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Photo BESSON, François. 

BESSON, François. 

La Pratique de Géometrie. 

Paris, Jean Moreau, 1626.
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500 €

First edition.
The work is divided into three books:
- Macrometry or the science of measuring straight lines.
- Holometry or the measurement of plane surfaces.
- Stereotomy or the measurement of solid bodies.
As well as Books IV and XIII of Euclid in an unpublished French translation for which Besson provides new applications.

Photo SANDIFORT, Edward. 

SANDIFORT, Edward. 

Exercitationes academicae. 

Leyde, Eyk et Vygh, 1783-1785.
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750 €

First edition.
Sandifort was a pupil of Albinus, and he succeeded his teacher to the chair of anatomy and surgery at the University of Leiden. Sandifort concentrated his efforts on the anatomy of disease and has been called the founder of pathological anatomy.
This work is devoted to the pathological anatomy of the skull.
A complete copy with 15 finely engraved fold-out plates.

Photo [GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité]. 

[GENLIS, Stéphanie Félicité]. 

Adéle et Théodore, ou Lettres sur L'Education. 

Paris, Lambert, 1782.
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120 €

First edition.
Epistolary novel written by Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis, also known as Madame de Genlis. This work is presented in the form of letters addressing educational principles for young girls and boys, reflecting the pedagogical ideas of the time.

Photo WINSLOW, Jacques-Benigne. 

WINSLOW, Jacques-Benigne. 

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez & Jean Dessessartz, 1732.
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800 €

First edition.
One of the most famous works of descriptive anatomy.
This book marked a turning point in the history of anatomy by freeing itself from physiological speculation in favor of a strictly observational approach. It contains for the first time the description of the "foramen of Winslow" (or omental foramen), the slit that allows communication between the greater peritoneal sac and the vestibule of the lesser peritoneal sac.

Photo DEPARCIEUX, Antoine. 

DEPARCIEUX, Antoine. 

Mémoires lus à l’assemblée publique de l’Académie Royale des Sciences :
- Mémoire sur la possibilité d'amener à Paris, [...] par un seul canal ou acqueduc
- Second Mémoire sur le projet d'amener à Paris la rivière d'Yvette
- Troisième Mémoire sur le projet d'amener l'Yvette à Paris. 

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1763,1767, 1768.
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2500 €

First edition.
Collection of three memoirs presented by Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768) to the Academy of Sciences. In 1762, Deparcieux proposed a project to bring the waters of the Yvette River to Paris to alleviate the lack of drinking water in the capital. He envisioned capturing the water upstream from Gif-sur-Yvette and transporting it to Paris via an aqueduct approximately 30 kilometers long, ending near the Observatory. Despite its proven technical feasibility and the support of figures such as Voltaire, the project was never realized, mainly due to financial constraints and a lack of political will during the reign of Louis XV. After his death, the project was taken up by his great-nephew, but still without success. It was only several decades later that Parisians were finally supplied with drinking water thanks to the construction of the Ourcq Canal to the north of Paris, and then even later, by the Vanne aqueduct, which follows part of the route studied by Deparcieux to the south of the Paris region.

Photo [CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Samuel]. 

[CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Samuel]. 

Laure, ou lettres de quelques femmes de Suisse. 

Genève, Barde, 1786-1787.
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200 €

First edition.
This work belongs to the genre of epistolary novels, highly prized in the 18th century under the influence of Rousseau and his work "La Nouvelle Héloïse." It features the correspondence of Swiss women, offering a moral, sentimental, and perhaps political reflection on the society of the time.

Photo BUFFIER, Claude. 

BUFFIER, Claude. 

Géographie universelle, exposée dans les différentes méthodes. 

Paris, Pierre-François Giffart, 1736.
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150 €

The book offers a didactic method, including mnemonic verses to help remember information. This fifth edition, published in 1736, is enriched with updates on European geopolitics and a table of country names with their geographic coordinates. A comprehensive example of its 18 fold-out maps (world map, map of Europe, map of France, etc.).

Photo VARIGNON, Pierre. 

VARIGNON, Pierre. 

