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Photo BRUMPT, Émile || NEVEU-LEMAIRE, Maurice. 

BRUMPT, Émile || NEVEU-LEMAIRE, Maurice. 

Travaux pratiques de parasitologie. 

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1938.
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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). '.

Photo MANUSCRIT. Faculté de médecine et de Pharmacie de Bordeaux. Laboratoire d'Histoire Naturelle. 

MANUSCRIT. Faculté de médecine et de Pharmacie de Bordeaux. Laboratoire d'Histoire Naturelle. 

Travaux pratiques d'histoire naturelle. 

s.l., s.n., 1887-1888.
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French manuscript during Bonnette medical stydies.
Practical work of natural history made ​​in 1887-1888.
Dissection: earthworm, leech, crayfish, fly, snail, fish, frog, bird, rabbit. Botanical work: thalamiflores, Ranunculaceae, aconitrum, brassica, Malvaceae, corolliflores.

Photo GRAINDORGE, André || FORMI, Pierre || [BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph]. 

GRAINDORGE, André || FORMI, Pierre || [BUC'HOZ, Pierre Joseph]. 

Traités très rares concernant l'histoire naturelle et les Arts.
- Graindorge, Traité de l'origine des Macreuses, 1680
- Formi, Traité de l'Adianton ou cheveu de vénus, 1644. 

Paris, Saugrain & Lamy, 1780.
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Reissue of two rare texts by Buchoz to serve as an annual supplement to a naturalist journal (probably the "Journal of the Three Kingdoms of Nature"):
- Graindorge, Traité de l'origine des Macreuses, 1680.
In which the author returns to the The opinion still widespread in the seventeenth century of the spontaneous generation of scoters (or Scottish geese) from boat wrecks (or shells or as fruit of coastal trees). Grandorge demonstrates that scoters are born from eggs like all other birds.

- Formi, Treatise on the Adianton or hair of Venus, 1644
Work which brought great fame to its author in which he proposes the galenic and spagyric use of the Capillary (Fern of the genus Adiantum).

Photo MANESSE, Denis Joseph (Abbé). 

MANESSE, Denis Joseph (Abbé). 

Traité sur la manière d'empailler et de conserver les animaux, les pelleteries et les laines. 

Paris, Guillot, 1787.
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300 €

First edition.

Photo BRONGNIART, Alexandre. 

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.

Photo CHABERT, Philibert. 

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.

Photo [BOURGUET, Louis]. 

[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.

Photo ROUX, Augustin. 

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.

Photo [MOET, Jean-Pierre]. 

[MOET, Jean-Pierre]. 

Traité de la culture des renoncules, des oeillets, des auricules, et des tulipes. 

Paris, Saugrain, 1754.
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150 €

First edition.

Photo DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. 

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis. 

Traité de la Conservation des Grains et en particulier du Froment. 

Paris, Guerin, 1753.
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200 €

First edition.
Book which follows the famine of 1752 in which Du Monceau tries to propose solutions for better conservation of wheat reserves during years of good harvests. They include better drying and cleaning of the grains, and aeration of large granaries by bellows.

Photo GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da. 

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux. 

Paris, H. Fournier et Cie, 1844.
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600 €

First edition.
Third part alone of the four parts that appeared over a period of almost thirty years. The first part appeared in 1831, the last in 1858. The subject, on the border between natural history and philosophy, consists in applying a rigorous analogy between animal forms and human psychology. In the tradition of Lavater, Gall and the physiognomists, the physical configuration of the organ is revealing of personal dispositions. Da Gama Machado was a commander and gentleman of the Royal House of the King of Portugal; he lived surrounded by his birds, which he cherished.

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

Photo LESSER, Friedrich Christian || LYONNET, Pierre. 

LESSER, Friedrich Christian || LYONNET, Pierre. 

Théologie des Insectes ou démonstration des perfections de Dieu dans tout ce qui concerne les Insectes. 

