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[CUISIN, J.P.R.]. L'Ecole du chasseur, suivie d'un traité sur l'oisellerie, la pêche, et les nouveaux fusils de chasse à piston, sans pierre, à poudre, à système, à poudre fulminante; avec la manière de s'en servir. 

Paris, Lécrivain, 1822.

First edition.

In addition to a treatise on hunting, the book presents in a second part two major innovations from the beginning of the 19th century in armory: the percussion hammer and the cartridge.
Inventions attributed to Pauly and Prélat.

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LAUNAY, Louis de. Le Grand Ampère d'après des documents inédits. 

Paris, Perrin et Cie, 1925.

First edition.
Biography of André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) by Louis de Launay who worked on the correspondence of the famous scientist.

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GALOIS, Evariste. Oeuvres mathématiques d'Evariste Galois publiées sous les auspices de la société mathématique de France avec une introduction par Emile Picard. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, reprint de l'édition de 1897.

Undated reprint from the 1897 edition.
Died in a duel at the age of twenty Evariste Galois is one of the most brilliant French mathematician who remains famous for his theory of ambiguity.

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[MANUSCRIT] VINCENS, Ernest. Journal de Voyage dans les fonderies d'Alsace et de Belgique. 

s.l., s.n., 1883.

Study trip notes in the steelworks of Alsace and Belgium.
Ernest Vincens, who took these notes probably during a trip made for his studies (railway engineer?), First stayed in Alsace where he visited in particular the De Dietrich factories then in Belgium where he visited the factories of the Cockerill firm.

In this report, he mainly notes the foundry processes, numerous examples of parts (from the railway sector).

The text is enriched with numerous drawings and plans in the text as well as 12 pieces pasted on the text files: plans drawn on tracing paper, smears of steel pieces, prospectus.

An interesting dive into the world of the steel industry at the end of the 19th century.

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PLENCK, Joseph Jacob. Elementa terminologiae botanicae ac systematis sexualis plantarum. 

Vienne, A. Blumaeur, 1796.

First edition.
It was in his capacity as professor of chemistry and botany at the Military Academy of Medicine and Surgery in Vienna that Plenk (or Plenck) wrote this classification of botany based on the Linnaeus system.

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DUMAS, Jean Baptiste. Mémoires de Chimie [suivi de] Essai de statique chimique des êtres organisés. 

Paris, Béchet, 1843.

First edition.
The name of Jean Baptiste Dumas (1800-1884) has been somewhat forgotten, he is nevertheless at the origin of many discoveries in organic chemistry and biology which will earn him to appear among the seventy-two scientists present on the Eiffel Tower.
While still a student, he demonstrated with Prévost the fertilizing role of spermatozoa. He then devoted himself to organic chemistry and precisely determined the composition of air, water and carbon dioxide (he was particularly interested in the atomic weight of carbon), he discovered amines, he established the substitution theory, he defined the alcohol function and gave the composition of ethers .... and he will be interested in the chemical composition of milk.

"The papers which I have assembled in this volume, and which I offer with confidence to friends of science, contain numerous experiments, carried on for several years on various questions of general chemistry and natural philosophy." (preface)



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DUMAS and BOUSSINGAULT, Chemical static test of organized beings, Paris, Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1844

Among the first works devoted to the biochemistry of plants which prepare the chemical revolutions of agriculture.

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DILLAYE, Frédéric. Les Nouveautés photographiques année 1894. 

Paris, La Librairie illustrée, [1894].

First edition.
2nd annual supplement to Dillaye's book published in 1891: theory, practice and art in photography. Photography developed and democratized so quickly at the end of the nineteenth century that Dillaye published annual supplements containing the novelties of the year.

The eight inset photographs are the winners of a competition distributed in the Journal des voyages to its readers.

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BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, François. Methodus foliorum, seu plantae florae Monspeliensis, juxta foliorum ordinem, ad juvandam specierum cognitionem, digestae. Methode pour connoître les plantes par les feüilles. 

La Haye, s.n., 1751.

First edition.
Boissier de Sauvages (1706-1767) offers with this book both a key to the identification of plants by the leaves and a proposal for botanical classification using the shape of the leaves.
A letter to Linnaeus serving as a preface sets out the principle, more convenient than the Linnaean method based on flowers and fruiting.
The two botanists will maintain a long correspondence and a pupil of Linné will even come to do his thesis in Montpellier on the local flora.

