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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 PAYEN, Anselme. 

PAYEN, Anselme. 

Précis de chimie industrielle à l'usage des écoles préparatoires aux professions industrielles et des fabricants. 

Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1849.
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75 €

First edition.
Anselme Payen (1795-1871) was a French chemist known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose.

Photo ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. 

ARAGO, François || LAMARTINE, Alphonse de. 

Projet de décret relatif à un crédit supplémentaire de Dix mille francs pour la réimpression des Œuvres scientifiques de Laplace. 

s.l., s.n., 22 juin 1848.
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450 €

Rare document signed by Lamartine and Arago.
Draft decree to allocate 10,000 fr to continue the reprint of the Works of Laplace. This had been allocated 40,000 fr in 1842 but the initial estimate having been exceeded, money had to be added to the project.

The document is drafted by the Secretary of the Executive Power Commission and is signed by all the members of this commission: François Arago, Alphonse de Lamartine, Louis-Antoine Garnier-Pagès, Alexandre Ledru-Rollin, Pierre Marie de St Georges.
Rare testimony of this commission which lasted only for the months of May and June 1848 and which saw the Scientist and the Poet at the top of the French State.

Photo WERTHEIM, Guillaume. 

WERTHEIM, Guillaume. 

Mémoires de Physique mécanique. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1848.
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75 €

First edition.

This book is a collection of several texts dealing in particular with elasticity on the cohesion of metals, on the sounds produced by electric current or on the balance of homogeneous solid bodies.

Photo BOGAERTS, Félix. 

BOGAERTS, Félix. 

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

Anvers, J.- E. Buschmann, 1847.
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80 €

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

Photo BERTALL. 

BERTALL. 

Cahier des charges des chemins de fer. Pamphlet illustré. 

Paris, J. Hetzel, 1847.
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50 €

Second edition.
Frontispiece and numerous drawings in the text by Bertall.

Photo ANDRAUD, Antoine. 

ANDRAUD, Antoine. 

Chemins éoliques ou locomotion par l'air comprimé. 

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1847.
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350 €

First edition.
For Andraud, compressed air was an energy whose force was destined to change the face of the world. A visionary inventor, he developed a system of automobiles using compressed air as a propulsion system, the air was brought first by pipes along the route, then by tanks.
On August 26, 1844, Andraud and Tessié du Motay launched on the Paris-Versailles line (Left Bank) a new compressed air "locomotive-waggon". Weighing five tons and resembling a cylindrical boiler. As represented in the engravings in this book, Andraud planned to compete with the railways with "air-powered railways".
It was in fact in the tramway networks, after Andraud's death, that compressed air propulsion was developed in the 1860s-1870s
Presentation copy.

Photo CZYNSKI, Jean. 

CZYNSKI, Jean. 

Kopernik et ses travaux. 

Paris, Jules Renouard et Cie, 1847.
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250 €

First edition.

This book deals with the researches and life of the famous Polish astronomer, Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543), who was at the origin of the theory of heliocentrism (the Earth revolves around the Sun and not the opposite).

The author, Jean Czynski (1801-1867) was a Polish lawyer, writer, political essayist, independence activist, utopian socialist and radical democrat and a strong supporter of Polish culture.

Photo [ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest. 

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest. 

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1847-49 (2vols). 

s.l., s.n., 1847-1849.
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600 €

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.

Photo [ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest. 

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest. 

Epures de Géométrie descriptive. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1847].
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200 €

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

Photo PELTIER, F.A. 

PELTIER, F.A. 

Notice sur le vie et les travaux scientifiques de J.C.A. Peltier. 

Paris, E. Bautruche, 1847.
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125 €

First edition of this important scientific biography of of J.C.A. Peltier (1785-1845) known for his works on electricity and the "Peltier effect".

Photo DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques Terrestres et d'Eau Douce qui vivent en France. 

Paris, Victor Masson, 1847-1852.
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350 €

First edition.
Complete collection of six issues as published in which Abbé Dupuy describes a number of new species (and or subspecies) starting with the Pyrenees Nerite.
Dupuy's malacological collections which were used to write his history of molluscs are today kept at the Toulouse museum and were only completely inventoried in 2009.

Photo GALOIS, Évariste. 

GALOIS, Évariste. 

Oeuvres mathématiques d'Évariste Galois. In Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées ou Recueil mensuel de mémoires sur les diverses parties des mathématiques, Année 1846, Tome XI. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1846.
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First edition of collected mathematical works of Evariste Galois given by Liouville in this volume of the Journal de Mathématiques pures et appliquées .

