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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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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.

Photo BULLET, Pierre. 

BULLET, Pierre. 

Traité de l'usage du pantomètre, instrument géométrique, instrument géométrique propre à prendre toutes sortes d'angles, mesurer les distances accessibles et inaccessibles, arpenter et diviser toutes sortes de figures. 

Paris, André Pralard, 1675.
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450 €

First edition.

Photo OZANAM, Jacques. 

OZANAM, Jacques. 

Méthode de lever les Plans et les Cartes de terre et de mer avec toutes sortes d'instrumens, et sans instrumens. 

Paris, Michallet, 1693.
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650 €

Rare first edition.
In addition to detailing the geometric methods of surveying, Ozanam describes the composition and use of the material specific to the surveyors of the time: copper plank, compass, Huygens level.

Photo PILES, Roger de. 

PILES, Roger de. 

Dialogue sur le coloris. 

Paris, Nicolas Langlois, 1699.
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450 €

Second edition.
"The discourse on art was born in France during the reign of Louis XIV thanks to two antagonistic figures: Félibien (1619-1709) and Roger de Piles (1635-1709). The latter became the major theoretician of color in the quarrel which opposed Rubenists and Poussinists during the last three decades of the 17th century." (trad. from Bernard Teyssèdre, "Roger de Piles and The debate on color, 1957)

De Piles supports Rubens by arguing that color is the major subject of painting and must come before drawing.

Photo [SECRETS]. 

[SECRETS]. 

Secrets concernant les arts et métiers. 

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1716.
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350 €

First edition.
This book contains many craft secrets for the decorative arts with the recipes of varnishes, ink, dyes useful to painters, engravers, jewelers, cabinetmakers, perfumers ... A real treasure for the restorers of objects of the eighteenth century.

Photo CAMUS, François-Joseph de. 

CAMUS, François-Joseph de. 

Traité des forces mouvantes pour la pratique des arts et métiers. Avec une explication de vingt machines nouvelles & utiles. 

Paris, Claude Jombert et Laurent Le Conte, 1722.
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150 €

First edition.

François-Joseph de Camus (1672-1732) is a French technician and inventor in mechanical science. This book is one of his most important texts, including a significant number of his inventions.

Photo BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse. 

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.

Photo BUCHOTTE, Nicolas. 

BUCHOTTE, Nicolas. 

Les Règles du Dessein et du Lavis, pour les plans particuliers des ouvrages & des bâtimens. 

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1754.
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120 €

Reference work in the eighteenth century for the drawing of plans which participated in the harmonization of codes and legends.

Photo JOBLOT, Louis. 

JOBLOT, Louis. 

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope. 

Paris, Briasson, 1754-1755.
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2500 €

Second edition.
Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

Photo ROUBO, André Jacob. 

ROUBO, André Jacob. 

L’Art du menuisier. (Atlas des planches). 

Paris, [Delatour], 1769.
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300 €

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 50 plates for the first part of Art du Menuisier.

Photo GRIGNON, Pierre-Clément. 

GRIGNON, Pierre-Clément. 

Mémoires de physique sur l'art de fabriquer le fer, d'en fondre et forger des canons d'artillerie; sur l'histoire naturelle et sur divers sujets particuliers de physique et d'économie, avec une table analytique des matières en forme de dictionnaire, pour servir à l'intelligence des termes techniques. 

Paris, Delalain, 1775.
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2400 €

First edition of this important work for the metallurgy and the cristallography.

Photo PALISSY, Bernard. 

PALISSY, Bernard. 

Oeuvres de Bernard Palissy revues sur les exemplaires de la Bibliothèque du Roi ; avec des notes par M. Faujas de Saint Fond, et des additions par M. Gobet. 

Paris, Ruault, 1777.
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450 €

First edition of the complete works of Bernard Palissy. As always without the portrait and the dedicatory epistle to Franklin, which were deleted by the editor prior to publication.
In this copy a later portrait as been added.

It contains the texts on alchemy, but also on agriculture, geology, botany, ceramics, embalming, engineering, hydrology , medicine, metallurgy, meteorology, mineralogy, paleontology, philosophy, physics, toxicology and zoology.

Palissy, first became famous through his technique for making a rustic enameled earthenware, a skill which gained him the appointment of inventeur des rustiques figurines du roy. Palissy was probably one of the first men in France to teach natural sciences from facts, specimens and demonstrations rather than hypotheses. (DSB).

Photo BEZOUT, Etienne. 

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).

Photo [LE ROY, Julien-David]. LE ROI. 

[LE ROY, Julien-David]. LE ROI. 

Nouvelles recherches sur les Vaisseau long des anciens, sur les voiles latines, et sur les moyens de diminuer les dangers que courent les navigateurs. 

