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  • Tableau des corps organisés fossiles : précédé de remarques sur leur pétrification / par M. Defrance
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Tableau des corps organisés fossiles : précédé de remarques sur leur pétrification / par M. Defrance

Object Details

Notes
Half-titles.
"Le Normant fils, Imprimeur du Roi"--Verso of half-title.
Printer's device on title page.
Errata: page [131].
Includes index.
Also available online.
SCNHRB has two copies.
SCNHRB copy 1 (39088005604764) has bookplate: William Healey Dall. Stamped on prelimnaries: Division of Mollusks Sectional Library.
SCNHRB copy 1 has author's ink presentation inscription to Monsieur Geoffroy I. St. Hilaire on portion of original wrappers, pasted to verso of half title.
SCNHRB copy 1 half bound in brown leather and marbled paper boards, title in gilt on spine, 'W.H. Dall' stamped at foot of spine, yellow endpapers.
SCNHRB copy 2 (39088007616279) stamped on verso of title page: Library of Congress May 11 1942 duplicate exchange.
SCNHRB copy 2 stamped on verso of title page: Smithsonian Institution National Museum Jun 4 1942 [accession no.] 319812.
SCNHRB copy 2 in original pink paper wrappers, uncut; tipped-in a pressboard folder with typescript cover label, measures 26 cm.
Elecresource
Data Source
Smithsonian Libraries
Date
1824
Call number
QE710 .D44 1824
QE710.D31X
author
Defrance, Jacques-Louis-Marin 1758-1850
publisher
Levrault, F. G.
former owner
Dall, William Healey 1845-1927 DSI
presenter
Defrance, Jacques-Louis-Marin 1758-1850
former owner
Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore 1805-1861 DSI
printer
Imprimerie de Le Normant
former owner
Library of Congress DSI
Type
Electronic resources
Physical description
xvi, [4], 136 pages ; 22 cm
Topic
Paleontology
Record ID
siris_sil_233270
Usage
CC0
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