Brongniart, Alexandre (1770-1847)

Cours élémentaire d'Histoire naturelle (Zoologie) commencé à l'École centrale du Collège des 4 Nations, le 21 prairial, an 4 (8 June, 1796). Première leçon. Author's holograph M.S. Produced in Paris.

1796

1 volume 1 l. + 9 ff. + 1 bl. l. 4to. 23 x 17 cm. Unbound.

Presented 1935.

The author was a pioneer in mineralogy and geology as well as a distinguished zoologist. He was professor of natural history, and President of the Académie des Sciences in 1827.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).