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Bonnet, Oeuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie,
Bonnet, Oeuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie,
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Author: Bonnet, Charles
Title: Oeuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie
Place Published: Neuchatel
Publisher:Samuel Fauche
Date Published: 1779-83
Description:
10 parts in 8 volumes, complete. With a fine engraved portrait of Bonnet in volume one, three folding printed tables, 56 engraved plates, mostly folding, and many engraved text vignettes throughout. (4to) 25x19 cm (10x8") period half calf over speckled boards, spine labels lettered in gilt. First Edition.


The highly desirable quarto issue of the first edition of the complete works. "Bonnet is considered one of the fathers of modern biology. He is distinguished for both his experimental research and his philosophy, which exerted a profound influence upon the naturalists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."--DSB, II, pp. 286-87

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Wear, soiling, and rubbing to bindings, corners worn; a few hinges starting, light offsetting to some endpapers, scattered light foxing; very good.
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