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1817Best.-Nr. RO80000899Deterville. 1817. In-8. Relié demi-cuir. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos frotté, Intérieur frais. 255 pages.15 planches. Planche 1et 2 tachées.. . . . Classification Dewey : 590-Zoologie
Best.-Nr. 15903Paris, Crochard, Fortin, Masson , 1835 à 1846.
1798Best.-Nr. 62600Paris, Baudouin, 1798, in-8, XVI-710 pp, 14 pl, Demi-basane blonde, dos lisse et orné, pièce de titre noire, Édition originale du premier ouvrage de Cuvier, fondé sur les lectures qu'il fit à l'école du Panthéon l'an précédent. Dans sa Notice historique sur les ouvrages et la vie de M. le baron Cuvier Duvernoy écrit les "immenses services que M. Cuvier a rendus à la partie systématique de l'histoire naturelle, en introduisant dans les classifications zoologiques la méthode de l'ensemble des rapports; en distribuant dans un mot, le règne animal... M. Cuvier publia en 1798 sous le titre Tableau élémentaire de l'histoire naturelle des animaux, le premier exemple de cette distribution, telle que son génie avait conçue". Bien complet. Les feuillets liminaires (préface et explication des figures), ainsi que les planches sont reliés dans le désordre. Charnières fendillées. Nissen n° 1012. Couverture rigide
Best.-Nr. 67369Paris A. Belin 1819-1829. Large folio approximately 53 x 35 cm. Five plates with explanatory text leaves. Not bound as issued. = Rare part of 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. This section contains the Australian marsupials - a very little-known group then. It includes "Le wumbat" wombat; "Kanguroo ou macrope géant" two plates one with the red kangaroo the other with the grey kangaroo; Kanguroo ou halmature thétis" probably a "wallaroo"; and "Phalanger de Cook" Australian ring-tailed possum. All as issued without stamps annotations or other markings. All text leaves and all plates uncut and untrimmed resulting in very large margins. Due to these large margins some edges a bit frayed or with minor tears. Two plates irregularly age-toned a few text pages spotted. In all a set in very good condition. Brunet II p. 1536; Nissen ZBI 1525; Casey Wood p. 354. unknown
1831Best.-Nr. 37709New York: Carvill 1831. Cuvier Georges L. C. F. D. baron 1769-1832. The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization. . . . Translated from the French with notes and additions by H. M'Murtrie M.D. 4 vols. 8vo. xxxii 448 2; xv 1 475 1; xx 575 1; xii 545 1pp. 20 engraved plates. New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill 1831. 220 x 133 mm. Speckled sheep ca. 1831 gilt-ruled spines slightly rubbed. Moderate foxing and browning but a fine copy. . First American Edition. See Dibner Heralds of Science 195 Printing and the Mind of Man 276 Garrison-Morton 327. The most influential exposition of the typological approach to animal classification representing the greatest body of zoological facts that had yet been assembled; it served as the standard zoological manual for most of Europe during the first half of the nineteenth century. Cuvier's view of animal organization led him to an early recognition of the balance of nature both with respect to the functional balance of parts in the individual and the interdependence of groups in the "network of nature." However Cuvier's adherence to the concept of species as rigid unchanging types rendered him unable to account for the immense variation within species populations. Coleman pp. 94-98. DSB. . Carvill unknown books
1834Best.-Nr. deckert33736bc5G. 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
1835Best.-Nr. 38516Paris, Crochard, 1835-1846, in-8, 8 tomes en 9 vol; , T.1: XXXIII, (1bl), 585, (1)pp.; T.2: VIII, 726pp.; T.3: (4), IV, 760pp.; T.4-1: XXVII, (1bl), 628, (4)pp.; T.4-2: (4), 691, (1)pp.; T.5: VIII, 503, (1bl)pp, 1tabl.; T.6: VII, (1bl), 559, (1)pp, 1tabl.; T.7: VII, (1), 656pp.; T.8: X, demi-basane verte de l'époque, dos plats ornés d'un large motif romantique doré, tranches mouchetées, Seconde édition de cet ouvrage capital qui fut publié pour la première fois entre 1800 et 1805. Elle est ici corrigée, refondue et augmentée par Georges Louis Duvernoy professeur au Collège de France et Constant Duméril qui fut le premier à enseigner l'anatomie comparée en France. Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) l'a revue lui-même. Cuvier fut le fondateur de la paléontologie des vertébrés et qu'il fut le premier à mentionner les théories des types morphologiques. Le tome 1 contient les généralités et les organes du mouvement des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 2, les organes du mouvement des animaux sans vertèbres, et l'ostéologie de la tête ; le tome 3, le système nerveux et les organes des sens ; le tome 4, les organes de la mastication, de l'insalivation et de la déglutition des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 5, les organes de l'alimentation des mollusques, des animaux articulés et des zoophytes ; le tome 6, la description du fluide nourricier, de ses réservoirs et des organes qui le mettent en mouvement dans les quatre types du règne animal ; le tome 7, la description des organes de l'élaboration et de dépuration du fluide nourricier, par la respiration et la sécrétion urinaire; et le tome 8, les organes de la génération et des sécrétions, avec une leçon complémentaire des organes de relations. Bon exemplaire en dépit de quelques rousseurs habituelles du papier de cette époque. Ex dono autographe signé de l'éditeur Victor Masson à son ami le Dr Barth Couverture rigide
1783Best.-Nr. 44413Neuchatel, Samuel Fauche, 1783. 4to. Bound in fine contemp. full sprinckled calf, raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to head of spine. Without the 2 free endpapers. Halftitle present and with stamps. XXIV,367 pp., 2 engraved plates (1 folded). The folded plate depicts his two types of Hair-Hygrometers a. 1 engraved vignette. A fine clean and wide-margined copy.
1783Best.-Nr. 44413Neuchatel Samuel Fauche 1783. 4to. Bound in fine contemp. full sprinckled calf raised bands and richly gilt spine. Wear to head of spine. Without the 2 free endpapers. Halftitle present and with stamps. XXIV367 pp. 2 engraved plates 1 folded. The folded plate depicts his two types of Hair-Hygrometers a. 1 engraved vignette. A fine clean and wide-margined copy. First edition of a fundamental work in Meteorology in which Saussure describes how to construct a hygrometer from human hair that can measure the relative humidity and discussing the principles behind it. Cuvier regarded this book as one of the greatest contributions to science of the eighteenth century."A milestone work in chemistry physics and meteorology which established hygrometry as an exact science. Primarely a geologist who explored and published on the Alps Saussure 1740-1788 was the first to prove that air expands and becomes less dense the more humidity it contains. In these Essais the work offered he describes his experiments with the hair hygrometer of his invention and his theory of the evaporation and hygrometry with their applications to meteorology. he also enunciates his theory of the evaporation of water in hydrogen carbon dioxide and other gases."Neville II p. 427 a."In his essay on the theoretical principles of hygrometry which he conceives as "the art of measuring the absolute quantity of water suspended in the air" De Saussure distinguishes three classes of methods of determining humidity which respectively utilize i observations of changes in the weight dimensions or shape of a hygroscopic body; ii observations of the capacity of the air for taking up water; and iii observations of the quantity of water condensing from the air under given conditions on a cold surface or of the degree of cold necessary to start such an condensation."Wolf "A History of Science Technology & Philosophy in the 18th Century" I p. 326 ff.Partington III 763. - Partington "Breakthroughs" 1783 M - Poggendorff II 755-56. hardcover
1822Best.-Nr. 101313Paris, G. Dufour & E. d'Ocagne, 1822, in-4, [4]-VIII-428-[1] pp, 18 pl, Demi-veau blond postérieur, dos à nefs, pièce de titre cerise, tranches cailloutées, Nouvelle édition de l'Essai sur la géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris, entièrement réécrite et considérablement développée. Elle est illustrée de dix-huit planches en lithographies ou gravées en taille-douce, dont la très grande carte géognosique des environs de Paris, coloriée à la main. Cuvier et Brongniart, amis et confrère, publient ici leurs études communes sur les formations géologiques du Bassin de Paris, entreprises à partir de 1804. Ce célèbre mémoire a paru simultanément dans le Journal des Mines et dans les Annales du Muséum d'histoire naturelle en 1808, sous le titre d'Essai sur la géographie minéralogique des environs de Paris; puis il est publié en librairie en 1811, accompagné de la carte géognosique en couleurs (Paris, Baudouin). Saut de page de 2 à 5, sans manque de texte. Bel état intérieur. Petites galeries sur le plat inférieur. DSB III, 526. Ward & Carozzi n° 565. Couverture rigide
