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The famous names in science are present on our shelves: Euclid, Newton, Darwin, Pascal, Lavoisier and also those who have participated in scientific progress.

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Photo DESCARTES, René. 

DESCARTES, René. 

Les Principes de la philosophie de René Descartes. 

Paris, Nicolas Le Gras, 1681.
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250 €

Fourth edition.
"The Principles of Philosophy" by René Descartes is a fundamental work of Western philosophy. In this treatise, Descartes sets out his vision of the world, based on metaphysical and physical principles. He develops his method of doubt, his famous "cogito, ergo sum" (I think, therefore I am), and his conceptions on the nature of the soul and the body.

Photo VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé). 

VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé). 

Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. 

Paris, Pissot, 1725.
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200 €

First edition.
The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

Photo LA CAILLE, Nicolas Louis. 

LA CAILLE, Nicolas Louis. 

Leçons élémentaires d'astronomie géométrique et physique. 

Paris, H.L. Guérin & L.F. Delatour, 1761.
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100 €

New edition, revised, corrected and expanded.
Abbé De La Caille (1713-1762) is one of the leading French astronomers of the 18th century.
Educational work that aims to make astronomy accessible to a wide audience. It covers the fundamental principles of astronomy, both on the geometric level (the position and movement of the stars) and on the physical level (the laws that govern these movements).

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 NICERON, Jean-François. 

NICERON, Jean-François. 

La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de : L’optique par la vision directe, la catoptrique, par la réflexion des miroirs plats, cylindriques & coniques, la dioptrique, par la réfraction des crystaux. 

Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638.
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2500 €

First edition.
This work is a treatise on optical illusions and anamorphic perspectives, written by Nicéron, a monk of the order of Minims and mathematician of the 17th century. In it, he explores the principles of geometry applied to perspective, in particular the deformations of images that are only correctly revealed from a certain angle or through a mirror.
La Perspective Curieuse is a major work in the history of visual perception and art, influencing both artists and scientists of its time.
The discussion in the fourth part is particularly famous for being the first reference to the law of refraction developed by Descartes that same year.
A title-frontispiece engraved by Daret.

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 BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

Théorie des proportions chimiques, et Table synoptique des poids atomiques des corps simples, et de leurs combinaisons les plus importantes. 

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1835.
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350 €

Second edition.
A Swedish chemist considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry, Berzelius notably introduced the current chemical notation (the symbols of the elements) and discovered several chemical elements.
This edition offers a table of atomic weights largely increased compared to the first edition of 1819.

Numerous annotations in the margin by George-Henry Love, a former student of the Ecole Centrale de Paris (class of 1840), who was director of the Charentes railways and president of the Society of Civil Engineers.

Photo FLOURENS, Pierre. 

FLOURENS, Pierre. 

Ontologie naturelle, ou Étude philosophique des êtres. 

Paris, Garnier frères, 1861.
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50 €

First edition.
Flourens is best known for his work in neurophysiology, particularly on the brain and the nervous system. In this work, he attempts to establish an ontology based on the scientific observation of nature, opposing purely speculative conceptions. His approach is marked by a desire to reconcile science and philosophy, emphasizing the hierarchy and organization of living beings.

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 SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

SIGAUD DE LA FOND, Joseph-Aignan. 

Élémens de Physique théorique et expérimentale, pour servir de suite à la description & l'usage d'un cabinet de physique expérimentale. 

Paris, P. Fr. Gueffier, 1777.
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650 €

First edition

Sigaud de La Fond (1730-1810) was a French physicist and teacher who was, with his master Nollet, one of the promoters of experimental Physics and his teaching, notably by creating the first "physics cabinets".

Very good copy.

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 PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri. 

PAULIAN, Aimé-Henri. 

Dictionnaire des nouvelles découvertes faites en physique, pour servir de supplément aux différentes éditions du Dictionnaire de physique. 

Paris, J.J. Niel, 1787.
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150 €

Aimé Henri Paulian was professor of physics at Aix and Avignon.
First edition of this work in which Paulian presents the latest discoveries made in physics since the publication of his 'Dictionnaire de physique'.
In particular on electricity, air navigation, animal magnetism.

Photo DESCARTES, René. 

DESCARTES, René. 

Discours de la méthode pour bien conduire sa raison et chercher la vérité dans les sciences.
Plus la Dioptrique et les Météores qui sont des essais de cette méthode. 

Paris, Michel Bobin & Nicolas Le Gras, 1668.
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The true third edition with the privilège dated 28 avril 1668.

Photo BOECE DE BOODT, Anselme. 

BOECE DE BOODT, Anselme. 

