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[BOURGUET, Louis]. 

Traité des pétrifications. 

Paris, Briasson, 1742.
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1800 €

First edition.
One of the first books in paleontology.
The work is divided into two parts, the first in the form of letters addressed to Réaumur, Jallabert, Garcin, Mairan ... Bourguet wonders about the origin of what is then commonly called petrification. The animal or plant origin of these particular stones is not yet clearly established.

The second part for encyclopedia offers a classification of the different kinds of stones (to distinguish them from fossils), a directory of all the places where fossils are found, a bibliography on the subject, and the explanation of the 60 plates outside text grouping together several hundred fossils classified on their similarities.

Photo TROY, Dominique. 

TROY, Dominique. 

Quelques réflexions sur les désordres organiques occasionnés, dans notre économie, par les peines de l'âme. 

Mâcon, Chassipollet, 1841.
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250 €

Frist edition on this rare work on depressions and their consequences
Presentation copy.

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LEROY, A. 

Traité pratique des machines locomotives. A l'usage des mécaniciens, des chauffeurs et autres agents spéciaux des ateliers et dépôts des chemins de fer. 

Dijon, Ropiteau, 1879.
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125 €

Rare first edition. Text only. Without the atlas published separatly.

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BECQUEREL. BABINET. DUHAMEL. 

Instruction sur les Paratonnerres des magasins à poudre. 

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1867.
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100 €

Rare offprint from 'Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Sciences'.
In order to guarantee the powder warehouses against the risk of lightning, the Minister of War commissioned this study to the french science academy.

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HACHETTE. 

Le Dix-neuvième Siècle. Les moeurs, les arts, les idées. 

Paris, Hachette, 1901.
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250 €

First edition.
One of 15 copy on "chine" paper.

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RICHERAND, Anthelme. 

Des erreurs populaires relatives à la médecine. 

Paris, Cailler et Ravier, 1812.
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75 €

Second edition.
Work in which we see in counterpoints, some number of theories and medical beliefs persisting at the beginning of the nineteenth century.
Richerand also pleads for the reunification of surgery and medicine.

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JEANNIN, Pierre. 

Les Négotiations de Monsieur le Président Jeannin. 

Amsterdam, Andre de Hoogenhutsen, 1695.
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500 €

Close to Henri IV, Pierre Jeannin will participate in the drafting of the Edict of Nantes.
He will express all his negotiating skills during the Franco-Savoyard war which he ended by negotiating the Treaty of Lyon.

One of the most important French works relating to diplomacy under the reign of King Henry IV.

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VERNE, Jules. 

Le Volcan d'or. 

Paris, Collection Hetzel, [1906].
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600 €

First illustrated 8vo edition.
The Golden Volcano, a posthumous novel, takes place during the Klondike Gold Rush.

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HERSCHEL, John Frederick William. 

Traité de la lumière, traduit de l'anglais avec notes par MM. P.-F. Verhulst et A. Quetelet. 

Paris, Malher et Cie-L. Hachette, 1829-1833.
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350 €

First edition in French of Herschel's treatise on light: "Light", published in 1827 in "Encyclopaedia Metropolitana".

The major delay due to the change of editor in 1833 allowed the translator, Quetelet, to write an important supplement in the second volume, pages 333 to 602. He introduced new discoveries such as the phenakistiscope of Plateau, at origin of the cinematograph (pages 471 to 489).
"John Herschel was a mathematician as well as an astronomer, was the first to take a photograph onto glass and gave us the terms, ‘photography’, ‘negative’, ‘positive’, and snapshot’. His researches extended into corneal irregularities and astigmatism and he realised that in these cases vision could be improved by neutralising the cornea. Herschel suggested the making of moulds of the eye with gelatine although there is no evidence that this was actually done. He included these observations in his article on ‘Light’ in 1827".

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VERNE, Jules. 

Kéraban le Têtu. 

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1903].
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400 €

Rare cloth on this title.

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VERNE, Jules. 

Seconde patrie. 

Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1900].
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180 €

First illustrated edition.

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BUSSY RABUTIN, Roger de. 

