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[ROBINET, Jean-Baptiste].
See original version (French)
128
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[ROBINET, Jean-Baptiste].
See original version (French)
Estimate €100 - €150
Voluntary lot
Description
[ROBINET, Jean-Baptiste].
On Nature.
Amsterdam, Van Harrevelt, 1761.
In-8, 456 pp. (binding slightly rubbed, spine slightly faded, head and foot caps worn).
First edition of this pioneering work on the theory of evolution, in which the naturalist philosopher Robinet (1733–1820) puts forward the idea that living organisms transform one into another to form an unbroken chain.
This title was placed on the Index as early as 1762 (Cohen).
In its contemporary binding.
Frontispiece and fine engraved vignette; red and black title.
Provenance: from the library of Pierre Séjourné.
Pierre Séjourné (1930–1993), a Parisian bookseller with a passion for bookbinding, a flautist and an enthusiast of literature and classical music, moved in both the Parisian artistic and literary circles and the world of the Decorative Arts and their schools through his uncle, the architect and academician Albert Laprade. Also an author and actor, he devoted himself to writing and performing his own plays, which were mainly staged in the Paris region.
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