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Recherches sur la production artificielle des monstruosités ou essais de tératogénie expérimentale ... Deuxième édition revue et augmentée
by DARESTE DE LA CHAVANNE, Camille (1822-1899)
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Paris,: C. Reinwald,, 1891.. xvi, 590 pp. 8vo (17 x 25 cm.). Original dark red publisher's buckram, spine gilt lettered & decorated, uncut. With 62 figures in the text and 16, partly coloured, chromolithographical plates with their leaves of explanatory text. ¶ A very good and clean copy of this classic work on experimental teratology. Garrison-Morton 534.65: "Dareste devoted his career to experimental teratology, and in this work established the field as a science". This second edition is greatly revised and enlarged (the first of 1877 has only 364 pages). Contains a valuable history of teratology. --(Some scattered light foxing along the edges).
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- Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2344
- Title
- Recherches sur la production artificielle des monstruosités ou essais de tératogénie expérimentale ... Deuxième édition revue et augmentée
- Author
- DARESTE DE LA CHAVANNE, Camille (1822-1899)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- C. Reinwald,
- Place of Publication
- Paris,
- Date Published
- 1891.
- Keywords
- teratology monstrosity abnormalities cryptochidie monorchids pathological anatomy biology teratology monsters congenital deformations hydrocephalus hydrocephale monstrosities anencephaly oviology experimental teratology experimental biology
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- teratology - monstrosities;
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About Sylco bvba livres anciens - antiquarian books
Fine and rare books in the fields of science, medicine, technology and the applied arts. Old fashioned printed catalogues and lists available on request.A note on binding conservation. All our ancient leather bindings are carefully cleaned with Brecknell's leather soap, and when needed, treated with hydroxypropylcellulose (in the case of dry leather). Finally we protect the leather with \"Cire 213\", the ultimate binding conservation wax developed by the BNF (Bibliothque nationale de France).
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- Gilt
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