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COCTEAU, Jean.

Essai de critique indirecte.

Paris, Grasset, 1932.

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120 €

First collective edition, partly original, illustrated on the frontispiece with a black reproduction of a de Chirico painting from the author's collection.
Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 72 copies on vellum paper, ours n°55.

[SCATOLOGIE].

Le Dieu des vents ou les aventures d'Eole métamorphosé en P-t, ou le simplement le Dieu Pet.

La Haye, s.n., 1776.

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500 €

First edition.
Badinage in free verse and twenty-seven little songs.
An unusual work whose author will remain in the shadows, under the scatological aspect it seems to have been written as a snub to Marmontel's "Poetics". Marmontel, as our petomane recalls, declared that it is not necessary for a thing to be beautiful in nature for it to be beautiful in poetry and that coarseness or finesse lies in the treatment of the subject rather than in the subject itself. Marmontel, by instituting the "moral tale" and rejecting the comic, had given rise to a wave of "immoral tales" in which this God of the winds participates.

MAURIAC, François.

Trois récits.

Paris, Grasset, 1929.

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70 €

First joint edition of these three short stories by Mauriac: Un homme de lettres, Coups de couteau, Le Démon de la connaissance

Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 180 copies on Arches vellum, ours n°29.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

Paris, Nyon l'ainé, 1781.

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350 €

First french edition.
Fontana relates numerous experiments in which he injects venoms and poisons into animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, etc.). The majority of the work is devoted to a systematic study of viper venom but it also addresses plant poisons, such as Ticunas (probably Curare) reported on poisoned arrows from the Amazon. He is thus one of the first to approach toxicology experimentally.

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond.

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie.

Amsterdam, Zacharie Chatelain et fils, 1773.

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300 €

New edition.
Compilation of D'Alembert's text begun in the midst of the Encyclopédie crisis and during the years when its publication was banned. He constantly refers to it and publishes some of the articles there. D'Alembert also fuels, through these texts, the controversy with Rousseau on the status of Literature.

LEVASSEUR, Emile.

La France et ses colonies (géographie et statistique).

Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1890.

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150 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

LOUISY, Paul.

Le Livre et les arts qui s'y rattachent depuis les origines jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIème siècle.

Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1886.

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60 €

First edition.
Good copy.

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph].

Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science.

Paris, Lacombe, 1766.

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1250 €

First edition, state A.
The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.
It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

TOLET, François.

Traite de la Lithotomie ou l'Extraction de la Pierre hors de la vessie.

Paris, François H. Muguet, 1708.

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600 €

"Tolet, lithotomist at l'Hôpital de la Charité in Paris, first published this work in 1682. After many editions, this book remains as a classic contribution to the subject.[...] In Tolet's day lithotomy was one of the major and most dangerous of operations. Explicit directions are given for the operation in children as well as adults of both sexes. Particularly stressed is the need for careful restraint of the patient during surgery using strong assistants, straps, scarves, or cloths. The lesser and greater lateral perineal operations in men and women are described and illustrated. Among the many causes of the stone, the author named unleavened bread, waterfowl, curds, pap, old cheese, hard eggs, unripe fruits, the feet or legs of beef or pork, salted or spiced meats, and medicines which dehydrate the body. The plates depicted instruments, positioning of the patient, the use of the curved metal catheter, the making of the incision, and use of extracting clamps." (Heirs of Hippocrate).
The edition is illustrated with 18 plates drawn and engraved by Lalouette (instruments, operating positions, stones, etc.) and a portrait of Tolet by Maillet.
"François TOLLET (1647-1724) surgeon of King Louis XIV left a very didactic treatise on lithotomy. He helped to bring bladder size into a" regulated "surgery." (History of urology by the Association française d'urologie).

VERNE, Jules.

Le Volcan d'or.

Paris, Collection Hetzel, [v. 1906].

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400 €

First illustrated 8vo edition.
The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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.

LA POIX DE FREMINVILLE, Edme (de).

Instruction générale pour un régisseur d'une grande terre seigneuriale.

Paris, Gissey, 1760.

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300 €

First edition.
Uncommon brochure giving short instructions for the proper management of a domain. La Poix de Fréminville remained one of the most widely read jurists of his time until the Revolution.

HORN, J. Edouard.

La Liberté des banques.

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, [1866].

