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You will certainly find a book for you among our rare books and manuscripts of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry or Natural Sciences.
The famous names in science are present on our shelves: Euclid, Newton, Darwin, Pascal, Lavoisier and also those who have participated in scientific progress.

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Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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50 €

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 7 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE] FAURE, Pierre. 

[GRAVURE] FAURE, Pierre. 

Marine. 

s.l., s.n., 1921.
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50 €

Engraving signed Pierre Fauré in 1921
Exemplar N ° 4/15.

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

8 planches sur la Verrerie. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1787 - 1789].
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Set of 8 plates dedicated to glassware, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
The plates numbered from 1 to 8 represent glass oven plans.

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 1 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 2 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 3 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 4 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo SAVARY, Félix. 

SAVARY, Félix. 

Mémoire sur l'Aimantation (publié dans Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Tome XXXIV). 

Paris, Crochard, 1827.
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80 €

First edition.
Memoir read at the Academy of Sciences on July 31, 1826. Savary works on electrodynamics and in particular on the law of Biot and Savart.

We find in the same volume an article by Antoine Becquerel, "Chemical decompositions operated with electric forces at very low voltage".

Photo BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

Des Changemens dans le système de minéralogie chimique, qui doivent nécessairement résulter de la propriété que possèdent les corps isomorphes, de se remplacer mutuellement en proportions indéfinies. (publié dans Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Tome XXXI). 

Paris, Crochard, 1826.
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250 €

First edition.
Berzelius is the first to propose a system of classification of the elements by designating them by an abbreviation of their Latin name. It is the system of naming atoms that we always use (Au for Gold for example). He also proposed in his System of mineralogy in 1818 a beginning of classification of simple and compound elements. In this article he modifies his system taking into account Mitscherlich's recent work on isomorphic crystals and proposes a new classification according to the electronegativity of the elements.

We find in the same volume an article by Antoine Becquerel, "Investigations on the electrical effects of contact produced in changes of temperature, and application which can be made to the determination of high temperatures".

Photo AMPERE, André Marie. 

AMPERE, André Marie. 

Suite du mémoire de M. Ampère sur une nouvelle expérience électro-dynamique, sur son application à la formule qui représente l'action mutuelle de deux élémens de conducteurs voltaïques, et sur de nouvelles conséquences déduites de cette formule. (publié dans Annales de Chimie et de Physique - Tome XXX). 

Paris, Crochard, 1825.
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600 €

First edition.
Major article in the work of Ampère and more generally for the history of science. He describes there one of the fundamental laws of electrodynamics (a field which finds its foundation in these works) and which will become Ampère's law.
Second part of the Memoir that Ampère will publish in the Annales de Chimie et de Physique in two parts (volume XXIX and volume XXX) before its original edition in 1827 in his "Mathematical theory of electro-dynamic phenomena only deduced from experience".

In the same volume we find articles by Faraday, Gay-Lussac, Savart.

Photo FRESNEL, Augustin. 

FRESNEL, Augustin. 

Lettre de M. Fresnel à M. Arago sur l'influence du mouvement terrestre dans quelques phénomènes d'optique (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome IX). 

Paris, Crochard, 1818.
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300 €

First edition.
Fresnel's work on certain questions of astronomical observations which had to take into account the existence of an immobile ether surrounding the Earth.

In the same volume we find articles by Faraday, Dalton, Thénard.

Photo LAPLACE, Pierre Simon. 

LAPLACE, Pierre Simon. 

Sur la Rotation de la Terre || Sur la figure de la Terre, et la Loi de la pesanteur à sa surface (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome VIII). 

Paris, Crochard, 1818.
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150 €

First edition.
Two articles by Laplace on celestial mechanics published in the Annales de Chimie et de physique.

In the same volume, articles by Gay-Lussac, Berthollet, Haüy.

Photo DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

DULONG, Pierre || PETIT, Alexis. 

Recherches sur la mesure des températures et sur les lois de la communication de la chaleur (publiés dans Annales de Chimie et de physique - Tome VII). 

Paris, Crochard, 1817.
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450 €

First edition.
First work by Dulong and Petit which will lead to the establishment of the thermodynamic law with the same name.
This work was rewarded with the physics prize of the Académie des Sciences in 1818.

In the same volume, articles by Gay-Lussac, Humboldt, Dalton.

Photo BONAVENTURE, Abat. 

BONAVENTURE, Abat. 

Amusemens philosophiques sur diverses parties des sciences, et principalement de la physique et des mathématiques. 

Amsterdam / Marseille, Jean Mossy, 1763.
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200 €

First edition.

This scientific recreation book is composed of twelve chapters corresponding to different amusements, such as "Sur un miroir placé par Ptolemée Evergetes sur la tour du phared'Alexandrie" and "Recherches & conjectures sur un miroir, dans lequel l'empereur Néron voyoit les combats des gladiateurs", etc.

