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BRINK, Louise.

Women Characters in Richard Wagner - A Study in "The Ring of the Nibelung".

New York, Nervous and Mental Disease Publishing Company, 1924.

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30 €

First edition.
Presentation copy.

RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas.

Anecdotes Littéraires, ou Histoire de ce qui est arrivé de plus singulier, & de plus intéressant aux Ecrivains François, depuis le renouvellement des Lettres sous François I. jusqu'à nos jours.

Paris, Durand, 1750.

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200 €

First edition.

[FARCES].

Recueil de 8 farces, sotties ou moralités.

Paris, Techener, [v. 1880].

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350 €

Collection of 8 farces, silliness or moralities reissued by Techener:
- La Reformeresse, farce à VI personnages, (tirage non justifié)
- Le Sourd, son varlet et l'Yverongne, (n°12/76)
- L'Eglise, noblesse et Pourete, qui font la lefive, (n°9/76)
- Les trois Galans, (tirage non justifié)
- La Farce du Poulier, (tirage non justifié)
- Moralité, (tirage non justifié)
- Desconfiture des Hennoyers (1878)
- Estrenes de l'asne, 1590 (v.1880).

LA BRUYERE, Jean de.

Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec : avec les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1694.

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250 €

Eighth original edition.
"Les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle" by the French moralist Jean de la Bruyère (1645 - 1696) is one of the major works of French literature.
The first edition dates from 1688, the following nine editions from 1688 to 1696 are increased with each publication of new texts.
This edition contains 46 characters that had not yet been published (Cydias, Clitophon, Antagoras, etc.), as well as the Reception Speech at the Académie française which is attached for the first time to the Characters.

[MANUSCRIT].

Remarques sur le Gouvernement du royaume durant les trois règnes de Henri IV, de Louis XIII, de Louis XIV.

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

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500 €

Handwritten copy of a work published anonymously by Pierre Marteau in 1688. Barbier attributes the book to Gratien de Courtilz but adds: "Dubious".

The content is rather discourteous towards the monarchs, of whom inglorious episodes are recounted: the lack of merit of Louis XIII (Richelieu having governed for him), Louis XIV preferring the beds of his mistresses to the battlefields... This doubtless explains why handwritten copies were able to circulate under the cloak of the laughers. In fact, two other similar handwritten copies can be found in public libraries.

What remains is a very pretty manuscript, in a perfectly legible late 17th century handwriting.

SICARD, Guillaume.

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux.

Paris, Delagrave, 1884.

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400 €

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

VEUILLOT, Louis.

Jésus-Christ.

Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1876.

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120 €

Third edition.
Beautiful copy.

[FLEURIOT DE LANGLE, Jean-Marie-Jérôme].

Voyage en Espagne Par Mr. Le Marquis De Langle.

s.l., s.n., 1785.

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200 €

In this work, the author makes a biting satire of the government, religion and morals of the Spanish. King Charles III complained to the French government and threatened to close the entrance to his kingdom to all French people. Parliament ordered, in February 1786, that a copy of "Voyage en Espagne" would be delivered to the flames by the hand of the executioner. This auto-da-fé delighted de Langle who had written: "My work will surely be reduced to ashes: so much the better! (...) It brings good luck; the public likes burnt works.".

BOILEAU DESPREAUX, Nicolas.

Oeuvres de Boileau Despréaux, avec neuf figures.

Paris, Imprimerie Crapelet, 1798.

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120 €

Portrait by J.-J. Forty, engraved by Vaysard, and 8 figures for the Art poétique and the Lectern by Monsiau, engraved by Voysard, Simonet, Thomas, Patas and Trière.

LIEUTAUD, Jacques.

Connoissance des temps pour l'année 1727 au méridien de paris.

Paris, Jean Mariette, 1727.

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90 €

First edition.
First published in 1679, this astronomical yearbook was immediately a great success, given its usefulness, and has never suffered any interruption. First written by Abbé Jean Picard, then by his fellow academician, Le Febvre, it was, after the reform of the Royal Academy of Sciences in 1699, developed by a team of academicians: Jacques Lieutaud surrounded by Réaumur, Galon and Cassini.