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200 €

First edition.
Work in favor of the liberalization of the right to print money which was (and will remain) the privilege of the Banque de France. The author, "free-banker" as they were called, defends that "There is no reason of principle or case law to exempt fiduciary issuance from common law, to outlaw it from industrial freedom." His book comes in response to the crisis of the Banque de Savoie, during which the Savoyard bank was deprived of the right to coin money after the annexation of the Duchy of Savoy by France.

[MIRABAUD, Jean-Baptiste].

Le Monde, son origine, et son antiquité. De l'âme et de son immortalité.

Londres [Paris], [Briasson], 1751.

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250 €

First edition.
Numerous pencil notes.

WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean.

Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens & embaumemens précipités.

Paris, Morel le jeune, 1742.

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First french edition published juste after the first latin edition.
The French translation is by Jacques Jean Bruhier who is sometimes credited as the sole author of the book.
Book that will terrify the whole of Europe at the idea that we could be buried still alive and which will come for some to give an explanation to the phenomena of vampirism.
More than that, the exposure of these intermediate cases between life and death opens the way to a new discipline of medicine.

BORDEU, Théophile de.

Recherches anatomiques sur la position des glandes et sur leur action.

Paris, G.F. Quillau, 1751.

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300 €

First edition.
A book on the origins of endocrinology.

PROUST, Marcel.

Oeuvres complètes.

Paris, NRF, 1929-1936.

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1200 €

First complete edition of the works of Marcel Proust.
This edition by the NRF was an opportunity to bring together all the works of Marcel and to propose a first revision of the text with the collaboration of Robert Proust. It is also this edition which fixes the so-called "canonical" volume number of the Recherche.
The first fifteen volumes are devoted to the "A la Recherche du temps perdu", then come "Pastiches et mélanges", "Les Plaisirs et les Jours" and "Chroniques".
Numbered copies on Bruges rag paper with sheaf watermark.
Beautiful decorative set.

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.

RENAN, Ernest.

Le Broyeur de lin.

Paris, L. Carteret et Cie, 1901.

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300 €

Edition illustrated with 27 etchings by Edmond Rudaux (1840-1908).
One of the thirty copies of the leading edition on Japan paper with the etchings in 3 states (pure etchings, before the letter and after the letter).
Our copy numbered 24.
The first part of Renan's childhood memories, the Broyeur de lin tells the love story between a girl and a priest, which has given rise to many exegeses.

[VOLTAIRE].

L'Homme aux quarante ecus.

[Genève], s.n., 1768.

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1750 €

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

Berlin, s.n., 1765.

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400 €

First edition.

[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.

KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von.

Psychopathia sexualis, Etude médico-légale à l'usage des médecins et des juristes.

Paris, Payot, 1931.

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100 €

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations.
This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume Benjamin.

Physiologie des mouvements démontrée a l'aide de l'expérimentation électrique et de l'observation clinique.

Paris, JB Baillière, 1867.

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250 €

First edition.

LUYS, Jules Bernard.

Etudes de physiologie et de pathologie cérébrales.

Paris, JB Baillière, 1874.

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250 €

First edition.
Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations".
Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.

BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).

Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophies sur les principes des êtres.

Paris, Saillant, 1769.

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200 €

First edition.

[MORELLET, André].

Le Manuel des Inquisiteurs à l'usage des inquisitions d'Espagne & de Portugal.

Lisbonne, s.n., 1762.

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500 €

First edition.
Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

CASSINI, Jacques.

Tables astronomiques, du Soleil, de la Lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et Saturne, avec l’explication & l’usage de ces mêmes tables.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1740.

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650 €

First edition.
Volume gathering 122 astronomical tables calculated at the meridian of the Royal Observatory of Paris. The tables are preceded by a user manual section in which Cassini explains how they were established and how they should be used. They will serve as references until the end of the 18th century.

JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob.

Mémoire sur l'élimination des noeuds dans le problème des trois corps.

Paris, Bachelier, 1844.

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350 €

First off-print publication of Jacobi's article on his approach to the three-body problem.

Jacobi's article is binded following two other memoirs on celestial mechanics, extracted from the Journal de Liouville:
CISA DE GRESY, Memoir on the problem of the disturbance of the planets, Bachelor, [1828]
LE DOULCET DE PONTECOULANT, Memoir on the part of the coefficients of the great inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn which depend on the square of the pertubating forces, Paris, Bachelier, [1829].

DUPUY, Léon.

Exposé de la méthode de Hansen pour le calcul des perturbations spéciales des petites planètes.

[Paris], [Baillière], [1874].

