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réf. 66585Paris A. Belin 1819-1825. Large folio approximately 53 x 35 cm. Seven hand-coloured lithographed plates with explanatory text leaves. Not bound as issued. = A magnificent publication with fine large plates of mammals from all over the world. The authors Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1772-1844 and Fréderic Cuvier 1769-1832 were the leading authorities in mammalogy in the first half of the 19th century and the "Histoire naturelle des mammifères" is widely regarded as their magnum opus. From this work these are the bovines including wild and domesticated species. The following are included: Le Bison d'Amérique Bison bison or North American buffalo a young cow an adult bull and a one month old calf on three different plates; Le Buffle Bos bubalus the Italian buffalo of mozzarella fame; Jungly-Gau femelle and mâle two plates of Bos sylhetanus a wild Asian bovine or gaur described here by Cuvier; and the Zébu femelle Bos indicus; a zebu cow the figured animal was from India. All as issued without stamps annotations or other markings. All text leaves and all plates uncut untrimmed resulting in very big margins. Due to these large margins some edges a bit frayed or with minor tears. The plates are hardly spotted if at all some text leaves are somewhat spotted but mainly in the margins. Generally this set is in a very good condition. Brunet II p. 1536; Nissen ZBI 1525; Casey Wood p. 354. unknown
1828réf. 221328Paris "au jardin du Roi 1828. In ink on reccto on single folded sheet; with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Bookseller's small printed slip affixed to lower left split at fold neatly repaired. In ink on reccto on single folded sheet; with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Cuvier: the Protestant Scientist. Cuvier the great naturalist and Lutheran who managed to reconcile his beliefs in the Bible with his scientific findings. His work was extremely popular with Christian evangelists in the English-speaking world. This fine letter demonstrates his committment to his religion: "L'esperance de pouvoir être utile aux protestants dans les fonctions qui viennent de m'être confiées est le seul motif qui me les ait fait accepter. Je serai charmé de m'entretenir avec Messieurs du consistoire sur ce que votre communion peut avoir à désirer. Je regrette seulement d'avoir à leur proposer un voyage aussi long que celui du jardin du Roi mais c'est le seul endroit ou je puisse les recevoir commodement." English translation: "My only motive for accepting the duties which have just been conferred on me is the hope that I can be of some use to protestants. I'll be happy to speak with the gentlemen of the Consistory on whatever subject your communion wants. I only regret that I have to propose such a long voyage as that of the Jardin du Roi . unknown books
1817réf. 0000272Edinburgh/London: printed for William Blackwood Baldwin Cradock and Joy 1817. Fine translation of Cuvier's essay complemented by Jamieson's commentary on Cuvier's geological findings and his own "Mineralogical Notes." printed for William Blackwood, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy unknown books
2007réf. STM-9788170416654India: Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd. 2007. Hardbound. Brand New. Book Condition:- Brand New. Secured Packaging. Fast DeliveryBookseller Inventory # 9788170416654 Anmol Publications Pvt. Ltd. hardcover
1829réf. 94471Paris, Déterville, 1829-1830, in-8, 5 vol, 20 pl, Veau olive glacé de l'époque, dos lisses ornés de fleurons dorés et à froid, roulette d'encadrement sur les plats, tranches marbrées, 20 planches gravées sur cuivre d'après Laurillard. Deuxième édition de cet ouvrage qui pose les fondements de l'anatomie comparée. Il est le fruit de tout une vie d'étude des animaux vivants et fossiles. La première édition fut publiée en 1817, chez le même éditeur. Grâce à la qualité de son travail d'observation, Cuvier (1769-1832) a posé les bases d'une méthode d'analyse et de comparaison à l'ensemble du règne animal et a établi l'Anatomie Comparée : cette science, nouvelle branche de l'histoire naturelle, est née grâce à la collaboration scientifique avec Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, son ami d'alors. Sa méthode d'analyse et de comparaison à l'ensemble du règne animal le conduit à une classification reposant sur l'idée que les critères anatomiques et physiologiques des animaux sont dus à leur fonction et habitats et non l'inverse. Il décrit ainsi quatre grandes familles : les animaux vertébrés, les mollusques, les articulés et les radiaires. Face à Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, qui deviendra son rival, il niera farouchement les liens que ces animaux, ainsi distingués, pourraient avoir entre eux et il s'aveuglera quant à la question de l'évolution des espèces. Ex-libris manuscrit et étiquette de la bibliothèque d'Emmanuel Gonse. Frottements, coins et coupes usés, accrocs aux coiffes. Nissen, 1013. Wood, p. 307. Couverture rigide
