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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.

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 €

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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.

ALIX, Eugène || CUYER, Édouard.

Le Cheval.

Paris, J-B Baillière, 1886.

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2000 €

First edition.
A sought-after work for its beautiful anatomical system plates produced by Edouard Cuyer, painter and teacher at the Beaux-Arts.
Plate VI is placed as it should be in a portfolio at the end of the atlas accompanied by all its accessories. This original plate allows, with the help of a small articulated horse, to visualize the different gaits (walk, trot, kick, etc.).

AMOREUX, Pierre-Joseph.

Notice des insectes de la France réputés venimeux.

Paris, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1789.

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120 €

First edition.
Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

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.

[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.

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.

BARREIRA, Isidoro de.

Tratado das significaçoens das plantas, flores e frutos.

Lisbonne, Manoel Lopes Ferreyra, 1698.

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300 €

Second edition.
Rare Portuguese treatise on the symbolism of plants in sacred and secular writings.

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).

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).

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).

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).

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.

BEUDANT, François-Sulpice || MILNE-EDWARDS || JUSSIEU DE, A.

Cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle - Minéralogie.

Paris, Victor Masson-Garnier Frères, 1869.

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30 €

Twelfth edition.

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.

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.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

Nismes, Gaude, 1763.

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450 €

First edition.
Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

Nismes, Gaude, 1763.

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350 €

First edition.
Reference work on silkworm breeding.
Bound later by the same author, we find: De la culture des muriers, Nismes, Gaude, 1763. 128-8 pages.

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.

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.

BOULLAND, Charles.

De l'importance des Sciences Naturelles dans l'étude anatomique et physiologique de l'homme.

Limoges, Chatras et Comp, 1864.

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75 €

First edition.

This booklet is the speech delivered by Dr. Charles Boulland, on November 24th in1864, on the first day of classes at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy Limoges.

[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.

BREZ, Jacques.

La Flore des insectophiles précédée d'un discours sue l'utilité des insectes et de l'étude de l'insectologie.

Utrecht, B. Wild et J. Altheer, 1791.

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60 €

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BRONGNIART, Alexandre.

Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts.

Paris, Deterville, 1807.

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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.

BRUMPT, Émile || NEVEU-LEMAIRE, Maurice.

Travaux pratiques de parasitologie.

Paris, Masson et Cie, 1938.

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20 €

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). '.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Méthodes sûres et faciles pour détruire les animaux nuisibles ; tels que : les ours, les sangliers, les loups, les renards, les loutres, les fouines, les belettes, les lapins, les loirs, les rats, les souris, les musaraignes, les taupes, les vipères.

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1784.

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Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

BÜCHNER, Louis.

La Vie psychique des bêtes.

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1881.

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50 €

First french edition.

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.

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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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).

BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph.

Nouveau manuel forestier à l'usage des agens forestiers de tous grades, des arpenteurs, des Gardes des bois impériaux et communaux, des préposés de la marine pour la recherche des bois propres aux constructions navales.

Paris, Arthus-Bertrand, 1808.

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First french edition.
French translation by Jacques-Joseph Baudrillart of the reference book by Friedrich August Ludwig von Burgsdorf, a German forest specialist famous throughout Europe. The first volume contains a summary of the forest code, a general section on natural history, and the description of several hundred plant species found in forests and woods. In the second, there are chapters containing introductions to geometry, mechanics, and civil and naval construction. The tree to be felled is considered to provide parts useful for shipbuilding. It should be noted that the work comes three years after the defeat at Trafalgar, where the English had annihilated the French fleet.

Copy signed by the author.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

ADANSON, Michel.

Familles des plantes.

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.

ALIX, Eugène || CUYER, Édouard.

Le Cheval.

AMOREUX, Pierre-Joseph.

Notice des insectes de la France réputés venimeux.

First edition.Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

ARTEDI, Peter || LINNE, Carl von.

Ichthyologia, sive opera omnia de piscibus.

[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.

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.

BARREIRA, Isidoro de.

Tratado das significaçoens das plantas, flores e frutos.

Second edition. Rare Portuguese treatise on the symbolism of plants in sacred and secular writings.

BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri.

Historia plantarum universalis.

BERTRAND, Elie.

Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres, et des fossiles accidentels.

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).

BERTRAND, Louis.

Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres.

BERTRAND, Louis.

Renouvellemens périodiques des continens terrestres.

BERTRAND, Philippe.

First edition.

BEUDANT, François-Sulpice || MILNE-EDWARDS || JUSSIEU DE, A.

Cours élémentaire d'histoire naturelle - Minéralogie.

Twelfth edition.

BIANCONI, Joseph.

La Théorie Darwinienne et la Création dite indépendante.

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

BOGAERTS, Félix.

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

First edition.Vignettes by Wittkamp.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

First edition.Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé).

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie.

First edition. Reference work on silkworm breeding.Bound later by the same author, we find: De la culture des muriers, Nismes, Gaude, 1763. 128-8 pages.

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.

BOUILLON-LAGRANGE, Edme Jean-Baptiste.

Essai sur les eaux minérales naturelles et artificielles.

BOULLAND, Charles.

De l'importance des Sciences Naturelles dans l'étude anatomique et physiologique de l'homme.

First edition. This booklet is the speech delivered by Dr. Charles Boulland, on November 24th in1864, on the first day of classes at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy Limoges.

[BOURGUET, Louis].

Traité des pétrifications.

BREZ, Jacques.

La Flore des insectophiles précédée d'un discours sue l'utilité des insectes et de l'étude de l'insectologie.

First edition.

BRONGNIART, Alexandre.

Traité élémentaire de minéralogie, avec des applications aux arts.

BRUMPT, Émile || NEVEU-LEMAIRE, Maurice.

Travaux pratiques de parasitologie.

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). '.

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph.

Méthodes sûres et faciles pour détruire les animaux nuisibles ; tels que : les ours, les sangliers, les loups, les renards, les loutres, les fouines, les belettes, les lapins, les loirs, les rats, les souris, les musaraignes, les taupes, les vipères.

Third edition.Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.

BÜCHNER, Louis.

La Vie psychique des bêtes.

First french edition.

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.

A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

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.

BURGSDORF, Friedrich August Ludwig (von) || BAUDRILLART, Jacques-Joseph.

Nouveau manuel forestier à l'usage des agens forestiers de tous grades, des arpenteurs, des Gardes des bois impériaux et communaux, des préposés de la marine pour la recherche des bois propres aux constructions navales.

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.

First edition.
Two finely engraved plates in intaglio by Sellier representing 25 figures of insects. Author of numerous works on medicine and natural history, Pierre-Joseph Amoreux (1741-1824) was librarian of the faculty of Montpellier and member of several societies.

Second edition.
Rare Portuguese treatise on the symbolism of plants in sacred and secular writings.

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).

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

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

First edition.
Collection of six works on the subject of silkworms by Abbé Boissier de Sauvages, containing three memoirs on the education of silkworms, the cultivation of mulberry trees, the observation on the origin of honey, the catalogue of authors who have written on silkworms.

First edition.
Reference work on silkworm breeding.
Bound later by the same author, we find: De la culture des muriers, Nismes, Gaude, 1763. 128-8 pages.

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.

This booklet is the speech delivered by Dr. Charles Boulland, on November 24th in1864, on the first day of classes at the School of Medicine and Pharmacy Limoges.

Third edition.
Pierre-Joseph Buc'hoz was a botanist, member of the Royal College of Medicine of Nancy and of many academies. From 1776 and until at least 1800, he self-published, distributing his prolific editorial production to his successive Parisian homes.