Bernard Germain Etienne, Count of Lacépède... - Lot 33 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Bernard Germain Etienne, Count of Lacépède... - Lot 33 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Bernard Germain Etienne, Count of Lacépède (1756-1825), naturalist, zoologist and herpetologist. Autograph manuscript. Circa 1820]. 7 pp. in-4. Numerous ink-stained passages with lack of paper. Watermarked laid paper with a scallop watermark. Pagination from 65 to 71. A large tear restored with sticky paper. Fragile and precious fragmentary manuscript of Lacépède's work: Les âges de la nature, devoted to the formation of rocks and minerals. Numerous erasures and corrections, forming the final version of the text. The erasures are almost painted and form bubbles, in which the ink has burnt the paper. The manuscript begins on page 65, which corresponds to the second third of the chapter "Sixth Age of Nature" and ends on page 71, which corresponds to the first third of the chapter "Seventh Age of Nature": "Seventh Age of Nature. Tertiary education will now be the subject of our reflections. They present the traces of the two great phenomena that shed a bright light on the history of our planet. Firstly, it is only in the tertiary formations that we find the bones of the animals that inhabited the dry surface of the globe. The earth's primitive terrains contain no fragments of organized substance. The heat of the earth was too great during their consolidation for plants or animals to have been able to resist its force. Transition lands, and secondary lands, especially the latter, contain the debris of plants, especially monocohedrons, as well as the remains of molluscs, fish, and other inhabitants of the seas or flooded lands and more or less adjacent to the ocean.... The Ages of Nature and the History of the Human Species was published in two volumes in 1830 (Paris, F.-G. Levrault).
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