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RENAN, Ernest.

Le Broyeur de lin.

Paris, L. Carteret et Cie, 1901.

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300 €

Edition illustrated with 27 etchings by Edmond Rudaux (1840-1908).
One of the thirty copies of the leading edition on Japan paper with the etchings in 3 states (pure etchings, before the letter and after the letter).
Our copy numbered 24.
The first part of Renan's childhood memories, the Broyeur de lin tells the love story between a girl and a priest, which has given rise to many exegeses.

[VOLTAIRE].

L'Homme aux quarante ecus.

[Genève], s.n., 1768.

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1750 €

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

Berlin, s.n., 1765.

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400 €

First edition.

[PERRAULT, Pierre].

De L'Origine des Fontaines.

Paris, Jean de la Caille, 1678.

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Second edition.
Milestone for hydrology.
Perrault succeeded in proving scientifically for the first time that rainfall was sufficient to fuel the flow of rivers, and that rain came from the evaporation of rivers and seas.

KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von.

Psychopathia sexualis, Etude médico-légale à l'usage des médecins et des juristes.

Paris, Payot, 1931.

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100 €

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations.
This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume Benjamin.

Physiologie des mouvements démontrée a l'aide de l'expérimentation électrique et de l'observation clinique.

Paris, JB Baillière, 1867.

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250 €

First edition.

LUYS, Jules Bernard.

Etudes de physiologie et de pathologie cérébrales.

Paris, JB Baillière, 1874.

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250 €

First edition.
Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations".
Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.

BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).

Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophies sur les principes des êtres.

Paris, Saillant, 1769.

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200 €

First edition.

[MORELLET, André].

Le Manuel des Inquisiteurs à l'usage des inquisitions d'Espagne & de Portugal.

Lisbonne, s.n., 1762.

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500 €

First edition.
Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

CASSINI, Jacques.

Tables astronomiques, du Soleil, de la Lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et Saturne, avec l’explication & l’usage de ces mêmes tables.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1740.

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650 €

First edition.
Volume gathering 122 astronomical tables calculated at the meridian of the Royal Observatory of Paris. The tables are preceded by a user manual section in which Cassini explains how they were established and how they should be used. They will serve as references until the end of the 18th century.

JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob.

Mémoire sur l'élimination des noeuds dans le problème des trois corps.

Paris, Bachelier, 1844.

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350 €

First off-print publication of Jacobi's article on his approach to the three-body problem.

Jacobi's article is binded following two other memoirs on celestial mechanics, extracted from the Journal de Liouville:
CISA DE GRESY, Memoir on the problem of the disturbance of the planets, Bachelor, [1828]
LE DOULCET DE PONTECOULANT, Memoir on the part of the coefficients of the great inequalities of Jupiter and Saturn which depend on the square of the pertubating forces, Paris, Bachelier, [1829].

DUPUY, Léon.

Exposé de la méthode de Hansen pour le calcul des perturbations spéciales des petites planètes.

[Paris], [Baillière], [1874].

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150 €

First edition.
Article published in the Memoirs of the Physical and Natural Sciences Society of Bordeaux.TX on this fundamental problem of celestial mechanics which preoccupied mathematicians and astronomers at the end of the 19th century. Discussion on Hansen's method which is a perturbation theory approach to the three-body problem.

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de.

La Figure de la Terre, déterminée par les observations de messieurs De Maupertuis, Clairaut, Camus, Le Monnier, de l'Académie royale des sciences et de M. L'Abbé Outhier, correspondant de la même académie, accompagnés de M. Celsius, professeur d'astronomie à Upsal, faites par ordre du Roy au cercle polaire.

Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1738.

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Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1766.

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600 €

First edition.

EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE.

Examen de la Doctrine touchant le salut des payens, ou nouvelle apologie pour Socrate.

Amsterdam, E. Van Harrevelt, 1773.

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125 €

First edition in French.
Eberhard is a German Protestant philosopher and theologian, disciple of Leibniz he was one of the most virulent opponents of Kant.

DOETSCH, Gustav || HERSCHEL, Rudolf.

Introduction à l'utilisation pratique de la transformation de Laplace.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1959.

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100 €

First edition in french.

