Jules césar

réf. 118040 — Paris Allais libraire quai des Augustins 1805. 8vo. xiii 1 224 pp. 6 engr. plates of which one is folding. Plates cut within frame. Minor spotting a bit larger on pp. 123-124 and 202-202. Worn contemporary half calf spine very worn red marbled board papers. Pencil notes on the verso of the titlepage and on page i. From the library of Charles Sumner Dolley with his signature on half title and title page dated 1893. First edition. Jules-César Savigny 1778-1851 was a French zoologist who took part in Napoleon’s large Egyptian expedition in 1798 with responsibility for studying invertebrates. He returned in 1802 and published this study of the Ibis in 1805 later on he also contributed to the large ”Description de l'Égypte”. The work starts with the chapter ”Extrait des questions proposées par M. Michaelis” which means the questions made by Johann David Michaelis in ”Questions for a Society of Learned Men” in 1762 where Savigny relates what Fredric Hasselquist and others have said about the Ibis. Savigny’s most important work was ”Mémoires sur les animaux sans vertèbres” and published between 1816 and 1820.Charles Sumner Dolley 1856-1948 was professor of Biology at the University of Pennsylvania between 1885 and 1892 and thereafter working in the Bahamas. unknown