Discours du Comte de Bussy Rabutin a ses enfans, sur le bon usage des adversitez et les divers évènemens de sa vie. 

Paris, Anisson, 1694.
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350 €

First edition.
Libertine, satyrist and pamphleteer of the reign of Louis XIV, Bussy-Rabutin was exiled to his castle in Burgundy following his Histoire des Gaules.
He will write there this discourse, wiser, which was not published until after his death.

Photo [GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis Bernard]. 

[GUYTON DE MORVEAU, Louis Bernard]. 

Discours Publics et Eloges. Auxquels on a joint une Lettre où l'Auteur développe le plan annoncé dans l'un de ses Discours, pour réformer la Jurisprudence. 

Paris, P.G. Simon, 1775.
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250 €

First edition.
Coming from a family of lawyers in Dijon, Louis-Bernard Guyton-Morveau began his career as an attorney general at the Parliament of Burgundy.
He was also interested in chemistry, participated in the Encyclopedia and became one of the founders of the Ecole Polytechnique.

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TOURNET, Jean. 

Coustumes de la Prevoste et Vicomte de Paris. 

Paris, Gervais Alliot, 1627.
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350 €

Second edition.
The version commented by Jean Tournet of the Coutume de Paris will be the legal reference throughout the seventeenth century.
The Coustumes de Paris, revised in 1605, constitute the body of legal texts which will apply to the jurisdiction of the Parliament of Paris (and therefore almost to all of France) until the drafting of the Napoleonic Civil Code. They are, moreover, one of the major sources of inspiration for the Civil Code.

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BESSE, Pierre de. 

L' Héraclite chrestien c'est a dire les regrets & les larmes du pêcheur penitent. 

Paris, Nicolas du Fossé, 1612.
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450 €

First edition.
Pierre de Besse, preacher from the beginning of the 17th century was inspired by the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, whose legend, peddled by Diogenes Laerce, said that he was perpetually in tears in front of the fate of men to draw from it a Christian Heraclitus desperate for the sins of the Men.
He will publish 3 years later the "Christian Democrite" showing a hilarious Democrite in front of the world as it is.

These two books did a lot to popularize the archetypes of a weeping Heraclitus and a laughing Democritus, which can be found in many works of art throughout the 17th century. One thinks in particular of the "Weeping Philosopher" of Rubens painted around 1636, or the Democrites of Velasquez and Rembrandt.

Engravings by Leonard Gaultier, famous french painter.

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MABLY, Gabriel Bonnot de. 

Des principes des négociations, pour servir d'introduction au droit public de l'Europe, fondés sur les traités. 

La Haye, s.n., 1757.
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750 €

First edition.
Gabriel Bonnot de Mably was Condillac's brother, although today less known than his parent, his innovative work of political philosophy places him among the precursors of what will become communism. In particular, he proposed to limit land ownership rights.
As a fine geopolitical analyst, he published his Treaty of Negotiations at the start of the Seven Years' War, after the overthrow of the alliance which will set Europe (and the world) on fire.

"His concepts of power, of world legal order, of moralizing the relations between people, peoples and states, undoubtedly still have a lot to teach us." Florence Gauthier, Extract from the preface for the reissue of the text in 2003

Our copy bearing the arms of Emmanuel Dieudonné de Hautefort (1700-1777), a diplomat who was french ambassador to Vienna from 1749 to 1752 and who was therefore at the heart of European diplomacy in this troubled period of the 18th century. It was indeed during this period that negotiations between France and Austria began to initiate a European diplomatic revolution.

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MERCURIALE, Girolamo. 

Artis gymnasticae apud antiquos celeberrimae nostris temporibus ignoratae libri sex. 

Venise, Iuntas, 1569.
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2000 €

First edition.

Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606), when the body had been somewhat neglected by the medieval culture, was inspired by the principle of Juvénal: Mens sana in corpore sano and offers us by studying the texts of antiquity the first book of gymnastic.
"[...] its knowledge interests any man who professes medicine, especially since one finds in Hippocrates, Plato and Galen the affirmation repeated over and over again according to which exercises, if one wishes to lead a healthy life, provide benefits so great and so numerous that it is scarcely that the other resources of medicine provide so many. " (translation of part of book III)

"Heir to the galenic tradition, Mercuriale draws from Greek and Latin literature, but also from his contemporaries. Using both his medical knowledge and the achievements of antiquaria, he wrote the first treatise on gymnastics in our history, the 6 books of De Arte Gymnastica "(Jean-Michel Agasse," Le De arte gymnastica de Girolamo Mercuriale: archeology and body culture in the Renaissance ", doctoral thesis)

The folding board is the proposal for a Gymnasium plan.

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D'ALEMBERT, Jean Le Rond dit ) || CONDORCET, Nicolas de || BOSSUT, Charles. 

Nouvelles expériences sur la résistance des fluides. 

Paris, Claude-Antoine Jombert, 1777.
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300 €

First edition.
Collection of hydrodynamic experiments carried out in a basin of the Military School by D'Alembert, Condorcet and Bossut. Turgot had commissioned them to look for ways to improve river navigation. The results of these experiments led to establish what will become the D'Alembert paradox, which will only be solved with the theory of wakes.
Indeed according to the hydrodynamic equations of the time, "a body should be able to progress in a fluid without experiencing any resistance or, which amounts to the same thing, that a bridge pier plunged into the course of a river should not. undergo no pushing on his part ", which the experiments carried out denied.
Beyond the treatise on hydrodynamics, this book bears witness to a science in progress which intricates theory and experience.

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MACLAURIN, Colin. 

Traité des fluxions. 

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1749.
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3500 €

First french edition.
Mathematical defense of Newton's work against the Berkeley attacks, Maclaurin also proposes there a particular use of the Taylor theorem which is since called Taylor-Maclaurin formula and the first test of convergence of an infinite series.

Photo [TWELLS, Léonard]. 

[TWELLS, Léonard]. 

Recherches Sur Ce Qu'iI Faut Entendre Par Les Démoniaques Dont Il Est Parlé Dans Le Nouveau Testament [suivi de] Réponse aux Recherches. 

Leide, Boudouin, 1738.
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450 €

First edition in French.
Uncommon work that examines the cases of possession and exorcisms in the New Testament from a theological angle.

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ANDRÉ, Yves-Marie || FORMEY. 

Essai sur le Beau Avec un Discours Préliminaire et des Réflexions sur le Goût par M. Formey. 

Amsterdam, J.H.Schneider, 1767.
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75 €

Yves-Marie André (1674-1765) was a Jesuit priest, philosopher and in charge of a chair of mathematics in Caen.

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[BELIN, Albert]. 

Les Avantures du philosophe inconnu en la recherche & en l'invention de la Pierre Philosophale. 

Paris, Jacques de Laize-de-Bresche, 1674.
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1350 €

Second edition of this rare alchemical work.

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KEPLER, Johannes || BARTSCH, Jakob. 

Tabulae Manuales Logarithmicae ad Calculum Astronomicum, in specie Tabb. Rudolphinarum compendiose tractandum mire utiles. 

Strasbourg, Theodore Lerse, 1700.
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3000 €

Second and first obtainable edition.

In 1627, Kepler published his final work, the Tabulae Rudolphinae, an ephemeris of planetary motions of unprecedented accuracy. This feat was only possible thanks to the use of logarithmic tables, which allowed him to shorten the immense calculations necessary for the precision of these predictions.

The use of logarithmic calculation is thus at the heart of Kepler’s astronomical work. He discovered Napier’s work in 1617, but he preferred to construct his own tables using a new geometric approach. More accurate than those of his predecessor, Kepler’s tables were published in Mathematici chilias logarithmorum in 1624.

For the Tabulae Rudolphinae, Kepler modified his logarithmic tables by changing the intervals of tabulation..

After Kepler's death in 1630, his son-in-law Jacob Bartsch wanted to propose a portable and less expensive version of the logarithmic tables used for the calculations of the Tabulae, which had been published in folio format. Bartsch had them published in 16mo format, under the title Logarithmorum logisticorum (Sagan, 1631).

