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HUME, David.

Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trône d'Angleterre, depuis l'invasion de Jules César, jusqu'à l'avènement de Henri VII.

Amsterdam, s.n., 1765.

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450 €

First edition in french.

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste.

Nouveau traité des vapeurs, ou traité des maladies des nerfs.

Lyon, V. Reguilliay, 1771.

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600 €

Second edition.
The "vapors" mental disorder popularized by Pierre Pomme, foreshadows what will be discussed under the term Hysteria in the 19th century.

"Contrary to Pomme, Pressavin does not condemn passions without restriction [...] vapors would correspond to a dysfunction of the relational system which binds living beings to the outside world; vapors can just as easily be passionate, in the grip of an overexcited sensitivity , that an indifferent, vegetating in a state of torpor. " Paul Hoffmann, "The Woman in the Thought of Lights", Slatkine, 1995

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard.

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique &
apologétique sur la poudre purgative.

Paris, Méquignon Le Jeune, 1774.

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750 €

The famous purgative powder of Ailhaud true "universal medicine" is a preparation of scammony that cured all diseases.
Its success was enormous and made the richness of its inventor.
This book is a defense of this remedy against the growing criticism of the physicians of the time.

FINE COPY IN A CONTEMPORARY MOROCCO BINDING.

COUTAN.

Le Grand Oeuvre dévoilé en faveur des enfans de la Lumière.

Paris, Delalin, 1775.

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950 €

III. Scarce first edition of the "Grand oeuvre dévoilée".

First are bound two other works :
I. LE CHOYSELAT, Prudent. Discours oeconomique, non moins utile que recreatif, monstrant comme de cinq cens livres pour une foys employées, l'on peult tirer par an quatre mil cinq cens livres de proffict honneste, qui est le moyen de faire profier son argent. Rouen: Martin le Menestrier, 1612 [but c. 1745].
II. LE BRETON. Divers Objets d'économie rurale et domestique. Chez l'Auteur. Paris [1788].

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

Paris, Imprimerie de Guillaume Desprez, 1776.

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7500 €

First edition of this famous treatise on cavalry, one of the most spectacular ever published.

The treatise itself, adorned with a beautiful frontispiece by Pierre Charles Ingouf, depicting Louis XVI reviewing the mounted troops, a title vignette by Macret, and four headings and three tailpieces engraved by various artists after Van Blaremberghe, is illustrated with 11 copper-engraved tactical plates, seven of which are double-page spreads and one folded.

This copy bears the coat of arms of the Duke of Condé, second in the list of 69 subscribers to the work, after the Duke of Chartres, who was the author's godfather.

Text volume only. The atlas, bearing the coat of arms of the Prince of Condé, was sold at the 1988 Biennale des Antiquaires, Librairie Léonce Laget, Paris, and then at Christie's in 2016.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Office de la quinzaine de Pâque, en latin et en françois.

Paris, Libraires associés, 1777.

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200 €

Beautiful 18th century red morocco binding.

MARAT, Jean-Paul.

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences.

Londres et Paris, Jombert, 1780.

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3000 €

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

LORRIS, Guillaume de || MEUNG, Jean de.

Le Roman de la Rose. Edition faite sur celle de Lenglet Dufresnoy, corrigée avec soin, et enrichie de la dissertation sur les auteurs de l'ouvrage, de l'analyse, des variantes et du glossaire publiés en 1737 par J.-B. Lantin de Damerey.

Paris, Fournier et Fils F. Didot, An VII (1799).

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4500 €

One of the 90 copies on large vellum paper wih portrait and engravings in two states.

Fine binding from Bradel l'Aîné.

LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY.

Révolution de la médecine ou régénération de l'Art de Guérir.

Paris, Méquignon, An VII [1799].

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350 €

Rare first edition.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Diurnal ou office complet pour les laïques, latin et français à l'usage du diocès de Bayeux.

Caen, s.n., [v.1800].

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100 €

ADET, Pierre-Auguste.

Leçons élémentaires de chimie à l'usage des lycées.

Paris, Dentu, An XIII - 1804.

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750 €

First edition.
Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

CHAPONE, Hester.

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady.

London, John Mourray, 1807.

