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Are you passionate about the history of science?
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 SILBERMAN. 

SILBERMAN. 

Manuel metallotechnique ou recueil de secrets & de curiosités sur les métaux. 

Paris, Charles Antoine Jombert, 1773.
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600 €

First french edition.

Photo SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

Dictionnaire de physique. 

Paris, Rue et Hotel serpente, 1781-1782.
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750 €

First edition.
Commplete copy with the supplement published in 1782 and the 17 folding plates.

Photo BERTRAND, Louis. 

BERTRAND, Louis. 

Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres. 

Paris, Charles Pougens, Hocquart, Duprat, An VIII (1799).
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400 €

First edition.
Louis Bertrand (1731-1812), was born in Geneva and was a Swiss geologist and mathematician. He was a pupil of Euler and became his close friend. In addition to writing a text on geometry he also wrote on geology. In "Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres" he discusses the evolution of terrestrial continents, mountains, stratigraphic layers, caves and fossils (animal and mineral).

Photo JAUBERT, Antoine. 

JAUBERT, Antoine. 

Traité abrégé de l'Arithmétique. 

Brignolle, s.n., 1780.
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300 €

Manuscript written by Antoine Jaubert in Brignolle in 1780 student of "Sieur Voisin, master in this matter".
To the arithmetic (operations, rule of three, etc.) is added a small treatise on mesuring.
Nice 18th century writing still legible.

Photo [RORET] VERGNAUD, Armand-Denis. 

[RORET] VERGNAUD, Armand-Denis. 

Nouveau manuel complet de Chimie amusante. 

Paris, Librairie encyclopédique Roret, 1842.
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75 €

New edition.

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MOLLOY, Gérald || HAMARD, Abbé. 

Géologie et Révélation ou histoire ancienne de la Terre considérée à la lumière des faits géologiques et de la religion révélée. 

Paris, René Haton, 1877.
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50 €

Book whose purpose is to match geological and paleontological data with biblical stories.

Photo ADELINE, Jules. 

ADELINE, Jules. 

Lexique des termes d'art. 

Paris, A. Quantin, [v.1884].
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50 €

First edition.
A very practical handbook, especially for students of Art and Art History, who want to learn the different technical terms of architecture, sculpture, etc.

Numerous engravings in the text pages.

Photo BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste. 

BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste. 

Essai sur les eaux minérales naturelles et artificielles. 

Paris et Saint-Pétersbourg, Klostermann, 1810.
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350 €

First edition, the first issue with the scarce 1810 title page.
An important work and comprehensive treatise on natural and mineral waters. The first part covers internal and external uses of fresh water, seawater, and different kinds of mineral water. The major portion of the book describes the principal spas of Europe in alphabetical order, including chemical analyses of the waters. The last section gives detailed directions for the preparation of artificial mineral waters, with plates showing apparatus for making hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogel sulphide. The machine designed by L.A. Planche for making carbonated mineral waters under pressure is described.

Photo [LE ROY, Julien-David]. LE ROI. 

[LE ROY, Julien-David]. LE ROI. 

Nouvelles recherches sur les Vaisseau long des anciens, sur les voiles latines, et sur les moyens de diminuer les dangers que courent les navigateurs. 

Paris, Chez les libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés, 1786.
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600 €

Rare first edition.
Le Roy, was an architect and professor at the Academy of Architecture.
He is interested in the Navy and seeks to make technical improvements.
To validate his solutions, he will build a prototype that he will sail and in this book he presents his results.

Photo BAYEN, Pierre || CHARLARD, Louis-Martin. 

BAYEN, Pierre || CHARLARD, Louis-Martin. 

Recherches chimiques sur l'étain, faites et publiées par ordre du gouvernement. 

Paris, Philippe-Denys Pierres, 1781.
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750 €

First edition.
Bayen is today recognized as a precursor of Lavoisier. He rejected the phlogistic theory 3 years before the decisive work of Lavoisier.
In this book on the tin, Bayen and Charlard concluded that tin contained no arsenic at worst infinitesimal amount, without any danger to health.

Photo HEIM, Roger || DUCHE, Jacques || MALENCON, G. 

HEIM, Roger || DUCHE, Jacques || MALENCON, G. 

Revue de Mycologie 1936 et 1937. 

Paris, Busson, 1936-1937.
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60 €

First edition.
The firs two years of publication of the Revue de mycologie wich will be published over 40 years.

Photo THEURIET, André. 

THEURIET, André. 

Nos Oiseaux. 

Paris, H. Launette et Cie, 1887.
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300 €

Second edition.
Very nice print of the 110 watercolors after Hector Giacomelli.
For each of the 20 chapters dedicated to a species of bird, we find: a small framed poem, a banner, a lettrin, a lampshade and a full page engraving.

A fine copy.

Photo [MATHEMATIQUES]. 

[MATHEMATIQUES]. 

Journal de Mathématiques élémentaires (27 volumes). 

