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[PARAMOUNT]. 

Livre D'Or Saison 1927-1928. 

s.l., Paramount, 30 mars 1927.
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600 €

First edition.
Publication by the Paramount company distributed to its French distributors, to provide them with promotional material for upcoming films.
"This Golden Book represents, as you may have noticed, a considerable effort both from a practical and artistic point of view, since, for the first time, an entire production is presented to you at this time of year with its publicity material."
For each of the 42 films, there are 4 pages : the summary, a copy of the poster in color, the various publicity materials (posters, brochure) and photos taken from the film.
The book was addressed to Mr. Lescure, probably Antoine Lescure, father of the screenwriter Jean Lescure, who was at that time director of the famous cinema L'Alcazar in Asnières.

Photo ANTONIADI, Eugène-Michel. 

ANTONIADI, Eugène-Michel. 

La Planète Mars [1659-1929]. 

Paris, Hermann et cie, 1930.
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200 €

First edition.
A study of the planet Mars based on the results obtained with the large telescope at the Meudon Observatory and an analytical account of all the work carried out on this star since 1659. An astronomer of Greek origin, Eugène Antoniadi (1870-1944) was one of the great specialists on the planet Mars. He was deputy director of the observatory created by Camille Flammarion in Juvisy-sur-Orge. Antoniadi devotes a chapter to the illusion of Martian canals, the non-existence of which he proved. His Martian cartography remained in use until the space age.

Photo DESGODETZ, Antoine. 

DESGODETZ, Antoine. 

Les Édifices antiques de Rome, mesurés et dessinés très exactement sur les lieux. 

Paris, Claude Antoine Jombert, 1779.
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3000 €

Second edition.
A new edition by Claude Antoine Jombert, who had just acquired the original copperplates from the descendants of the architect.
Antoine Desgodetz was sent to Rome, where he stayed for sixteen months in 1676–1677, to survey and measure ancient monuments with great precision. The purpose was well conceived, as he had already observed discrepancies in the dimensions—and thus the proportions—given in classical works on the subject.
The result was a work of obvious utility and great beauty: Desgodetz’s drawings were engraved by excellent artists, including Louis de Chastillon, Nicolas Guérard, and Jean and Pierre Lepautre. Each plate is accompanied by a facing descriptive notice specifying the measurements of the various elements and pointing out the errors in earlier treatises.
The work was justly admired and underwent several reissues. It is all the more surprising to learn that, unlike most ancient treatises, it has not lost its value: even today’s archaeologists—far more demanding than the amateurs of the past—still recognize its accuracy and usefulness.

A complete copy, with all 137 required plates.

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DARLES DE LINIERE, ?. 

Pompes sans cuirs. 

Paris, Manufacture royale, 1768.
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400 €

First edition.
Darles de Linière presents his pump models in which the leather bladders and valves were replaced by copper pistons. The plates show models of merchant ship pumps, wheeled fire pumps (the ancestor of the fire truck), and pumps for raising water from wells.

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STORCK, Antoine. 

Observations nouvelles sur l’usage de la cigüe. 

Vienne / Paris, P. Fr. Didot le jeune, 1762.
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150 €

Storck was one of the first to promote the internal use of hemlock for medical treatments. His experiments were instrumental in the controlled reintroduction of this poison into pharmacopoeia. He is famous for having conducted experiments on himself to test the boundary between therapeutic doses and toxic and lethal doses.

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AILHAUD, Jean. 

Traité de l’origine des maladies et de l’usage de la poudre purgative. 

Avignon, Esprit-Joseph Rousset, 1748.
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100 €

Third edition.
Jean d'Ailhaud (1675-1756), a native of Lourmarin, a doctor of medicine and surgeon, became famous throughout Europe for having invented a medicinal powder to which he gave his name and which brought him fortune. His Treatise is a veritable advertising brochure extolling the benefits of his powder. Copy duly signed by the author's son, associated with the Ailhaud powder business.

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FORSTEN, Rudolphe. 

Disquisitio medica cantharidum. 

Strasbourg, Amandi König, 1776.
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200 €

First edition.
This study details the medicinal and chemical properties of cantharide (Spanish fly), known for its aphrodisiac and vesicant uses.

