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8 in 9 volumes, and an atlas, 8vo (205 x 128 mm) XXXIII, 587 pp.for volume I; VIII, 726 pp. for volume II; 2 nn.l., IV, 760 pp. for volume III; XXVII (wrongly numbered XXII), 628 pp. for volume IV/1; 2 nn.l., 691 pp. for volume IV/2; VIII, 503 pp., 1 folding chart for volume V; VII, 559 pp., 1 folding chart, 2 nn.l (errata volume IV/1) for volume VI; VIII, 656 pp. for volume VII; XII, 848 pp. for volume VIII; atlas being part of volume VII of the first edition with pp. 297-368, 52 engraved plates. Contemporary red morocco backed boards, spines with raised bands, gilt in compartments.
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Nissen, ZBI, 1008; for the first edition see Horblit, 20a, Norman, 565, and Garrison-Morton, 311; “Cuvier ranks with von Baer as one of the founders of modern morphology”.
Second edition, revised and enlarged by Frederic Cuvier, George Cuvier’s younger brother.
Later additions and correction were made by Laurillart. Initially published without plates this special copy includes a complete set of the 52 plates of the first edition added in a matching binding (bound at the time).
Provenance
This copy had belonged to Frederic Cuvier (1773-1838), with the binder’s note bound in at head of volume I. Frederic Cuvier, younger brother of Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), was a well respected zoologist and palaeontologist, whose work was acknowledged by Charles Darwin in his seminal work The Origin of Species (1859).
Fine copy, well bound, the first volume still bears the binder’s note on the title-page ‘Mr. Cuvier’.
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