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VERNE, Jules.

Cinq semaines en ballon.

Paris, Bibliothèque d'Éducation et de Récréation, J. Hetzel et Cie, [1874].

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500 €

"Cinq semaines en ballon" is Jules Verne's first novel published by Hetzel. It marks the beginning of a long collaboration between the very talented and prolific writer and his publisher.
Rare in this color.

CORNU, Alfred.

Mémoire sur la détermination de la vitesse de la lumière entre l'observatoire et Montlhéry, par M. A. Cornu. in Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris, publiées par U. -J. Le Verrier - Mémoires - Tome XIII.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1876.

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200 €

First edition.

Alfred Cornu (1841-1902), is famous for his three measurements of the speed of light between 1872 and 1874, made with the method of Fizeau for which he had great admiration.
The last and the best was done between the Observatory and the Montlhéry Tower. This article of 315 pages, is devoted to this last experiment.
The article "Recherches sur les observations magnétiques faites à l'observatoire de Paris de 1667 à 1872", by M. G. Rayet is bound in at the end of the volume.

PICASSO, Pablo || GRAVURES.

Picasso.

Paris, Larousse Diffusion, 1988.

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100 €

This slipcase contains reproductions of 10 artworks, dated between 1905 and 1952. It was realized with the collaboration of Maya Picasso, the artist's daughter.
2000 numbered copies were printed on Yearling paper from Arjomari-Prioux.

[ANONYME].

Le médecin dés-interressé, ou l'on trouvera l'élite de plusieurs remèdes infaillibles, très expérimentez, & a peu de frais.

Paris, Pierre Aubouyn - Pierre Emery - Charles Clouzier, 1695.

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First edition.

This book is a collection of ancient remedies to cure various diseases such as jaundice, pox and many others.

OZANAM, Jacques.

Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges élémentaires.

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1723.

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900 €

New edition, revised, corrected and augmented since the first one published in 1694.
The first edition with 136 plates.
This book on mathematics and physics deals with various problems in arithmetic, geometry, music, optics, gnomonics, cosmography, mechanics, acoustics, pyrotechnics, physics, water clocks, natural phosphors, perpetual lamps, etc.

[ROCHELLE DE BRECY, Adélaïde-Isabelle].

L'origine de la chouannerie, ou mémoires de Stéphanie de Tress, pour servir à l'histoire de nos guerres civiles.

Paris, Ouvrier, 1803.

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400 €

First edition.

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis.

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique.

Paris, Durand, 1762.

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700 €

First edition.
This book was a great success in the field of Natural Sciences as soon as it was published.
Étienne-Louis Geoffroy (1725-1810, French pharmacist and entomologist) introduced a new classification of insects based on the study of wings and established six different groups (beetles, hemiptera, mealy-winged tetraptera, bare-winged tetraptera, diptera and aptera).

CARDAN, Jérôme, (CARDANI, Hieronymi).

Arcana politica, sive de prudentia civili liber singularis.

Leyde, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635.

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150 €

Second Elzevir edition.

This book by Jérôme Cardan was first published in 1627 with the title "Proxeneta", which means "the negotiator".
It deals with political life and court, household management, academia, and intellectual pursuits.

PUGNET, Jean-François-Xavier.

Mémoires sur les fièvres de mauvais caractère du levant et des antilles, avec un aperçu physique et médical du Sayd, et un essai sur la topographe de Sainte-Lucie dédiés à l'empereur.

Lyon, Reymann, An XII - 1804.

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500 €

Jean-François-Xavier Pugnet (1765-1846) was a French military doctor who distinguished himself during the Egyptian campaign, first at the Rosette hospital and then at Cairo where he was confronted with the plague. He then went to the West Indies to study yellow fever and compare it to Levant fevers.
He compiles his observations from 1802, here the most complete edition plus the part on Saint Lucia.

The folding plate takes up a low relief collected in Egypt in a tomb representing the fertilization of the Earth by the Sun.

[SECRETS].

Secrets concernant les arts et métiers.

Paris, Claude Jombert, 1716.