1828réf. 221328Paris "au jardin du Roi 1828. In ink on reccto on single folded sheet; with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Bookseller's small printed slip affixed to lower left split at fold neatly repaired. In ink on reccto on single folded sheet; with conjugate blank. 1 vols. 8vo. Cuvier the great naturalist and Lutheran who managed to reconcile his beliefs in the Bible with his scientific findings. His work was extremely popular with Christian evangelists in the English-speaking world. This fine letter demonstrates his committment to his religion: "L'esperance de pouvoir être utile aux protestants dans les fonctions qui viennent de m'être confiées est le seul motif qui me les ait fait accepter. Je serai charmé de m'entretenir avec Messieurs du consistoire sur ce que votre communion peut avoir à désirer. Je regrette seulement d'avoir à leur proposer un voyage aussi long que celui du jardin du Roi mais c'est le seul endroit ou je puisse les recevoir commodement." English translation: "My only motive for accepting the duties which have just been conferred on me is the hope that I can be of some use to protestants. I'll be happy to speak with the gentlemen of the Consistory on whatever subject your communion wants. I only regret that I have to propose such a long voyage as that of the Jardin du Roi . unknown
2003réf. __0415289238Routledge 2003. Hardcover. New. reprint edition. 332 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. Routledge hardcover
réf. 201110389Leipzig, Bey Paul Gotthelfkummer, 1809-1810 ; in-8, 512-696-745-734-141 pp., cartonné. Les 5 volumes. Cartonnage d'éditeur bon état - rousseurs - Gesammelt und unter seinen augen herausgegeben von C. Duméril - Uebersetzt und mit anmerkungen und zutatzen vermert von L.H. Froriep und I.S. Meckel - edition sans gravures (les gravures sur cuivre sont annoncées mais ne sont pas intégrés dans les volumes) joint index de 1824 même éditeur , par F.O. Lietzau.
réf. 10526Chez Deterville. Imprimerie de A. Belin. 1817. 4 tomes en 4 volumes. Grand in-8°. Les volumes sont brochés, sous couverture muette d'époque, de couleur vieux-rose. 15 planches gravées hors texte en fin du dernier tome. Rare E.O. d'un des plus importants ouvrages de Cuvier.
1798réf. 871798 Paris, Baudouin, 1798 ; in-8 de xvi-710 pp., 14 pl., demi-basane, dos lisse orné, pièce rouge, tranches mouchetées (reliure de l'époque).
réf. 57151Paris, Baudoin, An 6 [1798], in-8, de XVI, 710 pages et 14 planches, basane fauve raciné de l'époque, dos lisse orné (accrocs au dos et coins émoussés), PREMIERE EDITION. 14 pl. h.t. gravées sur cuivre. Exposition des premiers éléments de la classification des animaux que l'auteur développera dans un autre ouvrage : le Règne animal. Rousseurs. Couverture rigide
réf. 1006JC059POR Mr. CUVIER. TRADUZIDO EM PORTUGUEZ E OFFERECIDO A S. A. R. O PRINCIPE R. N. S. POR ANTONIO D'ALMEIDA CAVALLEIRO DA ORDEM DE CHRISTO CIRURGIÃO DA REAL CAMARA LENTE D'OPERAÇOENS NO HOSPITAL REAL DE S. JOZE EM LISBOA E MEMBRO EFFECTIVO DO REAL COLLEGIO DOS CIRURGIOENS DE LONDRES. LONDRES: IMPRESSO POR H. BRYER BRIDGE STREET BLACKFRIARS. Anno 1815. Obra em 2 volumes. In 8.º de 21x12 cm. Com xix 458 e 424 xxix págs. Encadernações da época inteiras de pele com finos ferros a ouro nas lombadas. Profusamente ilustrado com 14 litografias. O 2º volume apresenta um carimbo oleográfico de posse na folha de rosto. As folhas de rosto de ambos os volumes com leves vestígios de acidulação. Ilustrações. No 1º volume: 7 estampas litografadas de J. Walker com aspectos anatómicos que permitem a classificação dos mamíferos e aves. 1 tabela desdobrável com a classificação geral das classes dos animais 1 tabela desdobrável com a classificação dos mamíferos 1 tabela desdobrável com a classificação das aves 1 tabela desdobrável com a classificação dos répteis 1 tabela desdobrável com a classificação dos peixes. No 2º volume: 7 estampas litografadas de J. Walker com aspectos anatómicos que permitem a classificação de outros animais tais como insectos e inclusivamente dos corais. 