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BOMPARD, Alexis.

Traité des maladies des voies digestives et de leurs annexes, suivi de tableaux des substances vénéneuses.

Paris, Gabon, 1829.

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80 €

First edition.

NALDI, Mathieu.

Aphorismorum Hippocratis explanatio.

Rome, Ignatii de Lazaris, 1657.

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350 €

First edition of this commentaries by Mathieu Naldi.
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates were considered until the 19th century as a "bible" of medicine
Matthew Naldi (or matteo / or Naldius), a seventeenth-century physician, born in Siena, became famous for his knowledge of oriental languages, which was used here to serve the Greek aphorisms of Hippocrates.

He taught for some time in Pisa with great brilliance, and became physician to Pope Alexander VII. This high dignity did not prevent him from giving courses in Rome, where he contributed greatly to the flourishing of the University. He died in 1682, at a very advanced age.

Copy in a tinted parchment binding, unusual for the time, probably of Italian manufacture.

[BINET, Benjamin].

Idée générale de la théologie payenne, servant de réfutation au système de M. Bekker touchant l'existence et l'opération des démons, ou Traité historique des dieux du paganisme.

Amsterdam, Jean du Fresne, 1699.

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300 €

First edition.
This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.
Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)].

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction.

Cologne, Pierre Marteau, 1759.

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350 €

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel.

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité.

Paris, Lacombe, 1767.

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180 €

First edition.
Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Anatomie des vaisseaux absorbans du corps humain.

Paris, Froullé, 1787.

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170 €

First french edition.
This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

[Poitiers], Catineau, 1806.

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350 €

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

Paris, Tiger, [1818].

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150 €

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

GONDRET, Louis François.

Mémoire concernant les effets de la pression atmosphérique sur le corps humain, et l'application de la ventouse dans différens ordres de la maladie.

Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1819.

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300 €

First edition.
Gondret presents among the first explanations of the effect of altitude (altitude sickness) on human physiology. He is the first to describe in this work what we know today as the hyperbaric chamber in order to treat people suffering from acute altitude sickness.
The rest of the volume is exclusively devoted to the study of the influence of simple and scarified suction cups.

Two other works bound together:
- GONDRET, Considerations on the use of fire in medicine, 1819. xvi-94 pages. Second edition.

- HACHETTE || MONGE , Précis des leçons sur le calorique et l'électricité, Paris, A l'Ecole de Sciences et de Belles-Lettres, 1805.
viii-80 pages. First edition.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

Leiden & Amsterdam, Verbeek & Lakeman, 1727.

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1500 €

First illustrated edition and first edition in french (firs ed. in latin in 1723).
33 plates by J. Wandelaar, each with explanation text.
It is to Sébastien Vaillant that we must attribute the decisive role of having identified the sexual organs of plants and having recognized their importance in taxonomy. It is thanks to Vaillant's work that Linnaeus proposed his classification of plants.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

Paris, Imprimerie de la Cour d'Appel, 1911.

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70 €

Rare offprint of an article by Gustave Eiffel written for the Hommage à Louis Olivier.
This choral book was written on the occasion of the death of Louis Frédéric Olivier (1854-1910), a scientist passionate about technical, scientific and cultural progress.
Beautiful full-margin printing on laid paper.

LECORNU, Léon.

Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil.

s.l., Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, 1914.

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Offprint from the Comptes rendus de l'Académie des Sciences..
Short presentation to the Academy of Sciences of the Eiffel laboratory in Auteuil, August 3, 1914. Created on the Champ de Mars at the foot of its tower, Gustave Eiffel's aerodynamics laboratory was moved to Auteuil in 1912. It is still in operation today, operated by the company Aérodynamique Eiffel.
This aerodynamics laboratory was used in particular to test the characteristics of the Farman military biplanes that were used during the First World War.

GALIEN (Claudius Galenus).

Claudii Galeni Pergameni Introductio in pulsus ad Teuthram.

Lyon, Guillaume Rouillé, 1550.

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500 €

Collection of four treatises by Galen published by Guillaume Rouillé:
- Introduction in pulsus ad teuthram, 1550 translated by Martino Gregorio
- De Differentiis febrium libri duo, 1570 translated by Laurentiano Florentino
- De Diebus decretoriis libri tres, 1553 translated by Joanno Guinterio Andernaco
- De Elementis libris duo, 1558 translated by Victore Trincavelio.
Galen (129-210 BC) is considered the last of the great creative physicians of Greco-Roman antiquity and, with Hippocrates, one of the founders of the great basic principles on which Western medicine is based.

CELSE (Aulus Cornelius Celsus).

