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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).

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 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 12 plates which completes the text.

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 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 [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 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 RENOU, Emilien. 

RENOU, Emilien. 

Instructions météorologiques. 

s.l., Société Météorologique de France, [v. 1855].
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50 €

Three texts extracted from the Yearbook of the Meteorological Society of France.
- Weather instructions.
- Usual meteorology tables.
- Errata and supplement.

Photo PARIS, François-Edmond. 

PARIS, François-Edmond. 

Traité de l'Hélice Propulsive. 

Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1855.
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600 €

First edition.
Reference work on the beginnings of the use of the propeller as a means of propulsion of ships. T
he propeller improved in the 1830s begins to show its superiority over paddle wheels, and all commercial or military fleets are in full transition to steam propulsion.

The frontispiece represents the Himalaya, a British liner which is then the largest ship ever built. It will be used by the Royal Navy during the Second Opium War and will not be destroyed until 1940 by a German bombing.

Complete copy with all the required plates.

Photo VAN MONCKHOVEN, Désiré. 

VAN MONCKHOVEN, Désiré. 

Méthodes simplifiées de photographie sur papier. 

Paris, Marion et Cie, 1857.
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300 €

First edition.
Désiré Van Monckhoven is one of the most famous Belgian photographers. Chemist he participated in the dissemination of knowledge of photographic chemistry then in full explosion.
Photography on paper was invented a few years earlier by Talbo to overcome the drawbacks of daguerreotypes, in the 1850s it was still little used but it was this process (negative-positive) that allowed the photographs to be widely distributed.
In this book Monckhoven gives the precise implementation of this process by giving in particular two samples of paper which allow to touch the papers which were then used in the middle of the XIXth century.

Following Monckoven's text were added 8 handwritten pages on collodion (another photographic process) and two notes on loose paper on these processes.

Photo FIGUIER, Louis. 

FIGUIER, Louis. 

L'Année Scientifique et industrielle (7 volumes). 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1858-1876.
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100 €

One of the first popular science journals.
Each volume devoted to a year: 1856,1859,1860,1861,1862,1869,1874.

Photo ROBIQUET, Henri-Edmond. 

ROBIQUET, Henri-Edmond. 

Manuel théorique et pratique de photographie sur collodion et sur albumine. 

Paris, Labé - Masson Sénez, 1859.
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750 €

Henri-Edmond Robiquet (1822-1860) was a French physicist and a member of the Société de Pharmacie.
He mastered photography and much of the photographic science in his textbook was personally tested in his lab at the school.
Rare first edition, complete with the photograph, using the carbon powder print technics of Garnier and Salmon.
In 1858, Henri Garnier and Alphonse Salmon discovered the photochemical reaction of ferric citrate, altering its hygroscopic and solubility properties. This led to the invention of their "dusting-on" process – procédé au charbon – using a positive rather than a negative to make the exposure. Pine soot, pigment, or metal salt particles were affixed to the tacky areas of unexposed emulsion, using a tampon in conjunction with the hot breath of the photographer. The particles were then easily washed out of the exposed areas of emulsion, leaving behind the grained image. A year later, Garnier and Salmon abandoned iron salts to pursue emulsions of ammonium dichromate and sugar. The plate in Robiquet's book is one of few, or maybe the sole, published example from their workshop of their carbon powder method.

Photo [ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Cours d'Architecture. 

s.l., s.n., [v.1860].
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190 €

Printed plates of the architecture course at the Ecole Polytechnique.
In this famous french school, student have to produce drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.

Photo CHEVALIER, Arthur. 

CHEVALIER, Arthur. 

L'étudiant micrographe. 

Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1863.
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750 €

Rare first edition.

This book deals with five different types of microscopes (simple, composite, solar, gas, and electrical), and the various applications in botany, physiology, pathology and chemistry. The last chapter deals with optical instruments applied to medicine and surgery.
The atlas consists in 301 figures, in black and white, from observations made under the microscope.

Photo RATIER, H. 

RATIER, H. 

Manuel du négociant en spiritueux. 

Paris, F. Savy, 1863.
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800 €

First edition.
Rare book on the distillation and maturation of Cognac.
"My intention is therefore to demonstrate, as clearly as I can, the manner of distilling wines, to designate those which are most suitable for being burned, and in which regions they are harvested. I then give all the scales necessary to cellar masters, for the reduction and re-increase of degrees." (extract from the preface).

Photo QUETIN, Victor. 

QUETIN, Victor. 

Le magasin de meubles n°2: Album complet & Reference de tous Meubles qui se fabriquent a Paris contenant environ 250 modèles, dessinés en perspective. 

Paris, Victor Quetin, [v.1865].
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250 €

First edition.
Collection of furniture designs by Victor Quetin, as required by the production of the time, the style of furniture oscillates between what would later be called the Louis-Philippe style and the Napoleon III style.

Photo BECQUEREL. BABINET. DUHAMEL. 

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.

Photo VREDEMAN DE VRIESE, Paul. 

VREDEMAN DE VRIESE, Paul. 

Plusieurs Menuiseries comme Portaulx, Garderobbes, Buffets, Chalicts. 

Bruxelles, G. A. Van Trigt, 1869.
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100 €

Reprint in photolithographs of the original plates from 1630.

Photo DAVILLIER, Jean Charles. 

DAVILLIER, Jean Charles. 

La Fayence; poème de P. de Frasnay suivi de Vasa Faventina Carmen (1735) avec une introduction sur l'usage et le prix des faïences aux siècles derniers. 

Paris, Aubry, 1870.
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150 €

First edition. One of the rare on Whatman paper.

Photo DAVILLIER, Jean Charles. 

DAVILLIER, Jean Charles. 

La Fayence; poème de P. de Frasnay suivi de Vasa Faventina Carmen (1735) avec une introduction sur l'usage et le prix des faïences aux siècles derniers. 

Paris, Aubry, 1870.
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50 €

First edition.

Photo POTTIER, André. 

POTTIER, André. 

Histoire de la Faïence de Rouen. Ouvrage postume publié par les soins de MM. L'Abbé Colas, Gustave Gouellain & Raymond Bordeaux. Orné de soixante planches imprimées en couleurs & des vignettes, d'après les dessins de Mlle. Emilie Pottier. 

Rouen, Auguste le Brument, 1870.
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350 €
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