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[VOLTAIRE].

Questions sur l'encyclopédie par des amateurs.

[Neufchatel], s.n., 1771-1773.

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550 €

New expanded edition.
Little-known book by Voltaire, his Questions on the Encyclopedia having been included in the Philosophical Dictionary of the Kehl edition which now makes reference.
"This attempt with an encyclopedic vocation claims to supplement, even amend and correct the great work of the Age of Enlightenment" (Mervaud, "L’Encyclopédisme des Questions sur l’Encyclopédie de Voltaire?”).

Composite copy with volumes published from 1771 to 1773.

BULLIARD, Pierre.

Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique, ou Exposition par ordre alphabétique, des préceptes de la botanique, et de tous les termes, tant françois que latins, consacrés à l'étude de cette science.

Paris, Imprimerie Crapelet, 1797.

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750 €

A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

VAN MONCKHOVEN, Désiré.

Méthodes simplifiées de photographie sur papier.

Paris, Marion et Cie, 1857.

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First edition.
Désiré Van Monckhoven is one of the most famous Belgian photographers. Chemist he participated in the dissemination of knowledge of photographic chemistry then in full explosion.
Photography on paper was invented a few years earlier by Talbo to overcome the drawbacks of daguerreotypes, in the 1850s it was still little used but it was this process (negative-positive) that allowed the photographs to be widely distributed.
In this book Monckhoven gives the precise implementation of this process by giving in particular two samples of paper which allow to touch the papers which were then used in the middle of the XIXth century.

Following Monckoven's text were added 8 handwritten pages on collodion (another photographic process) and two notes on loose paper on these processes.

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis.

Traité de la Conservation des Grains et en particulier du Froment.

Paris, Guerin, 1753.

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200 €

First edition.
Book which follows the famine of 1752 in which Du Monceau tries to propose solutions for better conservation of wheat reserves during years of good harvests. They include better drying and cleaning of the grains, and aeration of large granaries by bellows.

TAYLOR, Brook|| MURDOCH, Patrick.

Nouveaux principes de la perspective linéaire [...] avec un essai sur le mélange des couleurs par NEWTON.

Lyon, Bruyset, 1759.

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600 €

Second edition in french given by the Jesuit Antoine Rivoire of two treatises on perspective.

Taylor's book is considered in its day to be one of the best books on perspective.

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H.

Épures.

s.l., s.n., 1880.

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300 €

Collection of drawings, by H. Bardonnaut.
For a long time, the Forestry School has depended on the Polytechnic School; it has retained the particularity of having its engineering students draw sketches: Development of maps and architectural models oriented towards the management of water and forests.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1847-49 (2vols).

s.l., s.n., 1847-1849.

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600 €

Collection of drawings, by Marie Henri Ernest Bardonnaut (X 1847).

The structure of these drawing as taught at the Ecole Polytechnique is often the same, with parts more or less developed, and drawings more or less elaborate according to the times and students.
We thus find drawings of curves, surfaces, perspectives, shadows, stone cut, architecture, machine and gears, topography and fortifications.

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis.

Cours de chimie comprenant l'histoire des sels, la chimie végétale et animale.

Paris, Pichon et Didier, 1828.

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950 €

First edition.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Bacchus. Pièce en trois actes.

Paris, Gallimard, 1952.

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90 €

First edition.
One of the 210 on Lafuma-Navarre, second paper after 30 on Hollande.

COCTEAU, Jean || MARITAIN, Jacques.

Lettre à Jacques Maritain - Réponse à Jean Cocteau.

Paris, Stock, 1926.

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100 €

First edition.
One of the pur fil Lafuma (n° 507 for both volumes).

COCTEAU, Jean.

Plain-Chant. Poème.

Paris, Stock, 1923.

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300 €

First edition on edition paper.
Presentation copy to Charles du Bos.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Poèsies. 1946-1947.

Paris, Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1947.

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750 €

First edition limited to only 50 copies.
One of the 7 on Japon paper.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Le foyer des artistes.

Paris, Plon, 1947.

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350 €

First edition.
One of the 22 on Hollande, second paper after 16 on Japon.