De Re medica libri octo.

Lyon, Jean de Tournes, 1549.

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900 €

Edition by Jean de Tournes.
De Medicina is the oldest Western medical document after the Hippocratic writings. Written about 30 CE, it remains the greatest medical treatise from ancient Rome, and the first Western history of medicine.
It is an extremely interesting history of medicine and surgery, including the symptoms and treatment of disease as well as descriptions of plastic surgery, goiter, tonsillectomy, treatment of fractures, and dental procedures. (Heirs of Hippocrates).

The edition is followed by the poem De medicina (composed of 1115 hexameter lines) with precepts borrowed from Pliny and Dioscorides on the art of healing) by Quintus Serenus Sammonicus, a Latin author assassinated under the orders of Caracalla in 212. At the end is the poem by Q. Rhemnius Palaemon on weights and measures.

The entire work was annotated at the time in the margins in fine 16th-century handwriting. On almost every page, passages are underlined and.

MALPIGHI, Marcello.

Discours anatomiques sur la structure des visceres, sçavoir du foye, du cerveau, des reins, de la ratte.

Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1683.

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1500 €

First french edition.
French translation of Malpighi's two main works, for which he is considered the founder of histology.
- De viscerum structura exercitatio anatomica published in Latin in 1666, a work in which Malpighi describes the renal structure now known as the "Malpighian body"
- De pulmonibus observations anatomicae published in Latin in 1663, a work consisting of two letters to Borelli in which Malpighi sets out his discovery of capillary circulation.

ROTHE, Gottfried.

Introduction a la Chymie, accompagnée de deux traitez, l'un sur le Sel des Métaux, & l'autre sur le Souphre Anodyn du Vitriol.
Avec une analyse raisonnée de l'Antimoine.

Paris, Hyppolite-Louis Guerin & Jacques Guerin, 1741.

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350 €

First french edition.
Rothe was a pupil of Stal's, and graduated in medicine at Leipzig University, He died at the early age of thirty-one.
This work on chemistry, first posthumously published in 1717, was one of the best and clearest manuals of its time (Fergusson).
The greatly enlarged, definitive French edition of this important work, containing translations by Clausier of the main text (viz. Antleitung zur Chymie), supplement (Anhang) on metallic salts, and another work by Rothe on the anodyne sulphur of vitriol. In addition there are translations of two works on antomony and its compounds by the Dresden chemist E.P. Meuder, as listed in the title. The book ends with a supplement on Quelques nouvelles préparations du ... médicinal, describing antimonial medicines (pp.499-503).
Meuder was the first to prove that the mineral stibnite is a compound of metallic antimony and sulphur. (Partington II, 198).

D'AZARA, Félix.

Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay.

Paris, Charles Pougens, 1801.

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1000 €

First edition.
Work published by Moreau de Saint-Mery based on a manuscript sent by Félix D'Azara's brother, without his consent.
Félix de Azara (1742-1821) arrived in America to participate in the demarcation of the colonial border between the Spanish and Portuguese empires. An engineer, cartographer and soldier, he traveled for twenty years in this southern America (current Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and southern Brazil). The quality of Félix de Azara's historical, natural and ethnological descriptions made his writings an essential source for those interested - from Humboldt to d'Orbigny, from Von Martius to Bonpland - in the natural and civil history of this continent.

[BELIN, Jean Albert].

Traité des talismans ou figures astrales.

Paris, P. De Bresche, 1658.

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450 €

First edition.
A work on astrology dedicated to Kenelm Digby, it was refuted in a book by Placet (La Superstition du Temps, 1667).
A leaf of text is missing from our copy, as is the copy from the Lyon library, the copy from the Wellcome collection and one of the rare copies sold at auction in 2017.

DARWIN, Charles.

De l'Origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés.

Paris, Guillaumin et Cie, 1862.

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1750 €

First edition in French.
This first French translation, of one of the most important books in modern science, was controversial as soon as it was published. Indeed, translator Clémence Royer (1830-1902, philosopher and scientist) added a preface and numerous footnotes in which she gave her interpretation of the text and commented on it.

[MAROQUIN].

Almanach des Dames pour l'an 1807.

Turingue, J G. Cotta, [1807].

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200 €

First edition.
A beautiful copy in full morocco.
On the blanks two small drawings of flowers of exceptional finesse.
A handwritten message written in German in the "Souvenirs" section.

TREUVE, Simon Michel.

Le Directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point.

Paris, Elise Josset, 1695.

