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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.

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.

TREUVE, Simon Michel.

Le Directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point.

Paris, Elise Josset, 1695.

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350 €

Third edition.
Treuvé was one of the great apostles of Jansenist spirituality in the 18th century.
His Spiritual Director was a European success and had more than a hundred editions.
Rare copy in full red morocco of the time, without ornamentation, austere binding that one would easily qualify as Jansenist.

[MANUSCRIT].

Metaphysica.

s.l., s.n., 1775.

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200 €

Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

LAMARTINE, Alphonse (de).

Les Confidences.

Paris, Perrotin, 1849.

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75 €

First edition.
It presents for the first time Graziella, one of Lamartine's best-known works.

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.

BÜCHNER, Louis.

La Vie psychique des bêtes.

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1881.

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50 €

First french edition.

LAURENT || PERROT.

Les Femmes de l'Asie ou description de leurs physionomie, moeurs, usages et costumes.

Paris, Le Fuel, [1830].

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750 €

First edition.
A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

[Léon et Jules RAINAL].

Catalogue Général.

s.l., s.n., 1905.

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80 €

Catalog of the company Léon et Jules Rainal suppliers of civil and military hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Illustrations on each page representing: bandages, orthoses, prostheses, surgical equipment, physiotherapy.

[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.

MAURICEAU, François.

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées avec la bonne et véritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels etc.

Paris, Jean Henault, 1668.

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5000 €

First edition.
Illustrated with 30 gynecological and obstetric engravings in the text.
François Mauriceau (1637-1709), first midwife surgeon at the Paris Maternity Hospital, is considered the founder of French obstetrics.
Mauriceau's work on pregnancy and childbirth established obstetrics as an independent science and had, thanks to its numerous translations, a determining influence on obstetric practice in the 17th century.

[SENDIVOGIUS, Michel].

Cosmopolite ou Nouvelle lumière chymique.

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1723.

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1800 €

Latest expanded edition.
Contains the following three treatises:
I - of nature in general, where Mercury is spoken of.
II - Sulfur
III - real Salt of the philosophers
as well as with separate pagination the Philosophical Letter of Antoine Duval.

At the end of the first treatise are the "Philosophical Enigma to the Sons of Truth" and the curious "Dialogue between Mercury, the Alchymist and Nature".

Sethon Alexander spent his life convinced of the reality of alchemy.
Completely disinterested, he went from town to town to convince the most incredulous by making transmutes lead into gold.
The product of its transmutations is given to the public.
His reputation was growing and he was called to the course of the Elector of Saxony, Christian II, where he made a transmutation.
Gold produced withstood all tests. Then told to give her secret. Sethon refused, he was tortured and imprisoned in vain.

He was released by Michael Sendivogius to whom he gave his supply of philosopher's stone and manuscripts. He died shortly afterwards from his injuries.
After marrying his widow, Sendivogius Sethon treaties under the name of Cosmopolitan.

Here the evidence of a transmutation performed before the scientific and Wolfgang Jacob Zwinger Deinheim (in de medicina Miberali. Argentorate. 1610)

"In 1602, writes Dr. Dienheim, when in the middle of summer I returned from Rome to Germany, I found myself next to a man singularly spiritual, small in size but big enough, a face colored of a sanguine temperament, wearing a brown beard trimmed to the fashion of France. He was wearing a black satin dress and had every sequence a single servant, that could distinguish among all by his red hair and beard the same color. The man was Alexander was born Sethonius.Il Molia, an island in the ocean. In Zurich, where the priest gave him a letter Tghlin for Dr. Zvinger, we hired a boat and we went by water to Basel. When we arrived in this city, my companion said: -

"You remember that, throughout the trip and the boat. you attacked alchemy and alchemists. You will also recall that I promised to answer, not demonstrations, but by a philosophical action. I still await someone I want to convince the same time as you. so that the opponents of alchemy cease their doubts about this art. "

It was then looking for the man in question, I knew only by sight and who did not live far from our hotel. I learned later that it was Dr Jacob Zvinger, whose family has so many famous naturalists. We went every three workers in a gold mine, with several sheets of lead that had Zvinger removed from his house, a crucible that we took a goldsmith, and sulfur that we bought in ordinary way. Sethon not touched anything. He made the fire, ordered to lead and sulfur in the crucible, place the lid and shake the ground with sticks. Meanwhile, he chatted with us. After a quarter of an hour. He says: -

"Take this little paper in the molten lead, but the middle and try that nothing falls into the fire !...»