Gustav Doetsch (1892 – 1977) was a German mathematician, aviation researcher. He dedicated most of his research and scientific activity to the Laplace transform, and his books on the subject became standard texts throughout the world, translated into several languages. His texts were the first to apply the Laplace transform to engineering.

MONTEL, Paul.

Leçons sur les séries de polynomes à une variable complexe.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1910.

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30 €

First edition.
Paul Montel (1876-1975), French mathematician, His work focuses on the theory of complex analytic functions.

CARNAP, Rudolf.

Le Problème de la logique de la science, science formelle et science du réel.

Paris, Hermann et Cie, 1935.

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25 €

First edition in french .
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is a German philosopher naturalized American in 1941. He is a member of the Vienna Circle and the most famous representative of logical positivism.

DENJOY, Arnaud.

Introduction à la théorie des fonctions de variables réelles.

Paris, Hermann et Cie, 1937.

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30 €

First edition.
Arnaud Denjoy (1884-1974), French mathematician influenced by his teacher, Émile Borel, he devoted himself above all to the theory of functions of the real variable. In 1942, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, of which he was president in 1962.

LA VALLEE POUSSIN, Charles Jean Gustav Nicolas de.

Leçons sur l'approximation des fonctions d'une variable réelle.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1919.

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30 €

First edition.
Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas de La Vallée Poussin (1866-1962), is a Belgian mathematician known for having proved the prime number theorem using the methods of complex analysis.

TANNERY, Jules.

Correspondance entre Lejeune Dirichlet et Liouville.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1910.

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75 €

First edition.
Correspondence chosen by Jules Tannery between the mathematicians Joseph Liouville (1809-1882) and Gustav LeJeune-Dirichlet (1805-1859) specialists in number theory. During the summer of 1839, during a visit to Paris, Dirichlet met Joseph Liouville during a dinner at Cauchy. From that date, their exchanges became more frequent and they soon became great friends, exchanging regular scientific correspondence.

RESAL, Henry Aimé.

Exposition de la théorie des surfaces.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1891.

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60 €

First edition.
Henry Résal (1828-1896), was professor of mechanics at the École polytechnique.

ANDRE, Désiré.

Des Notations mathématiques énumération, choix et usage.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1909.

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40 €

First edition.

Désiré André (1840-1917), is a French mathematician, known in particular for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.

Presentation copy.

BOREL, Emile.

Leçons sur les séries divergentes.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1901.

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First edition.
In the collection of monographs on the theory of functions published under the direction of M. Emile Borel
Emile BOREL (1871-1956) French mathematician, professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He was a specialist in the theory of functions and probability. In 1922 he founded the Statistical Institute of the University of Paris and in 1928 the Henri-Poincaré Institute.

BOREL, Emile.

Méthodes et problèmes de Théorie des fonctions.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1922.

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First edition.
In the collection of monographs on the theory of functions published under the direction of M. Emile Borel
Emile BOREL (1871-1956) French mathematician, professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He was a specialist in the theory of functions and probability. In 1922 he founded the Statistical Institute of the University of Paris and in 1928 the Henri-Poincaré Institute.

BOREL, Emile.

Leçons sur les fonctions de variables réelles et les développements en séries de polynomes.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1905.

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First edition.
Emile BOREL (1871-1956) French mathematician, professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He was a specialist in the theory of functions and probability. In 1922 he founded the Statistical Institute of the University of Paris and in 1928 the Henri-Poincaré Institute.

CUNY, Léon.

Cours d'arboriculture fruitière.

Paris, Bureau de l'édition, 1929.

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Arboriculture course given by Léon Cuny curator of the Luxembourg Gardens.
His courses were at the origin of the creation of the Association of Auditors of the Courts of Luxembourg whose aim was to popularize the methods of fruit growing which made the reputation of the gardeners of Luxembourg.

Copy n°22 on 100 exemplar on Alfa signed by the author.
Presentation copy.

D'IVOI, Paul.

Miss Mousqueterr.

Paris, Ancienne librairie Furne Boivin & Cie, [v. 1907}.

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100 €

Novel published in the Voyages excentriques collection.
Book illustrated with 95 engravings in the text, 12 large full-page compositions and 8 compositions drawn in color from the drawings of Louis Bombled.

