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Photo MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando. 

MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando. 

Histoire physique de la mer. Ouvrage enrichi de figures dessinées d'après le naturel. 

Amsterdam, aux depens de la Compagnie, 1725.
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15000 €

First edition in french of this milestone work for the oceanography.

Count Marsili (1658-1730), an Italian military officer, geographer, and naturalist, is considered the founder of oceanography following the publication of this work. He conducted field observations, studied the seabed of the Gulf of Lion, classified species, currents, and the properties of seawater, emphasizing that his entire scientific approach was based "on the experiments and observations that I myself made on site."

His discoveries about coral and its "flowers" captured the full attention of scholars, as coral had been classified in the mineral kingdom since antiquity. However, Marsili noticed that branches of red coral he had collected became covered with white flowers within a few hours. He deduced that coral was a living organism, belonging to the animal kingdom, which marked a decisive turning point in the understanding of the marine environment.

A superb and extremely rare copy, as is the case here, with all the plates finely colored.

Photo MILLER, Philip. 

MILLER, Philip. 

Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exibited on three hundred copper plates. 

London, printed for the author, 1771.
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14500 €

A reissue of the first 1760 edition.
Philip Miller, was director of the Chelsea Garden and was considered as "the greatest gardener of his time".
Beautiful books illustrated with 300 colored plates of plants.
Rare complete and in this condition.

Photo REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine. 

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine. 

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté. 

Paris, Panckoucke, 1824-1826.
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10000 €

Second edition and the FIRST LARGE OCTAVO edition, published immediately after the original folio and appeared in forty issues from January 10, 1824 to December 27, 1826. Each issue, printed on vellum paper, includes four to seven leaves of text as well only four plates which are reproductions of the folio engravings, engraved here again and colored under Redouté's very eyes. The text sheets contain the descriptions of Claude-Antoine Thory (1757-1827).

A complete copy of the 160 color plates of Redouté's famous roses.

Photo BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri. 

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri. 

Historia plantarum universalis. 

Yverdon, s.n., 1650-1651.
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7000 €

First edition, first issue of Bauhin's magnum opus. Describing over 5,000 plants in a meticulous manner, the Historia plantarum first appeared in 1650 after 31 years in preparation. Bauhin, a Swiss botanist and physician, endeavored to describe not only the organs and properties of the plants herein, but their ecology as well.
This first issue is rare. Most of copies known are from later issues (Norman, The Cleveland Collections, ...).
First issue with the gathering Secund Oooo et Secund Aaaaa on the third volume as described in Hunt, and with the index of part 3 (not required in Hunt).

Photo ROQUES, Joseph. 

ROQUES, Joseph. 

Plantes usuelles, indigènes et exotiques, dessinées et coloriées d'après nature, avec la description de leurs caractères distinctifs et de leurs propriétés médicales. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur (et Vve Hocquart), 1807-1808.
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First edition.
Joseph Roques (1772-1850) is a botanist who remains famous for his beautiful illustrated editions of flora which will remain references in the 19th century.

Our copy is complete with 133 finely watercolor plates gathering hundred's of botanical subjects (we also have the errata leaves on volume II which is often missing).
The author tells us in his preliminary speech that the execution of the engravings "was entrusted to Artists of distinguished merit". The result is a delicacy of the illustrations which clearly stood out from the lot of botany textbooks of the time.

A magnificent work, but also scientifically rigorous.
Finding that most of the medical floras of the time flirted with charlatanism, Roques has here selected only plants whose medicinal properties have been proven during his practice of medicine in Montpellier and gives their precise use.
To reach both the general public and scientists, he gives for each of the plants the popular name, the scientific name as well as their positions in the classification systems of Linnaeus, Tournefort and Jussieu. It is thus one of the last floras using this triple classification, an unified system being imposed in the modern era.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 

Paris, Deterville, 1801.
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4000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

Photo GREVILLE, Robert K. 

GREVILLE, Robert K. 

Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or coloured figures and descriptions of cryptogamic plants, belonging chiefly to the order Fungi. 

Edinburgh, Maclachlan & Stewart, 1823-1828.
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First edition illustrated with 360 plates engraved and finely colored by hand according to the author's drawings.
Each plate is accompanied by a descriptive text.
Each volume has its own title page and an index, the general index is at the end of volume VI.
Robert Kaye Greville (1794 –1866) was a British mycologist, phycologist and botanist. As accomplished artist, he shows his talents as an illustrator here with these hundreds of mushroom plates.

Photo JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules. 

JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules. 

Monographie géologique et paléontologique du Salève. 

Genève, Georg & Cie, 1913.
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2500 €

First edition.
Offprint with separate title page.
Presentation copy.

Remarkable work that reports on the geological and biostratigraphic work on the Saleve by Joukowski and Favre.
The authors propose 23 cross-sections of the Salève, oriented NW-SE, from the Petit Salève to the Montagne de La Caille, with identification of the geological stages and fault planes.

