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Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d' - Voyage Dans Les Deux Amériques Augmenté de Renseignments Exacts Jusqu'En 1853 Sur Les Différents états Due Nouveau Monde

Title: Voyage Dans Les Deux Amériques Augmenté de Renseignments Exacts Jusqu'En 1853 Sur Les Différents états Due Nouveau Monde
Description: Paris, Furne et Cie, 1853. Nouvelle édition. Cloth. iv, 615 pp. Illus. with 2 color folding maps, 28 engraved plates (1 folding). Sm. 4to. Alcide d'Orbigny (1802-1857) was a prominent French naturalist who made major contributions in zoology, palaeontology, geology, archaeology, and anthropology. He travelled, on a mission for the Paris Museum, in South America between 1826 and 1833 visiting Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru and returning with an enormous collection of more than 10,000 natural history specimens. This work was published the same year as his appointment to the first Chair of Palaeontology at the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. Front joint cracked but repaired somewhat, hinges reinforced, boards edgeworn, light scattered foxing, one tissue-guard absent, foxing, one map torn at margin barely affecting image; still a good useful copy in original binding.

Keywords: Natural History, Illustrated Books, , Latin America, South America, Natural History, Illustrated Books, Americana, Latin Americana, Natural History, Book

Price: US$ 200.00 Seller: Kaaterskill Books
- Book number: 35823

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