A brilliant mathematician, misunderstood in his day and with a tragic fate (he died at the age of 20 in a gallant duel), Galois created the notion of group, and his work has inspired generations of mathematicians.
A brilliant student, he was misunderstood by his contemporaries. Poisson rejected the work he wanted to present to the Paris Academy of Sciences.
In 1832, on the eve of his fatal duel, Galois wrote his mathematical will, which he entrusted to a friend.
It was not until 1846 that Liouville published them in this volume of the Journal des mathématiques, and not until 1870 that Jordan recognized their importance.

"When, yielding to the wish of Evariste's friends, I gave myself up, as it were under the eyes of his brother, to the attentive study of all the printed or manuscript pieces he left behind, I therefore thought I had to propose as my sole aim to seek out, to unravel, to then bring out as best I could, what was new in these productions.

My zeal was soon rewarded, and I was delighted when, after filling in a few small gaps, I recognized the complete accuracy of the method by which Galois proves, in particular, this beautiful theorem: For an irreducible equation of prime degree to be solvable by radicals, it is necessary and sufficient that all the roots be rational functions of any two of them.
This method, truly worthy of the attention of geometers, would alone suffice to secure our compatriot a place among the small number of scientists who have earned the title of inventor." (Liouville p.382).

Photo SCHRAMKE, Theophilus. 

SCHRAMKE, Theophilus. 

Description of the New-York Croton aqueduct : in English, German and French. 

New York, at the authors, 1846.
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1500 €

First edition.
Rare publication on the construction of the Croton Aqueduct.
Following the Cholera epidemic of 1832, the city of New York, whose population was exploding at the time (the most populated city in the United States as early as 1820), decided to build an aqueduct to bring drinking water from the Catskills to the heart of the city.
The construction site, which spanned 40.5 miles (65 kilometers) from 1837 to 1842, was led by John B. Jervis and secured New York's water supply. It was then one of the largest works of hydraulic architecture, linking reservoirs, tunnels, and bridges. The Aqueduct remained in service until 1955.
It was the first of the monumental infrastructures that would make New York a new Rome.

Photo FUSTER, Joseph-Jean Nicolas. 

FUSTER, Joseph-Jean Nicolas. 

Des Changements dans le climat de la France, histoire de ses révolutions météorologiques
[relié à la suite :]
Des Maladies de la France dans leurs rapports avec les saison, ou histoire médicale et météorologique de la France, Paris, Dufart, 1840. 

Paris, Capelle, 1845.
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600 €

Two works in first edition by the same author in one volume:

I - FUSTER, Changes in the climate of France, history of its meteorological revolutions, Paris, Capelle, 1845

"The climate of France has changed and is changing"
Quite fascinating historiographical work on the French climate since the Gauls until the XIXth century.
One of the final chapters entitled "The action of meteorological phenomena and the human industry as causes of changes in our climate" sounds like a strange echo 150 years before the IPCC reports.

II- FUSTER, Diseases of France in their relationships with the seasons, or medical and meteorological history of France, Paris, Dufart, 1840

"The subject of this book is still new: no one has dealt with the diseases of France; no one has considered these diseases in their relationship with the seasons. But it is between us something more than "a new application of principles already known; it is, above all, the search for these principles. How do the seasons work; determine the diseases in correspondence with their action? Here is the problem first. The history of the seasons and diseases of France will follow and must follow the solution of these two questions. "

While the seasonality of viral infections is always a concern.

Photo COUSIN, Victor. 

COUSIN, Victor. 

Fragments de Philosophie Cartésienne. 

Paris, Charpentier, 1845.
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This book by Victor Cousin (1792-1867) consists in several texts dealing with Cartesian Philosophy, as well as letters between Malebranche and Mairan, and between Malebranche and Leibnitz (unpublished).
Victor Cousin is a French philosopher, leader of the "École Éclectique". He edited the works of Descartes, translated Plato and Proclus, wrote a "Histoire de la philosophie au XVIIIème siècle" in 1829, "Du Vrai, du Beau et du Bien" in 1853, and several monographs on famous women of the seventeenth century.
He is considered in France as the founder of the tradition of history studies of Philosophy and the reformer of philosophical teaching in high schools.

Photo GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

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

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

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

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

Photo JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob. 

JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob. 

Mémoire sur l'élimination des noeuds dans le problème des trois corps. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1844.
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350 €

First off-print publication of Jacobi's article on his approach to the three-body problem.

Jacobi's article is binded following two other memoirs on celestial mechanics, extracted from the Journal de Liouville:
CISA DE GRESY, Memoir on the problem of the disturbance of the planets, Bachelor, [1828]
LE DOULCET DE PONTECOULANT, Memoir on the part of the coefficients of the great inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn which depend on the square of the pertubating forces, Paris, Bachelier, [1829].

Photo [MATHEMATIQUES]. 

[MATHEMATIQUES]. 