COCTEAU, Jean.

La Crucifixion.

Paris, Paul Morihien, 1946.

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850 €

First edition.
One of the 25 on Chine paper.

COLETTE.

Le Blé en Herbe.

Paris, Flammarion, 1932.

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Dedication copy signed by Colette.

GENET, Jean || PICQ, Emile.

Chants secrets.

Lyon, Marc Barbezat, 1945.

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200 €

First edition limited to 400 copies.

TOUCHAGUES, Louis || ARNOUX, Alexandre.

Nus. Vingt cuivres gravés par Touchagues.

Paris, Edition du Tertre, [ca. 1945].

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750 €

Copy printed for Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon (1909-1985).

ROLLO, John.

Traité du Diabète sucré ou affections gastriques et maladies qui en dépendent.

Marseille, Moutardier, An VI 1797.

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250 €

First edition in French.
Rollo is the first to offer treatment for diabetes through dietary restrictions. He proposes to have a very meaty diet and to do without vegetables.

Rollo's work is bound with the following:
NICOLAS, Medical and chemical research and experiments on diabetes mellitus, Paris, Méquignon, 1803.

GLASER, Christophle.

Traité de la Chymie.

Paris, chez l'autheur, 1663.

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1200 €

The rare first edition, first issue.
Christophe Glaser (1629-1672?) Is a Swiss doctor and pharmacist who became ordinary apothecary of King Louis XIV. Nicolas Lemery will be trained at Glaser but quickly leaves him not supporting his almost esoteric teaching.
Glaser crosses the history in the poison case. It is most probably in her pharmacy that the Marquise de Brinvilliers obtained the vials of poison. According to his testimony Glaser was sent to Italy by Fouquet to learn the secrets of Italian poisons.
Caillet attributes this book to Moyse Charas, who indeed mentions in the preface to his Thériaque that he published a Treatise on Chemistry under the name of Glaser.

We find in this book, curious preparations such as human skull oil or the distillation of viper flesh.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf.

Première [seconde, troisième] partie de l’oeuvre minérale, où est enseignée la séparation de l’Or des Pierres à feu, Sable, Argile, et autres Fossiles, par l’Esprit de Sel, ce qui ne se peut faire par autre voye. Comme aussi une Panacée, ou Médecine niverselle, antimoniale, & son usage.
[Reliés à la suite :]
- La Teinture de l'or ou le véritable or potable
- Traitté de la Médecine universelle, ou le vray or potable.
- La Consolation des navigants. Dans laquelle est enseigné à ceux qui voyagent sur mer un moyen de se garantir de la faim & de la soif, voire mesme des maladies qui leur pourroient survenir durant un long voyage.

Paris, Thomas Jolly, 1659.

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2500 €

First edition in French.
Rare treatises on Glauber's alchemy.
The 3 parts of the mineral work as well as the three linked works have a title page and a separate pagination.

Our copy contains the treatise on "or potable" panacea widely used throughout the Renaissance.

[LE CLERC, Jean].

Réflexions sur ce que l'on appelle bonheur et malheur en matière de loteries, et sur le bon usage qu'on en peut faire.

Amsterdam, Georges Gallet, 1696.

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600 €

First edition.
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) was a Protestant theologian and pastor. He was a member of the Remontrants, disciples of Arminius, breaking with Calvinism on questions of grace and predestination. The lottery and games of chance, then very popular in the Netherlands, were an ideal subject for reflection on these subjects. By rejecting any idea of an "invisible hand" behind chance or good fortune, he ends up with an ultimately very modern definition of chance:
"Tous ces mots ne sont que des termes négatifs, comme je l'ai dit, & qui ne servent qu'à faire comprendre que l'effet, dont on parle, n'est pas la production d'une cause nécessaire & déterminée à la produire".
In other words, we speak of chance where we do not know the sum of the causes that determine the effect that we observe.

[HORLAVILLE, Gaston].

Diplôme de Bachelier ès Sciences.

Paris, [Ministère de l'instruction publique], 1888.