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TAUVRY, Daniel. 

Traité des médicamens, et la manière de s’en servir. 

Paris, Estienne Michallet, 1695.
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Second edition.
This medical-pharmaceutical treatise links pharmacology and clinical experience. Tauvry (1669-1701), a French physician and anatomist, combines recipes, pathologies, and dosages, reflecting the empirical evolution of modern medicine.

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TENCKE, H. (Jerôme). 

Formules de médecine tirées de la pharmacie galénique et chymique. 

Lyon, Jean Certe, 1690.
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300 €

Second edition in French.
This work by Jerôme Tencke (?-1687), a physician from Montpellier, is a treatise on pharmacy that combines galenic and chemical approaches to medicine. It presents various formulas and methods for preparing pharmaceutical remedies. The book is part of a transitional period where traditional galenic pharmacy rubbed shoulders with new chemical approaches to medicine.

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BATE, George. 

Pharmacopoea Bateana. 

Lyon, Apud Amabilem Auroy, 1704.
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200 €

George Bate (1608-1668) was physician to Charles I and II of England and Oliver Cromwell's family.
Unusual English pharmacopoeia.

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MERCURIALE, Geronimo || SCHELIGA, Albert. 

De venenis et morbis venenosis tractatus. 

Francfort, Andreae Wecheli, 1584.
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500 €

Edition published same year as the first edition in Venice.
Pioneering work on knowledge on poisons.
Some period handwritten annotations in the margins.

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SEVERINO, Marco Aurelio. 

Vipera Pythia id est, De Viperae Natura, Veneno, Medicina, Demonstrationes, et Experimenta nova. 

Padoue, Pauli Frambotti, 1651.
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800 €

Second edition.
Marco Auelio Severino (1580-1656) was a prominent Italian anatomist and surgeon. In 1610, he was appointed professor of anatomy and surgery in Naples. His work, "Vipera Pythia," deals with venomous snakes, their anatomy, venom, and medicinal properties and virtues. It provides extensive information on the mythology, superstitions, and occult traditions surrounding snakes.

Many of the engravings, mostly full-page, depict mythological images as well as pagan deities, symbols, and idols associated with snakes.

Photo LE GLAY, Maurice. 

LE GLAY, Maurice. 

Les Pasteurs, Ichou et Itto, enfants berbères. 

Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1929.
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750 €

First edition.
Maurice Édouard Le Glay (1868-1936) was a French colonial soldier and writer. A defender of Berber culture, he was one of the main instigators of the Berber Dahir of May 16, 1930, which aimed to preserve the traditional autonomy of the Berber tribes of Morocco. Moroccan nationalist circles criticized him for having inspired a policy of division, pitting the Berbers against the Arabs.
One of the 500 copies on Hollande Van Gelder vellum, ours No. 332.

A very fine copy in an Arabist binding, possibly of Omani manufacture.

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JAUME SAINT HILAIRE, Jean Henri. 

Plantes de la France décrites et peintes d'après nature. 

Paris, Chez l'Auteur, 1808-1809.
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4000 €

First edition, first print of the plates.
Arranged in alphabetical order, each plant is described by a text sheet accompanied by a color plate.
Beautiful complete set of 400 plates printed in color from the drawings of Jaume Saint Hilaire and engraved in dotted lines by Dubreuil and Veron.
Our collation is consistent with that given by Stafleu in his bibliography, the same announcement that this publication was limited to a print run of 400 copies.

Photo COTUGNO, Domenico. 

COTUGNO, Domenico. 

De sedibus variolarum. 

Vienne, Rudolphe Graeffer, 1771.
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350 €

Second edition.
One of the finest dermatological works of the eighteenth century.

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COMTE, Jean Baptiste. 

De l'Hydropisie de poitrine : et des palpitations du coeur, promptement dissipées par la digitale pourprée. 

Paris, Croullebois, 1822.
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80 €

First edition.
Copy with large margins.

Photo BESSON, François. 

BESSON, François. 

La Pratique de Géometrie. 

