GEOFFROY DE ST-HILAIRE (Isidore). Histoire générale et parti - Lot 163

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GEOFFROY DE ST-HILAIRE (Isidore). Histoire générale et parti - Lot 163
GEOFFROY DE ST-HILAIRE (Isidore). Histoire générale et particulière des anomalies de l'organisation chez l'homme et les animaux, ouvrage comprenant des recherches sur les caractères, la classification, l'influence physiologique et pathologique, les rapports généraux, les lois et les causes des monstruosités, des variétés et vices de conformation, ou traité de tératologie...Atlas contenant 20 planches avec leur explication..., Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1837. Large in-8, 8 pp. + XX pp. + 20 plates (under covers, very faded). Bound in half green glazed calf, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and title "Atlas", boards covered with marbled paper (jaws rubbed, corners dull). Atlas and tables only (complete work in 4 volumes in-8 [bound in 3 volumes] + atlas). Explanation of the plates. - General tables of contents. - Plates (20 engraved plates of monsters and anomalies). Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire is the inventor of the word teratology. Continuing the work of his father, the naturalist Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805-1861) founded a new discipline, teratology. Its purpose was to study and classify anomalies and monstrosities of living beings. The study of these "errors of nature" had a considerable impact in the field of criminology.
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