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Photo HAMELIN D'ECTOT, Jean Baptiste || AUBERT, Georges. 

HAMELIN D'ECTOT, Jean Baptiste || AUBERT, Georges. 

Philosophicae compendium. 

Caen, s.n., 1700.
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Original manuscript.
Philosophy course given at the College of Arts in Caen in 1700 by Georges Aubert who was professor of philosophy there from 1699 to 1709.
The structure of this Philosophicae compendium classically takes up that of the teachings of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas, one finds there for example the engraving of the porphyry tree presenting the Aristotelian categories.

The manuscript ends with the Logic course on January 20, 1700, followed by the printed poster announcing the public defense of Jean Baptiste Hamelin's "Deo conclusiones philosophicae" on February 20, 1700 at 2 p.m.

Jean Baptiste Hamelin d'Ectot (?-1735) was an officer of the Prince of Condé at St Vaast la Hougue.

Photo HAMELIN, Gabriel. 

HAMELIN, Gabriel. 

Physica. 

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].
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Original manuscript.
Physics course given in Caen around 1730.
The manuscript is embellished with printed engravings and hand drawings.
The writer is Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

Photo HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

Philosophia. 

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].
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Original manuscript.
Philosophy course given in Caen by Professor Le Canu (?) around 1730.

The writer was Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

Photo HAMELIN, Gabriel || MARESCOT, François. 

HAMELIN, Gabriel || MARESCOT, François. 

Institutionum medicarum :
- Pars secunda seu pathologia
- Pars tertia Semioticae
- Pars quarta Higieine. 

Caen, s.n., 1734-1735.
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Original manuscript.
Medicine course given in Caen during the year 1734-1735 by François Marescot who was Professor of Medicine and Botany between 1718 and 1747. He is one of the founders of the Jardin des Plantes in Caen.
This medical course is divided into four parts, similar to the manuscript of the Muséum d'Histoire naturelle (Ms 795/1) of which the first part is also missing.

The writer is Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

Photo HANOTAUX, Gabriel. 

HANOTAUX, Gabriel. 

Lettre autographe signée. 

s.l., s.n., 25 octobre 1914.
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30 €

Autograph letter signed by Gabriel Hanotaux (1853-1944) responding to a request for information on prisoners of war. Hanotaux's son, injured in the arm, was then a prisoner near Berlin.

Photo JACOB, Max. 

JACOB, Max. 

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou. 

St Benoit sur Loire, s.n., 1er juin 1927.
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Autograph card from the poet Max Jacob (1876-1944) to the literary critic Jean Cassou (1897-1986) asking him if he received "Fond de l'eau" booklet which has just been published.
The card is sent from St Benoit sur Loire, the poet's retirement place.

Photo LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude. 

LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude. 

Lettre autographe signée. 

s.l., s.n., 14 janvier [1941].
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500 €

We are in January 1941, Claude Levi-Strauss after his demobilization is appointed as professor in Montpellier but is dismissed at the end of 1940 following the racial laws of Vichy. He then seeks to recover his works that have remained at the Museum and for this, asks the recipient to be put in touch with Louise Alcan:
"I, of course, left my functions last month and my great concern is the recovery of all my scientific documents, currently deposited at the Museum, and without which it is impossible for me to return to work".
Louise Alcan (spelled Alkan in the letter) is then a member of the resistance network of the Musée de L'Homme, she will be deported at the end of the war to Auschwitz.
A few months later Claude Levi-Strauss will go into exile in New York.

Photo [LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ]. 

[LIVRE d'HEURES ENLUMINÉ]. 

Livre d’Heures à l’usage de Paris. 

s.l., s.n., [circa 1420].
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33000 €

From a follower of the Boucicaut Master.

The painter uses an extensive palette with sharp contrasts, and does not hesitate to use a bright minium red that he contrasts with the blues and greens in the happiest of ways.
The abstract backgrounds and the systematic use of a grassy ground, give to the whole manuscript a beautiful coherence and a great elegance.

Some of the preserved paintings, such as those of the Annunciation to the Shepherds, the Crucifixion, and St. Margaret, bear witness to the artist's talent and the high quality of this manuscript.

It should be noted that the composition of the The Flight into Egypt is closely mirrors of a Boucicaut composition.

