Paris, Baillière, 1832-1837.
Reference : 15832
Première édition. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire est l'inventeur du mot tératologie. Atlas illustré de 20 planches gravées de monstres. Provenance : "Docteur G. Nivert, Tours" (cachet sec sur les faux-titres). Petits éclats à deux coiffes. Comme souvent les légendes sous les planches ont été ici ou là rognées par le relieur. Bon exemplaire. /// 4 tomes reliés en 3 volumes in-8 de XV, (1), 746, (2) pp., 1 tableau / (4), 571, (1) pp., 2 tableaux dépl. / (4), 618, (2) pp. / 8, XX pp., 20 planches h.-t. Demi-veau brun, dos à nerfs ornés. (Reliure de l'époque.) //// First edition. Illustrated by 20 plates. Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire coined the word teratology, to designate the science of monsters. He "organised all known human and animal malformations taxonomically. Many of the principles governing abnormal development were enunciated for the first time in this work. It also introduced hundreds of names for specific malformations, many of which are still in use. For comprehensive coverage of rare anomalies it is still of value as a reference source." Garrison-Morton 534.58. "The only son of Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore (...) published in 1832 the first of three large volumes on monsters (...) Although the idea of seeking laws governing the formation of monsters was his father's, Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire nonetheless grouped and brought into accord, judiciously and critically, a great number of scattered facts." DSB 5, 359. /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET
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