Journal de l'Ecole Royale Polytechnique. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1843-1845.
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100 €

First edition.
Years 1843 and 1834 of publication of the Journal of the Royal Polytechnic School. There are scientific articles by professors from the School of the day:.

Photo LEREBOURS, Noël Paymal. 

LEREBOURS, Noël Paymal. 

Galerie Microscopique ET Instruction pratique sur les microscopes, contentant la description des microscopes achromatiques simplifiés. 

Paris, N-P Lerebours, 1843.
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400 €

Three works on microscopes given by Lerebours
First french edition of the Microscopic cabinet of Pritchard.

Second edition of the "Description des Microscopes achromatiques simplifiés" followed, with title page and separate pagination of "description des microscopes achromatiques simplifiés " (third edition).

The Lerebours family had become specialists in the development of optical tools for scientific purposes. After being interested in daguerreotypes, Noël Paymal Lerebours turned to microscopy.
His achromatic microscopes of excellent quality are still sought after by collectors.

Photo CRUVEILHIER, Jean. 

CRUVEILHIER, Jean. 

Vie de Dupuytren. 

Paris, Bechet Jeune, 1841.
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60 €

First edition.
A student from Limousin and successor in Paris to his compatriot Guillaume Dupuytren, Jean Cruveilhier is currently better known by anatomists and anatomopathologists than by surgeons. Guillaume Dupuytren (1771-1835) was immediately admired by his intern Jean Cruveilhier who, developing the ideas of his boss, quickly became a master in anatomopathology. He was the first to devote a biography to his master.

Photo KUPFFER, Adolf Theodor. 

KUPFFER, Adolf Theodor. 

Travaux de la commission pour fixer les mesures et les poids de l'empire de Russie. 

St Petersbourg, Imprimerie de l'Expédition de la confection des papiers de la Couronne, 1841.
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2000 €

First edition.
Adolph Theodor Kupffer (1799-1865) was a Baltic German physical chemist and therefore subject of the Russian Empire. He proposed establishing a single system of weights and measures in Russia, whose system, still of medieval inspiration, was then very heterogeneous. Kupffer's unified system will be adopted by an imperial decree of Nicholas I in 1835. He explains the modalities in this publication in 1841. Although these works are written in French, the French decimal metric system seems to him to be mathematically logical. , too revolutionary for Russia. He preferred to draw inspiration from the London Commission of Weights and Measures and defined the standards of weight (the pound), length (the Sagène) and volume (the védro) based on English measurements. A Russian Sagène is thus worth six English feet. The basic standards are made of copper and platinum. The Kupffer system remained in use in Russia until the end of the 19th century, before the country finally adopted the metric system.
Very complete set of atlas of 15 plates which completes the text.

Photo DEGUIN, Nicolas. 

DEGUIN, Nicolas. 

Cours élémentaire de physique, à l'usage des collèges et des autres établissemens d'instruction publique. 

Paris, Belin-Mandar, 1841.
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75 €

Third edition of these basic physics lessons, by Nicolas Deguin (1809-1860) who was professor of Physics at the Faculty of Science in Besançon.

Photo PENN, Johannes Jacobus. 

PENN, Johannes Jacobus. 

Handboek der Schoone Bouwkunst. 

Breda, F.P. Sterk, 1841.
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200 €

Architecture book in Dutch.

Photo FRANCOEUR, Louis Benjamin. 

FRANCOEUR, Louis Benjamin. 

Géodésie ou traité de la figure de la Terre et de ses parties. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1840.
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120 €

Second edition.
Lessons given at the Faculty of Sciences of Paris including topography, surveying, leveling, terrestrial and astronomical geomorphy, construction of maps, navigation.

Photo CAUCHY, Augustin Louis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

CAUCHY, Augustin Louis || ACADÉMIE ROYALE DES SCIENCES. 

Mémoires sur la théorie des nombres . IN. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France. Tome XVII. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1840.
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950 €

Mémoire sur la Théorie des Nombres, Présenté a l'Académie des Sciences, le 31 Mai 1830, par M. Augustin Cauchy.
First edition of this important memoir (pp/ 249 to 768 of this volume of memoirs of the academy of sciences).

The writing of this memoir is quite abrupt, with a succession of formulas difficult to relate to each other, and it will be criticized by Biot in particular.
However, Jenny Boucard, after an in-depth study of Cauchy's work, concluded that Cauchy exposes a coherent method around the quadratic forms 4p^μ=x²+ny² which he applies in different cases, depending on whether n is prime or compound. (Boucard, p.365).

