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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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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Engineering

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.

[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.

[GRAVURE].

8 planches sur la Verrerie.

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

[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.

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.

BEZOUT, Etienne.

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

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.

GRIGNON, Pierre-Clément.

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

ROUBO, André Jacob.

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

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.

JOBLOT, Louis.

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope.

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.

BUCHOTTE, Nicolas.

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

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

BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse.

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

CAMUS, François-Joseph de.

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

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.

[SECRETS].

Secrets concernant les arts et métiers.

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.

PILES, Roger de.

Dialogue sur le coloris.

OZANAM, Jacques.

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

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.

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.

First edition.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.