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Photo DUTENS, Louis. 

DUTENS, Louis. 

Des Pierres précieuses et des Pierres fines, avec les moyens de les connoitre & de les évaluer. 

Paris, F.A. Didot, 1776.
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800 €

First edition.
In the first part Dutens explains his system of classification whereby the finest and most durable of gemstones are dubbed "oriental" while those of lesser quality and hardness receive the title of "occidental," thus perpetuating in a highly popular and widely distributed work these unfortunate and misleading terms that persisted in use well into the last century. Some generalities on gemstones also appear here as curious lore, origin of gemstones, and other topics, followed by separate chapters on the major gemstones beginning with diamond. The latter chapter records recent experiments in France and elsewhere on the combustibility of diamond, one such experiment he personally observed. The second part describes lesser gemstones, mainly massive types, used mostly in cabochons or in the manufacture of small to large ornamental articles or decorations.

Photo LINNE, Charles. 

LINNE, Charles. 

Species Plantarum, exhibentes plantas rite cognitas ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specifiis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digesta. 

Vienne, Joannis Thomæ de Tarttner, 1764.
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500 €

Third edition.
Book in which Linnaeus applies his system of classification of plants according to their flowers, it is thus more than 8000 plants that he renames according to his binomial principle.

Photo DARWIN, Charles. 

DARWIN, Charles. 

La Descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle. 

Paris, Reinwald, 1873.
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150 €

Second edition in French.
This book is Darwin's second major work on the theory of evolution and follows "On the Origin of Species" published in 1859. In it, he describes the application of his theory to human evolution and clarifies the theory of sexual selection.

Photo BARREIRA, Isidoro de. 

BARREIRA, Isidoro de. 

Tratado das significaçoens das plantas, flores e frutos. 

Lisbonne, Manoel Lopes Ferreyra, 1698.
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300 €

Second edition.
Rare Portuguese treatise on the symbolism of plants in sacred and secular writings.

Photo MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert. 

MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert. 

De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus. 

Francfort, Andreae Wecheli, 1584.
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500 €

Edition published same year as the first edition in Venice.
Pioneering work on knowledge on poisons.
Some period handwritten annotations in the margins.

Photo SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio. 

SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio. 

Vipera Pythia id est, De Viperae Natura, Veneno, Medicina, Demonstrationes, et Experimenta nova. 

Padoue, Pauli Frambotti, 1651.
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800 €

Second edition.
Marco Auelio Severino (1580-1656) was a prominent Italian anatomist and surgeon. In 1610, he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery in Naples. His work, "Vipera Pythia," deals with venomous snakes, their anatomy, venom, and medicinal properties and virtues. It provides extensive information on the mythology, superstitions, and occult traditions surrounding snakes.

Many of the engravings, mostly full-page, depict mythological images as well as pagan deities, symbols, and idols associated with snakes.

Photo JAUME SAINT HILAIRE, Jean Henri. 

JAUME SAINT HILAIRE, Jean Henri. 

Plantes de la France décrites et peintes d'après nature. 

Paris, Chez l'Auteur, 1808-1809.
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4000 €

First edition, first print of the plates.
Arranged in alphabetical order, each plant is described by a text sheet accompanied by a color plate.
Beautiful complete set of 400 plates printed in color from the drawings of Jaume Saint Hilaire and engraved in dotted lines by Dubreuil and Veron.
Our collation is consistent with that given by Stafleu in his bibliography, the same announcement that this publication was limited to a print run of 400 copies.

Photo DARWIN, Erasmus. 

DARWIN, Erasmus. 

Zoonomie, ou lois de la vie organique. 

Gand, P. F. de Goesin-Verhaeghe, 1807-1811.
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1300 €

First french edition.
Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was a British physician, poet, and naturalist.
In Zoonomy, he proposed a classification of diseases based on the excitability of fibers, a physiological theory of the time.
The work also discussed early ideas about the evolution of species, suggesting that all living things might have descended from a common ancestor, anticipating some of the theories that his grandson would later develop, including that of sexual selection.

Darwin's work is preceded by "l'Analyse raisonnée de la Zoonomie de Darwin" published in 1807.

Photo LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

De la nature, vertu, et utilité des plantes. 

Paris, Rollin Baragnes, 1628.
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700 €

First edition.
Guy de La Brosse was Louis XIII's regular physician and founder of the Jardin du Roi (ancestor of the Jardin des Plantes). The last part, entitled "Dessein d'un Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales", presents the project for the future Jardin des Plantes.
While the author remains famous for having successfully completed this project, he is also known for having been one of the first French Paracelsians. This work, one of the first great French botanical treatises, detailing the medicinal virtues of plants, their classification and their therapeutic use, is very much inspired by Bacon and Paracelsus. The book illustrates in a very clear way one of the schools of thought of the nascent revolution, that of Paracelsianism.

