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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 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 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 [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 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 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 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 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 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 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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50 €

First edition.

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 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 €
Photo [ECOLE CENTRALE DE PYROTECHNIE]. 

[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.

Photo FORESTIÉ, Édouard. 

FORESTIÉ, Édouard. 

Les anciennes faïenceries de Montauban, Ardus, Nègrepelisse, Auvillar, Bressols, Beaumont, etc. 

Montauban, Forestié Neveu, 1876.
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250 €

Fine copy of this rare study.

Photo RIS-PAQUOT. 

RIS-PAQUOT. 

Documents inédits sur les faïences charentaises D'Angoulême, L'Houmeau Garde-Épée, Saint-Eutrope-de-Montmoreau et Cognac, suivis de quelques notes sur les faïenceries de la Charente-Inférieure. 15 sujets en couleur retouchés à la main. 

Amiens, Chez l'Auteur, 1878.
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250 €

Rare first edition.

Photo [Société d'aquarellistes français]. 

[Société d'aquarellistes français]. 

12 Catalogues d'expositions (1879-1893). 

Paris, D. Jouaust, 1879-1893.
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150 €

First editions.
Original initiative in France, the Society of French watercolorists was created as a company in 1879, its goal was the fair remuneration of its painters.
Each year an exhibition was organized, the income from the sale of entrance tickets, catalogs and works were then distributed equally among the painters.
Among the members, some well-known names of pre-impressionist art: Detaille, Worms, Leloir, De Beaumont, Jacquemart, Doré.

Photo LEROY, A. 

LEROY, A. 

Traité pratique des machines locomotives. A l'usage des mécaniciens, des chauffeurs et autres agents spéciaux des ateliers et dépôts des chemins de fer. 

Dijon, Ropiteau, 1879.
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125 €

Rare first edition. Text only. Without the atlas published separatly.

Photo MONCKHOVEN, Désiré van. 

MONCKHOVEN, Désiré van. 

Traité général de photographie suivi d'un chapitre spécial sur le gélatino-bromure d'argent. 

Paris, G. Masson, 1880.
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50 €

This seventh edition is the first to offer a long chapter devoted to the process on gelatin-silver bromide which has just been developed and which is the major revolution in photography at the end of the 19th century.

"It is certain that, from now on, photography is really within the reach of all and that its applications will become much more numerous. Indeed, it is enough to obtain dry plates with gelatin-silver bromide and to study during a small number of days the manipulations of the development of the image, to obtain results which were, until now, the exclusive domain of a few specialists ". (p. 373).

Photo [ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H. 

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H. 

Épures. 

s.l., s.n., 1880.
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300 €

Collection of drawings, by H. Bardonnaut.
For a long time, the Forestry School has depended on the Polytechnic School; it has retained the particularity of having its engineering students draw sketches: Development of maps and architectural models oriented towards the management of water and forests.

Photo [Union centrale des arts décoratifs]. 

[Union centrale des arts décoratifs]. 

Les Arts du bois, des tissus et du papier. Mobilier national et privé. Tapisseries. Tissus. Objets orientaux. Livres et reliures. Gravures. Papiers peints. Reproduction des principaux objets d'art exposés en 1882 à la 7e exposition de l'Union centrale des Arts décoratifs. 

Paris, A. Quantin, 1883.
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80 €

Beautiful catalog of the 7th exhibition of the central union of decorative arts illustrated with 338 reproductions.
Text by MM. de Champeaux, Darcel, Gaston Le Breton, Gasnault, Germain Bapst, Duplessis, Rioux de Maillou, Victor Champier.

Photo ADELINE, Jules. 

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.

Photo FABRY, Eugène. 

FABRY, Eugène. 

L'art de construire les ballons en papier. 

Paris, Ch.Mendel, [1884].
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650 €

Mathematician (he worked on differential equations), Fabry gives here a funny and interresting work on how to build small balloons in paper that can fly.
The book begins with guide on how build balloons. It then explains how to inflate and fly them.
The book continues with a theoretical part allowing the reader to develop himself further plans and ends with an indication of the accessories that can be carried away in a balloon, and in particular the way to build parachutes.
Rare work which is not in any French public library (source: ccfr).

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