By Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
London   J. B. Bailliere
9.5" by 6" 8, xx, xxpp
The scarce atlas and table of contents to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's influential teratological work, with twenty engraved plates.
By Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire

1837 Histoire Generale et Particuliere Des Anomalies de L'Organisation Chez L'Homme et Les Animaux Atlas Contenant 20 Planches Avec Leur Explication, et Table Generale Des Matieres

London   J. B. Bailliere
9.5" by 6" 8, xx, xxpp
The scarce atlas and table of contents to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's influential teratological work, with twenty engraved plates.
£1,450.00
: 0.5kgs / : EXP3-D-2

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Folding Plates, Illustrated, Scarce

First edition. Atlas volume. Being volume four of a four volume set. With twenty plates; nineteen illustrating birth abnormalities in humans and animals and one with a table titled 'Hermaphrodismes'. Collated complete Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (December 16, 1805 – November 10, 1861) was a French zoologist and an authority on deviation from normal structure. He coined the term ethology. He was born in Paris, the son of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire. In his earlier years he showed an aptitude for mathematics, but eventually he devoted himself to the study of natural history and of medicine, and in 1824 he was appointed assistant naturalist to his father. In 1832-1837 he published his great teratological work in three volumes, accompanied by this volume containing an explanation of the plates, twenty pages of medical illustrations and a table of contents referring to all four volumes. With previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of one G. N. J. Sommer, MD. of Trenton, New Jersey.

Condition

Expertly rebound in a half cloth binding with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, generally smart with very slight shelfwear and bumping to extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Loss to rear pastedown, though this can be easily repaired. Some details of one plate have been neatly hand coloured. Slight age-toning to many pages, though most plates remain bright. Slight marginal tidemarks to last few pages. Some scattered spotting throughout as usual.

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