Paris, Jean Moreau, 1626.
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500 €

First edition.
The work is divided into three books:
- Macrometry or the science of measuring straight lines.
- Holometry or the measurement of plane surfaces.
- Stereotomy or the measurement of solid bodies.
As well as Books IV and XIII of Euclid in an unpublished French translation for which Besson provides new applications.

Photo SANDIFORT, Edward. 

SANDIFORT, Edward. 

Exercitationes academicae. 

Leyde, Eyk et Vygh, 1783-1785.
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750 €

First edition.
Sandifort was a pupil of Albinus, and he succeeded his teacher to the chair of anatomy and surgery at the University of Leiden. Sandifort concentrated his efforts on the anatomy of disease and has been called the founder of pathological anatomy.
This work is devoted to the pathological anatomy of the skull.
A complete copy with 15 finely engraved fold-out plates.

Photo WINSLOW, Jacques-Benigne. 

WINSLOW, Jacques-Benigne. 

Exposition anatomique de la structure du corps humain. 

Paris, Guillaume Desprez & Jean Dessessartz, 1732.
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800 €

First edition.
One of the most famous works of descriptive anatomy.
This book marked a turning point in the history of anatomy by freeing itself from physiological speculation in favor of a strictly observational approach. It contains for the first time the description of the "foramen of Winslow" (or omental foramen), the slit that allows communication between the greater peritoneal sac and the vestibule of the lesser peritoneal sac.

Photo DEPARCIEUX, Antoine. 

DEPARCIEUX, Antoine. 

Mémoires lus à l’assemblée publique de l’Académie Royale des Sciences :
- Mémoire sur la possibilité d'amener à Paris, [...] par un seul canal ou acqueduc
- Second Mémoire sur le projet d'amener à Paris la rivière d'Yvette
- Troisième Mémoire sur le projet d'amener l'Yvette à Paris. 

Paris, Imprimerie Royale, 1763,1767, 1768.
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2500 €

First edition.
Collection of three memoirs presented by Antoine Deparcieux (1703-1768) to the Academy of Sciences. In 1762, Deparcieux proposed a project to bring the waters of the Yvette River to Paris to alleviate the lack of drinking water in the capital. He envisioned capturing the water upstream from Gif-sur-Yvette and transporting it to Paris via an aqueduct approximately 30 kilometers long, ending near the Observatory. Despite its proven technical feasibility and the support of figures such as Voltaire, the project was never realized, mainly due to financial constraints and a lack of political will during the reign of Louis XV. After his death, the project was taken up by his great-nephew, but still without success. It was only several decades later that Parisians were finally supplied with drinking water thanks to the construction of the Ourcq Canal to the north of Paris, and then even later, by the Vanne aqueduct, which follows part of the route studied by Deparcieux to the south of the Paris region.

Photo [CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Samuel]. 

[CONSTANT DE REBECQUE, Samuel]. 

Laure, ou lettres de quelques femmes de Suisse. 

Genève, Barde, 1786-1787.
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200 €

First edition.
This work belongs to the genre of epistolary novels, highly prized in the 18th century under the influence of Rousseau and his work "La Nouvelle Héloïse." It features the correspondence of Swiss women, offering a moral, sentimental, and perhaps political reflection on the society of the time.

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VARIGNON, Pierre. 

Projet d’une nouvelle mechanique: avec un Examen de l'opinion de M. Borelli. 

Paris, Veuve d’Edme Martin, Jean Boudot & Estienne Martin, 1687.
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450 €

First edition.

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FABRE D’OLIVET, Dioclès. 

Un Médecin d’autrefois. 

Paris, Ambroise Dupont, 1838.
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300 €

Second edition.
Biography of Paracelsus written by the son of the famous occultist Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (to whom this work is often mistakenly credited).

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DARWIN, Erasmus. 

Zoonomie, ou lois de la vie organique. 

Gand, P. F. de Goesin-Verhaeghe, 1807-1811.
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1300 €

First french edition.
Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin's grandfather, was a British physician, poet, and naturalist.
In Zoonomy, he proposed a classification of diseases based on the excitability of fibers, a physiological theory of the time.
The work also discussed early ideas about the evolution of species, suggesting that all living things might have descended from a common ancestor, anticipating some of the theories that his grandson would later develop, including that of sexual selection.

