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CHAMPOLLION, Jean François.

Lettre à M. Dacier,... relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphes phonétiques employés par les Égyptiens pour inscrire sur leurs monuments les titres, les noms et les surnoms des souverains grecs et romains
[relié à la suite]
Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens égyptiens, ou Recherches sur les élémens premiers de cette écriture sacrée.

Paris, Didot / Treuttel et Würtz, 1822-1824.

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25000 €

First edition of the two mojor work of Champiollin, bound completely in one contemporary full calf.

1. Lettre à M. Dacier. Paris. 1822. Champollion's seminal work, which first announced the deciphering of the Rosetta Stone, provides the key to reading Egyptian hieroglyphics and gave birth to modern Egyptology. This seminal work is undoubtedly the most important philological work ever written.

2. Précis du système hiéroglyphique Paris. 1824. Two years after his “Lettre à M. Dacier,” Champollion presents here for the first time in its entirety the deciphering of hieroglyphics.

The Rosetta Stone, brought back by the Napoleonic expeditions to Egypt, gave the same text in three different languages, it is the key that gave Champollion the understanding of the language of the ancient Egyptians.
After laying down the principle of phonetic writing in 1822 in his Letter to M. Dacier, he continued his work and his demonstrations until he had an intimate knowledge of this language: "It is a complex system, a writing at the same time figurative, symbolic and phonetic, in the same text, the same sentence, I would almost say in the same word"

His Precis of the hieroglyphic system gives us with many examples an unprecedented understanding of hieroglyphs, thus cutting the grass under the feet of his opponents (and competitors) such as Thomas Young.

The discovery of Champollion suddenly gave humanity access to three millennia of its history.

[ARNAULD, Antoine] || [PASCAL, Blaise].

Nouveaux élémens de géométrie contenant, outre un ordre tout nouveau & de nouvelles démonstrations des propositions les plus communes, de nouveaux moyens de faire voir quelles lignes sont incommensurables, de nouvelles mesures des angles, dont on ne s'était point encore avisé, et de nouvelles manières de trouver & de démontrer la proportion des lignes.

Paris, Charles Savreux, 1667.

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3500 €

First edition. Complete with the errata leaf.
First publication of Pascal's work on magic squares.
The work, which would be called Géométrie de Port Royal, was born from the meeting of Antoine Arnauld with Pascal, and their friendly rivalry to make Euclid's geometry more understandable and to compose a manual for use in the Petites écoles.
Pascal conceded that Arnauld's project was better than his, and destroyed his preparatory manuscript. Of Pascal's geometry, all that remains is his solution to magic squares, which Arnauld would place in the appendix of his own work.
The teaching of mathematics in France was lastingly affected and, until Legendre, almost all authors of geometry manuals adopted the views of Port-Royal.
The second state of sheet 251-252, and the rare errata sheet are as described by Dominique Descotes and testify to the modifications made by Arnauld during printing.

ARNAULD, Pierre || FLAMEL, Nicolas.

Trois traictez de la philosophie naturelle, non encore imprimez scavoir : le secret livre du très ancien philosophe Artephius, traitant de l'art occulte et transmutation mettalique. Plus les figures hiérogliphiques de Nicolas Flamel.

Paris, Guillaume Marette, 1612.

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3500 €

First edition of Nicolas Flamel's Hieroglyphic Figures.
This text, attributed to the legendary French alchemist Nicolas Flamel, was written between 1399 and 1413. It is said to contain the secret of the Great Work and the Philosopher's Stone. The plate depicts the figures in the arcade of the small charnel house in the Cemetery of the Innocents, built by Nicolas Flamel in 1407, whose book of Hieroglyphic Figures is said to be the key to understanding. A fine copy of this text sought after by all alchemists.

ARTEDI, Peter || LINNE, Carl von.

Ichthyologia, sive opera omnia de piscibus.

Leyde, Gonradum Wishoff, 1738.

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1300 €

First edition.
Artedi is known as the "father of ichthyology" for this pioneering work in classifying the fishes into groups.

The foundation of modern ichthyology.

Artedi, who drowned in Amsterdam in 1735, is published here posthumously by Carl von Linné, who inherited the manuscripts of Artedi.

The classification is based on an order, then a genus and a species. He thus distinguishes four orders of fish and one for cetaceans, 47 genera and 230 species.
A very complete set of its five parts.

BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad.

Elementa chemiae, quibus subjuncta est confectura lapidis philosophici imaginibus repræsentara.

Leyde, Theodorum Haak, 1718.

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9000 €

Second edition.
While the original edition (Pyrosophia, Utrecht, 1698) included only the five plates depicting the chemistry laboratory and its instrumentation, our edition is enriched with 19 additional plates—printed here for the first time—featuring 78 symbolic figures tracing the stages of the alchemical process.
As noted by Adam McLean, this suite constitutes the only early reproduction of the images from The Crowning of Nature, the renowned medieval alchemical manuscript.
It is one of the rarest works devoted to the philosopher’s stone, with the hidden meaning of its symbolic illustrations giving rise to numerous interpretations. Among them appear some of the most familiar emblems of alchemical tradition, such as the ouroboros, the green lion, and the phoenix.

This work was studied—alongside the Mutus Liber—by psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung in his Psychology and Alchemy (1953), where he discusses in particular the symbolic resonance of the image of the “winged dragon consuming itself within the alchemical vessel” (a figure reproduced in Jung’s book).
Through it, Jung integrates Barchusen’s iconography into his broader reflection on the alchemical transformation of the self.

BEZOUT, Etienne.

Théorie générale des équations algébriques.

Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, 1779.

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1400 €

First edition.

BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri.

[Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, format grand colombier, representant chacun un sujet dans son entier a la proportion de demi-nature.].

Bruxelles, Méline Cans et Cie, [1854].

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2000 €

Atlas only, of this Anatomy.
The 20 plates, lithographed in bistre, represent the entire human body and its organs in half size.
This edition is a Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

BUDAN, Ferdinand.

Nouvelle méthode pour la résolution des équations numériques.

Paris, Courcier, 1807.

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1500 €

First edition.
Work in which Budan states what is now known as the Budan-Fourier theorem.

Bound with the following :
BEZOUT, Théorie générale des équations algébriques, Paris, Ph.-D. Pierres, 1779.
(4)-xxviii-471 pages.
First edition.
Bezout deals with the resolution of equations with n unknowns by elimination.

CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée.

Leçons sur les maladies de la peau.

Paris, Labe, 1856.

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3500 €

First collective edition, first published in several installments over a period of 12 years.
Cazenave issues 60 illustrations of skin diseases.
The illustrations are consistently true-to-life in coloring and drawing style.
Goldschmid considers the large Cazenave one of the best and most beautiful of all pathological works.

CHAILLOU, Jacques.

Recherches de l'origine et du mouvement du sang, du cœur, et de ses vaisseaux.

Paris, Jean Couterot, 1675.

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800 €

First edition.
Jacques Chaillou, a physician from Angers, was one of the first to introduce Harvey's discoveries on blood circulation in France. Jacques Chaillou began his medical studies in Angers in the 1650s, a time when medical discoveries abounded: in 1628, William Harvey published his Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in animalibus in Frankfurt, often considered the first work to accurately describe blood circulation. It was in this context that Jacques Chaillou, before obtaining his doctorate, went to Paris and then Bordeaux to learn about the new discoveries, where he became a professor in 1663. He returned some time later to settle in Angers. In 1664, he published his first treatise on the question of sanguinification, which is reproduced here at the beginning of our edition, and he continued his work on blood, which he described in his Recherches.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène.

De la Loi du Contraste simultané des Couleurs et de l’Assortiment des Objets colorés, considéré d’après cette Loi dans ses Rapports avec la Peinture, les Tapisseries des Gobelins, les Tapisseries de Beauvais pour Meubles, les Tapis, la Mosaïque, les Vitraux colorés, l’Impression des Étoffes, l’Imprimerie, l’Enluminure, la Décoration des Édifices, l’Habillement et l’Horticulture.

Paris, Pitois-Levrault, 1839.

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9000 €

First edition.
One of the most influential books on art in the 19th century.
Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786–1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty substances (1810–1823) and on immediate organic analysis (1824), but it is as a color theorist that his name achieved lasting fame.
De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs introduced a scientific understanding of color that had a profound and lasting impact on the painters of his time.
His “law” describes how the perception of a hue is altered by the surrounding colors, each color projecting its complementary onto its immediate environment (thus, a red object tends to cast a greenish glow on nearby surfaces, a yellow one a purplish tint, and so on). This principle is clearly illustrated in plate 7 of the Atlas, where colored dots on a white background seem to emit halos of their complementary hues.

Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863), a central figure of Romanticism, paid close attention to Chevreul’s research. According to the painter Paul Signac, Delacroix even sought to meet the chemist and acquired notes from his lectures in order to better grasp the law of simultaneous contrast. Several of his paintings feature harmonies built around complementary color pairs. For instance, The Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople (1840) deliberately juxtaposes yellow/purple, blue/orange, and red/green to dramatize the scene—so effectively that art historian Lee Johnson called it an ideal “illustration” of Chevreul’s treatise.

But it was arguably within the Impressionist movement that Chevreul’s theories reached their highest artistic fulfillment. Claude Monet (1840–1926), in particular, used simultaneous contrast to heighten luminosity in his landscapes. He avoided black and earth tones, preferring instead to render shadows in color: purples and blues for shaded areas at sunset, accented with yellow-orange highlights in full light. This technique appears as early as Impression, Sunrise, the foundational work of the movement. One might also recall the poppy fields, a favorite motif of the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissarro…), where red flowers vibrantly stand out against green backgrounds.

A book heralding one of the greatest revolutions in painting.

Our copy is complete with all the color plates, most of them signed by Chevreul himself.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène.

Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques. Avec XXVII planches gravées sur acier et imprimées en couleurs par René Digeon.

Paris, J.B. Baillière et Fils, 1864.

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5500 €

First edition of the rarest of Chevreul's publications on color.

Michel-Eugène Chevreul (1786-1889) is known to chemists for his research on fatty acids, saponification, and the discovery of stearin, but it is as a color theorist that his name will go down in history. Chevreul was appointed director of the Manufacture des Gobelins in 1824. Responsible for overseeing the production of dyes, he supported the work of dyers with his research on color perception. Thus, in 1839, he proposed a scientific approach to color complementarity and subsequently developed "color circles." A true "Pantone" color chart, a hundred years ahead of its time, Chevreul's color circles had the dual benefit of systematizing the production of hues (each with its own name) and making it easier to understand the concept of color complementarity. Thus, complementary colors are found on the same diameter of the color wheel, Red No. 2 corresponds to Green No. 2. "I believe I can affirm that it is possible to subject colors to a reasoned nomenclature, by relating them to types classified according to a simple method, accessible to the intelligence of all those who deal with colors" (extract from the preface). The standardization of color production was to interest first and foremost the industry then in full development, but it is undoubtedly in the Impressionist movement that Chevreul's theories found their finest accomplishment. Very early on, painters were inspired by Chevreul's work in their paintings, starting with Delacroix and then Monet. We will thus remember the fields of poppies dear to the Impressionists (Van Gogh, Monet, Pissaro...) where the red dots of the flowers burst out on complementary green backgrounds. The 27 spectacular plates were printed by René-Henri Digeon using chromochalcography, the process and difficulties of which are discussed in a paragraph in the book. Digeon appears to have presented a first edition of these plates at the 1855 World's Fair, for which he received a patent from the Empress. Several of the plates in our copy appear to be from this first edition and contain errors that have been corrected in other later copies that we have been able to consult.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène.

Mémoire sur la vision des couleurs matérielles en mouvement de rotation et des vitesses numériques de cercles.

Paris, Firmin-Didot, 1882 [1881].

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3000 €

First edition of Chevreul's last works on color.
A rare offprint with its own title page published by Firmin-Didot in 1882, of an article presented to the Academy of Sciences in December 1880 and January 1881 (one generally only finds the article extracted from the Mémoires de l'institut published in 1883). Chevreul is interested here in physiological optics, trying to analyze how the contrast between complementary colors is affected by movement.
In his conclusion, in which he calls himself "the dean of students in France" (he was then 95 years old), he sees a direct application of his work to signaling for train drivers.

CRAMER, Gabriel.

Introduction a l'Analyse des Lignes Courbes Algébriques.

Genève, Cramer & Philibert, 1750.

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1400 €

First edition.
Work of algebraic geometry in which Cramer states for the first time what will become Cramer's Rule and Cramer's Paradox.
He also proposes, following shortly after Euler, a classification of curves according to their behavior at infinity.

