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WHYTT, Robert.

Essais physiologiques.

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1759.

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200 €

First edition in French.

This book is divided into two parts which are : "Des recherches sur les causes du mouvement des fluides dans les très petits vaisseaux des animaux" et "Des observations sur la sensiblité et sur l'irritabilité des parties du corps animal, à l'occasion du mémoire de M. Haller sur ce sujet".
Dr Robert Whytt (1714–1766) was a Scottish physician. President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
His work, on unconscious reflexes, tubercular meningitis, urinary bladder stones, and hysteria, is remembered now most for his book on diseases of the nervous system.

VISEUR, Jules.

Histoire du cheval Boulonnais.

Arras, Bouvry, [1897].

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VIREY, Julien-Joseph.

Histoire des Moeurs et de l'instinct des animaux avec les distintions méthodiques et naturelles de toutes leurs classe (animaux vertébrés et sans vertèbres).

Paris, Deterville, 1822.

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75 €

First edition, without the plates which where sold separatly.

VERLOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du Dauphiné.

Grenoble, imprimerie de Prudhomme, 1872.

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150 €

Copy of the french botanist Edouard Marçais, with is name title in gilt on the spine.

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

[Dijon], s.n., An 9 [1800].

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500 €

Handwritten course on Mineralogy.
A note at the end of the document tells us that the course was taken under dictation by Vallot in the year 9. At that date Jacques-Nicolas Vallot (1771-1860) was a professor of natural sciences at the central school of Dijon. A naturalist, he touched on all sorts of subjects: botany, zoology, mineralogy, antiquities...
Vallot reviews the different minerals and gives their main characteristics: jasper, chalcedony, gold, petroleum, carbonates, etc.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation, ou l'agriculture, et le jardinage dans leur perfection.

Bruxelles, Jean Leonard, 1715.

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400 €

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Abbot de Vallemont is well known for his curious works on occultism. These two volumes deal with all sorts of strange phenomena: the tree of Diana or metallic vegetation, the plant phoenix, palingenesis or the resurrection of plants from their ashes. Allegorical frontispieces and engraved figures.

Copy uncrop.

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.

THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Paris, 15 rue de l'école de médecine, 1903.

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60 €

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

THEURIET, André.

Nos Oiseaux.

Paris, H. Launette et Cie, 1887.

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300 €

Second edition.
Very nice print of the 110 watercolors after Hector Giacomelli.
For each of the 20 chapters dedicated to a species of bird, we find: a small framed poem, a banner, a lettrin, a lampshade and a full page engraving.

A fine copy.

SUE, Jean-Joseph.

Essai sur la physiognomonie des corps vivans, considérée depuis l'homme jusqu'à la plante.

Paris, L'Auteur, 1797.

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90 €

First edition.
Jean Joseph Sue (1760-1830) Doctor and surgeon is the father of Eugène Sue.
Curious work which would be a manual of morphology intended for artists.

STURM, Jacob.

Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung.

Nürnberg, Auf Rosten des Verfassers, 1826.

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At the turn of the 18th century, Sturm had one of the largest private collections of insects. He published a catalogue in four parts from 1796 to 1843. Here is the third part devoted to beetles.
Presentation copy.

STURM, Christophe-Chrétien.

Considérations sur les oeuvres de Dieu, dans le règne de la Nature et de la Providence. Pour tous les jours de l'année.

Lausanne, Hignou et Companie, 1799.

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80 €

Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786) was a German theologian whose most famous work is this book, in which he claims to prove the existence of God from the Natural Sciences.

SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro || SENEBIER, Jean.

Oeuvres de M. L'Abbé Spallanzani :
Opuscules de physique, animale et végétale, augmentés de ses expériences sur la digestion de l'Homme & des Animaux, traduits de l'italien par Jean Senebier
[suivi de]
Expériences sur la digestion de l'Homme, et de différentes espèces d'animaux
[suivi de]
Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes; avec une ébauche de l'histoire des êtres organisés avant leur fécondation par Jean Senebier.

Paris - Pavie, Pierre J. Duplain, 1787.

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500 €

First collective edition in french of the works of Spallanzi.

SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel.

Tables synoptiques de l'histoire naturelle, pharmaceutique et médicale.

Paris, Librairie médicale de Crochard, 1833.

