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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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First edition.

Photo FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès. 

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.

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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 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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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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Photo REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de). 

REAUMUR, René-Antoine (Ferchault de). 

Art de faire éclorre et d'élever en toute saison des oiseaux domestiques de toutes espèces. 

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1751.
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350 €

Second edition, greatly expanded.
This work brings together Réaumur's work on birds based on his observations. He sets out practical ways to produce a large quantity of chickens at low cost, a very expensive commodity at the time. He suggests building artificial incubators for incubating eggs and brooders to replace mother hens.

Photo SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel. 

SMYTTÈRE, Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel. 

Tables synoptiques de l'histoire naturelle, pharmaceutique et médicale. 

Paris, Librairie médicale de Crochard, 1833.
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450 €

Second edition.
Philippe-Joseph-Emmanuel de Smyttère (1800-1886) was a French physician, botanist and historian. His work, inspired by the classifications of Candolle, offers classification tables where medicinal properties are highlighted.
"I conceived the project of demonstrating, through application, the link that unites natural history to therapeutics" (extract from the preface).

Photo RIVARD, Dominique François. 

RIVARD, Dominique François. 

Eléments de Mathématiques. 

Paris, Saillant & Desaint, 1768.
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150 €

Sixth and last edition augmented by the author.
Rivard is considered one of the best educators of the eighteenth century.

Photo [CURIOSA]. 

[CURIOSA]. 

Blasons anatomiques du corps féminin publiés par le Bibliophile B.G., décorés de vignettes par Grès. 

Paris, [Bertrand Guégan], 1931.
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Limited edition, only 100 copies (n°76).

Photo VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé). 

VARIGNON, Pierre || PUJOL (Abbé). 

Traité du mouvement et de la mesure des eaux coulantes et jaillissantes. 

Paris, Pissot, 1725.
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200 €

First edition.
The work is based on the posthumous manuscripts of Pierre Varignon, edited by Abbé Pujol. Varignon addresses in particular the problem of the Torricelli flow.

Photo [VALLOT, Jacques-Nicolas]. 

[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.

Photo NICERON, Jean-François. 

NICERON, Jean-François. 

La Perspective curieuse ou magie artificielle des effets merveilleux de : L’optique par la vision directe, la catoptrique, par la réflexion des miroirs plats, cylindriques & coniques, la dioptrique, par la réfraction des crystaux. 

Paris, Pierre Billaine, 1638.
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2500 €

First edition.
This work is a treatise on optical illusions and anamorphic perspectives, written by Nicéron, a monk of the order of Minims and mathematician of the 17th century. In it, he explores the principles of geometry applied to perspective, in particular the deformations of images that are only correctly revealed from a certain angle or through a mirror.
La Perspective Curieuse is a major work in the history of visual perception and art, influencing both artists and scientists of its time.
The discussion in the fourth part is particularly famous for being the first reference to the law of refraction developed by Descartes that same year.
A title-frontispiece engraved by Daret.

Photo BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

BERZELIUS, Jöns Jacob. 

Théorie des proportions chimiques, et Table synoptique des poids atomiques des corps simples, et de leurs combinaisons les plus importantes. 

Paris, Firmin Didot Frères, 1835.
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350 €

Second edition.
A Swedish chemist considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry, Berzelius notably introduced the current chemical notation (the symbols of the elements) and discovered several chemical elements.
This edition offers a table of atomic weights largely increased compared to the first edition of 1819.

Some annotations in the margin by George-Henry Love, a former student of the Ecole Centrale de Paris (class of 1840), who was director of the Charentes railways and president of the Society of Civil Engineers.

Photo GAUTIER, Théophile. 

GAUTIER, Théophile. 

Emaux et camées. 

Paris, L. Conquet, 1887.
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120 €

Edition with a preface by Maxime du Camp and illustrated with 112 drawings by Gustave Fraipont.
Limited edition of 700 copies numbered and initialed by hand by L. Conquet, ours one of the copies from Vélin du Marais (n°294).

Photo [RELIURE MAROQUIN]. 

[RELIURE MAROQUIN]. 

Office de la quinzaine de Pâque, en latin et en françois. 

Paris, Libraires associés, 1777.
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200 €

Beautiful 18th century red morocco binding.

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