ETTMULLER, Michel.

Nouvelle Chymie raisonnée.

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1693.

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First french edition.
Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

LEROY, Charles-François-Antoine.

Analyse appliquée à la Géométrie des trois dimensions comprenant les surfaces du second degré, avec la théorie général des surfaces courbes et des lignes à double courbure.

Bachelier, Paris, 1829.

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150 €

First edition.
Charles-François-Antoine Leroy (1780-1854) was professor of geometry at the École polytechnique.

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RENAN, Ernest.

Le Broyeur de lin.

[VOLTAIRE].

L'Homme aux quarante ecus.

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata. Voltaire's only work on economics. Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

LE CAT, Claude Nicolas.

Traité de l'Existance, de la Nature et des Propriétés du Fluide des Nerfs, et principalement de son Action dans le Mouvement Musculaire.

First edition.

[PERRAULT, Pierre].

De L'Origine des Fontaines.

Second edition.Milestone for hydrology.Perrault succeeded in proving scientifically for the first time that rainfall was sufficient to fuel the flow of rivers, and that rain came from the evaporation of rivers and seas.

KRAFFT-EBING, Richard von.

Psychopathia sexualis, Etude médico-légale à l'usage des médecins et des juristes.

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations. This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume Benjamin.

Physiologie des mouvements démontrée a l'aide de l'expérimentation électrique et de l'observation clinique.

First edition.

LUYS, Jules Bernard.

Etudes de physiologie et de pathologie cérébrales.

First edition.Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations". Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.

BATTEUX, Charles (Abbé).

Histoire des causes premières, ou exposition sommaire des pensées des philosophies sur les principes des êtres.

First edition.

[MORELLET, André].

Le Manuel des Inquisiteurs à l'usage des inquisitions d'Espagne & de Portugal.

First edition.Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

CASSINI, Jacques.

Tables astronomiques, du Soleil, de la Lune, des planètes, des étoiles fixes, et des satellites de Jupiter et Saturne, avec l’explication & l’usage de ces mêmes tables.

JACOBI, Carl Gustav Jacob.

Mémoire sur l'élimination des noeuds dans le problème des trois corps.

DUPUY, Léon.

Exposé de la méthode de Hansen pour le calcul des perturbations spéciales des petites planètes.

MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de.

First edition.Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

RICHARD, Charles-Louis (Abbé).

La Théorie des Songes.

First edition.

EBERHARD, Jean Auguste || SOCRATE.

Examen de la Doctrine touchant le salut des payens, ou nouvelle apologie pour Socrate.

First edition in French. Eberhard is a German Protestant philosopher and theologian, disciple of Leibniz he was one of the most virulent opponents of Kant.

DOETSCH, Gustav || HERSCHEL, Rudolf.

Introduction à l'utilisation pratique de la transformation de Laplace.

MONTEL, Paul.

Leçons sur les séries de polynomes à une variable complexe.

First edition. Paul Montel (1876-1975), French mathematician, His work focuses on the theory of complex analytic functions.

CARNAP, Rudolf.

Le Problème de la logique de la science, science formelle et science du réel.

First edition in french . Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is a German philosopher naturalized American in 1941. He is a member of the Vienna Circle and the most famous representative of logical positivism.

DENJOY, Arnaud.

Introduction à la théorie des fonctions de variables réelles.

First edition. Arnaud Denjoy (1884-1974), French mathematician influenced by his teacher, Émile Borel, he devoted himself above all to the theory of functions of the real variable. In 1942, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, of which he was president in 1962.

LA VALLEE POUSSIN, Charles Jean Gustav Nicolas de.

Leçons sur l'approximation des fonctions d'une variable réelle.

First edition. Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas de La Vallée Poussin (1866-1962), is a Belgian mathematician known for having proved the prime number theorem using the methods of complex analysis.

TANNERY, Jules.

Correspondance entre Lejeune Dirichlet et Liouville.

RESAL, Henry Aimé.

Exposition de la théorie des surfaces.

First edition. Henry Résal (1828-1896), was professor of mechanics at the École polytechnique.

ANDRE, Désiré.