DIDEROT, Denis.

La Religieuse.

Paris, Buisson, An cinquième de la République [1796].

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2500 €

First edition.
Written in 1760, it was not published until 10 years after Diderot's death.
This anticlerical novel tells the story of a young girl who becomes a nun against her will and fights to escape confinement and regain her freedom.

DUCHENNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions.

Paris, Baillière, 1876.

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18000 €

Rare copy of the deluxe edition of the second edition with the atlas.
It's the first medical book illustrated with photographs of living subjects.
The celebrated work by Duchenne de Boulogne on facial expressions induced by electrification.
Duchenne de Boulogne’s research was intended both for anatomists and scientists (Darwin would later use Duchenne’s findings in his The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals) and for artists, who, as he said, “have not always been able to find the fundamental lines” of an expressive face.
Using his electrodes and induction coil, Duchenne assigned the precise role of each facial muscle in animating the human face.
He thus aimed to “make known, through electro-physiological analysis and with the help of photography, the art of accurately painting the expressive lines of the human face—a kind of orthography of physiognomy in motion” (from the preface).

A copy from the deluxe edition, issued by the publisher, accompanied by its atlas; the regular edition contained only the frontispiece and the nine plates in the text volume.
Our copy is complete with its atlas of 82 additional plates (the last eleven "aesthetic" plates are often missing).

The atlas reproduces the original photographs, whose portraits had been extracted to create the nine synoptic plates, now printed in large format on albumen paper and mounted.
The electrically induced emotions of the six models literally leap off the page.

The first series of experimental photographs (plates 3–73), featuring an old cobbler with a wrinkled face, was deemed too coarse when Duchenne first presented it. He was persuaded to create a second series (plates 74–84) showing young women in various poses—ecstatic to imitate Saint Teresa or cruel to mimic Lady Macbeth.
“Striving to satisfy those with a sense of beauty, and wishing to please while instructing, I have undertaken some new electrophysiological studies in which, as far as possible, I hope to meet the principal requirements of aesthetics: beauty of form, combined with the truth of facial expression, attitude, and gesture.” (p. 133)
He called this part of his work the aesthetic section.
Perhaps unconvinced of its scientific value, he did not always distribute these 11 “aesthetic” photographs with the atlas; for example, the copies sent to Darwin and Charcot stop at plate 73.
The publisher himself only anounced on the title page 74 plates. Copies with plates 74 to 84 are rare.

Duchenne stands at the crossroads of three recent scientific revolutions (electrical induction, physiology, and photography), yet here he has composed one of the true photographic masterpieces of the 19th century.

EUCLIDE.

Les Quinze livres des éléments géométriques d'Euclide megarien.

Paris, Denys Moreau, 1622.

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800 €

One of the most famous works of mathematics.
First edition of the Le Mardelé translation.
He was violently attacked by Henrion in his "Apologetic Response..." for having advanced that he corrected in his translation of Euclid's Elements, the faults of his deferred and also those to Henrion himself.
Nevertheless, although nothing is known of his life, he seems to have been introduced to mathematics, for he published in 1626, a treatise on arithmetic.

FABRE D'OLIVET, Antoine.

La langue hébraïque restituée et le véritable sens des mots hébreux rétabli et prouvé par leur analyse radicale.

Paris, chez l'auteur, 1815-1816.

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1300 €

First edition of the main work of Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, philosopher and theosophist.

This remarkable treatise, important for the linguistic purity of Hermetic sources, brings together an introductory dissertation on the origin of speech, a Hebrew grammar, a series of Hebrew roots, a preliminary discourse, and a French translation of the first ten chapters of the Sepher, containing the cosmogony of Moses.

A fresh copy.

FIENUS, Thomas [FEYENS].

De cauteriis libri quinque.

Louvain, Ioan. Baptistam Zangrium, 1598.

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750 €

First edition.
This medical treatise by Thomas Fienus (Fyens or Feyens) is devoted to the use of cautery in medicine. It details the different cauterization techniques, their therapeutic indications and the precautions to be taken, reflecting the medical practices of the late 16th century. Fienus was a professor of medicine at the University of Louvain, recognized for his contributions to the medicine of his time.
A very complete copy of the two plates representing the cauterization instruments.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

Paris, Nyon l'ainé, 1781.

