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Photo [ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H. 

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H. 

Épures. 

s.l., s.n., 1880.
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300 €

Collection of drawings, by H. Bardonnaut.
For a long time, the Forestry School has depended on the Polytechnic School; it has retained the particularity of having its engineering students draw sketches: Development of maps and architectural models oriented towards the management of water and forests.

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 [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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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.

Photo [ASTRUC, Jean]. 

[ASTRUC, Jean]. 

Histoire des maladies du bas ventre. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1740].
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1000 €

Original manuscript in French.
This manuscript reproduces the course given by Jean Astruc (1684-1766), who held the chair of medicine at the Collège royal from 1731.
This teaching on abdominal diseases, from hiccups to hemorrhoids, was never published by Astruc. However, several manuscript copies are known under the title Traité des Maladies du bas ventre.
The medical content of our manuscript is identical to the digitized copies of the BIU Santé (Ms 2116) and the Collège de France (XV 8° 375). Most of the chapter headings are similar, although there are some differences in the structure (some chapters are grouped together, others are separated).
Finally, our copy extends to the question of hemorrhoids, which is absent from the Ms2116 manuscript (present in that of the Collège de France), but omits the question of intestinal worms, which are usually found in this course (present in both aforementioned manuscripts).
On the front flyleaf, the following handwritten ex libris is found: "hic liber attinet ad me Lagilardo" (or Lagilardie?).

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 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 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.

Photo GOYAU, Georges. 

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!".

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 FAURE, Félix. 

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".

Photo CHARLET, Nicolas-Toussaint. 

CHARLET, Nicolas-Toussaint. 

Lettre autographe signée adressé à Regnier. 

Viroflay, s.n., 23 juillet 1844.
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150 €

Handwritten autograph letter from Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (1792-1845) French painter and lithographer to Mr. Regnier Maison de Tableaux at 20 Boulevard des Italians.
Written in July 1844, Charlet says she is weakened but on the road to recovery. There he concluded an agreement on honor with Regnier, a gallery owner, for the distribution of his paintings and drawings but did not want to commit himself to a contract.
This letter does not appear in the correspondence published by La Combe.

Photo DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne. 

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne. 

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès. 

s.l., s.n., 15 mai 1929.
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20 €

Autograph letter signed by the Duchess of Uzès (1826-1933) about a charity sale (unidentified recipient).

Photo DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne. 

DE ROCHECHOUART DE MORTEMART, Anne. 

Lettre autographe signée de la duchesse d'Uzès. 

s.l., s.n., 23 juin 1913.
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20 €
Photo DANIEL ROPS. 

DANIEL ROPS. 

Lettre autographe signée. 

s.l., s.n., [v. 1960].
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25 €

Autograph letter signed by Daniel-Rops on headed paper, undated, for thanks after sending a brochure.

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 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 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 [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 BECQUEREL, Henri. 

BECQUEREL, Henri. 

Manuscrit autographe : Reflexions sur une théorie moderne. 

s.l., s.n., [1907].
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4000 €

Original Manuscript by Henri Becquerel.

An interesting manuscript in which the discoverer of radioactivity ponders the nature of matter at the end of his life.
This manuscript, with corrections for printing, was published at the Institut de France after a reading at the session of October 25, 1907.

One of Henri Becquerel’s final works, this manuscript reflects on the revolutionary discoveries that had upended the traditional understanding of matter: the electron (discovered by Thomson in 1897), radioactivity (discovered by Becquerel himself in 1896), and radioactive decay (discovered by Rutherford in 1902).

The long-held notion of the atom as an indivisible, stable particle, as proposed by Democritus, was challenged by these groundbreaking findings. Becquerel pondered this new reality, suggesting that atoms, rather than being eternally stable, might undergo modifications over time. However, the slow pace of these transformations or the rarity of conducive conditions could create the illusion of stability.

The 15 pages offprint will be joined (covers detached).

Photo [BONEFOUS]. 

[BONEFOUS]. 

Manuscrit de cours de l'université de Toulouse. 

Toulouse, s.n., 1754.
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Philosophy course in Latin given at the University of Toulouse in 1765 by Father Bonefous.
The writer is Jean de Villepreux from Marmande.
The course is divided into three volumes, covering the following topics:
- Logic and metaphysics
- Ontology, theodicy, psychology
- Physics
- Astronomy, morality.

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] 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]. 

[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 BELIDOR, Bernard Forest (de). 

BELIDOR, Bernard Forest (de). 

Nouveau cours de mathématique à l'usage des ingénieurs officiers d'artillerie. 

s.l., s.n., 1730.
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700 €

Handwritten copy of Bélidor's Nouveau cours de mathématiques published in 1725.
Our copy, in very legible handwriting, is dated 1730.
It is accompanied by the 34 plates that illustrated the printed edition of this course. At that time, Belidor was a mathematics professor at the artillery school in La Fère, and this course was intended for student officers. The work was a great success in artillery school circles.

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 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 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 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 [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.

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