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SICARD, Guillaume.

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux.

Paris, Delagrave, 1884.

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400 €

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da.

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux.

Paris, H. Fournier et Cie, 1844.

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600 €

First edition.
Third part alone of the four parts that appeared over a period of almost thirty years. The first part appeared in 1831, the last in 1858. The subject, on the border between natural history and philosophy, consists in applying a rigorous analogy between animal forms and human psychology. In the tradition of Lavater, Gall and the physiognomists, the physical configuration of the organ is revealing of personal dispositions. Da Gama Machado was a commander and gentleman of the Royal House of the King of Portugal; he lived surrounded by his birds, which he cherished.

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

BOGAERTS, Félix.

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

Anvers, J.- E. Buschmann, 1847.

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80 €

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

CAMUS, Armand Gaston.

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote.

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1783.

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350 €

First French translation of Aristotle's text.
The translation is given by Armand Gaston Camus with the Greek text opposite.
Aristotle here attempts to make a comprehensible classification of animals based on objective structural characteristics. The second volume is devoted to a critical apparatus of Aristotle's text.

STURM, Jacob.

Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung.

Nürnberg, Auf Rosten des Verfassers, 1826.

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400 €

First edition.
At the turn of the 18th century, Sturm had one of the largest private collections of insects. He published a catalogue in four parts from 1796 to 1843. Here is the third part devoted to beetles.
Presentation copy.

CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew.

300 animalcules infusoires, dessinés à l'aide du microscope.

Paris, Charles Chevalier, 1838.

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350 €

First edition.
Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

BON, François Xavier.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées.

Avignon, Franc. Girard, 1748.

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250 €

Latin-French edition.
François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Paris, 15 rue de l'école de médecine, 1903.

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60 €

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

GADEAU DE KERVILLE, Henri.

Les Jeux des Oiseaux.

Paris, Administration du journal, 1900.

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120 €

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.
In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

MAGNY, Gabriel.

Rats et Peste.

Paris, Bonvalot-Jouve, 1907.

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200 €

Edition by Bonvalot-Jouve of Gabriel Magny's medical thesis.
With the increase in international maritime traffic, the question arose of the spread of diseases, of which the plague is the most famous case, by rats running in ships. In 1903, an international conference on this question was held in Paris.
Magny proposed a method of fumigating ships with sulfur dioxide in order to eradicate the pests.
Presentation copy.

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

Ratisbonne, s.n., 1762.

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250 €

Second edition.
A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

LESSER, Friedrich Christian || LYONNET, Pierre.

Théologie des Insectes ou démonstration des perfections de Dieu dans tout ce qui concerne les Insectes.

La Haye, Jean Swart, 1742.

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150 €

First edition in French given by Pierre Lyonnet who also added two engravings to Lesser's editions in German.

DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel.

Quelques mémoires sur différens sujets.

Paris, A. Belin, 1813.

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400 €

Second edition.
Collection of several memoirs on geography and natural sciences published on the author's return from the United States.
One of the memoirs is devoted to the islands on the Hudson River and is decorated with a folding map of the mouth of the Hudson.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

Nismes, Gaude, 1763.

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450 €

First edition.
Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

BREZ, Jacques.

La Flore des insectophiles précédée d'un discours sue l'utilité des insectes et de l'étude de l'insectologie.

Utrecht, B. Wild et J. Altheer, 1791.

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60 €

First edition.

SUE, Jean-Joseph.

Essai sur la physiognomonie des corps vivans, considérée depuis l'homme jusqu'à la plante.

Paris, L'Auteur, 1797.

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90 €

First edition.
Jean Joseph Sue (1760-1830) Doctor and surgeon is the father of Eugène Sue.
Curious work which would be a manual of morphology intended for artists.

SAISSY, Jean-Antoine.

Recherches expérimentales, anatomiques, chimiques, etc. Sur la physique des animaux mammifères hybernans, notamment les marmottes, les loirs, etc.

Paris, H. Nicolle, 1808.

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150 €

First edition.
Saissy was a doctor of medicine in Paris and then became a major surgeon of the Royal Company of Africa where he practiced military medicine in Algeria. Back in Lyon, he was accepted into the College of Surgery in 1789 and then a doctor of medicine in Valence. He practiced the art of childbirth in Lyon and published in 1808 a study on hibernating animals which earned him a prize at the Institute. From 1810 onwards, he devoted himself to ear diseases.

Copy signed by the author.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Histoire des insectes nuisibles à l'Homme, aux bestiaux, à l'agriculture et au jardinage.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1784.

