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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.

COUPIN, Henri.

Album Général Des Cryptogames : Fungi.

Paris, E. Orlhac, [1913-1922 ].

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200 €

First edition.
Complete with five parts devoted to mushrooms.
The work was published in installments between 1913 and 1922.

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).

STURM, Jacob.

Catalog meiner Insecten-Sammlung.

Nürnberg, Auf Rosten des Verfassers, 1826.

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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.

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.

CONGRES POUR L'ETUDE DE LA TUBERCULOSE.

Congrès pour l'étude de la tuberculose chez l'homme et chez les animaux - 1re session. - 1888 - Comptes-rendus et mémoires publiés sous la direction de M. le Dr L.-H. Petit, Secrétaire général.

Paris, G. Masson, 1889.

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50 €

First edition.

This first session of the congress was chaired by Professor Chauveau.

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.

CUNY, Léon.

Cours d'arboriculture fruitière.

Paris, Bureau de l'édition, 1929.

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150 €

First edition.
Arboriculture course given by Léon Cuny curator of the Luxembourg Gardens.
His courses were at the origin of the creation of the Association of Auditors of the Courts of Luxembourg whose aim was to popularize the methods of fruit growing which made the reputation of the gardeners of Luxembourg.

Copy n°22 on 100 exemplar on Alfa signed by the author.
Presentation copy.

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.

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 €

New edition.
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.

QUATREMER DISJONVAL, Denis-Bernard.

De l'Aranéologie, ou sur la découverte du rapport constant entre l'apparition ou la disparition, le travail ou le repos, le plus ou le moins d'étendue des toiles et des fils d'attaches des araignées des différentes espèces.

Paris, J.J. Fuchs, 1797.

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200 €

First edtion.
During his captivity, a prisoner in the Netherlands, he made curious observations on the work of the spider as an indicator of atmospheric variations.
Thus, he offers us chapters on Spiders compared to the Barometer, the Thermometer, the Hygrometer...

In 1794, he announced to Pichegru the infallible arrival of frosts that would soon solidify all the canals and marshes of Holland, which would earn him his release.

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.

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles].

De l'Homme, et de la reproduction des différens individus.

Paris, s.n., 1761.

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150 €

First edition.

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.

[PERRAULT, Pierre].

De L'Origine des Fontaines.

Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1678.

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350 €

Second edition.
Milestone for hydrology.
Perrault succeeded in proving scientifically for the first time that rainfall was sufficient to fuel the flow of rivers, and that rain came from the evaporation of rivers and seas.

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).

DARWIN, Charles.

De La Variation des animaux et des plantes sous l' action de la domestication.

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1868.

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First edition in French. Translation by JJ Moulinié.
In addition to the remarks on the domestication of animals (which is a bias of unnatural selection) Darwin exposes in this book for the first time his theory of Pangenesis.
Darwin seeks there a support of hereditary information and puts forward the hypothesis of cellular buds which would transmit the characters of the parents. The hypothesis is false but we feel that genetics are in fact not very far.

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.

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.

FUSTER, Joseph-Jean Nicolas.

Des Changements dans le climat de la France, histoire de ses révolutions météorologiques
[relié à la suite :]
Des Maladies de la France dans leurs rapports avec les saison, ou histoire médicale et météorologique de la France, Paris, Dufart, 1840.

Paris, Capelle, 1845.

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600 €

Two works in first edition by the same author in one volume:

I - FUSTER, Changes in the climate of France, history of its meteorological revolutions, Paris, Capelle, 1845

"The climate of France has changed and is changing"
Quite fascinating historiographical work on the French climate since the Gauls until the XIXth century.
One of the final chapters entitled "The action of meteorological phenomena and the human industry as causes of changes in our climate" sounds like a strange echo 150 years before the IPCC reports.

II- FUSTER, Diseases of France in their relationships with the seasons, or medical and meteorological history of France, Paris, Dufart, 1840

"The subject of this book is still new: no one has dealt with the diseases of France; no one has considered these diseases in their relationship with the seasons. But it is between us something more than "a new application of principles already known; it is, above all, the search for these principles. How do the seasons work; determine the diseases in correspondence with their action? Here is the problem first. The history of the seasons and diseases of France will follow and must follow the solution of these two questions. "

While the seasonality of viral infections is always a concern.

HUZARD, Jean-Baptiste.

Des haras domestiques en France.

Paris, Mme Huzard, 1829.

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200 €

First edition.

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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750 €

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.

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.

[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.

DU HAYS, Charles.

Dictionnaire de la race pure pour remonter à l'origine des chevaux et juments de pur sang anglais qui ont été introduits en France, Belgique, Hollande et tout le continent germanique et des individualités célèbres entrées en Angleterre qui ont formé illustré et conservé cette race.

Bruxelles, Paris, Leipzig, Parent, Goin & Durr, 1863.

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200 €

Fine copy.

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.

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.

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).

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.

LA GUERINIERE, François ROBICHON (de).

École de Cavalerie. Contenant la connoissance, l'instruction et la conservation du cheval.

Paris, Par la compagnie, 1756.

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500 €

François Robichon de La Guérinière (1688-1751) is often considered the greatest French horseman of all time and the founder of modern horsemanship in France. He simplified the means of training horses and made modifications to their harnessing. His École de cavalerie published in 1731 is illustrated by Charles Parrocel.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

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.

COUPIN, Henri.

Album Général Des Cryptogames : Fungi.

First edition.Complete with five parts devoted to mushrooms.The work was published in installments between 1913 and 1922.

SCARPA, Antoine.

Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu.

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

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.

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.

CONGRES POUR L'ETUDE DE LA TUBERCULOSE.

Congrès pour l'étude de la tuberculose chez l'homme et chez les animaux - 1re session. - 1888 - Comptes-rendus et mémoires publiés sous la direction de M. le Dr L.-H. Petit, Secrétaire général.

First edition. This first session of the congress was chaired by Professor Chauveau.

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.

CUNY, Léon.

Cours d'arboriculture fruitière.

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

Cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle - Minéralogie.

Twelfth edition.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

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

QUATREMER DISJONVAL, Denis-Bernard.

De l'Aranéologie, ou sur la découverte du rapport constant entre l'apparition ou la disparition, le travail ou le repos, le plus ou le moins d'étendue des toiles et des fils d'attaches des araignées des différentes espèces.

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.

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles].

De l'Homme, et de la reproduction des différens individus.

First edition.

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.

[PERRAULT, Pierre].

De L'Origine des Fontaines.

Second edition.Milestone for hydrology.Perrault succeeded in proving scientifically for the first time that rainfall was sufficient to fuel the flow of rivers, and that rain came from the evaporation of rivers and seas.

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).

DARWIN, Charles.

De La Variation des animaux et des plantes sous l' action de la domestication.

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.

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.

FUSTER, Joseph-Jean Nicolas.

Des Changements dans le climat de la France, histoire de ses révolutions météorologiques [relié à la suite :] Des Maladies de la France dans leurs rapports avec les saison, ou histoire médicale et météorologique de la France, Paris, Dufart, 1840.

HUZARD, Jean-Baptiste.

Des haras domestiques en France.

First edition.

LORIOL, Perceval de.

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

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".

[MANUSCRIT].

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

DU HAYS, Charles.

Dictionnaire de la race pure pour remonter à l'origine des chevaux et juments de pur sang anglais qui ont été introduits en France, Belgique, Hollande et tout le continent germanique et des individualités célèbres entrées en Angleterre qui ont formé illustré et conservé cette race.

Fine copy.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

First edition.
Complete with five parts devoted to mushrooms.
The work was published in installments between 1913 and 1922.

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.

First edition.

This first session of the congress was chaired by Professor Chauveau.

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.

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.

Second edition.
Milestone for hydrology.
Perrault succeeded in proving scientifically for the first time that rainfall was sufficient to fuel the flow of rivers, and that rain came from the evaporation of rivers and seas.

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.

Des Changements dans le climat de la France, histoire de ses révolutions météorologiques
[relié à la suite :]
Des Maladies de la France dans leurs rapports avec les saison, ou histoire médicale et météorologique de la France, Paris, Dufart, 1840.

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 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).

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.