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50 €

Bachelor of Science degree awarded to Gaston Horlaville. The diploma bears the handwritten signatures of Gaston Horlaville, the Rector of the Academy of Caen, the head of the office of the director of higher education and that of the minister of public education: Léopold Faye who was not minister of the third republic only for a few months.

VAUBERT, Luc.

La Dévotion à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans l'Eucharistie.

Paris, Gabriel Charles Berton, 1752.

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180 €

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

Capitaine DANRIT.

Robinsons de l'Air.

Paris, Flammarion, [v. 1909].

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60 €

First edition.

NEWTON, Isaac.

La Méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies.

Paris, De Bure l'ainé, 1740.

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2000 €

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.

CLOQUET, Jules.

Traité de l'Acupuncture.

Paris, Béchet jeune, 1826.

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500 €

First edition.
Jules Germain Cloquet (1790-1883), well known for his work in anatomy, tried his hand at the practice of alternative medicine at the Saint Louis Hospital with hypnotism and acupuncture.
His treatise on acupuncture is the first French book seriously relating clinical cases from hospital practice.
Cloquet made more than 90 observations with the help of Dantu de Vannes.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de.

Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux.

Paris, Deterville, 1801.

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4000 €

First edition.
One of the very first formulations of the concept of evolution of species (transformism), before Darwin's, and presenting as the cause of evolution (Lamarckism) the heredity of acquired characteristics.

It will take more than 50 years for Darwin's work on environmental selection pressure to contradict Lamarck's Speech.

However, we owe Lamarck the introduction in this book of the distinction between Vertebrate and Invertebrate animals, a distinction that we still use in current taxonomy.

DOMAT, Jean.

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus.

Paris, Veuve Savoye, 1767.

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250 €

"Civil laws in their natural order" is considered a monument of French civil law and is one of the sources that will lead to the Napoleonic Civil Code
. The 1767 folio edition is one of the best editions of the "Domat" in the 18th century.
The title of the book will inspire in Montesquieu his "De l'Esprit des lois".

AUBERT, René || LEFEBVRE, Henri.

Vieux Hôtels de Versailles.

Paris, Henri Lefebvre, 1953.

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150 €

First edition.
Copy on large arches paper numbered 136 on 150 copies.
René Aubert (1894-1977) painter and illustrator from Versailles, was director of the School of Fine Arts of Versailles until 1966.

[BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul].

Le Mexique conquis.

Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1752.

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450 €

First edition.
Book relating the conquest of Mexico by Cortes. The author's will is to correct Antonio de Solis's History of the Conquest of Mexico by redacting uncertain or improbable facts.
"The customs, the characters, all the main events, the only ones worthy of passing down to posterity, are preserved; the order of the times are respected. The details suppressed, changed, embellished, are those which, according to Solis, haven't any basis other than uncertainty or conjecture. " (extract from the preface).

The book is illustrated with two maps of America after Robert de Vaugondy.

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[VOLTAIRE].

Questions sur l'encyclopédie par des amateurs.

BULLIARD, Pierre.

Dictionnaire élémentaire de botanique, ou Exposition par ordre alphabétique, des préceptes de la botanique, et de tous les termes, tant françois que latins, consacrés à l'étude de cette science.

A Folio edition with 9 color plates.

VAN MONCKHOVEN, Désiré.

Méthodes simplifiées de photographie sur papier.

DUHAMEL DU MONCEAU, Henri-Louis.

Traité de la Conservation des Grains et en particulier du Froment.

First edition.Book which follows the famine of 1752 in which Du Monceau tries to propose solutions for better conservation of wheat reserves during years of good harvests. They include better drying and cleaning of the grains, and aeration of large granaries by bellows.

TAYLOR, Brook|| MURDOCH, Patrick.

Nouveaux principes de la perspective linéaire [...] avec un essai sur le mélange des couleurs par NEWTON.

Second edition in french given by the Jesuit Antoine Rivoire of two treatises on perspective.Taylor's book is considered in its day to be one of the best books on perspective.

[ECOLE FORESTIERE] BARDONNAUT, H.

Épures.

[ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE] BARDONNAUT, Ernest.

