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GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard.

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce.

Lyon, David Forey, 1719.

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2200 €

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

BOSSE, Abraham || DESARGUES, Girard.

La manière universelle de Mr. Desargues lyonnais pour poser l'essieu & placer les heures & autres choses aux cadrans au soleil.

Paris, Pierre Des-Hayes, 1643.

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1300 €

First edition, beautifully illustrated by Abraham Bosse (1602-76), who was Desargues's most ardent propagandist.
This is an important work in the "French perspective wars" from 1630-80.

MOUREY, Gabriel || QUELVÉE, François.

Fêtes foraines.

Paris, André Delpeuch, 1927.

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100 €

Dedication copy from the author and from the illustrator.

GUY DES CARS.

La dame du cirque.

Paris, Raoul Solar, 1953.

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50 €

Presentation copy to Jacques Rumpf.

BOSTOCK, Franck C.

Le Dressage des Fauves.

Paris, Hachette, 1904.

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90 €

with 34 plates.
Rare.

CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis.

La théorie de la lumière.

Paris, De Bure Frères, 1830.

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750 €

Rare original edition of this first memory of Cauchy on the propagation of light.

BERTRAND, Gabriel.

Réflexions nouvelles sur l'acide et sur l'alcali où après avoir démontré que ces deux sels ne peuvent pas être les principes des mixtes, on fait voir le véritable usage qu'on en peut faire dans la physique & dans la médecine.

Lyon, Thomas Amaulry, 1683.

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450 €

Scarce first edition.

AFFAIRE GIRARD-CADIÈRE.

Recueil des pièces concernant le procès entre la Demoiselle Cadière, de la Ville de Toulon et le Père Girard, Jésuite.

s.l., s.n., 1731.

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1950 €

Collection of 45 pieces of the witchcraft trials of Girard priest, accused of bewitching, raped and aborted on a girl of Toulon, Catherine Cadière.

BERTHELOT, Marcelin.

Thermochimie. Données et lois numériques.

Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1897.

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250 €

First edition.

WRONSKI, Hoëné.

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806.

Paris, A dépot des ouvrages de l'auteur, 1879.

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550 €

First edition published after the death of Wronski.

BONNAFFÉ, Edmond.

Les Faiences de Saint-Porchaire.

Paris, s.n., 1888.

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50 €

Rare offprint of the study published in the "gazette des beaux arts"on Faiences of Saint-Porchaire.

MAYRANX, Dr || HUBER, François.

Fragments d'Hubert sur les abeilles.

Paris, Méquignon-Havard, 1829.

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300 €

Rare study on bees.

FAVA, Mgr Amand-Joseph.

Le secret de la Franc-maçonnerie.

Lille, Société de Saint-Augustin, Desclée, De Brouwer et Cie, 1883.

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45 €

Second edition of this anti Masonic work.

WALSH, Cte Théobald.

Dunglas Home et le spiritualisme américain.

Paris, J.claye, 1858.

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600 €

Scarce first edition of this wotk on Dunglas Home and american spiritualism.
Only 100 copy printed.
Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Guaita ...
Dunglas Home was one of the greatest mediums of his time.
Inscribed copy.

BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse.

Traité de l'art metalique, extrait des Oeuvres d'Alvarez Alfonse Barba, célèbre artiste dans les mines du Potozi, auquel on a joint un mémoire concernant les mines de France; avec un Tarif qui démontre les opérations qu'il faudroit faire pour tirer de ces mines l'or et l'argent qu'en tiroient les Romains lorsqu'ils étoient maîtres de Gaules.

Paris, Pierre Prault, 1730.

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450 €

First edition in french
Rare book containing curious precepts of hermeticism and data on metal art.

[MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de].

Le chien après les moines.

Genève, J.Gay et fils, 1869.

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280 €

Edition limited to 100 copy.

MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin || TRILLEAU, G.

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, comédie-ballet Faite à Chambord, pour le divertissement du Roi.

Paris, Les Pharmaciens Bibliophiles, 1932.

