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[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].

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50 €

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 7 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].

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50 €

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 4 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].

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50 €

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 5 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].

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50 €

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 6 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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.

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.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Paris, Magimel, 1810.

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220 €

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

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
[suivi de]
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.

LULLIN, Charles Jean-Marc.

Observations sur les bêtes à laine, faites dans les environs de Genève, pendant vingt ans.

Genève, J.J. Paschoud, 1804.

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120 €

First edition.
Charles-Jean-Marc Lullin de Châteauvieux (1752-1833), is a Geneva agronomist.

[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.

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.

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.

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.

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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600 €

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.

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.

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.

DES MURS, Oeillet.

Musée ornithologique illustré.

Paris, J. Rothschild, 1886.

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2500 €

First edition.

Impressive ornithological work with 345 color plates.

The description of the birds is divided into 4 volumes:

- Palmypedes
- Shorebirds
- The Birds of the Fields and Woods (subdivided into two volumes)
- Raptors.

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).

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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150 €

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.

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.

[GRAVURE] FAURE, Pierre.

Marine.

s.l., s.n., 1921.

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50 €

Engraving signed Pierre Fauré in 1921
Exemplar N ° 4/15.

LEROY, Georges.

Lettres sur les animaux.

Paris, Poulet-Malassis, 1862.

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50 €

Fourth edition.

LEROY, Charles-Georges.

Lettres philosophiques sur l'intelligence et la perfectibilité des Animaux, avec quelques lettres sur l'Homme.

Paris, Valade, An x - 1802.

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200 €

This book is one of the first works on animal behaviour. It was first published in 1768 without the author's name to avoid "civil and religious intolerance".

Charles-Georges Leroy (1723-1789), who was lieutenant of the royal hunts, and friend of Diderot, d'Alembert and Helvétius, presented innovative ideas demonstrated by facts:"les animaux ne sont pas de simples machines, qu'ils réunissent tous les caractères de l'intelligence ; qu'une sorte de perfectibilité proportionnée à leurs organes et à leurs besoins, ne peut leur être contestée [...].".

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.

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.

GADEAU DE KERVILLE, Henri.

Les Jeux des Oiseaux.

Paris, Administration du journal, 1900.

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120 €

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.
In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

CAUSTIER.

Les Entrailles de la Terre.

Paris, Librairie Nony, 1902.

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50 €

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.

SAND, Maurice.

Le Monde des Papillons, promenade à travers champs avec une préface de George Sand.

Paris, J. Rothschild, 1867.

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First edition.
Beautiful work by Maurice Sand, son of George Sand who signed the preface.
Following this we find the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of Europe by Sinceet.
Complete with 50 entomological plates.

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Natural History - Botany - Gardening

[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia. Plate 7 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia. Plate 4 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia. Plate 5 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

[GRAVURE].

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs.

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia. Plate 6 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

PACHON, Abbé.

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

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

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.

[MILITARIA].

Ordonnance Provisoire sur l'exercice et les manoeuvres de la cavalerie.

Second edition.The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

SPALLANZANI, Lazzaro || SENEBIER, Jean.

First collective edition in french of the works of Spallanzi.

LULLIN, Charles Jean-Marc.

Observations sur les bêtes à laine, faites dans les environs de Genève, pendant vingt ans.

First edition.Charles-Jean-Marc Lullin de Châteauvieux (1752-1833), is a Geneva agronomist.

[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.

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.

BERTRAND, Philippe.

First edition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DES MURS, Oeillet.

Musée ornithologique illustré.

First edition.Impressive ornithological work with 345 color plates.The description of the birds is divided into 4 volumes:- Palmypedes- Shorebirds- The Birds of the Fields and Woods (subdivided into two volumes)- Raptors.

JOUKOWSKY, Etienne || FAVRE, Jules.

Monographie géologique et paléontologique du Salève.

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.

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.

[GRAVURE] FAURE, Pierre.

Marine.

Engraving signed Pierre Fauré in 1921 Exemplar N ° 4/15.

LEROY, Georges.

Lettres sur les animaux.

Fourth edition.

LEROY, Charles-Georges.

Lettres philosophiques sur l'intelligence et la perfectibilité des Animaux, avec quelques lettres sur l'Homme.

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

Les Roses peintes par P. J. Redouté.

DURAND DE GROS, Joseph Pierre.

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

First edition.

GADEAU DE KERVILLE, Henri.

Les Jeux des Oiseaux.

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

CAUSTIER.

Les Entrailles de la Terre.

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.

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 7 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 4 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 5 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 6 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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

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.

Second edition.
The 1804 ordinance governs the doctrine of the use of cavalry in the Napoleonic armies, the manners of charging, the use of the sabre, etc. Our very complete copy of all the plates: musical scores, anatomy of the horse, uniforms of riders, troop movements.

First edition.
Charles-Jean-Marc Lullin de Châteauvieux (1752-1833), is a Geneva agronomist.

Scarce first edition of this works on fruit trees.

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

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 edition.

Anatomical and physiological study focusing on reproduction and fertilization.

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.
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.

Impressive ornithological work with 345 color plates.

The description of the birds is divided into 4 volumes:

- Palmypedes
- Shorebirds
- The Birds of the Fields and Woods (subdivided into two volumes)
- Raptors.

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.

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.

Engraving signed Pierre Fauré in 1921
Exemplar N ° 4/15.

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.
In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

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.
Beautiful work by Maurice Sand, son of George Sand who signed the preface.
Following this we find the Natural History of the Lepidoptera of Europe by Sinceet.
Complete with 50 entomological plates.