1 tabela desdobrável com a classificação dos moluscos 1 tabela desdobrável coma classificação dos insectos 1 tabela com a classificação dos crustáceos 1 tabela desdobrável com a classificação dos zoófitos incluindo os corais. No final da obra apresentam-se 3 índices das classes ordens e géneros respectivamente em língua portuguesa em nomes latinos e em língua francesa. A importância desta obra reside exactamente nestes índices e em toda a nomenclatura portuguesa introduzida na obra que foi da inteira responsabilidade de Félix de Avelar Brotero. Deste modo a obra possui dois prefácios: o prefácio do tradutor António d´Almeida e o prefácio do nomenclador português Avelar Brotero que por ordem superior foi encarregado de juntar os nomes portugueses aos nomes franceses e latinos tarefa segundo o mesmo muito difícil devido ao estado da ciência em Portugal e ao período das Invasões Napoleónicas de que resultava não existirem nem obras portuguesas nem zoólogos em Portugal para esta tarefa. A ciência portuguesa tinha-se baseado no profundo conhecimento prático das espécies trazidas das colónias e na sua acumulação em colecções sendo arrumadas o melhor possível dentro das classificações lineanas. Nesta obra Brotero afirma que reviu corrigiu e anotou esta obra de Cuvier procurando não desfigurar a versão portuguesa com galicismos e efectuando uma investigação aos vocabulários portugueses. Esta obra de Zoologia publicada em 1797-98 em França foi a mais reputada na sua época tendo portanto a sua tradução para português resultado do interesse de António d´Almeida durante o período que residiu em Londres e do patrocínio régio através do embaixador português em Inglaterra - o Conde do Funchal que requereu os serviços de Félix Avelar Brotero. Inocêncio I 83 e II 262 ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA Comendador da Ordem de Cristo Cirurgião da Real Câmara Lente de operações no Hospital Real de S. José Membro do Real Colégio dos Cirurgiões de Londres etc. - Ignoro por agora o que diz respeito à sua naturalidade e data do nascimento constando-me apenas que era da província da Beira filho do Doutor José Diogo e de sua mulher D. Ana de Almeida. Morreu no Campo Grande próximo de Lisboa a 30 de Julho de 1822. Quadro Elementar da Historia dos Animauis por Mr. Cuvier traduzido em portuguez. Londres por H. Bryer 1815. 8.º gr. 2 volumes com estampas. - Esta tradução foi empreendida por conselho e a instâncias do Conde do Funchal embaixador em Londres onde Almeida também se achava naquele tempo. A nomenclatura portuguesa é toda do Doutor Brotero que dela se encarregou por ordem superior como ele próprio adverte em uma prefação colocada no princípio do tomo I. BROTERO: Afora estes trabalhos é sua a Nomenclatura portuguesa que fez para o Quadro elementar da Hist. natural dos Animaes de Cuvier traduzido por A. de Almeida. EN 2 volumes. In octavo. 21x12 cm. xix-458 and 424-xxix pp. Contemporary full leather binding with fine gold tooling on the spines. Profusely illustrated with 14 lithographs. The 2nd volume has an oleographic ownership stamp on the title page. The title pages of both volumes with light traces of acidulation. Illustrations. In the 1st volume: 7 lithographed prints by J. Walker with anatomical aspects allowing the classification of mammals and birds. 1 fold-out table with the general classification of the classes of animals 1 fold-out table with the classification of mammals 1 fold-out table with the classification of birds 1 fold-out table with the classification of reptiles 1 fold-out table with the classification of fishes. In the 2nd volume: 7 lithographed prints by J. Walker with anatomical aspects that allow the classification of other animals such as insects and even corals. 1 fold-out table with the classification of molluscs 1 fold-out table with the classification of insects 1 table with the classification of crustaceans 1 fold-out table with the classification of zoophytes including corals. At the end of the book there are three indexes of classes orders and types in Portuguese Latin names and French respectively. The importance of this work lies exactly in these indexes and in all the Portuguese nomenclature introduced in the work which was entirely the responsibility of Félix de Avelar Brotero. Thus the work has two prefaces: the preface by the translator António d"Almeida and the preface by the Portuguese nomenclator Avelar Brotero who 'by superior order was charged with joining the Portuguese names to the French and Latin names' a task according to him very difficult due to the state of science in Portugal and the period of the Napoleonic Invasions which resulted in there being neither Portuguese works nor zoologists