[BEFFARA, Louis François].

L'Esprit de Molière.

Londres, Lacombe, 1777.

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200 €

First edition.
The work presents a selection of maxims, portraits, reflections, catalogue of plays, etc., by Molière.

OZANAM, Jacques.

Méthode générale pour tracer des cadrans de toute sorte de plans.

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1685.

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250 €

Second edition.
A self-taught mathematician, Jacques Ozanam was above all a popularizer of mathematics. In his works, he disseminated practical applications of this science, whether for the division of land, the calculation of inheritances or, as here, the drawing of sundials.

WILLIS, Thomas.

Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio.

Amsterdam, Daniel Elzevir, 1670.

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Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.

"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

DOURDIN, Jacques.

Textiles artificiels, étude de leur situation présente et de leur avenir.

Paris, imprimerie Paul Dupont, 1947.

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250 €

First edition.
Jacques Dourdin is the first to import the method of opinion polls in France. The method was popularized during the thirties in the United States by Doctor Gallup.
The French firm Jacques Dourdin proposed to provide industrialists and traders with all the information they wanted, thanks to the method of surveys by sample.
He thus delivers the first rational studies of the French market.
This pamphlet presents a survey on the need and acceptance of artificial textile fibers (rayon and fibranne) by the French market.

Numbered copy (n°861).

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da.

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux.

Paris, H. Fournier et Cie, 1844.

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600 €

First edition.
Third part alone of the four parts that appeared over a period of almost thirty years. The first part appeared in 1831, the last in 1858. The subject, on the border between natural history and philosophy, consists in applying a rigorous analogy between animal forms and human psychology. In the tradition of Lavater, Gall and the physiognomists, the physical configuration of the organ is revealing of personal dispositions. Da Gama Machado was a commander and gentleman of the Royal House of the King of Portugal; he lived surrounded by his birds, which he cherished.

Presentation copy to Achille Comte (1802-1866).

BOGAERTS, Félix.

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

Anvers, J.- E. Buschmann, 1847.

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80 €

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

GOUJON, Abel.

Histoire de la Ville et du Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, suivie de Recherches Historiques sur les dix autres Communes du Canton.

Saint-Germain, Imprimerie Abel Goujon / Ledoyen, 1829.

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450 €

First edition.

BERTALL.

Cahier des charges des chemins de fer. Pamphlet illustré.

Paris, J. Hetzel, 1847.

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50 €

Second edition.
Frontispiece and numerous drawings in the text by Bertall.

CAMUS, Armand Gaston.

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote.

Paris, Veuve Desaint, 1783.

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350 €

First French translation of Aristotle's text.
The translation is given by Armand Gaston Camus with the Greek text opposite.
Aristotle here attempts to make a comprehensible classification of animals based on objective structural characteristics. The second volume is devoted to a critical apparatus of Aristotle's text.

CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew.

300 animalcules infusoires, dessinés à l'aide du microscope.

Paris, Charles Chevalier, 1838.

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350 €

First edition.
Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

[ALAMANACH].

Almanach dédié aux Dames.

Paris, Le Fuel, Delaunay, 1828.

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80 €

Lovely little almanac.
At the end of the book there are blank pages of "Memories" for each month of the year.

BON, François Xavier.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées.

Avignon, Franc. Girard, 1748.

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250 €

Latin-French edition.
François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Paris, 15 rue de l'école de médecine, 1903.

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60 €

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

GADEAU DE KERVILLE, Henri.

Les Jeux des Oiseaux.

Paris, Administration du journal, 1900.

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120 €

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.
In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

MAGNY, Gabriel.

Rats et Peste.

Paris, Bonvalot-Jouve, 1907.

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200 €

Edition by Bonvalot-Jouve of Gabriel Magny's medical thesis.
With the increase in international maritime traffic, the question arose of the spread of diseases, of which the plague is the most famous case, by rats running in ships. In 1903, an international conference on this question was held in Paris.
Magny proposed a method of fumigating ships with sulfur dioxide in order to eradicate the pests.
Presentation copy.

