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[WEBER, Georges Adolph].

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action.

s.l., s.n., 1831.

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1200 €

Manuscript proposing one of the first directories of homeopathic medicines in the French language through a translation of the work by Georg Adolph Weber: "Systematische Darstellung der reinen Arzneiwirkungen aller bisher geprüften Symptome" published in German in 1831.
The work will not be published in French only in 1833 with a translation by the Swiss homeopath Peschier under the title "Systematic exposition of the pure pathogenetic effects of all the remedies put to date in experience" (Geneva, Cherbuliez, 1833).
Our manuscript uses the same two-part structure as the German edition and should probably precede the French edition. The binding is typical of the 1830s, we are thus at the very beginning of the development of homeopathy in Europe under the impetus of the German school directed by Hannemahn (1755-1843) of whom Weber was a disciple.
It is in Switzerland and in Lyon that homeopathy in French language develops, Count Sébastien Des Guidi creates in 1830 the Homeopathic Society Lyonnaise and opens its consultations, there are 5 or 6 homeopaths in France in 1832 then 25 in 1833, 52 in 1835. (Cf. Bariety, "The beginnings of homeopathy in France", 1969)

Witness to the beginnings of homeopathy in France.

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

[Dijon], s.n., An 9 [1800].

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500 €

Handwritten course on Mineralogy.
A note at the end of the document tells us that the course was taken under dictation by Vallot in the year 9. At that date Jacques-Nicolas Vallot (1771-1860) was a professor of natural sciences at the central school of Dijon. A naturalist, he touched on all sorts of subjects: botany, zoology, mineralogy, antiquities...
Vallot reviews the different minerals and gives their main characteristics: jasper, chalcedony, gold, petroleum, carbonates, etc.

[SCIENCES].

Documents de travail d'un société des sciences de Marseille.

Marseille, s.n., 1740.

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450 €

Interesting set of working documents of a Scienfitic Society from Marseille in the 18th century.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century two projects of a foundation of a Marseille Academy clashed, the first wanted to devote himself solely to Sciences, the second on the model of the French Academy, wanted to focus on Letters. It is the second project supported by the governor of Provence which won the support of Louis XV and the Academy of Belles-Lettres de Marseille was founded in 1726. It was only in a second time, in 1766, that it will open up to Sciences and the Arts.
We imagine the dismay of Marseilles scientists during the interval, and it is probably this frustration which is at the origin of the creation of the Société des Sciences de Marseille of which we present some documents here.
Lot consisting of 6 pieces:
- 3 transcripts of speeches, one of which addresses the question of the rules of the "Academy" which excluded the religious. It offers openness to abbots and monks, those with interest libraries, but seeking a solution that avoids animosities between the different orders.
- Speech by the perpetual secretary summarizing the work of the Academy during the period 1739-1740.
- Work report: Geometry of Mr Gérard, Mechanics of Mr De Pontis.
- Bundle of 10 tickets, "Tasks of the Academicians for 1741": Each academician offers on a small autograph ticket signed the scientific work they undertake to address during the year 1741. We find the names of Ganteaume, De Pontis , Pelissery, Gérard, Saint-Jacques, Roussin.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Lettre autographe signée.

Le Vésinet, s.n., 1900.

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200 €

Robida is indignant about the poor quality of postcard prints of his color drawings for " Vieux Paris".

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

Paris, Gallimard NRF, 1944.

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350 €

First edition.
Work by the very influential editor-in-chief of the NRF in which he proposes "to finally identify some method or key, which will allow us to separate the true from the false".

Pasted on the guard is a handwritten letter signed by Jean Paulhan addressed to Aimé Blanc-Dufour.
Aimé Blanc-Dufour had signed an article "Reflections on Jean Paulhan and rhetoric" in September 1946 in Cahiers du sud, Jean Paulhan responded to it on his relationship to rhetoric.
“Secret society, no doubt. And I believe, in this sense also, that Rhéto holds a secret, touching the relationships between language and thought…”.

MELINE, Jules.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 7 juillet 1924.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Jules Méline (1862-1939, Senator of the Vosges) on Senate letterhead addressed to René Berge (1862-1948, son-in-law of President Félix Faure) conveying his congratulations for "the happy event".

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.

[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.

[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.

