-XII 355 S. paginiert 300-653 1 Bl. Inhaltsanzeige paginiert XIII-XIV. Moderne Halbleinenbände mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel. 1. Abteilung: Unbeschnitten. Seiten stellenweise geringfügig fleckig und mit gebräuntem Textblock. 2. Abteilung: Unaufgeschnitten. Seiten durchgehend leicht wasserrandig leicht gebräunt und geringfügig bis leicht fleckig. unknown
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187420342Paris:: Ducrocq Libraire-Editeur 1874. Third edition. contemporary quarter morocco and marbled boards. A very nice copy. . 8vo. Precedes de l'Eloge de l'Auteur par M. Flourens. Lithographed frontispiece portrait. Ducrocq, Libraire-Editeur, 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
49275Paris Institut Impériale de France 1809 or 1810. 4to 25.0 x 20.0 cm. 33 pp. Not bound. In a 20th century blue hardcover paper drop-box 26.8 x 22.0 cm with printed label on the top board. = A unique proof printing with several corrections by Brongniart. See DSB: "In 1804 wanting to place the Montmartre bed of fossil formations in time Cuvier with Brongniart began research that led to Géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris 1808 1811 which was rewritten and greatly expanded as Description géologique des environs de Paris 1822 1835. In this work a landmark in the history of geology Cuvier played a lesser role. Brongniart did the necessary fieldwork drawing his inspiration from the works of Buffon Soulavie Ramond Palassu especially Lamarck; the latter had described the fossil invertebrates of the Paris region and in his Hydrogéologie 1802 had set forth the bases of the theory of "current causes" later developed by Constant Prévost. Cuvier respecting the short chronology of the Bible was forced to assume in addition to "current causes" which act very slowly rapid catastrophes and global upheavals which had no basis in fact". This proof was based upon the 1808 text published in the Annales du Muséum d'Histoire naturelle volume XI pp. 293-326. We have added a few pages in photocopy of the final text for comparison. A few small spots on the first and last leaves otherwise a very good clean copy. DSB 3 p. 526; Ward and Carozzi 564. hardcover
182639285Baudouin Frères Paris 1826. Ouvres complétes de Buffon Complément tomes 1 & 4 only. V.g./No Jacket. Quarter leather binding Tidy copies slight edge wear to boards. Baudouin Frères, Paris hardcover
75559Paris Deterville 1817. Four volumes in four. 8vo 21.0 x 13.4 cm. 2072 pp. I: xxxvii 540; II: xviii 532; III: xxix 653; IV: viii 255; 15 engraved plates. Uniform contemporary full mottled calf. Spines rich gilt with floral vignettes and ornamental straight and stippled bands; two red morocco labels with gilt title. Boards with elaborate gilt borders. Edges gilt-lined; gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. Marbled edges. = Superbly bound first edition of this ground-breaking work by the French zoologist and anatomist Georges Jean Léopold Dagobert Cuvier 1769-1832 which lays the foundation for comparative zoology and phylogeny. Cuvier "laid the foundations of comparative anatomy. . It is in his classification of the animal kingdom into four main groups Vertebrata Mollusca Articulata and Radiata that he so notably succeeded in giving a lead that has been followed by all his successors. In contradiction to the current view that the structure of an animal determined its functions and habits Cuvier held that an animal's structure was due to its functions and habits. . He also saw that . homogeneity in an individual should enable a competent naturalist to reconstruct a complete animal from any significant part of its anatomy" PMM. Provenance: on the front pastedowns the modest armorial bookplate of Amable Guillaume Prosper Brugière Baron de Barante 1782-1866 a French statesman and historian his ancestors and his heirs. Associated with the centre-left he was described in France as "the first man to call himself without any embarrassment or restriction a Liberal" Wikipedia. The French poet Anatole France called him an "Homme de beaucoup de tact de sens et de finesse". A very beautiful and attractive copy. Cat. BMNH p. 410; Nissen ZBI 1013; PMM 276; Casey Wood p. 307. hardcover
63952Paris Victor Masson 1838-1844. 4to 26.7 x 17.8 cm. Half-title to the series with tissue-guarded medaillon portrait of Georges Cuvier; title-page half-title to the text 278 pp.; table. Publisher's original red half morocco over marbled boards gilt borders gilt spines in five compartments. Patterned endpapers top edges gilt. = Forms a part of the celebrated Disciples edition of G. Cuvier's "Le règne animal". This is the complete text. The atlas is not included. Fore edge uncut. Endpapers and title page a bit spotted mostly rather clean. In all a very good and nicely bound copy. Nissen ZBI 1014. hardcover
76532Paris Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 1819. 4to 31.1 x 22.2 cm. 29 pp. 351-379; three engraved plates numbered 26-28. Disbound. = A seldom-seen paper of taxonomical importance by the great French zoologist and anatomist Georges Jean Léopold Dagobert Cuvier 1769-1832 which lays the foundation for comparative zoology and phylogeny. Cuvier "laid the foundations of comparative anatomy. . It is in his classification of the animal kingdom into four main groups Vertebrata Mollusca Articulata and Radiata that he so notably succeeded in giving a lead that has been followed by all his successors. In contradiction to the current view that the structure of an animal determined its functions and habits Cuvier held that an animal's structure was due to its functions and habits. . He also saw that . homogeneity in an individual should enable a competent naturalist to reconstruct a complete animal from any significant part of its anatomy" PMM. Published in the fifth volume of the Muséum's Mémoires. Uncut with the widest possible margins. Some mostly marginal spotting otherwise very good complete. Dean I p. 286. unknown
186061610Paris : E. Ducrocq sans date vers 1860. 220x130mm. LX- 1 portrait gravÂŽ reliure demi-chagrin. Dos ˆ faux-nerfs auteur titre et ornementation dorÂŽes coiffe supÂŽrieure endommagÂŽe livre de prix dÂŽcernÂŽ par le MinistÂre de lÕInstruction Publique cours dÕadultes. Prix dÂŽcernÂŽ ˆ lÕinstituteur aux armes du IIe Empire. 670 E. Ducrocq unknown