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120 €

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Méthodes sûres et faciles pour détruire les animaux nuisibles ; tels que : les ours, les sangliers, les loups, les renards, les loutres, les fouines, les belettes, les lapins, les loirs, les rats, les souris, les musaraignes, les taupes, les vipères.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1784.

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150 €

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Manuel cosmétique et odoriférant des plantes, ou traité de toutes les plantes qui peuvent servir d'ornement ; de fard et de parfums aux dames.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1800.

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100 €

Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

AMOREUX, Pierre-Joseph.

Notice des insectes de la France réputés venimeux.

Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789.

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120 €

First edition.
Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation, ou l'agriculture, et le jardinage dans leur perfection.

Bruxelles, Jean Leonard, 1715.

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400 €

New edition.
Abbot de Vallemont is well known for his curious works on occultism. These two volumes deal with all sorts of strange phenomena: the tree of Diana or metallic vegetation, the plant phoenix, palingenesis or the resurrection of plants from their ashes. Allegorical frontispieces and engraved figures.

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QUATREMER DISJONVAL, Denis-Bernard.

De l'Aranéologie, ou sur la découverte du rapport constant entre l'apparition ou la disparition, le travail ou le repos, le plus ou le moins d'étendue des toiles et des fils d'attaches des araignées des différentes espèces.

Paris, J.J. Fuchs, 1797.

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200 €

First edtion.
During his captivity, a prisoner in the Netherlands, he made curious observations on the work of the spider as an indicator of atmospheric variations.
Thus, he offers us chapters on Spiders compared to the Barometer, the Thermometer, the Hygrometer...

In 1794, he announced to Pichegru the infallible arrival of frosts that would soon solidify all the canals and marshes of Holland, which would earn him his release.

DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel.

L'Art de monter à cheval, qui monstre la belle & facille méthode de se rendre bon homme de cheval.

Paris, Jacques le Gras, 1664.

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600 €

Second edition enlarged by a second part from Samuel Fouquet to treat horse diseases.
The best edition of this classic treatise on horse riding.
The author was a squire in the grand stable of Louis XIV.

LA GUERINIERE, François ROBICHON (de).

École de Cavalerie. Contenant la connoissance, l'instruction et la conservation du cheval.

Paris, Par la compagnie, 1756.

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500 €

François Robichon de La Guérinière (1688-1751) is often considered the greatest French horseman of all time and the founder of modern horsemanship in France. He simplified the means of training horses and made modifications to their harnessing. His École de cavalerie published in 1731 is illustrated by Charles Parrocel.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Paris, Magimel, 1810.

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220 €

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas.

Histoire Naturelle Des Fraisiers.

Paris, Didot le jeune, 1766.

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950 €

First edition.
Monograph devoted to strawberries by Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747-1827) for which he proposes a genealogy of the different species. His name will remain attached to strawberries and the genus Duchesnea, plants of the Rosaceae family with a strawberry shape, was dedicated to him.

However, the cultivation and study of strawberries in Versailles also allowed him to document one of the first observations of mutation in plants giving a new species, the Versailles strawberry. In the second part of his work, he thus questions the formation of plant species, opposing Linnaeus's conception according to which new species are formed by hybridization and a slow drift from one species to another.

Duchesne thus observes the first evolutionary leap, a century before Darwin.

Our copy is enriched with two handwritten leaves of scholarly notes on strawberry species, inserted in the text.

BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph.

Nouveau manuel forestier à l'usage des agens forestiers de tous grades, des arpenteurs, des Gardes des bois impériaux et communaux, des préposés de la marine pour la recherche des bois propres aux constructions navales.

Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, 1808.

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600 €

First french edition.
French translation by Jacques-Joseph Baudrillart of the reference book by Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorf, a German forest specialist famous throughout Europe. The first volume contains a summary of the forest code, a general section on natural history, and the description of several hundred plant species found in forests and woods. In the second, there are chapters containing introductions to geometry, mechanics, and civil and naval construction. The tree to be felled is considered to provide parts useful for shipbuilding. It should be noted that the work comes three years after the defeat at Trafalgar, where the English had annihilated the French fleet.

Copy signed by the author.

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.

LATREILLE, Pierre André.

Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel.

Brive, Imprimerie de F. Bourdeaux, An 5 [1796].

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2000 €

First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

SICARD, Guillaume.

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux.

Second edition augmented.A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.Some ink annotations on the plates.

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da.

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux.

BOGAERTS, Félix.

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

First edition.Vignettes by Wittkamp.

CAMUS, Armand Gaston.

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote.

