LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste (1744-1829). Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux Faits Physiques, Paris: chez Maradan, second année de la République [1794], 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, vol. I with engraved plate by Bovinet after Maréchal, vol. II with folding letterpress table (title to vol. I badly torn at inner margin, both vols. with stamps on title versos and accession stamp on following page, L6 of vol. II holed with loss of two-letter word on recto), contemporary vellum (rather worn). [Brunet VI, 232; Duveen p. 334; Honeyman 1893; Norman 1260] (2)

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LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste (1744-1829). Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux Faits Physiques, Paris: chez Maradan, second année de la République [1794], 2 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, vol. I with engraved plate by Bovinet after Maréchal, vol. II with folding letterpress table (title to vol. I badly torn at inner margin, both vols. with stamps on title versos and accession stamp on following page, L6 of vol. II holed with loss of two-letter word on recto), contemporary vellum (rather worn). [Brunet VI, 232; Duveen p. 334; Honeyman 1893; Norman 1260] (2)

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As Lamarck mistakenly attacked Lavoisier's anti-phlogistic theory, his work was retrogressive in regard to practical chemistry, but it proved very significant for his ideas on the origin of species and the chemical basis of all life forms.

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