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Photo BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie. 

BITAUBE, Paul Jérémie. 

Oeuvres complètes de P.J. Bitaubé. 

Paris, Dentu, 1804.
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Bitaubé (1732-1808) Calvinist pastor, writer and Prussian translator of French origin is mainly known for his translations of Homer which earned him great fame at the end of the 18th century.
These complete works are composed as follows:
-Volumes I to III: The Iliad
- Volumes IV to VI: The Odyssey
- Volume VII: Joseph
- Volume VIII: The Bataves
- Volume IX: Hermann and Dorothée, translation from Goethe.

Photo MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti. 

MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti. 

Nouvelles de Jean Boccace. 

Paris, L. Duprat, 1802.
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150 €

First edition of this free translation of Boccaccio's Decameron .
The title page mentions Mirabeau but this translation is probably apocryphal.
The book highlights the borrowings that La Fontaine made from Boccaccio for his tales.

Photo BLEGNY, Nicolas de. 

BLEGNY, Nicolas de. 

Le Remède Anglois Pour la Guérison Des Fièvres. 

Paris, Chez l'Autheur, 1682.
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First edition.
The first French book promoting Quinine for the treatment of fevers.
If Europe already knew cinchona, it was the English doctor Talbot who managed to make it popular.
"Talbot had found a way to present cinchona in such a way that it did not put off the sick. [...] Since 1678 he had been the personal physician of King Charles II, had come to France during that same year to look after little Mademoiselle. [...] He treats the dauphin and the whole royal family, and he is amply rewarded by the king who grants him naturalization." (Talbot, popularizer of cinchona in France: M. Bouvet, in Bulletin of Pharmacological Sciences, 1934. In: Revue d'histoire de la pharmacie, 22nd year, n°86, 1934. pp. 307-308.)

Following the relapse of some patients he had treated, we turned away of him and he returns to England taking with him his fortune and the secret of his "English remedy".
The king then asked Nicolas de Blegny, his doctor, to publish this book delivering the recipe for the preparation and use of quinine. A chapter is also devoted to the history and use of opium.

Photo VERNE, Jules. 

VERNE, Jules. 

Le Tour du Monde en quatre-vingts Jours.
Le Docteur Ox,
suivis de Maître Zacharius, Un hivernage dans les glaces, Un drame dans les airs et Ascension française au Mont Blanc. 

Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1910-1914].
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250 €

A very good copy.

Photo CERVANTES, Michel de. 

CERVANTES, Michel de. 

Histoire de l'Admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche. 

Paris, Delongchamps, 1825.
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250 €

Neat print for this classic of Iberian literature here in the French translation by Filleau de Saint-Martin with an essay on the life and works of Cervantes by M. Auger. The frontispieces are engraved after illustrations by Deveria.

Photo DEHERAIN, Henri. 

DEHERAIN, Henri. 

Le Soudan Egyptien sous Mehemet Ali. 

Paris, Georges Carré et C. Naud, 1898.
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75 €

First edition.
Henri Dehérain, was curator at the library of the Institut de France (1919-1934), editorial secretary of the Journal des savants of which he became deputy director in 1937, he devoted his thesis to Sudan under Mehemet-Ali and became famous for his works on the Orient and travelers in Syria.

Presentation copy.

Photo ZACCARIA, Francesco Antonio. 

ZACCARIA, Francesco Antonio. 

Istituzione antiquario-lapidaria o sia introduzione allo studio delle antiche latine iscrizioni in tre libri proposta. 

Roma, Zempel, 1770.
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100 €

First edition.
Italian book for the good understanding of ancient Latin inscriptions. It contains in particular a list of the Latin abbreviations used on the ancient engraved stones.

Photo TISSANDIER, Gaston. 

TISSANDIER, Gaston. 

Causeries sur la Science. 

Paris, Hachette et Cie, 1884.
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50 €

Second edition.
Popular science book covering 23 talks on various fields of science.
Copy of Albert Tissandier, brother of the author with whom he ran the magazine La Nature until 1905.

Photo [MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims]. 

[MANUSCRIT] [Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims]. 

Recueil de prières. 

Rheims, s.n., [v. 1700].
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Manuscript from the beginning of the 18th century emanating from the Congrégation de Notre Dame de Rheims, a convent founded in 1638 by the order of the "Chanoinesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame"
This manuscript written in a perfectly legible handwriting but sometimes random spelling, brings together different prayers and meditations on death, birth, baptism, entry into religion, the anniversary of the taking of the veil...
There are also some extracts from the Rule of this order as well as Sentences from St Augustine.
Rare testimony to the spiritual life of this discreet monastic order.

Photo VERTOT, Abbé René Aubert. 

VERTOT, Abbé René Aubert. 

Révolutions de Portugal. 

Paris, Nyon, 1768.
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100 €

Very good copy of this book on the Portuguese Revolution of 1640 whose quality of writing made the success.

Photo ROCHER, Edmond. 

ROCHER, Edmond. 

Le Roman de la fleur. 

