$554
Geoffroy Sainte-Hilaire, Isidore (1805-1861) Histoire Generale et Particuliere des Anomalies de L'Organisation Chez L'Homme et les Animaux . Paris: J.-B. Balliere, 1832-[1837]. Two text volumes, and the atlas volume, bound in half leather and decorative paper boards, text volumes with three folding typographical tables, the atlas volume illustrated with twenty full page lithographs. Together with: Dareste's Recherches sur la Production Artificielle des Monstruosites ou Essais de Teratogenie Experimentale , Paris, 1877, illustrated, contemporary cloth binding, spine becoming detached. Both works are concerned with teratology, or the study of biological deformities, in animals and humans. These two French scientists each made important contributions to the field. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire was a second generation teratologist who created a detailed classification system for abnormal physical types and refused to view the unique individuals formed differently as 'defective' based on a concept of the normal. Dareste experimented with producing his own artificial birth defects in the lab, and succeeded in creating a new form of monstrosity in chickens.
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2012-11-18