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KUPFFER, Adolf Theodor.

Travaux de la commission pour fixer les mesures et les poids de l'empire de Russie.

St Petersbourg, Imprimerie de l'Expédition de la confection des papiers de la Couronne, 1841.

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2000 €

First edition.
Adolph Theodor Kupffer (1799-1865) was a Baltic German physical chemist and therefore subject of the Russian Empire. He proposed establishing a single system of weights and measures in Russia, whose system, still of medieval inspiration, was then very heterogeneous. Kupffer's unified system will be adopted by an imperial decree of Nicholas I in 1835. He explains the modalities in this publication in 1841. Although these works are written in French, the French decimal metric system seems to him to be mathematically logical. , too revolutionary for Russia. He preferred to draw inspiration from the London Commission of Weights and Measures and defined the standards of weight (the pound), length (the Sagène) and volume (the védro) based on English measurements. A Russian Sagène is thus worth six English feet. The basic standards are made of copper and platinum. The Kupffer system remained in use in Russia until the end of the 19th century, before the country finally adopted the metric system.
Very complete set of atlas of 12 plates which completes the text.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de.

Système des animaux sans vertèbres ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux.

Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1801.

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2000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

LEGRAND, Louis.

Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Marsy
Hôtel de Mme Riensch de Osa.

Paris, s.n., 1894-1905.

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2000 €

18 architectural plans of Parisian mansions printed from the drawings of the architect Legrand. The plans show the interior layout, layout and facades.

- 10 plans for Mademoiselle De Marsy's Hotel (1905)
Marie-Louise Marsy, real name Anne-Marie-Louise-Joséphine Mars (1866-1942), member of the Comédie Française which she left in 1902 after becoming Mme de Vassart d'Hozier.
Hotel located at the intersection of Boulevard Jules Sandeau and Rue Octave Feuillet in the 16th arrondissement. The current facades at this address do not correspond to the architect's plans.

- 8 plans for the Hotel de Mme Riensch de Osa (1894).

Augusta de Osa (1855-1944), née Riensch, was born into a wealthy industrial family in Hamburg. The diplomatic position of her husband allowed Augusta to lead a brilliant social life by frequenting the Parisian high society of the Belle Epoque.
Each plan is countersigned by Mme Riensch de Osa with the mention Read and approved.
Hotel still visible at the current 35, avenue Georges V (current boutique which adjoins the Prince de Galles hotel).

NEWTON, Isaac.

La Méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies.

Paris, De Bure l'ainé, 1740.

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2000 €

First french edition.
Buffon's translation of Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series published a few years earlier. It is one of the last treatises on which Newton worked to explain the method of calculation used in his Principia. The fluxion method is the Newtonian solution of differential calculus problems. It is the counterpart of the method of infinitely small developed by Leibniz.
The fluxion method places Newton among the fathers of infinitesimal calculus.

OZANAM, Jacques.

Récréations Mathématiques et Physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs Problêmes d'Arithmétique, de Géometrie, d'Optique, de Gnomonique, de Cosmographie, de Méchanique, de Pyrotechnique, & de Physique. Avec un Traité nouveau des Horloges Elémentaires.

Paris, Jean Jombert, 1694.

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2000 €

Rare first edition and the first work on "Recreational Mathematics".

[BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES.

La vie de Monsieur Descartes.

Paris, Daniel Horthemels, 1691.

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2000 €

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries.

Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard.

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce.

Lyon, David Forey, 1719.

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2200 €

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

BECQUEREL, Antoine César.

Traité expérimental de l'électricité et du magnétisme, et de leurs rapports avec les phénomènes naturels.

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1834-1840.

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2200 €

Rare first edition of ono of the most important work of Becquerel.

GRIGNON, Pierre-Clément.

Mémoires de physique sur l'art de fabriquer le fer, d'en fondre et forger des canons d'artillerie; sur l'histoire naturelle et sur divers sujets particuliers de physique et d'économie, avec une table analytique des matières en forme de dictionnaire, pour servir à l'intelligence des termes techniques.

Paris, Delalain, 1775.

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2400 €

First edition of this important work for the metallurgy and the cristallography.

[Chambre syndicale des forces hydrauliques].

Album de la Chambre syndicale des forces hydrauliques.

