FERUSSAC, André-Etienne d'Audebard (or d'Audibert), baron de - Lot 117

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FERUSSAC, André-Etienne d'Audebard (or d'Audibert), baron de - Lot 117
FERUSSAC, André-Etienne d'Audebard (or d'Audibert), baron de. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière des mollusques... Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1834. 2 volumes in folio. In sheets, in cardboard slipcase with laces (some freckling, some soiling and marginal wetness, edges faded, missing pl. 14, 17, 20, 22 of the Seiche). Volume I (text), 95-LVI-160 рp., and volume II, 131 plates, many of which are colored: Argonaut 9 plates, 7 of which colored; Calamars (Loligo): 25 plates (numbered 1 to 24 with two plates 1), 21 of which colored; Bellerophe 7 NB plates (1-7); Calmaret (loligopsis) 4 plates, 3 of which colored (no. 1 and 3-4); Cranchie 1 colored plate; Eledone 4 plates. (1-3 and 1 bis) of which 3 colored; Onychoteuthe 16 pl. numbered from 1 to 14 with 1 bis and a pl. mark Il of which 13 colored; Ommastrèphe 2 pl. colored; Octopus 32 pl. (numbered from 1 to 29 with 2 pl. en bis and 1 pl. ter) of which 25 colored; Cuttlefish: 24 pl. (3, 4, 5, 6 bis 3 ter) of which 21 colored; Sepioleuthe 2 pl. 1 colored and Sepioleuthe 5 pl. colored. Part of a series of monographs undertaken in parallel with Férussac and Deshayes' important sum on terrestrial and fluvial mollusks (Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1820-1851). André-Etienne de Férussac (1786-1836), son of geological officer Jean-Baptiste de Férussac, followed in his father's footsteps with a passion for geology and conchyliology. He published his work and continued to defend a paleontological history opposed to Lamarck's new theory of transformism.
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