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Examen impartial des nouvelles vues de M. Robert Owen, et des ses établissemens a New Lanark en Ecosse, pour le soulagement et l'emploi le plus utile des classes ouvrières et des pauvres, et pour l'éducation de leurs enfans, etc., etc., avec des observations sur l'application de ce système à l'économie politique de tous les gouvernemens
Paris, Treuttel et Würtz, 1821.
Première édition en français. C'est dans cette filature de New Lanark que Richard Owen, précurseur du socialisme (1771-1858) s'illustra en améliorant considérablement le sort de ses ouvriers. lllustré par un portrait et deux vues de New Lanark. Quelques rousseurs, mors de la reliure frottés. Bon exemplaire. /// In-8 de portrait, (14), 76, X, 224, (18) pp., 2 planches h.-t. Demi-chagrin noir, dos à nerfs orné. (Reliure de l'époque.) //// /// PLUS DE PHOTOS SUR WWW.LATUDE.NET
La grenouille qui tue collection série noire n°1783
Gallimard. 1980. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 313 pages. . . . Classification Dewey : 843.0872-Le roman policier
Classification Dewey : 843.0872-Le roman policier
"OWEN, RICHARD. - COINING THE NAME ""MEGALANIA PRISCA"" - THE GIANT EXTINCT GOANNA.
Reference : 42996
(1859)
Description of some Remains of a Gigantic Land-Lizard (Megalania prisca, Owen). Received May 13, - Read June 17, 1858.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 43-48 a. 2 lithographed plates.
First printing of this paper in which Owen named Magalania prisca, Owen.Megalania (""great roamer"")) is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard. It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhabited southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40,000 years ago.The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania.The name Megalania prisca was coined by Sir Richard Owen to mean ""Ancient Great Roamer"""" the name was intended to ""reference to the terrestrial nature of the great Saurian"".
A reply to the communication addressed by M. Coste to the French Academy of Sciences, entitled "Mémoire en réponse à la lettre de M. R. Owen", in a letter addressed to M. Arago
S.l. 1838 in-8 dérelié
16 pp.Extrait du Magazine of Natural History, new series, 1838, p. 183.Célèbre zoologiste et paléontologue britannique, Richard Owen (1804-1892) répond ici à un mémoire du naturaliste Victor Coste (1807-1873) concernant l'embryologie du kangourou, un marsupial typique du continent australien Le mémoire en question est probablement l'Ovologie du Kanguroo, publié en réponse aux lettres adressées par Owen à l'Académie des sciences. Intéressant article relatif à une controverse entre deux naturalistes.Non mentionné au CCFr. Précieux exemplaire, comportant un envoi autographe en première page : "From the Author"
On the vertebral Characters of the Order Pterosauria, as exemplified in the Genera Pterodactylus (Cuvier) and Dimorphodon (Owen). Received February 23, - Read March 24, 1859.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1859 - Vol. 149 - Part I. Pp. 161-169 a. 1 lithographed plate.
First printing. Owen gives a more detailled description of Dimorphodon which he named in the same year as the offered paper. Dimorphodon was a genus of medium-sized pterosaur from the early Jurassic Period. It was named by Owen in 1859 (in a paper preceeding the offered paper).
Description of some Species of the extinct Genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary Group (Toxodontia) of Hoofed Quadrupeds, to which that Genus is referable.
(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 291-310 and 4 lithographed plates.
First appearance of this importent paper, in which Owen established a new genus, Nesodons on the basis of the fossils found by B.J. Sulivan in the Tertiary beds of Patagonia in 1845.
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VIII. Family Macropodidae: Genera Macropus, Osphranter, Phascolagus, Sthenurus and Protemnoden. Received November 11, 1872, - Read January 23, 1873.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1874. Vol. 164. Pp. 245-287 a. 8 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of the extinct Kangaroos. ""The present communication gives part of the researches into the forms of those saltatory herbivorous Marsupials which have passed away, or, at least, are known to naturalists only by their fossil remains.""(Owen).
On Parts of the Skeleton of Meiolania platyceps (Ow.). Received March 29, - Read April 21, 1887.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1889). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1888, Vol. 179 - Series B. Pp. 181-191 a. 7 lithographed plates.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes a series of remains, in better condition, than the bones from Lord Howe's Island, which Owen described in 1886 and named Meiolania platyceps. The remains belongs to Horned Turtles, and not to a giant lizard, Meiolania (""Small roamer"") is an extinct genus of cryptodire turtle from the Oligocene to Holocene, with the last relic populations at New Caledonia which survived until 2,000 years ago.The animal was rather large, measuring 2.5 metres (8.2 ft) in length, making it the second-largest known nonmarine turtle or tortoise, surpassed only by Colossochelys atlas from Asia, which lived in the Pleistocene. It lived in Australia and New Caledonia. Remains have also been found on the island of Efate in Vanuatu, associated with settlements from the Lapita culture.
