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CUVIER, GEORGES. Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles, Òu l'on rétablit les caractéres de plusieurs animaux dont les révolutions du globe ont détruit les espèces.
Paris, E. d'Ocagne, 1834-36. Fourth edition, 10 volumes text in 8vo, 2 vols. in 4to; hand-colored folding map of the environs of Paris, hand-colored map of London, folding copper-engraved cross-section of the terrain of Paris, 15 lithograph plates (2 hand-colored), 261 engraved plates (80 double-p., 3 folding, 1 with some strengthening in the margin); recent maroon morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spines; occasional spotting, but generally a fine, handsome set, uncut. Horblit, One Hundred Books Famous in Science 20b, citing the 1812 first edition in 4 vols., 4to: "Inauguration of vertebrate paleontology." Norman, 556, citing the same: "In the 1790s Cuvier began publishing a series of papers on fossils that laid the foundations of modern paleontology. These were reissued, in revised form in Ossemens fossiles, with the important preface entitled 'Discours préliminaire,' setting forth Cuvier's influential geological theory of 'revolutions' in the earth's history."
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