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120 €

Limited edition to 175 copy. This, number 25 printed for Monsieur Kuypers-Cochard.
With illustrations from G.Trilleau.

STAHL, Georg Ernst.

Experimenta, Observationes, Animadversiones, CCC Numero Chymicae et Physicae.

Berlin, Haude, 1731.

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750 €

First edition.
"An important work in 301 sections in wihch Stahl comments critically on a wide variety of chemical and physical phenomena and experiments. There is a long discussion on phlogiston and its supposed properties (section 38, pp.55-64)... This work, published just three years before he died, is interresting because it summarizes Stahl's theories toward the end of his life" (Neville).

PRESTET, Jean.

Nouveaux elemens des mathematiques ou principes generaux de toutes les sciences qui ont les grandeurs pour objet.

Paris, André Pralard, 1689.

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1200 €

Second enlarged edition.
This edition is important because Prestet gives (Volume 1 p.140 to p.150) for the first time his some early work on the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER.

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P.

Paris, F. Louis, 1809.

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1200 €

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

PERERIUS, Benedictus.

Adversus fallaces et superstitiosas Artes. Id est, de Magia, de Observasione Somniorum et de Divinatione Astrologica.

Lugduni, Officina Juntarum, 1592.

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1750 €

Rare treaty on witchcraft and magic of the sixteenth century.
Lyon first edition (first in 1591), well complete with the last blank leaf (with old manuscript notes).
The book is divided into three parts. The first deals with different aspects of magic, the second is about dreams and their interpretation and the last on astrology.

LABORDE, Léon de.

Recherches sur ce qu'il s'est conservé dans l'Egypte moderne de la science des anciens magiciens.

Lille, Jules Renouard et Cie, 1841.

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600 €

Scarce. Only 25 copies.
Work on Egyptian magic.

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius).

La royalle Chymie de Crollius,
traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene.

Lyon, Pierre Drobet, 1627.

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1750 €

Second French edition of this collection of treatises on alchemy of Oswald Croll, one of the first disciples of Paracelsus, translated by the surgeon Jean Marcel Boleyn.
The book is divided into three treaties:
- The first offers a admonitoire Preface, containing the very deep mysteries & Philosophy rarest of both natural grace, reaching the excellence of medicine Chymical, and magnitude of the Microcosm;
- The second is "la Royalle chymie de Crollius", describing various remedies and recipes of Medicine;
- The third one, separate pagination, is finally a Traict signatures, or true and deep anatomy of the great and little world. This part contains many signs and alchemical symbols often lacking.
Edition with engraved title page.

FABRY, Eugène.

L'art de construire les ballons en papier.

Paris, Ch.Mendel, [1884].

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650 €

Mathematician (he worked on differential equations), Fabry gives here a funny and interresting work on how to build small balloons in paper that can fly.
The book begins with guide on how build balloons. It then explains how to inflate and fly them.
The book continues with a theoretical part allowing the reader to develop himself further plans and ends with an indication of the accessories that can be carried away in a balloon, and in particular the way to build parachutes.
Rare work which is not in any French public library (source: ccfr).

CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père.

Effets de la force de la contiguité des corps par lesquelles on répond aux expériences de la crainte du Vuide, & à celles de la Pesanteur de l'Air.

Paris, Etienne Ducastin, 1689.

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950 €

First edition, re-issue with cancel title (first issue 1679 with the imprint of Couterot, an other in 1689 of Lucas).
In this work, Chérubin d'Orléans discuss of the air-pump experiments of Pascal and Torricelli. He thought that vaccuum doesn't exist.

BROCA, Paul.

Mémoires d'anthropologie.

Paris, Reinwald, 1871-88.

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2200 €

First edition, scarce with the fourth and fifth volumes, published after the death of Broca.

BOURQUELOT, Felix.

Recherches sur la lycanthropie.

s.l., s.n., [1848].

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450 €

Rare offprint from XIXe volume des Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de France".
Scholarship paper on lycanthropy.

ALENCE, Joachim d'.