Best.-Nr. 59478Paris F. G. Levrault 1828-33. Gr.8° Bd. I: XIV 422 S. 1 Bl.; Bd.II: XVII 371 S. Bd. III: 368 S.; Bd.IV: XX 379 S. 1 Bl.; Bd.V: XX 374 S. 1 Bl.; Bd. VI: XVIII 419 S. 1 Bl.; Bd. VII: XXII 399 S. 1 Bl.; Bd. VIII: XV 375 S. 1 Bl.; Bd. IX: XXIV 1 Bl. 379 S HLdr. der Zeit neu aufgebunden unter Verwendung der alten Rücken und Deckeln. Innen einige Bl. mit Rissen diese Hinterlegt asnonsten gutes Exemplar. Etwas berieben. Bibliotheksstempel a. Vorsatz. Einge wenige Bleistift anstreichungen. Nissen ZBI 1017. Leider ohne die legendären Fisch-Abbildungen.Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron de Cuvier 1769 -1832 französischer Naturforscher. Georges Cuvier gilt als wissenschaftlicher Begründer der Paläontologie und machte die vergleichende Anatomie zu einer Forschungsdisziplin. Er untersuchte die Anatomie verschiedener Lebewesen und verglich systematisch alle Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede. Diese Studien ermöglichten ihm aus der Existenz einiger Knochen die Gestalt anderer Knochen und die zugehörigen Muskeln abzuleiten. So gelang ihm schließlich die Rekonstruktion eines ganzen Tierkörpers aus nur wenigen Teilen. 010 Paris, F. G. Levrault, 1828-33 unknown
1798Best.-Nr. 44687Paris: Baudouin 1798. First edition 8vo pp. xvi 710; 14 folding engraved plates; full contemporary sheep upper cover a bit discolored gilt spine all edges red; binding rubbed lacking spine label; contemporary school prize manuscript inscription on front free endpaper; a very good copy internally about fine. "The first considerable work on zoology written by the celebrated Baron Cuvier. It has been frequently translated and formed a foundation for future editions and other treatises" Wood. Nissen 1012; Milestones of Science 44. Baudouin unknown books
1798Best.-Nr. 38049Paris, Baudouin, An 6 (1798). 8vo. Contemp. hcalf, richly gilt back. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Corners a bit bumped, otherwise fine. XVI,710 pp. and 14 engraved plates with many figs. A few scattered brownspots. Printed on good paper.
1798Best.-Nr. 38049Paris Baudouin An 6 1798. 8vo. Contemp. hcalf richly gilt back. Titlelabel with gilt lettering. Corners a bit bumped otherwise fine. XVI710 pp. and 14 engraved plates with many figs. A few scattered brownspots. Printed on good paper. First editiuon of Cuvier's first work on comparative zoology in which he showed the affinities and similarities in the structure of present forms of animals researches which resulted in comparison with older forms and thereby giving the material for other theorists to suggest evolutionary lines and links. Cuvier is considered as the founder of modern palaeontology by this and his later published work "Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles.""Cuvier's first separate work "Tableau.1798" is based on a course of lectures he had delivered at l'Ecole du Pantheon. It wa the first general statement of his naltural classification of the aninal kingdom.He established the four great classes vertebrates molluscs articulates and radiates and classified the animals according to the anatomical structure." Milestones of Science No. 44 - Wood p. 307. unknown
1835Best.-Nr. 94469Paris, Crochard, 1835-1846, in-8, 8 tomes en 9 vol, 2 tabl. depl, Demi-veau fauve de l'époque, dos lisses, ornés de filets dorés et à froid, pièces de titre et de tomaison noires, Seconde édition de cet ouvrage capital qui fut publié pour la première fois entre 1800 et 1805, en 5 volumes. Elle est ici corrigée, refondue et augmentée par Georges Louis Duvernoy, professeur au Collège de France, et par le collaborateur et élève préféré de Cuvier, Constant Duméril, qui fut le premier à enseigner l'anatomie comparée en France. Grâce à la qualité de son travail d'observation, Georges 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. Cuvier est considéré comme le fondateur de la paléontologie et de l'anatomie comparée. Il a été le premier à appliquer la notion d'équilibre à la nature, en l'envisageant comme un immense réseau au sein duquel les espèces dépendaient les unes des autres. Cet esprit brillant, qui rédigea plus de 300 articles scientifiques et publia plusieurs monographies majeures, endossa plusieurs fonctions importantes : celles de professeur au Collège de France et au Muséum, de secrétaire perpétuel de l'Académie des Sciences ou encore d'inspecteur général de l'Instruction publique. Pourtant, sa croyance dans la préexistence des germes ne le disposait pas à admettre l'idée transformiste. À l'inverse, il tira avantage de sa gloire académique pour défendre la théorie créationniste : il s'opposa à Lamarck, qu'il railla jusque