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Photo VERLAINE, Paul. 

VERLAINE, Paul. 

Choix de Poésies. 

Paris, Fasquelle, 1928.
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800 €

Beautiful copy of this famous industrial binding produced between 1933 and 1955 by Joseph Taupin, under the pseudonym Jotau. The boards and the back are molded in a mass-dyed resin, close to bakelite, pollopas. Flats and backs are articulated by a rod. This particularly brittle resin was quickly abandoned and few copies reach us without damage, as is the case with the book we are offering.

Photo CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste. 

CHARCOT, Jean-Baptiste. 

Contribution à l’étude de l’atrophie musculaire progressive type Duchenne–Aran. 

Paris, Progrés Médical & Félix Alcan, 1895.
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500 €

First edition.
Publication by Félix Alcan of Jean-Baptiste Charcot's thesis (thesis defended on June 5, 1895) on Duchenne myotopathy. He left medicine shortly after to devote himself to exploration.

Photo GUAITA, Stanislas (de). 

GUAITA, Stanislas (de). 

La Muse Noire. 

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1883.
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600 €

First edition.
Presentation copy signed by the author dedicated to Auguste Vacquerie.

Stanislas de Guaïta was one of the most important occultists of the end of the 19th century, co-founder with Papus and Joséphin Péladan of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix. The Black Muse is his second collection of poems, exploring the themes of mysticism, death and love in a complex and dense poetic style.

Photo VILLEMOT, Philippe. 

VILLEMOT, Philippe. 

Nouveau système ou nouvelle explication du mouvement des planètes. 

Lyon, Louis Declaustre, 1707.
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900 €

First edition.
Villemot Philippe (1651 - 1713), priest and astronomer, was a member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles Lettres and Arts of Lyon. Here he proposes an improvement of Descartes' system of vortices by proposing in particular explanations for variations in the Earth's axis and the mechanics of tides.
At the end of his preface Villemot declares that he was not able to read Newton's work on gravitation before writing his book: "So I do not believe that we see anything here that is common to me and this clever Englishman; except one of his Theorems, which I recognized with pleasure to be only a corollary of my Principle".

Book written in French with juxta-linear Latin translation.

Photo POLINIERE, Pierre. 

POLINIERE, Pierre. 

Expériences de Physique. 

Paris, Jean de Laulne, 1709.
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950 €

First edition.
Pierre Polinière is considered the founder of experimental physics in France. After studying mathematics with Pierre Varignon (1654 – 1722), Polinière opened a physics course at the college of Harcourt, it was one of the first public courses given in Paris. His public demonstration sessions were very successful and did much to disseminate the scientific method of experimental research. His experiments were very popular and, among the spectators, we found all of Paris, and even the young Louis XV in 1722.
In 1706 during an experiment before the Academy of Sciences, Polinière discovered electroluminescence. This discovery is contemporary but independent of that of Hauksbee in London.
The protocol of the experiment is described here in the chapter “Phosphorus through Movement”.

Photo LOWER, Richard. 

LOWER, Richard. 

Traité du coeur, du mouvement et de la couleur du sang. 

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1679.
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1500 €

First edition in french.
This treatise on the heart is the most important since Harvey's work. Lower describes the mechanisms of the heart and respiration, and reports his experiments with transfusion.

Complete copy of the 7 required plates.

Photo RAMEAU, Jean. 

RAMEAU, Jean. 

Poèmes Fantasques. 

Paris, Ed. Monnier et Cie, 1883.
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320 €

First edition.
illustrated by Ary Gambard.
One of 400 copies on laid paper signed by the editor, ours n°248.

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 [HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

[HOET, Gérard] || [PICART, Bernard] || [HONDT, Pieter de] || [SAURIN, Pierre] ||. 

Figures de la Bible. Taferelen der voornaamste Geschiedenissen van het oude en nieuwe testament. 

La Haye, Pieter de Hondt, 1728.
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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful illustrations of the Bible in the eighteenth century.
This remarkable iconograph of the Bible in which Gérard Hoet and Bernard Picart mainly participated includes 214 full-page plates (29 double-page), the legend of which is written in Hebrew, English, German, Latin, French and Dutch.
The two frontispieces are captioned in French, the rest of the text is written in Dutch. Each chapter ends with a beautiful engraved cul-de-lampe.
This set of prints was first started by Picart in 1720 with the assistance of the Dutch painter Gérard Hoet, for what would undoubtedly become the pinnacle of the "Figures of the Bible". The Figures of the Bible are collections of engravings, which represent or signify Scripture through cycles of prints covering the entire Bible, a single Testament, or even a single biblical book. It is a genre that became popular with printing in the sixteenth century.
Pierre de Hondt, recovers the engravings of Picart, who with his multilingual legends already had a desire for European distribution, to accompany texts by Pierre Saurin (cf. Brunet). Everything is newly decorated with typographic ornaments.

