‎LAMOUROUX (J.V.F.)‎
‎Dissertation sur plusieurs espèces de fucus peu connues ou nouvelles avec leur description en latin et en français -- EDITION ORIGINALE‎

‎Agen, Noubel, 1805, un volume in 4 relié en demi-chagrin marron, (reliure fin XIXe), (cachets grattés sur le faux-titre et le titre)‎

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‎---- EDITION ORIGINALE - Premier fascicule SEUL PARU (Brunet) ---- "The founder of modern phycology - One of the first french botanist to take an interest in marine vegetation". (DSB) ---- "Lamouroux was attracted to the study of marine algae by his friend J.B. Bory De Saint-Vincent, and with the latter he was one of the first french botanist to take an interest in marine vegetation. In 1805, Lamouroux published his first memoir, which was illustrated with thirty-six engraved plates depicting several species of Fucus found along the coasts of Europe and in tropical regions. At that time Fucus was considered to include all marine algae that, when viewed by the naked eye or under a magnifying glass, did not exhibit a filamentous cellular structure (such as was seen among the articulated thallophytes). Moreover, both brown algae and red algae were indiscriminately attributed to this genus. Having recognized the heterogeneity of Fucus, Lamouroux described many new genera (Dictyopteris, Amansia, Bryopsis, Caulerpa, and others) in memoirs and in the first seven volumes of Bory de Saint-Vincent's Dictionnaire classique d'histoire naturelle...". (DSB VII pp. 609/610)**3068/A5AR‎