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LAICHARDING, Johann Nepomuk von. Manuale Botanicum sistens plantarum europaearum characteres generum specierum differentias nec non earum loca natalia. 

Lipsiae, Barthium, 1794.

First edition.
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting is an Austrian entomologist who leaves his botanical name to the Potentilla anglica laichard (described in this book).

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MONCKHOVEN, Désiré van. Traité général de photographie suivi d'un chapitre spécial sur le gélatino-bromure d'argent. 

Paris, G. Masson, 1880.

This seventh edition is the first to offer a long chapter devoted to the process on gelatin-silver bromide which has just been developed and which is the major revolution in photography at the end of the 19th century.

"It is certain that, from now on, photography is really within the reach of all and that its applications will become much more numerous. Indeed, it is enough to obtain dry plates with gelatin-silver bromide and to study during a small number of days the manipulations of the development of the image, to obtain results which were, until now, the exclusive domain of a few specialists ". (p. 373).

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AUDOUARD, Mathieu François Maxence. Relation historique et médicale de la fièvre jaune qui a régné à Barcelone. 

Paris, Moreau, 1822.

First edition.
The book is divided into two parts, the first devoted to the clinical aspect of yellow fever, the second dealing with the hygienic aspect. Audouard wonders about the modes of contagion and offers his recommendations to avoid contamination in cities (quarantine, intervention of the army ...).
The yellow fever epidemic in Catalonia killed more than 10,000 people in 1821.

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[DUTENS, Louis]. Recherches sur l'origine des découvertes attribuées aux modernes; où l'on démontre que nos plus célèbres philosophes ont puisé la plupart de leurs connaissances dans les ouvrages des anciens ; et que plusieurs vérités importantes sur la Religion ont été connues des sages du paganisme. 

Paris, Veuve Duchesne, 1766.

First edition.
Interesting book in which Dutens sifts through the discoveries of the moderns (Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, Copernicus ...) in the light of ancient philosophies (St Augustine, Skeptics, Heraclitus, Democritus, Anaxagoras ...), to demonstrate that many had already been advanced by the Antiquities.

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TINGRY, Pierre François. Traité théorique et pratique sur l'art de faire et d'appliquer les vernis; sur les différens genres de peinture par l'impression et en décoration, ainsi que sur les couleurs simples et composées: accompagné de nouvelles observations sur le Copal. 

Genève, Manget, 1803.

First edition.
The rediscovery of ancient paintings in Pompeii in the second half of the eighteenth century somewhat shook knowledge of pictorial techniques. Such preservation of the vividness of colors seemed mysterious, several avenues were put forward by Watin or Count Caylus and this revived European research in pigments and varnishes.
It is in this line that the work of Tingry, a Geneva chemist whose work is a reference in the field, falls.
The first part is devoted to the preparation of drying oils, resins, varnishes, pitch ... (with recipes, instruments and methodology) The second to the preparation of pigments including the use of copal varnish to obtain transparent colors.

Handsigned by the publisher.

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350 €

DILLAYE, Frédéric. La Pratique en photographie avec le procédé au gélatino-bromure d'argent. 

Paris, A la librairie illustrée, [v. 1890].

Volume devoted to the practice of photography published by Dillaye in his series of volumes on "Theory, Practice and Art in Photography" which will appear throughout the 1890s.

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GRILLOT DE GIVRY, Emile Jules. Le Musée des sorciers mages et alchimistes. 

Paris, Librairie de France, 1929.

First edition.

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MARIE, Maximilien. Théorie des fonctions de variables imaginaires. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, [1874-1876].

First edition.
Maximilien Marie (1819-1891), polytechnician (X 1838) then tutor and examiner at the Ecole Polytechnique.
TI: New analytical geometry
TII: Application of the method to the general theory of functions
TIII: History of this work.
The third volume is particularly unusual at this time, it engages in a scientific autobiography in which we can see the progress of his thought and the construction of his mathematical theory.

Autograph dedication of the author to Eugène Rolland (X 1830) the inventor of the roaster, on the title of volume I and the false title page of volume II.