in Portugal for this task. Portuguese science had been based on a deep practical knowledge of the species brought from the colonies and their accumulation in collections being 'arranged' as best as possible within the Linean classifications. In this work Brotero states that he revised corrected and annotated Cuvier"s work trying not to disfigure the Portuguese version with Gallicisms and carrying out research into Portuguese vocabularies. This work of Zoology published in 1797-98 in France was the most reputed in its time and its translation into Portuguese resulted from the interest of António d"Almeida during the period he lived in London and from the royal patronage through the Portuguese ambassador in England - the Count of Funchal - who requested the services of Félix Avelar Brotero. Inocencio I 83 and II 262 'ANTONIO DE ALMEIDA Commander of the Order of Christ Surgeon of the Royal Chamber Professor of Operations at the Royal Hospital of St. Joseph Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London etc. - I don"t know for the moment what concerns his birthplace and date of birth but I only know that he was from the province of Beira son of Doctor José Diogo and his wife D. Ana de Almeida. He died in Campo Grande near Lisbon on July 30th 1822. Quadro Elementar da Historia dos Animais by Mr. Cuvier translated into Portuguese. London by H. Bryer 1815. 8th gr. 2 volumes with prints. - This translation was undertaken on the advice and at the instigation of the Count of Funchal ambassador in London where Almeida was also at the time. The Portuguese nomenclature is all by Dr. Brotero who was in charge of it by superior order as he himself warns in a foreword placed at the beginning of volume I. BROTERO: Besides these works is his Portuguese Nomenclature which he made for the elementary Table of the Natural History of Animals by Cuvier translated by A. de Almeida. Referências/References: Inocencio I 83 and II 262. Cordier BI. 1817. Pritzel 5637. Stafleu-C. 5038. Sousa da Câmara 1738. 'Estimada e pouco vulgar Esteemed and unusual.' M-16-D-31 hardcover
1827réf. 40223Paris 1827. Cuvier Georges 1769-1832. Letter signed to Samuel H. Christie 1784-1865. Paris 29 October 1827. 1 sheet on letterhead of the Académie Royale des Sciences. 222 x 169 mm. Trimmed at head affecting printed letterhead but not the manuscript text. Very good. From the great French naturalist and zoologist Baron Cuvier whose work helped to establish the modern sciences of paleontology and comparative anatomy to British mathematician and physicist Samuel Hunter Christie who made important contributions to the study of magnetism. Cuvier was perpetual secretary of the Académie des sciences and his letter to Christie acknowledging Christie's donation of several of his papers on magnetism to the Académie is written in that capacity. "L'Académie Monsieur a reçu les ouvrages que vous avez bien voulu lui adresser extraits des transactions philosophiques . . . J'ai l'honneur de vous offrir les remerciemens de l'Académie et de vous témoigner en son nom tout le prix qu'elle attache à ces publications . . ." The Academy Sir received the books that you kindly send him excerpts from Philosophical Transactions. . . I am pleased to offer the thanks of the Academy and to express to you on its behalf of all the value it attaches to these publications . . . . unknown books
réf. 56395in French with translation sending her "the tickets for entry to the Museum of Natural History" at the Jardin du Roi in Paris now the Jardin des Plantes and saying "each ticket can be used for 4 persons" no place 1 side 8vo Friday 12th January light brown mark touching a short part of three lines all perfectly legible Translation Monsieur Cuvier has the honour to send Madame Campbell the tickets for entry to the Museum of Natural History for which she asked each ticket can be used for 4 persons. Friday 12th January 1826. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 1817 classified living and fossil animals by their structure and his geological researches were summed up in his Revolutions of the Surface of the Globe 1825. In 1808 Napoleon appointed him President of the National University and he worked for public education all his life. unknown
1837réf. 74593G. Hendserson London 1837. hardback. very good condition rebound in brown cloth 2 volumes of text in one volume and 2 volumes of plates oin the other volume. no dust jackets. shipping via USPS G. Hendserson, London hardcover