Paris, Maurice Dormann, 1912.
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150 €

First edition.
Beautiful print on good quality glossy wove paper.

Edmond Rocher is a painter and poster designer whose work is typical of the art nouveau of the Belle Epoque, he exhibited in particular at the Salon des cent.
He offers here an "Illustrated Floral Monograph" his favorite theme. The cover announces 60 pen and ink compositions in the text to which is added the portrait of the artist and 1 lithograph out of text. Our copy peppered with a second lithograph (cropped signature).
Large handwritten dedication from Edmond Rocher to the photographer Chabrier.

Photo LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

LORENTZ, Hendrik Antoon. 

Het Relativiteitsbeginsel : drie voordrachten gehouden in Teyler's Stichting. 

Haarlem, De Erven Loosjex, 1913.
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500 €

First edition.
Publication of the lectures given at the Teylers Foundation by Lorentz on the theory of relativity.
Nobel Prize in Physics in 1902, it was thanks to Lorentz and the establishment of the "Lorentz transformations" that Einstein was able to establish his theory of special relativity.

Photo GODESCARD, Jean-François. 

GODESCARD, Jean-François. 

Les Vies des Saints pères et martyrs. 

Paris, Furne, 1854.
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150 €

Beautiful binding for this classic of popular Catholic literature.
Steel engravings by Hopwood.

Photo PATRU, Olivier. 

PATRU, Olivier. 

Oeuvres diverses de Mr Patru. 

Paris, David fils, 1714.
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100 €

Third edition.
Olivier Patru (1604-1681) French lawyer and man of letters, member of the French Academy he participated in the Richelet dictionaries and that of the Academy.

Photo GOULART, Simon. 

GOULART, Simon. 

Thresor d'histoires admirables et mémorables de nostre temps. 

Genève, Samuel Crespin, 1620.
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600 €

A very curious collection of singular and extraordinary facts classified in alphabetical order. Our second volume ends at the letter Z but this edition will see a two-volume suite published by Jacques Crespin in 1628.
First edition done in 1610.
Bibliophilic curiosity at the end of the second volume is the colophon of Jean III de Tournes who then begins his work as a printer in Geneva.

Photo COLLET, Pierre. 

COLLET, Pierre. 

Examen et résolutions des principales difficultés qui se rencontrent dans la célébration des SS. Mystères. 

Paris, Debure l'ainé, 1760.
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250 €

Work of Christian mysticism devoted to the holy sacraments and mainly to the Eucharist.

Copy which was successively in the libraries of Maurice Garçon (his ex libris on the inside cover) and of Guy Bechtel (lot n°84 of his sale catalog in 1978, the provenance Garçon is mentioned there).

Photo SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

SCHLUTTER, Christophe-André || HELLOT. 

De la Fonte des Mines, des Fonderies, &tc. 

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1764-1753.
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750 €

French edition (first for vol. 2 and second for vol. 1 in uniform binding).
The most important eighteenth-century book on mining, or refining, metallurgical chemistry, smelting, and essaying. (Neville).

Photo HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

HAMELIN, Gabriel || LE CANU. 

Philosophia. 

[Caen], s.n., [v. 1730].
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Original manuscript.
Philosophy course given in Caen by Professor Le Canu (?) around 1730.

The writer was Gabriel François Hamelin de Préfosse (1713-1776) who was a doctor of medicine in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue.

Photo [JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

[JOLY DE MAIZEROY, Paul-Gédéon]. 

Mémoire sur les opinions qui partagent les militaires, suivi Du Traité des armes défensives, corrigé et augmenté. 

Paris, Claude Antoine Jombert, 1773.
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600 €

First edition of this book written by the inventor of "strategy".
Maizeroy's work was intended to theorize the art of war, in this book he returns to: the great maneuvers, a historical review of the interest of artillery, logistics, and the course of battles of Preston and Falkirk.

Photo DE LA FONT, Charles. 

DE LA FONT, Charles. 

Dissertationes duae medicae de veneno pestilenti, in quarum priori agitur de veneni pestilentis natura et causis [...]. 

Avignon, Pierre Offray, 1670.
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600 €

First edition.
Work devoted to the Plague whose author defends that it would be due to the corrosive action of saline vapors (such as Arsenic or Mercury). It comes to contradict certain position of the Englishman Thomas Willis on this subject. Europe and more particularly England then just experienced an epidemic of the Great Plague.

Photo [MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

[MACQUER, Pierre-Joseph]. 

Dictionnaire de chymie, contenant la théorie & la pratique de cette science. 

Paris, Lacombe, 1766.
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800 €

Second (first pirated) edition.
A pirated reprint of the first edition, printed from type that has been reset and in which there are small but significant changes (Neville).

The most important work from Pierre-Joseph Macquer (1718-1784) which will remain for years a reference for chemists of the 18th century.
It is also the first alphabetical dictionary of chemistry.

Photo DESAULT, Pierre-Joseph. 

DESAULT, Pierre-Joseph. 

Journal de Chirurgie. 