Projet d’une nouvelle mechanique: avec un Examen de l'opinion de M. Borelli. 

Paris, Veuve d’Edme Martin, Jean Boudot & Estienne Martin, 1687.
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450 €

First edition.

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FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès. 

Un Médecin d’autrefois. 

Paris, Ambroise Dupont, 1838.
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300 €

Second edition.
Biography of Paracelsus written by the son of the famous occultist Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (to whom this work is often mistakenly credited).

Photo DARWIN, Erasmus. 

DARWIN, Erasmus. 

Zoonomie, ou lois de la vie organique. 

Gand, P. F. de Goesin-Verhaeghe, 1807-1811.
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1300 €

First french edition.
Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was a British physician, poet, and naturalist.
In Zoonomy, he proposed a classification of diseases based on the excitability of fibers, a physiological theory of the time.
The work also discussed early ideas about the evolution of species, suggesting that all living things might have descended from a common ancestor, anticipating some of the theories that his grandson would later develop, including that of sexual selection.

Darwin's work is preceded by "l'Analyse raisonnée de la Zoonomie de Darwin" published in 1807.

Photo LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

De la nature, vertu, et utilité des plantes. 

Paris, Rollin Baragnes, 1628.
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700 €

First edition.
Guy de La Brosse was Louis XIII's regular physician and founder of the Jardin du Roi (ancestor of the Jardin des Plantes). The last part, entitled "Dessein d'un Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales", presents the project for the future Jardin des Plantes.
While the author remains famous for having successfully completed this project, he is also known for having been one of the first French Paracelsians. This work, one of the first great French botanical treatises, detailing the medicinal virtues of plants, their classification and their therapeutic use, is very much inspired by Bacon and Paracelsus. The book illustrates in a very clear way one of the schools of thought of the nascent revolution, that of Paracelsianism.

Photo TARNIER, Stéphane. 

TARNIER, Stéphane. 

De l’Asepsie et de l’antisepsie en obstétrique. 

Paris, G. Steinheil, 1894.
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450 €

First edition.
Stéphane Tarnier is considered the father of modern obstetrics in France. He introduced aseptic and antiseptic practices in delivery rooms, significantly reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. This book compiles his lessons on these revolutionary methods.
Prize copy for the School of Childbirth awarded to Miss Guillory.
Beautiful copy.

Photo STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

Theoria medica vera, physiologiam et pathologiam. 

Halle, Literis Orphanotrophei, 1708.
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950 €

First edition.
Major work by Stahl in which he develops his medical system.

Photo [LAMY, Dom Francois]. 

[LAMY, Dom Francois]. 

Conjectures physiques sur deux colonnes de nüe qui ont paru depuis quelques années & sur les extraordinaires effets du tonnerre. 

Paris, Veuve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1689.
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950 €

First edition.
Illustrated with a folding plate and four figures in the text, two of which are full-page.
Lamy studies here two "lightning strikes" that had left their mark, the first on April 26, 1676 in Soissons had left an astonishing frieze (which is reproduced on the folding plate) in the dormitory of an Abbey. The second in Lagny on July 18, 1689, where lightning had struck the altar of the Church of Saint-Sauveur and imprinted the canon of the mass on its tablecloth.
Camille Flammarion devotes an entire chapter in his book "Les Caprices de la foudre" to Lamy's observations, and tells us: "A monk, Father Lamy, of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, published in 1696 [Editor's note: 2nd ed.] an excellent pamphlet, dictated by the clearest common sense, on the curious effects of lightning, which were then the subject of the most superstitious commentaries. Voltaire could not have reasoned better.".

Photo AIKIN, John. 

AIKIN, John. 

Observations sur les hôpitaux. 

Londres, Paris, Crapart & Briand, 1777.
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350 €

First french edition.
John Aikin insists on the role of hospitals in the advancement of medical science. First of all, with regard to teaching. Since the founding in 1658 of a clinical school at the Leiden hospital, the use of hospitals as a teaching ground had continued to grow, which Aikin was pleased about and which others sometimes deplored as having disadvantages for the sensitivity, or even the health, of patients. The organization of hospitals as places of teaching and research is the source of our current university hospitals.

