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Paris, Desray, 1815 [AND] Paris, H. Agasse, 1806. Six volumes in seven. 8vo (20.8 x 13.8 cm). 3717 pp.; 11 plates, one map, one table. Uniform 20th-century half morocco over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and two red morocco labels with gilt border, authors' names and title. Marbled endpapers. = The third and best edition of this authoritative work, written by two of the foremost 18th to early19th-century French botanists. The last volume is by De Candolle alone. A breakdown is as follows: I (1): xvi, 224 pp. and 11 engraved, folding plates; I (2) 588 pp.; one very large, folded table; II: xii, 600 pp. and a very large, partly hand-coloured map; III: [iv], 731 pp.; IV: [iv], 944, [ii] pp. de notes pour le relieur; V: 662 pp. The Synopsis Plantarum xxiv, 432 pp. Provenance: first volume with on the half-titles a small label, Ex Libris Sem. SS. Claromon J. M. J., as well as a weak stamp of the same on the title, and a small botanical bookplate of J. and A. Raynal mounted on the title…
Read More Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les charactères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une introduction offrant la détermination des caractères essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturels; enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie. Tome septième. by Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de Monet de]
by Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de Monet de]
Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les charactères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; précédée d'une introduction offrant la détermination des caractères essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturels; enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie. Tome septième.
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Paris, l'Auteur, 1822. 8vo (20.9 x 12.8 cm). 711 pp. Contemporary, gilt-bordered half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt lines and title. = The final (7th) part of this famous series, containing the index to the whole work, and the (true) Mollusca from the Suite des trachélipodes - from "Les turbinacés" (Solarium) (i.e. the Architectonicidae) to the end, and including, e.g., Trochidae, Turbinidae, Phasianellidae, Turritellidae, Cerithiidae, Turridae (s.l.), Turbinellidae, Terebridae, Cancellariidae, Columbellidae, Muricidae, Strombidae, Harpidae, Olividae, Mitridae, Volutidae, Marginellidae, Ovulidae, Cypraeidae, and Conidae; as well as, supplemental, genera such as Calyptraea, Bulla, Helicina, Bulimus, Auricula, Planorbis, Nerita, Cephalopoda, Foraminifera, Carinaria, etc. Provenance: with, on the front pastedown, the armorial bookplate, "ne vile velis", of Richard Cornwallis Neville (probably the British archaeologist Richard Cornwallis Neville, 4th Baron Braybrooke [1820-1861]), and a holographic inscription by the American oil geologist and micropalaeontologist Arthur N. Dusenburg Jr (d. 1985); on the front free endpaper recto the name of the Australian malacologist and palaeontologist Jeffrey D. Stillwell, with date and place of acquisition (and his bookplate mounted on the rear free endpaper recto); and on the first blank verso a stamp of the American malacologist Richard Irwin Johnson (1925-2020) - however, not his ownership stamp, but his (much rarer) bookseller's stamp. Rebacked. Boards rubbed; some pencilled ticks. Otherwise a very good, clean copy. Cat. BM(NH), p. 1049.
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Flore française, ou descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des Principes élémentaires de la Botanique. Troisième édition, augmentée du Tome V, ou sixième volume, contenant 1300 expèces non décrites dans les cinq premiers volumes. Ouvrage accompagné d'une grande Carte Botanique coloriée, et orné de 11 planches contenant environ 200 figures. [AND] Synopsis plantarum in flora Gallica descriptarum.
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Considérations sur quelques faits applicables à la théorie du globe, observés par M. Péron dans son voyage aux Terres Australes, et sur quelques questions géologiques qui naissent de la connoissance de ces faits.
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Paris, Levrault Schoell, et Cie., An XIII - 1805. 4to (27.5 x 21.3 cm). 27 pp. [numbered 26-52]. Original printed wrappers. = This work by the eminent French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) is very important for two reasons. First, it is the first work to contain observations on the geology of Australia, in particular answering the question whether a higher sea-level in past geological time was, or was not a global phenomenon. Lamarck received crucial information from the French naturalist and explorer François Péron (1775-1810), who was on board when the expedition by Baudin set sail with the ships Naturaliste and Geographe. Dispatched by Napoleon, the aim of the expedition was to investigate and possibly claim the unknown South-Land before the British. Péron sent his data before he himself and the appointed geologists of Baudin's expedition published their "official" accounts. The second reason why this paper is important to the history of science…
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