Marcel de SERRES (1783-1862), naturalist,... - Lot 26 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay

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Marcel de SERRES (1783-1862), naturalist,... - Lot 26 - Conan Belleville Hôtel d'Ainay
Marcel de SERRES (1783-1862), naturalist, geologist and paleontologist. 5 autograph manuscripts. - Volcano]. Autograph manuscript, 4 pp. in-folio: "De la date des éruptions volcaniques de l'Italie" followed by "Du développement des terrains quaternaires en Afrique". - [Geology]. Autograph manuscript, 3 pp. in-folio: "On the tertiary terrains of Algiers". - Geology]. Large sheet of notes and sketches (35 x 53 cm, truncated by one-sixth), on the geology of the Mediterranean basin, from Oran to Marseille, and the terrains in which fossils have been discovered. - Insects]. Autograph manuscript, 4 pp. in-folio. "Note on the Tephritis Oleae whose larva attacked the olive in 1852". He studies and describes the insect responsible for the devastation caused on Mediterranean olives, its reproduction, its larvae. Given the urgency of the situation, he launched an appeal and delivered his first works to all those who would like to consider how to eradicate the plague. - Archaeology - mythological animals]. Autograph manuscript of 88 pp. in-folio accompanied by about 70 pp. of notes, the whole very worked and overloaded with corrections: "Mythological beings figured on the monuments of antiquity by Marcel de Serres". Manuscript of this study published in 1850 in the Bulletin de l'Académie de Bordeaux. Different chapters: mythological beings composed of parts belonging to different species, mythological animals to which one supposed aquatic habits, mythological animals composed of different species but joined without any rule, etc. Accompanied by notes including the draft of a somewhat different plan.
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