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350 €

Third edition.
Treuvé was one of the great apostles of Jansenist spirituality in the 18th century.
His Spiritual Director was a European success and had more than a hundred editions.
Rare copy in full red morocco of the time, without ornamentation, austere binding that one would easily qualify as Jansenist.

[MANUSCRIT].

Metaphysica.

s.l., s.n., 1775.

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200 €

Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

LAMARTINE, Alphonse (de).

Les Confidences.

Paris, Perrotin, 1849.

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75 €

First edition.
It presents for the first time Graziella, one of Lamartine's best-known works.

DUVAL, Jacques.

Traite des Hermaphrodits parties genitales, accouchemens des femmes, etc.

Paris, Isidore Liseux, 1880.

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250 €

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized.

Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain.

Mémoires d'un témoin de la Révolution, ou Journal des faits qui se sont passés sous ses yeux, et qui ont préparé et fixé la Constitution française.

Paris, Levrault, Schoell et Cie, 1804.

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First edition.
Posthumous work by Jean Sylvain Bailly who was the first mayor of Paris during the French Revolution, in July 1789. He was a victim of the Terror and guillotined in 1793.

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas.

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique.

Paris, Bordelet Jombert, 1730-1737.

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250 €

Second edition.
Compilation of scientific facts which is mainly extracted from the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
This edition of 1730 (1737 for volume II) is given by Nicolas Grozelier.
A fourth volume was published 41 years after the third volume in 1771.
Some 18th century handwritten notes in the margins or on flying papers.

BÜCHNER, Louis.

La Vie psychique des bêtes.

Paris, C. Reinwald, 1881.

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50 €

First french edition.

LAURENT || PERROT.

Les Femmes de l'Asie ou description de leurs physionomie, moeurs, usages et costumes.

Paris, Le Fuel, [1830].

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750 €

First edition.
A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

[Léon et Jules RAINAL].

Catalogue Général.

s.l., s.n., 1905.

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80 €

Catalog of the company Léon et Jules Rainal suppliers of civil and military hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Illustrations on each page representing: bandages, orthoses, prostheses, surgical equipment, physiotherapy.

[POLYTECHNIQUE].

Programmes de l'enseignement polytechnique de l'Ecole centrale des travaux publics.

Paris, Imprimerie nationale, Pluviose An III ( janvier 1795).

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500 €

First edition.
First use of the adjective "Polytechnique" which will be used a few months later to give its new name to the "Ecole centrale des travaux publics" which will become the "École polytechnique".
Here are the detailed programs of the courses that will be taught during the creation of the School.

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BOMPARD, Alexis.

Traité des maladies des voies digestives et de leurs annexes, suivi de tableaux des substances vénéneuses.

First edition.

NALDI, Mathieu.

Aphorismorum Hippocratis explanatio.

[BINET, Benjamin].

Idée générale de la théologie payenne, servant de réfutation au système de M. Bekker touchant l'existence et l'opération des démons, ou Traité historique des dieux du paganisme.

First edition.This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

[GOUJET, Claude Pierre (Abbé)].

Histoire des Inquisitions ; Où l'on rapporte l'origine & le progrès de ces Tribunaux, leurs variations, & la forme de leur Jurisdiction.

First edition.Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

CLERC, Nicolas Gabriel.

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité.

First edition.Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

CRUIKSHANK, William || PETIT-RADEL, Louis Charles François.

Anatomie des vaisseaux absorbans du corps humain.

First french edition.This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

[CONFRERIE DE LA BONNE MORT].

Confrérie de la Bonne Mort ; son origine, son rétablissement, ses obligations.

First edition.The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying. The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

[CURIOSA].

Célestine ou la petite bonne.

First edition.The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

GONDRET, Louis François.

Mémoire concernant les effets de la pression atmosphérique sur le corps humain, et l'application de la ventouse dans différens ordres de la maladie.

VAILLANT, Sébastien.

Botanicon parisiense, ou Dénombrement par ordre alphabétique des plantes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris.

EIFFEL, Gustave.

La Résistance de l'air et l'aviation.

LECORNU, Léon.

Note sur le laboratoire aérodynamique Eiffel à Auteuil.

GALIEN (Claudius Galenus).

Claudii Galeni Pergameni Introductio in pulsus ad Teuthram.

CELSE (Aulus Cornelius Celsus).

De Re medica libri octo.

MALPIGHI, Marcello.

Discours anatomiques sur la structure des visceres, sçavoir du foye, du cerveau, des reins, de la ratte.

ROTHE, Gottfried.

Introduction a la Chymie, accompagnée de deux traitez, l'un sur le Sel des Métaux, & l'autre sur le Souphre Anodyn du Vitriol. Avec une analyse raisonnée de l'Antimoine.