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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150 €

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.

[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.

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

s.l., s.n., 1926-27.

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25 €

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

s.l., s.n., [1925-26].

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25 €

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.

MANUSCRIT de Mathématiques, CREUZE.

Cahier d'Arithmétique, fait par C. Creuzé.

Tours, s.n., 1820.

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250 €

French manuscript on arithmetics.

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.

[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.

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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".

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.

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.

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

St Benoit sur Loire, s.n., 1er juin 1927.

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350 €

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.

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.

GOYAU, Georges.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 16 septembre 1938.

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30 €

Autograph letter from Georges Goyau (1862-1939) on letterhead from the French Academy addressed to René Berge (his ex-brother-in-law) asking to fill out a form.
We are on the eve of the Second World War and the academician writes:
"The institute was invited to crate its precious objects, to send them far away, at the first alert!".

GENTY, Louis || [MAUGUE ?].

Cours de géométrie et de trigonométrie rectiligne suivant Mr Genty.

s.l., s.n., 1800.

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600 €

Original Manuscript.
Geometry course certainly given by Louis Genty, who was then professor of Mathematics at the Ecole centrale du Loiret in Orléans. Louis Genty became known in his field for having written a book on Fermat's contributions to geometry and he became a correspondent for the Académie des Sciences in the geometry section shortly before his death in 1817.

GAUTHIER, Mr.

Collections mathématiques.

s.l., s.n., 1806-1807.

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1500 €

Fine copy.

FAURE, Félix.

Lettre autographe signée à son futur gendre René Berge.

s.l., s.n., 9 février 1892.

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150 €

Autograph letter signed by President Félix Faure then deputy of the Lower Seine to his son-in-law René Berge who has just (or is going?) To marry Antoinette Faure. The one who was a childhood friend of Marcel Proust and for a while had to marry him.
"I am delighted with your joy and frankly I am not surprised at your love for our Nénette".

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Manuscripts

[WEBER, Georges Adolph].

Exposition systématique de tous les médicamens qui on été soumis à l'expérience pour reconnaitre leur véritable action.

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

[SCIENCES].

Documents de travail d'un société des sciences de Marseille.

ROBIDA, Albert.

Lettre autographe signée.

Robida is indignant about the poor quality of postcard prints of his color drawings for " Vieux Paris".

PAULHAN, Jean.

Clef de la Poésie.

MELINE, Jules.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

Autograph letter from Jules Méline (1862-1939, Senator of the Vosges) on Senate letterhead addressed to René Berge (1862-1948, son-in-law of President Félix Faure) conveying his congratulations for "the happy event".

MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis.

Lettre autographe signée à François Berge.

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.

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice.

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

[Manuscrit] GANTEAUME.

Mémoire sur le centre de gravité des corps.

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

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

Travaux pratiques d'histoire naturelle.

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.

[MANUSCRIT MEDECINE].

Article sur l'allaitement.

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE].

Physique.

MANUSCRIT DE MÉDECINE.

Phylosophie naturelle. L'homme physique.

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

MANUSCRIT de Mathématiques, CREUZE.

Cahier d'Arithmétique, fait par C. Creuzé.

French manuscript on arithmetics.

MANUSCRIT de mathématiques.

Mathématiques.

[MANUSCRIT].

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

MANUSCRIT.

94 planches.

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.

[MANUSCRIT].

Physicae Institutiones.

[MANUSCRIT].

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

[MANUSCRIT].

Metaphysica.

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

[MANUSCRIT].

Recueil des remèdes domestiques augmenté par Madame Fouquet.

LOUIS XV (secrétaire) || MAUREPAS.

Lettre à Mr Courtomer.

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.

LEVI-STRAUSS, Claude.

Lettre autographe signée.

JACOB, Max.

Carte postale adressée à Jean Cassou.

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.

HANOTAUX, Gabriel.

Lettre autographe signée.

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.

GOYAU, Georges.

Lettre autographe signée à René Berge.

GENTY, Louis || [MAUGUE ?].

Cours de géométrie et de trigonométrie rectiligne suivant Mr Genty.

GAUTHIER, Mr.

Collections mathématiques.

Fine copy.

FAURE, Félix.

Lettre autographe signée à son futur gendre René Berge.

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.

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

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

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.