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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.

VOLTERRA, Vito.

Leçons sur la Théorie Mathématique de la Lutte pour la Vie.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1931.

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Vito Volterra (1860-1940) was a world-renowned Italian mathematician and physicist, a member of the Institute and professor at the University of Rome. His Leçons sur la Théorie Mathématique de la Lutte pour la Vie (Lectures on the Mathematical Theory of the Struggle for Life), edited by Marcel Brelot and published in the "Cahiers Scientifiques" collection directed by Gaston Julia, is a pioneering work in biomathematics. Volterra is considered one of the founders of the mathematical study of biological interactions, particularly predator-prey relationships and population dynamics. This book presents his famous differential equations (Lotka-Volterra equations), which model these interactions. It is a seminal work at the intersection of mathematics and biology.

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 €

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VERLOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du Dauphiné.

Grenoble, imprimerie de Prudhomme, 1872.

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150 €

Copy of the french botanist Edouard Marçais, with is name title in gilt on the spine.

VARELA, Francisco.

Principles of Biological Autonomy.

New York, North-Holland, 1979.

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1500 €

First edition.

Francisco Varela (1946 - 2001) was a Chilean neurobiologist whose work in theoretical biology and cognitive science had an influence far exceeding his initial fields of study and thus influenced the field of artificial intelligence research.

Francisco Varela’s Principles of Biological Autonomy was a groundbreaking text when it was first published in 1979, putting forth a novel theory of how living systems produce and maintain themselves.

This foundational book introduces the key concept of autonomy derived as an elaboration of the idea of autopoiesis (the self-production and self-distinction) of living organisms.

Varela covers topics in systems theory, neuroscience, theories of perception, and immune networks and offers a participatory epistemology that goes on to be further developed in later enactive literature. (The MIT Press, 2025).

These ideas are compelling not only for historical reasons but also because they still illuminate current efforts in developing the enactive approach toward wider and more challenging goals (including language, human cognition, ethics, and environmentalism).

Varela’s ideas continue to shape cognitive science through the ongoing development of the enactive approach, which today encompasses accounts of various aspects of cognition and is becoming an increasingly influential framework. Yet it’s often forgotten how deeply Varela’s work was grounded in a conception of biological autonomy. So much so, in fact, that the label enactivism is frequently invoked without reference to its foundational commitment to autonomy.

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

[Dijon], s.n., An 9 [1800].

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500 €

Handwritten course on Mineralogy.
A note at the end of the document tells us that the course was taken under dictation by Vallot in the year 9. At that date Jacques-Nicolas Vallot (1771-1860) was a professor of natural sciences at the central school of Dijon. A naturalist, he touched on all sorts of subjects: botany, zoology, mineralogy, antiquities...
Vallot reviews the different minerals and gives their main characteristics: jasper, chalcedony, gold, petroleum, carbonates, etc.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

Leiden & Amsterdam, Verbeek & Lakeman, 1727.

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1500 €

First illustrated edition and first edition in french (firs ed. in latin in 1723).
33 plates by J. Wandelaar, each with explanation text.
It is to Sébastien Vaillant that we must attribute the decisive role of having identified the sexual organs of plants and having recognized their importance in taxonomy. It is thanks to Vaillant's work that Linnaeus proposed his classification of plants.

TYNDALL, John.

Les glaciers et les transformations de l'eau suivis d'une conférence sur le même sujet.

Paris, Germer Baillière, 1880.

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THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Paris, 15 rue de l'école de médecine, 1903.

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60 €

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

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.

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.

STURM, Christophe-Chrétien.

Considérations sur les oeuvres de Dieu, dans le règne de la Nature et de la Providence. Pour tous les jours de l'année.

Lausanne, Hignou et Companie, 1799.

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80 €

Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786) was a German theologian whose most famous work is this book, in which he claims to prove the existence of God from the Natural Sciences.

SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro || SENEBIER, Jean.

Oeuvres de M. L'Abbé Spallanzani :
Opuscules de physique, animale et végétale, augmentés de ses expériences sur la digestion de l'Homme & des Animaux, traduits de l'italien par Jean Senebier
[suivi de]
Expériences sur la digestion de l'Homme, et de différentes espèces d'animaux
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Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes; avec une ébauche de l'histoire des êtres organisés avant leur fécondation par Jean Senebier.

Paris - Pavie, Pierre J. Duplain, 1787.

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500 €

First collective edition in french of the works of Spallanzi.

SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel.

Tables synoptiques de l'histoire naturelle, pharmaceutique et médicale.

Paris, Librairie médicale de Crochard, 1833.

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450 €

Second edition.
Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel de Smyttère (1800-1886) was a French physician, botanist and historian. His work, inspired by the classifications of Candolle, offers classification tables where medicinal properties are highlighted.
"I conceived the project of demonstrating, through application, the link that unites natural history to therapeutics" (extract from the preface).

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.

SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio.

Vipera Pythia id est, De Viperae Natura, Veneno, Medicina, Demonstrationes, et Experimenta nova.

Padoue, Pauli Frambotti, 1651.

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800 €

Second edition.
Marco Auelio Severino (1580-1656) was a prominent Italian anatomist and surgeon. In 1610, he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery in Naples. His work, "Vipera Pythia," deals with venomous snakes, their anatomy, venom, and medicinal properties and virtues. It provides extensive information on the mythology, superstitions, and occult traditions surrounding snakes.