Photo BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé). 

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé). 

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie. 

Nismes, Gaude, 1763.
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350 €

First edition.
Reference work on silkworm breeding.
Bound later by the same author, we find: De la culture des muriers, Nismes, Gaude, 1763. 128-8 pages.

Photo LA QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste. 

LA QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste. 

Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers, et des réflexions sur l'agriculture. 

Paris, Cavelier, 1739.
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900 €

New revised and corrected edition.
A famous French gardener of the 17th century, Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie was known for having been the director of the fruit and vegetable gardens of King Louis XIV. His work is a complete treatise on the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, as well as on the layout of gardens.
He was very influential in his time and helped to popularize modern gardening techniques, particularly on methods of forcing vegetables and pruning fruit trees.
Very complete copy of the plan of the royal vegetable garden and the plates outside the text on tree pruning.

Photo ADANSON, Michel. 

ADANSON, Michel. 

Familles des plantes. 

Paris, Vincent, 1763.
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1500 €

First edition of this important botanical treatise.
Michel Adanson was the first to analyze and explain the theoretical foundations of natural classification and, what is even more important, to define the practical method to be used to seek this classification.

In this work, Adanson proclaims his contempt for "systems" and proposes a natural classification based on all the characters and not on a few characters chosen arbitrarily, which puts him in conflict with Linnaeus.

Photo REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de). 

REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de). 

Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes espèces. 

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1751.
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350 €

Second edition, greatly expanded.
This work brings together Réaumur's work on birds based on his observations. He sets out practical ways to produce a large quantity of chickens at low cost, a very expensive commodity at the time. He suggests building artificial incubators for incubating eggs and brooders to replace mother hens.

Photo SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel. 

SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel. 

Tables synoptiques de l'histoire naturelle, pharmaceutique et médicale. 

Paris, Librairie médicale de Crochard, 1833.
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450 €

Second edition.
Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel de Smyttère (1800-1886) was a French physician, botanist and historian. His work, inspired by the classifications of Candolle, offers classification tables where medicinal properties are highlighted.
"I conceived the project of demonstrating, through application, the link that unites natural history to therapeutics" (extract from the preface).

Photo [VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas]. 

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas]. 

Cours de Minéralogie. 

[Dijon], s.n., An 9 [1800].
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500 €

Handwritten course on Mineralogy.
A note at the end of the document tells us that the course was taken under dictation by Vallot in the year 9. At that date Jacques-Nicolas Vallot (1771-1860) was a professor of natural sciences at the central school of Dijon. A naturalist, he touched on all sorts of subjects: botany, zoology, mineralogy, antiquities...
Vallot reviews the different minerals and gives their main characteristics: jasper, chalcedony, gold, petroleum, carbonates, etc.

Photo FRÉDOL, Alfred. 

FRÉDOL, Alfred. 

Le Monde de la Mer. 

Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1865.
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50 €

Second edition.
Richly illustrated work that explores the wonders of the marine world. It includes 21 color steel plates and 200 woodcuts drawn by P. Lackerbauer. The author invites us to discover marine fauna and flora, as well as oceanic phenomena, through detailed descriptions and captivating illustrations.

Photo ALIX, Eugène || CUYER, Édouard. 

ALIX, Eugène || CUYER, Édouard. 

Le Cheval. 

Paris, J-B Baillière, 1886.
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2000 €

First edition.
A sought-after work for its beautiful anatomical system plates produced by Edouard Cuyer, painter and teacher at the Beaux-Arts.
Plate VI is placed as it should be in a portfolio at the end of the atlas accompanied by all its accessories. This original plate allows, with the help of a small articulated horse, to visualize the different gaits (walk, trot, kick, etc.).

Photo DODART, Denis. 

DODART, Denis. 

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1679.
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950 €

Second edition.
Presentation copy to John Ray (Raïus latinized form).
A founding work of botanical science in France.
This second edition only includes the first part of the original edition, entitled Projet de l'Histoire des plantes. Denis Dodart sets out the framework for one of the great designs of the young Royal Academy of Sciences: the creation of a History of Plants, an exhaustive catalogue of plant species.
At the same time, in 1674, the British naturalist John Ray (1607-1725) complained to the scientific community about having to consult and combine a multitude of publications for a simple study, calling for a catalogue of all known plants. These Memoirs constitute the first step, the master plan in a way, and the work is today considered the founding work of botanical science in France.

