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Photo PLINE. 

PLINE. 

Histoire naturelle de Pline. Traduite en françois, avec le texte latin rétabli d'après les meilleures leçons manuscrites. 

Paris, Desaint, 1771.
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1200 €

New translation by Louis Poinsinet de Sivry (1733-1804).
"Pliny's Natural History is the Encyclopedia of the Ancients. It can be considered as the repository of all physical, astronomical, geographic, etc. knowledge of Antiquity; as the picture of all human industry or the arts, from the earliest times to the first century of our Era." (excerpt from the preface)

Beautiful complete set in period binding.

Photo GRAINDORGE, André || FORMI, Pierre || [BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph]. 

GRAINDORGE, André || FORMI, Pierre || [BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph]. 

Traités très rares concernant l'histoire naturelle et les Arts.
- Graindorge, Traité de l'origine des Macreuses, 1680
- Formi, Traité de l'Adianton ou cheveu de vénus, 1644. 

Paris, Saugrain & Lamy, 1780.
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500 €

Reissue of two rare texts by Buchoz to serve as an annual supplement to a naturalist journal (probably the "Journal of the Three Kingdoms of Nature"):
- Graindorge, Traité de l'origine des Macreuses, 1680.
In which the author returns to the The opinion still widespread in the seventeenth century of the spontaneous generation of scoters (or Scottish geese) from boat wrecks (or shells or as fruit of coastal trees). Grandorge demonstrates that scoters are born from eggs like all other birds.

- Formi, Treatise on the Adianton or hair of Venus, 1644
Work which brought great fame to its author in which he proposes the galenic and spagyric use of the Capillary (Fern of the genus Adiantum).

Photo DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques Terrestres et d'Eau Douce qui vivent en France. 

Paris, Victor Masson, 1847-1852.
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350 €

First edition.
Complete collection of six issues as published in which Abbé Dupuy describes a number of new species (and or subspecies) starting with the Pyrenees Nerite.
Dupuy's malacological collections which were used to write his history of molluscs are today kept at the Toulouse museum and were only completely inventoried in 2009.

Photo DE LA CROIX, Demetrius. 

DE LA CROIX, Demetrius. 

Le Mariage des fleurs, en vers latins. 

Paris, Drost ainé, 1798.
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150 €

Fourth edition.
Botany course in verse which addresses some cases of extraordinary plants, starting with the case of the Scythian lamb (or Tartary lamb, or Borametz).

Photo LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

Histoire naturelle des fourmis et recueil de memoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignées, les faucheurs et autres insectes. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1802.
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250 €

First edition.
Managing the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, Latreille is the first to describe new species from the Pacific in this monograph devoted to ants.

Photo KLEIN, Théodore. 

KLEIN, Théodore. 

Ordre Naturel des Oursins de Mer et Fossiles, avec des Observations sur les Piquans des Oursins de Mer, et quelques Remarques sur les Bélemnites. 

Paris, Cl. J. B. Bauche, 1754.
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900 €

First french edition.
One of the first monographs devoted to sea urchins.
Here the French translation by La Chesnaye des Bois from the original edition given in Latin.

Photo ADANSON, Michel. 

ADANSON, Michel. 

Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53. 

Paris, Claude Jean Baptiste Bauche, 1757.
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1750 €

First edition.
French naturalist, student of Réaumur and Jussieu, Michel Adanson was one of the rare Europeans to explore Senegal in the eighteenth century. Although his work was a commercial failure, it allowed him to enter the Academy of Sciences.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

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.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de. 

LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de. 

Flore française, ou Descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des principes élémentaires de la botanique. 

Paris, Desbay, 1815.
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500 €

Third edition.
This third edition was completely revised by the Swiss botanist Candolle in 1805. It was reprinted in 1815 with new title pages to accompany Volume V in the original edition. This latest volume includes 1300 species not described in the previous ones.

Photo SPARRMAN, Anders. 

SPARRMAN, Anders. 

Voyage au Cap de Bonne-Esperance, et Autour du Monde avec le Capitaine Cook, et Principalement dans le pays des Hottentots et des Caffres. 

Paris, Buisson, 1787.
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350 €

First french 8vo edition.
A student of Linnaeus, Sparrman (1748-1820) stayed in Cape Town and studied the flora and especially the fauna of the region. From Cape Town, he took part in James Cook's second voyage as a botanist's assistant and was thus one of two disciples of Linnaeus to have circumnavigated the world.

Photo LULLIN, Charles Jean-Marc. 

LULLIN, Charles Jean-Marc. 

Observations sur les bêtes à laine, faites dans les environs de Genève, pendant vingt ans. 

