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VALUABLE, RARE, AND CURIOUS BOOKS,

BOOKS OF PRINTS, WORKS OF NATURAL HISTORY, SCIENCE AND ART, ETC.,

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ABBOTT'S PRIMITIVE INDUSTRY: or illustrations of the Handiwork in Stone, Bone and Clay, of the Native Races of the Northern Atlantic Seaboard of America, by CHARLES C. ABBOTT, M.D., roy. 8vo. about 400 pp. and 400 illustrations,

15s

1881

AGASSIZ, Recherches sur les POISSONS FOSSILES, comprenant la description de 500 espèces qui n'existent plus, l'exposition des lois de la succession et du développement organique des poissons durant toutes les métamorphoses du globe terrestre, une nouvelle classification de ces animaux enfin, des considérations géologiques générales tirées de l'étude des fossiles, 5 vols. royal 4to. of TEXT, and 5 vols. oblong folio of ATLAS, in 18 parts, containing in all 384 PLATES, many of them in tints (pub. at 648 francs), unbound, reduced price, £15.

Neuchatel, 1833-44

the same, bound in 3 vols. royal 4to. and 3 vols. oblong folio, half morocco, top edges gilt, £16. 10s

the same, 5 vols. royal 4to. and 5 vols. oblong folio, handsomely bound in tree-marbled calf, £18. 1833-44

CONTENTS:-Tome I. Introduction et toutes les questions générales, anatomiques, zoologiques et géologiques; Tome II. Histoire de l'Ordre des Ganoïdes; Tome III. l'Ordre des Placoïdes; Tome IV. Histoire de l'Ordre des Ctenoïdes; Tome V. Histoire de l'Ordre des Cycloïdes.

Very few copies remain for sale. The book is sure to disappear altogether before long from the market. Sets completed.

Agassiz, Etudes critiques sur les

MOL

LUSQUES FOSSILES, 4 livraisons, in 1 vol. 4to. 105 plates (pub. 108 frs.), hf. sd. 98

Livrn. I. Les Trygonies du Jura, et de la craile Suisse, 11 plates.

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II-IV. Les Myes de Jura, &c. 94 plates.

1840-45

Agassiz, Etudes sur les GLACIERS, 8vo. 8vo. Text

and folio Atlas of 32 plates, (pub. 40 frs.) scarce, £1. 15s

1840

Agassiz, Dix Planches de Squelettes extraites

des Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, oblong folio, 10 plates in a wrapper, 5s Neuchatel, 1843 Planches de POISSONS FOSSILES omises dans les Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles, 3 plates, oblong folio-avec un Tableau générale des Poissons Fossiles rangés par Terrains, 20 pp. of Text, 4to. 7s ib. 1844 These leaves and plates were issued subsequently to the work, and are frequently wanting : the plates are Vol. I H, Vol. II 27a and Vol. V 36.

"In 1844, Agassiz concluded the publication of his gigantic work on the Fossil Fishes, which appeared at Neuchâtel in five quarto volumes, with 311 folio plates. Eighty of the greatest museums of Europe had furnished the material for it, and the number of described species amounted to 1700 in about 20,000 examples. The 'Recherches sur les Poissons Fossiles' is undoubtedly Agassiz's most important work, and forms, with Cuvier's and Valenciennes' 'Histoire Naturelle des Poissons' and Johann Müller's treatises, the foundation of our present knowledge of fishes, while it does not confine itself to the region of ichthyolites, but extends over the entire wide field of the anatomy and classification of fishes, essentially modifying the latter. Agassiz considered, and with justice, that the separation of the ganoids from the other fishes into the rank of a special order, as the greatest step towards progress for which science was indebted to him; and on the basis of the comparison of the fossil fishes of all formations with living forms, he enunciated several generally valid laws, which have had an important bearing on the development theory of the whole organic world."—Nature, April 24, 1879.

Agassiz, Monographie

D'ECHINODERMES,

vivants et fossiles, 4 vols. in 1, 4to. and folio Atlas of 9 plates,-63 plates (pub. at 98 frs.), cloth, 108 Neuchatel, 1839-42

CONTENTS:-Livrn. I. Les SALÉNIES, 5 plates-Livrn. II. Les SCUTELLES, 32 platesLivrn. III-IV. Le Monographie des GALERITES et des DYSASTERS, par DESor, 17 plates— Livrn. V. L'Anatomie du genre ECHINUS par VALENTIN, 9 plates in folio.

Agassiz, Memoire sur les MOULES de MOL

LUSQUES vivants et fossiles;-Ire. partie :-Les moules d'Acéphales vivants. 4to. 12 plates (pub. 12 frs.), 58

Agassiz, Histoire Naturelle des

POISSONS D'EAU DOUCE de l'Europe centrale ;

1838

Livrn. I. SALMO and THYMALLUS, fol. with 27 plates, 1839 (pub. 75 frs.) Livrn. II. EMBRIOLOGIE des SALMONES, par Vogt, 1 vol. royal 8vo. and 14 plates in folio, 1842 (pub. 36 frs.)

Livrn. II bis. ANATOMIE des SALMONES, folio, 14 plates (pub. 30 frs.) Extra plates: ANATOMIE, planches M, N and O, sold separately for 3s together 55 remarkably fine plates, 20 of them elaborately COLOURED and heightened with SILVER, £2. 10s

the same, without the 8vo. text, the 55 plates, COMPLETE, 258

1839-42

1839-42

A very beautiful book; all Anglers and Ichthyologists should secure a copy before

the few remaining copies are sold.

Agassiz, Iconographie des COQUILLES TER

TIAIRES, large 4to. 15 plates (pub. 15 frs.), 128

1845