Histoire Naturelle des Poissons - A Natural History of Fish
By Lacépède, continuation and supplement to the Works of Buffon
Published in 1819 by Rapet
23 engravings of fishes and cetaceans, whales, dolphins, sperm whales
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons - A Natural History of Fish
By Lacépède, continuation and supplement to the Works of Buffon
Published in 1819 by Rapet
The fifth and last volume of the supplement to Buffon's works, but the fourth volume on fish.
588 pages with 23 engravings of fishes and cetaceans, whales, dolphins, sperm whales etc...
Full leather binding. Joints of the spine are cracked. Lacks of leather on the spine.
The engravings are very beautiful.
The extensive chapter on the right whale (from page 317 to page 378) is very interesting. It tells the story of the industry built around this whale, which was already hunted down and endangered in the 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular because of its oil, which was used in large quantities for many purposes, from lighting and heating to painting. You have to imagine that, apart from whale oil, there are few other alternatives.
Lacépède even predicted its rapid disappearance if the whaling industry continued as it was, and his conclusion to this chapter is unvarnished: "Nature is immortal only as a whole; and if the art of man embellishes and revives some of its works, how many others it degrades, mutilates and annihilates!"
The whaling industry declined from the 1850s onwards with the discovery and mass production of paraffin and the more widespread use of gas in street lamps.
Dimensions: In-8: 13x20.5cm
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Antique surgical board
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Anatomical chart by Ludovic Hirschfeld drawn by Léveillé
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Lithography
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From Benjamin Bell's Complete Course in Surgery, published in 1796
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Chromolithography
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The binding is damaged
Histoire Naturelle des Poissons - A Natural History of Fish
By Lacépède, continuation and supplement to the Works of Buffon
Published in 1819 by Rapet
23 engravings of fishes and cetaceans, whales, dolphins, sperm whales
