Georges Cuvier - Leçons d'anatomie comparée - 1836-1846

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Lessons in Comparative Anatomy. Paris, Crochard, 1836-1846, xxxiii-587 pages, viii-725 pages, iv-760 pages, xxvii-628 pages, 691 pages, viii-501 pages, vii-557 pages, vi-656 pages, xii-848 pages.

9 volumes in-8 (220x135 mm), paperback. Very good overall condition. Small tear on the upper edge of volume III. Interior very fresh, few foxing spots.

Second corrected, expanded, and revised edition by Cuvier himself, then by Laurillard, and later by Georges-Louis Duvernoy from volume V. 8 volumes in 9 volumes (complete).

Georges Cuvier was a professor at the Collège de France and succeeded Daubenton in the chair of Natural History in 1799. He is considered one of the fathers of comparative anatomy and paleontology in the 19th century.

Volume I: Generalities and Organs of Movement in Vertebrate Animals

Volume II: Organs of movement in invertebrate animals and the osteology of the head.

Volume III: Nervous system and sensory organs

Volume IV - First Part: Organs of mastication, salivation, and swallowing in vertebrate animals

Volume IV - Second Part: Continuation of the Chylification Apparatus of Vertebrate Animals

Volume V: Feeding organs of mollusks, articulated animals, and zoophytes

Volume VI: Feeding organs of mollusks, articulated animals, and zoophytes

Volume VII: Description of the organs responsible for the elaboration and purification of the nourishing fluid through respiration and urinary secretion.

Volume VIII: Organs of reproduction and secretions with a supplementary lesson on the organs of relation