Beautiful copy of Talleyrand at Chateau de Valençay with his ex libris in each volume.

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 MARINER, William || MARTIN, John. 

MARINER, William || MARTIN, John. 

Histoire des naturels des îles Tonga ou des Amis, situées dans l'océan Pacifique, depuis leur découverte par le capitaine Cook. 

Paris, Gide fils, 1817.
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400 €

First french edition.
Embarked as a cabin boy on the Port au Prince which trades between America and the Pacific Islands. Mariner landed in 1806 at Lifuka, Tonga. Attacked by local populations, most of the crew lost their lives. William Mariner was, however, taken in by the future king of Tonga: Finau Ulukalala. An ethnologist before his time, he learned their language and was interested in their customs. Adopted by Finau to replace his deceased son, William Mariner took the name Toki'Ukamea as well as several wives who gave him twelve children in four years. Back in England his testimony remains one of the main sources of knowledge of the pre-Christian society of Tonga.

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 BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

BARRAUD, Pierre-Constant. 

Recherches sur les coqs des églises. 

Paris, Derache, 1850.
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450 €

First edition.
Pierre-Constant Barraud (1801-1874) is an archaeologist and titular canon of the diocese of Beauvais. He signed several studies on church furniture. In this booklet he recalls that the symbol of the rooster has been used since primitive Christianity.

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 NECKER, Jacques. 

NECKER, Jacques. 

Compte rendu au Roi par M. Necker Directeur général des Finances Au mois de janvier 1781. 

Paris, Imprimerie du cabinet du roi, 1781.
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1000 €

First edition.
This first edition was not put on the market but distributed to a privileged few before the publication of the work by the Imprimerie royale. It contains two watercolor folding maps showing the divisions of tax and drafts on French territory and a folded table of Income and expenses carried to the Royal Treasury. The “Report to the King” is one of the “economic bestsellers” of the Ancien Régime. (The printings of the Imprimerie royale were distributed to the public in some forty thousand copies). It remains a source of primary importance for the financial and fiscal history of France. In this famous plea for transparency in public finances, Jacques Necker (1734-1802), Minister of Finance to Louis XVI from 1776 to 1781, details the functioning of royal finances, the principles of its administration and the financial situation of the country. But the author also reveals the lists of pensions paid by the State to certain members of the nobility, with the names of their beneficiaries and their amounts. The scandal that followed the publication of the work led the minister to resign on May 19, 1781.


Bound with the followin pieces :
- Les Comment, ou Abrégé des objections faites contre le compte rendu par M. Necker en forme de questions, En France, 1781
ii-16 pages.
- Mémoire donné au roi par Monsieur Necker en 1778, En France, 1781
32 pages.

Photo [JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

[JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

Théorie de la guerre. 

Lausanne, Aux dépens de la Société, 1777.
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500 €

First edition.
Inventor of the term "strategy", it is with the Theory of War (1777) that Maizeroy completed his work of theorization, because although History is much less present there, it is a manual intended for instruction of young officers on elementary tactics and major tactics.
In this work he states that the use of thin or deep order is a choice belonging to the general and thus gives more flexibility to systems on the battlefield.
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Photo NAKOULA EL-TURK || DESGRANGES, Antoine Jérôme. 

NAKOULA EL-TURK || DESGRANGES, Antoine Jérôme. 

Histoire de l'expédition des Français en Égypte. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1839.
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600 €

First edition.
Work printed in French and Arabic, reproducing the Nakoula manuscript and its translation into French by Desgranges ainé Niqula Nicolas Yusuf al-Turk (1763-1828) was a scholar, historian and poet at the court of Emir Bashir Shihab II. He was born in Dayr al-Qamar (in present-day Lebanon) and accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt. He wrote an account of it, which was reproduced and translated here into French by Desgranges for the first time.

Photo DESCARTES, René. 

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.

Photo DEIDIER, (Abbé). 

DEIDIER, (Abbé). 

La Mesure des surfaces et des solides, par l'arithmétique des infinis et les centres de gravité. 

