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LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie (de).

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'inoculation de la petite vérole.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1768.

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200 €

Memoirs read at the Royal Academy of Sciences, in 1754, 1758 & 1765. After a career as an explorer and scientist, La Condamine devoted the latter part of his life to campaigning for inoculation against smallpox (or variolation), a disease which had contaminated him as a child.

PATISSIER, Philibert.

Manuel des eaux minérales de la France à l'usage des médecins et des malades qui les fréquentent.

Paris, Mequignon-Marvis, 1818.

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100 €

First edition.
Philibert Patissier, a French doctor, published several important works on mineral waters.

RICHERAND, Anthelme.

Histoire des progrès récens de la chirurgie.

Paris, Bechet Jeune, 1825.

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120 €

First edition.
It should be noted that the author does not spare Desault, who is nevertheless considered the founder of the 19th century surgical school: "Desault spread his errors on the deluded crowd; deplorable errors which have outlived their author and of which we ourselves have been the dupe and the echo for too long" (p.66).

RAYER, Pierre François Olive.

Histoire de l'épidémie de suette-miliaire, qui a régné, en 1821, dans les départemens de l'Oise et de Seine-et-Oise.

Paris, Haillière, 1822.

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350 €

First edition.
A French physician and dermatologist, Rayer is known above all for his work in anatomo-pathology and physiology.
A complete copy with the maps of the Oise.

GAVARD, Hyacinthe.

Traité complet d'ostéologie rédigé d'après les leçons de Desault.

Paris, Méquignon, 1805.

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150 €

Third edition.
Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

GAVARD, Hyacinthe.

Traité de Splanchnologie, suivant la méthode de Desault.

Paris, Mequignon, 1809.

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100 €

Third edition corrected.
Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

BRACHET, Jean-Louis.

Traité complet de l'hypochondrie.

Paris, J.B. Baillière, 1844.

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150 €

First edition.

RAMBOSSON, Jean.

Phénomènes nerveux, intellectuels et moraux, leur transmission par contagion.

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1883.

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150 €

First edition.
"In this work, we present the law of transmission and transformation of expressive movement. This law shows how a cerebral movement can be transmitted to other brains, without being distorted [...] It thus demonstrates the remote propagation of nervous disorders and phenomena: yawning, laughter, various tics, epileptiform phenomena, etc...." (extract).
Rambosson continues here his work begun with a memoir presented on June 8, 1880 to the Academy of Medicine under the title "The Remote Propagation of Disorders".
Few pencil notes in margins.

OLLIVIER, Charles-Prosper.

Traité de la moelle épinière et de ses maladies, contenant l'histoire anatomique, physiologique et pathologique de ce centre nerveux chez l'homme.

Paris, Crevot, 1827.

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600 €

Second edition, corrected and augmented of 400 pages.
Pioneering study of the anatomy, physiology and pathology of the spinal cord. In it he describes what is probably the first case of a disease now known as multiple sclerosis.
He is also credited with coining the term syringomyelia which appears here in this second edition for the first time on p. 178.

CHOPART, François.

Traité des maladies des voies urinaires.

Paris, Chez L'auteur, 1791-1792.

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300 €

First edition.
Treatise filled with very detailed clinical observations is very didactic. François Auguste Chopart (1743-1795) formed with Pierre Joseph Desault and the Englishman John Hunter a trio of friendly doctors who participated in the knowledge of the urinary system.

LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas.

Traité des sens.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1742.

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500 €

Second edition.
Reprint of the first edition (Rouen, 1740).
Claude-Nicolas Le Cat (1700-1768) a surgeon specializing in the operation of bladder stones remains famous for his work on the senses. Mechanistic doctor for whom sensations are the result of the body acting on the body (the soul therefore does not come into play), his main contribution remains on the understanding of the functioning of vision.

LE DRAN, Henry François.

Traité des opérations de chirurgie.

Paris, Charles Osmont, 1742.

