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BOONE, Mary Lou.

Faience and soft Porcelain.
Selections from the Boone Collection.

IM, Mary Lou Boone, 1992.

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50 €

Rare.

BONNAFFÉ, Edmond.

Les Faiences de Saint-Porchaire.

Paris, s.n., 1888.

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50 €

Rare offprint of the study published in the "gazette des beaux arts"on Faiences of Saint-Porchaire.

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.

BIOT, Edouard.

Manuel du constructeur de chemins de fer.

Paris, Librairie encyclopédique Roret, 1834.

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250 €

First edition.
One of the very first works in French on railways.
Édouard Constant Biot (1803 - 1850) was a French engineer and sinologist. He participated as an engineer in the construction of the second French railway line, between Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

BEZOUT, Etienne.

Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine.

Paris, Ph-D Pierres, 1781-1784.

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500 €

Rare complete course of Bezout containing the four parts, the continuation of the fourth part and the treaty of navigation.
Part 1 and 2 are bound together in the first volume. Complete with the 38 engravings.

"Native of Nemours, professor of mathematics with the guards of the Navy and the School of artillery (Monge succeeded him in 1783), Étienne Bézout (or Bezout, as very often said and written nowadays) edited many textbooks educational. " (chronomath).

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.

[BERGERON, Louis-Georges-Isaac Salivet].

Manuel du Tourneur, ouvrage dans lequel on enseigne aux Amateurs la manière d'exécuter sur la Tour à Pointes, à Lunette, en l'Air, Excentrique, Ovale, à Guillocher, Quarré, à Portraits & autres, tout ce que l'Art a produit de plus ingénieux.

Paris, Bergeron, 1792-1796.

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700 €

First edition.
Reference manual on turning, very complete with its 72 folding plates including color plates presenting the different species of wood.

BECQUEREL. BABINET. DUHAMEL.

Instruction sur les Paratonnerres des magasins à poudre.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1867.

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100 €

Rare offprint from 'Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences'.
In order to guarantee the powder warehouses against the risk of lightning, the Minister of War commissioned this study to the french science academy.

BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse.

Traité de l'art metalique, extrait des Oeuvres d'Alvarez Alfonse Barba, célèbre artiste dans les mines du Potozi, auquel on a joint un mémoire concernant les mines de France; avec un Tarif qui démontre les opérations qu'il faudroit faire pour tirer de ces mines l'or et l'argent qu'en tiroient les Romains lorsqu'ils étoient maîtres de Gaules.

Paris, Pierre Prault, 1730.

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450 €

First edition in french
Rare book containing curious precepts of hermeticism and data on metal art.

[AVIATION].

Notice concernant l'examen sommaire des avions et des moteurs par les pilotes avant le départ et après l'atterrissage.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1918].

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150 €

Ancestor of the famous "Check-list" that each pilots read before take-off.
The cover is stamped with the Avord Aviation Practice School.

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.

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.

[ALPINE].

5 photos de l'Alpine A310.

s.l., s.n., [v. 1971].

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25 €

ADER PICARD TAJAN.

Collection d'un grand amateur.
Important ensemble de faïences des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

Paris, s.n., 1979.

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25 €

Auction sale catalogue.

ADER PICARD TAJAN.

Collection du Docteur Maurin ...
Porcelaines et Faïences des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Rennes, s.n., 1988.

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25 €

Auction sale catalogue.

ADELINE, Jules.

Lexique des termes d'art.

Paris, A. Quantin, [v.1884].

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50 €

First edition.
A very practical handbook, especially for students of Art and Art History, who want to learn the different technical terms of architecture, sculpture, etc.

Numerous engravings in the text pages.

ACCUM, Friedrich || WINSOR, Frédérick Albert.

Traité pratique de l'éclairage par le gaz inflammable, contenant une description sommaire de l'appareil et du mécanisme employés pour l'illumination des rues, des maisons et des manufactures, à l'aide du gaz hydrogène carburé, tiré du charbon de terre ; accompagné de remarques sur l'utilité, la sûreté et la nature générale de cette nouvelle branche d'économie civile.

Paris, L'Auteur, 1816.