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450 €

Second edition.
Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel de Smyttère (1800-1886) was a French physician, botanist and historian. His work, inspired by the classifications of Candolle, offers classification tables where medicinal properties are highlighted.
"I conceived the project of demonstrating, through application, the link that unites natural history to therapeutics" (extract from the preface).

SICARD, Guillaume.

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux.

Paris, Delagrave, 1884.

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400 €

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio.

Vipera Pythia id est, De Viperae Natura, Veneno, Medicina, Demonstrationes, et Experimenta nova.

Padoue, Pauli Frambotti, 1651.

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800 €

Second edition.
Marco Auelio Severino (1580-1656) was a prominent Italian anatomist and surgeon. In 1610, he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery in Naples. His work, "Vipera Pythia," deals with venomous snakes, their anatomy, venom, and medicinal properties and virtues. It provides extensive information on the mythology, superstitions, and occult traditions surrounding snakes.

Many of the engravings, mostly full-page, depict mythological images as well as pagan deities, symbols, and idols associated with snakes.

SEHLMEYER, Johann Friedrich.

Index alphabeticus specierum hymenonycetum in Epicrisi systematis mycologici Friesii descriptarum earumque synonymarum conscripsit.

Cologne, Joannis Petri Bachemii, 1852.

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120 €

First edition.
Sehlmeyer (1788-1856) German botanist and pharmacist was responsible for the Cologne pharmacy between 1821 and 1852.
Work designed by Sehlmeyer to serve as an index to the Systema mycologicum of Elias Magnus Fries (nicknamed the “Linnaeus of mushrooms” father of scientific mycology) of which the editions at the time were lacking.

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).

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

Ratisbonne, s.n., 1762.

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250 €

Second edition.
A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Piscium Bavarico-Ratisbonensium Pentas. Cum tabulis IV. aeri incisis icones coloribus suis distinctas exhibentibus.

Paris, Derache, 1761.

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200 €

First edition.
Copy which has preserved the four beautiful folding plates with their period colors.

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).

SAND, Maurice.

Le Monde des Papillons, promenade à travers champs avec une préface de George Sand.

Paris, J. Rothschild, 1867.

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First edition.
Beautiful work by Maurice Sand, son of George Sand who signed the preface.
Following this we find the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of Europe by Sinceet.
Complete with 50 entomological plates.

SAISSY, Jean-Antoine.

Recherches expérimentales, anatomiques, chimiques, etc. Sur la physique des animaux mammifères hybernans, notamment les marmottes, les loirs, etc.

Paris, H. Nicolle, 1808.

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150 €

First edition.
Saissy was a doctor of medicine in Paris and then became a major surgeon of the Royal Company of Africa where he practiced military medicine in Algeria. Back in Lyon, he was accepted into the College of Surgery in 1789 and then a doctor of medicine in Valence. He practiced the art of childbirth in Lyon and published in 1808 a study on hibernating animals which earned him a prize at the Institute. From 1810 onwards, he devoted himself to ear diseases.

Copy signed by the author.

ROUX, Augustin.

Traité de la Culture et de la Plantation des Arbres à ouvrer, avec la manière d'Exploiter et Débiter & Echantillonner les Bois, suivant les différens usages ausquels ils sont propres pour les besoins de la vie.

Paris, Ch. Ant. Jombert, 1750.

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150 €

First edition.
Species-by-species growing tips for planting and caring for timber.

[ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de].

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises.
Poëme.

Paris, Moutard, 1777.

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25 €

Second edition.

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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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.

[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.

REIMAR Hermann Samuel || [RENEAUME de LATACHE Jacques].

Observations physiques et morales sur l'instinct des animaux, leur industrie & leurs moeurs.

Amsterdam - Paris, Changuion - Jombert, 1770.

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190 €

First edition in French.

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.

REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de).

Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes espèces.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1751.

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350 €

Second edition, greatly expanded.
This work brings together Réaumur's work on birds based on his observations. He sets out practical ways to produce a large quantity of chickens at low cost, a very expensive commodity at the time. He suggests building artificial incubators for incubating eggs and brooders to replace mother hens.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

WHYTT, Robert.

Essais physiologiques.

VISEUR, Jules.

Histoire du cheval Boulonnais.

First edition.

VIREY, Julien-Joseph.

Histoire des Moeurs et de l'instinct des animaux avec les distintions méthodiques et naturelles de toutes leurs classe (animaux vertébrés et sans vertèbres).

