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Photo MAYRANX, Dr || HUBER, François. 

MAYRANX, Dr || HUBER, François. 

Fragments d'Hubert sur les abeilles. 

Paris, Méquignon-Havard, 1829.
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300 €

Rare study on bees.

Photo LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de. 

LAMARCK, Jean-Baptiste || CANDOLLE, Augustin Pyramus de. 

Flore française, ou Descriptions succinctes de toutes les plantes qui croissent naturellement en France, disposées selon une nouvelle méthode d'analyse, et précédées par un Exposé des principes élémentaires de la botanique. 

Paris, Desbay, 1815.
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500 €

Third edition.
This third edition was completely revised by the Swiss botanist Candolle in 1805. It was reprinted in 1815 with new title pages to accompany Volume V in the original edition. This latest volume includes 1300 species not described in the previous ones.

Photo MILLER, Philip. 

MILLER, Philip. 

Figures of the most beautiful, useful, and uncommon Plants described in the Gardeners Dictionary, exibited on three hundred copper plates. 

London, printed for the author, 1771.
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14500 €

A reissue of the first 1760 edition.
Philip Miller, was director of the Chelsea Garden and was considered as "the greatest gardener of his time".
Beautiful books illustrated with 300 colored plates of plants.
Rare complete and in this condition.

Photo HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

HUMBOLDT, Frédéric Alexandre. 

Expériences sur le Galvanisme et en général sur l'irritation des fibres musculaires et nerveuses. 

Paris, Didot Jeune Chez J.F. Fuchs, 1799.
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500 €

First edition in french.
French translation by Nicolas Jadelot of Humboldt's work on galvanism. Humboldt confirms Galvani's interpretation that animal electricity is irreducible to that of physicists. It contributes to the genesis of the idea that living beings can be described as galvanic organisms.

Photo WHYTT, Robert. 

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.

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 SUE, Jean-Joseph. 

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.

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 LA GUERINIERE, François ROBICHON (de). 

LA GUERINIERE, François ROBICHON (de). 

École de Cavalerie. Contenant la connoissance, l'instruction et la conservation du cheval. 

Paris, Par la compagnie, 1756.
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500 €

François Robichon de La Guérinière (1688-1751) is often considered the greatest French horseman of all time and the founder of modern horsemanship in France. He simplified the means of training horses and made modifications to their harnessing. His École de cavalerie published in 1731 is illustrated by Charles Parrocel.

Photo BON, François Xavier. 

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.

Photo BERTRAND, Elie. 

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).

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples. 

Paris, d'Houry, 1760.
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900 €

Works where are alphabetically arranged lists of composites and simples respectively, giving the source, virtues, doses and therapeutic action of the various medicaments. They represent a comprehensive dictionary of pharmaceuticals.
Copy with the 25 plates.
Fine copy. Rare in this state.

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 DU HAYS, Charles. 

DU HAYS, Charles. 

Dictionnaire de la race pure pour remonter à l'origine des chevaux et juments de pur sang anglais qui ont été introduits en France, Belgique, Hollande et tout le continent germanique et des individualités célèbres entrées en Angleterre qui ont formé illustré et conservé cette race. 

Bruxelles, Paris, Leipzig, Parent, Goin & Durr, 1863.
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200 €

Fine copy.

Photo [MANUSCRIT]. 

[MANUSCRIT]. 

Dictionnaire d'Agriculture avec un abrégé de médecine rurale et vétérinaire. 

s.l., s.n., 1786.
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Original manuscript.
The content seems to include a selection of articles from Abbé Rozier's Cours complet d'agriculture which was published in the form of a dictionary from 1781 to 1800.
Our dictionary stops at the article "Rhue des jardins" which will not appear than in 1789 in Volume VIII of the Cours de Rozier.
Our manuscript, whose writer is unknown, is dated 1786, when Rozier was then a professor at the Practical School of Agriculture in Lyon. This manuscript may therefore be a transcription of the course given by Rozier in Lyon before its publication.

