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Photo CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis. 

CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis. 

Oeuvres Complètes d'Augustin Cauchy publiées sous la direction scientifique de l'Académie des Sciences. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1882-1974.
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3500 €

First collective edition of the works of Cauchy

A monumental publication spanning a century.

With nearly 800 publications, Cauchy is one of the most prolific mathematicians in history. His research covers all areas of mathematics of the period.

Photo LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis. 

LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis. 

Oeuvres de Lagrange publiées par les soins de M. J.-A. Serret. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1867-1892.
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First edition of the complete works of Lagrange.

Published in 14 volumes over a period of 25 years, the complete series is very rarely found.

The publication begins with a Notice on the life and works of Lagrange by Delambre.
The first six volumes comprise all the scattered memoirs published in the academic proceedings of the Turin Academy of Sciences and the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
Volume 7 contains "Miscellaneous Pieces Not Included in the Academic Collections."
Volumes 8, 9, and 10 contain "Didactic Works."
Volumes 11 and 12 constitute the fourth edition of Analytical Mechanics, with Serret's notes included for the first time.
And volumes 13 and 14 contain "Correspondence and Unpublished Memoirs.".

Photo LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon, de. 

LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon, de. 

Oeuvres complètes de Laplace. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1878-1886 / 1891-1912.
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3000 €

The first seven volumes, in second edition and printed on vergé paper, are bound in with delicassy with the coat of arms of the Marquis
de Laplace, and were offered to Louis Crussard (1876-1959), a student who graduated top major if the École Polytechnique in 1897. In 1898, he entered the École nationale supérieure des mines in Paris as a student engineer in the Corps des Mines and graduated in 1901. He was the co-founder of the École nationale supérieure des mines in Nancy.

The prize was founded by Madame la Marquise de Laplace, at the expense of the State and by order of Louis-Philippe. It contained these seven volumes.
The following seven volumes, in the original edition, complete the series of Laplace's works.

Laplace, nicknamed the "French Newton", is one of the most brilliant scientific figures of his time. He is behind the most profound advances in astronomy, mathematics, physics and in the probability theory.
The first five volumes are devoted to Celestial Mechanics, the next two to the World System and the Probability Theory. The last seven volumes consist of Laplace's Memoirs at the Académie des Sciences and articles published in scientific journals such as the Journal de l'École Polytechnique.

Photo VARELA, Francisco. 

VARELA, Francisco. 

Principles of Biological Autonomy. 

New York, North-Holland, 1979.
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1500 €

First edition.

Francisco Varela (1946 - 2001) was a Chilean neurobiologist whose work in theoretical biology and cognitive science had an influence far exceeding his initial fields of study and thus influenced the field of artificial intelligence research.

Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how living systems produce and maintain themselves.

This foundational book introduces the key concept of autonomy derived as an elaboration of the idea of autopoiesis (the self-production and self-distinction) of living organisms.

Varela covers topics in systems theory, neuroscience, theories of perception, and immune networks and offers a participatory epistemology that goes on to be further developed in later enactive literature. (The MIT Press, 2025).

These ideas are compelling not only for historical reasons but also because they still illuminate current efforts in developing the enactive approach toward wider and more challenging goals (including language, human cognition, ethics, and environmentalism).

Varela’s ideas continue to shape cognitive science through the ongoing development of the enactive approach, which today encompasses accounts of various aspects of cognition and is becoming an increasingly influential framework. Yet it’s often forgotten how deeply Varela’s work was grounded in a conception of biological autonomy. So much so, in fact, that the label enactivism is frequently invoked without reference to its foundational commitment to autonomy.

Photo FERMAT, Pierre. 

FERMAT, Pierre. 

Oeuvres de Fermat, publiees par les soins de MM. Paul Tannery et Charles Henry sous les auspices du Ministere de l'instruction Publique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1891-1922.
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Volume I: Miscellaneous Mathematical Works / Observations on Diophantus.

Volume II: Correspondence.