Paris, Benin frères, 1911.

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2500 €

First edition.
Monumental iconography of the French hydraulic industry at the beginning of the 20th century, bringing together several hundred photos divided into two volumes:
Volume I: Transport and distribution of electrical energy
Volume II: Electrometallurgy, electrochemistry
he hydraulic forces union, including the president honorary was then Alfred Pechiney, brought together more than a hundred factories using "white coal" as an energy source. That is to say the hydraulic force of dams or rivers. Each industrial site of the union is represented by one or more photos preceded by a sheet giving the main characteristics. Important testimony to the history of France's industrial heritage.

JOBLOT, Louis.

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope.

Paris, Briasson, 1754-1755.

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2500 €

Second edition.
Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

LE FEBVRE, Nicolas.

Traicté de la Chymie.

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1660.

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2500 €

First edition.
Nicolas Lefèvre [id is Le Febvre] was a chemistry teacher at the Jardin des Plantes. He then became a member of the Royal Academy in London, a city to which he had come at the request of King Charles II of England.
A skilful chemist, people in the art praise the exactness with which he describes the operations and reports their results. It also indicates the means of recognizing fraud in pharmaceutical preparations.
A great admirer of Paracelsus, he claimed to have discovered, like him, a secret for restoring or maintaining all the vigor of youth in advanced age.
His chemistry course was a great success, went through several editions and was translated into several languages.

AMPERE, André Marie || BABINET.

Exposé des nouvelles découvertes sur l’électricité et le magnétisme.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1822.

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2500 €

First edition, separately-paginated offprint of this early publication on electricity and magnetism in which Ampère and Babinet review the latest discoveries concerning electromagnetism.
Papper first published as a supplement to the French translation by Jean-René-Denis-Alexandre Riffault of the fifth edition of Thomas Thomson's Système de chimie.
Ampère notably presents his famous rule called "Ampère's rule" which describes the direction in which a magnetized needle moves near a conducting wire in which a current flows. His galvanometer, a device for measuring current intensity. As well as the idea of an electric telegraph system.
Book that bears witness to the excitement caused among physicists by Oerstedt's experiment in 1820 which opened a new scientific field, electromagnetism.
A very complete copy of the last leaf (table and errata) which is usually missing.

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).

DES MURS, Oeillet.

Musée ornithologique illustré.

Paris, J. Rothschild, 1886.

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2500 €

First edition.

Impressive ornithological work with 345 color plates.

The description of the birds is divided into 4 volumes:

- Palmypedes
- Shorebirds
- The Birds of the Fields and Woods (subdivided into two volumes)
- Raptors.

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.

NEWTON, Isaac.

La Méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies.

Paris, De Bure l'ainé, 1740.

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2500 €

First french edition.
Buffon's translation of Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series published a few years earlier. It is one of the last treatises on which Newton worked to explain the method of calculation used in his Principia. The fluxion method is the Newtonian solution of differential calculus problems. It is the counterpart of the method of infinitely small developed by Leibniz.
The fluxion method places Newton among the fathers of infinitesimal calculus.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal.

La Haye [Paris], Detune, 1779.

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2500 €

The first and sole ancient collective edition, partially original.

Published by Bossut, this edition is illustrated with a portrait and 14 plates.
Among the unpublished there are many "pensée", writings on Grace, the Treaty of vacuum and and extensive correspondence.
Volumes IV and V contain the scientific works.
We found the second printing of the describing of invention of the computing machine of Descartes (TIV, pages 7-30). The first edition, certainly printed by the author, is unobtainable (only two copies known).
Also of interest here is the reprint of Pascal's 1654 paper introducing his triangle of binominal coefficients (Pascal's Triangle), included in Volume V, pages 1-54. Pascal's invention "predated the concepts of computation of the values of polynomial functions by differences.".

Lebon, Philippe.

Thermolampes ou poêles qui chauffent; éclairent avec économie, et offrent, avec plusierus produits précieux, une force motrice applicable à toutes espèce de machines; inventés par Philippe Lebon, ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées.

Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801.

