[Item #58343] The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization. The Crustacea, Arachnides and Insecta. CUVIER, P. A. Latreille, H. M'Murtrie, Georges.

The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with its Organization. The Crustacea, Arachnides and Insecta

New York: G. & C. & H. Carvill, 1831. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (23cm). Full sprinkled sheep, titled on brown leather spine labels, top edges stained grey, all edges sprinkled; plain endpapers; vol. 1: xxxii,448,[2]pp; vol. 2: [ii],[v]-[xvi]465,[1]pp; vol. 3: xx,575[1]pp; vol. 4: xii, 545,[1]pp; 20 black and white engravings. Multiple nineteenth- and twentieth-century ownership marks to front endpapers. A sound set, scuffed but straight, some joints cracking but still holding firm, lacking two of four spine labels, internally browned and foxed: around Very Good.

Cuvier's work "laid the foundations of comparative anatomy": "in his classification of the animal kingdom into four main groups, Vertebrata, Mollusca, Articulata, and Radiata," he gave "a lead that has been followed by all his successors" (Printing and the Mind of Man 276). His friend Pierre André Latreille assisted with the section on arthropods. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 6757. For the first edition, see GARRISON-MORTON 327.

Price: $500.00

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