Photo GUIBELET, Jourdain. 

GUIBELET, Jourdain. 

Examen de l'examen des esprits. 

Paris, Veuve Jean de Heuqueville et Louis de Heuqueville, 1631.
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800 €

First edition.
Critical work of the Examen de ingenios para las sciencias by Juan Huarte de San Juan, which had been, in 1575, the first modern treatise to study the relationship between psychology and physiology.
Guibelet offers an in-depth analysis and a refutation of some of Huarte's theses, thus entering into the intellectual debates of the time on the nature of intelligence and human aptitudes. This text constitutes a valuable contribution to the history of ideas and to the study of the reception of psychological and medical theories at the dawn of the 17th century.
Title page in the name of the Heuquevilles with whom Soly (who appears on the privilege) shared the edition.

Photo BEDOS DE CELLES, François. 

BEDOS DE CELLES, François. 

La Gnomonique pratique, ou l'art de tracer avec la plus grande précision les cadrans solaires. 

Paris, Firmin Didot, 1790.
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250 €

New edition of this important treatise on gnomonics by François Bedos de Celles (1709-1779), a Benedictine monk and engineer, also known for his work in clockmaking and organ building. This work details the precise methods of building sundials, addressing the underlying mathematical and astronomical principles. Published by Firmin Didot, it is an essential reference for amateurs and specialists in clockmaking and time measurement. Some handwritten annotations.

Photo L'HOSPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine (Marquis de). 

L'HOSPITAL, Guillaume François Antoine (Marquis de). 

Analyse des infiniment petits, pour l'intelligence des lignes courbes. 

Paris, François Montalant, 1715.
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600 €

Second edition.
The L'Hospital manual was the first treatise devoted to differential calculus in the French language. It did much to disseminate Leibniz's discovery in France and Europe.
On p. 145 we find the rule that would bear the name of L'Hospital's Rule (or theorem), which states that the quotient of two functions behaves locally like the quotient of the associated derivatives.

Photo BERTHOUD, Ferdinand. 

BERTHOUD, Ferdinand. 

L'Art de conduire et de régler les pendules et les montres. 

Paris, J. M. Eberhart, 1805.
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250 €

Third edition.
Watchmaking at the end of the 18th century was a field at the cutting edge of technology. Berthoud's manual aimed to make accessible the knowledge and practice of the maintenance and adjustment of clocks and watches.
Untouched copy.

Photo BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé). 

BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES, (Abbé). 

Mémoires sur l'éducation des vers à soie. 

Nismes, Gaude, 1763.
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350 €

First edition.
Reference work on silkworm breeding.
Bound later by the same author, we find: De la culture des muriers, Nismes, Gaude, 1763. 128-8 pages.

Photo LA QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste. 

LA QUINTINYE, Jean Baptiste. 

Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers, avec un traité des orangers, et des réflexions sur l'agriculture. 

Paris, Cavelier, 1739.
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900 €

New revised and corrected edition.
A famous French gardener of the 17th century, Jean-Baptiste de La Quintinie was known for having been the director of the fruit and vegetable gardens of King Louis XIV. His work is a complete treatise on the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, as well as on the layout of gardens.
He was very influential in his time and helped to popularize modern gardening techniques, particularly on methods of forcing vegetables and pruning fruit trees.
Very complete copy of the plan of the royal vegetable garden and the plates outside the text on tree pruning.

Photo LA HIRE, Philippe (De). 

LA HIRE, Philippe (De). 

Traité de Mécanique, où l'on explique Tout ce qui est nécessaire dans la pratique des Arts, & les propriétés des corps pesants lesquelles ont un plus grand usage dans la Physique. 

Paris, Jean Anisson, 1695.
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550 €

First edition.
Numerous woodcut figures in the text.

Photo HUARTE, Jean. 

HUARTE, Jean. 

L'Examen des Esprits pour les Sciences. 