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1000 €

First french edition.
Fontana relates numerous experiments in which he injects venoms and poisons into animals (rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, etc.). The majority of the work is devoted to a systematic study of viper venom but it also addresses plant poisons, such as Ticunas (probably Curare) reported on poisoned arrows from the Amazon. He is thus one of the first to approach toxicology experimentally.

Good copy bound in contemporary full calf.

FOURCROY, Antoine-François.

Tableaux synoptiques de chimie, pour servir de résumé aux leçons données sur cette science dans les écoles de Paris.

Paris, Baudouin, An VIII [1800].

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2500 €

First edition.

[GAUTIER-D'AGOTY, Jacques Fabien].

Hermaphrodite. Two colour-printed mezzotint plates.

[Paris], s.n., [1749].

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8000 €

Set of two colour-printed mezzotint depicting a hermaphrodite. Among one of the most spectacular prints in Gautier d'Agoty's work.

The two plates (1. side view, 2. front view) were originally intended to accompany a one-page booklet entitled: "Hermaphrodite. Dissertation au sujet de la fameuse hermaphrodite qui a paru aux yeux du public depuis environ trois mois, faite par le sieur Mertrud, chirurgien du Roi," Paris, Berryer éditeur, 1749.

These two large color engraved plates depict the sexual organs of the hermaphrodite Michel Anne Drouart, whose characteristics, examined by various scholars, were the subject of much controversy in Paris, then in England and Italy, where Drouart made several tours: "The subject is alive, aged 16... His father and mother raised him as a girl."

The second plate, not mentioned by the bibliographers, is extremely rare. It is absent from copies of the BIUS, and major Anglo-Saxon specialist libraries. (A copy can be found in Sweden at the Hagströmer Library. An other one sold by Christies, Paris, 2016).

LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois.

Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral.

Paris, J.B.M. Duprat, 1797-1798-1800.

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1200 €

First edition.
Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de.

Méchanique analitique.

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1788.

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10000 €

First edition of Lagrange's masterpiece, the foundation of modern mechanics, second in importance to Newton's Principia.

LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon.

Essai philosophique sur les probabilités.

Paris, Vve Courcier, 1814.

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1200 €

First edition.
A second edition of this essay will appear in octavo format, the same year, with a different collation (190 pages instead of 96).
A major work by Pierre-Simon Laplace, a French mathematician and astronomer, presenting an accessible popularization of his theory of probability.
There he presented for the first time the thought experiment that would later be known as Laplace's Demon. Mechanistic vision of the world which will only be called into question with Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

[MANUSCRIT].

Explication des plantes usuelles.

s.l., s.n., [1714].

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1300 €

Handwritten botany course focusing on "common plants", plants that can be used in medicine.
This course lists 486 plants, each with its Latin binomial name and its therapeutic use.
The plants seem to follow an order whose logic is not explained in the short introduction: "The large number of plants that I will have the honor of discussing with you during the short time that this course will last does not allow me to stop here for a long preface where I could explain to you in general how these same plants act, whether they are considered purgatives or simply as alteratives, [...] I propose to follow the order that we will follow in the demonstrations so that at the same time as you learn to know these same plants, you enter into the knowledge of their virtues."
The Latin names refer to the catalogues of Bauhin (C.B.) and Tournefort (inst. r. h.) which suggests that this course was dictated before the penetration of Linnaeus' classification in France, i.e. before the 1760s.
The structure of this course differs from the known courses on "Usual Plants", as dictated by Chomel and Jussieu.

We find, bound below, a manuscript by the same hand:
"Observations on bone diseases explained and demonstrated by Mr Arnaud In the amphitheater of the Jardin du Roy on June 13, 1714" 42 pages.

This suggests that both courses were taken at the Jardin du Roi or Royal Garden of Medicinal Plants (the future Museum of Natural History from 1793), which at the beginning of the 18th century was a major center for teaching medicine and surgery. It is known that at that time both Antoine Jussieu and Sébastien Vaillant were teaching botany there.

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Traité des maladies des enfans.

s.l., s.n., [v.1750].