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250 €

First edition.
Henri François Le Dran (1685-1770) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and surgeon for the king. He improved the operation of lithotomy.

BICHAT, Xavier.

Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort.

Paris, Brosson, 1802.

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120 €

Second edition.
There we find the famous definition: "life is the set of functions that resist death.".

LE GOUAS, Francois Maurice Victor.

Nouveaux Principes de Chirurgie, rédigés suivant le plan de l'ouvrage de G. De Lafaye.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1817.

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80 €

Third edition augmented.

ALLEN, John.

Synopsis universae medicinae practicae: sive doctissimorum virorum de morbis eorumque causis ac remediis Judicia: Accesserunt nunc demum casus nonnulli oppido rari.

Francfort et Leipzig, D. Knochi et Jo Georg. Eslinger, 1749.

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120 €

First edition.
John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.

DEIDIER, Antoine.

Anatomie raisonnée du corps humain, où l'on donne la manière de le disséquer, & où l'on explique les fonctions de l'Économie animale par les seules loix de la circulation, conformément aux Instituts de Médecine.

Paris, D'Houry, 1742.

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150 €

First edition.
Antoine Deidier (1670-1746) was professor of medicine at the Faculty of Montpellier.

COINDET, Jean Francois.

Mémoire sur L'Hydrencéphale ou Céphalite Interne Hydrencéphalique.

Paris, JJ Paschoud, 1817.

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120 €

First edition.
Jean-François Coindet (1774-1834) was a Swiss physician and researcher.
Bound to the following:
SENN, Anatomical-pathological research on acute meningitis in children, Paris, Gabon, 1825 xvi-149-(1) pages.

CAZALAS, Louis.

Maladies de l'armée d'Orient (campagne de 1854-55-56) : statistique médicale de l'Hôpital de l'École Militaire à Constantinople.

Paris, JB Baillière, 1860.

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150 €

First edition.
Louis Cazalas (1813-1884), Military doctor, his career took him to Algeria, Egypt and Constantinople. He ended his career as a medical inspector general. He is the author of several works on military medicine.

Presentation copy.

bound with the following :
CHARMEIL, Recherches sur les métastases, Metz, Antoine, 1821. (8)-xix-387-(3) pages.

BOMPARD, Alexis.

Traité des maladies des voies digestives et de leurs annexes, suivi de tableaux des substances vénéneuses.

Paris, Gabon, 1829.

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80 €

First edition.

NALDI, Mathieu.

Aphorismorum Hippocratis explanatio.

Rome, Ignatii de Lazaris, 1657.

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350 €

First edition of this commentaries by Mathieu Naldi.
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates were considered until the 19th century as a "bible" of medicine
Matthew Naldi (or matteo / or Naldius), a seventeenth-century physician, born in Siena, became famous for his knowledge of oriental languages, which was used here to serve the Greek aphorisms of Hippocrates.

He taught for some time in Pisa with great brilliance, and became physician to Pope Alexander VII. This high dignity did not prevent him from giving courses in Rome, where he contributed greatly to the flourishing of the University. He died in 1682, at a very advanced age.

Copy in a tinted parchment binding, unusual for the time, probably of Italian manufacture.

[BINET, Benjamin].

Idée générale de la théologie payenne, servant de réfutation au système de M. Bekker touchant l'existence et l'opération des démons, ou Traité historique des dieux du paganisme.

Amsterdam, Jean du Fresne, 1699.

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300 €

First edition.
This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.
Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)].

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction.

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1759.

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350 €

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel.

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité.

Paris, Lacombe, 1767.

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180 €

First edition.
Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Anatomie des vaisseaux absorbans du corps humain.

Paris, Froullé, 1787.

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170 €

First french edition.
This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

[Poitiers], Catineau, 1806.

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350 €

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

Paris, Tiger, [1818].

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150 €

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

GONDRET, Louis François.