Épures - Ecole Polytechnique – 1847-49 (2vols).

GAY-LUSSAC, Joseph Louis.

Cours de chimie comprenant l'histoire des sels, la chimie végétale et animale.

First edition.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Bacchus. Pièce en trois actes.

First edition. One of the 210 on Lafuma-Navarre, second paper after 30 on Hollande.

COCTEAU, Jean || MARITAIN, Jacques.

Lettre à Jacques Maritain - Réponse à Jean Cocteau.

First edition. One of the pur fil Lafuma (n° 507 for both volumes).

COCTEAU, Jean.

Plain-Chant. Poème.

First edition on edition paper.Presentation copy to Charles du Bos.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Poèsies. 1946-1947.

First edition limited to only 50 copies.One of the 7 on Japon paper.

COCTEAU, Jean.

Le foyer des artistes.

First edition.One of the 22 on Hollande, second paper after 16 on Japon.

COCTEAU, Jean.

La Crucifixion.

First edition.One of the 25 on Chine paper.

COLETTE.

Le Blé en Herbe.

Dedication copy signed by Colette.

GENET, Jean || PICQ, Emile.

Chants secrets.

First edition limited to 400 copies.

TOUCHAGUES, Louis || ARNOUX, Alexandre.

Nus. Vingt cuivres gravés par Touchagues.

Copy printed for Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon (1909-1985).

ROLLO, John.

Traité du Diabète sucré ou affections gastriques et maladies qui en dépendent.

GLASER, Christophle.

Traité de la Chymie.

GLAUBER, Johann Rudolf.

First edition in French. Rare treatises on Glauber's alchemy. The 3 parts of the mineral work as well as the three linked works have a title page and a separate pagination. Our copy contains the treatise on "or potable" panacea widely used throughout the Renaissance.

[LE CLERC, Jean].

Réflexions sur ce que l'on appelle bonheur et malheur en matière de loteries, et sur le bon usage qu'on en peut faire.

[HORLAVILLE, Gaston].

Diplôme de Bachelier ès Sciences.

VAUBERT, Luc.

La Dévotion à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ dans l'Eucharistie.

Good copy in contemporary morocco bindings.

Capitaine DANRIT.

Robinsons de l'Air.

First edition.

NEWTON, Isaac.

La Méthode des fluxions et des suites infinies.

CLOQUET, Jules.

Traité de l'Acupuncture.

LAMARCK, Jean Baptiste de.

Systême des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux.

DOMAT, Jean.

Les Loix civiles dans leur ordre naturel le droit public, et legum delectus.

AUBERT, René || LEFEBVRE, Henri.

Vieux Hôtels de Versailles.

First edition.Copy on large arches paper numbered 136 on 150 copies.René Aubert (1894-1977) painter and illustrator from Versailles, was director of the School of Fine Arts of Versailles until 1966.

[BOESNIER DE L'ORME, Paul].

Le Mexique conquis.

First edition.
Book which follows the famine of 1752 in which Du Monceau tries to propose solutions for better conservation of wheat reserves during years of good harvests. They include better drying and cleaning of the grains, and aeration of large granaries by bellows.

Second edition in french given by the Jesuit Antoine Rivoire of two treatises on perspective.

Taylor's book is considered in its day to be one of the best books on perspective.

First edition.
One of the 210 on Lafuma-Navarre, second paper after 30 on Hollande.

First edition.
One of the pur fil Lafuma (n° 507 for both volumes).

First edition on edition paper.
Presentation copy to Charles du Bos.

First edition limited to only 50 copies.
One of the 7 on Japon paper.

First edition.
One of the 22 on Hollande, second paper after 16 on Japon.

First edition.
One of the 25 on Chine paper.

First edition in French.
Rare treatises on Glauber's alchemy.
The 3 parts of the mineral work as well as the three linked works have a title page and a separate pagination.

Our copy contains the treatise on "or potable" panacea widely used throughout the Renaissance.

First edition.
Copy on large arches paper numbered 136 on 150 copies.
René Aubert (1894-1977) painter and illustrator from Versailles, was director of the School of Fine Arts of Versailles until 1966.