La Haye, Jean Swart, 1742.
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First edition in French given by Pierre Lyonnet who also added two engravings to Lesser's editions in German.

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

[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.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 

Paris, Deterville, 1801.
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4000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

Système des animaux sans vertèbres ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 

Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1801.
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2000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

Photo GREVILLE, Robert K. 

GREVILLE, Robert K. 

Scottish Cryptogamic Flora, or coloured figures and descriptions of cryptogamic plants, belonging chiefly to the order Fungi. 

Edinburgh, Maclachlan & Stewart, 1823-1828.
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First edition illustrated with 360 plates engraved and finely colored by hand according to the author's drawings.
Each plate is accompanied by a descriptive text.
Each volume has its own title page and an index, the general index is at the end of volume VI.
Robert Kaye Greville (1794 –1866) was a British mycologist, phycologist and botanist. As accomplished artist, he shows his talents as an illustrator here with these hundreds of mushroom plates.

Photo HEIM, Roger || DUCHE, Jacques || MALENCON, G. 

HEIM, Roger || DUCHE, Jacques || MALENCON, G. 

Revue de Mycologie 1936 et 1937. 

Paris, Busson, 1936-1937.
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60 €

First edition.
The firs two years of publication of the Revue de mycologie wich will be published over 40 years.

Photo FONTES, Joseph. 

FONTES, Joseph. 

Réunion de 4 plaquettes sur l'hydrologie. 

Toulouse, s.n., [1886-1897].
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100 €

First editions.
Meeting of 4 brochures on the subject of hydrology:.

Photo BERTRAND, Louis. 

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).

Photo BERTRAND, Louis. 

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).

Photo MORIN, Pierre. 

MORIN, Pierre. 

Remarques nécessaires pour la culture des fleurs [...] Catalogues de quelques Plantes à Fleurs. 

Lyon, Muguet, 1677.
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250 €

New augmented edition.
Pierre Morin is a 17th century French gardener, florist and collector of rare flowers, he also supplied all European collectors of rare plants.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux faits Physiques, Et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs de la Chaleur produite. 

Paris, Maradan, An II [1794].
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950 €

First edition.
Lamarck's first work in the field of chemistry in which he reverses Lavoisier's chemical revolution and proposes a system based on the theory of the four elements and phlogiston.
Apart from expounding his bizarre chemical theories, the book is important for his later views on biology and geology. Of interest is the section "Recherches sur les têtres organiques", which sets out his ideas on the origin of life before he abandoned his belief in a fixed species and became an evolutionist.
Lamarck's "chemical theories played an important part in the development of his ideas the origin of species, as they provived a materialistic definition of life, reproduction and evolution." (Norman).

Photo SAISSY, Jean-Antoine. 

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.

Photo MAGNY, Gabriel. 

MAGNY, Gabriel. 

Rats et Peste. 

Paris, Bonvalot-Jouve, 1907.
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Edition by Bonvalot-Jouve of Gabriel Magny's medical thesis.
With the increase in international maritime traffic, the question arose of the spread of diseases, of which the plague is the most famous case, by rats running in ships. In 1903, an international conference on this question was held in Paris.
Magny proposed a method of fumigating ships with sulfur dioxide in order to eradicate the pests.
Presentation copy.

Photo DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel. 

DUPONT DE NEMOURS, Pierre-Samuel. 

Quelques mémoires sur différens sujets. 

Paris, A. Belin, 1813.
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400 €

Second edition.
Collection of several memoirs on geography and natural sciences published on the author's return from the United States.
One of the memoirs is devoted to the islands on the Hudson River and is decorated with a folding map of the mouth of the Hudson.

Photo LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. 

Brive, Imprimerie de F. Bourdeaux, An 5 [1796].
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2000 €

First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.

Photo ROQUES, Joseph. 

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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First edition.
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.

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 1 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 3 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 2 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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