Description of Fossil Remains of Thwo Species of a Megalanian Genus (Meiolania) from ""Lord Howe's Island,"" received March 15, - Read April 1, 1886.
(London, Harrison and Sons, 1888). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1886 - Vol. 177 - Part II. Pp. 471-480 a. 4 lithographed plates. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the two new finds of dinosaurs from Lord Howe's Island, New South Wales. They belongs to the Megalania, a word coined by Owen himself.Megalania (Great roamer) is a giant extinct goanna or monitor lizard.It was part of a megafaunal assemblage that inhibited Southern Australia during the Pleistocene, and appears to have disappeared around 40.ooo years ago. The first aboriginal settlers of Australia may have encountered living Megalania.
On the Ova of the Ornithorhynnchus paradoxus. Received May 15, - Read June 19, 1834.
(London, Richard Taylor, 1834) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1834 - Part II. Pp. 555-566 a. 1 lithographed plate.
First printing of Owen's importent paper on the ova of the Duck-bill or Water-mole, the first to describe its mammalian resemblences.
Description of some Species of the extinct Genus Nesodon, with remarks on the primary Group (Toxodontia) of Hoofed Quadrupeds, to which that Genus is referable.
(London, Richard Taylor and William Francis, 1853) 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1853, Vol. 143 - Part I. Pp. 291-310 and 4 lithographed plates. A dampstain to lower right corners of plates.
First appearance of this importent paper, in which Owen established a new genus, Nesodons on the basis of the fossils found by B.J. Sulivan in the Tertiary beds of Patagonia in 1845.
Butler (Arthur Gardiner) - Stewart (Charles) - Owen (Sir Richard) - Westwood (John Obadiah) - Linnean Society of London
Reference : 38295
(1879)
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London - 2nd Ser. Zoology - Vol. I - Part 8 - June 1879
Linnean Society of London , Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1879 Book condition, Etat : Bon paperback, original editor's wrappers grand In-4 1 vol. - 79 pages
4 plates (2 are missing) Contents, Chapitres : Contents, VI - 1. Arthur Gardiner Butler : The Butterflies of Malacca, plate LXIX (plate LXVIII is missing) - 2. Charles Stewart : On certain Organs of the Citaridae, plate LXX - 3. Prof. Owen : On Hypsiprymnodon, Ramsay, a Genus indicative of a Distinct Family (Pleopodidae) in the Diprotodont Section of Marsupialia, plate LXXII (plate LXXI is missing) and 3 figures - 4. J.O. Westwood : Descriptions of some minute Hymenopterous Insects, plate LXXIII - Index (pages 595 to 606) - Contents from september 1875 to june 1879 - pages 533 to 606 spine very lightly damaged, otherwise near fine condition - 2 plates are missing
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part VII. Genus Phascolomys: species exceeding the existing ones in size.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1873). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1872. Vol. 162. Pp. 241-258 a. 9 lithographed plates. Plates with a few light brownspots. Clean and fine.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of ""extinct Wombats of markedly superior size to any now living"" and I shall describe the fossils as the species they represent progressively predominate in bulk.""
On the Fossil Mammals of Australia. - Part IX. Family Macropodidae" Genera Macropus, Pachysiagon, Leptosiagon, Procoptodon, and Palorchestes. Received April 19, - Read June 19, 1873.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1874). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", 1874. Vol. 164 - Part II. Pp. 783-803 a. 8 lithographed plates. Fine and clean.
First appearance of a classical paper in which Owen describes the finds of the remains of some of the extinct Kangaroos - Macropodidae, meaning ""large foot"".
Moreno Dario,Chiboust Noël,Owen Reg,Deréal Colette,Anthony Richard,Bolling Claude - Bolling Claude - Aber Georges,Rouvre Annie
Reference : 70642
(1960)
On the Dicynodont Reptilia, with a Description of some Fossil Remains brought by H.R.H. Prince Alfred from South Africa, November 1860. Received January 23, - Read February 20, 1862.
(London, Taylor and Francis, 1862). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"" 1862 - Vol. 152 - Part I. Pp. 455-467 a. 7 lithographed plates. The plates with some soiling, dampstains and brownspots. Text fine and clean.
First printing of Owens importentr paper describing a genus of Dicynodonts that lived during the late Permian and Jurrasic periods. Dicynodonts meaning ""two dog teeth"" were pigike herbivorous with two large tusks in the upper jaw.
COLLECTION : SERIE NOIRE N° 1783 LA GRENOUILLE QUI TUE
GALLIMARD .. 1980. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur acceptable. 313 pages. Illustration en noir et blanc sur la 1ère de couverture et la 4ème de couverture.. . . . Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
Série noire sous la direction de Marcel Duhamel. Traduit de l'américain par ANNY AMBERNI. Classification Dewey : 810-Littérature américaine
