Considération sur les Corps Organisés (Ou l'on a rassemblé en abrége tout ce que l'Histoire Naturelle offre de plus certain & de plus intéressant sur ce sujet)

A Neuchatel,: Chez Samuel Fauce,, 1779.. 2 volumes, (iv), 468; (ii), 550 pp. 8vo. Contemporary boards (partly slightly rubbed & dam.), entirely uncut. With 1 folded engraved plate. ¶ The last and best edition of this work, being vol. V & Vi of Oeuvres d'Histoire Naturelle et de Philosophie. Including a 6 page addiitional note not to be found in other editions. An important work in which he i.a. attacks buffon's system of organic molecules. He often discusses the work and discoveries of Trembley and Needham, and he used numerous of Haller's arguments to support his own believe in the preformation of the embryo. g&m, 472 (ed. of 1762); Nordenskiold 243-247: Of Bonnet's scientific theories the best known is his thorougly worked-out preformation theory". -- Copy with ample margins.