[SERRES (Marcel de)]. Recueil d'articles sur la géologie du Midi de la France, la paléontologie, le forage des puits artésiens, l'astronomie, etc. 1827-1832. 12 pieces in one volume in-8, half-fauve basane, smooth spine, untrimmed (pastiche binding). Interesting collection of scientific publications by Marcel de Serres and others, such as Pierre-Michel Moisson-Desroches, Roderick Murchison and Charles Lyell, Léonce Élie de Beaumont, Benjamin Valz, etc., taken from journals or as offprints. The article by Murchison and Lyell On the tertiary fresh-water formations of Aix in Provence is accompanied by an 8-page manuscript containing its translation into French. Two articles include an autograph letter from their author, one from Moisson-Desroches, the other from Benjamin Valz: the author to his friend Deserres. A copy compiled by Marcel de Serres (1780-1862), enriched with a table of contents and four long autograph notes, in which the scholar discusses the distance separating us from the stars (1/2 p.), the comet that appeared in 1829 (1/2 p.), artesian wells (1 p.), and ancient archaeology and the writings of Champollion (3 pp.). Marcel de Serres (1780-1862), a famous geologist and naturalist from Montpellier, inaugurated the chair of mineralogy and geology at the Faculty of Science in his home town in 1809. Contents: Autograph table of contents on the front cover of the binding. - Autograph note on "the distance separating us from the stars" on the first blank page. - MURCHISON (Roderick) and Charles LYELL. On the tertiary fresh-water formations of Aix, in Provence, including the coal-field of Fuveau. From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal for October 1829. 14 pp. with two copper-engraved plates out of text. - MURCHISON (Roderick) and Charles LYELL. On the freshwater tertiary formations of Aix en Provence and the coal bed of Fuveau. Manuscript of the period offering the French translation of the preceding article. 8 pp. in-4 mounted on tabs and folded. - SERRES (Marcel de). Notice sur les végétaux fossiles des schistes-calcaires des environs de Lodève [followed by articles by various authors]. [Marseille, 1832]. Extract from Annales des sciences et de l'industrie du Midi de la France, year 1832, vol. I, pp. 193-[352], with four folded lithographed plates. - SERRES (Marcel de) and Joseph FARINES. Notice sur la caverne à ossemens d'Argou (Pyrénées-Orientales). [Paris], Impr. C. Thuau, s.d. [1829]. 27 pp. Extract from Annales des Sciences naturelles, June 1829. - ÉLIE DE BEAUMONT (Léonce). Recherches sur quelques-unes des révolutions de la surface du globe. [Paris], Impr. Veuve Thuau, s.d. 313 pp. - VALZ (Benjamin)]. Recherches sur le mode de formation des queues de comètes. Genève, Bibliothèque universelle, 1831. 37 pp. Autograph address by Valz on the title: "the author to his friend Deserres". The title also includes an autograph note by M. de Serres "sur la comète qui a paru en 1829". - MOISSON-DESROCHES (Pierre-Michel). Direct treatment of iron ore. Extract from Propagateur Aveyronnais. Rodez, P.-B. Carrère, s.d. [1827]. 12 pp. Autograph initialled letter from Moisson-Desroches on the title: "Hommage de l'auteur". - SERRES (Marcel de). Notice sur les puits artésiens, ou observations sur les diverses tentatives exécutées dans le Midi de la France pour obtenir des eaux jaillissantes. Montpellier, Isidore Tournel aîné, 1830. 139 pp. Autograph annotation by the author "sur un puits artésien creusé à Rouen..." covering the verso of the faux-tittre. - SERRES (Marcel de), LENTHERIC and BALARD. Note on the water gushing from the well drilled at M. Bancal's, in Celleneuve, near Montpellier. Extract from the Bulletin de la Société d'agriculture du département de l'Hérault, 17th year, Dec. 1830, pp. 397-428. Followed by a veterinary article by Jannet. - Royal Institute of France. Report on the 1829 poetry competition. [Paris], A. Firmin Didot, [1829]. 28 pp. Offprint of the report on this poetry competition, which focused on the discovery of printing and was won by Ernest Legouvé. - GROGNIER (Louis Furcy). Considérations sur l'usage alimentaire des végétaux cuits, pour les herbivores domestiques. Lyon, J. M. Barret, 1831. 40 pp. - MOISSON-DESROCHES (Pierre-Michel)]. A quick look at a theory of the Earth. Rodez, P.-B. Carrère, 1830. 37 pp. - ROBERT (Arnault). Explanation of the chronological table of the general history of peoples and their cults. S.l.n.d. [1831]. 16 pp. - Autograph note on ancient archaeology and the writings of Champollion, covering 3 pp. on the last blank page and the second spine of the binding. - The volume also contains a map and four geological plates taken from volumes XVIII and XIX of the Annales des Sciences naturelles, including a large coloured folded plate entitled Essai d'une coordination des âges relatifs de certains dépôts de sédiment et de certains systèmes de montagnes ayant chacun leur direction. Binding partially loose. Some foxing, four plates browned.