Photo CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL. 

CLÉMENT & DÉSORMES, BECQUEREL. 

Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du caloriques spécifique des Gaz in. "Journal de Physique, de chimie, d'histoire naturelle et des arts, avec des planches et des arts". 

Paris, Vve Courcier, 1819.
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Important memory of Clement and Désormes : "Détermination expérimentale du Zéro absolu de la chaleur et du calorique spécifique des Gaz".
This work was submitted to the Academy of Sciences in 1812, but didn't win the price and wasn't printed in the memory of the academy. It thus appears here for the first time .
It deal with the determination of the absolute zero and the specific heat of gas.
Presentation copy of Antoine César Becquerel to his grandson Henry with this : "Donné à mon petit fils henry, qu'il conserve cela en souvenir de mes trois premiers mémoires publiés en 1819 et du tendre attachement que je lui porte".
These three memories on mineralogy are in pages 235-240, 308-309, 462-467.

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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750 €

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 HUZARD, Jean-Baptiste. 

HUZARD, Jean-Baptiste. 

Des haras domestiques en France. 

Paris, Mme Huzard, 1829.
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200 €

First edition.

Photo FUSTER, Joseph-Jean Nicolas. 

FUSTER, Joseph-Jean Nicolas. 

Des Changements dans le climat de la France, histoire de ses révolutions météorologiques
[relié à la suite :]
Des Maladies de la France dans leurs rapports avec les saison, ou histoire médicale et météorologique de la France, Paris, Dufart, 1840. 

Paris, Capelle, 1845.
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600 €

Two works in first edition by the same author in one volume:

I - FUSTER, Changes in the climate of France, history of its meteorological revolutions, Paris, Capelle, 1845

"The climate of France has changed and is changing"
Quite fascinating historiographical work on the French climate since the Gauls until the XIXth century.
One of the final chapters entitled "The action of meteorological phenomena and the human industry as causes of changes in our climate" sounds like a strange echo 150 years before the IPCC reports.

II- FUSTER, Diseases of France in their relationships with the seasons, or medical and meteorological history of France, Paris, Dufart, 1840

"The subject of this book is still new: no one has dealt with the diseases of France; no one has considered these diseases in their relationship with the seasons. But it is between us something more than "a new application of principles already known; it is, above all, the search for these principles. How do the seasons work; determine the diseases in correspondence with their action? Here is the problem first. The history of the seasons and diseases of France will follow and must follow the solution of these two questions. "

While the seasonality of viral infections is always a concern.

Photo SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian. 

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.

Photo BACCI, Andrea. 

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.

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 SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

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).

Photo [PERRAULT, Pierre]. 

[PERRAULT, Pierre]. 

De L'Origine des Fontaines. 

Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1678.
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350 €

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.

Photo BOULLAND, Charles. 

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.

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 DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU. 

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU. 

De l'Exploitation des Bois, ou Moyens de tirer un Parti avantageux des Taillis, Demi-Futaies et Hautes-Futaies, et d'en faire une juste Estimation: Avec la Description des Arts qui se pratiquent dans les Forêts. 

Paris, H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1764.
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1600 €

Frist edition of a work intended primarily for owners of forest estates. It covers all aspects of forestry, both administrative and technical.
With 36 folding plates.

Photo QUATREMER DISJONVAL, Denis-Bernard. 

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.

Photo VALLEMONT, Abbé (de). 

VALLEMONT, Abbé (de). 

Curiositez de la nature et de l'art sur la végétation, ou l'agriculture, et le jardinage dans leur perfection. 

Bruxelles, Jean Leonard, 1715.
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400 €

New edition.
Abbot de Vallemont is well known for his curious works on occultism. These two volumes deal with all sorts of strange phenomena: the tree of Diana or metallic vegetation, the plant phoenix, palingenesis or the resurrection of plants from their ashes. Allegorical frontispieces and engraved figures.

Copy uncrop.

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

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.

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