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BONNET, Charles (1720-1793). Considrations sur les corps organiss. Amsterdam: M.M. Ray, 1762.
8o (201 x 123 mm). Contemporary calf, spines gilt (light rubbing to extremities and spine).
Provenance: Charles Bonnet (with his signature on both title pages and extensive annotations).
FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, WITH HIS EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS FOR A SECOND EDITION, and apparently never published. According to manuscript notes on the flyleaves of both volumes, Bonnet started his revisions on 23 February 1778 and completed them on 28 August. A single news broadsheet entitled "Suite des nouvelles d'Amsterdam du 30. Septembre 1763" describing Bonnet's submission of the Considerations to the Prussian Royal Academy of Science, is tipped in at end of volume II. Bonnet's theory of generation offered the best synthesis of 18th century ideas of development. Garrison-Morton 472; Heirs of Hippocrates 947; Wellcome II, p. 200; Norman 264A. (2)
8o (201 x 123 mm). Contemporary calf, spines gilt (light rubbing to extremities and spine).
Provenance: Charles Bonnet (with his signature on both title pages and extensive annotations).
FIRST EDITION, THE AUTHOR'S OWN COPY, WITH HIS EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS FOR A SECOND EDITION, and apparently never published. According to manuscript notes on the flyleaves of both volumes, Bonnet started his revisions on 23 February 1778 and completed them on 28 August. A single news broadsheet entitled "Suite des nouvelles d'Amsterdam du 30. Septembre 1763" describing Bonnet's submission of the Considerations to the Prussian Royal Academy of Science, is tipped in at end of volume II. Bonnet's theory of generation offered the best synthesis of 18th century ideas of development. Garrison-Morton 472; Heirs of Hippocrates 947; Wellcome II, p. 200; Norman 264A. (2)