Systême des animaux... and Campi Phlegraei...

Interleaved throughout with blank leaves, 19 of which bear the author’s annotations, this is Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s own copy of his landmark work on the evolution of species, an 1801 first of Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genre de ces animaux in a contemporary binding.

Sold for $65,000 as a Haskell F. Norman book in 1998, it made a profitable return as a Freilich book…

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