dans son éloge funèbre (1832), et à Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, qu'il affronta dans le débat sur l'unité de la composition. Le tome 1 contient les généralités et les organes du mouvement des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 2, les organes du mouvement des animaux sans vertèbres, et l'ostéologie de la tête ; le tome 3, le système nerveux et les organes des sens ; le tome 4, les organes de la mastication, de l'insalivation et de la déglutition des animaux vertébrés ; le tome 5, les organes de l'alimentation des mollusques, des animaux articulés et des zoophytes ; le tome 6, la description du fluide nourricier, de ses réservoirs et des organes qui le mettent en mouvement dans les quatre types du règne animal ; le tome 7, la description des organes de l'élaboration et de dépuration du fluide nourricier, par la respiration et la sécrétion urinaire; et le tome 8, les organes de la génération et des sécrétions, avec une leçon complémentaire des organes de relations. Wellcome II, 423. Wood, 307. Couverture rigide
1829Best.-Nr. 18430Paris: 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. “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. See PMM 276; Garrison-Morton 327; Dibner 195. Déterville and Crochard unknown
1805Best.-Nr. 47764Paris: De L'Imprimerie Impériale 1805. First complete French edition. Hardcover. vg- to vg. Quartos. Vol.1: xcvii 528pp 31pp. Vol.2: 460pp 84pp. Black leather over dark blue marbled paper boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spines. The first full French translation of compiled research from the Asiatic Society of Bengal originally published in English as the periodical journal "Asiatick Researches" from 1788- 1839. The text throughout contains a vast array of information in various realms of scientific historical philosophical religious and/or cultural topics from different authors. Volume 1 contains a total of 33 plates of copperplate engravings including 2 fold-out while volume 2 contains 11 plates plus 2 folding tables one one which a table of Persian grammatical influence on North India printed on blue-toned Arches papers measuring 22 1/4 x 28". Some of these plates contain illustrations while others contain geometric figures mathematical calculations astrological charts and samples of texts in various Asian scripts including Sanskrit Arabic and Chinese. In addition to the numbered plates there are many other un-numbered examples in-text as well as statistical tables some full page. The text throughout is accompanied by copious scholarly footnotes. Of special note is a sections of beautifully rendered plates containing images of various Hindu deities. Also includes a large fold out steel-plate engraved Hindu Zodiac with 27 images. The final section of volume one contains corrections and additions followed by tables of meteorological data also included in vol.2. This French edition notably has been revised and supplemented with various additional notes from a number of distinguished French scholars and scientists of the era including zoologist Georges Cuvier 1769 - 1832 mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre 1749 - 1822 naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744 -1829 and entomologist Guillaume-Antoine Olivier 1756-1814. Text in French. Bindings with some light rubbing and/or bumping to extremities. Light scratches to the covers. Interiors with minor sporadic foxing and/or water stains to the margins of a few pages throughout although in general the pages are surprisingly clean and vibrant. Book blocks quite tight. Bindings in very good- interiors in very good condition overall. About the society: The "The Asiatic Society of Bengal" now simply known as the Asiatic Society was founded in Calcutta in 1784 by British scholar philologist and civil civil Sir William Jones 1746-1794 in the early years of the British Raj. Its purpose as set forth was the furthering of Oriental research of all kinds as well as the collection of manuscripts and other relevant materials. It began publishing the work and research of its members all distinguished scholars in its periodical journal "Asiatick Researches". A museum set up to house and display its holdings as well as act as a hub or research was established in 1814. At first only Europeans could become members but starting in 1829 Indian were allowed to join as well. De L'Imprimerie Impériale hardcover