Paris, Chez les libraires qui vendent les Nouveautés, 1786.
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600 €

Rare first edition.
Le Roy, was an architect and professor at the Academy of Architecture.
He is interested in the Navy and seeks to make technical improvements.
To validate his solutions, he will build a prototype that he will sail and in this book he presents his results.

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

8 planches sur la Verrerie. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1787 - 1789].
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30 €

Set of 8 plates dedicated to glassware, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
The plates numbered from 1 to 8 represent glass oven plans.

Photo [BERGERON, Louis-Georges-Isaac Salivet]. 

[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.

Photo Lebon, Philippe. 

Lebon, Philippe. 

Thermolampes ou poêles qui chauffent; éclairent avec économie, et offrent, avec plusierus produits précieux, une force motrice applicable à toutes espèce de machines; inventés par Philippe Lebon, ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées. 

Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801.
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Philippe le Bon is the inventor of gas lighting and combustion engine, for which he placed patents in 1799 and 1801
In this rare booklet he explains these new concepts and he proposes to carry out public demonstrations of his inventions and launched a subscription in order to industrialize them.
The Hôtel Seigneley was equiped two month later with his Thermolamp for Gas lightling and heating.
Lebon died prematurely in 1804 has not had the time to develop his combustion engine and we have to wait more than 50 years until Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir realize the first combustion engine.

Photo PRONY, Gaspard de. 

PRONY, Gaspard de. 

Mémoire sur le jaugeage des eaux courantes

Relié à la suite :
- SMEATON. Recherches expérimentales sur l'eau et le vent. 1827
- BELANGER. Essai sur la solution numérique de quelques problèmes relatifs au mouvement permanent des eaux courantes. 1828. 

Paris, Imprimerie de la république, 1802.
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300 €

Bound together three hydraulics work in french.
First edition for the Prony an Belanger and second french edition for Smeaton.

Photo MAYNIEL, Jean-Henri. 

MAYNIEL, Jean-Henri. 

Traite Experimental Analytique et Pratique de la Poussée Des Terres et des murs de Revêtement. 

Paris, Colas, 1808.
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250 €

First edition.

Copy signed by author.

Photo BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph. 

BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph. 

Nouveau manuel forestier à l'usage des agens forestiers de tous grades, des arpenteurs, des Gardes des bois impériaux et communaux, des préposés de la marine pour la recherche des bois propres aux constructions navales. 

Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, 1808.
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600 €

First french edition.
French translation by Jacques-Joseph Baudrillart of the reference book by Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorf, a German forest specialist famous throughout Europe. The first volume contains a summary of the forest code, a general section on natural history, and the description of several hundred plant species found in forests and woods. In the second, there are chapters containing introductions to geometry, mechanics, and civil and naval construction. The tree to be felled is considered to provide parts useful for shipbuilding. It should be noted that the work comes three years after the defeat at Trafalgar, where the English had annihilated the French fleet.

Copy signed by the author.

Photo APPERT, Nicolas. 

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.

Photo ACCUM, Friedrich || WINSOR, Frédérick Albert. 

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.

Photo [DUPUIS-DELCOURT, Jean François]. 

[DUPUIS-DELCOURT, Jean François]. 

Du gaz hydrogène et de son emploi dans le nouveau système d'éclairage. 

Paris, Ponthieu, 1823.
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Rare booklet about the history of discoveries leading to the hydrogen gas lighting, and criticism of the book Nodier and Pichot (see: "Essai critique sur le gaz hydrogene et les divers modes d'eclairage artificiel". 1823).

Photo BULOS, Jean Antonin. 

BULOS, Jean Antonin. 

De la chaleur dans ses applications aux arts et aux manufactures. 

Paris, Urbain Canel, 1825.
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60 €

First edition.

Photo TERQUEM || [MANUEL RORET]. 

TERQUEM || [MANUEL RORET]. 

Manuel de mécanique, ou exposition élémentaire des lois de l'équilibre et du mouvement des corps solides, à l'usage des personnes privées des secours d'un maître. 

Paris, Roret, 1828.
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50 €

First edition.

Photo BIOT, Edouard. 

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.

Photo [POLYTECHNIQUE] CHAUVISE, Jules Thimotée. 

[POLYTECHNIQUE] CHAUVISE, Jules Thimotée. 

Recueils d'Epures. 

s.l., s.n., 1837-1839.
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650 €

Collection of drawings, by Jules Thimothé Chauvisé (X 1837 ; 1817-????).
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 CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew. 

CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew. 

300 animalcules infusoires, dessinés à l'aide du microscope. 

Paris, Charles Chevalier, 1838.
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350 €

First edition.
Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

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.

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).

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