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MARIE, New theory of functions of imaginary variables, Paris, Mallet-Bachelier, [v. 1862]
(4) -28 pages. in-8 paperback, cover split on the back.
Extract from the article on the functions of imaginary variables published in the "Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics published by M. Liouville" which is a precursor to those published in the previous work.

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BUCHOZ, Pierre Joseph. Traité économique et physique du gros et menu bétail. 

Paris, J. F. Bastien, 1778.

First edition.
"The treatise which we are offering today to our compatriots is the most complete that has appeared of this kind. No one before us has published in a single and same work all that concerns large and small cattle; some have given Treaties on horses, others on cows, several on sheep, & hardly anyone on donkeys, goats & pigs, and yet most of these treatises are incomplete [...] "( extract from the preface).

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BRUNEL, Georges || FORESTIER, E. La Pratique en photographie avec le procédé au gélatino-bromure d'argent. 

Paris, A la librairie illustrée, [v. 1890].

First edition.
Book mainly focused on the collodion process.

followed by :
GANICHOT, Theoretical and practical treatise on the retouching of negative and positive proofs, Paris, Charles Mendel, [v. 1890]
112 pages (missing the half-title).
Long before Photoshop, retouching images has always been at the heart of the art of photography.

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[TEXTILES LYONNAIS]. Classeur d'échantillons de soie et tulles. 

Lyon, Société Coopérative Lyonnaise F1C, [v. 1935-1955].

Set of 203 samples of fabrics printed on silk and viscose (tulles, muslin and rayon) produced in the Lyon region between the years 1935-1955.
The majority of these coupons come from the SIE Jallieu and Pervilhac companies and grouped together by the Lyonnaise F1C cooperative society.

Interesting testimony to the high-end textile production which made the heyday of the Lyon industry. Some patterns are reminiscent of some well-known silk squares still produced in the region.

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750 €

LE MONNIER, Pierre-Charles || [HALLEY, Edmund]. La Théorie des comètes, où l’on traite du progrès de cette partie de l’astronomie;
avec des tables pour calculer les mouvements des comètes, du soleil, & des principales étoiles fixes. 

Paris, Gab. Martin, J.B. Coignard, & les Freres Guerin, 1743.

First edition in french of the 'Cometographia seu Astronomiae cometicae synopsis' of Edmund Halley (first ed. in 1705).
Halley's text includes the famous prediction of the comet that was to bear his name.
This succcessful prediction acted as a strong independent confirmation of Newtonian gravitation
The Monnier adds to the translation of Halley's treatise, a supplement on the progress made since on the Theory of Comets as well as observations on a comet that appeared in 1742.

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DU MONCEL, Théodose. Notice sur l'appareil d'induction éléctrique de Ruhmkorff suivie d'une mémoire sur les courants induits. 

Paris, Lacroix et Baudry, 1859.

Fourth edition.
The Ruhmkorff coil works like a transformer to generate very high voltages. The powerful sparks that it could generate were used much later in the experiments of the first radio-transmitters (in particular the Ouessant TSF station).

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PICTET, Raoul. Etude critique du matérialisme et du spiritualisme par la physique expérimentale. 

Paris, Felix Alcan, 1897.

First edition.

Raoul Pictet (1846-1929) Swiss physicist is the first to have successfully liquefied nitrogen and oxygen. He devoted part of his career to refrigeration systems.
In this book he offers a state of the art of Science and natural laws demonstrated by experimentation. Due to his career large place is given to a thermodynamic approach.

Friendly sending from the author to Mr. Guillochin on the pre-title page.

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60 €

CAYLUS, Comte de. Mémoire sur la peinture à l'encaustique et la sur la peinture à la cire. 

Genève, Pissot libraire, 1755.

First edition.

The Count of Caylus, amazed by the conservation of ancient paintings, worked to rediscover the secrets of painting by the ancients. According to Pliny's writings, he brought up to date with this thesis the technique of encaustic painting which was opposed to the oil painting dominant at the time.
The encyclopedists Grimm and Diderot opposed him that the encaustic technique was not flawless and it was outside France with English and Italian painters that Caylus' work had the most influence.

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450 €

DESCARTES, René. Ensemble de documents et articles sur Descartes. 

s.l., s.n., 1937 à 1958.

