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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 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 [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.

Photo HAMELIN, Gabriel. 

HAMELIN, Gabriel. 

Physica. 

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].
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Original manuscript.
Physics course given in Caen around 1730.
The manuscript is embellished with printed engravings and hand drawings.
The writer is Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

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 ROUSSEAU, Abbé. 

ROUSSEAU, Abbé. 

Secrets et remèdes éprouvez dont les préparations ont été faites au Louvre. 

Paris, Jean Jombert, 1697.
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400 €

First edition.
Work published posthumously by Rousseau de la Grangerouze, the brother of Abbot Rousseau, who was a Capuchin monk at the Louvre alongside Abbot Tranquille.
It contains the recipes for Baume Tranquille (a powerful sleeping pill based on Henbane, Poppy and Nightshade) and Rousseau's Laudanum, which made the reputation of the Capuchins of the Louvre.
Here he reveals the secret.
Note the experiment noted by Dorbon, which consisted of killing a toad by looking at it... an experiment that once almost turned out to be unfavorable for the abbot, a toad with a glowing red gaze having left him in a state of weakness for several days.

Photo ARAGON, Louis. 

ARAGON, Louis. 

Le Front rouge. 

s.l., s.n., n°1 juillet 1931.
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2500 €

First edition of the poem Le Front Rouge.
Following the publication of Aragon's poem "Red Front" in the first issue of the journal "La Littérature de la Révolution mondiale", the government prosecuted the poet for provocation to assassination. Aragon in this poem indeed called for "getting down the cops" and "sweeping the Elysée". The copies of the magazine were therefore seized and destroyed by the courts.
The surrealists immediately took to the defense of their comrade and published a series of pamphlets and leaflets. André Breton notably defends the total freedom of poetry. However, Aragon did not recognize himself in Breton's texts and announced his break with the surrealist movement in March 1932. An important episode in French literary history during which each of the actors of the surrealist movement was able to express their position on the place poetry in society.
Rare copy of this magazine having escaped judicial seizure, absent from most collections devoted to surrealism.

André Vasseur, scholar and great collector of literary journals, has here supplemented the copy of the journal with 8 other pieces (brochures and leaflets) published by surrealist circles about this affair. On a page bringing together bibliographical notes in his hand, he notices that most collections of this type do not have number 1 of "La Littérature de la Révolution mondiale"

1- Le Surréalisme son autonomie, L'Affaire Aragon
(10 pages, extract).

3- BRETON, Misère de la poésie, l'Affaire Aragon devant l'opinion publique, Paris,éditions surréalistes, 1932
31 pages.
4- L'Affaire Aragon, [v. 1932]
(4) pages.

5- La Poésie Transfigurée, 30 janvier 1932.
(4) pages.

6- Protestation, Bruxelles 2 mars 1932
(1) page.

7- Paul ELUARD, Certificat,
(1) page.

8- Paillasse! (Fin de "L'Affaire Aragon"), mars 1932
12 pages.

9- Autour d'un poème, 5 avril 1932
4 pages.

Photo [COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

[COMITE NATIONAL DES ECRIVAINS] MALHERBE, Henry || CLAUDEL, Paul || ARAGON, Louis. 

Un Village de France. 

Paris, La Bibliothèque française, [1945].
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350 €

First edition.
Presentation copy signed by Aragon to Jacques Faizant.
The National Writers' Committee is an organ of the literary resistance, an emanation of the National Writers' Front, close to the French Communist Party.
Led by Aragon, the committee brings together many great French authors.
This publication in the aftermath of the war aims, through the example of an “ordinary” French village, at the abuses committed by the Nazis. Thus, Plomion in Aisne, where on August 31, 1944 fourteen inhabitants aged 16 to 72 were shot by the SS.
The photos of the victims are accompanied by a text by Henry Malherbe and a poem by Paul Claudel. Amusing send-off from one of the most fervent communist writers to the one who was on the front page of Le Figaro for decades.

Photo BRETON, André. 

BRETON, André. 

Les Manifestes du surréalisme avec le supplément des manifestes. 

Paris, Editions du Sagittaire, 1955.
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1000 €

New augmented edition of the surrealist manifestos by André Breton.
Documents and numerous photographic illustrations by Man Ray, Denise Bellon, Dora Maar, Stieglitz, etc. Model by Pierre Faucheux.
One of 300 copies numbered and signed by André Breton, ours n°97.

Complete with its magnifying glass held by a ribbon and embedded in the last leaves as well as the rare supplement containing the 6 "original butterflies of Surrealism" (in a numbered envelope with the heading of the Sagittaire editions).

Photo MAYA, Tristan. 

MAYA, Tristan. 

Morceaux choisis suivis des Poèmes à Ré. 

Paris, Vent debout, 1948.
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200 €

First edition.
Tristan Maya is the ghost name of Jean Maton (1926-2000), French writer, poet, novelist, literary critic and bookseller in Orléans. The work is published by “Vent Debout”, a literary and artistic review published in occupied Germany, but with its headquarters in Mattaincourt (Vosges).
Presentation copy.
One of 200 numbered copies, ours n°17.

Photo JACOB, Max. 

JACOB, Max. 

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou. 

St Benoit sur Loire, s.n., 1er juin 1927.
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350 €

Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

Photo PAULHAN, Jean. 

PAULHAN, Jean. 

Clef de la Poésie. 

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1944.
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350 €

First edition.
Work by the very influential editor-in-chief of the NRF in which he proposes "to finally identify some method or key, which will allow us to separate the true from the false".

Pasted on the guard is a handwritten letter signed by Jean Paulhan addressed to Aimé Blanc-Dufour.
Aimé Blanc-Dufour had signed an article "Reflections on Jean Paulhan and rhetoric" in September 1946 in Cahiers du sud, Jean Paulhan responded to it on his relationship to rhetoric.
“Secret society, no doubt. And I believe, in this sense also, that Rhéto holds a secret, touching the relationships between language and thought…”.

Photo [COLLECTIF]. 

[COLLECTIF]. 

La Révolution d'abord et toujours !. 

s.l., s.n., 1925.
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250 €

First edition.

Photo ELUARD, Paul. 

ELUARD, Paul. 

Poésie et Vérité 1942. 

Neuchatel, Editions de la Baconnière, 1943.
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450 €

Second edition.
One of the numbered copies on Vélin (ours n°771).
"Freedom" Eluard's most famous poem, written during the Second World War in reaction to the German occupation:
"On the sand, on the snow
I write your name…"
Presentation copy to Aimé Blanc signed by Eluard.

Photo DALI, Salvador. 

DALI, Salvador. 

La Vie secrète de Salvador Dali. 

Paris, La Table Ronde, 1952.
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900 €

First french edition.

Signed by Dali to Pierre Lhoste (1913-1984) radio journalist and great autograph collector.

Photo GARCIA LORCA, Federico || ELUARD, Paul. 

GARCIA LORCA, Federico || ELUARD, Paul. 

Ode à Salvador Dali. 

Paris, GLM, 1927.
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800 €

First french edition.
Presentation copy signed by Paul Eluard and Louis Parrot.

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