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POUTEAU, Claude.

Mélanges de chirurgie.

Lyon, Geofroy Regnault, 1760.

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250 €

First edition.

Claude Pouteau (1724-1775) was a surgeon who practiced at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.

HALES, Stephen.

La statique des végétaux, et celle des animaux; expériences lues à la Société Royale de Londres.

Paris, Imprimerie de Monsieur, 1779-1780.

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250 €

Founding text of plant physiology, including the study of plant respiration and sap circulation. The book contains Buffon's preface (translator of the text) which highlights the importance of the experimental method.
Stephen Hales (1677-1761) was a British physiologist, chemist and inventor.

HALLER, Albrecht von.

Elémens de physiologie de M. Alb. de Haller.

Paris, Guillyn, 1769.

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130 €

New translation from Latin to French by M. Bordenave of the von Haller's book.

BRACHET, Jean-Louis.

Recherches expérimentales sur les fonctions du système nerveux ganglionaire et sur leur application à la pathologie.

Paris-Lyon-Montpellier, Germer-Baillière - Ch. Savy Jeune - Sévalle et Castel, 1837.

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90 €

Second enlarged edition.
Jean-Louis Brachet (1789-1858), clinical physician, professor of physiology, and Napoleon's surgeon, is known in the field of neuro-physiology for his research.
This book deals with his physiological research on the lymph node nervous system.

PHILIP, Alexander P. W.

An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases.

Philadelphie, Edward & Richard Parker, 1818.

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50 €

Alexander P. W. Philip (1770–1851) was a 19th-century Scottish physician, physiologist and medical author.

CHESNEAU DU MARSAIS, César.

Des tropes, ou des différents sens dans lesquels on peut prendre un même mot dans une même langue.

Paris, Mme Veuve Dabo, 1824.

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60 €

Treaty of Rhetoric, by Caesar Chesneau du Marsais (1676-1756), published for the first time in 1730 and which was a great success.
A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

[BERTRAND, Bernard Nicolas].

Elémens de physiologie composés en faveur de ceux qui commencent à étudier en médecine.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1756.

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150 €

First edition.

A physiology treatise for medical students in the second half of the 18th century, written by Bernard-Nicolas Bertrand (1715-1780).

GRIMAUD, Gabriel || DUROCHER, V. C.

Essai sur la Physiologie Humaine.

Paris, Raymond, 1825.

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65 €

First edition.

REIMAR Hermann Samuel || [RENEAUME de LATACHE Jacques].

Observations physiques et morales sur l'instinct des animaux, leur industrie & leurs moeurs.

Amsterdam - Paris, Changuion - Jombert, 1770.

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190 €

First edition in French.

WHYTT, Robert.

Essais physiologiques.

Paris, Frères Estienne, 1759.

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200 €

First edition in French.

This book is divided into two parts which are : "Des recherches sur les causes du mouvement des fluides dans les très petits vaisseaux des animaux" et "Des observations sur la sensiblité et sur l'irritabilité des parties du corps animal, à l'occasion du mémoire de M. Haller sur ce sujet".
Dr Robert Whytt (1714–1766) was a Scottish physician. President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
His work, on unconscious reflexes, tubercular meningitis, urinary bladder stones, and hysteria, is remembered now most for his book on diseases of the nervous system.

DUMAS, Charles-Louis.

Principes de physiologie ou introduction à la science expérimentale, philosophique et médicale de l'homme vivant.

Paris, Méquignon-Marvis, 1806.

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125 €

Second édition.

Charles-Louis Dumas (1765-1813) was a doctor, dean of the Montpellier medical school in 1807, then rector of the Montpellier academy from 1809 to 1813.
In this book, he develops Paul-Joseph Barthez's doctrine of the vital principle.

BROUSSAIS, François-Joseph-Victor.

Le catéchisme de la médecine physiologique, ou dialogues entre un savant et un jeune médecin.

Paris, Bureau des annales de la médecine physiologique - Mlle. Delaunay, 1824.

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50 €

First edition.

François Broussais (1772-1838) was a French doctor and surgeon of the Revolution and the Empire, known at one time as the "Emperor of Medicine" under the Restoration.
He is the author of a new medical doctrine, abandoned after his death, the "Broussais system" which consists in the theory that all pathologies are the consequences of tissue irritation and inflammation. In this book, Broussais highlights his new theory of physiological medecine.

BORDEU, Théophile de || MINVIELLE.

Traité de médecine théorique & pratique, extrait des ouvrages de M. de Bordeu.

Paris, Ruault, 1774.

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50 €

First edition.

Théophile de Bordeu, (1722 -1776) was a French doctor and philosopher who was an important representative of vitalism. He was part of "L'Encyclopédie" (medecine's articles) and was Madame du Barry's doctor.