1827réf. 40223Paris 1827. Cuvier Georges 1769-1832. Letter signed to Samuel H. Christie 1784-1865. Paris 29 October 1827. 1 sheet on letterhead of the Académie Royale des Sciences. 222 x 169 mm. Trimmed at head affecting printed letterhead but not the manuscript text. Very good. From the great French naturalist and zoologist Baron Cuvier whose work helped to establish the modern sciences of paleontology and comparative anatomy to British mathematician and physicist Samuel Hunter Christie who made important contributions to the study of magnetism. Cuvier was perpetual secretary of the Académie des sciences and his letter to Christie acknowledging Christie's donation of several of his papers on magnetism to the Académie is written in that capacity. "L'Académie Monsieur a reçu les ouvrages que vous avez bien voulu lui adresser extraits des transactions philosophiques . . . J'ai l'honneur de vous offrir les remerciemens de l'Académie et de vous témoigner en son nom tout le prix qu'elle attache à ces publications . . ." The Academy Sir received the books that you kindly send him excerpts from Philosophical Transactions. . . I am pleased to offer the thanks of the Academy and to express to you on its behalf of all the value it attaches to these publications . . . . unknown
1815réf. 57049Paris: Paris: Museum d’Histoire Naturelle 1815. Sammelband of 16 Articles Originally Appearing In The Annales Du Museum d’Histoire Naturelle. Hardcover. Good Solid Copy Penned Contents List Clean Contents Wear And At Extremities Stamp For Dr. Paul Sevres On Fep Some Foxing To Text and Occasional Pencil Anotations To Figures in Plates. Sm Quarto Contemporary Black Quarter Morocco With Four Raised Bands Marbled Boards and End Papers. Engraving Plates. 10.5 8.5 1.1 Articles Include: Memoire sur la Limace limax L. et le Colimacon helix L. Volume 7 1806. 45pp. 2 Lithograph Plates; Memoire sur L’Haliotide ou Oreille de mer sur le SSigaret sur legenre Patelle et ses demembremens Sawoir: LaFissurelle L’Emarginule la Crepidule la Navicelle et le Caboachon. enfin sur L’Oscabrion et la Pterotrachee n.d.39pp.3 Plates; Memoire sur l’animal de la lingule Lingula anatine lam. Vol. I 1802. 12pp.1 Plate; Memoire sur la Guze Doris. Vol. 4 1804. 27pp. 2 Plates; Memoire sur les Thalides thalia Brown et sur les Biphores Salpa Forskaohl. Vol. 4 1804. 23pp1 Plate; Memoire Concernant l’animal de l’Hyale.Vol.4 18i04. 10 pp. 1 Plate; Memoire sur la Scyllee. L.Eolide et le Glaucus avec des additions au Memoire sur la Tritonie. Vol. 6 1805 29 pp. 1 Plate; Memoire sur la Dolabelle sur la Testacelle et sur un nouveau genre de Mollusques a coquille cache nommee Parmacelle. Vol.5 1804. 10 PP. 1 Plate: Memoire sur L’onchidie Genre de Mollusques nus. voisin des Limaces et sur un espece nouvelle onchidium peronii nd. 14pp. 1 Plate; Memoire sure la Vivipare d’eau douce cyclostoma vivparum Draparn. Helix vivipara L. Sur quelques especes voisines Vol. 111808. 19pp.1 Plate; Memoire dur le grand Buccin de nos cotes buccinum undatum L. et sur son Anatomie. Vol.11 1808. 11pp. 1 Plate; Memoire sur le genre Thetys et sur son Anatomie nd.14pp. 1 Plate; Memoire sur la janthine et sur la phasianelle de M. Lamark. Vol. 111808. 15 pp. 1 Plates: Memoire sur les Acres ou Gasteropodes sans tentacules apparens. Vol.16 1810. 18pp. 1 Plate; Memoire sur les animaux des anatifes et des balanes Lam. Lepas L. et sur leur Anatomie. Vol.2 1815. 17 pp. 1 Plate 1802-1815 Paris: Museum d’Histoire Naturelle hardcover
réf. 79162Paris G. Dufour et E. d'Ocagne 1822. 4to 31.5 x 23.5 cm. ix 428 pp.; one brightly hand-coloured geological map of the surroundings of Paris and 17 lithographed plates including one hand-coloured geological map of the basins of London and Paris. Publisher's orange-red mottled interim boards. = Rare much enlarged second edition of the Essai sur le géographie minéralogique. with 17 additional plates. Originally written by the French anatomist zoologist and palaeontologist Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Cuvier 1769-1832 and the French geologist Alexandre Brongniart 1770-1847; but this edition edited and expanded by Brongniart alone. Plate numbering is as follows: I.A.; II.A.; I.B.; II.B.; I.C.; II.C.; I.D.; II.D.; III-XI. Uncut. Front board detached; spine covervlargely perished. Some marginal soiling and occasional light spotting one plate more spotted but mostly clean. A very good copy. Ward and Carozzi 565. Not in Nissen. hardcover