This work is still a reference today. Indeed, no other work of this importance on this subject has been published since.
A complete copy with the famous 1:25000 map, which remains the only document available for more than a century.
The publication in the "Archives des Sciences" of a new map was announced by B. Manstrangelo (Arch.Sci. (2018) 70: 43-50), but was still not published in the last issue (71. 2020).

Photo JOBLOT, Louis. 

JOBLOT, Louis. 

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope. 

Paris, Briasson, 1754-1755.
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2500 €

Second edition.
Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

Photo DES MURS, Oeillet. 

DES MURS, Oeillet. 

Musée ornithologique illustré. 

Paris, J. Rothschild, 1886.
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2500 €

First edition.

Impressive ornithological work with 345 color plates.

The description of the birds is divided into 4 volumes:

- Palmypedes
- Shorebirds
- The Birds of the Fields and Woods (subdivided into two volumes)
- Raptors.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

Système des animaux sans vertèbres ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 

Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1801.
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2000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

Photo LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. 

Brive, Imprimerie de F. Bourdeaux, An 5 [1796].
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2000 €

First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.

Photo [BOURGUET, Louis]. 

[BOURGUET, Louis]. 

Traité des pétrifications. 

Paris, Briasson, 1742.
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1800 €

First edition.
One of the first books in paleontology.
The work is divided into two parts, the first in the form of letters addressed to Réaumur, Jallabert, Garcin, Mairan ... Bourguet wonders about the origin of what is then commonly called petrification. The animal or plant origin of these particular stones is not yet clearly established.

The second part for encyclopedia offers a classification of the different kinds of stones (to distinguish them from fossils), a directory of all the places where fossils are found, a bibliography on the subject, and the explanation of the 60 plates outside text grouping together several hundred fossils classified on their similarities.

Photo ADANSON, Michel. 

ADANSON, Michel. 

Histoire Naturelle du Sénégal. Coquillages. Avec la relation abrégée d'un voyage fait en ce pays pendant les années 1749, 50, 51, 52 & 53. 

Paris, Claude Jean Baptiste Bauche, 1757.
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1750 €

First edition.
French naturalist, student of Réaumur and Jussieu, Michel Adanson was one of the rare Europeans to explore Senegal in the eighteenth century. Although his work was a commercial failure, it allowed him to enter the Academy of Sciences.

Photo DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU. 

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU. 

De l'Exploitation des Bois, ou Moyens de tirer un Parti avantageux des Taillis, Demi-Futaies et Hautes-Futaies, et d'en faire une juste Estimation: Avec la Description des Arts qui se pratiquent dans les Forêts. 

Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1764.
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1600 €

Frist edition of a work intended primarily for owners of forest estates. It covers all aspects of forestry, both administrative and technical.
With 36 folding plates.

Photo PLINE. 

PLINE. 

Histoire naturelle de Pline. Traduite en françois, avec le texte latin rétabli d'après les meilleures leçons manuscrites. 

Paris, Desaint, 1771.
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1200 €

New translation by Louis Poinsinet de Sivry (1733-1804).
"Pliny's Natural History is the Encyclopedia of the Ancients. It can be considered as the repository of all physical, astronomical, geographic, etc. knowledge of Antiquity; as the picture of all human industry or the arts, from the earliest times to the first century of our Era." (excerpt from the preface)

Beautiful complete set in period binding.

Photo SCARPA, Antoine. 

SCARPA, Antoine. 

Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu. 

Milan, Josephi Galeatti, 1794.
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1200 €

Second edition with same plates as the first edition(1789).

Photo [ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet]. 

[ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet]. 

Observations sur la culture des arbres fruitiers. 

Paris, Jacques Collombat, 1718.
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950 €

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

Good copy, binding with arms of la Rochefoucauld on covers.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux faits Physiques, Et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs de la Chaleur produite. 

Paris, Maradan, An II [1794].
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950 €

First edition.
Lamarck's first work in the field of chemistry in which he reverses Lavoisier's chemical revolution and proposes a system based on the theory of the four elements and phlogiston.
Apart from expounding his bizarre chemical theories, the book is important for his later views on biology and geology. Of interest is the section "Recherches sur les têtres organiques", which sets out his ideas on the origin of life before he abandoned his belief in a fixed species and became an evolutionist.
Lamarck's "chemical theories played an important part in the development of his ideas the origin of species, as they provived a materialistic definition of life, reproduction and evolution." (Norman).

Photo DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas. 

DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas. 

Histoire Naturelle Des Fraisiers. 

Paris, Didot le jeune, 1766.
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First edition.
Monograph devoted to strawberries by Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747-1827) for which he proposes a genealogy of the different species. His name will remain attached to strawberries and the genus Duchesnea, plants of the Rosaceae family with a strawberry shape, was dedicated to him.