CLARETIE, Jules.

Monsieur le Ministre.

Paris, E. Dentu, 1881.

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250 €

First edition.
One of the 12 copies on large paper.
Larger paper copies were unknown.

Presentation copy to Madame Macé / Respectful homage of the author / Jules Claretie / Printed 12 copies on large paper.
"Monsieur le Ministre" is a novel by Jules Clarétie (1840-1913), who was a novelist, playwright, critic, historian and French chronicler of Parisian life.

[PEUGEOT].

Photos anciennes de la Peugeot Type 95.

Pontoise, A. Godefroy, 1910.

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150 €

Very beautiful old prints of a Peugeot car model. The photographed model appears to be a variation of the 95-type output in 1907. The Type 95 is a luxury model of the brand intended to be driven by a driver.

VIGENERE, Blaise de.

Traicté du feu et du sel. Excellent et rare opuscule du Sieur Blaise de Vigenère, Bourbonnois, trouvé parmy ses papiers après son décès.

Rouen, Jacques Cailloué, 1642.

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3500 €

Copy of the 1618 edition.
This classical alchimical treatise contains an interesting passage in which VigenEre described the discovery of the crystalline benzoic acid, obtained by the sublimation of gum benzoin (Partington).

VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de.

Les Honnêtetés littéraires.

s.l., s.n., 1767.

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300 €

Rare edition. Not in Bengesco.

FLOURENS, Pierre.

G. Cuvier - Éloges historiques.

Paris, Paul Ducrocq, [v. 1870].

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35 €

Book containing praises of Cuvier, Daubenton, Priestley, Adanson, Fourcroy, Cavendish, Pallas, Parmentier and Rumford, Haüy, Bertholet and Davy.

PROST, Pierre-Antoine.

Essai physiologique sur la sensibilité.

Paris - Lyon, Chez l'auteur - Demonville - Reymann - J. Ayné, 1805.

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90 €

First edition.

Pierre-Antoine Prost was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Lyon, then in Paris. He published books on medical reform.

KÖLLIKER, Rudolph Albert von.

Embryologie ou traité complet du développement de l'homme et des animaux supérieurs.

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1882.

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50 €

First edition in French.

First book on comparative embryology, first published in 1861 under the title "Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen und der höheren Thiere".
Kölliker (1817-1905) was a Swiss doctor, anatomist, histologist, physiologist, neuroscientist and zoologist, who is well-known for having highlighted the differences between smooth and striated muscles.

STURM, Christophe-Chrétien.

Considérations sur les oeuvres de Dieu, dans le règne de la Nature et de la Providence. Pour tous les jours de l'année.

Lausanne, Hignou et Companie, 1799.

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80 €

Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786) was a German theologian whose most famous work is this book, in which he claims to prove the existence of God from the Natural Sciences.

DAVAINE, Casimir.

Traité des entozoaires et des maladies vermineuses de l'homme et des animaux domestiques.

Paris, J. -B. Baillière et Fils, 1860.

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90 €

First edition.

This book is an important synthesis of the studies carried out in parasitology at the end of the 19th century.

Casimir Davaine (1812-1882) was a French doctor known for his work on the "anthrax disease" (an animal disease transmissible to humans).
Having clarified the etiology of anthrax and its bacterial origin, Davaine paved the way for medical microbiological research. He can therefore be considered as one of the founders of bacteriology and microbiology. With him, the idea of the pathogenic role of bacteria entered medicine.

CORVISART, Jean-Nicolas || AUENBRUGGER, Leopold || BAYLE, Gaspard Laurent.

Essai sur les maladies et les lésions organiques du coeur et des gros vaisseaux
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Nouvelle méthode pour reconnaître les maladies internes de la poitrine par la percussion de cette cavité par Auenbrugger - ouvrage traduit du latin et commenté par Corvisart,
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Recherches sur la phthisie pulmonaire.

Paris, Adolphe Delahays, 1855.

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50 €

This book gathers the fundamental texts written by Corvisart Auenbrugger and Bayle.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique.

Paris, J. -B. Baillière et Fils, 1861.

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250 €

Second edition.
Without the Album published in 1862

Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-1875) is one of the greatest clinicians of the 19th century and the founder of neurology.
He is also one of the pioneers in the use of electricity as an instrument for physiological experiments. The use of alternating current allows it to precisely stimulate only one muscle beam at a time.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique.

Paris, J. B. Baillière et Fils, 1872.

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200 €

Third edition.

Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-1875) is one of the greatest clinicians of the 19th century and the founder of neurology.
He is also one of the pioneers in the use of electricity as an instrument for physiological experiments. The use of alternating current allows it to precisely stimulate only one muscle beam at a time.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique.