Photo VAILLANT, Sébastien. 

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.

Photo D'AZARA, Félix. 

D'AZARA, Félix. 

Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay. 

Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801.
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1000 €

First edition.
Work published by Moreau de Saint-Mery based on a manuscript sent by Félix D'Azara's brother, without his consent.
Félix de Azara (1742-1821) arrived in America to participate in the demarcation of the colonial border between the Spanish and Portuguese empires. An engineer, cartographer and soldier, he traveled for twenty years in this southern America (current Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil). The quality of Félix de Azara's historical, natural and ethnological descriptions made his writings an essential source for those interested - from Humboldt to d'Orbigny, from Von Martius to Bonpland - in the natural and civil history of this continent.

Photo DARWIN, Charles. 

DARWIN, Charles. 

De l'Origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés. 

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1862.
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1750 €

First edition in French.
This first French translation, of one of the most important books in modern science, was controversial as soon as it was published. Indeed, translator Clémence Royer (1830-1902, philosopher and scientist) added a preface and numerous footnotes in which she gave her interpretation of the text and commented on it.

Photo BÜCHNER, Louis. 

BÜCHNER, Louis. 

La Vie psychique des bêtes. 

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1881.
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50 €

First french edition.

Photo GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. 

Paris, Durand, 1762.
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800 €

First editon.
This book was a great success in the field of Natural Sciences as soon as it was published.
Étienne-Louis Geoffroy (1725-1810, French pharmacist and entomologist) introduced a new classification of insects based on the study of wings and established six different groups (beetles, hemiptera, mealy-winged tetraptera, bare-winged tetraptera, diptera and aptera).

Photo BULLIARD, Pierre. 

BULLIARD, Pierre. 

Flora Parisiensis ou descriptions et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris avec les différens noms, classes, ordres et genres qui leur conviennent, rangés selon la méthode sexuelle de Linné. 

Paris, Didot jeune, 1776-1783.
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9500 €

First and only edition of this classic herbal of plants from Paris, illustrated with 642 engraved hand-colored plates.
A complete copy with the "introduction" of 32 pages and 2 plates, the "table françoise" (52 pages xith the errate and the Linneaus system) and the "nouvelle table" of 16 pages.

"Pierre Bulliard, was another picturesque outsider whose works represented the Linnaean tradition in Paris. Bulliard was a descriptive naturalist, little given to theoretical or methodological meditations, but an industrious and skilled draftsman and floristic botanist" (Stafleu).

Photo SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian. 

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian. 

Piscium Bavarico-Ratisbonensium Pentas. Cum tabulis IV. aeri incisis icones coloribus suis distinctas exhibentibus. 

Paris, Derache, 1761.
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200 €

First edition.
Copy which has preserved the four beautiful folding plates with their period colors.

Photo SICARD, Guillaume. 

SICARD, Guillaume. 

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux. 

Paris, Delagrave, 1884.
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400 €

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

Photo GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux. 

Paris, H. Fournier et Cie, 1844.
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600 €

First edition.
Third part alone of the four parts that appeared over a period of almost thirty years. The first part appeared in 1831, the last in 1858. The subject, on the border between natural history and philosophy, consists in applying a rigorous analogy between animal forms and human psychology. In the tradition of Lavater, Gall and the physiognomists, the physical configuration of the organ is revealing of personal dispositions. Da Gama Machado was a commander and gentleman of the Royal House of the King of Portugal; he lived surrounded by his birds, which he cherished.

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

Photo BOGAERTS, Félix. 

BOGAERTS, Félix. 

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours. 

Anvers, J.- E. Buschmann, 1847.
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80 €

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

Photo CAMUS, Armand Gaston. 

CAMUS, Armand Gaston. 

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote. 

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1783.
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350 €

First French translation of Aristotle's text.
The translation is given by Armand Gaston Camus with the Greek text opposite.
Aristotle here attempts to make a comprehensible classification of animals based on objective structural characteristics. The second volume is devoted to a critical apparatus of Aristotle's text.

Photo STURM, Jacob. 

STURM, Jacob. 

Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung. 

Nürnberg, Auf Rosten des Verfassers, 1826.
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First edition.
At the turn of the 18th century, Sturm had one of the largest private collections of insects. He published a catalogue in four parts from 1796 to 1843. Here is the third part devoted to beetles.
Presentation copy.

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