Le Parfaict Joaillier, ou Histoire des pierreries ou sont amplement descrites leur naissance, de juste prix, moyen de les cognoistre, & se garder des contrefaites, facilitez medicinales, & propriectez curieuses. 

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1644.
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500 €

First french edition.
Milestone in mineralogy and gemmology.
Translation by Jean Bachou from the Latin edition of the "Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia" and enriched with annotations by André Toll.
All precious stones are studied there as well as the cutting and polishing processes. Boodt also describes the virtues of stones, medicinal and magical faculties.
Numerous woodcuts in the text.

Photo CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie. 

CURIE, Pierre || CURIE, Marie. 

Oeuvres de Pierre Curie. Publiées par les Soins de la Societe Francaise de Physique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1908.
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250 €

First edition.
First edition of the works of Pierre Curie. His wife Marie Curie signs the preface here.

Photo RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

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).

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 EIFFEL, Gustave. 

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).

Photo EIFFEL, Gustave. 

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.

Photo LECORNU, Léon. 

LECORNU, Léon. 

Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil. 

s.l., Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 1914.
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60 €

Offprint from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences..
Short presentation to the Academy of Sciences of the Eiffel laboratory in Auteuil, August 3, 1914. Created on the Champ de Mars at the foot of its tower, Gustave Eiffel's aerodynamics laboratory was moved to Auteuil in 1912. It is still in operation today, operated by the company Aérodynamique Eiffel.
This aerodynamics laboratory was used in particular to test the characteristics of the Farman military biplanes that were used during the First World War.

Photo ROTHE, Gottfried. 

ROTHE, Gottfried. 

Introduction a la Chymie, accompagnée de deux traitez, l'un sur le Sel des Métaux, & l'autre sur le Souphre Anodyn du Vitriol.
Avec une analyse raisonnée de l'Antimoine. 

Paris, Hyppolite-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1741.
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350 €

First french edition.
Rothe was a pupil of Stal's, and graduated in medicine at Leipzig University, He died at the early age of thirty-one.
This work on chemistry, first posthumously published in 1717, was one of the best and clearest manuals of its time (Fergusson).
The greatly enlarged, definitive French edition of this important work, containing translations by Clausier of the main text (viz. Antleitung zur Chymie), supplement (Anhang) on metallic salts, and another work by Rothe on the anodyne sulphur of vitriol. In addition there are translations of two works on antomony and its compounds by the Dresden chemist E.P. Meuder, as listed in the title. The book ends with a supplement on Quelques nouvelles préparations du ... médicinal, describing antimonial medicines (pp.499-503).
Meuder was the first to prove that the mineral stibnite is a compound of metallic antimony and sulphur. (Partington II, 198).

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 BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas. 

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas. 

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique. 

Paris, Bordelet Jombert, 1730-1737.
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250 €

Second edition.
Compilation of scientific facts which is mainly extracted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
This edition of 1730 (1737 for volume II) is given by Nicolas Grozelier.
A fourth volume was published 41 years after the third volume in 1771.
Some 18th century handwritten notes in the margins or on flying papers.

Photo BÜCHNER, Louis. 

BÜCHNER, Louis. 

La Vie psychique des bêtes. 

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1881.
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50 €

First french edition.

Photo [POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Programmes de l'enseignement polytechnique de l'Ecole centrale des travaux publics. 

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, Pluviose An III ( janvier 1795).
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500 €

First edition.
First use of the adjective "Polytechnique" which will be used a few months later to give its new name to the "Ecole centrale des travaux publics" which will become the "École polytechnique".
Here are the detailed programs of the courses that will be taught during the creation of the School.

Photo LESCALLIER, Daniel. 

LESCALLIER, Daniel. 

Traité pratique du gréement des vaisseaux et autres batimens de mer. 

Paris, Clousier, 1791.
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1200 €

First edition.
In addition to a busy career in the administration of the Navy, Daniel Lescallier (17443-1822) wrote several works devoted to the navy.
This practical treatise by Lescallier is abundantly illustrated with plates, some of which come from his Marine dictionary.
This work is today a reference for knowledge of the rigging of 18th century vessels.

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 MOMORO, Antoine-François. 

MOMORO, Antoine-François. 

Traité élémentaire de l'imprimerie, ou le Manuel de l'Imprimeur. 

Paris, A.F. Momoro, 1793.
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2000 €

The scarce first edition.
Manual which will remain a reference for printers for a long time.
Momoro was very active during the French Revolution, member of the Cordeliers club, printer for Père Duchesne d'Hébert, he put his career at the service of the Revolution but died on the scaffold in 1794 with his Hébertist friends. It would be to him that we owe the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".
Complete copy of the 36 plates required. The error which announced 40 plates on the title page was crossed out on our copy. This notice will be modified in the second edition.

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).

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