Nouvelle Relation de la France équinoxiale, contenant la description des côtes de la Guiane, de l'île de Cayenne, le commerce de cette colonie, les divers changements arrivés dans ce pays

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Author: Pierre Barrere (1690-1755) Year: 1743 Publisher: Chez Piget, Damonneville, Durand Place: Paris Description: [4]+iv+250+[1] pages with three folding maps and sixteen folding plates. Duodecimo (6 1/2" x 3 1/2"), full leather, gilt leather spine label with five raised spine bands and red speckled edges. (Sabin 477, LeClerc 119, European Americana 743/19, Field 87) First edition. Pierre Barrère was a French physician and naturalist. Barrère practised in Perpignan from 1717. In 1722, he voyaged to Cayenne where he stayed for five years. Back in Perpignan, he became professor of botany at the University and doctor in the military hospital. In 1745 he published his Ornithologiae Specimen Novum, sive Series Avium in Ruscinone, Pyrenaeis Montibus, atque in Galliâ Aequinoctiali Observatarum, in Classes, genera species, novâ methodo, digesta at Perpignan. His classification, entirely based on the form of the beak and feet, divided the birds into four groups : les palmipèdes, les demi-palmipèdes, les fissipèdes et les demi-fissipèdes. Within these groups there was no rank above genera and species and these were more or less disordered. His very artificial classification was soon abandoned. The work was dedicated to Buffon. He published Observations anatomiques tirées des ouvertures d'un grand nombre de cadavres in 1753 at Perpignan. As anonymous the Dissertation sur la cause physique de la couleur des nègres, de la qualité de leurs cheveux, et de la dégénération de l'un et de l'a

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