The first edition with Lamarck's descriptions of new plants and animals

Pallas, P. S.

Voyages du professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'Empire de Russie et dans l'Asie Septentrionale; traduits de l'Allemand par le C. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Nouvelle édition, revue et enrichie de notes par les CC. Lamarck, professeur de zoologie au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle; Langlès, sous-garde des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale, pour les langues Arabe, Persane, Tatare-Mantchou, &c. [et Billecocq, homme des lettres]. Tome premier - Tome Huitième. Contenant les descriptions des animaux et des végétaux observés dans les voyages de professeur Pallas, et cités ou mentionnés dans les volumes précédens; avec notes et observations par le C. Lamarck, Professeur de zoologie au Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. (all text volumes) (AND) Tome neuvième, (planches) Contenant la carte générale de l'Empire de Russie, d'après la nouvelle division de cet empire en quarante-deux gouvernements; dix cartes géographiques; soixante-dix-sept planches de botanique; douze autres représentant des fourneaux, moulins, monuments, &c.; onze d'idoles et costumes; et onze d'animaux, d'histoire naturelle, d'hiéroglyphes, &c.

Published 1793
Item ID 64083
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Paris, Maradan, an II (1793 or 1794). Nine volumes in nine. 8vo (eight text volumes). 3,765 [xl, 422; 490; 492; 499; 448; 455; 448; viii, 463] pp. Uniform quarter calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt lines and title; [AND] 4to. (Atlas) with 107 engraved plates and one very large folded engraved map. Original contemporary full calf. Spine with gilt ornaments and red morocco label with gilt title, boards with gilt-pattered edges. Marbled endpapers.

This is the complete text, and all the plates and maps of the second French edition. Important because of the southern Russian and Siberian and Ural early exploration on plants and mammals. Only this second French edition contains Lamarck's notes and observations, making the work highly important in the fields of taxonomy and systematics. The taxonomically all-important descriptions of new plants and animals by Lamarck are not present in the original German edition. Neither are they present in the first French edition. Pallas's expedition, which took him six years, proved to be one of the richest of the whole century in terms of its scientific results, being of considerable importance for the ethnology, geography, linguistics, botany, zoology and geology of Asia, and especially of Siberia. The plates show people, buildings, tools, mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians, molluscs, etc. More than half of the plates show plants, many never described before. Amongst the maps is a fine large one of the Russian Empire, measuring 57x127 cm. Surprisingly, this map has no tears. The Atlas volume has some light small dampstains and a few small wormholes in the spine and gutter, but no serious defects. Atlas volume boards rubbed, otherwise a very good copy. Text volumes with the printed label of A. Desmarest on all front pastedowns. In all probability this is the influential French zoologist and palaeontologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784-1838). Text part boards rubbed, some scattered light spotting. In all a good, complete set. Nissen ZBI, 3076; Stafleu and Cowan, 7224..

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