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2500 €

Original manuscript in French.
This anonymous manuscript reproduces the course given by Jean Astruc (1684 -1766), the holder of the chair of medicine at the Collège royal from 1731.
The teaching of the Montpellier doctor was very successful. Astruc dictated his courses and on several occasions these texts were published without the author's name and, poorly copied, distorted the thinking of the learned doctor. I
t was only at the end of his life that Astruc considered it necessary to write down his courses to avoid forgeries.
However, his teaching on children's diseases was never published. Only a "pirate" edition had appeared in English in 1746.
Our course reproduces the structure of the few manuscript copies that we know of, notably that of the Kottek manuscript of 1747, which had been the subject of a modern facsimile (Stalkine, 1980).
However, we will note some differences in the text; for example, in our manuscript, Astruc proposes the end of the first age of childhood at two and a half years (instead of three and a half years in the Kottek manuscript).

[BONEFOUS].

Manuscrit de cours de l'université de Toulouse.

Toulouse, s.n., 1754.

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1250 €

Philosophy course in Latin given at the University of Toulouse in 1765 by Father Bonefous.
The writer is Jean de Villepreux from Marmande.
The course is divided into three volumes, covering the following topics:
- Logic and metaphysics
- Ontology, theodicy, psychology
- Physics
- Astronomy, morality.

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice.

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné.

[Nancy], [Buc'Hoz], [1762-1770].

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7000 €

Original manuscript of an unpublished botanical treatise by a learned scholar from Nantes.
It presents botanical concepts as well as the classifications of Linnaeus and Tournefort. This manuscript, nearly 200 pages long, is written on the verso of the plates from Buc'hoz’s Flore Lorraine.
All plates are also annotated with details on plant names, their classification according to Linnaeus and Tournefort, and their medicinal uses—together forming a true pharmacopoeia.
These 187 plates were intended to illustrate Buc'hoz’s Traité historique des plantes qui croissent dans la Lorraine et les Trois-Évêchés, published in ten octavo volumes between 1762 and 1770. The plates, originally issued separately in installments and designed to be folded and bound in octavo, are gathered here in a single folio volume.
Buc'hoz, known for the beauty of his plates, had solicited financial support from fellow countrymen and botany enthusiasts for the production of these engravings. Thus, at the bottom of almost every plate, one finds the coat of arms and name of the sponsor who funded it.
Maurice Mahot, the author of this manuscript, sponsored plate 152.
While biographical information on Maurice Mahot “the elder” (1745–1810), a royal counselor, civil and criminal judge at the présidial, alderman (1777), and deputy mayor of Nantes (1779), offers little indication of an interest in natural sciences and botany, the same cannot be said of his son, Maurice Mahot “the younger” (1774–1842), a doctor of medicine and scholar who published several books on medicine and lexicography.
The annotations by the son—a physician—on the plates funded by the father—a botany enthusiast—explain the numerous pharmaceutical and medical recipes found in the work.
Another collector has left his name on the title page: Silas Boucher de la Ville Jossy, a member of a prominent Nantes family in the mid-19th century.
A fascinating manuscript, still largely unexplored, of exceptional character, both for the beauty of its annotated plates and for its content, which intertwines botanical classification and pharmacopoeia.

MEAD, Richard.

De Imperio Solis ac Lunae in corpora Humana et Morbis inde oriundis.

Londres, Raphael Smith, 1704.

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1500 €

First edition.
Richard Mead (1673-1754), a physician and friend of Isaac Newton, attempts in this book to demonstrate the influence of gravitational forces on human health. Mesmer drew heavily on this book to write his doctoral thesis in 1766 (On the Influence of the Planets on the Human Body). The term "animal gravitation," taken from Mead, was later changed by Mesmer to "animal magnetism.".

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CHAMPOLLION, Jean François.

[ARNAULD, Antoine] || [PASCAL, Blaise].

ARNAULD, Pierre || FLAMEL, Nicolas.

Trois traictez de la philosophie naturelle, non encore imprimez scavoir : le secret livre du très ancien philosophe Artephius, traitant de l'art occulte et transmutation mettalique. Plus les figures hiérogliphiques de Nicolas Flamel.

ARTEDI, Peter || LINNE, Carl von.

Ichthyologia, sive opera omnia de piscibus.

BARCHUSEN, Johann Conrad.

Elementa chemiae, quibus subjuncta est confectura lapidis philosophici imaginibus repræsentara.

BEZOUT, Etienne.