Our edition was given by the French mathematician Jean Caspar Eisenschmidt, who corresponded with Cassini in Strasbourg. In his introduction, Eisenschmidt explains that the print run of the original edition had been extremely limited due to financial problems. The rarity of copies of the Sagan edition, even at the time, necessitated a new edition.

A very fresh copy.

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NEWTON, Isaac. 

La Méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies. 

Paris, De Bure l'ainé, 1740.
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2500 €

First french edition.
Buffon's translation of Method of Fluxions and Infinite Series published a few years earlier. It is one of the last treatises on which Newton worked to explain the method of calculation used in his Principia. The fluxion method is the Newtonian solution of differential calculus problems. It is the counterpart of the method of infinitely small developed by Leibniz.
The fluxion method places Newton among the fathers of infinitesimal calculus.

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GHERARDI, Evariste. 

Le Théâtre Italien de Gherardi, ou Le Recueil Général de toutes le Comédies and Scènes Françoises jouées par les Comédiens Italiens du Roy. 

Paris, Pierre Witte, 1717.
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600 €

The Italian Comedy or Italian Theater was the competing theater troupe of the French Comedy (born from the merger of Molière's troupe and that of the Hotel de Bourgogne) at the end of the 17th century.
His repertoire, assembled here by Evariste Gherardi, was inspired by both characters from the Commedia dell'arte and French authors. I
t was dissolved in 1697 following the announcement of the False Prude (who attacked Maintenon) then returned to Paris under the Regency in 1716.

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[LITHOGRAPHIES] DE COULANGE. 

St Germain en Laye pittoresque et ses environs. 

St Germain en Laye, Mayer et Paul, 1875.
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1000 €

First edition.
Rare collection of 30 lithographed views after the painter De Coulange, representing the main monuments of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Marly-le-Roi, Poissy, Le Vésinet, Chatou, Sartrouville ... T
The plates are accompanied by an explanatory text sheet.
Unlisted feature of our copy some plates are printed on colored paper (yellow, green and blue) others printed in gradient of sepia tones.

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PASSERAT DE LA CHAPELLE, Claude François. 

Recueil des drogues simples ou matière médicinale. 

Paris, D'Houry, 1753.
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500 €

First edition.
"It is after an examination of the principles of medicines, of their beneficial qualities, noted by a numerous and regular series of experiments and observations, that it is allowed to make use of them" (extract from the preface ).

Uncommon pharmacopoeia.

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POTT, Perceval. 

Oeuvres chirurgicales de M. Percival Pott. 

Paris, Didot jeune, 1777-1792.
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500 €

First edition in French.
Percivall Pott (1714-1788), was an English surgeon specializing in the treatment of hernias. He is notably the first to describe congenital hernias. The major part of these surgical works is moreover devoted to the description and the treatment of the various hernias.
The third and last volume was published fifteen years after the first two, in 1792 by Barrois. The translator wishing to complete the Works after the death of Pott (of which he made a short biography in preliminary).
We find in this last volume the description of the curvature of the spine, which will be called Pott'disease (tuberculous arthritis of the intervertebral joints).

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BOUCHUT, Eugène. 

Du Nervosisme aigu et chronique et des maladies nerveuses. 

Paris, JB. Baillière et Fils, 1877.
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300 €

Second edition.
Bouchut, although he specializes in pediatrics, is the first in this book to properly characterize neurasthenia.

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PINEL, Philippe. 

Nosographie philosophique, ou la méthode de l'analyse appliquée a la médecine. 

Paris, J. A. Brosson, 1813.
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150 €

Fifth edition, augmented.
Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) was a French clinician and doctor renowned as the precursor of psychiatry.
He is also well-known for his "Nosographie philosophique", first published in 1798, in which he classified diseases into five major groups (fevers, phlegmasias, hemorrhages, neuroses and lymphatic diseases) whith the symptoms and injuries caused.
This book quickly became a reference and was very successful as soon as it was published.

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