First edition

SPALLANZANI

Oeuvres de M. l'abbé Spallanzani

Chez Pierre Duplain, à Pavie & se trouve à Paris 1787, in-8 (12x20cm), 3 volume reliés.

First collective edition, bringing Opuscules animal and plant physical and experiences to serve the story of the generation of animals and plants; with an outline of the history of organized beings before fertilization Jezan Sennebier. translation by John Sennebier. The third volume: Experiences, [...]

1 200 €

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Pierre Joseph MACQUER & Henri Gabriel DUCHESNE

Manuel du naturaliste. Ouvrage utile aux voyageurs et à ceux qui visitent les cabinets d'histoire ...

Chez Rémont, à Paris 1797 (An V), in-8 (12x20cm), 4 volumes reliés.

Stated the second edition, but actually the third, enlarged, with three volumes and eight plates of constellations; rare. The first edition appeared in 1770 in a single volume, a second being added in 1771.

Contemporary spotted sheep, spine with four tools and roulettes [...]

1 800 €

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Abbé NOLLET

Leçons de physique expérimentale.

Chez Durand, à Paris 1749 - 1764, fort in-12 (9x16cm), (6) lx ; 379 pp. et (4) 488 pp. et (4) 512 pp. et (4) 535 pp.

New edition, the volumes comprising three different editions (1749, 1753 and 1764), as is very often the case for this work when it is in a uniform binding, with editions and reprints spread over time. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 116 folding plates; particularly appreciated illustrations, [...]

1 300 €

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PROCLUS & Georg HENISCH

Commentarius in sphaeram procli diadochi. Cui adiunctus est Computus Ecclesiasticus, cum Calendario ...

Typis Davidis Franci, Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg) 1609, in-4 (15x20cm), (8) 367pp. (20) (1), relié.

First edition, rare. Printing on both columns. Vignette of a sphere in the title page. 14 figures and in-text tables and many diagrams, including a timetable for the position of the stars and the zodiac figures, tables of latitudes and longitudes.Plein soft vellum vintage flap. Smooth back silent. [...]

1 600 €

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Pierre-Jean-Claude MAUDUYT

Mémoire sur les différentes manières d'administrer l'électricité, et observations sur les ...

De l'Imprimerie Nationale, à Paris 1784, in-8 (12x19,7cm), (2) 301p. 46p., relié.

First Edition, illustrated with 2 folding plates on heavy paper. Paged party to share: Summary of newspapers, door colophon date 1786 Full brown calf and marbled ice.. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. 2 corners bumped. of p.96 in the end, foxing and pale yellow in margins; on the [...]

550 €

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Aimé-Henry PAULIAN

Dictionnaire de physique

Chez Gaude, à Nimes 1789, 5 tomes en 4 Vol. in 8 (12x20cm), relié.

New edition, after the original was published in 1761 in Avignon. A supplement to the dictionary, printed in 1787, was integrated into alphabetical order in this edition. 2 boards déplliantes in Volume I of which ballooning the frontispiece; 5 folding plates in volume II; 3 folding plates in [...]

700 €

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John KEILL

Introductiones ad veram Physicam et veram Astronomiam. Quibus accedunt Trogonometria. De viribus ...

Apud Joh. et Herm. Verbeek (Jean & Herman Verbeek), Lugduni Batavorum (Leyde) 1725, in-4 (18,5x25cm), (4) 636pp. (10), relié.

Original collective edition of these two works, published respectively in Oxford in 1701 (Physica) and 1718 (Astronomy); illustrated with a vignette title, 12 folding plates for physics (experiments, diagrams, geometry), 29 for astronomy, trigonometry and 6, numbered I to XLVII.Pleine sheepskin [...]

800 €

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Charles BONNET

Considérations sur les corps organisés

Chez Marc Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1762, in-8 (13,5x22,5cm), XLII (4) 274pp. et XX, 328pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First Edition. 2 vignettes title drawn by Picart. Cardboard to Bradel nineteenth black. Parts securities orange calf. Small friction cap. Nice copy. Work on capital generation and embrylogie, one discovers the hypothesis of chromosomes but also the influence of the environment. Bonnet there [...]

750 €

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