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Photo DE LA CROIX, Demetrius. 

DE LA CROIX, Demetrius. 

Le Mariage des fleurs, en vers latins. 

Paris, Drost ainé, 1798.
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150 €

Fourth edition.
Botany course in verse which addresses some cases of extraordinary plants, starting with the case of the Scythian lamb (or Tartary lamb, or Borametz).

Photo THIEULLEN, Adrien. 

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.

Photo [GENTIL, François]. 

[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.

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 HALES, Stephen. 

HALES, Stephen. 

La statique des végétaux, et celle des animaux; expériences lues à la Société Royale de Londres. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1779-1780.
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250 €

Founding text of plant physiology, including the study of plant respiration and sap circulation. The book contains Buffon's preface (translator of the text) which highlights the importance of the experimental method.
Stephen Hales (1677-1761) was a British physiologist, chemist and inventor.

Photo BREZ, Jacques. 

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 €

First edition.

Photo CLARMORGAN, Jean. 

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.

Photo DETROYE, J.-V. 

DETROYE, J.-V. 

L'Exploration de l'abdomen du boeuf. 

Paris, Ve H. Ducourtieux, 1892.
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50 €

First edition, presentation copy.

Book on veterinary science that deals with the digestive system of beef.

Photo DELCAMPE || FOUQUET, Samuel. 

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.

Photo [ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de]. 

[ROSSET, Pierre Fulcrand de]. 

L'agriculture ou les georgiques Françoises.
Poëme. 

Paris, Moutard, 1777.
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25 €

Second edition.

Photo MINCHIN, Edward Alfred. 

MINCHIN, Edward Alfred. 

Investigations on the Development of Trypanosomes in Tsetse-Flies and other Diptera. 

s.l., s. n, [1908].
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90 €

This article is an extract from the scientific journal "Journal of Cell Science", published in March 1908, n°206.

Edward Alfred Minchin (1866-1915) was a British zoologist who specialised in the study of sponges and Protozoa. He became Jodrell Chair of Zoology at University College London in 1899, Chair of Protozoology at the University of London in 1906, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1911. He was described as the first great British protozoologist.
This article deals with the study of trypanosomes that develop in tsetse flies, including gambiense trypanosoma, which only infects humans and is responsible for sleeping sickness.

Photo CHABERT, Philibert || FLANDRIN || HUZARD. 

CHABERT, Philibert || FLANDRIN || HUZARD. 

Instructions et observations sur les maladies des animaux domestiques Avec les moyens de les guerir, de les preserver, de les conserver en sante, de les multiplier, de les elever avec avantage, et de n'etre point trompe dans leur achat. On y a joint l'analyse des ouvrages anciens et modernes, ecrits sur cette science. 

Paris, Huzard, An 3 [ca. 1795].
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120 €

First edition.

Photo SEHLMEYER, Johann Friedrich. 

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 €

First edition.
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.

Photo BAUHIN, Jean || CHERLER, Jean-Henri. 

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).

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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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.

Photo DERHEIMS, Jean-Lambert. 

DERHEIMS, Jean-Lambert. 

Histoire naturelle et médicale des sangsues. 

Paris, Baillère, 1825.
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350 €

Rare first edition of this work on leeches.

Photo ADANSON, Michel. 

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.

Photo DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

DUPUY, Dominique (Abbé). 

Histoire Naturelle des Mollusques Terrestres et d'Eau Douce qui vivent en France. 

Paris, Victor Masson, 1847-1852.
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350 €

First edition.
Complete collection of six issues as published in which Abbé Dupuy describes a number of new species (and or subspecies) starting with the Pyrenees Nerite.
Dupuy's malacological collections which were used to write his history of molluscs are today kept at the Toulouse museum and were only completely inventoried in 2009.

Photo DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas. 

DUCHESNE, Antoine Nicolas. 

Histoire Naturelle Des Fraisiers. 

Paris, Didot le jeune, 1766.
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First edition.
Monograph devoted to strawberries by Antoine Nicolas Duchesne (1747-1827) for which he proposes a genealogy of the different species. His name will remain attached to strawberries and the genus Duchesnea, plants of the Rosaceae family with a strawberry shape, was dedicated to him.

However, the cultivation and study of strawberries in Versailles also allowed him to document one of the first observations of mutation in plants giving a new species, the Versailles strawberry. In the second part of his work, he thus questions the formation of plant species, opposing Linnaeus's conception according to which new species are formed by hybridization and a slow drift from one species to another.

Duchesne thus observes the first evolutionary leap, a century before Darwin.

Our copy is enriched with two handwritten leaves of scholarly notes on strawberry species, inserted in the text.

Photo LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

Histoire naturelle des fourmis et recueil de memoires et d'observations sur les abeilles, les araignées, les faucheurs et autres insectes. 

Paris, Imprimerie de Crapelet, 1802.
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250 €

First edition.
Managing the entomological collections of the Natural History Museum, Latreille is the first to describe new species from the Pacific in this monograph devoted to ants.

Photo SICARD, Guillaume. 

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.

Photo PLINE. 

PLINE. 

Histoire naturelle de Pline. Traduite en françois, avec le texte latin rétabli d'après les meilleures leçons manuscrites. 

Paris, Desaint, 1771.
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1200 €

New translation by Louis Poinsinet de Sivry (1733-1804).
"Pliny's Natural History is the Encyclopedia of the Ancients. It can be considered as the repository of all physical, astronomical, geographic, etc. knowledge of Antiquity; as the picture of all human industry or the arts, from the earliest times to the first century of our Era." (excerpt from the preface)

Beautiful complete set in period binding.

Photo VISEUR, Jules. 

VISEUR, Jules. 

Histoire du cheval Boulonnais. 

Arras, Bouvry, [1897].
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200 €

First edition.

Photo VIREY, Julien-Joseph. 

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 €

First edition, without the plates which where sold separatly.

Photo BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph. 

BUC'HOZ, Pierre-Joseph. 

Histoire des insectes nuisibles à l'Homme, aux bestiaux, à l'agriculture et au jardinage. 

Paris, Chez L'Auteur, 1784.
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120 €

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.

Photo CAMUS, Armand Gaston. 

CAMUS, Armand Gaston. 

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote. 

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1783.
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350 €

First French translation of Aristotle's text.
The translation is given by Armand Gaston Camus with the Greek text opposite.
Aristotle here attempts to make a comprehensible classification of animals based on objective structural characteristics. The second volume is devoted to a critical apparatus of Aristotle's text.

Photo BOGAERTS, Félix. 

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.

Photo GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

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).

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 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.

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