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LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de (1744-1829). Systeme des animaux sans vertèbres. Paris: For the Author and Deterville, an IX-1801.
8o (198 x 122 mm). Half-title. 8 plates of letterpress tables, 6 of which are folding. (Some very minor staining, a few manuscript corrections in p. 100-101 and p. 263.) Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, edges stained yellow (upper cover with wormholes).
FIRST EDITION. The Discours d'Overture, the first segment of this text, contains Lamarck's first published statement of his evolutionary theory of species development, as well as his theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Garrison-Morton 215.5; Norman 1261.
8o (198 x 122 mm). Half-title. 8 plates of letterpress tables, 6 of which are folding. (Some very minor staining, a few manuscript corrections in p. 100-101 and p. 263.) Contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, edges stained yellow (upper cover with wormholes).
FIRST EDITION. The Discours d'Overture, the first segment of this text, contains Lamarck's first published statement of his evolutionary theory of species development, as well as his theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Garrison-Morton 215.5; Norman 1261.