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Photo [WEBER, Georges Adolph]. 

[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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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The work will not be published in French only in 1833 with a translation by the Swiss homeopath Peschier under the title "Systematic exposition of the pure pathogenetic effects of all the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.

Photo [SCIENCES]. 

[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.

Photo ROBIDA, Albert. 

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".

Photo [POLYTECHNIQUE] CHAUVISE, Jules Thimotée. 

[POLYTECHNIQUE] CHAUVISE, Jules Thimotée. 

Recueils d'Epures. 

s.l., s.n., 1837-1839.
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650 €

Collection of drawings, by Jules Thimothé Chauvisé (X 1837 ; 1817-????).
The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.

Photo PICARD, Emile. 

PICARD, Emile. 

Cours de mécanique générale. 

s.l., s.n., 1913-1914.
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350 €

Manuscript of the course on mechanics given by Emile Picard, the french mathematicien.

Photo PERNOT, François Alexandre. 

PERNOT, François Alexandre. 

Carnet de croquis. 

s.l., s.n., 1831.
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Sketchbook with 7 original pencil drawings signed by François-Alexandre PERNOT (1793-1865) and 1 trompe l'oeil signed HAUSEN.
The six drawings by Pernot drawn directly on the album's paper are dated 1831, a seventh collated is dated 1832. According to extracts from his diary, Pernot traveled through France at that time, he spent in particular the winter 1831-1832 in Nancy.

Pernot is close to artists and romantic salons (Châteaubriand, Lamartine, V. Hugo, Delacroix ...) and was appointed in 1826, master of the drawings of the king's pages by Charles X.

Photo PAULHAN, Jean. 

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…”.

Photo MELINE, Jules. 

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".

Photo MARTIN DU GARD, Maurice. 

MARTIN DU GARD, Maurice. 

Deux lettres autographes signées. 

s.l., s.n., [1941].
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Autograph letter signed by Maurice Martin du Gard (1896-1970), letter to an unknown recipient in which he evokes the release of "My friend Sacha Guitry" therefore in 1941.

attached, a bill to take date.

Photo MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis. 

MARTIN CHAUFFIER, Louis. 

Lettre autographe signée à François Berge. 

s.l., s.n., 1 février 1960.
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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.

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 [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. 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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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.

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 DE PHYSIQUE]. 

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

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

[MANUSCRIT DE PHYSIQUE]. 

Physique. 

s.l., s.n., 1926-27.
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25 €
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 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 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. 

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]. 

[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]. 

Livre pour les communications dicté l'esprit de. 

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 as a sort of amicorum album 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. 

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]. 

[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]. 

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 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 [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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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 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 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 HANOTAUX, Gabriel. 

HANOTAUX, Gabriel. 

Lettre autographe signée. 

s.l., s.n., 25 octobre 1914.
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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.

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