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1250 €

The 'Letters on the Improvement of the Mind' aim to cultivate a rational understanding in young women through the study of the Bible, history, and literature.
Girls are also encouraged to pursue subjects such as accounting, household management, botany, geology, and astronomy.
Binding with the coat of arms of Marie Caroline of Bourbon-Sicily, the Duchess of Berry, this book came from her extensive library at Château de Rosny.\newline Known for her refined taste, she collected a wide range of books, especially in the arts, history, and literature, including many in English.
The library also contained numerous works suitable for educating her children, Louise d'Artois and Henri Dieudonné.

[MAROQUIN].

Almanach des Dames pour l'an 1807.

Turingue, J G. Cotta, [1807].

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200 €

First edition.
A beautiful copy in full morocco.
On the blanks two small drawings of flowers of exceptional finesse.
A handwritten message written in German in the "Souvenirs" section.

RAMEL, Abraham Louis.

Système métrique, ou Instruction abrégée sur les nouvelles mesures, avec des calculs qui leur sont relatifs, et des tables de comparaison pour réduire les nouvelles mesures en anciennes et les anciennes en nouvelles; suivis d'une instruction sur les nouvelles monnaies de France, ainsi que d'une description abrégée des poids et mesures de Berne et de Lausanne.

Neuchatel, Mme Fauche Née Borel, 1808.

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1200 €

First edition.
Book promoting the use of the metric system in Switzerland. If Switzerland received in 1801 a copy of the standard meter deposited in Paris, the metric system took several decades to be adopted in all the cantons of the confederation.

"Besides the description that my book gives of the new and old measures of Paris, it can also be considered as a complete treatise of three kinds of measures; namely, those of Neuchâtel, Bern and Lausanne: these neighboring countries will doubtless also adopt under little this system, which has simplicity as its basis" (excerpt from the preface)

Beautiful copy in contemporary morocco.

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER.

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P.

Paris, F. Louis, 1809.

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1200 €

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

Rudimens de la traduction, ou l'art de traduire le latin en français.

Paris, Auguste Delalain, 1811.

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1200 €

Second edition.
Precious copy with the arms of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles Duchess of Berry (1798-1870). Romantic heroine of the Legitimists, Marie-Caroline, daughter of the King of the Two Sicilies Francis I Xavier and Marie-Clementine of Austria, married in 1816 the Duke of Berry Charles-Ferdinand (1778-1820), son of Charles she had a son, the Duke of Bordeaux. Exiled during the revolution of July 1830, she returned to France in April 1832 and tried without success to raise the people in Vendée and Brittany with the aim of a legitimist restoration: arrested in Nantes in November 1832, she was imprisoned in Blaye. It was released in 1833.

Beautiful binding signed by Simier binder of the king.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1817.

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250 €

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried.

Physique Mécanique avec des notes et un appendice sur les anneaux colorés, la double réfraction, la polarisation de la lumière et le magnétisme tant en repos qu'en mouvement par M. Biot.

Paris, Mme Ve Courcier, 1819.

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300 €

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light.
Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres choisies de Massillon.

Paris, Delestre-Boulage, 1823-1825.

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300 €

Beautiful copy for this edition bringing together Massillon's sermons.
Jean-Baptiste Massillon (1663-1742) was bishop of Clermont and academician, he is often compared to Bourdaloue and Bossuet.

Voltaire, who had Le Petit Carême read to him during his meals, said of him: “The preacher who knew the world best; more flowery than Bourdaloue, more pleasant, and whose eloquence smacks of the man of the court, the academician, and the man of wit; moreover, a moderate and tolerant philosopher. ».

PASSALACQUA, Joseph.

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte.

Paris, Galerie d'Antiquites Egyptiennes, 1826.

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6000 €

First edition.

Catalogue of the private collection of Joseph Passalacqua, which he assembled through private excavations in Egypt between 1822 and 1825 and exhibited in Paris at 12 Rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas. He tried to sell this collection of antiquities to France, but it was eventually bought by the King of Prussia. The ensemble formed the core of the Berlin Museum's Egyptian collections.

Presentation copy to the Duc D'Augoulème with it's gilt arms on covers.
Binding from Simier, "Relieur du Roi".

CERVANTES, Miguel.

El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Edición en miniatura enteramente conforme á la última corregida y publicada por la Real Academia Española.