Genève, J.J. Paschoud, 1804.
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120 €

First edition.
Charles-Jean-Marc Lullin de Châteauvieux (1752-1833), is a Geneva agronomist.

Photo ROQUES, Joseph. 

ROQUES, Joseph. 

Plantes usuelles, indigènes et exotiques, dessinées et coloriées d'après nature, avec la description de leurs caractères distinctifs et de leurs propriétés médicales. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur (et Vve Hocquart), 1807-1808.
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5500 €

First edition.
Joseph Roques (1772-1850) is a botanist who remains famous for his beautiful illustrated editions of flora which will remain references in the 19th century.

Our copy is complete with 133 finely watercolor plates gathering hundred's of botanical subjects (we also have the errata leaves on volume II which is often missing).
The author tells us in his preliminary speech that the execution of the engravings "was entrusted to Artists of distinguished merit". The result is a delicacy of the illustrations which clearly stood out from the lot of botany textbooks of the time.

A magnificent work, but also scientifically rigorous.
Finding that most of the medical floras of the time flirted with charlatanism, Roques has here selected only plants whose medicinal properties have been proven during his practice of medicine in Montpellier and gives their precise use.
To reach both the general public and scientists, he gives for each of the plants the popular name, the scientific name as well as their positions in the classification systems of Linnaeus, Tournefort and Jussieu. It is thus one of the last floras using this triple classification, an unified system being imposed in the modern era.

Photo FONTES, Joseph. 

FONTES, Joseph. 

Réunion de 4 plaquettes sur l'hydrologie. 

Toulouse, s.n., [1886-1897].
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100 €

First editions.
Meeting of 4 brochures on the subject of hydrology:.

Photo PRICHARD, James Cowles. 

PRICHARD, James Cowles. 

Histoire naturelle de l'Homme. 

Paris, J-B Baillière, 1843.
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First french edition.
Translated from English by Roulin from the work The natural history of man (1843), popularization work by Prichard based on his Researches into the physical history of man.
Prichard concluded that all human races were part of the same species and originally shared the same black skin.

Complete with the 40 engravings announced (on 39 plates), most of them in color representing the different peoples of the world.

Photo MONNET, Antoine Grimoald. 

MONNET, Antoine Grimoald. 

Traité de l'exploitation des mines. 

Paris, Didot l'ainé, 1773.
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600 €

First edition.
Antoine Grimoald Monnet (1734-1817) is a French mineralogist, he was trained at the mining school of Freiberg, in Saxony, from where he brought back the material to compose his Treatise. In 1776 he became inspector general in the Royal Corps of Mines, for which he traveled to mines throughout France.

Photo CLARMORGAN, Jean. 

CLARMORGAN, Jean. 

La Chasse du Loup nécessaire à la maison rustique. 

Rouen, Jean Baptiste Besongne, 1685.
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450 €

The Wolf Hunt by Jean Carlmorgan was appended to the editions of the Rustic House of Liebaut. Our edition has its own title page and includes the 14 mid-page woodcuts from the sixteenth century editions. A highly sought-after work in the 19th century, it represented the "dark ages" of the French countryside.

Following it we find "La Fabrique de la Gauge ou Diapason" in (10) sheets, (last sheet truncated). Another typical annex of the Rustic House.

Photo LAPOSTOLLE, Alexandre-Ferdinand-Léonce. 

LAPOSTOLLE, Alexandre-Ferdinand-Léonce. 

Traité de la carie ou bled noir, dans lequel on prouve, par une suite d'expériences & par l'analyse chimique, que la chaux est le principal remède pour détruire cette maladie. 

Amiens, J. Bapt. Caron l'ainé, 1787.
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200 €

First edition.
A cryptogamic disease, Caries transforms the wheat grain into black dust (spores) unfit for consumption.
At the end of the 18th century, several learned chemists focused on the study of this disease.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Dictionnaire d'Agriculture avec un abrégé de médecine rurale et vétérinaire. 

s.l., s.n., 1786.
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800 €

Original manuscript.
The content seems to include a selection of articles from Abbé Rozier's Cours complet d'agriculture which was published in the form of a dictionary from 1781 to 1800.
Our dictionary stops at the article "Rhue des jardins" which will not appear than in 1789 in Volume VIII of the Cours de Rozier.
Our manuscript, whose writer is unknown, is dated 1786, when Rozier was then a professor at the Practical School of Agriculture in Lyon. This manuscript may therefore be a transcription of the course given by Rozier in Lyon before its publication.

Photo JOBLOT, Louis. 

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.

Photo HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

Expériences sur le Galvanisme et en général sur l'irritation des fibres musculaires et nerveuses. 

