Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe
Subtitle: et sur les changemens qu'elles ont produits dans le régne animal
By: par M. le Baron G. Cuvier
Contributors: Wells, John West, 1907-1994, former owner; Wells, Ellen B., donor
Publisher: Chez G. Dufour et Ed. d'Ocagne
Published: 1826
Place of publication: Paris; Amsterdam
Language: fre
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Geology; Paleontology
Notes: First published with title "Discours préliminaire" as part of the author's "Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes"; reprinted in 1821 under title: Discours sur la théorie de la terre.

"Paris: Imprimerie de A. Belin"--Verso of half title.

"Appendice ... Détermination des oiseaux nommés ibis par les anciens égyptiens": p. [175]-194.

Title vignette; side-notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Smith, J.C. Georges Cuvier, no. 667

extracted picklist 20081216 BHLEX

SCNHRB copy 39088011700127 lacking portrait of Cuvier but with 3 extra plates, signed Mlle de Balzac (possibly from the 1825 ed.) tipped-in.

SCNHRB copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Gift of Ellen B. Wells in memory of John West Wells. Inscribed in pencil on front free endpaper: J.W. Wells. Bookdealer's description laid-in.

SCNHRB copy inscribed in ink on t.p.: Henryson.

SCNHRB copy bound in half calf and paste papers; title in gilt within orange spine label.