Complete video on request.

Photo LOUIS XV (secrétaire) || MAUREPAS. 

LOUIS XV (secrétaire) || MAUREPAS. 

Lettre à Mr Courtomer. 

s.l., s.n., 17 octobre 1733.
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200 €

Letter signed "Louis" (secretary) and countersigned "Maurepas" addressed to Mr Courtomer to notify him of the appointment of Mr Dourville to the position of first brand in his company.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Remarques sur le Gouvernement du royaume durant les trois règnes de Henri IV, de Louis XIII, de Louis XIV. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1750].
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500 €

Handwritten copy of a work published anonymously by Pierre Marteau in 1688. Barbier attributes the book to Gratien de Courtilz but adds: "Dubious".

The content is rather discourteous towards the monarchs, of whom inglorious episodes are recounted: the lack of merit of Louis XIII (Richelieu having governed for him), Louis XIV preferring the beds of his mistresses to the battlefields... This doubtless explains why handwritten copies were able to circulate under the cloak of the laughers. In fact, two other similar handwritten copies can be found in public libraries.

What remains is a very pretty manuscript, in a perfectly legible late 17th century handwriting.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Explication des plantes usuelles. 

s.l., s.n., [1714].
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Handwritten botany course focusing on "common plants", plants that can be used in medicine.
This course lists 486 plants, each with its Latin binomial name and its therapeutic use.
The plants seem to follow an order whose logic is not explained in the short introduction: "The large number of plants that I will have the honor of discussing with you during the short time that this course will last does not allow me to stop here for a long preface where I could explain to you in general how these same plants act, whether they are considered purgatives or simply as alteratives, [...] I propose to follow the order that we will follow in the demonstrations so that at the same time as you learn to know these same plants, you enter into the knowledge of their virtues."
The Latin names refer to the catalogues of Bauhin (C.B.) and Tournefort (inst. r. h.) which suggests that this course was dictated before the penetration of Linnaeus' classification in France, i.e. before the 1760s.
The structure of this course differs from the known courses on "Usual Plants", as dictated by Chomel and Jussieu.

We find, bound below, a manuscript by the same hand:
"Observations on bone diseases explained and demonstrated by Mr Arnaud In the amphitheater of the Jardin du Roy on June 13, 1714" 42 pages.

This suggests that both courses were taken at the Jardin du Roi or Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants (the future Museum of Natural History from 1793), which at the beginning of the 18th century was a major center for teaching medicine and surgery. It is known that at that time both Antoine Jussieu and Sébastien Vaillant were teaching botany there.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Recueil des remèdes domestiques augmenté par Madame Fouquet. 

s.l., s.n., [1750].
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200 €

Handwritten copy of Volume II of Madame Fouquet's "Collection of Domestic Remedies," one of the most famous domestic medicine manuals of the 18th century.
It contains various recipes that immerse us in popular pharmacopoeia under the Ancien Régime.

A note on the last page: "Ad usum Adriani Lenglé 1816".

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Physicae Institutiones. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1750].
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600 €

Handwritten course in Latin probably given in a Jesuit college (the patronage of St. Louis de Gonzague is repeated many times), in the first half of the 18th century. The manuscript is part of the tradition of Aristotelian and Thomistic philosophy which was taught in seminaries and theological faculties in the form of a Compendium mixing physics and metaphysics. The first volume is devoted to metaphysics and logic, including the schemata of Aristotelian categories. The second volume, devoted to physics, is divided into four treatises (on the senses, bodies, movement, gravity) and finally a chapter on meteors.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Metaphysica. 

s.l., s.n., 1775.
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200 €

Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Livre pour les communications dicté par l'esprit de Mon grand Père , Moret Louis Piere, donner à Madame Parain. 

s.l., s.n., [v.1867].
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2500 €

Very rare manuscript of spiritualist session reports.
The spiritualist wave arrived in France in 1854, and spread to all walks of life. We will remember, for example, the famous sessions of Victor Hugo in Guernsey...
In the following decades, all bourgeois families tried to turn the tables or dance. Methods of spiritualist contact are becoming more refined, we are seeing automatic writing methods appear in the presence or absence of a medium.