Mémoire concernant les effets de la pression atmosphérique sur le corps humain, et l'application de la ventouse dans différens ordres de la maladie.

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1819.

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300 €

First edition.
Gondret presents among the first explanations of the effect of altitude (altitude sickness) on human physiology. He is the first to describe in this work what we know today as the hyperbaric chamber in order to treat people suffering from acute altitude sickness.
The rest of the volume is exclusively devoted to the study of the influence of simple and scarified suction cups.

Two other works bound together:
- GONDRET, Considerations on the use of fire in medicine, 1819. xvi-94 pages. Second edition.

- HACHETTE || MONGE , Précis des leçons sur le calorique et l'électricité, Paris, A l'Ecole de Sciences et de Belles-Lettres, 1805.
viii-80 pages. First edition.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

Leiden & Amsterdam, Verbeek & Lakeman, 1727.

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1500 €

First illustrated edition and first edition in french (firs ed. in latin in 1723).
33 plates by J. Wandelaar, each with explanation text.
It is to Sébastien Vaillant that we must attribute the decisive role of having identified the sexual organs of plants and having recognized their importance in taxonomy. It is thanks to Vaillant's work that Linnaeus proposed his classification of plants.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

Etudes sur l'hélice aérienne faites au laboratoire d'Auteuil.

Paris, Librairie aéronautique, [1921].

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1200 €

First edition.
Last book published by Gustave Eiffel on his aeronautical research.

"It is the whole of the results which is presented in the current work where I have recast my old works with the new ones, eliminating what seemed to me to be the least interesting and even correcting some of the results relating to the powers and efficiencies that I had given on the aerial propellers, according to the first tests of the Auteuil Laboratory" (extract from the foreword).

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

Paris, Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel, 1911.

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70 €

Rare offprint of an article by Gustave Eiffel written for the Hommage à Louis Olivier.
This choral book was written on the occasion of the death of Louis Frédéric Olivier (1854-1910), a scientist passionate about technical, scientific and cultural progress.
Beautiful full-margin printing on laid paper.

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LA CONDAMINE, Charles Marie (de).

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de l'inoculation de la petite vérole.

Memoirs read at the Royal Academy of Sciences, in 1754, 1758 & 1765. After a career as an explorer and scientist, La Condamine devoted the latter part of his life to campaigning for inoculation against smallpox (or variolation), a disease which had contaminated him as a child.

PATISSIER, Philibert.

Manuel des eaux minérales de la France à l'usage des médecins et des malades qui les fréquentent.

First edition.Philibert Patissier, a French doctor, published several important works on mineral waters.

RICHERAND, Anthelme.

Histoire des progrès récens de la chirurgie.

RAYER, Pierre François Olive.

Histoire de l'épidémie de suette-miliaire, qui a régné, en 1821, dans les départemens de l'Oise et de Seine-et-Oise.

First edition.A French physician and dermatologist, Rayer is known above all for his work in anatomo-pathology and physiology. A complete copy with the maps of the Oise.

GAVARD, Hyacinthe.

Traité complet d'ostéologie rédigé d'après les leçons de Desault.

Third edition.Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

GAVARD, Hyacinthe.

Traité de Splanchnologie, suivant la méthode de Desault.

Third edition corrected.Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

BRACHET, Jean-Louis.

Traité complet de l'hypochondrie.

First edition.

RAMBOSSON, Jean.

Phénomènes nerveux, intellectuels et moraux, leur transmission par contagion.

OLLIVIER, Charles-Prosper.

Traité de la moelle épinière et de ses maladies, contenant l'histoire anatomique, physiologique et pathologique de ce centre nerveux chez l'homme.

CHOPART, François.

Traité des maladies des voies urinaires.

First edition.Treatise filled with very detailed clinical observations is very didactic. François Auguste Chopart (1743-1795) formed with Pierre Joseph Desault and the Englishman John Hunter a trio of friendly doctors who participated in the knowledge of the urinary system.

LE CAT, Claude-Nicolas.

