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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.

AMOREUX, Pierre-Joseph.

Notice des insectes de la France réputés venimeux.

Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789.

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120 €

First edition.
Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

[AUBERT DE LA CHESNAY DES BOIS, François-Alexandre].

Systême naturel du règne animal, par classes, familles ou ordres, genres et espèces, avec une notice de tous les animaux.

Paris, Cl.-J.-B. Bauche, 1754.

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450 €

First edition.
The Illustrated with portraits of Klein and Linné in frontispiece and 6 folding plates of zoology engraved by Maisonneuve.
This taxonomic treatise describes each species of quadrupeds, birds and amphibians according to the classification of Jacob Theodor Klein and that of Carl von Linné, the fishes according to that of Peter Artedi and finally the insects and worms according to Linné.

BACCI, Andrea.

De thermis libri septem. In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque earum differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis.

Venise, Felicem Valgrisum, 1588.

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550 €

Second enlarged edition.

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).

BERTRAND, Elie.

Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres, et des fossiles accidentels.

Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1763.

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450 €

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).
Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

BERTRAND, Louis.

Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres.

Paris, Charles Pougens, Hocquart, Duprat, An VIII (1799).

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400 €

First edition.
Louis Bertrand (1731-1812), was born in Geneva and was a Swiss geologist and mathematician. He was a pupil of Euler and became his close friend. In addition to writing a text on geometry he also wrote on geology. In "Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres" he discusses the evolution of terrestrial continents, mountains, stratigraphic layers, caves and fossils (animal and mineral).

BERTRAND, Louis.

Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres.

Genève, J.J. Paschoud, 1803.

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100 €

Second edition.
Louis Bertrand (1731-1812), was born in Geneva and was a Swiss geologist and mathematician. He was a pupil of Euler and became his close friend. In addition to writing a text on geometry he also wrote on geology. In "Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres" he discusses the evolution of terrestrial continents, mountains, stratigraphic layers, caves and fossils (animal and mineral).

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.

BEUDANT, François-Sulpice || MILNE-EDWARDS || JUSSIEU DE, A.

Cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle - Minéralogie.

Paris, Victor Masson-Garnier Frères, 1869.

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30 €

Twelfth edition.

BIANCONI, Joseph.

La Théorie Darwinienne et la Création dite indépendante.

Bologne, Nicolas Zanichelli, 1874.

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300 €

First edition.
An "anti" Darwinist work claiming that homologous structures are explained on mechanical principles.

BOGAERTS, Félix.

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

Anvers, J.- E. Buschmann, 1847.

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80 €

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

Nismes, Gaude, 1763.

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450 €

First edition.
Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

BON, François Xavier.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées.

Avignon, Franc. Girard, 1748.

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250 €

Latin-French edition.
François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste.

Essai sur les eaux minérales naturelles et artificielles.

Paris et Saint-Pétersbourg, Klostermann, 1810.

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350 €

First edition, the first issue with the scarce 1810 title page.
An important work and comprehensive treatise on natural and mineral waters. The first part covers internal and external uses of fresh water, seawater, and different kinds of mineral water. The major portion of the book describes the principal spas of Europe in alphabetical order, including chemical analyses of the waters. The last section gives detailed directions for the preparation of artificial mineral waters, with plates showing apparatus for making hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and hydrogel sulphide. The machine designed by L.A. Planche for making carbonated mineral waters under pressure is described.

BOULLAND, Charles.

De l'importance des Sciences Naturelles dans l'étude anatomique et physiologique de l'homme.

Limoges, Chatras et Comp, 1864.

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75 €

First edition.

This booklet is the speech delivered by Dr. Charles Boulland, on November 24th in1864, on the first day of classes at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy Limoges.

[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.

BREZ, Jacques.

La Flore des insectophiles précédée d'un discours sue l'utilité des insectes et de l'étude de l'insectologie.

Utrecht, B. Wild et J. Altheer, 1791.

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60 €

First edition.

BRONGNIART, Alexandre.

Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts.

Paris, Deterville, 1807.

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300 €

First edition and first book by Brongniart.

Alexandre Brongniart (1770-1847) is a French scientist well-known and recognized for his research in mineralogy. He succeeded René Just Haüy (one of the founders of geometric crystallography), to the chair of mineralogy at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle of Paris.
As soon as it was published, this book became a classic in this field and was as a reference for students.

BRUMPT, Émile || NEVEU-LEMAIRE, Maurice.

Travaux pratiques de parasitologie.

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1938.

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20 €

Book by Émile Brumpt (1877-1951), one of the most important French parasitologist of the early 20th century, written in collaboration with Maurice Neveu-Lemaire (1872-1951, French parasitologist, naturalist and explorer). '.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Méthodes sûres et faciles pour détruire les animaux nuisibles ; tels que : les ours, les sangliers, les loups, les renards, les loutres, les fouines, les belettes, les lapins, les loirs, les rats, les souris, les musaraignes, les taupes, les vipères.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1784.

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150 €

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

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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750 €

A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

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.

CAMUS, Armand Gaston.

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote.

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1783.

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350 €

First French translation of Aristotle's text.
The translation is given by Armand Gaston Camus with the Greek text opposite.
Aristotle here attempts to make a comprehensible classification of animals based on objective structural characteristics. The second volume is devoted to a critical apparatus of Aristotle's text.

CAUSTIER.

Les Entrailles de la Terre.

Paris, Librairie Nony, 1902.

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50 €

CHABERT, Philibert.

Traité du charbon ou anthrax dans les animaux.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1782.

