Charles BONNET

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BONNET, Charles
  1. Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie
    Charles BONNET

    Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie

    Chez Samuel Fauche|à Neuchâtel 1779 - 1783|12 x 20.70 cm|18 volumes reliés
    First collected edition illustrated with 58 folding plates (with numerous figures), and very numerous folding tables. The portrait which should appear as frontispiece to the first volume is absent, as well as 4 plates out of 8 in volume 11. This octavo edition appeared at the same time as the quarto edition which has title vignettes. The author took charge of the editorial enterprise himself and composed prefaces, notes, additions, to all his writings, which he chose to separate into 2 parts: the first concerns works on natural history, the second, those on speculative philosophy, as he himself recounts in the general preface. The preliminary matter contains a bibliography of Charles...
    €2,200
  2. Considérations sur les corps organisés
    Charles BONNET

    Considérations sur les corps organisés

    Chez Marc Michel Rey|à Amsterdam 1762|13.50 x 22.50 cm|2 volumes reliés

    First edition illustrated with two title vignettes designed by Picart.



    19th-century black Bradel binding in full boards. Orange calf title labels. Small rubbing to headcap. Handsome copy.



    A major work on generation and embryology, in which one discovers the hypothesis of chromosomes as well as that of environmental influence. Bonnet perfects his thesis according to which every being exists previously in germ form in nature, thus the embryo already exists in the seminal fluid, and generation is merely the simple development of the germ, which, from small, develops through nutrition; the germ already containing everything that will be developed. Although...

    €750
  3. La palingénésie philosophique ou Idées sur l'état passé et sur l'état futur des êtres vivants.
    Charles BONNET

    La palingénésie philosophique ou Idées sur l'état passé et sur l'état futur des êtres vivants.

    Chez Claude Philibert • et Barthelemi Chirol|à Genève [Geneva] 1769|11.50 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés

    First edition, quite rare; a counterfeit edition appeared on the same date in Amsterdam.

    Contemporary full glazed and marbled blonde calf binding. Decorated smooth spines. Red morocco title and volume labels. A small lack at head of volume I. Five corners slightly bumped. Rubbing. Good copy.



    Without doubt Bonnet's most ambitious and remarkable study which earned him the designation of father of modern biology. This work of theoretical biology drawing its source from multi-disciplinary reflection and its postulate from Leibniz (the immortality of the soul) claims that the Earth periodically suffers universal catastrophes which destroy almost all life and that...

    €900
  4. Contemplation de la nature
    Charles BONNET

    Contemplation de la nature

    Chez Marc-Michel Rey|à Amsterdam 1770|10 x 17 cm|2 volumes reliés
    Second edition, after the original published in 1764.
    Contemporary full calf binding. Spine with raised bands decorated with fleurons in compartments. Red morocco title label, and beige morocco volume label. Head of volume I worn. A lack to the second compartment of the second volume. Joints of volume II split at foot. Some surface abrasions to the boards.
    Bonnet (1720-1793) is considered one of the fathers of modern biology (he was the first to use the term Evolution in biology), both for his experimental research and his philosophy which had a profound influence on naturalists. It was when he was struck with blindness that he turned to theory. This work takes up the first eight...
    €550
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