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réf. 90743London Geo. B. Whittaker 1827 1st edition. Five Volumes. Hardback tall 8vo. 9.5 x 6 inches. In maroon full calf leather fine bindings diced and gilt paneled boards raised bands and gilt decorations to spines with twin black leather spine labels. Brown speckled page edges marbled endpapers. In very good condition. Covers rubbed some surface chips/nicks to leather on edges of boards. Spines and front of vol.5 faded. Also rear of vol.1 with some staining. Small binders label to corner of endpaper in v1. "W. Cater Launceston." Previous owners bookplates to endpapers "Rev.d Rich.D Gerveys Grylls Helston Cornwall." Some occasional minor handling marks else pages overall very clean and tight throughout. Barring some accumulated dust between top page edges. Colour plates all very clean and bright with lovely bright colouring. Else an very good set. 5 volumes: 352 513 468 498 & 391pp. Illustrated with 200 engraved plates 178 coloured and 23 in B&W. A comprehensive guide to the Animal Kingdom beginning with Man and the vertebrates. Based on the knowledge available in the late 19th century. Beautiful illustrations by Landseer. London, Geo. B. Whittaker, 1827 1st edition hardcover
1817réf. 20421Paris:: 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
1846réf. 1948Paris: Crochard et Cie 1846. Second expanded edition. PIONEERING ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SCIENCE OF COMPARATIVE ANATOMY. Eight volumes in 9 bindings 8 1/2 inches tall Vol. 4 is in 2 parts. Green quarter leather binding with gilt titles and compartments marbled paper covered boards patterned endpapers bookplate of NSR Maluf to each volume Vol. I i-xxxiii lithographic facsimile of letter from Cuvier 587 pp 1; Vol. II i-viii 726 pp; Vol. III 4 i-iv 760 pp; Vol. IV pt 1 i-xxvii 618 pp 4; Vol. IV pt 2 i-iv 691 pp 1; Vol. V i-viii 503 pp folding table; Vol. VI i-vii 557 pp 1 folding table; Vol. VII i-vii 1 656 pp; Vol. VIII i-xii. 848 pp. Covers corners spine ends worn light browning to pages the first blank and usually the half title of each volume have top edge corners clipped presumably to remove a signature not affecting text. Bindings tight pages unmarked very good in custom archival mylar covers. CONTENTS: Vol. I contains the principal discussion of Cuvier's famous theory of the correlation of parts- the functional relationship of each bodily organ to every other organ. Also considered are the organs of movement of vertebrate animals; Vol. II addresses the organs of movement of invertebrate animals and the osteology of the head; Vol. III considers the nervous system and sense organs; Vol. IV reviews the organs of mastication salivation and swallowing in vertebrate animals; Vol. V reviews the feeding organs of invertebrate animals; Vol. VI explores the nutritive fluid its reservoirs and the organs that set it in motion in the four types of the animal kingdom; Volume 7 the description of the organs of elaboration and purification of the nutritive fluid through respiration and urinary secretion; and Volume 8 the organs of generation and secretions the swim bladder of the fish and the organs of vocalization. GEORGES CUVIER 1769 – 1832 was a French naturalist and zoologist sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology". Cuvier was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was instrumental in establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with fossils. He expanded Linnaean taxonomy by grouping classes into phyla and incorporating both fossils and living species into the classification. He laid the foundations for a method of analysis and comparison applied to the entire animal kingdom and a new branch of natural history was born thanks to his scientific collaboration with Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. This was based on the theory that anatomical and physiological characteristics of animals are molded by their environment. He established four major families: vertebrates mollusks arthropods and radiates. He was the first to apply the concept of an ecosystem viewing it as a vast network in which species interact with one another. GARRISON-MORTON No. 311 "Cuvier played a leading part in the development of paleontology and stimulated the study of comparative anatomy. He ranks with von Baer as one of the founders of modern morphology. The posthumous second edition offered here revised and expanded by Georges Cuvier's younger brother Georges-Frédéric Cuvier to 8 vols. appeared from 1835-1846." Crochard et Cie hardcover
réf. 6128P., Baudouin, An 6 (1798), un volume in 8 relié en plein veau, dos orné de fers dorés, filets dorés sur les plats, toutes tranches dorées (reliure de l'époque), (une coiffe usée, un mors fendu mais solide, manque de papier d'origine dans la marge du feuillet 679 sans atteinte au texte), 16pp., 710pp., 14 PLANCHES
