BARBANÇOIS-VILLEGONGIS (Charles-Hélion de). Observations sur la filiation des animaux, depuis le polype jusqu'au singe. [Observations pour servir à une classification des animaux. 2 plates in one volume, in-4, 7 p., 1 plate and 12 p., contemporary half-brown basane (spine worn). Rare offprints of two publications by this precursor of Darwinism. Letter from the author (partly cut by the binder) dated 1816. Attached, loose, 2 offprints by Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: - De l'influence des circonstance extérieures sur les être organisés. [1] f., P. [25]-33. - Des origines des animaux domestiques, et des lieux et des époques de leur domestication. 12 p. Provenance: José Pérez de Barradas y Alvarez de Eulate (Cadiz, October 3, 1897 - Madrid, January 30, 1981), Spanish prehistorian and anthropologist, by descent.

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