Amsterdam, Jean de Ravestein / Pierre Mortier [Daniel Elzevier], 1672.
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400 €

First edition of the French translation by François Savinien d'Alquié.
Beautiful Elzevirian edition decorated with a frontispiece by Romeyn de Hooghe.
On our copy, a butterfly replaces the name of the publisher with that of Pierre Mortier with the date of 1704.
Fresh copy.

Photo LEMERY, Nicolas. 

LEMERY, Nicolas. 

Dictionnaire universel des drogues simples. 

Paris, L. Ch. d'Houry, 1759.
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400 €

New edition.
Work in which are classified in alphabetical order the names, origin, choice, principles and therapeutic virtues of plants, minerals and animals known at the time. A very complete copy of the 25 plates outside the text.

Photo [GRIMOIRE]. 

[GRIMOIRE]. 

Les Admirables secrets d'Albert le Grand contenans plusieurs traités sur la conception des femmes, des vertus des herbes, des pierres précieuses, & des animaux. 

Lyon, Héritiers de Béringos Fratres, 1791.
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400 €

Rare 18th century edition of the most famous witchcraft grimoire.

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SALVAGE, Jean-Galibert. 

Anatomie du gladiateur combattant, applicable aux beaux-arts, ou traité des os, des muscles, du mécanisme des mouvemens, des proportions et des caractères du corps humains. 

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1812.
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500 €

First Edition.
Beautifully book illustrated with twenty-two large plates.
Salvage uses several famous classical sculptures for his anatomical subjects.
"The 'Planche d'introduction' and the fifteen plates immediately following it are struck off from two plates so as to bring out the bones in black and the body contours and muscles in red." (Choulant-Frank).

"The effect is striking and the text, engraved along with the plates, was printed in the same manner." (Heirs).

Photo LONGUS || AMYOT, Jacques. 

LONGUS || AMYOT, Jacques. 

Les Amours pastorales de Daphnis et Chloé. 

Londres, s.n., 1779.
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600 €

Rare copy bound in morocco illustrated by the engravings suit called Régent, very complete with the 29th engraving "aux petits pieds".

Photo SCHRAMKE, Theophilus. 

SCHRAMKE, Theophilus. 

Description of the New-York Croton aqueduct : in English, German and French. 

New York, at the authors, 1846.
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1500 €

First edition.
Rare publication on the construction of the Croton Aqueduct.
Following the Cholera epidemic of 1832, the city of New York, whose population was exploding at the time (the most populated city in the United States as early as 1820), decided to build an aqueduct to bring drinking water from the Catskills to the heart of the city.
The construction site, which spanned 40.5 miles (65 kilometers) from 1837 to 1842, was led by John B. Jervis and secured New York's water supply. It was then one of the largest works of hydraulic architecture, linking reservoirs, tunnels, and bridges. The Aqueduct remained in service until 1955.
It was the first of the monumental infrastructures that would make New York a new Rome.

Photo ADANSON, Michel. 

ADANSON, Michel. 

Familles des plantes. 

Paris, Vincent, 1763.
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1500 €

First edition of this important botanical treatise.
Michel Adanson was the first to analyze and explain the theoretical foundations of natural classification and, what is even more important, to define the practical method to be used to seek this classification.

In this work, Adanson proclaims his contempt for "systems" and proposes a natural classification based on all the characters and not on a few characters chosen arbitrarily, which puts him in conflict with Linnaeus.

Photo GOSSET. 

GOSSET. 

Révélations Cabalistiques d'une Médecine Universelle tirée du Vin: avec une manière d'extraire le Sel de Rosée et une Dissertation sur les Lampes Sépulchrales. 

Amiens, Aux dépens de l'auteur, 1735.
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1300 €

First edition.
Rare alchemical work in which the author describes a panacea derived from wine.
He also discusses the principle of sepulchral lamps, lamps which burn without wear and which were found, it is said, in certain tombs, in particular in that of Tullia, daughter of Cicero. Gosset hopes that the luminous spirits of gold and silver will soon be extracted to distill a "golden oil" which will burn without consuming. This passage is commented on by Gaston Bachelard in his book on the formation of the scientific mind.
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