Very few of the sessions from this period have left written traces; the manuscript we present is the transcription of automatic writing sessions that took place between October 1866 and March 1867 in the Moret family. The first sessions took place in the presence of the medium Ms. Parain then in Bordeaux with the help of Ms. Benoit. Mrs. X. (unidentified) first contacted her grandfather Louis Pierre Moret. This is also why she transcribed the content of her communications in this notebook which belonged to her grandfather. The first communications are short, but little by little the mind gains confidence and the communications are longer. It was then his mother Marie Louise Moulins who “took up” the pen, then his father Moret. It is also amusing to note that the signatures of the spirits gradually become different.

The spirits advise their descendants to pray for them, to be charitable and above all to spread the ideas of spiritualism! We know that her husband tried a session but seems very skeptical...In a communication one of the spirits evokes the Other world which is organized into planets hierarchized according to the degree of wisdom, the summit seems to be the planet Juno .

70-page manuscript, quite fascinating to read!

The book is continued by another hand (probably at the beginning of the 20th century) who used it to note famous quotes and thoughts (out of 114 pages, around twenty leaves were cut from this part) then 250 blank pages remain.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

1- Tractatus de Motu
2- Tractatus de maechanica
3- Appendix quaestionum de motu. 

s.l., s.n., 1775.
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Physics course in Latin, manuscript dated 1775. The course is divided into three parts: the movement of bodies, general mechanics and an appendix offering corrected exercises. The seven engraved plates are after "C.H. Becker ex Lov".

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Dictionnaire d'Agriculture avec un abrégé de médecine rurale et vétérinaire. 

s.l., s.n., 1786.
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Original manuscript.
The content seems to include a selection of articles from Abbé Rozier's Cours complet d'agriculture which was published in the form of a dictionary from 1781 to 1800.
Our dictionary stops at the article "Rhue des jardins" which will not appear than in 1789 in Volume VIII of the Cours de Rozier.
Our manuscript, whose writer is unknown, is dated 1786, when Rozier was then a professor at the Practical School of Agriculture in Lyon. This manuscript may therefore be a transcription of the course given by Rozier in Lyon before its publication.

Photo MANUSCRIT. 

MANUSCRIT. 

94 planches. 

s.l., s.n., 1834-1835.
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350 €

Collection of mathematical and architectural drawing of a student (Frenet), in the style of the drawings taught at the Ecole Polytechnique, with a first set of plates for the curved part, surfaces, perspectives, shadows (78 boards) and 16 plates on architecture.

Photo MANUSCRIT DE MATHÉMATIQUES. 

MANUSCRIT DE MATHÉMATIQUES. 

Calcul géométral.
Analyse. 

s.l., s.n., [1780].
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Eighteenth-century course of analysis, of a very readable writing.

Definitions, theorems, corollaries are numbered. Our volume starting at number 206, there was certainly written a first volume.
Our volume deals with the problems of the first degree with an unknown, the extraction of the roots, the substitution, with many problems and their solutions. Then are treated problems of two unknowns and first degree, the solidity of the sphere.

Photo MANUSCRIT de mathématiques. 

MANUSCRIT de mathématiques. 

Mathématiques. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1800].
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250 €

Manuscript of the late eighteenth,early nineteenth century of elementary mathematics.
Well written, it deals with arithmetic (operations on numbers and fractions), divisibility, greatest common divisor, proportion, complex numbers (operations on weight).
We also found it a very interesting chapter on the new measures, conversions francs / pounds and the introduction of the metric system. The definition of the franc corresponds to that of 15 August 1795.

Photo MANUSCRIT de Mathématiques, CREUZE. 

MANUSCRIT de Mathématiques, CREUZE. 

Cahier d'Arithmétique, fait par C. Creuzé. 

Tours, s.n., 1820.
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250 €

French manuscript on arithmetics.

Photo MANUSCRIT DE MÉDECINE. 

MANUSCRIT DE MÉDECINE. 

Phylosophie naturelle. L'homme physique. 

s.l., s.n., 1822.
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220 €

Anatomy manuscript appearing following a first absent party.
Deals with muscles, splanchnology, head, brain, angiology, the adénologie.

Photo [MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

s.l., s.n., 1926-27.
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25 €
Photo [MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

s.l., s.n., [1925-26].
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25 €
Photo [MANUSCRIT MEDECINE]. 