Paris, Didot Jeune Chez J.F. Fuchs, 1799.
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500 €

First edition in french.
French translation by Nicolas Jadelot of Humboldt's work on galvanism. Humboldt confirms Galvani's interpretation that animal electricity is irreducible to that of physicists. It contributes to the genesis of the idea that living beings can be described as galvanic organisms.

Photo ROUX, Augustin. 

ROUX, Augustin. 

Traité de la Culture et de la Plantation des Arbres à ouvrer, avec la manière d'Exploiter et Débiter & Echantillonner les Bois, suivant les différens usages ausquels ils sont propres pour les besoins de la vie. 

Paris, Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1750.
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150 €

First edition.
Species-by-species growing tips for planting and caring for timber.

Photo MANESSE, Denis Joseph (Abbé). 

MANESSE, Denis Joseph (Abbé). 

Traité sur la manière d'empailler et de conserver les animaux, les pelleteries et les laines. 

Paris, Guillot, 1787.
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300 €

First edition.

Photo [PERRAULT, Pierre]. 

[PERRAULT, Pierre]. 

De L'Origine des Fontaines. 

Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1678.
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350 €

Second edition.
Milestone for hydrology.
Perrault succeeded in proving scientifically for the first time that rainfall was sufficient to fuel the flow of rivers, and that rain came from the evaporation of rivers and seas.

Photo CUNY, Léon. 

CUNY, Léon. 

Cours d'arboriculture fruitière. 

Paris, Bureau de l'édition, 1929.
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150 €

First edition.
Arboriculture course given by Léon Cuny curator of the Luxembourg Gardens.
His courses were at the origin of the creation of the Association of Auditors of the Courts of Luxembourg whose aim was to popularize the methods of fruit growing which made the reputation of the gardeners of Luxembourg.

Copy n°22 on 100 exemplar on Alfa signed by the author.
Presentation copy.

Photo SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

De la Fonte des Mines, des Fonderies, &tc. 

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1764-1753.
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750 €

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).
The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

Photo DES MURS, Oeillet. 

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.

Photo PARMENTIER, Antoine Augustin. 

PARMENTIER, Antoine Augustin. 

I. Expériences et réflexions relatives à l’analyse du bled et des farines. Paris, Monory, 1776.
II. Traité de la châtaigne. Bastia, Monory, 1780.
III. Manière de faire le pain de pommes de terre, sans mélange de farine. Paris, 1779. 

Paris, Monory, 1776.
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2000 €

Three works by Parmentier, all in first edition, bound in one volume.

I. Expériences et réflexions relatives à l’analyse du bled et des farines. Paris, Monory, 1776. :
Written as a polemic work in which Parmentier defends himself from the attacks by B.G. Sage (see "Analyse des Blés". 1776), this book contains original experiments on the chemical composition of wheat and flour and is a pioneering work on this important subject

II. Traité de la châtaigne. Bastia, Monory, 1780.
First edition of one of the rarest treatises of Parmentier.
In his search for economical and nutritious foods for the people, Parmentier studies here
the chestnut, in which he was the first to have noted the presence of sugar.
III. Manière de faire le pain de pommes de terre, sans mélange de farine. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1779.
In 1778, Parmentier conducted experiments on potato breading with Cadet le Jeune and presented his discovery to the King.

Photo [AUBERT DE LA CHESNAY DES BOIS, François-Alexandre]. 

[AUBERT DE LA CHESNAY DES BOIS, François-Alexandre]. 

Systême naturel du règne animal, par classes, familles ou ordres, genres et espèces, avec une notice de tous les animaux. 

Paris, Cl.-J.-B. Bauche, 1754.
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450 €

First edition.
The Illustrated with portraits of Klein and Linné in frontispiece and 6 folding plates of zoology engraved by Maisonneuve.
This taxonomic treatise describes each species of quadrupeds, birds and amphibians according to the classification of Jacob Theodor Klein and that of Carl von Linné, the fishes according to that of Peter Artedi and finally the insects and worms according to Linné.

Photo [GENTIL, François]. 

[GENTIL, François]. 

Le Jardinier Solitaire ou dialogues entre un Curieux & un Jardinier solitaire contenant la methode de faire & de cultiver un Jardin fruitier & potager ; & plusieurs experiences nouvelles. 

Paris, Rigaud, 1705.
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150 €

Second edition with additional reflections on the cultivation of trees.

Photo [MOET, Jean-Pierre]. 

[MOET, Jean-Pierre]. 

Traité de la culture des renoncules, des oeillets, des auricules, et des tulipes. 

Paris, Saugrain, 1754.
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150 €

First edition.

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