Piscium querelae et vindiciae
by SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jacob
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Zurich, Sumptibus authoris, Typis Gessnerianis, 1708. *** Première édition. Elle est illustrée de 5 grandes et belles planches dépliantes gravées, la plupart de poissons fossiles. On y trouve aussi un crocodile. Le titre peut se traduire par : "Les doléances et revendications des poissons". Scheuchzer est sans doute le premier à avoir compris que les fossiles étaient les restes d'organismes vivants. Il avait commencé une collection de fossiles dès 1690, qui devint vite célèbre et le mis en contact du monde savant. Il a étudié une grande variété de fossiles et peut être considéré comme le père de la paléontologie européenne. Relié à la suite : SCHEUCHZER. Agrostographia, sive, graminum, juncorum, cyperorum, cyperoidum iisque affinium historia. Zurich, Typis et Sumptibus Bodmerianis, 1719. (40), 512, (24) pp., 19 planches gravées. Première édition de cet ouvrage sur les graminées, illustré de 19 planches, dont 8 dépliantes. Nissen BBI 1751. Très bel exemplaire. *** In-4 de (2), 36 pp., 5 planches dépliantes h.-t. Veau marbré, dos à nerfs orné, tranches rouges. (Reliure de l'époque.) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - * First edition. Illustrated by 5 large and beautifull engraved plates, most of them of fossils' fishes. The title translates as "The grievances and claims of fishes". Scheuchzer (1672-1733) was the first to understand that fossils were the remains of organic beings and presented the fish themselves as making this case. The fossil collection that Scheuchzer began assembling in 1690 soon became famous and brought Scheuchzer to the attention of the scholarly world. He worked on a great variety of fossils and is considered the founder of European paleontology. Bound with : Agrostographia, sive, graminum, juncorum, cyperorum, cyperoidum iisque affinium historia. Zurich, Typis et Sumptibus Bodmerianis, 1719. (40), 512, (24) pp., 19 plates. First edition of this work on grass, illustrated by 19 engraved plates. Very nice copy in contemporary binding. - -.
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- Piscium querelae et vindiciae
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- SCHEUCHZER, Johann Jacob
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- Zurich, Sumptibus authoris, Typis Gessnerianis, 1708
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