Paris, J. -B. Baillière, 1855.

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300 €

First edition.

Duchenne de Boulogne (1806-1875) is one of the greatest clinicians of the 19th century and the founder of neurology.
He is also one of the pioneers in the use of electricity as an instrument for physiological experiments. The use of alternating current allows it to precisely stimulate only one muscle beam at a time.

BROUSSAIS, François-Joseph-Victor.

Histoire des phlegmasies ou inflammations chroniques, fondée sur de nouvelles observations de clinique et d'anatomie pathologique.

Paris, Gabon et Compagnie, 1826.

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75 €

Fourth edition.

François Broussais (1772-1838) was a French doctor and surgeon of the Revolution and the Empire, known at one time as the "Emperor of Medicine" under the Restoration.
He is the author of a new medical doctrine, abandoned after his death, the "Broussais system" which consists in the theory that all pathologies are the consequences of tissue irritation and inflammation.
In this book, Broussais lays the foundations of this doctrine.

MECKEL, Johann Friedrich.

Traité général d'anatomie comparée.

Paris, Villeret et Cie - Rouen Frères - Charles Hingray, 1828 à 1838.

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300 €

First edition in French.

Johann Friedrich Meckel (1781-1833) was a German anatomist and, with Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, one of the founder of teratology (science of anomalies in the anatomical, congenital and hereditary organization of living beings).
He has largely been forgotten, but his name is well-known in the medical world as he remains attached to Meckel's diverticulum.

CHARCOT, Jean-Martin || BOUCHARD, Charles || BRISSAUD, Edouard.

Traité de médecine.

Paris, G. Masson, 1891-1892-1893-1894.

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200 €

First edition.

A major medical treatise of the late 19th century, published under the direction of Charcot, Brissaud and Bouchard.

FOSTER, Michael || BALFOUR, Francis M.

Éléments d'embryologie.

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1877.

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40 €

First edition in French.

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POUTEAU, Claude.

Mélanges de chirurgie.

First edition. Claude Pouteau (1724-1775) was a surgeon who practiced at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.

HALES, Stephen.

La statique des végétaux, et celle des animaux; expériences lues à la Société Royale de Londres.

Founding text of plant physiology, including the study of plant respiration and sap circulation. The book contains Buffon's preface (translator of the text) which highlights the importance of the experimental method. Stephen Hales (1677-1761) was a British physiologist, chemist and inventor.

HALLER, Albrecht von.

Elémens de physiologie de M. Alb. de Haller.

New translation from Latin to French by M. Bordenave of the von Haller's book.

BRACHET, Jean-Louis.

Recherches expérimentales sur les fonctions du système nerveux ganglionaire et sur leur application à la pathologie.

Second enlarged edition. Jean-Louis Brachet (1789-1858), clinical physician, professor of physiology, and Napoleon's surgeon, is known in the field of neuro-physiology for his research. This book deals with his physiological research on the lymph node nervous system.

PHILIP, Alexander P. W.

An experimental inquiry into the laws of the vital functions, with some observations on the nature and treatment of internal diseases.

Alexander P. W. Philip (1770–1851) was a 19th-century Scottish physician, physiologist and medical author.

CHESNEAU DU MARSAIS, César.

Des tropes, ou des différents sens dans lesquels on peut prendre un même mot dans une même langue.

Treaty of Rhetoric, by Caesar Chesneau du Marsais (1676-1756), published for the first time in 1730 and which was a great success. A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

[BERTRAND, Bernard Nicolas].

Elémens de physiologie composés en faveur de ceux qui commencent à étudier en médecine.

First edition. A physiology treatise for medical students in the second half of the 18th century, written by Bernard-Nicolas Bertrand (1715-1780).

GRIMAUD, Gabriel || DUROCHER, V. C.

Essai sur la Physiologie Humaine.

First edition.

REIMAR Hermann Samuel || [RENEAUME de LATACHE Jacques].

Observations physiques et morales sur l'instinct des animaux, leur industrie & leurs moeurs.

First edition in French.

WHYTT, Robert.

Essais physiologiques.

DUMAS, Charles-Louis.

Principes de physiologie ou introduction à la science expérimentale, philosophique et médicale de l'homme vivant.

Second édition. Charles-Louis Dumas (1765-1813) was a doctor, dean of the Montpellier medical school in 1807, then rector of the Montpellier academy from 1809 to 1813. In this book, he develops Paul-Joseph Barthez's doctrine of the vital principle.

BROUSSAIS, François-Joseph-Victor.

Le catéchisme de la médecine physiologique, ou dialogues entre un savant et un jeune médecin.

BORDEU, Théophile de || MINVIELLE.

Traité de médecine théorique & pratique, extrait des ouvrages de M. de Bordeu.