Best.-Nr. 80369Paris Crochard 1835-1846. 8° T.1: XXXIII 587; T.2: VIII 726 S.; T.3: IV 760 S.; T.4-1: XXII 628 S. Tabellen; T.4-2: 691S.; T.5: VIII 503 S. Falttafel; T.6: VII 559 S. 1 Falttaf.; T.7: VII 656 S.; T.8: XII 848 S. HLdr. d. Zeit Deckel berieben etwas fleckig Bd. I Rücken am Kopf eingerissen. Vorsätze mit Leimschatten.min. stockfleckig min wasserfleckig einige Blätter eselohrig. Zweite Ausgabe. - Wellcome II 423. - Nissen ZBI 1008. Die EA erschien von 1798–1805. - Georges Léopold Chrétien Frédéric Dagobert Baron de Cuvier eigentlich Jean-Léopold-Nicholas Frédéric Cuvier; 1769-1832 in Paris französischer Naturforscher und Mitbegründer der Zoologie als vergleichende Anatomie. Georges Cuvier gilt als wissenschaftlicher Begründer der Paläontologie und machte die vergleichende Anatomie zu einer Forschungsdisziplin. Er untersuchte die Anatomie verschiedener Lebewesen und verglich systematisch alle Ähnlichkeiten und Unterschiede. Diese Studien ermöglichten ihm aus der Existenz einiger Knochen die Gestalt anderer Knochen und die zugehörigen Muskeln abzuleiten. So gelang ihm schließlich die Rekonstruktion eines ganzen Tierkörpers aus nur wenigen Teilen. 010 Paris, Crochard, 1835-1846 unknown
1798Best.-Nr. 29881Paris, Baudouin, An 6 (1798). 8vo. Nice cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back. Light wear to lower part of back and a small hole in leather at lower hinge. Red leather titlelabel. XVI,710 pp. and 14 engraved plates with many figs. A large clean copy.
1798Best.-Nr. 29881Paris Baudouin An 6 1798. 8vo. Nice cont. full mottled calf. Richly gilt back. Light wear to lower part of back and a small hole in leather at lower hinge. Red leather titlelabel. XVI710 pp. and 14 engraved plates with many figs. A large clean copy. First edition of Cuvier’s first work on comparative zoology being one of the foundational texts of modern zoology and comparative anatomy. "Cuvier’s Tableau élémentaire – his first separate work – contains the first general statement of his natural classification of the animal kingdom" Norman. The book thus constitutes the first systematic expression of a theory that would dominate zoological thought in the early nineteenth century. For later theorists it provided the essential morphological basis for tracing evolutionary continuity between extinct and living species. Based on the course of lectures delivered at the École du Panthéon Cuvier’s ”Tableau élémentaire presents for the first time his natural classification of the animal kingdom establishing the four great divisions of the animal world: Vertebrata Mollusca Articulata and Radiata – according to anatomical structure rather than superficial resemblance. It was from these studies of structural affinity between living forms that Cuvier developed the principles of comparative anatomy which in turn laid the groundwork for palaeontology as a scientific discipline. Milestone of Science No. 44 Wood p. 307. hardcover
1837Best.-Nr. 099074L. Henderson 1837. First of This Edition. Half Leather. Very Good. 8 vols. with 576 colored plates - 4 vols. of text and 4 vols. of plates. Binding appears to have been done c. 1920's. All the title pages show moderate foxing. L. Henderson hardcover
1618Best.-Nr. BIBLIO-18290F.G. Levrault Strasbourg ; Le Normant Paris first edition thus 1816-1830. 60 vols 19th century cloth with red leather spine-panels small 8vo 20 cm. averaging approximately 550 pp per volume. A scarce set comprising the 60 text volumes of this massive and well-regarded work but without the 12 volumes of plates and one of portraits. Vastly expanded and revised from the 1804-06 edition which had run to 6 volumes only the Dictionnaire was under the general editorship of Frederic Cuvier and included contributions from many of the leading scientists of the day; the articles on physics and chemistry for example being written by Lacroix Fourcroy and Chevreul. A later plan to revise and update this 1816-1830 Dictionnaire progressed no further than the issue of a single supplementary volume A-Aye in 1840. An ex-library set with the text complete and in reasonable condition but many bindings in need of repair. Most volumes have wear with some loss to the head and tail of the spines and the majority have some rubbing to the leather spine-panel; subject to this about 38 volumes are Good about 14 volumes have one or both boards detached or are split along one or both joints and about 8 volumes have loss of part or all of the spines. Textblocks are all intact complete and generally Good save for some usually light foxing. Each title-page has a small old library stamp of the Geological Society and a manuscript inscription at the foot noting the Fund through which the volume was bought; each half-title has a small library mar; each front pastedown endpaper has a label setting out the library regulations and "Geological Society" is gilt-blocked at the foort of each spine. Overall Good for the contents save for the library marks and Fair for the bindings. F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg ; Le Normant, Paris, first edition thus, 1816-1830 hardcover