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350 €

First edition.
This book contains many craft secrets for the decorative arts with the recipes of varnishes, ink, dyes useful to painters, engravers, jewelers, cabinetmakers, perfumers ... A real treasure for the restorers of objects of the eighteenth century.

VITET, Louis.

Traité de la Sangsue médicinale.

Paris, H. Nicolle, 1809.

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400 €

First posthumous edition.

Lyonnais physician, Louis Vitet (1736-1809) became mayor of Lyon during the revolutionary period. It is his son who publishes this book according to the works left by his father.
Complete treatise on the medicinal leech, which describes its anatomy, physiology and uses in the patient. Supplementary bleeding animal still widely used at the beginning of the 19th century.

[BEAUMONT, L. de] || ROBIDA, Albert.

Le cas du vidame, par l'Académicien d'estampes.

Paris, A la librairie illustrée, [ca. 1889].

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550 €

Copy on Japan paper.
Presentation copy to Monsieur Achille by Albert Robida, with a fine drawing by the artist (Profile of a woman wearing a nice hat).

Robida (1848-1926) illustrates here, with his characteristic style full of life, the funny story of a mismatched wedding, which begins with a disastrous wedding night.

COTES, Roger.

Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l'équilibre des liqueurs, & sur la nature & les propriétés de l'air.

Paris, David fils, 1742.

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700 €

First edition in French.

Roger Cotes (1682-1716) was an English mathematician, closed to Isaac Newton with whom he shared the discovery of the Newton-Cotes method of numerical analysis, which generally extended the trapezoidal method and Simpson's method for calculating integrals.
This book was first published posthumously in 1738 under the title "Hydrostatical and Pneumatic Lectures", and it contains the first French translation of Newton's scale of degrees of heat, his law of cooling.

VAUGONDY, Didier Robert de.

Usages des globes céleste et terrestre, faits par ordre du Roy.

Paris, Antoine Boudet, 1751.

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First edition.

In this book, Didier Robert de Vaugondy (1723-1786) explained how the globes he made for Louis XV worked.
Born into a family of geographers and cartographers, Didier Rober de Vaugondy was appointed geographer to the king, like his father, and became the royal censor for books concerning geography, navigation and travel in 1773.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von || COLLOT, André.

Faust - Le Second Faust. Illustré par A. Collot.

Paris, La tradition, [1937-1938].

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800 €

On of the 34 copies on Japon Impérial paper, with an additionnal suite and an original drawing. Our copy contain an second additional drawing.

Translation by Gérard de Nerval, with illustrations by André Collot.

André Collot (1897-1976) was a French illustrator, engraver and painter known for his many illustrations of erotic books. However, by working on the illustration of Goethe's "Faust", he revealed a darker part of his work and succeeded in transcribing all the tragedy of the work of the famous German writer.

PELOUZE, Edmond.

Secrets modernes des arts et métiers.

Paris, Librairie de Maison, 1840 - 1850.

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350 €

Third edition, the most important, because contains a description of the Daguerreotype's technique, presented at the Academy of Sciences of Paris on 7th January 1839 by Arago,

This book consists in many different chapters with one that reproduced the full text of the description of this revolutionary process, taken from the « Historique et description du daguerréotype et du diorama », published in 1839 by Daguerre.

It is one of the first diffusions of this technique in a book of scientific popularization (in 1840), which shows the huge success of photography among the public.

Complete copy in 3 volumes, with an additional manuscript volume written by an anonymous author (it contains a set of manufacturing methods for products such as linen marking ink, marine glue or how to make fabrics waterproof).

MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques.

Traité de Chimie contenant la manière de préparer les remèdes qui sont les plus en usage dans la Pratique de la Médecine.

Paris, Guillaume Cavelier, 1734.

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300 €

First edition.
Paul-Jacques Malouin (1701-1778) is a French chemist and doctor. This chemistry treatise is intended for the use of doctors and pharmacists, it mainly offers preparations based on metals (mercury, antimony ..) and salts (tartar, ammonia ..).

CHAMBON, Joseph.