Paris, Jules Didot, 1827.

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600 €

First miscroscopic edition by Didot.
Performance by the printer Didot who fit the entire text of Cervantes into a single tiny volume. As Brunet remarks, it is not easy to read, and Didot printed a more convenient two-volume edition a few years later. The work was commissioned by Joachim Maria de Ferrer, a Spanish statesman, who said Rius, had this edition distributed to his friends.
Most of the copies encountered are covered in a romantic binding by Simier (various variants).

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De.

Atala, René, Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.

Paris, Ladvocat, 1827.

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300 €

Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.
This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.
Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

SCOTT, Walter.

Le Monastère et L'Abbé.

Paris, Dauthereau, 1829.

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450 €

Bindings from Gruel.

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean.

Chansons de P-J de Béranger.

Paris, Perrotin, 1831.

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300 €

Set containing the two volumes of Songs, as well as the "New and Last Songs...dedicated to Lucien Bonaparte" (1833, Perrotin) and the Supplement (Brussels, 1830) which contains political songs and saucy songs. It is certainly this supplement that pushed a collector of the time to hide these licenses from prying eyes behind a cathedral binding bearing the title "Parishioner".

TESSIERES-BOISBERTRAND, Etienne de.

De l'Administration financière telle qu'elle est sous l'influence des préjugés qui en arrêtent le développement, et telle qu'elle pourrait être sous l'empire de la science positive.

Paris, Cherruliez, 1836.

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200 €

First edition.
Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

CHAMPFLEURY.

Grandeur et Décadence d'une Serinette.

Paris, Edmond Blanchard, 1857.

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125 €

Fine binding signed by Yseux.

Louis Yseux is one of the most talented bookbinders of the early 20th century, bringing to life a tradition of French binding and gilding dating back to the 18th century, it is indeed he who takes over the workshop of his master Thierry himself. heir to Simier and Petit. All his bindings bear his signature Yseux successor Thierry-Simier.

[GRUEL].

Paroissien romain d'après les imprimés français du XVème siècle.

Paris, Gruel Engelmann, 1858.

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300 €

Good copy.

AUGIER, Emile.

Maitre Guérin.

Paris, Michel Levy, 1865.

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80 €

First edition.
Comedy.

BOCCACE.

Les Dix Journées de Jean Boccace.

Paris, Librairie des bibliophiles Joaust, 1873.

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450 €

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.
Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques-Henri.

Paul et Virginie.

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1874.

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950 €

Edition illustrated by Lalauze with 6 lates and 2 vignettes.

One of 15 copies on China with additional suites of engravings on Chine paper(black, sepia and bistre) and Japan paper (black, sepia and bistre), ours n°1.

Desirable copy in signed binding.

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Fine Bindings

HUME, David.

Histoire de la maison de Plantagenet sur le trône d'Angleterre, depuis l'invasion de Jules César, jusqu'à l'avènement de Henri VII.

First edition in french.

PRESSAVIN, Jean Baptiste.

Nouveau traité des vapeurs, ou traité des maladies des nerfs.

AILHAUD, Jean Gaspard.

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique & apologétique sur la poudre purgative.

COUTAN.

Le Grand Oeuvre dévoilé en faveur des enfans de la Lumière.

DRUMMOND DE MELFORT, Louis Hector.

Traite sur la Cavalerie.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Office de la quinzaine de Pâque, en latin et en françois.

Beautiful 18th century red morocco binding.

MARAT, Jean-Paul.

Découvertes de M. Marat sur la lumière constatées par une suite d'expériences nouvelles qui ont été faites un très-grand nombre de fois sous les yeux de MM. les Commissaires de l'Académie des Sciences.

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

LORRIS, Guillaume de || MEUNG, Jean de.

Le Roman de la Rose. Edition faite sur celle de Lenglet Dufresnoy, corrigée avec soin, et enrichie de la dissertation sur les auteurs de l'ouvrage, de l'analyse, des variantes et du glossaire publiés en 1737 par J.-B. Lantin de Damerey.

One of the 90 copies on large vellum paper wih portrait and engravings in two states. Fine binding from Bradel l'Aîné.

LEBESCHU DE LA BASTAY.

Révolution de la médecine ou régénération de l'Art de Guérir.