1817Best.-Nr. elala537Paris: 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
Best.-Nr. 94465Paris, Baudouin, Crochard, Fantin, An VIII-XIV [1800-1805], in-8, 5 vol, 7 tabl. depl, 52 pl, Demi-basane olive de l'époque, dos lisses et fleuronnés, tranches rouges mouchetées, 9 tableaux, sur 7 planches dépliantes. 52 planches gravées sur cuivre. Première édition. 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. Ses leçons ont été recueillies par Constant Duméril (1774-1860), collaborateur et élève préféré de Cuvier. Duméril fut le premier à enseigner l'anatomie comparée en France. Il remplaça Lacépède à la chaire d'ichtyologie et d'herpétologie du Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Paris et enseigna à la chaire de pathologie interne à la faculté de médecine de Paris. Avec l'aide de son fils, Auguste, il créa à Paris, le premier vivarium pour reptiles au Jardin des plantes de Paris. Toute sa carrière durant, il n'aura de cesse de publier études et descriptions d'herpétologie et d'insectes. Dos épidermés. Rousseurs, quelques pages brunies. Couverture rigide
Best.-Nr. 51-5714Paris Déterville 1812. 4 volumes. 4to. 21 x 27cm Later qtr goatskin with matching brown marbled boards. With 152 engraved plates of 154. Fine condition.Contents: T. 1. Discours preÌliminaire et la geÌographie mineÌralogique des environs de Paris.t. 2. Pachydermes des couches meubles et des terrains d'alluvion.t. 3. Os fossiles des environs de Paris.t. 4. Ruminans les onguiculeÌs et les reptiles fossiles .Vol. 1 includes Discours préliminaire in which Cuvier introduced the idea of geological ‘revolutions’ to explain mass extinctions of prehistoric species. Other papers include an essay on an Egyptian ibis mummy brought from Thebes during Napoleon's campaign in Egypt; and with Alexandre Brogniart 1770-1847 an updated version of Cuvier's important stratigraphical memoir of 1810 Essai sur la Géographie Minéralogique des Environs de Paris which contributed to the concept of faunal succession in rock strata of different periods. In Vol. 2 Cuvier describes species of pachyderms found in recent alluvial deposits including elephants mastodons rhinoceros hippopotamus and tapir. In Vol. 3 Cuvier's recalls the challenges of reconstruing fossils of different species. Vol. 4 concerns fossil horses and pigs bears hyenas and big cats and concludes by describing fossil sloths crocodiles turtles and marine dinosaurs.OCLC Number988198; Nissen ZBI 1011; BMNH Cat. I p. 409.Near the end of the eighteenth century scholars disputed whether fossils represented life forms that no longer existed or whether—as the Comte de Buffon at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris believed—the fossils found in Europe and America represented animals that had migrated to the tropics. Buffon argued that God would not have let his creations go extinct. In 1796 Cuvier presented a paper to the National Institute of Sciences and Arts in Paris in which he compared the anatomy of living and fossil elephants thus proving extinction to be a fact as the fossil elephants had not been seen by recent humans. In the following years Cuvier continued to document the extinction of animals such as the giant ground sloth the Irish elk and the American mastodon.Cuvier's research on extinct forms led him to investigate the causes of extinction. He proposed a catastrophist geological history of the earth. Édition originale de cet ouvrage important dans le domaine de la paléontologie. L'illustration se compose de 152 planches gravées sur 154 d'après les dessins de Cuvier et une très grande carte dépliante en couleurs "Carte géognostique des environs de Paris" Il s'agit d'un recueil d'articles que Cuvier fit paraître de 1795 à 1812 dans de nombreuses revues et en particulier dans les Annales du Muséum. Il s'ouvre sur un Discours préliminaire dans lequel l'auteur expose ses idées sur les cataclysmes qui ont bouleversé la terre en particulier le dernier qui coïncide avec le Déluge de la Bible. En français dans le texte 224. cartonnages frottés et usés manque 2 planches quelques feuillets et planches détachés intérieur très frais. Expertise by: François Giard Paris, Déterville, 1812 hardcover