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450 €

Second enlarges edition of this famous veterinary work dealing with the anthrax, a disease touching many farm animals.
Rare.

CHABERT, Philibert || FLANDRIN || HUZARD.

Instructions et observations sur les maladies des animaux domestiques Avec les moyens de les guerir, de les preserver, de les conserver en sante, de les multiplier, de les elever avec avantage, et de n'etre point trompe dans leur achat. On y a joint l'analyse des ouvrages anciens et modernes, ecrits sur cette science.

Paris, Huzard, An 3 [ca. 1795].

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120 €

First edition.

CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew.

300 animalcules infusoires, dessinés à l'aide du microscope.

Paris, Charles Chevalier, 1838.

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350 €

First edition.
Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

CLARMORGAN, Jean.

La Chasse du Loup nécessaire à la maison rustique.

Rouen, Jean Baptiste Besongne, 1685.

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450 €

The Wolf Hunt by Jean Carlmorgan was appended to the editions of the Rustic House of Liebaut. Our edition has its own title page and includes the 14 mid-page woodcuts from the sixteenth century editions. A highly sought-after work in the 19th century, it represented the "dark ages" of the French countryside.

Following it we find "La Fabrique de la Gauge ou Diapason" in (10) sheets, (last sheet truncated). Another typical annex of the Rustic House.

CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL.

Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du caloriques spécifique des Gaz in. "Journal de Physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts, avec des planches et des arts".

Paris, Vve Courcier, 1819.

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Important memory of Clement and Désormes : "Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du calorique spécifique des Gaz".
This work was submitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1812, but didn't win the price and wasn't printed in the memory of the academy. It thus appears here for the first time .
It deal with the determination of the absolute zero and the specific heat of gas.
Presentation copy of Antoine César Becquerel to his grandson Henry with this : "Donné à mon petit fils henry, qu'il conserve cela en souvenir de mes trois premiers mémoires publiés en 1819 et du tendre attachement que je lui porte".
These three memories on mineralogy are in pages 235-240, 308-309, 462-467.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

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.

AMOREUX, Pierre-Joseph.

Notice des insectes de la France réputés venimeux.

First edition.Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

[AUBERT DE LA CHESNAY DES BOIS, François-Alexandre].

Systême naturel du règne animal, par classes, familles ou ordres, genres et espèces, avec une notice de tous les animaux.

BACCI, Andrea.

De thermis libri septem. In quo agitur de universa aquarum natura, deque earum differentiis omnibus, ac mistionibus cum terris, cum ignibus, cum metallis.

Second enlarged edition.

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri.

Historia plantarum universalis.

BERTRAND, Elie.

Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres, et des fossiles accidentels.

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

BERTRAND, Louis.

Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres.

BERTRAND, Louis.

Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres.

BERTRAND, Philippe.

First edition.

BEUDANT, François-Sulpice || MILNE-EDWARDS || JUSSIEU DE, A.

Cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle - Minéralogie.

Twelfth edition.

BIANCONI, Joseph.

La Théorie Darwinienne et la Création dite indépendante.

First edition.An "anti" Darwinist work claiming that homologous structures are explained on mechanical principles.

BOGAERTS, Félix.

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

First edition.Vignettes by Wittkamp.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

First edition.Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

BON, François Xavier.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées.

Latin-French edition. François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste.

Essai sur les eaux minérales naturelles et artificielles.

BOULLAND, Charles.

De l'importance des Sciences Naturelles dans l'étude anatomique et physiologique de l'homme.

First edition. This booklet is the speech delivered by Dr. Charles Boulland, on November 24th in1864, on the first day of classes at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy Limoges.

[BOURGUET, Louis].

Traité des pétrifications.

BREZ, Jacques.

La Flore des insectophiles précédée d'un discours sue l'utilité des insectes et de l'étude de l'insectologie.

First edition.

BRONGNIART, Alexandre.

Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts.

BRUMPT, Émile || NEVEU-LEMAIRE, Maurice.

Travaux pratiques de parasitologie.

Book by Émile Brumpt (1877-1951), one of the most important French parasitologist of the early 20th century, written in collaboration with Maurice Neveu-Lemaire (1872-1951, French parasitologist, naturalist and explorer). '.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Méthodes sûres et faciles pour détruire les animaux nuisibles ; tels que : les ours, les sangliers, les loups, les renards, les loutres, les fouines, les belettes, les lapins, les loirs, les rats, les souris, les musaraignes, les taupes, les vipères.

Third edition.Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

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.

A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

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.

CAMUS, Armand Gaston.

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote.

CAUSTIER.

Les Entrailles de la Terre.

CHABERT, Philibert.

Traité du charbon ou anthrax dans les animaux.

Second enlarges edition of this famous veterinary work dealing with the anthrax, a disease touching many farm animals. Rare.

CHABERT, Philibert || FLANDRIN || HUZARD.

First edition.

CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew.

300 animalcules infusoires, dessinés à l'aide du microscope.

First edition.Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

CLARMORGAN, Jean.

La Chasse du Loup nécessaire à la maison rustique.

CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL.

Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du caloriques spécifique des Gaz in. "Journal de Physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts, avec des planches et des arts".

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.

First edition.
Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).
Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

First edition.
An "anti" Darwinist work claiming that homologous structures are explained on mechanical principles.

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

First edition.
Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

Latin-French edition.
François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

First edition.

This booklet is the speech delivered by Dr. Charles Boulland, on November 24th in1864, on the first day of classes at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy Limoges.

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

Second enlarges edition of this famous veterinary work dealing with the anthrax, a disease touching many farm animals.
Rare.

First edition.
Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.