Principes de physique, rapportés à la médecine-pratique
[qui comprend le]
Traité des métaux et des minéraux, et des remèdes qu'on peut en tirer. Avec dissertations sur le sel & le soufre des philosophes, & sur la goute, la gravelle, la petite vérole, la rougeole & autres maladies : avec un grand nombre de remèdes choisis.

Paris, Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1750.

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450 €

Rare edition. The second volume contain the Traité des métaux et des minéraux (1750).

PACIUS, Julius.

Enantiophanon [graece] seu legum conciliatarum centuriae decem.

Lyon, Petri Ravaud, 1643.

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150 €

This book deals with law and was written by by Giulio Pace da Beriga (1550-1635), who was a recognized professor of law and an Italian jurisconsult.

RENOU, Jean.

Dispensatorium medicum, contineus : Institutionum pharmaceuticarum lib. V ; de Materia medica lib. III ; Pharmacopeam itidem, sive Antidotarium varium et absolutissimum.

Paris, Apud Societatem Minimam, 1623.

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450 €

Jean de Renou (1568-1620) is a French doctor who treated the three kings Henri, his pharmaceutical dispensary was a great success and was reissued many times in the first half of the seventeenth century.

CHESNEAU, Nicolas.

La Pharmacie théorique nouvellement recueillie de divers autheurs.

Paris, F. Léonard, 1670.

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250 €

Second edition enriched by a treatise on chemical remedies.

Nicolas Chesneau (1601? -1680?) Doctor, graduated from the faculty of Toulouse exercised in Marseille.
In the preamble, a sonnet written by R. Dares summarizes the work as follows:
"You run everywhere from shop to shop,
And pretend seeing various practitioners
Acquire the reputation of true pharmacists;
Learn from Chesneau rather the theoretical.

He gathered you from a methodical order,
All that the writers, Hebreux, Egyptians
Greeks, Arabs, Latins, new or old,
have left in writing of the Pharmaceutical Art ".

MYNSICHT, Adrian von.

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum.

Lyon, Jean Antoine Huguetan, 1640.

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1500 €

Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) is a German physician and alchemist. In his Thesaurus, he gives us his best recipes of ointments, emplatres, liqueurs for medicine. As always at this time, chemistry, alchemy and pharmacopoeia are closely intertwined.
In the Testamentum Hadrianeum following the Thesaurus, we are given in a versified form the secret of the philosopher's stone of Mynsicht.
Rare edition not spotted by Ferguson, nor Caillet.

LE GIVRE, Pierre.

Le Secret des eaux minérales acides.

Paris, Jean Ribou, 1667.

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450 €

First edition.
A rare work by Pierre Le Givre (1618-1684) French doctor who had made a specialty of the study of mineral waters.
The book is particularly interested in the water of Provins, the author attempts an analysis of its composition and publishes several letters from his opponents to which he responds.

[TESSARI, Ludovico].

Materia Medica Contracta.

Venise, Nicolai Pezzana, 1762.

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450 €

First edition.
A rare work by Ludovico Tessari which proposes a pharmacopoeia classified according to the three kingdoms of nature: mineral, vegetable, animal.
For each compound, it is proposed the medical use that can be made.
Beautiful venitian print.

LA GARAYE, Claude Tousaint Marot, Comte de.

Chymie hydraulique, pour extraire les sels essentiels des végétaux, animaux & minéraux, par le moyen de l'eau pure.

Paris, Didot le jeune, 1775.

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750 €

Second edition. Interresting for the Parmentier addtions and much rarer than the first.

BERTRAND, Elie.

Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres, et des fossiles accidentels.

Avignon, Louis Chambeau, 1763.

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450 €

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).
Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

Amsterdam, Pierre Mortier, 1745.

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150 €

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph.

Elémens de chymie théorique.

Paris, Jean-Thomas Hérissant, 1749.

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400 €

First edition.
This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.

BACHELET, Théodore || DEZOBRY, Charles.

Dictionnaire général des lettres, des beaux-arts et des sciences morales et politiques.

Paris, Ch. Delagrave, 1886.