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2500 €

Philippe le Bon is the inventor of gas lighting and combustion engine, for which he placed patents in 1799 and 1801
In this rare booklet he explains these new concepts and he proposes to carry out public demonstrations of his inventions and launched a subscription in order to industrialize them.
The Hôtel Seigneley was equiped two month later with his Thermolamp for Gas lightling and heating.
Lebon died prematurely in 1804 has not had the time to develop his combustion engine and we have to wait more than 50 years until Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir realize the first combustion engine.

GREVILLE, Robert K.

Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or coloured figures and descriptions of cryptogamic plants, belonging chiefly to the order Fungi.

Edinburgh, Maclachlan & Stewart, 1823-1828.

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First edition illustrated with 360 plates engraved and finely colored by hand according to the author's drawings.
Each plate is accompanied by a descriptive text.
Each volume has its own title page and an index, the general index is at the end of volume VI.
Robert Kaye Greville (1794 –1866) was a British mycologist, phycologist and botanist. As accomplished artist, he shows his talents as an illustrator here with these hundreds of mushroom plates.

[VOLTA, Alessandro].

L'identita del fluido elettrico col cost detto fluido galvanico vittoriosamente dimostrata con nuove esperienze ed osservazioni. Memoria comunicata al Signore Pietro Configliachi Professore di Fisica sperimentale nell?Università di Pavia e da lui pubblicata con alcune note. Porta in fronte il ritratto di Volta e vi è aggiunto il Catalogo delle sue opere stampate sino a tutto l'anno 1813.

Pavia, G. Giovanni Capelli, 1814.

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2950 €

First edition on large paper.

This is Volta's latest memoir and his most important contribution to the famous controversy that occurred between the Galvanic and Voltaic theories of electricity. This memoir was submitted under the name of one of the students of Volta in 1805 during a competition organized by the "Società Italiana delle Scienze"; it was then "to explain with clarity and dignity, by offending anyone, the question of Galvanism, discussed by Giovanni Aldini (nephew of Galvani) and Alessandro Volta". No memory was rewarded at the end of this event. Nine years later, Pietro Configliachi, professor of physics and publisher of the "Giornale di fisica, chemica e storia naturale" pupil and then successor of Volta at the University of Pavia, was finally able to publish this work. The last 7 pages of this book present a detailed bibliography of Volta's works until 1813.
Beautiful rare and remarkable copy on large paper.

BOECE DE BOODT, Anselme.

Le Parfaict Joaillier, ou Histoire des pierreries ou sont amplement descrites leur naissance, de juste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facilitez medicinales, & propriectez curieuses.

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1644.

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3000 €

First french edition.
Milestone in mineralogy and gemmology.
Translation by Jean Bachou from the Latin edition of the "Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia" and enriched with annotations by André Toll.
All precious stones are studied there as well as the cutting and polishing processes. Boodt also describes the virtues of stones, medicinal and magical faculties.
Numerous woodcuts in the text.

DESCARTES, René.

Specimina Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptice, et Meteora.

Amsterdam, Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1644.

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3000 €

First latin edition of the Discours de la Méthode.

Milestone in the history of science which marked an epistemological rupture.
The Latin translation of the Discourse on the Method was first undertaken by Etienne de Courcelles but Descartes revised it, modified it and introduced variants compared to the French text of 1637. We find there for the first time the phrase (page 31) : "cogito, ergo sum".
The scientific texts following the Discourse are illustrated with numerous woods in the text.

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).

MARAT, Jean-Paul.

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences.

Londres et Paris, Jombert, 1780.

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3000 €

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

DESCARTES, René.

Le Monde de Mr Descartes ou le traité de la lumière et des autres principaux objets des sens.

Paris, Jacques Le Gras, 1664.

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3000 €

First edition.
Very rare copy with title page in unlisted condition in the name of Jacques Le Gras.

Descartes wrote this treatise in 1632 and 1633. He defended in particular the heliocentric system of Copernicus, but following Galileo's condemnation, he gave up publishing this work during his lifetime. It will not be finally published, according to his will, until after his death. At the end of 1663, the Le Gras and Clerselier family will dispute the privilege of publishing the posthumous works of Descartes. For the "World" it is Jacques Le Gras who will be the first to deposit the privilege. (cf. CARTESIAN BULLETIN V. (1976). Archives de Philosophie, 39 (3), 445–494) Jacques Le Gras, the holder of the privilege, then shared it with Thomas Girard (his brother-in-law) and Michel Bobin.