Volume III: Translations of Fermat's Latin Writings; of J. de Billy's Inventum novum; of Wallis's Commercium epistolicum.
Volume IV: Additions by P. Tannery
Supplement: Unpublished Documents

A fine, complete set of all parts, including the supplement published posthumously after the death of Paul Tannery, who directed the series.

Photo FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph || DARBOUX, Gaston. 

FOURIER, Jean Baptiste Joseph || DARBOUX, Gaston. 

Oeuvres de Fourier publiées par les soins de M. Gaston Darboux, sous les auspices du Ministère de l'Instruction Publique. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars et Fils, 1888-1890.
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1000 €

First edition of the works of Fourier.

Photo MONTUCLA, Jean-Étienne. 

MONTUCLA, Jean-Étienne. 

Histoire des mathématiques, dans laquelle on rend compte de leurs progrès depuis leur origine jusqu'à nos jours. 

Paris, Henri Agasse, 1799-1802.
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Most complete edition in 4 volumes.
The first edition was published in 2 volumes, Montucla was to complete it with a third but died before its publication. It is Jérôme De La Lande who will finally publish the last two volumes according to Montucla's notes.
A reference on the history of mathematics.

Photo COURNOT, Antoine-Augustin. 

COURNOT, Antoine-Augustin. 

Traité de l'enchaînement des idées fondamentales dans les sciences et dans l'histoire. 

Paris, L. Hachette, 1861.
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Antoine-Augustin Cournot (1801-1877) was a French mathematician, economist, and philosopher, rector of the Dijon Academy. His work Traité de l'enchaînement des idées fondamentales dans les sciences et dans l'histoire (Treatise on the Interconnection of Fundamental Ideas in the Sciences and in History) is considered one of his most important philosophical works. In it, Cournot explores the structure and development of human knowledge, proposing a view of the history of science and history in general as a process of ordered progress. He influenced the development of epistemology and the philosophy of science, emphasizing the distinction between chance and necessity. This work is a major contribution to the history of ideas and the philosophy of knowledge.

With some of handwritten reading notes on separate leaves.

Copy, as issue, with it's original printed covers.

Photo MOUCHOT, Augustin. 

MOUCHOT, Augustin. 

La Chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1879.
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700 €

Second edition, the first with the 2 plates representing his invention.
Augustin Mouchot (1825-1912) was a French inventor and engineer, a pioneer in solar energy. His book La chaleur solaire et ses applications industrielles (Solar Heat and Its Industrial Applications) is a major work detailing his research and inventions for capturing and utilizing solar energy.
Mouchot is famous for developing solar collectors and steam engines powered by solar energy, thus anticipating the importance of renewable energy by several decades. This book is an essential resource for the history of solar technology and 19th-century engineering, presenting concepts that are still relevant today.

Presentation copy to Théophile Guibal (1814-1888).

Photo POINCARÉ, Henri. 

POINCARÉ, Henri. 

Oeuvres de Henri Poincaré publiées sous les auspices de l'Académie des Sciences par Paul Appell. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1951.
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1951 issue.
Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) was a French mathematician, physicist, engineer and philosopher of science, often considered one of the last universal minds, as his contributions covered many scientific fields.

Photo JULIA, Gaston. 

JULIA, Gaston. 

Oeuvres de Gaston Julia. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1968-1970.
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600 €

First edition. Gaston Julia, born February 3, 1893, in Sidi-bel-Abbès, Algeria, and died March 19, 1978, in Paris, was a French mathematician specializing in functions of a single complex variable. His 1917–1918 results on the iteration of rational functions (obtained simultaneously by Pierre Fatou) were brought back into the spotlight in the 1970s by Benoît Mandelbrot. The Julia and Mandelbrot sets are closely related.

Photo DESCARTES || TANNERY, Paul. 

DESCARTES || TANNERY, Paul. 

Oeuvres de Descartes. 

Paris, Vrin, 1974.
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500 €
Photo BOREL, Emile. 

BOREL, Emile. 

Oeuvres de Emile Borel. 

Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1972.
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500 €

First edition.
Émile Borel (1871-1956) was a French mathematician and professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris.
He is known for his fundamental work in the fields of measure theory and probability.

Photo PTOLEMEE, Claude. 

PTOLEMEE, Claude. 

Almageste.
Composition mathématique traduite pour la première fois du Grec en Français ... par M. Halma, et suivie des notes de M. Delambre. 

Paris, [J. Hermann], [1927].
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450 €

Old reprint of the two parts first published in 1813 and 1816.
Contains the Greek text the translation in franch by Halma and the notes by Delambre.

Photo DUHEM, Pierre. 

DUHEM, Pierre. 

Le système du monde. 

Paris, Hermann, 1973-1974.
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400 €

When Pierre Duhem died in 1916, he was working on the tenth volume of his monumental System of the World, of which only five volumes had been printed.

It was then necessary to wait some forty years before, thanks to the Academy of Sciences and the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), the following five volumes were published, beginning in 1954.

Complete series of all volumes. The last three are in their first edition.

Vol. 1. no date (new printing) / Vol. 2. 1974 / Vol. 3. 1958 / Vol. 4. 1973 / Vol. 5. 1979 / Vol. 6. 1973 / Vol. 7. 1976 / Vol. 8. 1958 / Vol. 9. 1958 / Vol. 10. 1959.

Photo ARAGO, François. 

ARAGO, François. 

Biographie de Gaspard Monge. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1853.
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300 €

First edition.
François Arago (1786-1853), permanent secretary of the Academy of Sciences, was a leading French physicist, astronomer, and politician. This biography of Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), founder of descriptive geometry, is a tribute to one of the major figures of the French Revolution and 18th-century science. Monge's work, a former member of the Academy, is highlighted by Arago, who himself contributed to the advancement of science.

Photo MARIE, Maxime Charles. 

MARIE, Maxime Charles. 

Histoire des Sciences Mathématiques et Physiques. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1883-1888.
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300 €

First edition.
From Thalès to Abel.

Photo FIGUIER, Louis. 

FIGUIER, Louis. 

Vies des savants illustres depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'au dix-neuvième siècle. 

Paris, Lacroix / Hachette, 1866-1877.
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300 €

Complete series with the five volumes of this important work by Figuier on the history of scholars, from antiquity to the eighteenth century.

Photo [ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE]. 

Livre Du Centenaire 1794-1894. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1894-1897.
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300 €

First edition.

Photo ARAGO. 

ARAGO. 

Oeuvres Complètes. 

Paris, Gide, 1854-1859.
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300 €

First collective edition of the works of Arago.

Photo LEVY, Paul. 

LEVY, Paul. 

Oeuvres de Paul Levy. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1973-1980.
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First edition.

Paul Lévy (1886-1971) was a French mathematician.
He is among the founders of modern probability theory. He is also known for his important work on the stable stochastic distributions that bear his name, as well as on martingales.

Photo CARTAN, Elie. 

CARTAN, Elie. 

Oeuvres complètes de Elie Cartan. 

Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1984.
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300 €

Élie Cartan (1869 – 1951) was a French mathematician who made fundamental contributions to Lie group theory and its geometric applications.

He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, differential equations, group theory, and quantum mechanics.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.

Photo CARTAN, Elie. 

CARTAN, Elie. 

Oeuvres - Collected works. 

Berlin - New-York, Springer-Verlag, 1979.
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250 €

Edited by R. Remmert and J.-P. Serre. Text in french.
Élie Cartan (1869 – 1951) was a French mathematician who made fundamental contributions to Lie group theory and its geometric applications.

He also made significant contributions to mathematical physics, differential geometry, differential equations, group theory, and quantum mechanics.

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th century.

Photo COMTE, Auguste. 

COMTE, Auguste. 

Cours de philosophie positive. 