Des Notations mathématiques énumération, choix et usage.

First edition. Désiré André (1840-1917), is a French mathematician, known in particular for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.Presentation copy.

BOREL, Emile.

Leçons sur les séries divergentes.

BOREL, Emile.

Méthodes et problèmes de Théorie des fonctions.

BOREL, Emile.

Leçons sur les fonctions de variables réelles et les développements en séries de polynomes.

First edition. Emile BOREL (1871-1956) French mathematician, professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He was a specialist in the theory of functions and probability. In 1922 he founded the Statistical Institute of the University of Paris and in 1928 the Henri-Poincaré Institute.

CUNY, Léon.

Cours d'arboriculture fruitière.

D'IVOI, Paul.

Miss Mousqueterr.

Novel published in the Voyages excentriques collection.Book illustrated with 95 engravings in the text, 12 large full-page compositions and 8 compositions drawn in color from the drawings of Louis Bombled.

ETTMULLER, Michel.

Nouvelle Chymie raisonnée.

First french edition.Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

LEROY, Charles-François-Antoine.

Analyse appliquée à la Géométrie des trois dimensions comprenant les surfaces du second degré, avec la théorie général des surfaces courbes et des lignes à double courbure.

First edition.Charles-François-Antoine Leroy (1780-1854) was professor of geometry at the École polytechnique.

The rare first edition, first issue with the errata.

Voltaire's only work on economics.
Written as a criticism of the physiocracts and the work of Le Mercier de la Rivière in particular, it was sufficiently controversial to be condemned and ordered to be burned by Parliament in 1768.

Second edition.
Milestone for hydrology.
Perrault succeeded in proving scientifically for the first time that rainfall was sufficient to fuel the flow of rivers, and that rain came from the evaporation of rivers and seas.

Milestone work in psychology listing with force of clinical cases, all the sexual deviations.
This edition given by Payot in 1931, with the introduction by Pierre Janet, is still the reference translation in french.

First edition.
Book subtitled: "Reflex actions of the brain in the normal and morbid conditions of their manifestations".
Jules Luys was the first neurologist to offer photographs of nervous tissue in his books.

First edition.
Work of the Abbé Morellet which was put on the index in 1764, he proposed there a summarized translation of the "Directorium Inquisitorium" of the grand inquisitor Aragon Nicolas Eymeric, in order to show the horror of the trials of the Inquisition.

First edition.
Results of Maupertuis' expedition to Lapland to measure the Earth's median and experimentally confirm Newton's hypothesis that the Earth is flattened at the poles.

First edition in French.
Eberhard is a German Protestant philosopher and theologian, disciple of Leibniz he was one of the most virulent opponents of Kant.

First edition.
Paul Montel (1876-1975), French mathematician, His work focuses on the theory of complex analytic functions.

First edition in french .
Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) is a German philosopher naturalized American in 1941. He is a member of the Vienna Circle and the most famous representative of logical positivism.

First edition.
Arnaud Denjoy (1884-1974), French mathematician influenced by his teacher, Émile Borel, he devoted himself above all to the theory of functions of the real variable. In 1942, he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences, of which he was president in 1962.

First edition.
Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas de La Vallée Poussin (1866-1962), is a Belgian mathematician known for having proved the prime number theorem using the methods of complex analysis.

First edition.
Henry Résal (1828-1896), was professor of mechanics at the École polytechnique.

First edition.

Désiré André (1840-1917), is a French mathematician, known in particular for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.

Presentation copy.

First edition.
Emile BOREL (1871-1956) French mathematician, professor at the Faculty of Sciences in Paris. He was a specialist in the theory of functions and probability. In 1922 he founded the Statistical Institute of the University of Paris and in 1928 the Henri-Poincaré Institute.

Novel published in the Voyages excentriques collection.
Book illustrated with 95 engravings in the text, 12 large full-page compositions and 8 compositions drawn in color from the drawings of Louis Bombled.

First french edition.
Professor of botany and surgery at the University of Leipzig, Ferguson [I,251] reports that Ettmuller died on March 9, 1683 as a result of an unfortunate chemistry experiment.

First edition.
Charles-François-Antoine Leroy (1780-1854) was professor of geometry at the École polytechnique.