Our title page is unknown to Tchermerzine and Guibert as well as to Mathias Van Otegem who in his bibliography of the works of Descartes published in 2002, after consulting the copies in public libraries, describes only four states of the title page of this edition.
Our copy therefore presents a fifth state of the still unpublished title page.
Our title page has the same typographical mark as the Thomas Girad state (6 fleurons) canonically considered to adorn the true first edition. In addition, like the copy "Thomas Girad" from the Munich library (BSB: Rar. 4594) our title page is margined shorter than the rest of the book body and printed with the same characters, which suggests an impression at the same time.
The copies having a recomposed title page with a typographical mark "à l'oiseau" only coming, according to bibliographers, in a second step.

"In Le Monde, Descartes wants to ruin the concepts of scholasticism, and 'evacuate' Aristotle's physics, by giving a physical interpretation of the new heliocentric astronomy. As opposed to traditional finalism, he envisions, in the form of a "Fable", the mechanical formation of the cosmos, from an initial state of chaos (pieces of matter of various shapes and sizes agitated by all-out movements) and only by virtue of the general laws of nature: principle of inertia, laws of the communication of movement, etc ... "Robert Maggiori, Liberation, 26.

KEPLER, Johannes || BARTSCH, Jakob.

Tabulae Manuales Logarithmicae ad Calculum Astronomicum, in specie Tabb. Rudolphinarum compendiose tractandum mire utiles.

Strasbourg, Theodore Lerse, 1700.

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3000 €

Second and first obtainable edition.

In 1627, Kepler published his final work, the Tabulae Rudolphinae, an ephemeris of planetary motions of unprecedented accuracy. This feat was only possible thanks to the use of logarithmic tables, which allowed him to shorten the immense calculations necessary for the precision of these predictions.

The use of logarithmic calculation is thus at the heart of Kepler’s astronomical work. He discovered Napier’s work in 1617, but he preferred to construct his own tables using a new geometric approach. More accurate than those of his predecessor, Kepler’s tables were published in Mathematici chilias logarithmorum in 1624.

For the Tabulae Rudolphinae, Kepler modified his logarithmic tables by changing the intervals of tabulation..

After Kepler's death in 1630, his son-in-law Jacob Bartsch wanted to propose a portable and less expensive version of the logarithmic tables used for the calculations of the Tabulae, which had been published in folio format. Bartsch had them published in 16mo format, under the title Logarithmorum logisticorum (Sagan, 1631).

Our edition was given by the French mathematician Jean Caspar Eisenschmidt, who corresponded with Cassini in Strasbourg. In his introduction, Eisenschmidt explains that the print run of the original edition had been extremely limited due to financial problems. The rarity of copies of the Sagan edition, even at the time, necessitated a new edition.

A very fresh copy.

MILLIET DECHALES, Claude François.

Cursus seu Mundus Mathematicus.

Lyon, ex officina Anissoniana, 1674.

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3000 €

First edition of the most important work of Milliet Dechalles.
Complete Mathematics course, which also covers other topics sciences (mechanical, architecture, optics, perspective, astronomy, ..).
We usually meet the second edition published in 1690 in four volumes.
This first edition, complete in three volumes is quite rare.

SAVARY, Jacques.

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce.

Paris, Jean Guignard, 1675.

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3500 €

First edition.
A famous merchant born in 1622 in Doué (Anjou) from a noble family, Savary became a wealthy merchant and retired from business at the age of 36. He was chosen by Colbert to be one of the writers of the commercial code of 1673 which was called "Code Savary". He wrote in 1675 the "Perfect trader" which is the compilation of the knowledge he had gathered for the drafting of the ordinance. The legal solutions are clear, sensible, practical, honest. The book is a business bible whose importance Max Weber underlined. This work became a classic, reprinted many times and translated into German, English and Italian.

MACLAURIN, Colin.

Traité des fluxions.

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749.

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3500 €

First french edition.
Mathematical defense of Newton's work against the Berkeley attacks, Maclaurin also proposes there a particular use of the Taylor theorem which is since called Taylor-Maclaurin formula and the first test of convergence of an infinite series.

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All our Scientific books

KUPFFER, Adolf Theodor.

Travaux de la commission pour fixer les mesures et les poids de l'empire de Russie.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de.

Système des animaux sans vertèbres ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux.

