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Zustand: Good. 3 text volumes in original pink wrappers. 14 x 21cm. Atlas: folio. 27.5 x 36cm. Half goatskin and marbled boards by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. (Original pink boards saved separately.) . A few plates with marginal waterstains.OCLC Numbers465192568 and 1501424368.3 vol. ; in-8 (XVIII-303, 332, 315-[1] p.) + Atlas with 14 pages, 43 leaves of plates (4 folded) : 37 illustrations.The atlas includes plates of Corfu, Zante, Ithaca, and Athens, in addition to 5 views of the plain of Troy which have been re-engraved from the aquatints in Morritt's Vindication. Le Chevalier's survey of the Troad marks the beginning of modern archaeological exploration in that area, despite the fact that his theory as to the location of Troy proved to be incorrect. Le Chevalier worked with Choiseul Gouffier and Louis Francois Cassas.…

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 3 vols. 12 x 20 cm. Contemporary calf. Leather peeled from corner and edge of one volume but solid. 176 plates.Duhamel was a passionate advocate of fruit ("Je n'ai garde cependant de conseiller tout le monde indistinctement de manger de toutes sortes de fruits"), he dismisses contemporary opinion that fruit could adversely affect health, and presents the work as a practical manual intended to aid the spread of both the cultivation and consumption of fruit. His earlier interest in pears is demonstrated by the subjects of the plates: 58 of pears; 32 of peaches; 20 of plums; 16 of cherries; 14 of apples. Other fruits include almonds, apricots and strawberries. References: OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:6743922; Dunthorne 109; Great Flower Books p.55; Nissen BBI 550; ; Stafleu and Cowan 1546.3 vol. in-8 veau raciné, doslisses ornés, p. de titre et de tom. brun et vert (reliure del'époque). Fortes épidermures et manques de cuir.176 planches (29 + 84 + 63) gravées concernant les arbresfruitiers (fruits, feuilles, graines et bourgeons), dessinées parMagd. Basseporte et Le Berriays et gravées par Benoist, Maison-Neuve, Mesnil, Tardieu, etc. Les bibliographes indiquent 180 voire181 planches en tout, mais en réalité le nombre de planches varieselon les exemplaires et n'est pas fixe.Duhamel du Monceau est l'un des plus grands botanistes du XVIIIesiècle. Originaire de la petite noblesse, la richesse de sa famille luipermit de poursuivre ses recherches en agronomie, botanique,chimie et technologie navale, bien que l'on retienne avant tout delui ses travaux sur les arbres fruitiers. (Nissen, IV, 550.).…

Zustand: Good. Original wraps and labels; backstrip mainly gone on the atlas.Very good.3 volumes + atlas. xvi, 412; [4], 431; [4], 473. Text in French. (8vo) 20.5 x 13.3 cm (8x5¼"), . Atlas volume: 58 engraved plates (several folding) including maps, views, botanical and zoological illustrations. 36 x 28 cm (14 x 11").OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 2609762.Bory de St-Vincent effectue un voyage de reconnaissance géographique à bord de la corvette Le Géographe. Il réside tout d'abord à l'île de France et ensuite à l'île de La Réunion du 12 août au 5 décembre 1801 avant de retourner en France. En 1804, il publie la relation de son séjour sous le titre "Voyage dans les quatre principales îles des mer d'Afrique, Fait par ordre du gouvernement pendant les années neuf et dix de la République (1801-1802)" imprimé par F. Buisson à Paris en 1804. Les trois volumes de texte sont accompagnés d'un atlas de 58 planches. Quand Bory de Saint-Vincent débarque à l'île de France en mars 1801, il offre ses services au gouverneur, le général Magallon de la Morlière, qui l'envoie à La Réunion. Bory de Saint-Vincent passe quelques mois à visiter l'île et dessine les sites les plus pittoresques de l'île.Harvard: The Friedman Lab.Evolutionary History andPlant Development:Jean Baptiste Genevieve Marcellin Bory de Saint Vincent (Bory) was a vocal and important French supporter of materialist transformist thought in the early 19th century. In keeping with the biographical norm for many of the most influential 19th century naturalists, Bory served as the naturalist on board a naval expedition, later publishing a travel narrative, Voyage dans les quatre principals iles des mers d'Afrique (1804). Bory's astonishment at the high levels of animal and plant endemism in the Mascarene Islands led him to muse on the possibility of an evolutionary world, asking "How did greenery come to shade an isolated volcano?" .Much of what is known of Bory's evolutionary thought is revealed in his entries in the multivolume Dictionnaire classique des sciences naturelles, which he edited in the 1820s. Bory was a frequent contributor to the Dictionnaire, writing on such topics as "Creation," "Natural History," "Geography," "Man," "Orang," "Instinct," and "Intelligence." Of particular interest is the fact that Bory's Dictionnaire is known to have been on board the Beagle with Charles Darwin.Unlike other evolutionists such as Leopold von Buch (1825) and Charles Darwin who concluded that islands are colonized by long distant transport of species from neighboring mainlands, Bory explicitly rejected this possibility. Instead, he proposed a theory of multiple "modern creations" of life on isolated islands that involved instances of spontaneous generation from which more complex life forms then developed via Lamarckian transformism. Importantly, for Bory, the process of evolutionary innovation involved "individual aberrations" which become permanent and give rise to new species. Thus, variation is central to his evolutionary speculations. Bory also argued that evolutionary advances must take place within a strict order, or ecological succession, in which early-appearing "primitive species" prepare the ground for "newer" (more complex) species which rely on these pioneers for their own survival.Bory's transformist views did not go unnoticed. In an 1805 anonymous review of Voyage dans les quatre principals iles des mers d'Afrique published in the Edinburgh Review, the author describes Bory's theory of multiple spontaneous creations as "unphilosophical" and "by no means countenanced by fact." It is interesting to note that the subsequent 1805 English translation of Voyage (Voyage to, and travels through the four principle islands of the African seas) lacks many of the evolutionary bits of its original French .…

Zustand: Good. 4to. 22 x 28.3 cm. New half Sakora goat binding with marbled boards by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov. Original spine label preserved. Provenance le Comte de Fortis, with his ex libris. 40pp., eleven fold-out maps of various sizes, 2 colored in outline.Very good and fresh. In-4;Avec 11 cartes la plupart dépliantes, certaines finement rehaussées de couleurs. "James Rennell was the greatest geographer that Great Britain had yet produced. His pre-eminence, as Sir Henry Yule said in 1881, is still undisputed. He was an explorer both by sea and land, a map compiler, a physical geographer, a critical and comparative geographer, and a hydrographer. Expertise by : Danyela PETITOT40 avenue de Ségur - 75015 Paris.…