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FERUSSAC, André-Etienne d'Audebard (or d'Audibert), Baron de…
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117
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FERUSSAC, André-Etienne d'Audebard (or d'Audibert), Baron de…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300 - €400
Voluntary lot
Description
FERUSSAC, André-Etienne d'Audebard (or d'Audibert), Baron de.
A general and particular natural history of molluscs...
Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1834.
2 volumes in folio. In leaves, in cardboard slipcase with laces (some foxing, some soiling and marginal wetness, edges faded, missing pl. 14, 17, 20, 22 de la Seiche).
Volume I (text), 95-LVI-160 рp., and volume II, 131 plates of which many are coloured: Argonaut 9 plates of which 7 coloured; Calamars (Loligo): 25 plates (numbered 1 to 24 with two plates 1) of which 21 coloured; Bellerophe 7 NB plates (1-7); Calmaret (loligopsis) 4 plates of which 3 coloured (no. 1 and 3-4); Cranchie 1 coloured plate; Eledone 4 plates. (1-3 and 1 bis) of which 3 coloured ; Onychoteuthe 16 pl. numbered from 1 to 14 with 1 bis and one pl. mark Il of which 13 coloured ; Ommastrèphe 2 pl. coloured ; Octopus 32 pl. (numbered from 1 to 29 with 2 pl. en bis and 1 pl. ter) of which 25 coloured ; Cuttlefish: 24 pl. (3, 4, 5, 6 bis 3 ter) of which 21 coloured ; Sepioleuthe 2 pl. 1 coloured and Sepioleuthe 5 pl. coloured.
Part of a series of monographs undertaken in parallel with the important work by Férussac and Deshayes on terrestrial and fluvial molluscs (Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1820-1851).
André-Etienne de Férussac (1786-1836), son of Jean-Baptiste de Férussac, a geological officer, followed in his father's footsteps and became passionate about geology and conchyliology. He published his work and continued it while defending a palaeontological history opposed to Lamarck's new theory of transformism.
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