First edition. Théophile de Bordeu, (1722 -1776) was a French doctor and philosopher who was an important representative of vitalism. He was part of "L'Encyclopédie" (medecine's articles) and was Madame du Barry's doctor.

CLARETIE, Jules.

Monsieur le Ministre.

[PEUGEOT].

Photos anciennes de la Peugeot Type 95.

Very beautiful old prints of a Peugeot car model. The photographed model appears to be a variation of the 95-type output in 1907. The Type 95 is a luxury model of the brand intended to be driven by a driver.

VIGENERE, Blaise de.

Traicté du feu et du sel. Excellent et rare opuscule du Sieur Blaise de Vigenère, Bourbonnois, trouvé parmy ses papiers après son décès.

Copy of the 1618 edition. This classical alchimical treatise contains an interesting passage in which VigenEre described the discovery of the crystalline benzoic acid, obtained by the sublimation of gum benzoin (Partington).

VOLTAIRE, François-Marie Arouet de.

Les Honnêtetés littéraires.

Rare edition. Not in Bengesco.

FLOURENS, Pierre.

G. Cuvier - Éloges historiques.

Book containing praises of Cuvier, Daubenton, Priestley, Adanson, Fourcroy, Cavendish, Pallas, Parmentier and Rumford, Haüy, Bertholet and Davy.

PROST, Pierre-Antoine.

Essai physiologique sur la sensibilité.

First edition. Pierre-Antoine Prost was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Lyon, then in Paris. He published books on medical reform.

KÖLLIKER, Rudolph Albert von.

Embryologie ou traité complet du développement de l'homme et des animaux supérieurs.

STURM, Christophe-Chrétien.

Considérations sur les oeuvres de Dieu, dans le règne de la Nature et de la Providence. Pour tous les jours de l'année.

Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786) was a German theologian whose most famous work is this book, in which he claims to prove the existence of God from the Natural Sciences.

DAVAINE, Casimir.

Traité des entozoaires et des maladies vermineuses de l'homme et des animaux domestiques.

CORVISART, Jean-Nicolas || AUENBRUGGER, Leopold || BAYLE, Gaspard Laurent.

This book gathers the fundamental texts written by Corvisart Auenbrugger and Bayle.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique.

DUCHENNE DE BOULOGNE, Guillaume-Benjamin.

De l'électrisation localisée et de son application à la physiologie, à la pathologie et à la thérapeutique.

BROUSSAIS, François-Joseph-Victor.

Histoire des phlegmasies ou inflammations chroniques, fondée sur de nouvelles observations de clinique et d'anatomie pathologique.

MECKEL, Johann Friedrich.

Traité général d'anatomie comparée.

CHARCOT, Jean-Martin || BOUCHARD, Charles || BRISSAUD, Edouard.

Traité de médecine.

First edition. A major medical treatise of the late 19th century, published under the direction of Charcot, Brissaud and Bouchard.

FOSTER, Michael || BALFOUR, Francis M.

Éléments d'embryologie.

First edition in French.

First edition.

Claude Pouteau (1724-1775) was a surgeon who practiced at the Hôtel-Dieu in Lyon.

Founding text of plant physiology, including the study of plant respiration and sap circulation. The book contains Buffon's preface (translator of the text) which highlights the importance of the experimental method.
Stephen Hales (1677-1761) was a British physiologist, chemist and inventor.

Second enlarged edition.
Jean-Louis Brachet (1789-1858), clinical physician, professor of physiology, and Napoleon's surgeon, is known in the field of neuro-physiology for his research.
This book deals with his physiological research on the lymph node nervous system.

Treaty of Rhetoric, by Caesar Chesneau du Marsais (1676-1756), published for the first time in 1730 and which was a great success.
A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.

First edition.

A physiology treatise for medical students in the second half of the 18th century, written by Bernard-Nicolas Bertrand (1715-1780).

Second édition.

Charles-Louis Dumas (1765-1813) was a doctor, dean of the Montpellier medical school in 1807, then rector of the Montpellier academy from 1809 to 1813.
In this book, he develops Paul-Joseph Barthez's doctrine of the vital principle.

First edition.

Théophile de Bordeu, (1722 -1776) was a French doctor and philosopher who was an important representative of vitalism. He was part of "L'Encyclopédie" (medecine's articles) and was Madame du Barry's doctor.

Copy of the 1618 edition.
This classical alchimical treatise contains an interesting passage in which VigenEre described the discovery of the crystalline benzoic acid, obtained by the sublimation of gum benzoin (Partington).

First edition.

Pierre-Antoine Prost was a surgeon at Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in Lyon, then in Paris. He published books on medical reform.

First edition.

A major medical treatise of the late 19th century, published under the direction of Charcot, Brissaud and Bouchard.