D'AZARA, Félix.

Essais sur l'histoire naturelle des Quadrupèdes de la province du Paraguay.

[BELIN, Jean Albert].

Traité des talismans ou figures astrales.

First edition. A work on astrology dedicated to Kenelm Digby, it was refuted in a book by Placet (La Superstition du Temps, 1667). A leaf of text is missing from our copy, as is the copy from the Lyon library, the copy from the Wellcome collection and one of the rare copies sold at auction in 2017.

DARWIN, Charles.

De l'Origine des espèces ou des lois du progrès chez les êtres organisés.

[MAROQUIN].

Almanach des Dames pour l'an 1807.

First edition.A beautiful copy in full morocco. On the blanks two small drawings of flowers of exceptional finesse. A handwritten message written in German in the "Souvenirs" section.

TREUVE, Simon Michel.

Le Directeur spirituel pour ceux qui n'en ont point.

[MANUSCRIT].

Metaphysica.

Original manuscript.Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

LAMARTINE, Alphonse (de).

Les Confidences.

First edition.It presents for the first time Graziella, one of Lamartine's best-known works.

DUVAL, Jacques.

Traite des Hermaphrodits parties genitales, accouchemens des femmes, etc.

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized. Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

BAILLY, Jean-Sylvain.

Mémoires d'un témoin de la Révolution, ou Journal des faits qui se sont passés sous ses yeux, et qui ont préparé et fixé la Constitution française.

First edition. Posthumous work by Jean Sylvain Bailly who was the first mayor of Paris during the French Revolution, in July 1789. He was a victim of the Terror and guillotined in 1793.

BOUGEANT, Guillaume Hyacinthe || GROZELIER, Nicolas.

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique.

BÜCHNER, Louis.

La Vie psychique des bêtes.

First french edition.

LAURENT || PERROT.

Les Femmes de l'Asie ou description de leurs physionomie, moeurs, usages et costumes.

First edition.A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.

[Léon et Jules RAINAL].

Catalogue Général.

Catalog of the company Léon et Jules Rainal suppliers of civil and military hospitals and the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Illustrations on each page representing: bandages, orthoses, prostheses, surgical equipment, physiotherapy.

[POLYTECHNIQUE].

Programmes de l'enseignement polytechnique de l'Ecole centrale des travaux publics.

First edition.
This is a refutation of Balthazar Bekker's system.
Operations and nature of demons, mystery and oracles of ancient religions, etc.

First edition.
Interesting work in which Abbé Goujet compiles and comments on the main texts relating to the Inquisition.
The engravings depict scenes of torture and auto-da-fés committed by the Spanish Inquisition.

First edition.
Nicolas Gabriel Clerc (1726-1798) was physician to the Duke of Orleans. He was a convinced physiocrat and a supporter of the Enlightenment.

First french edition.
This treatise on the absorbing vessels established the modern understanding of lymphatics.

First edition.
The brotherhoods of the good death were prayer groups that spiritually accompanied the dying.
The brotherhood of Poitiers, one of the oldest in France, was active from 1380.

First edition.
The amorous adventures of Pierrette, a young Norman woman sent to her Parisian aunt because she had committed an offence with a young man. She will be placed as a maid under the name of Célestine.

Introduction a la Chymie, accompagnée de deux traitez, l'un sur le Sel des Métaux, & l'autre sur le Souphre Anodyn du Vitriol.
Avec une analyse raisonnée de l'Antimoine.

First edition.
A work on astrology dedicated to Kenelm Digby, it was refuted in a book by Placet (La Superstition du Temps, 1667).
A leaf of text is missing from our copy, as is the copy from the Lyon library, the copy from the Wellcome collection and one of the rare copies sold at auction in 2017.

First edition.
A beautiful copy in full morocco.
On the blanks two small drawings of flowers of exceptional finesse.
A handwritten message written in German in the "Souvenirs" section.

Original manuscript.
Course in metaphysics and ontology with a long section on theodicy.

First edition.
It presents for the first time Graziella, one of Lamartine's best-known works.

New edition by Isidore Liseux of the very rare original edition of 1612 which was condemned and seized.

Printed in 400 numbered copies on laid paper and initialed by the publisher, ours no. 22.

First edition.
Posthumous work by Jean Sylvain Bailly who was the first mayor of Paris during the French Revolution, in July 1789. He was a victim of the Terror and guillotined in 1793.

First edition.
A beautiful copy whose engravings were finely enhanced with watercolors and erased at the time. Traditional costumes of Asian women from Turks to Japanese.