Traitté de l'aiman. Divisé en deux parties. La premiére contient les expériences; & la seconde les raisons que l'on en peut rendre. Par M. D***.

Amsterdam, Henry Wetstein, 1687.

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900 €

First edition of this complete treatise on magnets.
Beautiful 33 engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeek, the pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe.

DAVILLIER, Jean Charles.

La Fayence; poème de P. de Frasnay suivi de Vasa Faventina Carmen (1735) avec une introduction sur l'usage et le prix des faïences aux siècles derniers.

Paris, Aubry, 1870.

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150 €

First edition. One of the rare on Whatman paper.

DAVILLIER, Jean Charles.

La Fayence; poème de P. de Frasnay suivi de Vasa Faventina Carmen (1735) avec une introduction sur l'usage et le prix des faïences aux siècles derniers.

Paris, Aubry, 1870.

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50 €

First edition.

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GROLLIER DE SERVIÈRE, Gaspard.

Recueil d'ouvrages curieux de mathématique et de mécanique, ou description du cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servière avec des figures en taille douce.

First edition. Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

BOSSE, Abraham || DESARGUES, Girard.

La manière universelle de Mr. Desargues lyonnais pour poser l'essieu & placer les heures & autres choses aux cadrans au soleil.

First edition, beautifully illustrated by Abraham Bosse (1602-76), who was Desargues's most ardent propagandist. This is an important work in the "French perspective wars" from 1630-80.

MOUREY, Gabriel || QUELVÉE, François.

Fêtes foraines.

Dedication copy from the author and from the illustrator.

GUY DES CARS.

La dame du cirque.

Presentation copy to Jacques Rumpf.

BOSTOCK, Franck C.

Le Dressage des Fauves.

with 34 plates. Rare.

CAUCHY, Augustian-Louis.

La théorie de la lumière.

Rare original edition of this first memory of Cauchy on the propagation of light.

BERTRAND, Gabriel.

Réflexions nouvelles sur l'acide et sur l'alcali où après avoir démontré que ces deux sels ne peuvent pas être les principes des mixtes, on fait voir le véritable usage qu'on en peut faire dans la physique & dans la médecine.

Scarce first edition.

AFFAIRE GIRARD-CADIÈRE.

Recueil des pièces concernant le procès entre la Demoiselle Cadière, de la Ville de Toulon et le Père Girard, Jésuite.

Collection of 45 pieces of the witchcraft trials of Girard priest, accused of bewitching, raped and aborted on a girl of Toulon, Catherine Cadière.

BERTHELOT, Marcelin.

Thermochimie. Données et lois numériques.

First edition.

WRONSKI, Hoëné.

Sept manuscrits inédits, écrits de 1803 à 1806.

First edition published after the death of Wronski.

BONNAFFÉ, Edmond.

Les Faiences de Saint-Porchaire.

Rare offprint of the study published in the "gazette des beaux arts"on Faiences of Saint-Porchaire.

MAYRANX, Dr || HUBER, François.

Fragments d'Hubert sur les abeilles.

Rare study on bees.

FAVA, Mgr Amand-Joseph.

Le secret de la Franc-maçonnerie.

Second edition of this anti Masonic work.

WALSH, Cte Théobald.

Dunglas Home et le spiritualisme américain.

Scarce first edition of this wotk on Dunglas Home and american spiritualism. Only 100 copy printed. Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Guaita ... Dunglas Home was one of the greatest mediums of his time. Inscribed copy.

BARBA, Alvarez Alphonse.

First edition in french Rare book containing curious precepts of hermeticism and data on metal art.

[MIRABEAU, Honoré Gabriel Riquetti comte de].

Le chien après les moines.

Edition limited to 100 copy.

MOLIERE, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin || TRILLEAU, G.

Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, comédie-ballet Faite à Chambord, pour le divertissement du Roi.

Limited edition to 175 copy. This, number 25 printed for Monsieur Kuypers-Cochard. With illustrations from G.Trilleau.

STAHL, Georg Ernst.