In this paper was a pretty heavy powder, a color that seemed to lemon yellow; the rest, he must have good eyes to distinguish. Although also incredulous that St. Thomas himself, we did everything we had ordered. After the mass had been heated about a quarter of an hour, and continuously stirred with rods of iron, the goldsmith was ordered off the pot by pouring water on it, but there was the slightest trace of lead, we found the purest gold, which, in the opinion of the goldsmith, surpassed even as the fine gold of Hungary and Saudi. It weighed as much as lead, which he had taken the place. We sat stunned with astonishment was scarcely dare we believe our eyes. But Sethonius, mocking us:
- "Now, he says, where are you with your pedantry? You see the truth of the matter, and is more powerful than everything, even your sophistry. -

Then he cut a piece of gold, and gave a souvenir to Zvinger. I also kept a piece that weighed about four ducats, and I kept in mind that day. As for you, unbelievers, you will laugh perhaps what I write. But I still live, and I am a witness ready to say what I saw. Zwinger is still alive but he will not keep quiet and will testify about what I say. Sethonius still live and his servant, the latter in England and the first in Germany, as we know. I could even say exactly where he lives, if there were not too indiscreet in which research should engage to find out what happened to this great man, this saint, this half -god. "

Jacob Zwinger, including Dr. Dienheim invokes the testimony, was a physician and professor at Basel, outside of these titles, he enjoyed a high reputation for learning, and he left a highly respected name in the history of German medicine.
This impeccable witness died of the plague in 1610. But from the year 1606, it confirmed until the last detail the story of John Wolfgang Dienheim in a Latin letter Emmanuel Konig, professor at Basel, had printed in his Almanac.
The same letter tells us that before leaving Basel Sethon made a second attempt in the house of the silversmith Andrew Bletz, where he changed in several ounces of gold lead. As for the piece of gold he had given Zwinger, we read in the library of chemical Manget that the family of the doctor kept and made him long to see foreigners and curious.

One of the most significant treaty on conventional alchemy.

[AUX ARMES ROYALES].

Office de la semaine sainte.

Paris, Herissant, [1745].

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500 €

Good copy in contemporary morocco whose covers are gilded with the arms of Mesdames de France.
The daughters of Louis XV indeed shared the same arms for their bindings, they were distinguished only by the color of the morocco. Red morocco was reserved for Adelaide of France (1732-1800).

LEON L'AFRICAIN [Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).].

De Totius Africae descriptione, libri IX.
Quibus non solùm Africae regionum, insularum, & oppidorum fitus, locorum q intreualla accuratè complexus est, sed Regum familius, bellorum causas &euentus, resq. In ea memorabiles, tam à seipso diligente obseruatione indagatas, q in veris Maurorum Annalib. Memoriae traditas, copiose descripsit, recéns in Latinam linguam conuersi Ioan. Floriano Interprete.

Anvers, Ioan. Latium, 1556.

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6000 €

Rare first latin edition of this famous description of Africa.
Born Al Hassan Ibn Mahommed Al Wezaz Al Fasi probably in Granada in about 1494, the author received a great part of his education at Fez, later travelling through most of northern Africa between 1507-1520.
He undertook his most famous series of journeys across the Sahara into modern day Mali, Niger, Nigeria and Chad between 1513 and 1515.
Later he travelled to Constantinople and Egypt, and while travelling home from there in 1520 was captured by pirates and presented to Pope Leo X in Rome.
There he converted to Christianity, was baptized and adopted his Christian name.
First published in Italian in 1550, this first Latin edition was the basis for the English translation of 1600.

A complete copy, with the 2 final blank leaves often missing and in a contemporary binding.

LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus].

Les Secrets miracles de nature et divers enseignemens de plusieurs choses.

Lyon, Jean Frellon, 1566.

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2500 €

First french edition.
A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

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.

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).

D'AQUIN, Thomas.

Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris sancte Thome Aquinatis.

Cologne, Quentell, 1508.

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2500 €

Post-incunable edition.
The most famous work of St Thomas Aquinas, which brings together 29 questions on the truth, and 253 articles of answers.
These disputed issues correspond to the first disputes led by Thomas Aquinas as master of theology at the University of Paris during the academic year 1256–1257, when Thomas Aquinas was a young professor.
In the first question, Thomas Aquinas defined truth as "the adequacy of the thing and the intellect.".

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.

LARREY, Dominique-Jean.

Relation historique et chirurgicale de l'expédition de l'armée d'Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie.

Paris, Demonville et Soeurs, 1803.

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1300 €

First edition.
Military surgeon, Larrey took part in Napoleon's campaigns in the Middle East, he developed his skills in helping the wounded and is considered the father of emergency medicine.
Two curious engravings of genital elephantiasis which the text tells us were drawn by Charles Balzac and by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (the Raphael of roses here in a completely different register).

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René.

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler.

Paris, Méquignon l'ainé, 1789.

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75 €

Louis-René Desbois de Rochefort (1750-1786) is a French doctor, "he shone as a professor, although he was not very methodical in the exposition of his doctrines, and little punished in his speech, he did not publish any work of during his lifetime. " (Medarus . org).
This posthumous work is compiled by Corvisart who also signs the praise of Desbois.

VOGT, Henri Gustave.

Leçons sur la résolution algébrique des équations.

Paris, Librairie Vuibert, [1895].

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50 €

First edition.
The book includes a preface by Jules Tannery who writes: "truly indispensable to those who must one day speak of symmetric functions, of the transformation of equations, of the resolution of third and fourth degree equations, of the equations of the division of the circle."

Our copy bears a butterfly and a stamp from the Vuibert bookstore which had to buy back the stock of the publisher Nony.

SANNIÉ, Charles / GUÉRIN, D.

Éléments de police scientifique.

Paris, Hermann & Cie, 1938-1940.

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120 €

First edition.
Sannié and Guérin's book is contemporary with the work of Edmond Locard (1877-1966), considered one of the founding fathers of forensic science. The work is mainly devoted to what we would call today forensic identity, with the first two volumes focusing on anthropometry and the next two on fingerprint identification.

BUCHAN, William.

Médecine domestique, ou traité complet des moyens de se conserver en santé, & de guérir les maladies, par le régime & les remedes simples.

Paris, Froullé, 1789.

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150 €

William Buchan was a Scottish physician (1729-1805) and author of several works, the most famous of which is Domestic Medicine or a Complete Treatise on the Means of Maintaining Health, of Curing and Preventing Diseases by Diet and Simple Remedies. This book, written in 1769, has been translated into several languages. It is divided into two parts, one is devoted to prophylactic medicine and describes the means of maintaining health and warding off diseases; the other is devoted to the description and treatment of many diseases.

MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques.

l'Art du Meunier et du Boulanger.

Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1771.

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400 €

First 4to edition.
This is only Volume I, entirely devoted to the art of the miller and the baker: description of mills, milling techniques, flour quality, breadmaking processes, and economic aspects of the profession. This work is an exceptional primary source on 18th-century know-how for understanding how bread was made before the Revolution.

[CHARLES VII].

Vollständiges Diarium von den merckwürdigsten Begebenheiten, die sich vor, in und nach der Höchst-beglückten Wahl und Krönung, des Allerdurchlauchtigsten, Großmächtigsten und Unüberwindlichsten Fürsten und Herrn Carls des VII.

Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Jung, 1742-1743.

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1200 €

First edition.
A remarkable work that offers a detailed and illustrated account of the significant events that occurred before, during and after the election and coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles Albert of Bavaria, known as Charles VII. Thanks to its detailed descriptions of the ceremonies, parades and festivities, enriched by numerous iconographic documents.
A very complete copy of all the required plates: 1 frontispiece, 19 portraits, 20 plates (including numerous double plates and 2 folding plans).

L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de).

Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problèmes tant déterminez qu’indéterminez.

Paris, Montalant, 1720.

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200 €

Second edition.
Treatise on conic sections, which he treats both by geometric and analytical methods (equations of the form ax2 bx2 cxy dx ey f = 0) and which was very successful. Finalized in 1699, it was not published until after his death at the request of Fontenelle, then secretary of the Royal Academy.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.

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7500 €

First edition of this famous treatise on cavalry, one of the most spectacular ever published.

The treatise itself, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Pierre Charles Ingouf, depicting Louis XVI reviewing the mounted troops, a title vignette by Macret, and four headings and three tailpieces engraved by various artists after Van Blaremberghe, is illustrated with 11 copper-engraved tactical plates, seven of which are double-page spreads and one folded.

This copy bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Condé, second in the list of 69 subscribers to the work, after the Duke of Chartres, who was the author's godfather.

Text volume only. The atlas, bearing the coat of arms of the Prince of Condé, was sold at the 1988 Biennale des Antiquaires, Librairie Léonce Laget, Paris, and then at Christie's in 2016.

[LIVRE DE FETES].

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, et de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième août mil sept cent trente.

Paris, Le Mercier, 1740.

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6000 €

First edition.
One of the most beautiful festival books published in the 18th century to commemorate the festivities held in Paris for the wedding of Madame Première, Louise-Élisabeth de Bourbon, eldest daughter of Louis XV, to Philippe de Bourbon.

Beautiful copperplate engraving with 13 plates outside the text, including 8 double-page spreads, by Jacques-François Blondel based on his own drawings and those of the architects Jacques-Ange Gabriel and Giovanni.
There are also two vignettes in the text, one by Pierre Soubeyran after Edmé Bouchardon (coat of arms of the city of Paris), the other by Jacques Rigaud (nautical jousting scene).

[STENDHAL (Henry Beyle, dit)].

Histoire de la peinture en Italie. Par M. B. A. A.

Paris, Didot l'Aîné, 1817.

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2500 €

First edition.
A full margin copy, untrimmed.

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D'AZARA, Félix.

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

DARWIN, Charles.

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

TREUVE, Simon Michel.

Le Directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point.

[MANUSCRIT].

Metaphysica.

Original manuscript.Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

LAMARTINE, Alphonse (de).

Les Confidences.

First edition.It presents for the first time Graziella, one of Lamartine's best-known works.

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas.

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique.

BÜCHNER, Louis.

La Vie psychique des bêtes.

First french edition.

LAURENT || PERROT.

Les Femmes de l'Asie ou description de leurs physionomie, moeurs, usages et costumes.

First edition.A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

[Léon et Jules RAINAL].

Catalogue Général.

Catalog of the company Léon et Jules Rainal suppliers of civil and military hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Illustrations on each page representing: bandages, orthoses, prostheses, surgical equipment, physiotherapy.

[POLYTECHNIQUE].

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

MAURICEAU, François.

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées avec la bonne et véritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels etc.

[SENDIVOGIUS, Michel].

Cosmopolite ou Nouvelle lumière chymique.

[AUX ARMES ROYALES].

Office de la semaine sainte.

Good copy in contemporary morocco whose covers are gilded with the arms of Mesdames de France.The daughters of Louis XV indeed shared the same arms for their bindings, they were distinguished only by the color of the morocco. Red morocco was reserved for Adelaide of France (1732-1800).

LEON L'AFRICAIN [Leo Africanus, Johannes (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan al-Fasi).].

LEMNE, Levin [LEMNIUS, Levinus].

Les Secrets miracles de nature et divers enseignemens de plusieurs choses.

First french edition.A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

LESCALLIER, Daniel.

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

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis.

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

D'AQUIN, Thomas.

Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris sancte Thome Aquinatis.

MOMORO, Antoine-François.

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

LARREY, Dominique-Jean.

Relation historique et chirurgicale de l'expédition de l'armée d'Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie.

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René.

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler.

VOGT, Henri Gustave.

Leçons sur la résolution algébrique des équations.

SANNIÉ, Charles / GUÉRIN, D.

Éléments de police scientifique.

BUCHAN, William.

Médecine domestique, ou traité complet des moyens de se conserver en santé, & de guérir les maladies, par le régime & les remedes simples.

MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques.

l'Art du Meunier et du Boulanger.

[CHARLES VII].

Vollständiges Diarium von den merckwürdigsten Begebenheiten, die sich vor, in und nach der Höchst-beglückten Wahl und Krönung, des Allerdurchlauchtigsten, Großmächtigsten und Unüberwindlichsten Fürsten und Herrn Carls des VII.

L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de).

Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problèmes tant déterminez qu’indéterminez.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

[LIVRE DE FETES].

Description des festes données par la ville de Paris à l'occasion du mariage de Madame Louise-Elisabeth de France, et de Dom Philippe, Infant & Grand amiral d'Espagne, les vingt-neuvième & trentième août mil sept cent trente.

[STENDHAL (Henry Beyle, dit)].

Histoire de la peinture en Italie. Par M. B. A. A.

First edition. A full margin copy, untrimmed.

Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

First edition.
It presents for the first time Graziella, one of Lamartine's best-known works.

First edition.
A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

Good copy in contemporary morocco whose covers are gilded with the arms of Mesdames de France.
The daughters of Louis XV indeed shared the same arms for their bindings, they were distinguished only by the color of the morocco. Red morocco was reserved for Adelaide of France (1732-1800).

First french edition.
A Dutch doctor and disciple of Gesner and Vesalius, Lemne here delivers a veritable cabinet of curiosities on the origins of living and evil beings.

First edition.
A full margin copy, untrimmed.