First separate edition of a rare and important work on the auditory organs and gills of fishes, with 17 folding plates, made after drawings by the author. Gilles Breschet (1784-1845) was a professor of anatomy at Paris and member of the Institute de France. He was an important figure in the field of comparative anatomy and made significant contributions to the study of the vascular and auditory systems in vertebrates, examining their structure and functions across different classes of animals.
The author had previously published on the auditory organs of birds (Recherches antatom. et physiol. sur l'organe de l'audition chez les oiseaux, 1836), and of humans and vertebrates in general (Recherches antatom. et physiol. sur l'organe de l'ouie et sur l'audition dans l'homme et lea animaux vertébrés, 1833). The present work extends these studies to fishes, offering detailed anatomical observations and finely executed illustrations that contributed to a better understanding of the physiology of hearing in aquatic animals. It was also issued simultaneously as part of the Mémoires de lAcadémie des sciences.
The front wrapper is detached and somewhat frayed. The work is uncut and partially unopened, the leaves and plates are somewhat foxed, the plates and back wrappers are partly detached. Dean A bibliography of fishes I, p. 180; Nissen, ZBI 575.