Lot n° 173
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Cuvier, Georges. - Recherches sur les ossements... - Lot 173 - Crait + Müller
Cuvier, Georges. - Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupèdes, où l'on rétablit les caractères de plusieurs espèces d'animaux que les révolutions du globe paroissent avoir détruites... Paris, Deterville, 1812. 4 volumes in-4 bound in full light seeded calf, spines decorated, title (fawn) and tome (black) - in volume 1: small wormholes on the spine and hole on the first plate. in volume 3: tail cap torn with lack, holes on the plates. in volume 4: small wormhole on the tail of the spine, small hole on the first plate. Volume I : [4 ff., fx-title, title, table, dispatch to Laplace], VI pp. (warning), 120 pp. (preliminary speech and note by Prony on the hydraulic system of the mouths of the Po), 20 pp. (memoir on the Ibis of the ancient Egyptians with 3 pll. h-t), VIII pp, (warning, table), 278 pp. (essay on the mineralogical geography of the surroundings of Paris, with the collaboration of Brongniart). Illustrated with 2 large folding maps, one of geological sections of the surroundings of Paris (47 x 80 cm), the other geonostic of the surroundings of Paris in colors (66,5 x 81 cm, small tear without missing) and a plate of fossils of the marine layers of the surroundings of Paris, 23 pp. (additions and corrections to volumes II, III, IV) ; Volume II : [2 ff.], 10 pp. (preliminary remarks), followed by a succession of articles with separate pagination: 12 pp, (osteology of the Daman, 2 pll. h-t); 21 pp. (osteology of the Rhinoceros, 4 pll. h-t); 33 pp. (fossil bones of the Rhinoceros, 4 pll.); 30 pp. (osteo of the Hippopotamus, 3 pll. h-t): 24 pp. (fossil bones of the Hippopotamus, 3 pll. h-t); 20 pp. (osteo and fossils of the Tapir), 6 pp. (addition to the Tapir), 7 pll. h-t; 140 pp. (Elephant, 8 pll. h-t); 43 pp. (the great Mastodon, 8 pll. h-t); 20 pp. (teeth of the genus Mastodon, 4 pll. h-t); 4 pp. (general summary). Volume III: [2 ff.], 4 pp. (table, 1 blc), 174 pp. (fossil bones from plaster stone quarries in the vicinity of Paris, 33 pll. h-t), 31 pp. (skeleton of Pantin and Montmartre, 3 pll. h-t), 14 pp. (isolated vertebrae and ribs, 2 pll. h-t), 75 pp. (supplement and summary, 17 pll. dépl.), 20 pp. (fossil bones found in France), 7 pp. (addition, 3 pll. h-t), 8 pp. (bones of carnivores in the plaster quarries of the vicinity of Paris, 4 pll. h-t), 16 pp. (skeleton of the genus Sarigues found in the plaster stone of the environs of Paris, 1 pll. h-t), 21 pp. (bones of birds found in the plaster stone quarries of the vicinity of Paris, 2 pll. h-t), 4 pp. (supplement on Ornitholiths, 1 pll. h-t), 20 pp. (bones of reptiles and fishes from the plaster quarries of the vicinity of Paris, 1 pll. h-t). Volume IV: 8 pp. (fx-title, title, table, blc), 6 pp. (introduction of the 4th volume, blc), [1f. fx-title: bones of ruminants, horses, pigs, etc], 66 pp. (fossil bones of ruminants found in soft grounds, 3 pll. h-t), 38 pp. (on the bony breccias of the rock crevices in Gibraltar and on the coasts of the Mediterranean and on the animals that provided the bones, 2 pll. h-t), 10 pp. (fossil bones of horses and wild boars), [1 f., ss-title bones of carnivores and other ungulates], 72 pp. (bones of the bear type... in certain caves of Germany and Hungary, 7 pll. h-t), 18 pp. (fossil bones of Hyena, 1 pl.), 20 pp. (carnivorous animals... mixed with those of bears... in Germany and Hungary, 2 pll. h-t), 30 pp. (researches on living species of big cats, to serve as evidence... on fossil carnivores, 2 pll. h-t), 9 pp. (fossil rodents of the beaver kind, found in peat or alluvium and other rodents enclosed in shale, 1 pll. h-t), 27 pp. (obsevations on the osteology of sloths, 4 pll. h-t), 43 pp. (on the Megalonix discovered in Virginia in 1796 and the Megatherium preserved in Madrid, 3 pll. h-t), 37 pp. (on the osteology of the manatee and on the fossil bones of manatees and seals, 1 folded plate h-t), 59 pp. (different species of living crocodiles, 2 folded plates h-t), 26 pp. (osteology of living crocodiles, 2 pll. h-t), 38 pp. (fossil bones of crocodiles from the vicinity of Le Havre and Honfleur, 2 pll. h-t), 32 pp. (large fossil animal from the Maestricht quarries, 2 pll. h-t), 37 pp. (fossil oviparous quadrupeds preserved in limestone shales, 2 pll. h-t), 16 pp. (fossil bones of tortoises, 2 pll. h-t). In all 152 pll. h-t simple or folding (out of 153), and 2 folding maps (1 plate missing in volume III). Tecte and plates in good condition. Rarely complete.
Cuvier (1769-1832), was one of the founders of modern comparative anatomy by stating the principle of subordination of organs and correlation of forms. Partisan of the fixity of species, he was violently opposed to Lamarck's transformism, but his contribution to science was essential, particularly thanks to his work in the field of anatomy.
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