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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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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 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 BERTRAND, Philippe. 

BERTRAND, Philippe. 

Nouveaux principes de géologie. Comparés et opposés à ceux des Philosophes anciens et modernes, jusqu'à J. C. Delamétherie, qui les a tous analysés dans sa Théorie de la Terre. Ou manière plus simple d'observer et d'expliquer l'un par l'autre, les principaux faits naturels; avec un Abrégé d'une Géologie toute nouvelle. 

Paris, Chez l'Auteur & Maradan, An VI - 1797.
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750 €

First edition.

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 BIANCONI, Joseph. 

BIANCONI, Joseph. 

La Théorie Darwinienne et la Création dite indépendante. 

Bologne, Nicolas Zanichelli, 1874.
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300 €

First edition.
An "anti" Darwinist work claiming that homologous structures are explained on mechanical principles.

Photo DURAND DE GROS, Joseph Pierre. 

DURAND DE GROS, Joseph Pierre. 

Les Origines animales de l'Homme éclairées par la physiologie et l'anatomie comparatives. 

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1871.
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200 €

First edition.

Photo PACHON, Abbé. 

PACHON, Abbé. 

Origine des Fossiles et des continents ou nouvelle théorie de la Terre. 

Paris, Bechet, 1850.
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50 €

First edition.
Abbé Pachon proposes a theory of the Earth trying to reconcile biblical writings with fossils and geological data.

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 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 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 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 THEURIET, André. 

THEURIET, André. 

Nos Oiseaux. 

Paris, H. Launette et Cie, 1887.
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300 €

Second edition.
Very nice print of the 110 watercolors after Hector Giacomelli.
For each of the 20 chapters dedicated to a species of bird, we find: a small framed poem, a banner, a lettrin, a lampshade and a full page engraving.

A fine copy.

Photo JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules. 

JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules. 

Monographie géologique et paléontologique du Salève. 

Genève, Georg & Cie, 1913.
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2500 €

First edition.
Offprint with separate title page.
Presentation copy.

Remarkable work that reports on the geological and biostratigraphic work on the Saleve by Joukowski and Favre.
The authors propose 23 cross-sections of the Salève, oriented NW-SE, from the Petit Salève to the Montagne de La Caille, with identification of the geological stages and fault planes.

This work is still a reference today. Indeed, no other work of this importance on this subject has been published since.
A complete copy with the famous 1:25000 map, which remains the only document available for more than a century.
The publication in the "Archives des Sciences" of a new map was announced by B. Manstrangelo (Arch.Sci. (2018) 70: 43-50), but was still not published in the last issue (71. 2020).

Photo LORIOL, Perceval de. 

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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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.

Photo [PANCKOUCKE, Charles]. 

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles]. 

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

Paris, s.n., 1761.
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150 €

First edition.

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 BULLIARD, Pierre. 

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.

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 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 GARSAULT, François-Alexandre-Pierre de. 

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.

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 DARWIN, Charles. 

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.

Photo CAUSTIER. 

CAUSTIER. 

Les Entrailles de la Terre. 

Paris, Librairie Nony, 1902.
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[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 5 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 6 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE]. 

[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 7 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Photo [GRAVURE] FAURE, Pierre. 

[GRAVURE] FAURE, Pierre. 

Marine. 

s.l., s.n., 1921.
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Engraving signed Pierre Fauré in 1921
Exemplar N ° 4/15.

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 2 "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".

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