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Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 7 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 6 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 5 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Becs. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 4 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 3 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 2 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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[GRAVURE]. 

Planche panckoucke ornithologie : Pattes. 

[Paris], [Chez Panckoucke & Plomteux], [1789].
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Plate devoted to ornithology, taken from the Pancoucke methodical encyclopedia.
Plate 1 "Method for the knowledge of Birds by the Beak and the Legs".

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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.

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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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LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste. 

Recherches sur les Causes des Principaux faits Physiques, Et particulièrement sur celles de la Combustion, de l'Elévation de l'eau dans l'état de vapeurs de la Chaleur produite. 

Paris, Maradan, An II [1794].
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950 €

First edition.
Lamarck's first work in the field of chemistry in which he reverses Lavoisier's chemical revolution and proposes a system based on the theory of the four elements and phlogiston.
Apart from expounding his bizarre chemical theories, the book is important for his later views on biology and geology. Of interest is the section "Recherches sur les têtres organiques", which sets out his ideas on the origin of life before he abandoned his belief in a fixed species and became an evolutionist.
Lamarck's "chemical theories played an important part in the development of his ideas the origin of species, as they provived a materialistic definition of life, reproduction and evolution." (Norman).

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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).

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HOPPE, David Heinrich. 

Enumeratio Insectorum Elytratorum Circa Erlangam Indigenarum secundam systema Fabricianum. Observationibus Iconibusque Illustrata. 

Erlangen, Palm, 1795.
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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.

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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.

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LATREILLE, Pierre André. 

Précis des caractères génériques des insectes, disposés dans un ordre naturel. 

Brive, Imprimerie de F. Bourdeaux, An 5 [1796].
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2000 €

First edition.
Major work by Latreille in which he puts in order the classification of insects according to simple physical characteristics. Latreille's first work before his appointment to the Natural History Museum. He had his work printed in Brives, his hometown.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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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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.

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[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.

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LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

Système des animaux sans vertèbres ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 

Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1801.
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2000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

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LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de. 

Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. 

Paris, Deterville, 1801.
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4000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

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D'AZARA, Félix. 

Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay. 

Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801.
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1000 €

First edition.
Work published by Moreau de Saint-Mery based on a manuscript sent by Félix D'Azara's brother, without his consent.
Félix de Azara (1742-1821) arrived in America to participate in the demarcation of the colonial border between the Spanish and Portuguese empires. An engineer, cartographer and soldier, he traveled for twenty years in this southern America (current Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil). The quality of Félix de Azara's historical, natural and ethnological descriptions made his writings an essential source for those interested - from Humboldt to d'Orbigny, from Von Martius to Bonpland - in the natural and civil history of this continent.

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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.

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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 [...].".

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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).

Photo LULLIN, Charles Jean-Marc. 

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.

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