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”.<\/i><\/p>\n
Second edition, revised and enlarged by Frederic Cuvier, George Cuvier’s younger brother.<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
Provenance<\/p>\n
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<\/i> (1859).<\/p>\n
Fine copy, well bound, the first volume still bears the binder’s note on the title-page ‘Mr. Cuvier’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":72679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[540],"product_tag":[1272,1275,1264,1340],"class_list":{"0":"post-72690","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-natural-history","7":"product_tag-anatomy","8":"product_tag-general-anatomy","9":"product_tag-inscription","10":"product_tag-zoology","11":"pa_auteur-cuvier-georges-2","12":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","14":"first","15":"instock","16":"shipping-taxable","17":"purchasable","18":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Georges CUVIER","chapeau":"Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Cuvier's copy","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Crochard et Cie, 1835-1846","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n