CRUVEILHIER, Jean.

Vie de Dupuytren.

Paris, Bechet Jeune, 1841.

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60 €

First edition.
A student from Limousin and successor in Paris to his compatriot Guillaume Dupuytren, Jean Cruveilhier is currently better known by anatomists and anatomopathologists than by surgeons. Guillaume Dupuytren (1771-1835) was immediately admired by his intern Jean Cruveilhier who, developing the ideas of his boss, quickly became a master in anatomopathology. He was the first to devote a biography to his master.

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

Ratisbonne, s.n., 1762.

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250 €

Second edition.
A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

ANDRAUD, Antoine.

Chemins éoliques ou locomotion par l'air comprimé.

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1847.

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350 €

First edition.
For Andraud, compressed air was an energy whose force was destined to change the face of the world. A visionary inventor, he developed a system of automobiles using compressed air as a propulsion system, the air was brought first by pipes along the route, then by tanks.
On August 26, 1844, Andraud and Tessié du Motay launched on the Paris-Versailles line (Left Bank) a new compressed air "locomotive-waggon". Weighing five tons and resembling a cylindrical boiler. As represented in the engravings in this book, Andraud planned to compete with the railways with "air-powered railways".
It was in fact in the tramway networks, after Andraud's death, that compressed air propulsion was developed in the 1860s-1870s
Presentation copy.

VOLTAIRE.

Histoire de la guerre de MDCCXLI.

La Haye, s.n., 1756.

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150 €

Second edition published without the agreement of Voltaire, whose manuscript was stolen from him by the Marquis de Ximénès.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

Rotterdam, Reiner Leers, 1688.

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First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

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BRINK, Louise.

Women Characters in Richard Wagner - A Study in "The Ring of the Nibelung".

First edition.Presentation copy.

RAYNAL, Guillaume-Thomas.

Anecdotes Littéraires, ou Histoire de ce qui est arrivé de plus singulier, & de plus intéressant aux Ecrivains François, depuis le renouvellement des Lettres sous François I. jusqu'à nos jours.

First edition.

[FARCES].

Recueil de 8 farces, sotties ou moralités.

LA BRUYERE, Jean de.

Les Caractères de Théophraste traduits du grec : avec les Caractères ou les Moeurs de ce siècle.

[MANUSCRIT].

Remarques sur le Gouvernement du royaume durant les trois règnes de Henri IV, de Louis XIII, de Louis XIV.

SICARD, Guillaume.

Histoire naturelle des champignons comestibles et vénéneux.

Second edition augmented.A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.Some ink annotations on the plates.

VEUILLOT, Louis.

Jésus-Christ.

Third edition.Beautiful copy.

[FLEURIOT DE LANGLE, Jean-Marie-Jérôme].

Voyage en Espagne Par Mr. Le Marquis De Langle.

BOILEAU DESPREAUX, Nicolas.

Oeuvres de Boileau Despréaux, avec neuf figures.

Portrait by J.-J. Forty, engraved by Vaysard, and 8 figures for the Art poétique and the Lectern by Monsiau, engraved by Voysard, Simonet, Thomas, Patas and Trière.

LIEUTAUD, Jacques.

Connoissance des temps pour l'année 1727 au méridien de paris.

[BEFFARA, Louis François].

L'Esprit de Molière.

First edition.The work presents a selection of maxims, portraits, reflections, catalogue of plays, etc., by Molière.

OZANAM, Jacques.

Méthode générale pour tracer des cadrans de toute sorte de plans.

Second edition.A self-taught mathematician, Jacques Ozanam was above all a popularizer of mathematics. In his works, he disseminated practical applications of this science, whether for the division of land, the calculation of inheritances or, as here, the drawing of sundials.

WILLIS, Thomas.

Pathologiae cerebri et nervosi generis specimen. In quo agitur de morbis convulsivis et de scorbuto studio.

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain."One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

DOURDIN, Jacques.

