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Photo CUVIER, Georges. 

CUVIER, Georges. 

Discours sur les révolutions du globe avec des notes et un appendice d'après les travaux récents de MM. de Humboldt, Flourens, Lyell, Lindley, etc. 

Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1879.
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35 €

Le Discours sur les révolutions du globe est considéré comme l'un des textes fondateurs de la paléontologie et de la géologie moderne.

Photo BON, François Xavier. 

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.

Photo HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

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

Erlangen, Palm, 1795.
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750 €

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

Photo SUE, Jean-Joseph. 

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.

Photo BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste. 

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.

Photo WHYTT, Robert. 

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.

Photo D'AZARA, Félix. 

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.

Photo HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

Expériences sur le Galvanisme et en général sur l'irritation des fibres musculaires et nerveuses. 

Paris, Didot Jeune Chez J.F. Fuchs, 1799.
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500 €

First edition in french.
French translation by Nicolas Jadelot of Humboldt's work on galvanism. Humboldt confirms Galvani's interpretation that animal electricity is irreducible to that of physicists. It contributes to the genesis of the idea that living beings can be described as galvanic organisms.

Photo ADANSON, Michel. 

ADANSON, Michel. 

Familles des plantes. 

Paris, Vincent, 1763.
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1500 €

First edition of this important botanical treatise.
Michel Adanson was the first to analyze and explain the theoretical foundations of natural classification and, what is even more important, to define the practical method to be used to seek this classification.

In this work, Adanson proclaims his contempt for "systems" and proposes a natural classification based on all the characters and not on a few characters chosen arbitrarily, which puts him in conflict with Linnaeus.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de. 

LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de. 

Flore française, ou Descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des principes élémentaires de la botanique. 

Paris, Desbay, 1815.
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500 €

Third edition.
This third edition was completely revised by the Swiss botanist Candolle in 1805. It was reprinted in 1815 with new title pages to accompany Volume V in the original edition. This latest volume includes 1300 species not described in the previous ones.

Photo MOLLOY, Gérald || HAMARD, Abbé. 

MOLLOY, Gérald || HAMARD, Abbé. 

Géologie et Révélation ou histoire ancienne de la Terre considérée à la lumière des faits géologiques et de la religion révélée. 

Paris, René Haton, 1877.
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50 €

Book whose purpose is to match geological and paleontological data with biblical stories.

Photo GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

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

Paris, Durand, 1762.
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700 €

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

Photo GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

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

Paris, Durand, 1762.
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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).

Photo BOGAERTS, Félix. 

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.

Photo CAMUS, Armand Gaston. 

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.

Photo VIREY, Julien-Joseph. 

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.

Photo SICARD, Guillaume. 

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.

Photo DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques Terrestres et d'Eau Douce qui vivent en France. 

Paris, Victor Masson, 1847-1852.
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350 €

First edition.
Complete collection of six issues as published in which Abbé Dupuy describes a number of new species (and or subspecies) starting with the Pyrenees Nerite.
Dupuy's malacological collections which were used to write his history of molluscs are today kept at the Toulouse museum and were only completely inventoried in 2009.

Photo ADANSON, Michel. 

ADANSON, Michel. 

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

Paris, Claude Jean Baptiste Bauche, 1757.
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1750 €

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

Photo DERHEIMS, Jean-Lambert. 

DERHEIMS, Jean-Lambert. 

Histoire naturelle et médicale des sangsues. 

Paris, Baillère, 1825.
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Rare first edition of this work on leeches.

Photo MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando. 

MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando. 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri. 

Historia plantarum universalis. 

Yverdon, s.n., 1650-1651.
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7000 €

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

Photo ARTEDI, Peter || LINNE, Carl von. 

ARTEDI, Peter || LINNE, Carl von. 

Ichthyologia, sive opera omnia de piscibus. 

Leyde, Gonradum Wishoff, 1738.
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1300 €

First edition.
Artedi is known as the "father of ichthyology" for this pioneering work in classifying the fishes into groups.

The foundation of modern ichthyology.

Artedi, who drowned in Amsterdam in 1735, is published here posthumously by Carl von Linné, who inherited the manuscripts of Artedi.

The classification is based on an order, then a genus and a species. He thus distinguishes four orders of fish and one for cetaceans, 47 genera and 230 species.
A very complete set of its five parts.

Photo SEHLMEYER, Johann Friedrich. 

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.

Photo LA QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste. 

LA QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste. 

Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers, et des réflexions sur l'agriculture. 

Paris, Cavelier, 1739.
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900 €

New revised and corrected edition.
A famous French gardener of the 17th century, Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie was known for having been the director of the fruit and vegetable gardens of King Louis XIV. His work is a complete treatise on the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, as well as on the layout of gardens.
He was very influential in his time and helped to popularize modern gardening techniques, particularly on methods of forcing vegetables and pruning fruit trees.
Very complete copy of the plan of the royal vegetable garden and the plates outside the text on tree pruning.

Photo CHABERT, Philibert || FLANDRIN || HUZARD. 

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.

Photo MINCHIN, Edward Alfred. 

MINCHIN, Edward Alfred. 

Investigations on the Development of Trypanosomes in Tsetse-Flies and other Diptera. 

s.l., s. n, [1908].
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90 €

This article is an extract from the scientific journal "Journal of Cell Science", published in March 1908, n°206.

Edward Alfred Minchin (1866-1915) was a British zoologist who specialised in the study of sponges and Protozoa. He became Jodrell Chair of Zoology at University College London in 1899, Chair of Protozoology at the University of London in 1906, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911. He was described as the first great British protozoologist.
This article deals with the study of trypanosomes that develop in tsetse flies, including gambiense trypanosoma, which only infects humans and is responsible for sleeping sickness.

Photo [ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de]. 

[ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de]. 

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises.
Poëme. 

Paris, Moutard, 1777.
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25 €

Second edition.

Photo DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel. 

DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel. 

L'Art de monter à cheval, qui monstre la belle & facille méthode de se rendre bon homme de cheval. 

Paris, Jacques le Gras, 1664.
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600 €

Second edition enlarged by a second part from Samuel Fouquet to treat horse diseases.
The best edition of this classic treatise on horse riding.
The author was a squire in the grand stable of Louis XIV.

Photo DETROYE, J.-V. 

DETROYE, J.-V. 

L'Exploration de l'abdomen du boeuf. 

Paris, Ve H. Ducourtieux, 1892.
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50 €

First edition, presentation copy.

Book on veterinary science that deals with the digestive system of beef.

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