STURM, Jacob.

Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung.

First edition. At the turn of the 18th century, Sturm had one of the largest private collections of insects. He published a catalogue in four parts from 1796 to 1843. Here is the third part devoted to beetles.Presentation copy.

CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew.

300 animalcules infusoires, dessinés à l'aide du microscope.

First edition.Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

BON, François Xavier.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées.

Latin-French edition. François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

GADEAU DE KERVILLE, Henri.

Les Jeux des Oiseaux.

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

MAGNY, Gabriel.

Rats et Peste.

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

Second edition.A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

LESSER, Friedrich Christian || LYONNET, Pierre.

Théologie des Insectes ou démonstration des perfections de Dieu dans tout ce qui concerne les Insectes.

First edition in French given by Pierre Lyonnet who also added two engravings to Lesser's editions in German.

DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel.

Quelques mémoires sur différens sujets.

Second edition.Collection of several memoirs on geography and natural sciences published on the author's return from the United States.One of the memoirs is devoted to the islands on the Hudson River and is decorated with a folding map of the mouth of the Hudson.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

First edition.Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

BREZ, Jacques.

La Flore des insectophiles précédée d'un discours sue l'utilité des insectes et de l'étude de l'insectologie.

First edition.

SUE, Jean-Joseph.

Essai sur la physiognomonie des corps vivans, considérée depuis l'homme jusqu'à la plante.

First edition.Jean Joseph Sue (1760-1830) Doctor and surgeon is the father of Eugène Sue. Curious work which would be a manual of morphology intended for artists.

SAISSY, Jean-Antoine.

Recherches expérimentales, anatomiques, chimiques, etc. Sur la physique des animaux mammifères hybernans, notamment les marmottes, les loirs, etc.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Histoire des insectes nuisibles à l'Homme, aux bestiaux, à l'agriculture et au jardinage.

Third edition.Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Méthodes sûres et faciles pour détruire les animaux nuisibles ; tels que : les ours, les sangliers, les loups, les renards, les loutres, les fouines, les belettes, les lapins, les loirs, les rats, les souris, les musaraignes, les taupes, les vipères.

Third edition.Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Manuel cosmétique et odoriférant des plantes, ou traité de toutes les plantes qui peuvent servir d'ornement ; de fard et de parfums aux dames.

Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

AMOREUX, Pierre-Joseph.

Notice des insectes de la France réputés venimeux.

First edition.Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation, ou l'agriculture, et le jardinage dans leur perfection.

QUATREMER DISJONVAL, Denis-Bernard.

De l'Aranéologie, ou sur la découverte du rapport constant entre l'apparition ou la disparition, le travail ou le repos, le plus ou le moins d'étendue des toiles et des fils d'attaches des araignées des différentes espèces.

DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel.

L'Art de monter à cheval, qui monstre la belle & facille méthode de se rendre bon homme de cheval.

Second edition enlarged by a second part from Samuel Fouquet to treat horse diseases.The best edition of this classic treatise on horse riding. The author was a squire in the grand stable of Louis XIV.

LA GUERINIERE, François ROBICHON (de).

École de Cavalerie. Contenant la connoissance, l'instruction et la conservation du cheval.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Second edition.The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas.

Histoire Naturelle Des Fraisiers.

BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph.

Nouveau manuel forestier à l'usage des agens forestiers de tous grades, des arpenteurs, des Gardes des bois impériaux et communaux, des préposés de la marine pour la recherche des bois propres aux constructions navales.

GREVILLE, Robert K.

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

LATREILLE, Pierre André.

Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel.

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

First edition.
At the turn of the 18th century, Sturm had one of the largest private collections of insects. He published a catalogue in four parts from 1796 to 1843. Here is the third part devoted to beetles.
Presentation copy.

First edition.
Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

Latin-French edition.
François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.
In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

Second edition.
A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

Second edition.
Collection of several memoirs on geography and natural sciences published on the author's return from the United States.
One of the memoirs is devoted to the islands on the Hudson River and is decorated with a folding map of the mouth of the Hudson.

First edition.
Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

First edition.
Jean Joseph Sue (1760-1830) Doctor and surgeon is the father of Eugène Sue.
Curious work which would be a manual of morphology intended for artists.

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

Manuel cosmétique et odoriférant des plantes, ou traité de toutes les plantes qui peuvent servir d'ornement ; de fard et de parfums aux dames.

First edition.
Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

Second edition enlarged by a second part from Samuel Fouquet to treat horse diseases.
The best edition of this classic treatise on horse riding.
The author was a squire in the grand stable of Louis XIV.

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.