Textiles artificiels, étude de leur situation présente et de leur avenir.

GAMA MACHADO, José Joaquim da.

Théorie des ressemblances ou essai philosophique sur les moyens de déterminer les dispositions physiques et morales des animaux.

BOGAERTS, Félix.

Histoire civile et religieuse de la Colombe, depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours.

First edition.Vignettes by Wittkamp.

GOUJON, Abel.

Histoire de la Ville et du Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, suivie de Recherches Historiques sur les dix autres Communes du Canton.

First edition.

BERTALL.

Cahier des charges des chemins de fer. Pamphlet illustré.

Second edition.Frontispiece and numerous drawings in the text by Bertall.

CAMUS, Armand Gaston.

Histoire des Animaux D'Aristote.

CHEVALIER, Charles || PRITCHARD, Andrew.

300 animalcules infusoires, dessinés à l'aide du microscope.

First edition.Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

[ALAMANACH].

Almanach dédié aux Dames.

Lovely little almanac.At the end of the book there are blank pages of "Memories" for each month of the year.

BON, François Xavier.

Dissertation sur l'utilité de la soye des araignées.

Latin-French edition. François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

THIEULLEN, Adrien.

Le Mammouth & le Renne à Paris.

Offprint from "Bulletin et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris", 2 Jully 1903.

GADEAU DE KERVILLE, Henri.

Les Jeux des Oiseaux.

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

MAGNY, Gabriel.

Rats et Peste.

CRUVEILHIER, Jean.

Vie de Dupuytren.

SCHAEFFER, Jacques Christian.

Der fischformige Kiefenfuss in stehenden Wassern um Regensburg.

Second edition.A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

ANDRAUD, Antoine.

Chemins éoliques ou locomotion par l'air comprimé.

VOLTAIRE.

Histoire de la guerre de MDCCXLI.

Second edition published without the agreement of Voltaire, whose manuscript was stolen from him by the Marquis de Ximénès.

MALEBRANCHE, Nicolas.

Entretiens sur la Metaphysique & sur la Religion.

First edition.The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.

First edition.
Presentation copy.

Second edition augmented.
A work sought after for its 75 beautiful plates of edible and poisonous mushrooms.
Some ink annotations on the plates.

Third edition.
Beautiful copy.

First edition.
The work presents a selection of maxims, portraits, reflections, catalogue of plays, etc., by Molière.

Second edition.
A self-taught mathematician, Jacques Ozanam was above all a popularizer of mathematics. In his works, he disseminated practical applications of this science, whether for the division of land, the calculation of inheritances or, as here, the drawing of sundials.

Thomas Willis is one of the pioneers of neuroanatomy and neuropathology, with this book he is one of the first to link psychological disorders and alterations in the structures of the brain.

"One of the earliest textbooks on nervous diseases " (Garrison's History of neurology).

First edition.
Vignettes by Wittkamp.

Second edition.
Frontispiece and numerous drawings in the text by Bertall.

First edition.
Chevalier, Charles (1804-1859) French optical engineer, manufacturer and seller of microscopes, including abroad, supplier in particular to the Academy of Sciences, the Collège de France, and the Ecole Polytechnique.

Lovely little almanac.
At the end of the book there are blank pages of "Memories" for each month of the year.

Latin-French edition.
François Xavier Bon de Saint Hilaire (1678-1761), president of the Chamber of Accounts of Languedoc, entered history for his interest in the use of spider silk as a textile fiber. It is reported that he presented Louis XIV with a garment entirely woven with spider silk.

Offprint from "La Science Française et la Science pour tous", 16 march 1900.
In this article Gadeau de Kerville reports several observations of birds engaging in games, tricks, and amusing behavior.

Second edition.
A work where the German scientist describes an aquatic larva, likely that of a diving beetle.

First edition.
The Entretiens sur la métaphysique et sur la religion are the most accomplished of all Malebranche's works. A true literary work, demonstrating a magnificent mastery of the art of dialogue, these fourteen conversations are a model of pedagogy.