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Photo GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis. 

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique. 

Paris, Durand, 1762.
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800 €

First editon.
This book was a great success in the field of Natural Sciences as soon as it was published.
Étienne-Louis Geoffroy (1725-1810, French pharmacist and entomologist) introduced a new classification of insects based on the study of wings and established six different groups (beetles, hemiptera, mealy-winged tetraptera, bare-winged tetraptera, diptera and aptera).

Photo D'AQUIN, Thomas. 

D'AQUIN, Thomas. 

Summa de veritate celeberrimi doctoris sancte Thome Aquinatis. 

Coloniae Agrippinae, Quentell, 1508.
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2500 €

Post-incunable edition.
The most famous work of St Thomas Aquinas, which brings together 29 questions on the truth, and 253 articles of answers. These disputed issues correspond to the first disputes led by Thomas Aquinas as master of theology at the University of Paris during the academic year 1256–1257, when Thomas Aquinas was a young professor. He exposes the different modes of truth according to being.

Photo MOMORO, Antoine-François. 

MOMORO, Antoine-François. 

Traité élémentaire de l'imprimerie, ou le Manuel de l'Imprimeur. 

Paris, A.F. Momoro, 1793.
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2000 €

The scarce first edition.
Manual which will remain a reference for printers for a long time.
Momoro was very active during the French Revolution, member of the Cordeliers club, printer for Père Duchesne d'Hébert, he put his career at the service of the Revolution but died on the scaffold in 1794 with his Hébertist friends. It would be to him that we owe the motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity".
Complete copy of the 36 plates required. The error which announced 40 plates on the title page was crossed out on our copy. This notice will be modified in the second edition.

Photo BULLIARD, Pierre. 

BULLIARD, Pierre. 

Flora Parisiensis ou descriptions et figures des plantes qui croissent aux environs de Paris avec les différens noms, classes, ordres et genres qui leur conviennent, rangés selon la méthode sexuelle de Linné. 

Paris, Didot jeune, 1776-1783.
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9500 €

First and only edition of this classic herbal of plants from Paris, illustrated with 642 engraved hand-colored plates.
A complete copy with the "introduction" of 32 pages and 2 plates, the "table françoise" (52 pages xith the errate and the Linneaus system) and the "nouvelle table" of 16 pages.

"Pierre Bulliard, was another picturesque outsider whose works represented the Linnaean tradition in Paris. Bulliard was a descriptive naturalist, little given to theoretical or methodological meditations, but an industrious and skilled draftsman and floristic botanist" (Stafleu).

Photo LARREY, Dominique-Jean. 

LARREY, Dominique-Jean. 

Relation historique et chirurgicale de l'expédition de l'armée d'Orient, en Egypte et en Syrie. 

Paris, Demonville et Soeurs, 1803.
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1300 €

First edition.
Military surgeon, Larrey took part in Napoleon's campaigns in the Middle East, he developed his skills in helping the wounded and is considered the father of emergency medicine.
Two curious engravings of genital elephantiasis which the text tells us were drawn by Charles Balzac and by Pierre-Joseph Redouté (the Raphael of roses here in a completely different register).

Photo DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

DESBOIS DE ROCHEFORT, Louis René. 

Cours élémentaire de matière médicale suivi d'un précis de l'art de formuler. 

Paris, Méquignon l'ainé, 1789.
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75 €

Louis-René Desbois de Rochefort (1750-1786) is a French doctor, "he shone as a professor, although he was not very methodical in the exposition of his doctrines, and little punished in his speech, he did not publish any work of during his lifetime. " (Medarus.org).
This posthumous work is compiled by Corvisart who also signs the praise of Desbois.

Photo VOGT, Henri Gustave. 

VOGT, Henri Gustave. 

Leçons sur la résolution algébrique des équations. 

Paris, Librairie Vuibert, [1895].
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50 €

First edition.
The book includes a preface by Jules Tannery who writes: "truly indispensable to those who must one day speak of symmetric functions, of the transformation of equations, of the resolution of third and fourth degree equations, of the equations of the division of the circle."

Our copy bears a butterfly and a stamp from the Vuibert bookstore which had to buy back the stock of the publisher Nony.

Photo SANNIÉ, Charles / GUÉRIN, D. 

SANNIÉ, Charles / GUÉRIN, D. 

Éléments de police scientifique. 

Paris, Hermann & Cie, 1938-1940.
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120 €

First edition.
Sannié and Guérin's book is contemporary with the work of Edmond Locard (1877-1966), considered one of the founding fathers of forensic science. The work is mainly devoted to what we would call today forensic identity, with the first two volumes focusing on anthropometry and the next two on fingerprint identification.

Photo BUCHAN, William. 

BUCHAN, William. 

Médecine domestique, ou traité complet des moyens de se conserver en santé, & de guérir les maladies, par le régime & les remedes simples. 

Paris, Froullé, 1789.
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150 €

William Buchan was a Scottish physician (1729-1805) and author of several works, the most famous of which is Domestic Medicine or a Complete Treatise on the Means of Maintaining Health, of Curing and Preventing Diseases by Diet and Simple Remedies. This book, written in 1769, has been translated into several languages. It is divided into two parts, one is devoted to prophylactic medicine and describes the means of maintaining health and warding off diseases; the other is devoted to the description and treatment of many diseases.

Photo MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques. 

MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques. 

l'Art du Meunier et du Boulanger. 

Neuchatel, Société Typographique, 1771.
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400 €

First 4to edition.
This is only Volume I, entirely devoted to the art of the miller and the baker: description of mills, milling techniques, flour quality, breadmaking processes, and economic aspects of the profession. This work is an exceptional primary source on 18th-century know-how for understanding how bread was made before the Revolution.

Photo [CHARLES VII]. 

[CHARLES VII]. 

Vollständiges Diarium von den merckwürdigsten Begebenheiten, die sich vor, in und nach der Höchst-beglückten Wahl und Krönung, des Allerdurchlauchtigsten, Großmächtigsten und Unüberwindlichsten Fürsten und Herrn Carls des VII. 

Frankfurt am Main, Johann David Jung, 1742-1743.
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1200 €

First edition.
A remarkable work that offers a detailed and illustrated account of the significant events that occurred before, during and after the election and coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles Albert of Bavaria, known as Charles VII. Thanks to its detailed descriptions of the ceremonies, parades and festivities, enriched by numerous iconographic documents.
A very complete copy of all the required plates: 1 frontispiece, 19 portraits, 20 plates (including numerous double plates and 2 folding plans).

Photo L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de). 

L’HOSPITAL, Guillaume (Marquis de). 

Traité analytique des sections coniques et de leur usage pour la résolution des équations dans les problèmes tant déterminez qu’indéterminez. 

Paris, Montalant, 1720.
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200 €

Second edition.
Treatise on conic sections, which he treats both by geometric and analytical methods (equations of the form ax2 bx2 cxy dx ey f = 0) and which was very successful. Finalized in 1699, it was not published until after his death at the request of Fontenelle, then secretary of the Royal Academy.

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