AGASSIZ, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles . Neuchâtel: Petitpierre for the author, 1833-1843-[1844]. 8 volumes. Text volumes with half-titles, errata leaves in vols II and III, vol. I with one plate, vol. V with supplement sheets of Feuilleton Additionnel aux Recherches sur Les Poissons Fossils , subscriber’s list and note to subscribers at end; plate volumes with half-titles and index, 397 lithographic plates by Diekmann, Jäger et al. after C. Agassiz, J. Dinkel, H. Nicolet, C. Vogt et al., most hand-coloured or tinted and some folding. BM(NH) I, p.17; Nissen ZBI 44 (the present copy has one more plate in vol. II and 2 more plates in vol. V); Woodward and Sherborn, A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata , pp. XXV-XXIX.
AGASSIZ, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles . Neuchâtel: Petitpierre for the author, 1833-1843-[1844]. 8 volumes. Text volumes with half-titles, errata leaves in vols II and III, vol. I with one plate, vol. V with supplement sheets of Feuilleton Additionnel aux Recherches sur Les Poissons Fossils , subscriber’s list and note to subscribers at end; plate volumes with half-titles and index, 397 lithographic plates by Diekmann, Jäger et al. after C. Agassiz, J. Dinkel, H. Nicolet, C. Vogt et al., most hand-coloured or tinted and some folding. BM(NH) I, p.17; Nissen ZBI 44 (the present copy has one more plate in vol. II and 2 more plates in vol. V); Woodward and Sherborn, A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata , pp. XXV-XXIX. [ Bound with :] J.L.R. AGASSIZ. Monographie des poissons fossiles du vieux grès rouge ou système dévinien (old red sandstone) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie . Neuchâtel and Solothurn: H. Wolfrath for the author and Jent and Gassmann, 1844-1845. 2 volumes. Text volume with letterpress table; plate volume with lithographic title, 43 lithographic plates by Bachfeld, Diekmann et al. after Dinkel, Jäger and Sonrel, most hand-coloured or tinted and 2 folding. BM(NH) I, pp.17-18 (wrongly calling for 42 plates); Nissen ZBI 42 (wrongly calling for 42 plates); Wood p.181; Woodward and Sherborn, A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata , pp. XXIX. Together 10 volumes. Text vols 4° (330 x 240mm); plate vols oblong 2° (287 x 435mm). (Variable, generally light spotting and browning, some short repaired tears to text leaves and plates; plate vols of first work without lithographic titles sometimes present.) Mid-20th-century library cloth. FIRST EDITIONS. 'ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST AUTHORITATIVE TREATISES, BY THIS FAMOUS NATURALIST , especially valuable as a textbook on European fish fossils' (Wood). Recherches ‘contained precise descriptions of more than 1,700 ancient species, together with illustrated reconstructions based on principles of comparative anatomy. This pioneer effort was a model of exactitude, providing future students with primary data relating to zoology, geology, and paleontology' (DSB I, p.73). BM(NH) notes that the Monographie was ‘regarded by the author, and given by Engelmann, as a supplement to the Recherches ' (I, p.18).
AGASSIZ, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles . Neuchâtel: Petitpierre for the author, 1833-1843-[1844]. 8 volumes. Text volumes with half-titles, errata leaves in vols II and III, vol. I with one plate, vol. V with supplement sheets of Feuilleton Additionnel aux Recherches sur Les Poissons Fossils , subscriber’s list and note to subscribers at end; plate volumes with half-titles and index, 397 lithographic plates by Diekmann, Jäger et al. after C. Agassiz, J. Dinkel, H. Nicolet, C. Vogt et al., most hand-coloured or tinted and some folding. BM(NH) I, p.17; Nissen ZBI 44 (the present copy has one more plate in vol. II and 2 more plates in vol. V); Woodward and Sherborn, A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata , pp. XXV-XXIX.
AGASSIZ, Jean Louis Rodolphe (1807-1873). Recherches sur les poissons fossiles . Neuchâtel: Petitpierre for the author, 1833-1843-[1844]. 8 volumes. Text volumes with half-titles, errata leaves in vols II and III, vol. I with one plate, vol. V with supplement sheets of Feuilleton Additionnel aux Recherches sur Les Poissons Fossils , subscriber’s list and note to subscribers at end; plate volumes with half-titles and index, 397 lithographic plates by Diekmann, Jäger et al. after C. Agassiz, J. Dinkel, H. Nicolet, C. Vogt et al., most hand-coloured or tinted and some folding. BM(NH) I, p.17; Nissen ZBI 44 (the present copy has one more plate in vol. II and 2 more plates in vol. V); Woodward and Sherborn, A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata , pp. XXV-XXIX. [ Bound with :] J.L.R. AGASSIZ. Monographie des poissons fossiles du vieux grès rouge ou système dévinien (old red sandstone) des Iles Britanniques et de Russie . Neuchâtel and Solothurn: H. Wolfrath for the author and Jent and Gassmann, 1844-1845. 2 volumes. Text volume with letterpress table; plate volume with lithographic title, 43 lithographic plates by Bachfeld, Diekmann et al. after Dinkel, Jäger and Sonrel, most hand-coloured or tinted and 2 folding. BM(NH) I, pp.17-18 (wrongly calling for 42 plates); Nissen ZBI 42 (wrongly calling for 42 plates); Wood p.181; Woodward and Sherborn, A Catalogue of British Fossil Vertebrata , pp. XXIX. Together 10 volumes. Text vols 4° (330 x 240mm); plate vols oblong 2° (287 x 435mm). (Variable, generally light spotting and browning, some short repaired tears to text leaves and plates; plate vols of first work without lithographic titles sometimes present.) Mid-20th-century library cloth. FIRST EDITIONS. 'ONE OF THE EARLIEST AND MOST AUTHORITATIVE TREATISES, BY THIS FAMOUS NATURALIST , especially valuable as a textbook on European fish fossils' (Wood). Recherches ‘contained precise descriptions of more than 1,700 ancient species, together with illustrated reconstructions based on principles of comparative anatomy. This pioneer effort was a model of exactitude, providing future students with primary data relating to zoology, geology, and paleontology' (DSB I, p.73). BM(NH) notes that the Monographie was ‘regarded by the author, and given by Engelmann, as a supplement to the Recherches ' (I, p.18).
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