[MANUSCRIT MEDECINE]. 

Article sur l'allaitement. 

s.l., s.n., [v.1900].
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60 €

Article (or part of article) handwritten by an unknown hand on breastfeeding. Numerous corrections to the text which suggest that this is a test before publication, but of which we have not found the published article.
The author finishes his text by advising breastfeeding the baby from the time of delivery.

Photo MANUSCRIT. Faculté de médecine et de Pharmacie de Bordeaux. Laboratoire d'Histoire Naturelle. 

MANUSCRIT. Faculté de médecine et de Pharmacie de Bordeaux. Laboratoire d'Histoire Naturelle. 

Travaux pratiques d'histoire naturelle. 

s.l., s.n., 1887-1888.
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French manuscript during Bonnette medical stydies.
Practical work of natural history made ​​in 1887-1888.
Dissection: earthworm, leech, crayfish, fly, snail, fish, frog, bird, rabbit. Botanical work: thalamiflores, Ranunculaceae, aconitrum, brassica, Malvaceae, corolliflores.

Photo [Manuscrit] GANTEAUME. 

[Manuscrit] GANTEAUME. 

Mémoire sur le centre de gravité des corps. 

Marseille, s.n., 1740.
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200 €

Transcript of a work done by Ganteaume "mechanic" to the Société des Sciences de Marseille on August 6, 1740.

Photo [MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice. 

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice. 

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné. 

[Nancy], [Buc'Hoz], [1762-1770].
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7000 €

Original manuscript of an unpublished botanical treatise by a learned scholar from Nantes.
It presents botanical concepts as well as the classifications of Linnaeus and Tournefort. This manuscript, nearly 200 pages long, is written on the verso of the plates from Buc'hoz’s Flore Lorraine.
All plates are also annotated with details on plant names, their classification according to Linnaeus and Tournefort, and their medicinal uses—together forming a true pharmacopoeia.
These 187 plates were intended to illustrate Buc'hoz’s Traité historique des plantes qui croissent dans la Lorraine et les Trois-Évêchés, published in ten octavo volumes between 1762 and 1770. The plates, originally issued separately in installments and designed to be folded and bound in octavo, are gathered here in a single folio volume.
Buc'hoz, known for the beauty of his plates, had solicited financial support from fellow countrymen and botany enthusiasts for the production of these engravings. Thus, at the bottom of almost every plate, one finds the coat of arms and name of the sponsor who funded it.
Maurice Mahot, the author of this manuscript, sponsored plate 152.
While biographical information on Maurice Mahot “the elder” (1745–1810), a royal counselor, civil and criminal judge at the présidial, alderman (1777), and deputy mayor of Nantes (1779), offers little indication of an interest in natural sciences and botany, the same cannot be said of his son, Maurice Mahot “the younger” (1774–1842), a doctor of medicine and scholar who published several books on medicine and lexicography.
The annotations by the son—a physician—on the plates funded by the father—a botany enthusiast—explain the numerous pharmaceutical and medical recipes found in the work.
Another collector has left his name on the title page: Silas Boucher de la Ville Jossy, a member of a prominent Nantes family in the mid-19th century.
A fascinating manuscript, still largely unexplored, of exceptional character, both for the beauty of its annotated plates and for its content, which intertwines botanical classification and pharmacopoeia.

Photo [MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims]. 

[MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims]. 

Recueil de prières. 

Rheims, s.n., [v. 1700].
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Manuscript from the beginning of the 18th century emanating from the Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims, a convent founded in 1638 by the order of the "Chanoinesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame"
This manuscript written in a perfectly legible handwriting but sometimes random spelling, brings together different prayers and meditations on death, birth, baptism, entry into religion, the anniversary of the taking of the veil...
There are also some extracts from the Rule of this order as well as Sentences from St Augustine.
Rare testimony to the spiritual life of this discreet monastic order.

Photo MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis. 

MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis. 

Lettre autographe signée à François Berge. 

s.l., s.n., 1 février 1960.
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30 €

Autograph letter from Louis Martin Chauffier (1894-1980) addressed to François Berge (grandsons of President Félix Faure and director of "Cahiers du mois") about a controversy over a film on deportation which will give rise to a chronicle by Louis Martin Chauffier in the Figaro.

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