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Lot including: - BYRON (George Noel Gordon, Lord). Complete works of Lord Byron, new translation, after the last London edition by Benjamin Laroche..., Paris, Charpentier, 1836-1837. 4 volumes in-4, 822 pp, 767 pp, 702 pp, 844 pp, engraved portrait of Byron on the frontispiece, copy with 39 steel engravings from the album of "Byron's Women". Bound in full red glazed calf, spine with 4 nerves and romantic decoration, black leather title-pieces, boards decorated with an embossed decoration in a frame of triple gilt fillets, gilt edges (some boards with defects, spotting and rubbing; spine unstained; freckles). First edition of the translation by Benjamin Delaroche. Notes and comments by Walter Scott, Thomas Moore etc. - 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 containing 20 plates with their explanation..., 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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