Darwin's work is preceded by "l'Analyse raisonnée de la Zoonomie de Darwin" published in 1807.

Photo LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

LA BROSSE, Guy (de). 

De la nature, vertu, et utilité des plantes. 

Paris, Rollin Baragnes, 1628.
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700 €

First edition.
Guy de La Brosse was Louis XIII's regular physician and founder of the Jardin du Roi (ancestor of the Jardin des Plantes). The last part, entitled "Dessein d'un Jardin Royal pour la culture des plantes médicinales", presents the project for the future Jardin des Plantes.
While the author remains famous for having successfully completed this project, he is also known for having been one of the first French Paracelsians. This work, one of the first great French botanical treatises, detailing the medicinal virtues of plants, their classification and their therapeutic use, is very much inspired by Bacon and Paracelsus. The book illustrates in a very clear way one of the schools of thought of the nascent revolution, that of Paracelsianism.

Photo TARNIER, Stéphane. 

TARNIER, Stéphane. 

De l’Asepsie et de l’antisepsie en obstétrique. 

Paris, G. Steinheil, 1894.
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450 €

First edition.
Stéphane Tarnier is considered the father of modern obstetrics in France. He introduced aseptic and antiseptic practices in delivery rooms, significantly reducing maternal and neonatal mortality. This book compiles his lessons on these revolutionary methods.
Prize copy for the School of Childbirth awarded to Miss Guillory.
Beautiful copy.

Photo STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

STAHL, Georg Ernst. 

Theoria medica vera, physiologiam et pathologiam. 

Halle, Literis Orphanotrophei, 1708.
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950 €

First edition.
Major work by Stahl in which he develops his medical system.

Photo [LAMY, Dom Francois]. 

[LAMY, Dom Francois]. 

Conjectures physiques sur deux colonnes de nüe qui ont paru depuis quelques années & sur les extraordinaires effets du tonnerre. 

Paris, Veuve de Sébastien Mabre-Cramoisy, 1689.
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First edition.
Illustrated with a folding plate and four figures in the text, two of which are full-page.
Lamy studies here two "lightning strikes" that had left their mark, the first on April 26, 1676 in Soissons had left an astonishing frieze (which is reproduced on the folding plate) in the dormitory of an Abbey. The second in Lagny on July 18, 1689, where lightning had struck the altar of the Church of Saint-Sauveur and imprinted the canon of the mass on its tablecloth.
Camille Flammarion devotes an entire chapter in his book "Les Caprices de la foudre" to Lamy's observations, and tells us: "A monk, Father Lamy, of the Congregation of Saint-Maur, published in 1696 [Editor's note: 2nd ed.] an excellent pamphlet, dictated by the clearest common sense, on the curious effects of lightning, which were then the subject of the most superstitious commentaries. Voltaire could not have reasoned better.".

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AIKIN, John. 

Observations sur les hôpitaux. 

Londres, Paris, Crapart & Briand, 1777.
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350 €

First french edition.
John Aikin insists on the role of hospitals in the advancement of medical science. First of all, with regard to teaching. Since the founding in 1658 of a clinical school at the Leiden hospital, the use of hospitals as a teaching ground had continued to grow, which Aikin was pleased about and which others sometimes deplored as having disadvantages for the sensitivity, or even the health, of patients. The organization of hospitals as places of teaching and research is the source of our current university hospitals.

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GUIBELET, Jourdain. 

Examen de l'examen des esprits. 

Paris, Veuve Jean de Heuqueville et Louis de Heuqueville, 1631.
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800 €

First edition.
Critical work of the Examen de ingenios para las sciencias by Juan Huarte de San Juan, which had been, in 1575, the first modern treatise to study the relationship between psychology and physiology.
Guibelet offers an in-depth analysis and a refutation of some of Huarte's theses, thus entering into the intellectual debates of the time on the nature of intelligence and human aptitudes. This text constitutes a valuable contribution to the history of ideas and to the study of the reception of psychological and medical theories at the dawn of the 17th century.
Title page in the name of the Heuquevilles with whom Soly (who appears on the privilege) shared the edition.

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