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

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Leçons d'anatomie comparée. Paris, Crochard, 1836-1846, xxxiii-587 pp., viii-725 pp., iv-760 pp., xxvii-628 pp., 691 pp., viii-501 pp., vii-557 pp., vi-656 pp., xii-848 pp.

9 volumes in octavo (220x135 mm), softcover. Very good overall condition. Small tear on the upper hinge of volume III. Very fresh interior, rare foxing.

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

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

Volume I: Generalities and Organs of movement of vertebrate animals

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

Volume III: The nervous system and sense organs

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

Volume IV - Part II: Continuation of the chylification apparatus of vertebrate animals

Volume V: Organs of feeding of mollusks, articulate animals and zoophytes

Volume VI: Organs of feeding of mollusks, articulate animals and zoophytes

Volume VII: Description of the organs of elaboration and purification of the nourishing fluid, respiration and urinary secretion

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