Théorie générale des équations algébriques.

First edition.

BOURGERY, Jean-Marc || JACOB, Nicholas Henri.

[Anatomie élémentaire en vingt planches, format grand colombier, representant chacun un sujet dans son entier a la proportion de demi-nature.].

Atlas only, of this Anatomy.The 20 plates, lithographed in bistre, represent the entire human body and its organs in half size.This edition is a Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

BUDAN, Ferdinand.

Nouvelle méthode pour la résolution des équations numériques.

CAZENAVE, Pierre-Louis Alphée.

Leçons sur les maladies de la peau.

CHAILLOU, Jacques.

Recherches de l'origine et du mouvement du sang, du cœur, et de ses vaisseaux.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène.

Des couleurs et de leurs applications aux arts industriels à l’aide des cercles chromatiques. Avec XXVII planches gravées sur acier et imprimées en couleurs par René Digeon.

CHEVREUL, Michel Eugène.

Mémoire sur la vision des couleurs matérielles en mouvement de rotation et des vitesses numériques de cercles.

CRAMER, Gabriel.

Introduction a l'Analyse des Lignes Courbes Algébriques.

First edition.Work of algebraic geometry in which Cramer states for the first time what will become Cramer's Rule and Cramer's Paradox.He also proposes, following shortly after Euler, a classification of curves according to their behavior at infinity.

DIDEROT, Denis.

La Religieuse.

First edition.Written in 1760, it was not published until 10 years after Diderot's death.This anticlerical novel tells the story of a young girl who becomes a nun against her will and fights to escape confinement and regain her freedom.

DUCHENNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

Mécanisme de la physionomie humaine ou analyse électro-physiologique de l’expression des passions.

EUCLIDE.

Les Quinze livres des éléments géométriques d'Euclide megarien.

FABRE D'OLIVET, Antoine.

La langue hébraïque restituée et le véritable sens des mots hébreux rétabli et prouvé par leur analyse radicale.

FIENUS, Thomas [FEYENS].

De cauteriis libri quinque.

FONTANA, Félix.

Traité sur le venin de la vipère, sur les poisons américains, sur le laurier-cerise et sur quelques autres poisons végétaux.

FOURCROY, Antoine-François.

Tableaux synoptiques de chimie, pour servir de résumé aux leçons données sur cette science dans les écoles de Paris.

First edition.

[GAUTIER-D'AGOTY, Jacques Fabien].

Hermaphrodite. Two colour-printed mezzotint plates.

LACROIX, Sylvestre Francois.

Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral.

First edition. Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".

LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis, comte de.

Méchanique analitique.

First edition of Lagrange's masterpiece, the foundation of modern mechanics, second in importance to Newton's Principia.

LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon.

Essai philosophique sur les probabilités.

[MANUSCRIT].

Explication des plantes usuelles.

[ASTRUC, Jean].

Traité des maladies des enfans.

[BONEFOUS].

Manuscrit de cours de l'université de Toulouse.

Philosophy course in Latin given at the University of Toulouse in 1765 by Father Bonefous.The writer is Jean de Villepreux from Marmande.The course is divided into three volumes, covering the following topics: - Logic and metaphysics - Ontology, theodicy, psychology - Physics - Astronomy, morality.

[MANUSCRIT] MAHOT, Maurice.

Traité de Botanique sur Estampes du Traité historique des Plantes de Buchoz classées suivant Tournefort & Linné.

MEAD, Richard.

De Imperio Solis ac Lunae in corpora Humana et Morbis inde oriundis.

Atlas only, of this Anatomy.
The 20 plates, lithographed in bistre, represent the entire human body and its organs in half size.
This edition is a Brussels copy of the Parisian edition published in 1836-1839.

First edition.
Work of algebraic geometry in which Cramer states for the first time what will become Cramer's Rule and Cramer's Paradox.
He also proposes, following shortly after Euler, a classification of curves according to their behavior at infinity.

First edition.
Written in 1760, it was not published until 10 years after Diderot's death.
This anticlerical novel tells the story of a young girl who becomes a nun against her will and fights to escape confinement and regain her freedom.

First edition.
Rare with the third volume, published separatly, under the title "Traité des différences et des séries" and that will be included in the second edition of the "Traité du calcul differentiel et du calcul integral".