Outlines of Comparative Physiology, touching the Structure and Development of the Races of Animals, Living and Extinct. For the Use of Schools and Colleges

1851. First edition thus. xxiv, 442pp., a colour frontispiece, chart of zoological regions, and 390 text figures. All edges gilt. Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz (1807-1873) was a Swiss-born American biologist and geologist who is recognized as a scholar of Earth's natural history. Augustus Addison Gould (1805-1866) was an American medical doctor, naturalist and the foremost conchologist of his era. They co-authored "Principles of Zoology," first published in 1848, a foundational text that discusses the structure, development, distribution, and classification of animals, both living and extinct. The present volume forms the first part, and has been edited from the revised edition and greatly enlarged by the addition of several chapters. The book is attractively bound in contemporary full leather boards with gold titling and decoration with five thin raised bands on the spine and gold designs on both boards. The case of the book is in very good condition with some scuffing to the leather on the spine edges, spine bands and around the corner tips. There is a very small scrape to the leather on the front board. The contents are tight and clean with a name, place and date written on the bottom corner of the back of the front free endpaper.…