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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.

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.

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.

BULLIARD, Pierre.

Flora Parisiensis ou descriptions et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris avec les différens noms, classes, ordres et genres qui leur conviennent, rangés selon la méthode sexuelle de Linné.

Paris, Didot jeune, 1776-1783.

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9500 €

First and only edition of this classic herbal of plants from Paris, illustrated with 642 engraved hand-colored plates.
A complete copy with the "introduction" of 32 pages and 2 plates, the "table françoise" (52 pages xith the errate and the Linneaus system) and the "nouvelle table" of 16 pages.

"Pierre Bulliard, was another picturesque outsider whose works represented the Linnaean tradition in Paris. Bulliard was a descriptive naturalist, little given to theoretical or methodological meditations, but an industrious and skilled draftsman and floristic botanist" (Stafleu).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

ALIX, Eugène || CUYER, Édouard.

Le Cheval.

Paris, J-B Baillière, 1886.

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2000 €

First edition.
A sought-after work for its beautiful anatomical system plates produced by Edouard Cuyer, painter and teacher at the Beaux-Arts.
Plate VI is placed as it should be in a portfolio at the end of the atlas accompanied by all its accessories. This original plate allows, with the help of a small articulated horse, to visualize the different gaits (walk, trot, kick, etc.).

[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.

DARWIN, Charles.

De l'Origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés.

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1862.

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1750 €

First edition in French.
This first French translation, of one of the most important books in modern science, was controversial as soon as it was published. Indeed, translator Clémence Royer (1830-1902, philosopher and scientist) added a preface and numerous footnotes in which she gave her interpretation of the text and commented on it.

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.

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.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

Leiden & Amsterdam, Verbeek & Lakeman, 1727.

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1500 €

First illustrated edition and first edition in french (firs ed. in latin in 1723).
33 plates by J. Wandelaar, each with explanation text.
It is to Sébastien Vaillant that we must attribute the decisive role of having identified the sexual organs of plants and having recognized their importance in taxonomy. It is thanks to Vaillant's work that Linnaeus proposed his classification of plants.

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.

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).

D'AZARA, Félix.

Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay.

Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801.

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1000 €

First edition.
Work published by Moreau de Saint-Mery based on a manuscript sent by Félix D'Azara's brother, without his consent.
Félix de Azara (1742-1821) arrived in America to participate in the demarcation of the colonial border between the Spanish and Portuguese empires. An engineer, cartographer and soldier, he traveled for twenty years in this southern America (current Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil). The quality of Félix de Azara's historical, natural and ethnological descriptions made his writings an essential source for those interested - from Humboldt to d'Orbigny, from Von Martius to Bonpland - in the natural and civil history of this continent.

[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.

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).

DODART, Denis.

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1679.

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950 €

Second edition.
Presentation copy to John Ray (Raïus latinized form).
A founding work of botanical science in France.
This second edition only includes the first part of the original edition, entitled Projet de l'Histoire des plantes. Denis Dodart sets out the framework for one of the great designs of the young Royal Academy of Sciences: the creation of a History of Plants, an exhaustive catalogue of plant species.
At the same time, in 1674, the British naturalist John Ray (1607-1725) complained to the scientific community about having to consult and combine a multitude of publications for a simple study, calling for a catalogue of all known plants. These Memoirs constitute the first step, the master plan in a way, and the work is today considered the founding work of botanical science in France.

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.

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.

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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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.

[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.

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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800 €

First editon.
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).

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando.

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

MILLER, Philip.

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

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.

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

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

BULLIARD, Pierre.

Flora Parisiensis ou descriptions et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris avec les différens noms, classes, ordres et genres qui leur conviennent, rangés selon la méthode sexuelle de Linné.

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri.

Historia plantarum universalis.

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.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de.

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

GREVILLE, Robert K.

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

JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules.

Monographie géologique et paléontologique du Salève.

JOBLOT, Louis.

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope.

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.

DES MURS, Oeillet.

Musée ornithologique illustré.

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.

LATREILLE, Pierre André.

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

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.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de.

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

ALIX, Eugène || CUYER, Édouard.

Le Cheval.

[BOURGUET, Louis].

Traité des pétrifications.

DARWIN, Charles.

De l'Origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés.

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.

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.

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.

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.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

PLINE.

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

SCARPA, Antoine.

Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu.

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

D'AZARA, Félix.

Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay.

[ROBERT, procureur au Châtelet].

Observations sur la culture des arbres fruitiers.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees. Good copy, binding with arms of la Rochefoucauld on covers.

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.

DODART, Denis.

Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire des plantes.

DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas.

Histoire Naturelle Des Fraisiers.

LEMERY, Nicolas.

Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples.

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.

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.

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.

[MANUSCRIT].

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

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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

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.

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.