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Photo BERTRAND, Elie. 

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).

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 LA GUERINIERE, François ROBICHON (de). 

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

Photo BULLIARD, Pierre. 

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).

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 LINNE, Charles. 

LINNE, Charles. 

Genera plantarum. Eorumque Characteres naturales, secundum Numerum, Figuram, Situm, & Proportionem omnium Fructificationis partium. 

Paris, David, 1743.
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Third edition.
A major work in the history of science in which Linnaeus explains the reproduction of flowering plants and proposes a classification of plants by the structure of their flowers. This classification will be the starting point for the entire taxonomy of living things as we use it today.

Taken from the second edition published in 1742, the Paris edition is the only one to offer the names of plants in French.

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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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 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 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 VISEUR, Jules. 

VISEUR, Jules. 

Histoire du cheval Boulonnais. 

Arras, Bouvry, [1897].
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First edition.

Photo PLINE. 

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.

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 LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

Histoire naturelle des fourmis et recueil de memoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignées, les faucheurs et autres insectes. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1802.
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250 €

First edition.
Managing the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, Latreille is the first to describe new species from the Pacific in this monograph devoted to ants.

Photo DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas. 

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.

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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350 €

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 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.

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