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BONNET, Charles Contemplation de la Nature. Amsterdam: Marc-Michel Rey. 1766.
Two volumes, small 8vo: [iv], xcv[i], 366; [iv], vii[i], 325[1] pp; occasional minor browning. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spines with raised bands and contrasting labels, some wear to extremities.
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793), Swiss naturalist and philosopher. This work was first published in 1764, and translated into Italian, German, English and Dutch; it sets forth the theory that all the beings in nature form a gradual scale rising from the lowest to highest without any break in its continuity. Bonnet has been called one of the fathers of modern biology.
Two volumes, small 8vo: [iv], xcv[i], 366; [iv], vii[i], 325[1] pp; occasional minor browning. Contemporary mottled calf, gilt decorated spines with raised bands and contrasting labels, some wear to extremities.
Charles Bonnet (1720-1793), Swiss naturalist and philosopher. This work was first published in 1764, and translated into Italian, German, English and Dutch; it sets forth the theory that all the beings in nature form a gradual scale rising from the lowest to highest without any break in its continuity. Bonnet has been called one of the fathers of modern biology.
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