Photo CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand || [NEWTON - DESCARTES}. 

CASTEL, Louis-Bertrand || [NEWTON - DESCARTES}. 

Le vrai système de physique générale de M. Isaac Newton exposé et analysé en parallèle avec celui de Descartes. 

Paris, Claude-François Simon, 1743.
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950 €

First edition.

Photo BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri. 

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri. 

Historia plantarum universalis. 

Yverdon, s.n., 1650-1651.
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7000 €

First edition, first issue of Bauhin's magnum opus. Describing over 5,000 plants in a meticulous manner, the Historia plantarum first appeared in 1650 after 31 years in preparation. Bauhin, a Swiss botanist and physician, endeavored to describe not only the organs and properties of the plants herein, but their ecology as well.
This first issue is rare. Most of copies known are from later issues (Norman, The Cleveland Collections, ...).
First issue with the gathering Secund Oooo et Secund Aaaaa on the third volume as described in Hunt, and with the index of part 3 (not required in Hunt).

Photo MONGE, Gaspard. 

MONGE, Gaspard. 

Géométrie descriptive. Leçons données aux écoles normales, l'An 3 de la république. 

Paris, Baudouin, An VII [1799].
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950 €

First edition, first issue with the errata at the verso of page vii.
"Monge is regarded as the creator of descriptive geometry, for 'it ws he who elegantly and methodically converted the group of graphical procedures used by practionners into a general uniform technique based on simple an rigorous reasoning and methods ...Monge's systematic use of cylindrical projection and, more discreetly, that of central projection, opened the way to the parallel creation of projective and modern geometry' (DSB). It was primarily through Monge's teachings, both at the ephemeral École de l'an III and the École Polytechnique, that descriptive geometry, analytical geometry and differential geometry were established as special fields".(Norman).

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MANUSCRIT. 

94 planches. 

s.l., s.n., 1834-1835.
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350 €

Collection of mathematical and architectural drawing of a student (Frenet), in the style of the drawings taught at the Ecole Polytechnique, with a first set of plates for the curved part, surfaces, perspectives, shadows (78 boards) and 16 plates on architecture.

Photo DEMACHY, Jean François. 

DEMACHY, Jean François. 

Examen physique et chimique d'une eau minérale trouvée chez M. de Calsabigi à Passy; comparée aux eaux du même côteau, connues sous le nom des nouvelles eaux minérales de Madame Belami. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1756].
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250 €

First edition.

Rare brochure that follows the analyzes of Rouelle and Cadet on the waters of Passy. The purpose of this study is to show that the water found in Mrs. Belami, neighbor of the Calasabigi is at least as good.

Photo LAUNAY, Louis de. 

LAUNAY, Louis de. 

Le Grand Ampère d'après des documents inédits. 

Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1925.
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30 €

First edition.
Biography of André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) by Louis de Launay who worked on the correspondence of the famous scientist.

Photo PLENCK, Joseph Jacob. 

PLENCK, Joseph Jacob. 

Elementa terminologiae botanicae ac systematis sexualis plantarum. 

Vienne, A. Blumaeur, 1796.
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80 €

First edition.
It was in his capacity as professor of chemistry and botany at the Military Academy of Medicine and Surgery in Vienna that Plenk (or Plenck) wrote this classification of botany based on the Linnaeus system.

Photo BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François. 

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François. 

Methodus foliorum, seu plantae florae Monspeliensis, juxta foliorum ordinem, ad juvandam specierum cognitionem, digestae. Methode pour connoître les plantes par les feüilles. 

La Haye, s.n., 1751.
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150 €

First edition.
Boissier de Sauvages (1706-1767) offers with this book both a key to the identification of plants by the leaves and a proposal for botanical classification using the shape of the leaves.
A letter to Linnaeus serving as a preface sets out the principle, more convenient than the Linnaean method based on flowers and fruiting.
The two botanists will maintain a long correspondence and a pupil of Linné will even come to do his thesis in Montpellier on the local flora.

Photo LAICHARDING, Johann Nepomuk von. 

LAICHARDING, Johann Nepomuk von. 

Manuale Botanicum sistens plantarum europaearum characteres generum specierum differentias nec non earum loca natalia. 

Lipsiae, Barthium, 1794.
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200 €

First edition.
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting is an Austrian entomologist who leaves his botanical name to the Potentilla anglica laichard (described in this book).

Photo MONCKHOVEN, Désiré van. 

MONCKHOVEN, Désiré van. 

Traité général de photographie suivi d'un chapitre spécial sur le gélatino-bromure d'argent. 

Paris, G. Masson, 1880.
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200 €

This seventh edition is the first to offer a long chapter devoted to the process on gelatin-silver bromide which has just been developed and which is the major revolution in photography at the end of the 19th century.

