Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe
et sur les changemens qu'elles ont produits dans le régne animal
by Baron Georges Cuvier, Jean Chrétien Ferdinand Hoefer, Ferdinand Hoefer, Jean Pierre Flourens, and Ambroise Firmin-Didot
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Geology, Paleontology, Géologie, Paléontologie, Animal ecologyShowing 10 featured editions. View all 35 editions?
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First published with title "Discours préliminaire" as part of the author's "Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes"; reprinted in 1821 under title: Discours sur la théorie de la terre.
"Paris: Imprimerie de A. Belin"--Verso of half title.
"Appendice ... Détermination des oiseaux nommés ibis par les anciens égyptiens": p. [175]-194.
Title vignette; side-notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Smith, J.C. Georges Cuvier, no. 667
extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX
SCNHRB copy 39088011700127 lacking portrait of Cuvier but with 3 extra plates, signed Mlle de Balzac (possibly from the 1825 ed.) tipped-in.
SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Ellen B. Wells in memory of John West Wells. Inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper: J.W. Wells. Bookdealer's description laid-in.
SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p.: Henryson.
SCNHRB copy bound in half calf and paste papers; title in gilt within orange spine label.
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