Traité des sens.

LE DRAN, Henry François.

Traité des opérations de chirurgie.

First edition.Henri François Le Dran (1685-1770) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and surgeon for the king. He improved the operation of lithotomy.

BICHAT, Xavier.

Recherches physiologiques sur la vie et la mort.

Second edition.There we find the famous definition: "life is the set of functions that resist death.".

LE GOUAS, Francois Maurice Victor.

Nouveaux Principes de Chirurgie, rédigés suivant le plan de l'ouvrage de G. De Lafaye.

Third edition augmented.

ALLEN, John.

Synopsis universae medicinae practicae: sive doctissimorum virorum de morbis eorumque causis ac remediis Judicia: Accesserunt nunc demum casus nonnulli oppido rari.

First edition.John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.

DEIDIER, Antoine.

Anatomie raisonnée du corps humain, où l'on donne la manière de le disséquer, & où l'on explique les fonctions de l'Économie animale par les seules loix de la circulation, conformément aux Instituts de Médecine.

First edition.Antoine Deidier (1670-1746) was professor of medicine at the Faculty of Montpellier.

COINDET, Jean Francois.

Mémoire sur L'Hydrencéphale ou Céphalite Interne Hydrencéphalique.

First edition.Jean-François Coindet (1774-1834) was a Swiss physician and researcher.Bound to the following: SENN, Anatomical-pathological research on acute meningitis in children, Paris, Gabon, 1825 xvi-149-(1) pages.

CAZALAS, Louis.

Maladies de l'armée d'Orient (campagne de 1854-55-56) : statistique médicale de l'Hôpital de l'École Militaire à Constantinople.

BOMPARD, Alexis.

Traité des maladies des voies digestives et de leurs annexes, suivi de tableaux des substances vénéneuses.

First edition.

NALDI, Mathieu.

Aphorismorum Hippocratis explanatio.

[BINET, Benjamin].

Idée générale de la théologie payenne, servant de réfutation au système de M. Bekker touchant l'existence et l'opération des démons, ou Traité historique des dieux du paganisme.

First edition.This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)].

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction.

First edition.Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel.

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité.

First edition.Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Anatomie des vaisseaux absorbans du corps humain.

First french edition.This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

First edition.The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying. The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

First edition.The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

GONDRET, Louis François.

Mémoire concernant les effets de la pression atmosphérique sur le corps humain, et l'application de la ventouse dans différens ordres de la maladie.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

Etudes sur l'hélice aérienne faites au laboratoire d'Auteuil.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

First edition.
Philibert Patissier, a French doctor, published several important works on mineral waters.

First edition.
A French physician and dermatologist, Rayer is known above all for his work in anatomo-pathology and physiology.
A complete copy with the maps of the Oise.

Third edition.
Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

Third edition corrected.
Hyacinthe Gavard (1753-1802) anatomist, wrote the series of lectures given by Desault, one of the first professors of Surgery in Paris.

First edition.
Treatise filled with very detailed clinical observations is very didactic. François Auguste Chopart (1743-1795) formed with Pierre Joseph Desault and the Englishman John Hunter a trio of friendly doctors who participated in the knowledge of the urinary system.

First edition.
Henri François Le Dran (1685-1770) was chief surgeon at the Charité in Paris and surgeon for the king. He improved the operation of lithotomy.

Second edition.
There we find the famous definition: "life is the set of functions that resist death.".

First edition.
John Allen, or John Alleyn (1660? – 1741), was an English physician and inventor, mainly remembered for writing medical text books.

First edition.
Antoine Deidier (1670-1746) was professor of medicine at the Faculty of Montpellier.

First edition.
Jean-François Coindet (1774-1834) was a Swiss physician and researcher.
Bound to the following:
SENN, Anatomical-pathological research on acute meningitis in children, Paris, Gabon, 1825 xvi-149-(1) pages.

First edition.
This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.
Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

First edition.
Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

First french edition.
This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.