Paris, Chez les auteurs, 1791-1792.
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1000 €

First edition.
Journal of Surgery published under the direction of Desault, the greatest surgeon of his time (he trained Bichat, Larrey, Dupuytren...). Among the articles published during the two years of edition one finds in addition to the extracts of the courses of Desault, articles of Larrey and Bichat.
Garrison-Morton notes there the publication of the first operation of a tumor of the maxillary sinus by Plaignaud.

Photo GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis-Bernard. 

GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis-Bernard. 

Mémoire sur l'éducation publique, avec le prospectus d'un collège suivant les principes de cet ouvrage. 

[Dijon], s.n., 1764.
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500 €

First edition.
Early work by Guyton de Morveau, then a lawyer in the Parliament of Dijon.
This writing on education comes two years after the publication of Emile by Rousseau and one year after the Essay on National Education by Chalotais in the Parliament of Brittany. The Jesuits who until then controlled education in France have just been banished from the kingdom, leaving a vacant space for secular education inspired by the Enlightenment. Even if Guyton de Morveau is still timid in his proposals, he is still classified by Buisson among the leaders of the renovation of pedagogy.
In particular, it offers language teaching less focused on the in-depth study of grammar but more on the practice of the language.

Photo [JESUITES]. 

[JESUITES]. 

Réunion de trois volumes reliés regroupant des textes à propos de la controverse sur les Jésuites. 

Sorbon, s.n., 1762.
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350 €

Set of three identically bound volumes grouping together texts about the controversy over the Jesuits which raged during the years 1761 and 1762.
We find in particular:
"Special history of the Jesuits in France" by Abbé Minard is a priest Jansenist of Libourne "Report of the constitutions of the Jesuits" by La Chalotais who is attorney general in the Parliament of Brittany, fiercely opposed to the Jesuits. He proposes here a memoir in charge of the constitutions of the Society of Jesus. "Reply to the apologies of the Jesuits", "The badly defended Jesuit" by Abbé Platel.

Photo POE, Edgar || MALLARME, Stephane || DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel. 

POE, Edgar || MALLARME, Stephane || DARAGNES, Jean Gabriel. 

Poèmes d'Edgar Poe. 

Paris, Editions textes prétextes, 1949.
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300 €

First edition of illustrations.
Poems by Poe translated by Mallarmé and illustrated by Daragnès with 11 mezzotint engravings.
One of the 200 copies on Rives, ours n° 163.

Photo NERVAL, Gérard de || MOREAU, Luc Albert. 

NERVAL, Gérard de || MOREAU, Luc Albert. 

Les Chimères. 

Paris, Pour les Amis de Poésie, 1944.
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First edition of illustrations.
28 lithographs in black by Luc-Albert Moreau (1882-1948) painter and illustrator friend of Colette, Daragnès and Ravel.

One of the 175 copies on Vélin blanc du marais, ours n°75.

Photo CARCO, Francis || DIGNIMONT, André. 

CARCO, Francis || DIGNIMONT, André. 

Dignimont. 

Monte Carlo, André Sauret, 1946.
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250 €

First edition.
Monograph devoted by Francis Carco to the work of his friend André Dignimont.

One of the 385 numbered copies on Vélin de Rives, ours n° 331 containing in frontispiece a lithograph signed and numbered by the artist and theset of the 41 reproductions drawing from the work of Dignimont.

Photo MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul. 

MAURRAS, Charles || JOSSO, Camille-Paul. 

Anthinéa, d'Athènes à Florence. 

Paris, Aux dépens de l'artiste (presses Daragnès), 1955.
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First edition of illustrations.
Book printed on Daragnès presses in 200 copies decorated with 29 chisel engravings by Camille Paul Josso (1902-1986) orientalist painter, two of which are double-paged.
Unnumbered copy printed for the playwright Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon.

Accompanied by the presentation folder of the edition with a sample of the text and engravings.

Photo [MOSSE, J.-M]. 

[MOSSE, J.-M]. 

Chronique de Paris, ou Le Spectateur moderne, contenant des tableaux des moeurs et usages, caractères, anecdotes et ridicules du jour ; des mélanges polémiques et critiques sur un grand nombre d'hommes de lettres et d'écrits de ce temps ; des révélations de plagiats ; des petites nouvelles et faits singuliers concernant les lettres, les beaux-arts, les théâtres, les journaux, les modes, etc. 

Paris, Au bureau de la chronique, 1819.
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250 €

First edition.
Rare royalist gazette adorned with a beautiful plate of political caricature.
Our volume includes the first three issues, only published.
Talleyrand's copy.

Photo DOSTOIEVSKI, Fedor || GRAU SALA, Emilio. 

DOSTOIEVSKI, Fedor || GRAU SALA, Emilio. 

Le Joueur. 

Paris, Fernand Hazan, 1947.
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250 €

Emilio Grau Sala (1911-1975) is a remarkable colorist (oil and water paints, pastels) and illustrator, he was a member of Maurice Boitel's group.

Copy n ° 6 of the 125 printed on Vélin Johannot with the continuation of the illustrations.

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