Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles du département du Puy-de-Dôme.

Paris, Dufour et d'Ocagne, Levrault, Treuttel et Wurtz; Clermon-Ferrand, Thibaud-Landriot, Auguste Veysset, [1826]-1828. Two parts (text and atlas) in two. Large 4to. 224, [ii] pp. (texte); Folio (atlas) with eight sheets with profiles, and 35 [of 48] lithographed plates. Uniform later cloth with original printed front and rear wrappers mounted. = The complete text and a large part of the atlas of a rare work on the local palaeontology of central France. Nissen lists the first author as Croizet, but on the front wrapper it is written as Croiset. It appears that he was generally known as Abbé Croizet (1787-1859). The work was dedicated to Cuvier. Plate numbering is as follows: I (captioned ossemens ronges); I-XIII (captioned pachydermes), although captioned elephant on plates VIII-IX; I-V, VIII (cerfs); I-VI, VIbis, VII-XII, XIIbis (cerfs, but all plates different), XIII (perches), for a total of 35 plates, excluding the eight "Coupes". Plates VI-VII of the first cerfs series were never published, as was the text to the cerfs. A complete copy, according to Nissen, should have 224 text pages, and 57 plates, including the coupes, and a map. Those not included here deal with hyenas (4), bears and a cat (2), cats, and a bear (7), and the map. The deer sections were only published as plates, the corresponding text was never published neither is there any reference to these plates in the published part. A small hand-written sheet with a collation in an old hand is bound in before the first profile. Boards a bit spotted, scattered, mostly light and marginal foxing to the plates, the table des chapitres in the rear of the text volume with a repair to the upper margin, otherwise a very good copy. Nissen ZBI, 993.