LEGRAND, Louis.

Hôtel de Mademoiselle de MarsyHôtel de Mme Riensch de Osa.

NEWTON, Isaac.

La Méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies.

OZANAM, Jacques.

Récréations Mathématiques et Physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs Problêmes d'Arithmétique, de Géometrie, d'Optique, de Gnomonique, de Cosmographie, de Méchanique, de Pyrotechnique, & de Physique. Avec un Traité nouveau des Horloges Elémentaires.

Rare first edition and the first work on "Recreational Mathematics".

[BAILLET, Pierre], DESCARTES.

La vie de Monsieur Descartes.

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries. Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard.

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce.

First edition. Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

BECQUEREL, Antoine César.

Traité expérimental de l'électricité et du magnétisme, et de leurs rapports avec les phénomènes naturels.

Rare first edition of ono of the most important work of Becquerel.

GRIGNON, Pierre-Clément.

First edition of this important work for the metallurgy and the cristallography.

[Chambre syndicale des forces hydrauliques].

Album de la Chambre syndicale des forces hydrauliques.

JOBLOT, Louis.

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope.

Second edition.Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

LE FEBVRE, Nicolas.

Traicté de la Chymie.

AMPERE, André Marie || BABINET.

Exposé des nouvelles découvertes sur l’électricité et le magnétisme.

JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules.

Monographie géologique et paléontologique du Salève.

DES MURS, Oeillet.

Musée ornithologique illustré.

First edition.Impressive ornithological work with 345 color plates.The description of the birds is divided into 4 volumes:- Palmypedes- Shorebirds- The Birds of the Fields and Woods (subdivided into two volumes)- Raptors.

CLAIRAUT, Alexis.

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

NEWTON, Isaac.

La Méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies.

PASCAL, Blaise.

Oeuvres de Blaise Pascal.

Lebon, Philippe.

Thermolampes ou poêles qui chauffent; éclairent avec économie, et offrent, avec plusierus produits précieux, une force motrice applicable à toutes espèce de machines; inventés par Philippe Lebon, ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées.

GREVILLE, Robert K.

Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or coloured figures and descriptions of cryptogamic plants, belonging chiefly to the order Fungi.

[VOLTA, Alessandro].

BOECE DE BOODT, Anselme.

Le Parfaict Joaillier, ou Histoire des pierreries ou sont amplement descrites leur naissance, de juste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facilitez medicinales, & propriectez curieuses.

DESCARTES, René.

Specimina Philosophiae: Seu Dissertatio de Methodo Recte regendæ rationis, & veritatis in scientiis investigandæ: Dioptice, et Meteora.

DIONIS DU SEJOUR, Achille Pierre.

Traité analytique des mouvemens apparens des corps célestes.

MARAT, Jean-Paul.

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences.

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

DESCARTES, René.

Le Monde de Mr Descartes ou le traité de la lumière et des autres principaux objets des sens.

KEPLER, Johannes || BARTSCH, Jakob.

Tabulae Manuales Logarithmicae ad Calculum Astronomicum, in specie Tabb. Rudolphinarum compendiose tractandum mire utiles.

MILLIET DECHALES, Claude François.

Cursus seu Mundus Mathematicus.

SAVARY, Jacques.

Le Parfait Négociant ou instruction générale pour ce qui regarde le commerce.

MACLAURIN, Colin.

Traité des fluxions.

First french edition.Mathematical defense of Newton's work against the Berkeley attacks, Maclaurin also proposes there a particular use of the Taylor theorem which is since called Taylor-Maclaurin formula and the first test of convergence of an infinite series.

Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Marsy
Hôtel de Mme Riensch de Osa.

First edition. The best biography of Descartes, written by one of his contemporaries.

Rare in its contemporary morocco with arms on covers.

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

Second edition.
Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

First edition.

Impressive ornithological work with 345 color plates.

The description of the birds is divided into 4 volumes:

- Palmypedes
- Shorebirds
- The Birds of the Fields and Woods (subdivided into two volumes)
- Raptors.

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

First french edition.
Mathematical defense of Newton's work against the Berkeley attacks, Maclaurin also proposes there a particular use of the Taylor theorem which is since called Taylor-Maclaurin formula and the first test of convergence of an infinite series.