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Paris, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, 2005. Large 4to (33.9 x 23.0 cm). 302 pp.; 45 tinted and full colour reproductions of the actual originals by d'Orbigny and 19 further plates (mostly tinted). Original pictorial laminated boards. = A very fine and important publication on the unpublished Foraminifera plates of Alcide d'Orbigny with a new commentary on the taxonomy and classification. The preface is in French and in English. Introduced to natural history at an early age by his father Charles-Marie, Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857) developed a life interest in the study of shelled microscopic animals that he named "foraminifères". At the age of 23, he presented to the Academy of Sciences his first memoir on these micro-organisms which were still considered at the time to be microscopic cephalopods. This work, titled Tableau méthodique de la classe des Céphalopodes, was associated with 73 plates of drawings. The text was published in 1826 in Les Annales de Sciences Naturelles, but unfortunately without the plates. Although they have remained unpublished, these planches inédites are often cited in scientific literature, and have for a long time interested foraminifera specialists. Establishing, with this first comprehensive work, the foundations of micropalaeontology, Alcide d'Orbigny certainly had little idea of the important implications the new science would have, not only in numerous domains of academic research, but also in the economic sector. There is soft-cover version of this work, but this is the rarer hard bound edition. A very good, clean copy.…

McLean Paleontological Laboratory, Alexandria, VA no year. 4to. Reprint of the 1846 edition. XXXVIJ+303 pages+21 plates in b/w. Orig. blue cloth with gilted lettering to the front. Name to the inside of the cover. Cover showing light signs of usgae and edgewear, and with small bumps to the corners. * Classics in Paleontology No. 2. **Text in French and German. …

A Paris, Au Bureau Principal des Editeurs, et chez Langlois et Leclercq/ Fortin, Masson et Cie, Renard, Martinet et Cie, 1841-1849, 16 volumes in-8 de 245x155 mm environ, de 384 à 820 pages par volume, complet de 287 planches annoncées sur la table (dont de nombreuses rehaussées à l'aquarelle). Demi chagrin bleu nuit, dos à 4 nerfs plats portant titres et tomaisons dorés, gardes marbrées. Dos insolés, des frottements sur les coiffes, les coins et les coupes, des épidermures, des rousseurs, des pages brunies, état général satisfaisant. Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny, né le 6 septembre 1802 à Couëron (Loire-Inférieure) et mort le 30 juin 1857 à Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (Seine), est un naturaliste, explorateur, malacologue et paléontologue français, célèbre pour son voyage en Amérique du Sud et ses travaux en paléontologie.…

Paris, P. Bertrand; Strasbourg, V. Levrault, 1847. Folio (33.8 x 25.0 cm). 11 pp.; 16 lithographed plates (numbered 1-16) in fine, original hand-colouring. Later quarter linen over printed boards. = A very important and rare monograph on the natural history of South America, being the results of years of travels and collecting by one of the foremost 19th-century French naturalists, the explorer, geographer, anthropologist, palaeontologist, zoologist, and botanist, Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802-1857). Entirely based on his own collections and researches. This part dealing with fish - both marine and fresh water. D'Orbigny wrote most of the results of his collections and observations himself, but in this case he handed the material to a true specialist, the great French ichthyologist Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865). Many species were described as new. The fine illustrations are by a renowned natural history artist, Paul Louis Oudart (1796-1860), partly after original drawings of living specimens by D'Orbigny. Some light, scattered spotting; otherwise a very good, clean, unmarked copy. Dean II, p. 575; Nissen ZBI, 3021; Sabin, 57457.…