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50 €

LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Lectures pour tous ou extraits des oeuvres générales de Lamartine.

Paris, L. Hachette et Cie, 1860.

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40 €

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French poet, novelist, playwright and political figure who was envolved in the Revolution of February 1848, and proclaimed the Second Republic. He is one of the great figures of romanticism in France.

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VERNE, Jules.

Cinq semaines en ballon.

"Cinq semaines en ballon" is Jules Verne's first novel published by Hetzel. It marks the beginning of a long collaboration between the very talented and prolific writer and his publisher. Rare in this color.

CORNU, Alfred.

Mémoire sur la détermination de la vitesse de la lumière entre l'observatoire et Montlhéry, par M. A. Cornu. in Annales de l'Observatoire de Paris, publiées par U. -J. Le Verrier - Mémoires - Tome XIII.

PICASSO, Pablo || GRAVURES.

Picasso.

This slipcase contains reproductions of 10 artworks, dated between 1905 and 1952. It was realized with the collaboration of Maya Picasso, the artist's daughter. 2000 numbered copies were printed on Yearling paper from Arjomari-Prioux.

[ANONYME].

Le médecin dés-interressé, ou l'on trouvera l'élite de plusieurs remèdes infaillibles, très expérimentez, & a peu de frais.

First edition.This book is a collection of ancient remedies to cure various diseases such as jaundice, pox and many others.

OZANAM, Jacques.

Récréations mathématiques et physiques, qui contiennent plusieurs problèmes d'arithmétique, de géométrie, de musique, d'optique, de gnomonique, de cosmographie, de mécanique, de pyrotechnie, & de physique. Avec un traité des horloges élémentaires.

[ROCHELLE DE BRECY, Adélaïde-Isabelle].

L'origine de la chouannerie, ou mémoires de Stéphanie de Tress, pour servir à l'histoire de nos guerres civiles.

First edition.

GEOFFROY, Étienne-Louis.

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris; dans laquelle ces animaux sont rangés suivant un ordre méthodique.

CARDAN, Jérôme, (CARDANI, Hieronymi).

Arcana politica, sive de prudentia civili liber singularis.

Second Elzevir edition. This book by Jérôme Cardan was first published in 1627 with the title "Proxeneta", which means "the negotiator". It deals with political life and court, household management, academia, and intellectual pursuits.

PUGNET, Jean-François-Xavier.

Mémoires sur les fièvres de mauvais caractère du levant et des antilles, avec un aperçu physique et médical du Sayd, et un essai sur la topographe de Sainte-Lucie dédiés à l'empereur.

[SECRETS].

Secrets concernant les arts et métiers.

First edition. This book contains many craft secrets for the decorative arts with the recipes of varnishes, ink, dyes useful to painters, engravers, jewelers, cabinetmakers, perfumers ... A real treasure for the restorers of objects of the eighteenth century.

VITET, Louis.

Traité de la Sangsue médicinale.

[BEAUMONT, L. de] || ROBIDA, Albert.

Le cas du vidame, par l'Académicien d'estampes.

COTES, Roger.

Leçons de physique expérimentale, sur l'équilibre des liqueurs, & sur la nature & les propriétés de l'air.

VAUGONDY, Didier Robert de.

Usages des globes céleste et terrestre, faits par ordre du Roy.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von || COLLOT, André.

Faust - Le Second Faust. Illustré par A. Collot.

PELOUZE, Edmond.

Secrets modernes des arts et métiers.

MALOUIN, Paul-Jacques.

Traité de Chimie contenant la manière de préparer les remèdes qui sont les plus en usage dans la Pratique de la Médecine.

First edition. Paul-Jacques Malouin (1701-1778) is a French chemist and doctor. This chemistry treatise is intended for the use of doctors and pharmacists, it mainly offers preparations based on metals (mercury, antimony ..) and salts (tartar, ammonia ..).

CHAMBON, Joseph.

Rare edition. The second volume contain the Traité des métaux et des minéraux (1750).

PACIUS, Julius.