Paris, J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1864.
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Second edition with an expanded preface by Émile Littré, his main disciple.
Auguste Comte (1798-1857) is the founder of positivism and sociology. His Cours de philosophie positive, originally published in six volumes between 1830 and 1842, is his major work, which sets out the whole of his philosophical and scientific thought. Volume I: General Preliminaries and Mathematical Philosophy. Volume II: Astronomical Philosophy and the Philosophy of Physics. Volume III: Chemical Philosophy and Biological Philosophy. Volume IV: The Dogmatic Part of Social Philosophy. Volume V: The Historical Part of Social Philosophy in Everything Concerning the Theological and Metaphysical States. Volume VI: The Complement of Social Philosophy and General Conclusions.

Photo DE BROGLIE, Louis. 

DE BROGLIE, Louis. 

Découvertes et conceptions nouvelles de la Physique Contemporaine. 

Paris, Les Centraux Bibliophiles, 1937.
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250 €

Edition limited to 130 copies.
Our number 110 printed for Louis Hubert.

Photo DUHEM, Pierre. 

DUHEM, Pierre. 

Études sur Léonard de Vinci: Ceux qu'il a lus et ceux qui l'ont lu. 

Paris, F. de Nobele, 1955.
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250 €
Photo LE ROY Georges. 

LE ROY Georges. 

Oeuvres Philosophiques de Condillac. 

Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1947-1951.
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250 €
Photo PICARD, Emile. 

PICARD, Emile. 

Oeuvres de Ch.-E. Picard. 

Paris, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1978.
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250 €

First edition.
Charles Émile Picard (1856-1941) was a French mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. He lent his name to an iterative method for solving integral equations.

Photo [BIBLIOTHEQUE de PHILOSOPHIE CONTEMPORAINE]. 

[BIBLIOTHEQUE de PHILOSOPHIE CONTEMPORAINE]. 

Lot de 20 ouvrages :
Bachelard. L'expérience de l'espace dans la physique contemporaine. Alcan. 1937
Bachelard. Le matérialisme rationnel.PUF. 1953
Bachelard. L'activité rationaliste de la physique contemporaine. PUF. 1951.
Bergson. Les deux sources de la morale et de la religion. Alcan. 1932.
Bergson. La pensée et le mouvant. Alcan. 1934.
Bergson. L'évolution créatrice. Alcan. 1939.
Blondel. L'Action. Alcan. 1936-1937. 2 volumes
Boirel. Théorie Générale de l'Invention. PUF. 1961.
Brunschvicg. L'expérience humaine et la causalité physique. Alcan. 1922.
Brunschvicg. Spinoza. Alcan. 1894.
Brunschvicg. L'expérience humaine et la causalité physique. PUF. 1949.
[Collectif]. Orientation actuelle des sciences. Alcan. 1930.
Daumas. Lavoisier théoricien et expérimentateur. PUF. 1955.
Lévy-Bruhl. La mentalité primitive. Alcan. 1933
Metzger. Newton, Stahl, Boerhaave et la doctrine chimique. Alcan. 1930.
Meyerson. Du cheminement de la Pensée. Alcan. 1931. 3 volumes.
Meyerson. Identité et réalité. Alcan. 1926.
Piaget. Introduction à l'épistémologie génétique. PUF. 1950. 3 volumes. Tampon Ex libris d'Émile Callot.
Spencer. Classification des sciences. Alcan. 1897.
Taton. L'oeuvre scientifique de Monge. PUF. 1951. 

Paris, Félix Alcan - Presses Universitaires de France, 1894-1961.
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220 €
Photo AMPÈRE, André-Marie. 

AMPÈRE, André-Marie. 

Essai sur la Philosophie des Sciences, ou Exposition analytique d'une classification naturelle de toutes les connaissances humaines. 

Paris, Bachelier, 1834.
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200 €

First edition.
André-Marie Ampère (1775-1836) was a French mathematician, physicist, and chemist, considered one of the founders of electromagnetism. A member of the Royal Academy of Sciences and a professor at the Collège de France and the École Polytechnique, he is famous for Ampère's law and the unit of electric current that bears his name. Beyond his scientific contributions, Ampère was also interested in the classification of sciences, as this Essay demonstrates.

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