"It is certain that, from now on, photography is really within the reach of all and that its applications will become much more numerous. Indeed, it is enough to obtain dry plates with gelatin-silver bromide and to study during a small number of days the manipulations of the development of the image, to obtain results which were, until now, the exclusive domain of a few specialists ". (p. 373).

Photo MARIE, Maximilien. 

MARIE, Maximilien. 

Théorie des fonctions de variables imaginaires. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, [1874-1876].
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200 €

First edition.
Maximilien Marie (1819-1891), polytechnician (X 1838) then tutor and examiner at the Ecole Polytechnique.
TI: New analytical geometry
TII: Application of the method to the general theory of functions
TIII: History of this work.
The third volume is particularly unusual at this time, it engages in a scientific autobiography in which we can see the progress of his thought and the construction of his mathematical theory.

Autograph dedication of the author to Eugène Rolland (X 1830) the inventor of the roaster, on the title of volume I and the false title page of volume II.


we attach:
MARIE, New theory of functions of imaginary variables, Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, [v. 1862]
(4) -28 pages. in-8 paperback, cover split on the back.
Extract from the article on the functions of imaginary variables published in the "Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics published by M. Liouville" which is a precursor to those published in the previous work.

Photo BRUNEL, Georges || FORESTIER, E. 

BRUNEL, Georges || FORESTIER, E. 

La Pratique en photographie avec le procédé au gélatino-bromure d'argent. 

Paris, A la librairie illustrée, [v. 1890].
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50 €

First edition.
Book mainly focused on the collodion process.

followed by :
GANICHOT, Theoretical and practical treatise on the retouching of negative and positive proofs, Paris, Charles Mendel, [v. 1890]
112 pages (missing the half-title).
Long before Photoshop, retouching images has always been at the heart of the art of photography.

Photo [TEXTILES LYONNAIS]. 

[TEXTILES LYONNAIS]. 

Classeur d'échantillons de soie et tulles. 

Lyon, Société Coopérative Lyonnaise F1C, [v. 1935-1955].
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750 €

Set of 203 samples of fabrics printed on silk and viscose (tulles, muslin and rayon) produced in the Lyon region between the years 1935-1955.
The majority of these coupons come from the SIE Jallieu and Pervilhac companies and grouped together by the Lyonnaise F1C cooperative society.

Interesting testimony to the high-end textile production which made the heyday of the Lyon industry. Some patterns are reminiscent of some well-known silk squares still produced in the region.

Photo [Manuscrit] GANTEAUME. 

[Manuscrit] GANTEAUME. 

Mémoire sur le centre de gravité des corps. 

Marseille, s.n., 1740.
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200 €

Transcript of a work done by Ganteaume "mechanic" to the Société des Sciences de Marseille on August 6, 1740.

Photo [SCIENCES]. 

[SCIENCES]. 

Documents de travail d'un société des sciences de Marseille. 

Marseille, s.n., 1740.
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450 €

Interesting set of working documents of a Scienfitic Society from Marseille in the 18th century.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century two projects of a foundation of a Marseille Academy clashed, the first wanted to devote himself solely to Sciences, the second on the model of the French Academy, wanted to focus on Letters. It is the second project supported by the governor of Provence which won the support of Louis XV and the Academy of Belles-Lettres de Marseille was founded in 1726. It was only in a second time, in 1766, that it will open up to Sciences and the Arts.
We imagine the dismay of Marseilles scientists during the interval, and it is probably this frustration which is at the origin of the creation of the Société des Sciences de Marseille of which we present some documents here.
Lot consisting of 6 pieces:
- 3 transcripts of speeches, one of which addresses the question of the rules of the "Academy" which excluded the religious. It offers openness to abbots and monks, those with interest libraries, but seeking a solution that avoids animosities between the different orders.
- Speech by the perpetual secretary summarizing the work of the Academy during the period 1739-1740.
- Work report: Geometry of Mr Gérard, Mechanics of Mr De Pontis.
- Bundle of 10 tickets, "Tasks of the Academicians for 1741": Each academician offers on a small autograph ticket signed the scientific work they undertake to address during the year 1741. We find the names of Ganteaume, De Pontis , Pelissery, Gérard, Saint-Jacques, Roussin.

Photo [MODE]. 

[MODE]. 

L'Officiel de la couleur des textiles et des industries de la mode - Automne 1952. 

Paris, Editions de l'officiel de la couleur, 1952.
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200 €

L'Officiel de la couleur was a reference work for the fashion industry giving color trends and new fabrics for the coming seasons.
Here the number 19 for the Fall 1952 season, complete with 8 plates with each carrying a color chart.
Edition limited to 5450 numbered copies (ours n ° 287)
"The official color is printed on grapho-calco. It is enhanced with 81 original colors affixed manually, color by color with a double concern for accuracy and aesthetics. Each copy thus acquires the characteristics of a work worthy of bibliophiles, which makes this publication the most sought after periodicals "(extract from the justification).
The translation pages announced in the table (English, Spanish, Portuguese, German) are not present.

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