Enantiophanon [graece] seu legum conciliatarum centuriae decem.

This book deals with law and was written by by Giulio Pace da Beriga (1550-1635), who was a recognized professor of law and an Italian jurisconsult.

RENOU, Jean.

Dispensatorium medicum, contineus : Institutionum pharmaceuticarum lib. V ; de Materia medica lib. III ; Pharmacopeam itidem, sive Antidotarium varium et absolutissimum.

Jean de Renou (1568-1620) is a French doctor who treated the three kings Henri, his pharmaceutical dispensary was a great success and was reissued many times in the first half of the seventeenth century.

CHESNEAU, Nicolas.

La Pharmacie théorique nouvellement recueillie de divers autheurs.

MYNSICHT, Adrian von.

Thesaurus et Armamentarium medico chymicum.

LE GIVRE, Pierre.

Le Secret des eaux minérales acides.

[TESSARI, Ludovico].

Materia Medica Contracta.

First edition. A rare work by Ludovico Tessari which proposes a pharmacopoeia classified according to the three kingdoms of nature: mineral, vegetable, animal. For each compound, it is proposed the medical use that can be made. Beautiful venitian print.

LA GARAYE, Claude Tousaint Marot, Comte de.

Chymie hydraulique, pour extraire les sels essentiels des végétaux, animaux & minéraux, par le moyen de l'eau pure.

Second edition. Interresting for the Parmentier addtions and much rarer than the first.

BERTRAND, Elie.

Dictionnaire universel des fossiles propres, et des fossiles accidentels.

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

BERKELEY, George.

Recherches sur les vertus de l'eau de goudron.

First edition in French. One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop. Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

MACQUER, Pierre Joseph.

Elémens de chymie théorique.

First edition. This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.

BACHELET, Théodore || DEZOBRY, Charles.

Dictionnaire général des lettres, des beaux-arts et des sciences morales et politiques.

LAMARTINE, Alphonse de.

Lectures pour tous ou extraits des oeuvres générales de Lamartine.

Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) was a French poet, novelist, playwright and political figure who was envolved in the Revolution of February 1848, and proclaimed the Second Republic. He is one of the great figures of romanticism in France.

"Cinq semaines en ballon" is Jules Verne's first novel published by Hetzel. It marks the beginning of a long collaboration between the very talented and prolific writer and his publisher.
Rare in this color.

This slipcase contains reproductions of 10 artworks, dated between 1905 and 1952. It was realized with the collaboration of Maya Picasso, the artist's daughter.
2000 numbered copies were printed on Yearling paper from Arjomari-Prioux.

First edition.

This book is a collection of ancient remedies to cure various diseases such as jaundice, pox and many others.

Second Elzevir edition.

This book by Jérôme Cardan was first published in 1627 with the title "Proxeneta", which means "the negotiator".
It deals with political life and court, household management, academia, and intellectual pursuits.

First edition.
This book contains many craft secrets for the decorative arts with the recipes of varnishes, ink, dyes useful to painters, engravers, jewelers, cabinetmakers, perfumers ... A real treasure for the restorers of objects of the eighteenth century.

First edition.
Paul-Jacques Malouin (1701-1778) is a French chemist and doctor. This chemistry treatise is intended for the use of doctors and pharmacists, it mainly offers preparations based on metals (mercury, antimony ..) and salts (tartar, ammonia ..).

First edition.
A rare work by Ludovico Tessari which proposes a pharmacopoeia classified according to the three kingdoms of nature: mineral, vegetable, animal.
For each compound, it is proposed the medical use that can be made.
Beautiful venitian print.

First edition, The Avignon issue (there is also an Hague issue).
Dictionary of oryctology, a term used in the 18th century for the study of Earth Sciences (which includes geology, mineralogy, crystallography, paleontology and volcanology).

First edition in French.

One of the last important books published by George Berkeley (1685-1753), an Irish Anglican philosopher and bishop.
Tar water was a medicine widely used in the Middle Ages, with a very bad taste and made from water and pine or birch tar.

First edition.
This book is one of the most influential treatises of the mid-18th century.