Experimenta, Observationes, Animadversiones, CCC Numero Chymicae et Physicae.

PRESTET, Jean.

Nouveaux elemens des mathematiques ou principes generaux de toutes les sciences qui ont les grandeurs pour objet.

Second enlarged edition. This edition is important because Prestet gives (Volume 1 p.140 to p.150) for the first time his some early work on the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.

[PONCE, Nicolas] || LAVATER.

Le Lavater historique des femmes célèbres, des temps anciens et modernes; orné de douze portraits et de douze figures d'expressions, gravés en taille douce, d'après le meilleurs originaux. Par M. P.

First edition, scarce first issue. A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page. Rare with the plates colored.

PERERIUS, Benedictus.

Adversus fallaces et superstitiosas Artes. Id est, de Magia, de Observasione Somniorum et de Divinatione Astrologica.

LABORDE, Léon de.

Recherches sur ce qu'il s'est conservé dans l'Egypte moderne de la science des anciens magiciens.

Scarce. Only 25 copies. Work on Egyptian magic.

CROLL, Oswald (Crollius).

La royalle Chymie de Crollius, traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene.

FABRY, Eugène.

L'art de construire les ballons en papier.

CHERUBIN D'ORLEANS, Père.

Effets de la force de la contiguité des corps par lesquelles on répond aux expériences de la crainte du Vuide, & à celles de la Pesanteur de l'Air.

First edition, re-issue with cancel title (first issue 1679 with the imprint of Couterot, an other in 1689 of Lucas). In this work, Chérubin d'Orléans discuss of the air-pump experiments of Pascal and Torricelli. He thought that vaccuum doesn't exist.

BROCA, Paul.

Mémoires d'anthropologie.

First edition, scarce with the fourth and fifth volumes, published after the death of Broca.

BOURQUELOT, Felix.

Recherches sur la lycanthropie.

Rare offprint from XIXe volume des Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de France". Scholarship paper on lycanthropy.

ALENCE, Joachim d'.

Traitté de l'aiman. Divisé en deux parties. La premiére contient les expériences; & la seconde les raisons que l'on en peut rendre. Par M. D***.

First edition of this complete treatise on magnets. Beautiful 33 engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeek, the pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe.

DAVILLIER, Jean Charles.

First edition.
Among the mechanical inventions depicted in Grollier de Serviere's Cabinet are those for propelling ships, making elevations, various kinds of clocks, lamps, mechanical figures, mills, optical contrivances and geometrical instruments.

First edition, beautifully illustrated by Abraham Bosse (1602-76), who was Desargues's most ardent propagandist.
This is an important work in the "French perspective wars" from 1630-80.

with 34 plates.
Rare.

Scarce first edition of this wotk on Dunglas Home and american spiritualism.
Only 100 copy printed.
Not in Caillet, Dorbon, Guaita ...
Dunglas Home was one of the greatest mediums of his time.
Inscribed copy.

First edition in french
Rare book containing curious precepts of hermeticism and data on metal art.

Limited edition to 175 copy. This, number 25 printed for Monsieur Kuypers-Cochard.
With illustrations from G.Trilleau.

Second enlarged edition.
This edition is important because Prestet gives (Volume 1 p.140 to p.150) for the first time his some early work on the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.

First edition, scarce first issue.
A second issue, with the same title page has and additionnal chapter with 4 more plates and a different table of contant page.
Rare with the plates colored.

Scarce. Only 25 copies.
Work on Egyptian magic.

La royalle Chymie de Crollius,
traduite en francois par J.Marcel de Boulene.

First edition, re-issue with cancel title (first issue 1679 with the imprint of Couterot, an other in 1689 of Lucas).
In this work, Chérubin d'Orléans discuss of the air-pump experiments of Pascal and Torricelli. He thought that vaccuum doesn't exist.

Rare offprint from XIXe volume des Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de France".
Scholarship paper on lycanthropy.

First edition of this complete treatise on magnets.
Beautiful 33 engravings by Adriaan Schoonebeek, the pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe.