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APPERT, Nicolas.

L'Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales.

Paris, Patris et Cie, 1810.

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800 €

First edition.
Book which discloses to the public the "Appertization" process, consisting of enclosing food in a glass bottle, then placing this bottle in a vase filled with boiling water for eight to ten minutes, heating in a closed container destroying the fermentation germs. Until then, only salting, sugaring and drying were known as methods of preserving meat and fish. Although the book was a great success and was republished many times, giving rise to the creation of the conservation industry, Nicolas Appert did not benefit from it and died poor in 1841.
Copy signed by the author.

[MONNET, Antoine Grimoald].

Nouvelle hydrologie, ou nouvelle exposition de la nature et de la qualité des eaux.

Paris, P.Fr. Didot, 1772.

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First edition.
Work on the chemical analysis of sea water collected on the French coasts.
A complete copy with the leaf A1 missing from almost all copies (Duveen doubt of is existence).

VIETE, François.

Opera mathematica in unum volumen congesta ac recognita, opera atque studio Francisci a Schooten.

Leyde, ex officina Bonaventura Abraham Elzeviriorum, 1646.

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9500 €

First collective edition of the works of François Viète.
François Viète, a 16th-century French mathematician born in Fontenay-le-Comte in 1540 and died in Paris in 1603, is often hailed as the father of modern algebra.
Indeed, Viète was one of the first mathematicians in Europe to note the parameters of an equation using symbols. His innovative approach and contribution to algebraic notation was particularly influential and opened new ways for solving mathematical problems. In recognition of his contributions, Viète is widely considered one of the greatest mathematicians of his time and his legacy endures in the field of modern mathematics to this day.
This first collective edition features sixteen of Viète's works, including his seminal 'Isagoge in artem analyticam', which introduced his innovative algebraic notation.

LATREILLE, Pierre André.

Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel.

Brive, Imprimerie de F. Bourdeaux, An 5 [1796].

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2000 €

First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine.

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

Paris, Panckoucke, 1824-1826.

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10000 €

Second edition and the FIRST LARGE OCTAVO edition, published immediately after the original folio and appeared in forty issues from January 10, 1824 to December 27, 1826. Each issue, printed on vellum paper, includes four to seven leaves of text as well only four plates which are reproductions of the folio engravings, engraved here again and colored under Redouté's very eyes. The text sheets contain the descriptions of Claude-Antoine Thory (1757-1827).

A complete copy of the 160 color plates of Redouté's famous roses.

[ENFANTINA].

Le Livre des Jeunes Braves, ou Etrennes militaires, recueil d'anecdotes remarquables, de beaux-faits d'armes, de traits généreux, etc.

paris, Rapilly, 1823.

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950 €

Fine copy containing twelve hand-colored plates.
A reworking in octavo format of the work "Les délassements des braves" published the previous year by the same publisher, containing only the 11 announced plates. Our copy additionally contains the plate of Marshal Ney.

One of the rare copies with the plates in color.

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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3000 €

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.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste.

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux faits Physiques, Et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs de la Chaleur produite.

Paris, Maradan, An II [1794].

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950 €

First edition.
Lamarck's first work in the field of chemistry in which he reverses Lavoisier's chemical revolution and proposes a system based on the theory of the four elements and phlogiston.
Apart from expounding his bizarre chemical theories, the book is important for his later views on biology and geology. Of interest is the section "Recherches sur les têtres organiques", which sets out his ideas on the origin of life before he abandoned his belief in a fixed species and became an evolutionist.
Lamarck's "chemical theories played an important part in the development of his ideas the origin of species, as they provived a materialistic definition of life, reproduction and evolution." (Norman).

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté par l'esprit de Mon grand Père , Moret Louis Piere, donner à Madame Parain.

s.l., s.n., [v.1867].

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2500 €

Very rare manuscript of spiritualist session reports.
The spiritualist wave arrived in France in 1854, and spread to all walks of life. We will remember, for example, the famous sessions of Victor Hugo in Guernsey...
In the following decades, all bourgeois families tried to turn the tables or dance. Methods of spiritualist contact are becoming more refined, we are seeing automatic writing methods appear in the presence or absence of a medium.

Very few of the sessions from this period have left written traces; the manuscript we present is the transcription of automatic writing sessions that took place between October 1866 and March 1867 in the Moret family. The first sessions took place in the presence of the medium Ms. Parain then in Bordeaux with the help of Ms. Benoit. Mrs. X. (unidentified) first contacted her grandfather Louis Pierre Moret. This is also why she transcribed the content of her communications in this notebook which belonged to her grandfather. The first communications are short, but little by little the mind gains confidence and the communications are longer. It was then his mother Marie Louise Moulins who “took up” the pen, then his father Moret. It is also amusing to note that the signatures of the spirits gradually become different.

The spirits advise their descendants to pray for them, to be charitable and above all to spread the ideas of spiritualism! We know that her husband tried a session but seems very skeptical...In a communication one of the spirits evokes the Other world which is organized into planets hierarchized according to the degree of wisdom, the summit seems to be the planet Juno .

70-page manuscript, quite fascinating to read!

The book is continued by another hand (probably at the beginning of the 20th century) who used it to note famous quotes and thoughts (out of 114 pages, around twenty leaves were cut from this part) then 250 blank pages remain.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

s.l., s.n., 1886.

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2000 €

Original manuscripts.
Rare and well-preserved set of two constitutional history courses given at Sciences Po Paris in 1886 by the founders of the school: Emile Boutmy and Alexandre Ribot.
Perfectly readable and careful manuscripts by a writer who will remain unknown who was a listener of Emile Boutmy's course on the Constitution of the United States in May-June 1886 and the course on the French Constitution since 1789 given by Alexandre Ribot in February-March 1886.
Created by Emile Boutmy in the aftermath of the 1870 defeat and the Paris Commune, the École Libre des Sciences Politiques (now known as Sciences-Po) aimed to teach political science as a positive science. She will form the elite of french politicians until today.
1886 was the last year in which Boutmy gave his course on the Constitution of the United States; we know a transcription of it in the notes left by Pierre de Coubertin who was also a listener of this course the same year. A comparison of the transcription of Coubertin's notes and our manuscript leads us to believe that our collection is more faithful (seems to be a word for word transcription) of Boutmy's teaching.

Alexandre Ribot's course on the French Constitution (second part of a more extensive course on European constitutions) leaves an important part on the birth of the Third Republic whose constitutional laws were only passed in 1875.

LOUIS XV (secrétaire) || MAUREPAS.

Lettre à Mr Courtomer.

s.l., s.n., 17 octobre 1733.

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200 €

Letter signed "Louis" (secretary) and countersigned "Maurepas" addressed to Mr Courtomer to notify him of the appointment of Mr Dourville to the position of first brand in his company.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

Paris, Leopold Collin, 1807.

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80 €

First edition.

STEIN, Elias.

Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu.

La Haye, Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1789.

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600 €

First edition.
Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.
Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author.
After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

[GROS, Jean].

Moi, Poupée.

s.l., A l'enseigne "des petites vertus", [1930].

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750 €

First edition.
Clandestine publication for this erotic novel attributed to Jean Gros with 9 pornographic lithographs.

Copy printed on laid paper (unjustified) with the plates printed on Japanese paper.

GODWIN, William.

Recherches sur la population, et sur la faculté d'accroissement de l'espèce humaine ; contenant une réfutation des doctrines de M. Malthus sur cette matière.

Paris, J-P. Aillaud, 1821.

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450 €

First french edition.

William Godwin (1756-1836) is a British philosopher, precursor of anarchism and inspiration for the utilitarian movement.
This book is part of the controversy between Godwin and Malthus about the principle of population. For Malthus, the mathematical growth of the human population occurs at a rate greater than that of access to resources.
For Godwin, the "improvement of Man" (in fact technical progress) will make it possible to compensate for population growth, he says:
"if the earth, in all its habitable parts, could be made as fertile as China, it would be enough to feed a population of nine thousand million people" (volume II, p.212).

A debate that is still current.

MORIN, Pierre.

Remarques nécessaires pour la culture des fleurs [...] Catalogues de quelques Plantes à Fleurs.

Lyon, Muguet, 1677.

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250 €

New augmented edition.
Pierre Morin is a 17th century French gardener, florist and collector of rare flowers, he also supplied all European collectors of rare plants.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre.

Auxerre, François Fournie, 1746.

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150 €

Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

LE DANTEC, Félix.

Introduction à la pathologie générale.

Paris, Alcan, 1906.

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100 €

First edition.
Félix Le Dantec (1869-1917), is a French biologist and philosopher of science. He started his career at the Pasteur Institute before creating the chair of embryology at the Sorbonne.

[ECOLE CENTRALE DE PYROTECHNIE].

Cours d'artillerie. Notion sur la dynamite.

Bourges, s.n., 1876.

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200 €

Set of 27 lithographic courses given at the Central School of Pyrotechnics during the year 1875-1876.
The courses were attended by François Mazeau, deputy chief pyrotechnician at the 21st artillery, 12th battery in Angoulème.
The 21st artillery was formed during the siege of Paris in 1870. The war of 1870 marked the defeat of the French artillery, which was surpassed by the much more modern and organized German artillery. The reform of the central school of pyrotechnics moved from Metz to Bourges was one of the first reforms of the French army after this defeat. The French artillery, particularly with the 75 cannon, became one of the most efficient during the First World War.

The first course is devoted to the use of dynamite, invented a few years earlier by Nobel.

COUPIN, Henri.

Album Général Des Cryptogames : Fungi.

Paris, E. Orlhac, [1913-1922 ].

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200 €

First edition.
Complete with five parts devoted to mushrooms.
The work was published in installments between 1913 and 1922.

SEHLMEYER, Johann Friedrich.

Index alphabeticus specierum hymenonycetum in Epicrisi systematis mycologici Friesii descriptarum earumque synonymarum conscripsit.

Cologne, Joannis Petri Bachemii, 1852.

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120 €

First edition.
Sehlmeyer (1788-1856) German botanist and pharmacist was responsible for the Cologne pharmacy between 1821 and 1852.
Work designed by Sehlmeyer to serve as an index to the Systema mycologicum of Elias Magnus Fries (nicknamed the “Linnaeus of mushrooms” father of scientific mycology) of which the editions at the time were lacking.

[FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel].

Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse mais choisie.

Berlin, Haude et Spener, 1756.

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200 €

New edition augmented.

SAY, Jean Baptiste.

Cours complet d'économie politique pratique.

Paris, Rapilly, 1828-1829.

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450 €

First edition.
Jean Baptiste Say is considered one of the fathers of economic science.
This course is a compilation of his teaching given at the chair of industrial economics at the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers
He defends a liberal economic thought: he puts forward private property, free competition and a role of the State as limited as possible. In fact, it is a direct extension of the French school of liberal political economy.

A seventh volume of correspondence appeared in 1833 after the author's death.

[MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)].

Tactique de l'Infanterie et instruction sur le choix d'une Position & sur les Dispositions des Manoeuvres.

Dresde, Frères Walther, 1787.

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350 €

First edition published with the agreement of the author.
August Wilhelm von Mosch (1735-1815) was a Prussian major general. The Prussian army was renowned since Frederick II for its rapid troop movements and the use of the Oblique Order (military maneuver consisting of reinforcing and advancing one of its wings first, while stealing the other wing). This required perfect mastery of maneuvers by the officers.

[JANSÉNISME].

Affaire de Douai : Recueil de 13 pièces.

s.l., s.n., 1691-1692.

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450 €

Collection of pieces published during the Douai Affair, which opposed the Jesuits and Jansenists. This began in 1688 when Jacques Gilbert, professor at the theology faculty of Douai, was relieved of his duties and exiled by letter of cachet following a course given on "Grace" (a theme dear to the Jansenists).

Volume I :
– Avertissement touchant les plaintes de Mr. Arnauld (1691). (12) pages.
– Secrets du parti de Mr. Arnauld, découverts depuis peu. Troisième édition. (1692). (12)-71 pages.
– Lettres À Mr. Arnauld sur ses plaintes adressées à Monseigneur l’Evêque d’Arras [etc.]. (1691). 72 pages.
– Réponse du P. Payen de la Compagnie de Jésus à la troisième plainte de Monsieur Arnauld. Nouvelle Édition revue corrigée. [sans date.]. 24 pages.
– Remarques sur l’écrit intitulé, Relation sommaire de ce qui s’est passé dans l’affaire de quelques Théologiens de Doüay. Nouvelle Édition. (1692). 48 pages.
– Réponse d’un prélat de la Cour de Rome à la lettre d’un Abbé sur la Censure des 31 propositions. (1691). 24 pages.
Volume 2 :
– Plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, à Monseigneur l’Evesque d’Arras (1691). (2)- 68 pages.
– Seconde plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1691). 43 pages.
– Troisième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne à son Altesse Monseigneur L’Evesque et Prince de Liège. (1691). 24 pages.
– Quatrième plainte de Mr. Arnauld Docteur de Sorbonne, aux RR. PP. Jésuites. (1692). 128 pages.
– Lettre de Mr. de Ligny à un de ses amis. (1692). 57 pages.
– Lettres du Faux-Arnauld à Mr. de Ligny. (1692). 36 pages.
– Le Vain triomphe des Jésuites. (1692). 45 pages.

LEMERY, Nicolas.

Traité de l'Antimoine.

Paris, Jean Boudot, 1707.

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1200 €

First edition.
French chemist, Nicolas LEMERY was born at Rouen on the 17th of November 1645. After learning pharmacy in his native town he became a pupil of C. Glaser's in Paris, and then went to Montpellier, where he began to lecture on chemistry. He next established a pharmacy in Paris, still continuing his lectures.

ROUBO, André Jacob.

L’Art du menuisier (Seconde partie).

Paris, [Delatour], 1770.

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250 €

First edition.
Published in four parts from 1769 to 1775, L'Art du Menuisier de Roubo is the reference work on all aspects of carpentry and cabinetmaking in the 18th century.
Here only the second part of Art du Menuisier with his 120 plates.

[GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob].

Introduction à la philosophie, contenant la métaphysique et la logique.

Leide, Jean et Herm Verbeek, 1748.

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100 €

Willem Jacob's Gravesande (1688 – 1742) was a Dutch jurist and diplomat, known today for his scientific work: he contributed to the introduction of Newton's theories and the experimental method. Interestingly, Gravesande presents his revolutionary method of coding and decoding encrypted letters ("De l'art de déchiffrer des Lettres", p. 391-408).

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de).

Lettre à un Otage.

New York, Brentano's, 1946.

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950 €

Very beautiful binding executed by Jean Paul Miguet (1925-2019) one of the greatest French bookbinders of the 20th century.

VERLAINE, Paul.

Choix de Poésies.

Paris, Fasquelle, 1928.

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800 €

Beautiful copy of this famous industrial binding produced between 1933 and 1955 by Joseph Taupin, under the pseudonym Jotau. The boards and the back are molded in a mass-dyed resin, close to bakelite, pollopas. Flats and backs are articulated by a rod. This particularly brittle resin was quickly abandoned and few copies reach us without damage, as is the case with the book we are offering.

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APPERT, Nicolas.

L'Art de conserver, pendant plusieurs années, toutes les substances animales et végétales.

[MONNET, Antoine Grimoald].

Nouvelle hydrologie, ou nouvelle exposition de la nature et de la qualité des eaux.

First edition.Work on the chemical analysis of sea water collected on the French coasts.A complete copy with the leaf A1 missing from almost all copies (Duveen doubt of is existence).

VIETE, François.

Opera mathematica in unum volumen congesta ac recognita, opera atque studio Francisci a Schooten.

LATREILLE, Pierre André.

Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel.

First edition.Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine.

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

[ENFANTINA].

Le Livre des Jeunes Braves, ou Etrennes militaires, recueil d'anecdotes remarquables, de beaux-faits d'armes, de traits généreux, etc.

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.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste.

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux faits Physiques, Et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs de la Chaleur produite.

[MANUSCRIT].

Livre pour les communications dicté par l'esprit de Mon grand Père , Moret Louis Piere, donner à Madame Parain.

BOUTMY, Emile || RIBOT, Alexandre.

Cours d'Histoire Constitutionnelle donnés à l'École libre des sciences politiques.

LOUIS XV (secrétaire) || MAUREPAS.

Lettre à Mr Courtomer.

Letter signed "Louis" (secretary) and countersigned "Maurepas" addressed to Mr Courtomer to notify him of the appointment of Mr Dourville to the position of first brand in his company.

ROMAN, Jean Joseph Thérèse (Abbé).

Les Echecs, Poëme en quatre chants.

First edition.

STEIN, Elias.

Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu.

First edition.Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author. After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

[GROS, Jean].

Moi, Poupée.

First edition.Clandestine publication for this erotic novel attributed to Jean Gros with 9 pornographic lithographs.Copy printed on laid paper (unjustified) with the plates printed on Japanese paper.

GODWIN, William.

Recherches sur la population, et sur la faculté d'accroissement de l'espèce humaine ; contenant une réfutation des doctrines de M. Malthus sur cette matière.

MORIN, Pierre.

Remarques nécessaires pour la culture des fleurs [...] Catalogues de quelques Plantes à Fleurs.

New augmented edition.Pierre Morin is a 17th century French gardener, florist and collector of rare flowers, he also supplied all European collectors of rare plants.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Petit Eucologe, ou livre d'Eglise, à l'usage des fidèles du Diocèse d'Auxerre.

Pleasant copy in morocco from the period of this Auxerre printing.

LE DANTEC, Félix.

Introduction à la pathologie générale.

First edition.Félix Le Dantec (1869-1917), is a French biologist and philosopher of science. He started his career at the Pasteur Institute before creating the chair of embryology at the Sorbonne.

[ECOLE CENTRALE DE PYROTECHNIE].

Cours d'artillerie. Notion sur la dynamite.

COUPIN, Henri.

Album Général Des Cryptogames : Fungi.

First edition.Complete with five parts devoted to mushrooms.The work was published in installments between 1913 and 1922.

SEHLMEYER, Johann Friedrich.

Index alphabeticus specierum hymenonycetum in Epicrisi systematis mycologici Friesii descriptarum earumque synonymarum conscripsit.

[FORMEY, Jean Henri Samuel].

Conseils pour former une bibliothèque peu nombreuse mais choisie.

New edition augmented.

SAY, Jean Baptiste.

Cours complet d'économie politique pratique.

[MOSCH, August Wilhelm (von)].

Tactique de l'Infanterie et instruction sur le choix d'une Position & sur les Dispositions des Manoeuvres.

[JANSÉNISME].

Affaire de Douai : Recueil de 13 pièces.

LEMERY, Nicolas.

Traité de l'Antimoine.

ROUBO, André Jacob.

L’Art du menuisier (Seconde partie).

First edition.Published in four parts from 1769 to 1775, L'Art du Menuisier de Roubo is the reference work on all aspects of carpentry and cabinetmaking in the 18th century. Here only the second part of Art du Menuisier with his 120 plates.

[GRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob].

Introduction à la philosophie, contenant la métaphysique et la logique.

SAINT-EXUPERY, Antoine (de).

Lettre à un Otage.

Very beautiful binding executed by Jean Paul Miguet (1925-2019) one of the greatest French bookbinders of the 20th century.

VERLAINE, Paul.

Choix de Poésies.

First edition.
Work on the chemical analysis of sea water collected on the French coasts.
A complete copy with the leaf A1 missing from almost all copies (Duveen doubt of is existence).

First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.

First edition.
Work which appeared at the expense of the author on subscription.
Elias Stein (1748-1812) was a strong Dutch master, chess teacher and author.
After the analyses in this book the Dutch Defence was called [Lindörfer].

First edition.
Clandestine publication for this erotic novel attributed to Jean Gros with 9 pornographic lithographs.

Copy printed on laid paper (unjustified) with the plates printed on Japanese paper.

New augmented edition.
Pierre Morin is a 17th century French gardener, florist and collector of rare flowers, he also supplied all European collectors of rare plants.

First edition.
Félix Le Dantec (1869-1917), is a French biologist and philosopher of science. He started his career at the Pasteur Institute before creating the chair of embryology at the Sorbonne.

First edition.
Complete with five parts devoted to mushrooms.
The work was published in installments between 1913 and 1922.

First edition.
Published in four parts from 1769 to 1775, L'Art du Menuisier de Roubo is the reference work on all aspects of carpentry and cabinetmaking in the 18th century.
Here only the second part of Art du Menuisier with his 120 plates.