Paris, Vuibert et Nony, 1887-1907.
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600 €

First editions.
Journal of mathematics gathering problems proposed by professors or annals of examinations and competitions (aggregation, general competition, baccalaureate, schools (naval type, Saint Cyr, mines of Saint Etienne, agriculture ...).
27 volumes of issues from 1887 to 1907.
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Photo JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules. 

JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules. 

Monographie géologique et paléontologique du Salève. 

Genève, Georg & Cie, 1913.
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2500 €

First edition.
Offprint with separate title page.
Presentation copy.

Remarkable work that reports on the geological and biostratigraphic work on the Saleve by Joukowski and Favre.
The authors propose 23 cross-sections of the Salève, oriented NW-SE, from the Petit Salève to the Montagne de La Caille, with identification of the geological stages and fault planes.

This work is still a reference today. Indeed, no other work of this importance on this subject has been published since.
A complete copy with the famous 1:25000 map, which remains the only document available for more than a century.
The publication in the "Archives des Sciences" of a new map was announced by B. Manstrangelo (Arch.Sci. (2018) 70: 43-50), but was still not published in the last issue (71. 2020).

Photo LORIOL, Perceval de. 

LORIOL, Perceval de. 

Description des animaux invertébrés fossiles contenus dans l'étage néocomien moyen du mont Salève. 

Genève, H. Georg, 1861.
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750 €

First edition of this remarkable work on the Salève fossils.

Perceval de Loriol (1828-1908) was a Swiss palaeontologist and stratigrapher, who worked during fourty years at the Natural History Museum of Geneva. He was one of the founders of the Schweizerische Paläontologische Gesellschaft.

The Salève is particularly rich in fossils. There are more than 700 species of invertebrates in the interval from the Upper Jurassic to the Quaternary, the study of which is far from being completed.
This work by Loriol remains an important reference on the subject.

Photo [MATHEMATIQUES]. 

[MATHEMATIQUES]. 

Journal de l'Ecole Polytechnique publié par le conseil d'instruction. 

Paris, Gauthier et fils, 1893-1900.
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150 €

First editions. Years 1893,1894,1897,1898,1900 and 1901.

Photo [MATHEMATIQUES]. 

[MATHEMATIQUES]. 

Journal de l'Ecole Royale Polytechnique. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1843-1845.
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100 €

First edition.
Years 1843 and 1834 of publication of the Journal of the Royal Polytechnic School. There are scientific articles by professors from the School of the day:.

Photo [MATHEMATIQUES]. 

[MATHEMATIQUES]. 

Journal de l'Ecole Royale Polytechnique. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1833-1834.
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250 €

First edition.
Years 1833 and 1834 of publication of the Journal of the Royal Polytechnic School. There are scientific articles by professors from the School of the day: Louiville, Lamé, Duhamel...
For the year 1834 we will particularly note the memoir of Emile Clapeyron who did a lot to disseminate the work of Sadi Carnot on heat.

Photo FIGUIER, Louis. 

FIGUIER, Louis. 

L'Année Scientifique et industrielle (7 volumes). 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1858-1876.
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100 €

One of the first popular science journals.
Each volume devoted to a year: 1856,1859,1860,1861,1862,1869,1874.

Photo [CLERMONT, Sieur de]. 

[CLERMONT, Sieur de]. 

La Géométrie pratique de l'ingénieur, ou l'art de mesurer [...] dédié à Monsieur de Vauban. 

Strasbourg, Fr. G. Schmuck, 1693.
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550 €

First edition.
"Clermont" wrote on the title page, like other copies of these edition.
Clermont, artilleryman and military engineer, dedicated his geometry book to Vauban. We understand this dedication on reading the eighth part of the book, which is entirely dedicated to the construction of fortresses. Vauban then supervised in France the construction of dozens of fortifications with clearly recognizable models.
Clermont explains to us the geometry allowing us to trace the famous Vauban fortresses.

Photo LEGRAND, Louis. 

LEGRAND, Louis. 

Maison de M. le Marquis de Pracomtal,
Hôtel de Mme de Saint Paul
Hôtel de M. de Chanteaud. 

Paris, s.n., 1893.
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1000 €

8 plans of the House of M. le Marquis Pracomtal
House whose facade we still discover 10 rue Goujon Paris (8th) with its impasse d'Antin stables.

-9 plans of the Hôtel de Mme de Saint Paul
Hotel which was to be located between Dumont d'Urville and Galilée streets in the 16th arrondissement. The current facade does not correspond to the architect's plans.

- 7 plans of the Hôtel de Mr Ch. Chanteaud (1893)
Charles Chanteaud (?-1905) pharmacist who introduced dosimetric medicine to France.
Hotel which was intended for 39 rue Raynouard in Passy, ​​the existing facades currently do not correspond to the plans.

Photo DIONIS DU SEJOUR, Achille Pierre. 

DIONIS DU SEJOUR, Achille Pierre. 

Traité analytique des mouvemens apparens des corps célestes. 