Set of 22 various documents, extracts from newspapers or drawn from articles concerning René Descartes.
Among these are articles from the Mercure de France or the Nouvelle Revue française: Paul Valery, De Visan, Sartre ...
As well as the January 1951 issue of the Revue des Sciences Humaines devoted to Descartes.

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NICAREL, Raoul. Lettre autographe signée sur des problèmes de mathématiques. 

Paris, s.n., 1937.

Letter sent on December 27, 1937 on various mathematical problems.
The diagram proposes an imperfect solution to the problem "Can we decompose a square into squares all unequal by parallel to the sides".

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[Manuscrit] GANTEAUME. Mémoire sur le centre de gravité des corps. 

Marseille, s.n., 1740.

Transcript of a work done by Ganteaume "mechanic" to the Société des Sciences de Marseille on August 6, 1740.

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[SCIENCES]. Discours prononcé dans l'assemblée des messieurs de la Société des Sciences de Marseille le 6 aout 1740. 

Marseille, s.n., 1740.

Transcript of a Speech delivered at the assembly of gentlemen of the Société des Sciences de Marseille on August 6, 1740
At the beginning of the eighteenth century two projects of a foundation of a Marseille Academy clashed, the first wanted to devote himself solely to Sciences, the second on the model of the French Academy, wanted to focus on Letters. It is the second project supported by the governor of Provence which won the support of Louis XV and the Academy of Belles-Lettres de Marseille was founded in 1726. It was only in a second time, in 1766, that it will open up to Sciences and the Arts.
We imagine the dismay of Marseilles scientists during the interval, and it is probably this frustration which is at the origin of the creation of the Société des Sciences de Marseille of which we present some documents here.


Following the speech, two observations of surgery and anatomy. The last on the dissection of the forearm of the corpse of a galley-slave who served on La Perle.

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[SCIENCES]. Documents de travail d'un société des sciences de Marseille. 

Marseille, s.n., 1740.

Interesting set of working documents of a Scienfitic Society from Marseille in the 18th century.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century two projects of a foundation of a Marseille Academy clashed, the first wanted to devote himself solely to Sciences, the second on the model of the French Academy, wanted to focus on Letters. It is the second project supported by the governor of Provence which won the support of Louis XV and the Academy of Belles-Lettres de Marseille was founded in 1726. It was only in a second time, in 1766, that it will open up to Sciences and the Arts.
We imagine the dismay of Marseilles scientists during the interval, and it is probably this frustration which is at the origin of the creation of the Société des Sciences de Marseille of which we present some documents here.
Lot consisting of 6 pieces:
- 3 transcripts of speeches, one of which addresses the question of the rules of the "Academy" which excluded the religious. It offers openness to abbots and monks, those with interest libraries, but seeking a solution that avoids animosities between the different orders.
- Speech by the perpetual secretary summarizing the work of the Academy during the period 1739-1740.
- Work report: Geometry of Mr Gérard, Mechanics of Mr De Pontis.
- Bundle of 10 tickets, "Tasks of the Academicians for 1741": Each academician offers on a small autograph ticket signed the scientific work they undertake to address during the year 1741. We find the names of Ganteaume, De Pontis , Pelissery, Gérard, Saint-Jacques, Roussin.

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[BREVET] DALOZ, Jules. Brevet d'invention pour une lampe électrique de sécurité pour mineurs. 

Paris, Direction de la propriété industrielle, 1925.

Patent filing dossier issued to Jules Daloz for an electric safety lamp intended for minors.
The purpose of this lamp was to avoid blows of gas by preventing the incandescent filament from coming into contact with the gas in the event of breakage.

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[MODE]. L'Officiel de la couleur des textiles et des industries de la mode - Automne 1952. 

Paris, Editions de l'officiel de la couleur, 1952.

L'Officiel de la couleur was a reference work for the fashion industry giving color trends and new fabrics for the coming seasons.
Here the number 19 for the Fall 1952 season, complete with 8 plates with each carrying a color chart.
Edition limited to 5450 numbered copies (ours n ° 287)
"The official color is printed on grapho-calco. It is enhanced with 81 original colors affixed manually, color by color with a double concern for accuracy and aesthetics. Each copy thus acquires the characteristics of a work worthy of bibliophiles, which makes this publication the most sought after periodicals "(extract from the justification).
The translation pages announced in the table (English, Spanish, Portuguese, German) are not present.

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