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BOSSUT, Charles. Traité élémentaire d'hydrodynamique :
Ouvrage dans lequel la théorie et l'expérience s'éclairent ou se suppléent mutuellement ; avec des notes sur plusieurs endroits qui ont paru mériter d'être appronfondis.

Paris, Chardon, 1771.

First edition.
Very good copy in contemporary morocco binding.

3000 €

GUYOT, Edme-Gilles. Nouvelles Récréations Physiques et Mathématiques, contenant ce qui a été imaginé de plus curieux dans ce genre, & ce qui se découvre journellement.

Paris, Chez l'auteur / Gueffier, 1772-73-74--75.

New edition, corrected and considerably increased by the author, with handcolored plates.
Complete copy with the 99 engraved plates, of which 93 are finely handcolored, depicting electrical experiments, chemical and optical apparatus, scientific games, etc.

The first volume deals with mathematics, magnet, mechanics and numbers. The second volume deals with geometry, light, optics and electricity. The third volume contains "recreations" around the magnet and the catoptric. And the last and fourth volume consists of chapters on mechanics, on the writing of the occult, the magnet, water, fire and air, electricity, arithmetic and artificial memory.
Rare when plates are handcolored.

2200 €

BECQUEREL, Alexandre Edmond. La lumière, ses causes et ses effets.

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1867-1868.

First édition.

In this work, Edmond Becquerel (1820-1891) exposes the theory on the production of light and its multiple effects. The second volume deals with photography, at the end of the nineteenth century, through his discovery and his techniques, as well as the theory of color.

400 €

LAENNEC, René-Théophile-Hyacinthe. Traité de l'Auscultation Médiate et des Maladies des Poumons et du Coeur.

Paris, Brosson, 1819.

First edition, first state with the cancellandum leaf a*2.

2300 €

COCTEAU, Jean || LHOTE, André. Escales.

Paris, Éditions de la Sirène, 1920.

440 copies.
This (n° xviii) one of the 25 on Hollande paper, with an additionnal text 'Musée Secret' containing 5 erotical drawing in black from Lhote that is not in the normal paper.

3000 €

LORRIS, Guillaume de || MEUNG, Jean de. Le Roman de la Rose. Edition faite sur celle de Lenglet Dufresnoy, corrigée avec soin, et enrichie de la dissertation sur les auteurs de l'ouvrage, de l'analyse, des variantes et du glossaire publiés en 1737 par J.-B. Lantin de Damerey.

Paris, Fournier et Fils F. Didot, An VII (1799).

One of the 90 copies on large vellum paper wih portrait and engravings in two states.

Fine binding from Bradel l'Aîné.

4500 €

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