Many of the engravings, mostly full-page, depict mythological images as well as pagan deities, symbols, and idols associated with snakes.

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 €

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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.

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT.

De la Fonte des Mines, des Fonderies, &tc.

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1764-1753.

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750 €

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).
The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

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.

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.

SCARPA, Antoine.

Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu.

Milan, Josephi Galeatti, 1794.

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1200 €

Second edition with same plates as the first edition(1789).

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.

[ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de].

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises.
Poëme.

Paris, Moutard, 1777.

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25 €

Second edition.

[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.

REIMAR Hermann Samuel || [RENEAUME de LATACHE Jacques].

Observations physiques et morales sur l'instinct des animaux, leur industrie & leurs moeurs.

Amsterdam - Paris, Changuion - Jombert, 1770.

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190 €

First edition in French.

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine.

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

Paris, Panckoucke, 1824-1826.

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10000 €

Second edition and the FIRST LARGE OCTAVO edition, published immediately after the original folio and appeared in forty issues from January 10, 1824 to December 27, 1826. Each issue, printed on vellum paper, includes four to seven leaves of text as well only four plates which are reproductions of the folio engravings, engraved here again and colored under Redouté's very eyes. The text sheets contain the descriptions of Claude-Antoine Thory (1757-1827).

A complete copy of the 160 color plates of Redouté's famous roses.

REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de).

Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes espèces.

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1751.

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350 €

Second edition, greatly expanded.
This work brings together Réaumur's work on birds based on his observations. He sets out practical ways to produce a large quantity of chickens at low cost, a very expensive commodity at the time. He suggests building artificial incubators for incubating eggs and brooders to replace mother hens.

QUATREMER DISJONVAL, Denis-Bernard.

De l'Aranéologie, ou sur la découverte du rapport constant entre l'apparition ou la disparition, le travail ou le repos, le plus ou le moins d'étendue des toiles et des fils d'attaches des araignées des différentes espèces.

Paris, J.J. Fuchs, 1797.

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200 €

First edtion.
During his captivity, a prisoner in the Netherlands, he made curious observations on the work of the spider as an indicator of atmospheric variations.
Thus, he offers us chapters on Spiders compared to the Barometer, the Thermometer, the Hygrometer...

In 1794, he announced to Pichegru the infallible arrival of frosts that would soon solidify all the canals and marshes of Holland, which would earn him his release.

[PERRAULT, Pierre].

De L'Origine des Fontaines.

Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1678.

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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.

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles].

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

Paris, s.n., 1761.

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150 €

First edition.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

WHYTT, Robert.

Essais physiologiques.

VOLTERRA, Vito.

Leçons sur la Théorie Mathématique de la Lutte pour la Vie.

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).

First edition, without the plates which where sold separatly.

VERLOT, Jean-Baptiste.

Catalogue raisonné des plantes vasculaires du Dauphiné.

Copy of the french botanist Edouard Marçais, with is name title in gilt on the spine.

VARELA, Francisco.

Principles of Biological Autonomy.

[VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas].

Cours de Minéralogie.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

TYNDALL, John.

Les glaciers et les transformations de l'eau suivis d'une conférence sur le même sujet.

Third edition.

THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

THEURIET, André.

Nos Oiseaux.

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.

SUE, Jean-Joseph.

Essai sur la physiognomonie des corps vivans, considérée depuis l'homme jusqu'à la plante.

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.

STURM, Christophe-Chrétien.

Considérations sur les oeuvres de Dieu, dans le règne de la Nature et de la Providence. Pour tous les jours de l'année.

Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786) was a German theologian whose most famous work is this book, in which he claims to prove the existence of God from the Natural Sciences.

SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro || SENEBIER, Jean.

First collective edition in french of the works of Spallanzi.

SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel.

Tables synoptiques de l'histoire naturelle, pharmaceutique et médicale.

SICARD, Guillaume.

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux.

Second edition augmented.A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.Some ink annotations on the plates.

SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio.

Vipera Pythia id est, De Viperae Natura, Veneno, Medicina, Demonstrationes, et Experimenta nova.

SEHLMEYER, Johann Friedrich.

Index alphabeticus specierum hymenonycetum in Epicrisi systematis mycologici Friesii descriptarum earumque synonymarum conscripsit.

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT.

De la Fonte des Mines, des Fonderies, &tc.

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

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

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.

SCARPA, Antoine.

Anatomicae disquisitiones de auditu et olfactu.

Second edition with same plates as the first edition(1789).

SAISSY, Jean-Antoine.

Recherches expérimentales, anatomiques, chimiques, etc. Sur la physique des animaux mammifères hybernans, notamment les marmottes, les loirs, etc.

[ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de].

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises. Poëme.

Second edition.

[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.

REIMAR Hermann Samuel || [RENEAUME de LATACHE Jacques].

Observations physiques et morales sur l'instinct des animaux, leur industrie & leurs moeurs.

First edition in French.

REDOUTE, Pierre-Joseph || THORY, Claude Antoine.

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de).

Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes espèces.

QUATREMER DISJONVAL, Denis-Bernard.

De l'Aranéologie, ou sur la découverte du rapport constant entre l'apparition ou la disparition, le travail ou le repos, le plus ou le moins d'étendue des toiles et des fils d'attaches des araignées des différentes espèces.

[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.

[PANCKOUCKE, Charles].

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

First edition.

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.

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.

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).
The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

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

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

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises.
Poëme.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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

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.