Paris, Veuve Valade, 1786-1789.
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3000 €

First edition.
Work described by Lalande as "the greatest work of analytical astronomy".
"After having applied analysis to all parts of astronomy, he collected all the memoirs he had published in the volumes of the Academy, perfecting them, bringing them together by a methodical sequence, making their principles more elementary , the more numerous applications, and he formed a large work of it in two large volumes in-4°, published in 1786 and 1789" (wikipedia).

Photo BEZOUT, Etienne. 

BEZOUT, Etienne. 

Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine. 

Paris, Ph-D Pierres, 1781-1784.
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500 €

Rare complete course of Bezout containing the four parts, the continuation of the fourth part and the treaty of navigation.
Part 1 and 2 are bound together in the first volume. Complete with the 38 engravings.

"Native of Nemours, professor of mathematics with the guards of the Navy and the School of artillery (Monge succeeded him in 1783), Étienne Bézout (or Bezout, as very often said and written nowadays) edited many textbooks educational. " (chronomath).

Photo BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

BONNEFOY, Jean Baptiste. 

De l'Application de l'électricité à l'art de guérir. 

Lyon, Aimé de la Roche, 1782.
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180 €

Rare first edition. Not in Wheeler"s Gift.
Jean Baptiste Bonnefoy (1756-1790) Boy surgeon, then surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, member of the College of Surgery, is the author of various medical memoirs. He had some relations with mesmerism whose ideas he shared, which is particularly evident in this work.

Bound after:
BONNEFOY, De l'influence des passions de l'âme dans les maladies chirurgicales, [Sl], 1786. 88 pages.

Photo SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

SAVERIEN, Alexandre. 

Histoire des progrès de l'esprit humain dans les sciences naturelles et dans les arts qui en dépendent. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1775-1778.
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First edition.
Each volume is devoted to the history of a particular field of science with a biography of the main scientists in the discipline.
The first two volumes are devoted to the exact sciences (1776-1777), the third to the intellectual sciences (1777) and the fourth to natural history (1778). A completely new and fascinating historiographical approach to science at the time.

Photo [PANCKOUCKE, Charles]. 

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles]. 

De l'Homme, et de la reproduction des différens individus. 

Paris, s.n., 1761.
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150 €

First edition.

Photo ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. 

ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. 

Projet de décret relatif à un crédit supplémentaire de Dix mille francs pour la réimpression des Œuvres scientifiques de Laplace. 

s.l., s.n., 22 juin 1848.
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450 €

Rare document signed by Lamartine and Arago.
Draft decree to allocate 10,000 fr to continue the reprint of the Works of Laplace. This had been allocated 40,000 fr in 1842 but the initial estimate having been exceeded, money had to be added to the project.

The document is drafted by the Secretary of the Executive Power Commission and is signed by all the members of this commission: François Arago, Alphonse de Lamartine, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, Pierre Marie de St Georges.
Rare testimony of this commission which lasted only for the months of May and June 1848 and which saw the Scientist and the Poet at the top of the French State.

Photo CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

CLAIRAUT, Alexis. 

Tables de la Lune, calculées suivant la théorie de la gravitation universelle. 

Paris, Durand, 1754.
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2500 €

First edition of the tables of the Moon resulting from the calculations of Alexis Clairaut on the problem of the three bodies.

"Between 1747 and 1754, three of the greatest mathematicians of their time, Euler, D'Alembert and Clairaut, oppose a common project: to develop new mathematical methods in order to solve the complex problem posed by the movement of the Moon, submitted at the same time to the gravitational attraction of the Earth and the Sun. [...] But the stake is not only mathematical, it became indeed urgent, for the needs of the astronomical navigation, for the safety of the roads maritime and commercial, and for the protection of crews to finally have tables giving the ecliptic longitude of the Moon with sufficient precision in order to make the lunar distance method applicable at sea. " (Guy Boistel. Beyond the problem of the three bodies: Alexis Clairaut and his nautical tables of the Moon (1751-1765) Proceedings of the congress on the history of science and technology, Poitiers, May 20-22, 2004).

The stake both scientific and commercial explains why Clairaut in the introduction of his tables indicates the precise chronology of the disclosure to the public of his mathematical discoveries. Although proposing the most accurate mathematical solution of the problem of the three bodies, it will be preceded by the German Mayer who publishes in 1753 his tables established in an empirical way. And it is Mayer who will be awarded by the Board of Longitude the prize of 3000 pounds sterling to the chagrin of Clairaut.

Photo [ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest. 

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest. 

Epures de Géométrie descriptive. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1847].
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200 €

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

Photo LINNE, Charles. 

LINNE, Charles. 

Genera plantarum. Eorumque Characteres naturales, secundum Numerum, Figuram, Situm, & Proportionem omnium Fructificationis partium. 

Paris, David, 1743.
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500 €

Third edition.
A major work in the history of science in which Linnaeus explains the reproduction of flowering plants and proposes a classification of plants by the structure of their flowers. This classification will be the starting point for the entire taxonomy of living things as we use it today.

Taken from the second edition published in 1742, the Paris edition is the only one to offer the names of plants in French.

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