However, the cultivation and study of strawberries in Versailles also allowed him to document one of the first observations of mutation in plants giving a new species, the Versailles strawberry. In the second part of his work, he thus questions the formation of plant species, opposing Linnaeus's conception according to which new species are formed by hybridization and a slow drift from one species to another.

Duchesne thus observes the first evolutionary leap, a century before Darwin.

Our copy is enriched with two handwritten leaves of scholarly notes on strawberry species, inserted in the text.

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples. 

Paris, d'Houry, 1760.
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900 €

Works where are alphabetically arranged lists of composites and simples respectively, giving the source, virtues, doses and therapeutic action of the various medicaments. They represent a comprehensive dictionary of pharmaceuticals.
Copy with the 25 plates.
Fine copy. Rare in this state.

Photo KLEIN, Théodore. 

KLEIN, Théodore. 

Ordre Naturel des Oursins de Mer et Fossiles, avec des Observations sur les Piquans des Oursins de Mer, et quelques Remarques sur les Bélemnites. 

Paris, Cl. J. B. Bauche, 1754.
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900 €

First french edition.
One of the first monographs devoted to sea urchins.
Here the French translation by La Chesnaye des Bois from the original edition given in Latin.

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 BERTRAND, Philippe. 

BERTRAND, Philippe. 

Nouveaux principes de géologie. Comparés et opposés à ceux des Philosophes anciens et modernes, jusqu'à J. C. Delamétherie, qui les a tous analysés dans sa Théorie de la Terre. Ou manière plus simple d'observer et d'expliquer l'un par l'autre, les principaux faits naturels; avec un Abrégé d'une Géologie toute nouvelle. 

Paris, Chez l'Auteur & Maradan, An VI - 1797.
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750 €

First edition.

Photo SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

De la Fonte des Mines, des Fonderies, &tc. 

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1764-1753.
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750 €

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).
The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

Photo BULLIARD, Pierre. 

BULLIARD, Pierre. 

Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique, ou Exposition par ordre alphabétique, des préceptes de la botanique, et de tous les termes, tant françois que latins, consacrés à l'étude de cette science. 

Paris, Imprimerie Crapelet, 1797.
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A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

Enumeratio Insectorum Elytratorum Circa Erlangam Indigenarum secundam systema Fabricianum. Observationibus Iconibusque Illustrata. 

Erlangen, Palm, 1795.
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750 €

First edition published at the same time as his thesis with a slightly different title.
David Heinrich Hoppe was a German physician, botanist and pharmacist and an entomologist.
In 1790, Hoppe founded Bavaria's first botanical society, the Regensburg Botanical Society, the oldest still-functioning botanical society in the world.
Three taxa are named by David Heinrich Hoppe in this books :
- Donacia dentata, a species of beetles of the subfamily Donaciinae.
- Donacia marginata, a species of beetle native to Europe.
- Graphoderus zonatus, a species of beetle from the Dytiscidae family.

Photo LORIOL, Perceval de. 

LORIOL, Perceval de. 

Description des animaux invertébrés fossiles contenus dans l'étage néocomien moyen du mont Salève. 

Genève, H. Georg, 1861.
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First edition of this remarkable work on the Salève fossils.

Perceval de Loriol (1828-1908) was a Swiss palaeontologist and stratigrapher, who worked during fourty years at the Natural History Museum of Geneva. He was one of the founders of the Schweizerische Paläontologische Gesellschaft.

The Salève is particularly rich in fossils. There are more than 700 species of invertebrates in the interval from the Upper Jurassic to the Quaternary, the study of which is far from being completed.
This work by Loriol remains an important reference on the subject.

Photo GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. 

Paris, Durand, 1762.
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700 €

First edition.
This book was a great success in the field of Natural Sciences as soon as it was published.
Étienne-Louis Geoffroy (1725-1810, French pharmacist and entomologist) introduced a new classification of insects based on the study of wings and established six different groups (beetles, hemiptera, mealy-winged tetraptera, bare-winged tetraptera, diptera and aptera).

Photo BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph. 

BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph. 

Nouveau manuel forestier à l'usage des agens forestiers de tous grades, des arpenteurs, des Gardes des bois impériaux et communaux, des préposés de la marine pour la recherche des bois propres aux constructions navales. 

Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, 1808.
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600 €

First french edition.
French translation by Jacques-Joseph Baudrillart of the reference book by Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorf, a German forest specialist famous throughout Europe. The first volume contains a summary of the forest code, a general section on natural history, and the description of several hundred plant species found in forests and woods. In the second, there are chapters containing introductions to geometry, mechanics, and civil and naval construction. The tree to be felled is considered to provide parts useful for shipbuilding. It should be noted that the work comes three years after the defeat at Trafalgar, where the English had annihilated the French fleet.

Copy signed by the author.

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