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1740.
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750 €

First edition.
Work which is inspired by Wallis' method of measuring surfaces by the arithmetic of infinities which has the advantage according to Deidier of using simple algebra. Deidier found the algebra of integral calculus too abstract. Deidier's works ensured him a distinguished place among the mathematicians of his time.
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Photo BERANGER, Pierre-Jean. 

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean. 

Chansons de P-J de Béranger. 

Paris, Perrotin, 1831.
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300 €

Set containing the two volumes of Songs, as well as the "New and Last Songs...dedicated to Lucien Bonaparte" (1833, Perrotin) and the Supplement (Brussels, 1830) which contains political songs and saucy songs. It is certainly this supplement that pushed a collector of the time to hide these licenses from prying eyes behind a cathedral binding bearing the title "Parishioner".

Photo CERVANTES, Michel. 

CERVANTES, Michel. 

Histoire de l'Admirable Don Quichotte de la manche. 

Amsterdam, Arkstée & Merkus, 1768.
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3500 €

One of the best editions of the 18th century.
Edition highly esteemed by Ruis, who in his bibliography devoted to the works of Cervantes tells us:
"The publishers proposed to make an edition which would surpass the previous ones, and it is fair to admit that they succeeded, because the clarity and finesse characters, very careful printing, excellent paper, and exquisite taste which, overall, are things which each alone and together make this edition one of the most beautiful that has been printed in France in 18th century. The correction of the text is also careful, purging it of several errors accumulated in previous editions. It is also highlighted by the very beautiful plates, which in terms of engraving are the best that have been published until then, and are a faithful transcription of Coypel's drawings." (Ruis, Bibliografía crítica de las obras de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 1895) .
Complete iconographic set with the 32 engravings (numbered from I to XXXII), the portrait of the author and the six title vignettes, all engraved by Folkema and Fokke after Coypel.
To the six volumes of Don Quixote is attached, in uniform binding, the two volumes of Short Stories published the same year by the same publisher.
Our copy with very large margins bound by one of the masters of nineteenth-century bookbinding.

Photo SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.). 

SOULAGES, Gabriel || CARLEGLE (ill.). 

Des riens. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1926.
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450 €

Edition illustrated by Carlègle.
Gabriel Soulages is a French author of novels, stories and light collections. In his romantic work, inspired by a pleasant eroticism, he demonstrated an in-depth Greek and Latin culture.

One of 37 copies on Japon, ours n°18 accompanied by two original watercolors signed by Carlègle.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

Photo FLAUBERT, Gustave. 

FLAUBERT, Gustave. 

Madame Bovary. 

Paris, Editions Mornay, 1930.
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350 €

Edition illustrated by Christian Jacques Boullaire.

One of the 60 copies on Japan paper, ours n°62.

Editions Mornay was a French publishing house founded in 1919 by Georges and Antoinette Mornay. The company was particularly known for its exquisitely designed and illustrated books, which featured the work of some of the leading illustrators of the time.

Photo [RELIURE A FERMOIRS]. 

[RELIURE A FERMOIRS]. 

Missel Romain. 

Limoges, Eugène Ardant, [v.1900].
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200 €
Photo [GRUEL]. 

[GRUEL]. 

Paroissien romain d'après les imprimés français du XVème siècle. 

Paris, Gruel Engelmann, 1858.
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300 €
Photo [REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 

[REIBEHAND, Christophe]. 

Le Filet d'Ariadne : pour entrer avec seureté dans le labyrinthe de la philosophie hermétique. 

Paris, Laurent D'Houry, 1695.
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2000 €

First edition in french.
Unusual work of alchemy of which bibliographers do not agree on the identity of the author.
For some [Dorbon, Caillet, Lenglet Dufresnoy] it is the German author Christophe Reibehand whose work was originally published in Latin in 1636.
For others [Brunet, Duveen, Ferguson] it is Gaston Le Doux (or Duclos or Claves).
Some figures on wood in the text illustrate the equipment of an alchemical laboratory.
If no bibliographer mentions the presence of a plate, certain rare copies have a folding table classically giving the correspondence between the alchemical symbols and the compounds used. This board is missing here.

Photo PLUCHE, Noël Antoine. 

PLUCHE, Noël Antoine. 

Histoire du ciel considéré selon les idées des poètes, des philosophes et de Moïse. 

Paris, Veuve Estienne, 1739.
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300 €

First edition.
The chapters on the Egyptian cosmogony are particularly searched.

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