First edition, without the plates which where sold separatly.

VERLOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du Dauphiné.

Copy of the french botanist Edouard Marçais, with is name title in gilt on the spine.

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation, ou l'agriculture, et le jardinage dans leur perfection.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

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

THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

THEURIET, André.

Nos Oiseaux.

Second edition.Very nice print of the 110 watercolors after Hector Giacomelli. For each of the 20 chapters dedicated to a species of bird, we find: a small framed poem, a banner, a lettrin, a lampshade and a full page engraving.A fine copy.

SUE, Jean-Joseph.

Essai sur la physiognomonie des corps vivans, considérée depuis l'homme jusqu'à la plante.

First edition.Jean Joseph Sue (1760-1830) Doctor and surgeon is the father of Eugène Sue. Curious work which would be a manual of morphology intended for artists.

STURM, Jacob.

Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung.

First edition. At the turn of the 18th century, Sturm had one of the largest private collections of insects. He published a catalogue in four parts from 1796 to 1843. Here is the third part devoted to beetles.Presentation copy.

STURM, Christophe-Chrétien.

Considérations sur les oeuvres de Dieu, dans le règne de la Nature et de la Providence. Pour tous les jours de l'année.

Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786) was a German theologian whose most famous work is this book, in which he claims to prove the existence of God from the Natural Sciences.

SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro || SENEBIER, Jean.

First collective edition in french of the works of Spallanzi.

SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel.

Tables synoptiques de l'histoire naturelle, pharmaceutique et médicale.

SICARD, Guillaume.

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux.

Second edition augmented.A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.Some ink annotations on the plates.

SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio.

Vipera Pythia id est, De Viperae Natura, Veneno, Medicina, Demonstrationes, et Experimenta nova.

SEHLMEYER, Johann Friedrich.

Index alphabeticus specierum hymenonycetum in Epicrisi systematis mycologici Friesii descriptarum earumque synonymarum conscripsit.

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT.

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

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).

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

Second edition.A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Piscium Bavarico-Ratisbonensium Pentas. Cum tabulis IV. aeri incisis icones coloribus suis distinctas exhibentibus.

First edition.Copy which has preserved the four beautiful folding plates with their period colors.

SCARPA, Antoine.

Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu.

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

SAND, Maurice.

Le Monde des Papillons, promenade à travers champs avec une préface de George Sand.

First edition.Beautiful work by Maurice Sand, son of George Sand who signed the preface.Following this we find the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of Europe by Sinceet.Complete with 50 entomological plates.

SAISSY, Jean-Antoine.

Recherches expérimentales, anatomiques, chimiques, etc. Sur la physique des animaux mammifères hybernans, notamment les marmottes, les loirs, etc.

ROUX, Augustin.

Traité de la Culture et de la Plantation des Arbres à ouvrer, avec la manière d'Exploiter et Débiter & Echantillonner les Bois, suivant les différens usages ausquels ils sont propres pour les besoins de la vie.

First edition.Species-by-species growing tips for planting and caring for timber.

[ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de].

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises. Poëme.

Second edition.

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.

[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.

REIMAR Hermann Samuel || [RENEAUME de LATACHE Jacques].

Observations physiques et morales sur l'instinct des animaux, leur industrie & leurs moeurs.

First edition in French.

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

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de).

Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes espèces.

Second edition.
Very nice print of the 110 watercolors after Hector Giacomelli.
For each of the 20 chapters dedicated to a species of bird, we find: a small framed poem, a banner, a lettrin, a lampshade and a full page engraving.

A fine copy.

First edition.
Jean Joseph Sue (1760-1830) Doctor and surgeon is the father of Eugène Sue.
Curious work which would be a manual of morphology intended for artists.

First edition.
At the turn of the 18th century, Sturm had one of the largest private collections of insects. He published a catalogue in four parts from 1796 to 1843. Here is the third part devoted to beetles.
Presentation copy.

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

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).

Second edition.
A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

First edition.
Copy which has preserved the four beautiful folding plates with their period colors.

First edition.
Beautiful work by Maurice Sand, son of George Sand who signed the preface.
Following this we find the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of Europe by Sinceet.
Complete with 50 entomological plates.

First edition.
Species-by-species growing tips for planting and caring for timber.

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises.
Poëme.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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