Rare first edition.

[RELIURE MAROQUIN].

Diurnal ou office complet pour les laïques, latin et français à l'usage du diocès de Bayeux.

ADET, Pierre-Auguste.

Leçons élémentaires de chimie à l'usage des lycées.

First edition. Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

CHAPONE, Hester.

Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Young Lady.

[MAROQUIN].

Almanach des Dames pour l'an 1807.

First edition.A beautiful copy in full morocco. On the blanks two small drawings of flowers of exceptional finesse. A handwritten message written in German in the "Souvenirs" section.

RAMEL, Abraham Louis.

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER.

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P.

First edition, scarce first issue. A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page. Rare with the plates colored.

FERRI DE SAINT CONSTANT, Giovanni.

Rudimens de la traduction, ou l'art de traduire le latin en français.

HIPPOCRATE.

Pronostics et prorrhétiques d'Hippocrate.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.Nice copy.

FISCHER, Ernst Gottfried.

Physique Mécanique avec des notes et un appendice sur les anneaux colorés, la double réfraction, la polarisation de la lumière et le magnétisme tant en repos qu'en mouvement par M. Biot.

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light. Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

MASSILLON, Jean-Baptiste.

Oeuvres choisies de Massillon.

PASSALACQUA, Joseph.

Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte.

CERVANTES, Miguel.

El Ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha, compuesto por Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Edición en miniatura enteramente conforme á la última corregida y publicada por la Real Academia Española.

CHATEAUBRIAND, François-René De.

Atala, René, Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.

Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

SCOTT, Walter.

Le Monastère et L'Abbé.

Bindings from Gruel.

BERANGER, Pierre-Jean.

Chansons de P-J de Béranger.

TESSIERES-BOISBERTRAND, Etienne de.

De l'Administration financière telle qu'elle est sous l'influence des préjugés qui en arrêtent le développement, et telle qu'elle pourrait être sous l'empire de la science positive.

First edition.Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy. He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

CHAMPFLEURY.

Grandeur et Décadence d'une Serinette.

[GRUEL].

Paroissien romain d'après les imprimés français du XVème siècle.

Good copy.

AUGIER, Emile.

Maitre Guérin.

First edition.Comedy.

BOCCACE.

Les Dix Journées de Jean Boccace.

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

BERNARDIN DE SAINT PIERRE, Jacques-Henri.

Paul et Virginie.

Edition illustrated by Lalauze with 6 lates and 2 vignettes.One of 15 copies on China with additional suites of engravings on Chine paper(black, sepia and bistre) and Japan paper (black, sepia and bistre), ours n°1. Desirable copy in signed binding.

L’Ami des malades, ou Discours historique &
apologétique sur la poudre purgative.

First edition of this rare work by Marat on light.
In fact, the french revolutionary published several scientific works in his youth.
In this treatise on light, Marat discusses Newton's doctrine on the decomposition of sunlight by the prism.

One of the 90 copies on large vellum paper wih portrait and engravings in two states.

Fine binding from Bradel l'Aîné.

First edition.
Binding with empire gilt arms on covers.

First edition.
A beautiful copy in full morocco.
On the blanks two small drawings of flowers of exceptional finesse.
A handwritten message written in German in the "Souvenirs" section.

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

New translation by Etienne Pariset.

Nice copy.

Third enlarged edition, sought for Biot's notes on the polarization of light.
Biot is known for having studied and established the laws of rotation of the plane of polarization of the light passing through a liquid solution just before this edition, in 1815.

Beautiful edition on vellum paper of three short stories by Chateaubriand.
This is the second edition for Les Aventures Du Dernier Abencerage.
Deluxe copy carefully bound by Petit.

First edition.
Étienne de Tessières, Count of Boisbertrand, was a deputy under the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
He writes here a reflection on public finances (tax, debt...) in the light of new positive science.

First edition.
Comedy.

Beautiful edition by Jouaust of the work of Boccace.
Paul Lacroix signs the introduction and Flameng who gives eleven very beautiful etchings.

Edition illustrated by Lalauze with 6 lates and 2 vignettes.

One of 15 copies on China with additional suites of engravings on Chine paper(black, sepia and bistre) and Japan paper (black, sepia and bistre), ours n°1.

Desirable copy in signed binding.