Funérailles de M. le Comte de Lacépede

Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1825. Pamphlet. Near Fine. 4 p.; 25 cm. Caption title. At head of title: "Institut Royal de France. Académie Roayle [sic] des Sciences [Académie Royale des Sciences]. "Ch Ravel" written next to title; ink underlining of "de Lacépede" in title. Disbound from a collection of pamphlets owned by French homeopath Dr. Charles Ravel (1822-1887). On p. 2, "public" has been crossed out and "publique" written above in ink. Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772-1844) was a French naturalist and colleague of Jean Baptiste Lamarck. Bernard Germain Étienne de La Ville-sur-Illon, comte de Lacépède (1756-1825), was a French naturalist who worked with Buffon on his Histoire Naturelle and served in the French legislature. In Near Fine Condition: minor foxing; period ink notations as noted; otherwise, clean and bright. Scarce.