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150 €

First edition.
Article published in the Memoirs of the Physical and Natural Sciences Society of Bordeaux.TX on this fundamental problem of celestial mechanics which preoccupied mathematicians and astronomers at the end of the 19th century. Discussion on Hansen's method which is a perturbation theory approach to the three-body problem.

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COCTEAU, Jean.

Essai de critique indirecte.

First collective edition, partly original, illustrated on the frontispiece with a black reproduction of a de Chirico painting from the author's collection.Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 72 copies on vellum paper, ours n°55.

[SCATOLOGIE].

Le Dieu des vents ou les aventures d'Eole métamorphosé en P-t, ou le simplement le Dieu Pet.

MAURIAC, François.

Trois récits.

First joint edition of these three short stories by Mauriac: Un homme de lettres, Coups de couteau, Le Démon de la connaissanceEdition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 180 copies on Arches vellum, ours n°29.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond.

Mélanges de littérature, d'histoire et de philosophie.

LEVASSEUR, Emile.

La France et ses colonies (géographie et statistique).

First edition.Presentation copy.

LOUISY, Paul.

Le Livre et les arts qui s'y rattachent depuis les origines jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIème siècle.

First edition.Good copy.

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph].

Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science.

First edition, state A.The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

TOLET, François.

Traite de la Lithotomie ou l'Extraction de la Pierre hors de la vessie.

VERNE, Jules.

Le Volcan d'or.

First illustrated 8vo edition. The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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.

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

LA POIX DE FREMINVILLE, Edme (de).

Instruction générale pour un régisseur d'une grande terre seigneuriale.

First edition.Uncommon brochure giving short instructions for the proper management of a domain. La Poix de Fréminville remained one of the most widely read jurists of his time until the Revolution.

HORN, J. Edouard.

La Liberté des banques.

[MIRABAUD, Jean-Baptiste].

Le Monde, son origine, et son antiquité. De l'âme et de son immortalité.

First edition.Numerous pencil notes.

WINSLOW, Jacques Benigne || BRUHIER, Jacques Jean.

Dissertation sur l'incertitude des signes de la mort, et l'abus des enterremens & embaumemens précipités.

BORDEU, Théophile de.

Recherches anatomiques sur la position des glandes et sur leur action.

First edition.A book on the origins of endocrinology.

PROUST, Marcel.

Oeuvres complètes.

MANESSE, Denis Joseph (Abbé).

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

First edition.

RENAN, Ernest.

Le Broyeur de lin.

[VOLTAIRE].

L'Homme aux quarante ecus.

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata. Voltaire's only work on economics. Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

First edition.

[PERRAULT, Pierre].

De L'Origine des Fontaines.

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.

KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von.

Psychopathia sexualis, Etude médico-légale à l'usage des médecins et des juristes.

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations. This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume Benjamin.

Physiologie des mouvements démontrée a l'aide de l'expérimentation électrique et de l'observation clinique.

First edition.

LUYS, Jules Bernard.

Etudes de physiologie et de pathologie cérébrales.

First edition.Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations". Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.

BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).

Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophies sur les principes des êtres.

First edition.

[MORELLET, André].

Le Manuel des Inquisiteurs à l'usage des inquisitions d'Espagne & de Portugal.

First edition.Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

CASSINI, Jacques.

Tables astronomiques, du Soleil, de la Lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et Saturne, avec l’explication & l’usage de ces mêmes tables.

JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob.

Mémoire sur l'élimination des noeuds dans le problème des trois corps.

DUPUY, Léon.

Exposé de la méthode de Hansen pour le calcul des perturbations spéciales des petites planètes.

First collective edition, partly original, illustrated on the frontispiece with a black reproduction of a de Chirico painting from the author's collection.
Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 72 copies on vellum paper, ours n°55.

First joint edition of these three short stories by Mauriac: Un homme de lettres, Coups de couteau, Le Démon de la connaissance

Edition reimposed on paper in-4 Teillère, one of 180 copies on Arches vellum, ours n°29.

First edition.
Presentation copy.

First edition.
Good copy.

First edition, state A.
The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.
It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

First illustrated 8vo edition.
The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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

First edition.
Uncommon brochure giving short instructions for the proper management of a domain. La Poix de Fréminville remained one of the most widely read jurists of his time until the Revolution.

First edition.
Numerous pencil notes.

First edition.
A book on the origins of endocrinology.

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

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.

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations.
This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

First edition.
Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations".
Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.

First edition.
Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.