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500 €

First french edition.
Frédéric Albert Winsor is a German inventor, one of the pioneers of gas lighting in the United Kingdom and France. Building on the work of his compatriot Accum, he developed lighting during the first decade of the 19th century. gas in England. In 1816, The Winsor company arrived in Paris. The first achievements, the passage of the Panoramas, the lighting of the Luxembourg and the surroundings of the Odéon arouse in the Parisian population as much approval as disapproval, enthusiasm as fear, particularly regarding the risk of the gas holders exploding . The publication of this work (which is partially the translation into French of Accum's work) supports the commercial development of gas lighting.

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Engineering

BOONE, Mary Lou.

Faience and soft Porcelain. Selections from the Boone Collection.

Rare.

BONNAFFÉ, Edmond.

Les Faiences de Saint-Porchaire.

Rare offprint of the study published in the "gazette des beaux arts"on Faiences of Saint-Porchaire.

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.

BIOT, Edouard.

Manuel du constructeur de chemins de fer.

First edition.One of the very first works in French on railways. Édouard Constant Biot (1803 - 1850) was a French engineer and sinologist. He participated as an engineer in the construction of the second French railway line, between Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

BEZOUT, Etienne.

Cours de mathématiques à l'usage des gardes du pavillon et de la marine.

BERTALL.

Cahier des charges des chemins de fer. Pamphlet illustré.

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

[BERGERON, Louis-Georges-Isaac Salivet].

Manuel du Tourneur, ouvrage dans lequel on enseigne aux Amateurs la manière d'exécuter sur la Tour à Pointes, à Lunette, en l'Air, Excentrique, Ovale, à Guillocher, Quarré, à Portraits & autres, tout ce que l'Art a produit de plus ingénieux.

First edition.Reference manual on turning, very complete with its 72 folding plates including color plates presenting the different species of wood.

BECQUEREL. BABINET. DUHAMEL.

Instruction sur les Paratonnerres des magasins à poudre.

Rare offprint from 'Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences'. In order to guarantee the powder warehouses against the risk of lightning, the Minister of War commissioned this study to the french science academy.

BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse.

First edition in french Rare book containing curious precepts of hermeticism and data on metal art.

[AVIATION].

Notice concernant l'examen sommaire des avions et des moteurs par les pilotes avant le départ et après l'atterrissage.

Ancestor of the famous "Check-list" that each pilots read before take-off. The cover is stamped with the Avord Aviation Practice School.

APPERT, Nicolas.

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

ANDRAUD, Antoine.

Chemins éoliques ou locomotion par l'air comprimé.

[ALPINE].

5 photos de l'Alpine A310.

ADER PICARD TAJAN.

Collection d'un grand amateur. Important ensemble de faïences des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

Auction sale catalogue.

ADER PICARD TAJAN.

Collection du Docteur Maurin ... Porcelaines et Faïences des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

Auction sale catalogue.

ADELINE, Jules.

Lexique des termes d'art.

First edition.A very practical handbook, especially for students of Art and Art History, who want to learn the different technical terms of architecture, sculpture, etc.Numerous engravings in the text pages.

ACCUM, Friedrich || WINSOR, Frédérick Albert.

Faience and soft Porcelain.
Selections from the Boone Collection.

First edition.
One of the very first works in French on railways.
Édouard Constant Biot (1803 - 1850) was a French engineer and sinologist. He participated as an engineer in the construction of the second French railway line, between Lyon and Saint-Étienne.

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

First edition.
Reference manual on turning, very complete with its 72 folding plates including color plates presenting the different species of wood.

Rare offprint from 'Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences'.
In order to guarantee the powder warehouses against the risk of lightning, the Minister of War commissioned this study to the french science academy.

First edition in french
Rare book containing curious precepts of hermeticism and data on metal art.

Ancestor of the famous "Check-list" that each pilots read before take-off.
The cover is stamped with the Avord Aviation Practice School.

Collection d'un grand amateur.
Important ensemble de faïences des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles.

Collection du Docteur Maurin ...
Porcelaines et Faïences des XVIe, XVIIe, XVIIIe et XIXe siècles.

First edition.
A very practical handbook, especially for students of Art and Art History, who want to learn the different technical terms of architecture, sculpture, etc.

Numerous engravings in the text pages.