This volume of the Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences contains :

PONCELET : Théorie des effets mécaniques de la turbine Fourneyron.
TURPIN :
- Mémoire sur les différences qu'offrent les tissus cellulaires de la pomme et de la poire ...
- Mémoire sur la cause et les effets de la fermentation alcoolique et acéteuse.
- Recherches microscopiques sur divers laits ...
BECQUEREL : Nouvelles recherches sur le dégagement de la chaleur dans le frottement
CAUCHY. Mémoires sur la théorie des nombres.
BIOT. Mémoire sur l'existence d'une condition physique qui assigne à l'atmosphère terrestre une limite supérieure d'élévation qu'elle ne peut dépasser.
CHEVREUL. Recherches physico chimiques sur la teinture
And the Flourens' historical praise of Jussieu and Arago's praise of James Watt.

Photo MOIGNO , Francois Napoleon Marie. 

MOIGNO , Francois Napoleon Marie. 

Leçons de calcul différentiel et de calcul intégral, rédigées d'après les méthodes et les ouvrages publiés ou inédits de A.L. Cauchy. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1840-1844.
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Rare first edition, of one of the most complete treatise on differential and integral calculus of the middle of nineteenth century.

Photo PELOUZE, Edmond. 

PELOUZE, Edmond. 

Secrets modernes des arts et métiers. 

Paris, Librairie de Maison, 1840 - 1850.
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350 €

Third edition, the most important, because contains a description of the Daguerreotype's technique, presented at the Academy of Sciences of Paris on 7th January 1839 by Arago,

This book consists in many different chapters with one that reproduced the full text of the description of this revolutionary process, taken from the « Historique et description du daguerréotype et du diorama », published in 1839 by Daguerre.

It is one of the first diffusions of this technique in a book of scientific popularization (in 1840), which shows the huge success of photography among the public.


Complete copy in 3 volumes, with an additional manuscript volume written by an anonymous author (it contains a set of manufacturing methods for products such as linen marking ink, marine glue or how to make fabrics waterproof).

Photo CLAUDIUS || [RUELLE, Charles]. 

CLAUDIUS || [RUELLE, Charles]. 

La science populaire de Claudius ; Simples discours sur toutes choses : Sur la chaleur. 

Paris, Jules Renouard, 1840.
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20 €

First edition.

Photo CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène. 

De la Loi du Contraste simultané des Couleurs et de l’Assortiment des Objets colorés, considéré d’après cette Loi dans ses Rapports avec la Peinture, les Tapisseries des Gobelins, les Tapisseries de Beauvais pour Meubles, les Tapis, la Mosaïque, les Vitraux colorés, l’Impression des Étoffes, l’Imprimerie, l’Enluminure, la Décoration des Édifices, l’Habillement et l’Horticulture. 

Paris, Pitois-Levrault, 1839.
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9000 €

First edition.
One of the most influential books on art in the 19th century.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty substances (1810–1823) and on immediate organic analysis (1824), but it is as a color theorist that his name achieved lasting fame.
De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs introduced a scientific understanding of color that had a profound and lasting impact on the painters of his time.
His “law” describes how the perception of a hue is altered by the surrounding colors, each color projecting its complementary onto its immediate environment (thus, a red object tends to cast a greenish glow on nearby surfaces, a yellow one a purplish tint, and so on). This principle is clearly illustrated in plate 7 of the Atlas, where colored dots on a white background seem to emit halos of their complementary hues.

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), a central figure of Romanticism, paid close attention to Chevreul’s research. According to the painter Paul Signac, Delacroix even sought to meet the chemist and acquired notes from his lectures in order to better grasp the law of simultaneous contrast. Several of his paintings feature harmonies built around complementary color pairs. For instance, The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840) deliberately juxtaposes yellow/purple, blue/orange, and red/green to dramatize the scene—so effectively that art historian Lee Johnson called it an ideal “illustration” of Chevreul’s treatise.

But it was arguably within the Impressionist movement that Chevreul’s theories reached their highest artistic fulfillment. Claude Monet (1840–1926), in particular, used simultaneous contrast to heighten luminosity in his landscapes. He avoided black and earth tones, preferring instead to render shadows in color: purples and blues for shaded areas at sunset, accented with yellow-orange highlights in full light. This technique appears as early as Impression, Sunrise, the foundational work of the movement. One might also recall the poppy fields, a favorite motif of the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro…), where red flowers vibrantly stand out against green backgrounds.

A book heralding one of the greatest revolutions in painting.

Our copy is complete with all the color plates, most of them signed by Chevreul himself.

Photo CHOPART, Louis Narcisse. 

CHOPART, Louis Narcisse. 

Essais sur les évolutions navales suivis de quelques tables. 

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1839.
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600 €

First edition.
Chopart will be Vice-Admiral of the French Navy, he will participate in particular in the Algiers expedition in 1830. His book is in line with the tactics of the 18th century sailing navy, but as a former student from polytechnique he constantly uses geometric tools to demonstrate his movements. Beautiful printing on quality paper for this naval tactics book.

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