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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.

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).

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.

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.

[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.

CLARMORGAN, Jean.

La Chasse du Loup nécessaire à la maison rustique.

Rouen, Jean Baptiste Besongne, 1685.

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450 €

The Wolf Hunt by Jean Carlmorgan was appended to the editions of the Rustic House of Liebaut. Our edition has its own title page and includes the 14 mid-page woodcuts from the sixteenth century editions. A highly sought-after work in the 19th century, it represented the "dark ages" of the French countryside.

Following it we find "La Fabrique de la Gauge ou Diapason" in (10) sheets, (last sheet truncated). Another typical annex of the Rustic House.

[GENTIL, François].

Le Jardinier Solitaire ou dialogues entre un Curieux & un Jardinier solitaire contenant la methode de faire & de cultiver un Jardin fruitier & potager ; & plusieurs experiences nouvelles.

Paris, Rigaud, 1705.

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150 €

Second edition with additional reflections on the cultivation of trees.

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.

[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.

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.

LAUNAY, Charles Denys de.

Nouveau système sur la génération de l'homme et celle de l'oiseau, où l'on rapporte & où l'on réfute les différentes opinions qui ont paru sur ce sujet.

Paris, Gabriel-François Quillau, 1726.

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250 €

First edition.

Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

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.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

JOBLOT, Louis.

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope.

Paris, Briasson, 1754-1755.

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2500 €

Second edition.
Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

[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.

KLEIN, Théodore.

Ordre Naturel des Oursins de Mer et Fossiles, avec des Observations sur les Piquans des Oursins de Mer, et quelques Remarques sur les Bélemnites.

Paris, Cl. J. B. Bauche, 1754.

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900 €

First french edition.
One of the first monographs devoted to sea urchins.
Here the French translation by La Chesnaye des Bois from the original edition given in Latin.

[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.

GARSAULT, François-Alexandre-Pierre de.

Le Nouveau parfait maréchal, ou la connoissance générale et universelle du cheval, divisé en sept traités [...] avec un dictionnaire des termes de cavalerie.

Paris, Nyon, 1755.

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500 €

One of the 18th century encyclopedic references on the horse, which was still more than an animal at the time.
Third edition complete with all its beautiful plates and in particular the impressive engravings on the anatomy of the horse.

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.

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.

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.

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.

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles].

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

Paris, s.n., 1761.

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150 €

First edition.

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.

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).

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.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

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.

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri.

Historia plantarum universalis.

DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel.

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

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.

MORIN, Pierre.

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

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.

[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.

CLARMORGAN, Jean.

La Chasse du Loup nécessaire à la maison rustique.

[GENTIL, François].

Le Jardinier Solitaire ou dialogues entre un Curieux & un Jardinier solitaire contenant la methode de faire & de cultiver un Jardin fruitier & potager ; & plusieurs experiences nouvelles.

Second edition with additional reflections on the cultivation of trees.

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de).

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

[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.

MARSILI, Luigi Ferdinando.

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

LAUNAY, Charles Denys de.

Nouveau système sur la génération de l'homme et celle de l'oiseau, où l'on rapporte & où l'on réfute les différentes opinions qui ont paru sur ce sujet.

First edition. Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

LESSER, Friedrich Christian || LYONNET, Pierre.

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

First edition in French given by Pierre Lyonnet who also added two engravings to Lesser's editions in German.

[BOURGUET, Louis].

Traité des pétrifications.

LINNE, Charles.

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

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.

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.

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis.

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

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.

JOBLOT, Louis.

Observations d'histoire naturelle, faites avec le microscope.

Second edition.Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

[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.

KLEIN, Théodore.

Ordre Naturel des Oursins de Mer et Fossiles, avec des Observations sur les Piquans des Oursins de Mer, et quelques Remarques sur les Bélemnites.

First french edition.One of the first monographs devoted to sea urchins.Here the French translation by La Chesnaye des Bois from the original edition given in Latin.

[MOET, Jean-Pierre].

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

First edition.

GARSAULT, François-Alexandre-Pierre de.

Le Nouveau parfait maréchal, ou la connoissance générale et universelle du cheval, divisé en sept traités [...] avec un dictionnaire des termes de cavalerie.

One of the 18th century encyclopedic references on the horse, which was still more than an animal at the time.Third edition complete with all its beautiful plates and in particular the impressive engravings on the anatomy of the horse.

LA GUERINIERE, François ROBICHON (de).

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

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.

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.

WHYTT, Robert.

Essais physiologiques.

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.

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles].

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

First edition.

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.

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis.

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

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

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.

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.

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.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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

First edition.

Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

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

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.

Second edition.
Posthumous edition increased by 53 spectacular plates resulting from the observations of Louis Joblot under the microscope. The second volume is devoted to the technical evolutions of microscopes on which Joblot worked, which allowed him to explore the unknown world of protozoa.

First french edition.
One of the first monographs devoted to sea urchins.
Here the French translation by La Chesnaye des Bois from the original edition given in Latin.

One of the 18th century encyclopedic references on the horse, which was still more than an animal at the time.
Third edition complete with all its beautiful plates and in particular the impressive engravings on the anatomy of the horse.

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.

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

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