LUCAS, Jean André Henri - Tableau méthodique des espèces min - Lot 554

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LUCAS, Jean André Henri - Tableau méthodique des espèces min - Lot 554
LUCAS, Jean André Henri - Tableau méthodique des espèces minérales. Paris, D'Hautel, 1806-1813. 2 vols. in-8, portrait by Haüy, (4) ff, XXXVIII, 372 pp. folded; (2) ff, XLV, 587 pp. yellowed, russeted on some ff, pl. red morocco, lace on covers, coat of arms in center, ornate smooth spine, inner dent, green tabis endpapers, gilt (label of Antoine CHAUMONT). First edition. Jean André Lucas (1780-1825) was a French naturalist and director of the Paris Natural History Museum. He specialized in mineralogy; his private collection was particularly well known for the specimens he collected from the volcanoes of southern Italy. Here, he sets out to defend Haüy's theories, set out in 1801 in his "Traité de Minéralogie", against the German school and the ideas of Werner. In the second part, he incorporates Haüy's new methods as set out in his ''Tableau comparatif'' (1809) and describes with numerous references the mineral collections of the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle, which he completes with discoveries made up to 1812. Provenance: OHR pl. 2663, iron no. 1 (Tuscany, Bonaparte, Empire). The coat of arms of Marie-Anne-Elisa Bonaparte (1777-1820) eldest sister of Napoleon I, Grand Duchess of Tuscany since March 1809. Born in Ajaccio, she moved to Marseille when Corsica came under English rule. When she came to Paris, she became the patroness of writers and artists, whom she brought together at her home. After the fall of Napoleon, she settled in Bologna and emigrated to Austria, where she died at the Château de Santo-Andrea near Trieste. It is difficult to find other volumes bearing the same coat of arms. A ''Annuaire présenté à son Excellence le Ministre de l'Intérieur par le bureau des longitudes pour l'an 1813'' was sold at Sotheby's in 2006, the same ex. as the one cited in OHR (E. Brouwet sale, Nov. 1934).
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