Author: REIMARUS, Hermann Samuel [Transl. by Réneaume de Latache]
Title: Observations physiques et Morales sur l'instinct des animaux, Leur Industrie & leurs moeurs. ... Ouvrage traduit de l'Allemand sur la derniere Edition, par Mr. R*** [Réneaume] De L*** [De Latache]. Tome prmier [- Second].
Description: Amsterdam... et se trouve à Paris, Chez Changuion, Libraire ... Chez Jombert, Fils, Rue Dauphine, 1770. 12mo. In 2 vols. W. engr. vignettes on printed titles ['N.v.d.Mr.j.d.f.' =Van der Meer]. Fine contemp. marbled clf., spines w. elaborate floral gilttooling, w. red titleshields. [n2, *12, **12, ***4, A - M12; n2, A - P12, Q7]. (IV, LVI (errata on LVI), 288; IV, 373, I (blank) pp.). (All edges red.). (Original green reading ribbons; fine original marbled endpapers.). (Owner's inscr. in ink on both half titles 'Ex Libris P. Lammertyn... 1779'). First French edition. Translation by Jacques Réneaume de Latache, see Barbier, vol. 3, columns 609 - 610: Casey Wood, Literature of vertebrate zoology, comp. p. 533 [later german ed. : The German author Herman Reimarus [1694-1768] published his 'Allgemeine Betrachtungen über die Triebe der Thiere ...' in 1760, Wood enters a 4th edition 1798. Biogr. Univ. R., p. 260 'Savant philologue, membre de l'académie impériale de St. Petersbourg ... cet ouvrage estimable a été traduit en français par Reneaume de la Tache4.': Hirsch / Hübotter, comp. vol. IV, p. 756: entry for Johann Reimarus, son of Hermann Samuel, who edited and corrected the 4th edition of his father's work: In 156 [main text] plus 38 ['Appendice'] paragraphs, Reimarus discusses a wide range of physiological, historic & philosophical aspects concerning animal instinct.

Keywords: animals 18th c mind psychology drive philology philosophy Vired