Paris, Chez l'Auteur & Maradan, An VI - 1797.
8vo (200x124 mm), (4)-xvi-538 pages. binding : Contemporary quarter sheep. Flat spine with lettering piece (chipped). Binding rubbed.
references: Pietro Corsi [in. Systèmes de la nature and Theories of Life: Bridging the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries p. 21 : "In his' Nouveaux principes de géologie' (1797) Bertrand, a friend of Patrin’s and Delamétherie’s and a respected mining engineer, canal builder, and geologist, criticized Rétif ’s work but acknowledged that it contained much to be taken into serious consideration. He also praised Telliamed, for him still a source of inspiration. With de Maillet, Bertrand argued that all organic forms originated in the primeval ocean and slowly adapted to terrestrial and aerial life; the animals and plants that perished in the process by far exceeded in number the forms living today."].
Price : 750 €