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BRONGNIART, Alexandre (1770-1847). Trait lmentaire de minralogie, avec des applications aux arts. Paris: Crapelet for Deterville, 1807.
Volume I only (of 2), bound in 2 volumes, 8o. Half-title. Interleaved from quire F on. (Without the plates, bound in vol. 2, occasional marginal dust-soiling.) Contemporary pastepaper boards, morocco lettering pieces on spines, uncut (rubbed). Provenance: the author's copy (ink-stamped signature on front free endpaper and an interleaf of second volume, his marginal and interleaved corrections and additions in ink and pencil throughout).
AUTHOR'S COPY of the first volume of Brongniart's textbook of mineralogy, annotated in preparation for a second edition. Brongniart, father of the eminent paleo-botanist, was greatly influenced by the work in crystallography carried out by Ren-Just Hay, his colleague and predecessor in the chair of professor of mineralogy at the Musum d'Historie Naturelle. The present work was commissioned as a textbook for his and Hay's courses at the Musum and the Facult des Sciences. In it he adopted a simple classification scheme based mainly on physical properties but making extensive use of Hay's crystallographic analyses. Brongniart's subsequent work in the stratigraphy of the Paris basin--for which he, like William Smith, made an extensive and detailed use of fossils in the correlation of strata-- provided the model for "much of the exceptionally productive geological research of the period 1810-1840" and was to make him "famous throughout the scientific world" (DSB). BM Natural History Catalogue p. 255; Norman 351.
[With:]
BRONGNIART, A. and Anselme-Gatan DESMAREST (1734-1838). Histoire naturelle des crustacs fossiles... savoir, les trilobites, par... Brongniart... les crustacs proprement dits, par... Desmarest. Paris: L.-T. Cellot for F.-G. Levrault, 1822.
4o. Half-title. 11 chalk lithographed plates, 10 after Jean-Baptiste Meunier, pl. 10 by Meunier after Lesueur, all but 3 plates lithographed by Godefroy Engelmann, pl. 2-4 by C. Constans at Svres. (Dampstaining to plates, fore-edge of plate 1 frayed and soiled, some marginal dampstaining to text.) Modern boards, uncut. Provenance: de Cayrol (contemporary inkstamp and signature on half-title and title, possibly that of the Amiennois military historian Louis Nicholas Jean Joachim de Cayrol).
FIRST EDITION of the first full-length study of the trilobites and of the fossil remains of true crustaceans. Trilobites, found in the oldest "Transition" (or Lower Paleozoic) strata then known, were an object of particular interest at this period, as their "highly organized" structure appeared to point toward a greatly expanded time scale for the history of the earth. Brongniart here "classified a wide variety of species from many parts of Europe and even from America, and attempted to group them according to their relative age... His systematic work on trilobites was an important contribution to the later unraveling of Paleozoic stratigraphy" (DSB). Although William Smith's work using fossils as a tool for stratigraphy was carried out earlier than Brongniart's, the latter's independent discovery of the geological value of fossil study was published earlier (in his and Cuvier's Essai sur la gographie minralogique des environs de Paris, 1811 [journal publication 1808]) and thus had a greater influence on the direction of geological research.
The present work, one of the earliest to use lithography for scientific illustration, is, like most of Brongniart's works, quite RARE.
BM Natural History Catalogue p. 255; Nissen ZBI 1095; Ward and Carozzi 334; Norman 352. (3)
Volume I only (of 2), bound in 2 volumes, 8
AUTHOR'S COPY of the first volume of Brongniart's textbook of mineralogy, annotated in preparation for a second edition. Brongniart, father of the eminent paleo-botanist, was greatly influenced by the work in crystallography carried out by Ren-Just Hay, his colleague and predecessor in the chair of professor of mineralogy at the Musum d'Historie Naturelle. The present work was commissioned as a textbook for his and Hay's courses at the Musum and the Facult des Sciences. In it he adopted a simple classification scheme based mainly on physical properties but making extensive use of Hay's crystallographic analyses. Brongniart's subsequent work in the stratigraphy of the Paris basin--for which he, like William Smith, made an extensive and detailed use of fossils in the correlation of strata-- provided the model for "much of the exceptionally productive geological research of the period 1810-1840" and was to make him "famous throughout the scientific world" (DSB). BM Natural History Catalogue p. 255; Norman 351.
[With:]
BRONGNIART, A. and Anselme-Gatan DESMAREST (1734-1838). Histoire naturelle des crustacs fossiles... savoir, les trilobites, par... Brongniart... les crustacs proprement dits, par... Desmarest. Paris: L.-T. Cellot for F.-G. Levrault, 1822.
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FIRST EDITION of the first full-length study of the trilobites and of the fossil remains of true crustaceans. Trilobites, found in the oldest "Transition" (or Lower Paleozoic) strata then known, were an object of particular interest at this period, as their "highly organized" structure appeared to point toward a greatly expanded time scale for the history of the earth. Brongniart here "classified a wide variety of species from many parts of Europe and even from America, and attempted to group them according to their relative age... His systematic work on trilobites was an important contribution to the later unraveling of Paleozoic stratigraphy" (DSB). Although William Smith's work using fossils as a tool for stratigraphy was carried out earlier than Brongniart's, the latter's independent discovery of the geological value of fossil study was published earlier (in his and Cuvier's Essai sur la gographie minralogique des environs de Paris, 1811 [journal publication 1808]) and thus had a greater influence on the direction of geological research.
The present work, one of the earliest to use lithography for scientific illustration, is, like most of Brongniart's works, quite RARE.
BM Natural History Catalogue p. 255; Nissen ZBI 1095; Ward and Carozzi 334; Norman 352. (3)