First edition

Etienne Louis GEOFFROY

Histoire abrégée des insectes qui se trouvent aux environs de Paris

Chez Durand, à Paris 1762, in-4 (19x25,5cm), (4) xxviij, 523pp. et (4), 2 volumes reliés.

First edition with 22 folding plates and a folding table engraved by Prévost and Defehrt.
Contemporary marbled sheep, spine in decorated compartments. Red morocco title and volume labels. Marbled edges. Triple blindruled fillet to covers. Headpiece of volume II fragile. A few leaves a little [...]

1 800 €

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FABRE

Traité des maladies vénériennes

Chez Théophile Barrois, à Paris 1782, in-8 (12,5x20cm), xvj 526pp., relié.

Mention fourth edition, corrected and augmentée.Pleine Sheepskin blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title morocco beige. Cap fragile head. Jaws open mind. A dull corner. A slight lack in right margin of the title page. An address label Barrois was pasted on the address of the current [...]

300 €

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J. L. ALIBERT

Dissertation sur les fièvres pernicieuses, ou ataxiques intermittentes

Chez Richard, Caille et Ravier, à Paris 1801 An X, Fort in-8 (13x21cm), XXVIII 289pp., relié.

Mentioned second edition. Illustrated with 5 beautiful folding 4 plants at the end of volume boards. Waiting pink cardboard. Back irradiated with part of title of paper. Minor losses on spine. Thesis presented at the Paris School of Medicine in 1799. Panorama ataxic fever, theories of the authors [...]

250 €

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Joseph Adrien LELARGE DE LIGNAC

Mémoire pour servir a commencer l'histoire des araignées aquatiques

Chez H. Barbou, à Paris 1799 (An VIII), in-8 (10,5x17,5cm), 64pp., relié.

Mention of a second edition. The preface is signed: "IFAO" Posted by Lieutaud Trois-Villes.cartonnage speckled time. Gilt. Foxing, especially on the front title.This naturalist from Poitou was well known in scientific circles, and its study is remarkable for its rigor of observation and [...]

450 €

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François Dominique de Reynaud, comte de MONTLOSIER

Essai sur la théorie des volcans d'Auvergne

De l'imprimerie de Landriot et Rousset, Clermont 1802 (An X), in-8 (13,5x21,5cm), 184pp., broché.

Second edition, rare, after the original from 1789. Brochure time in pink paper. Title tag. Back cracked. Good condition copy publication, uncut. The Treaty of Volcanology of the volcanoes of Auvergne is important for the development of this science is still young then. The author examines [...]

600 €

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First edition

SWEDIAUR

Traité complet sur les symptômes, les effets, la nature et le traitement des maladies ...

Chez l'auteur et chez Mequignon, à Paris 1798, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12x20,5cm), (2) xv (1bc) lvj, 382pp. (2) et (2) lxiv, 448pp., relié.

Original French edition, enlarged and corrected by the author. Full sheepskin vintage blonde. Back to nerves leaves and florets in boxes. Wheels tail. flush caps. Corners bumped. Friction and scuffs. Foxing. The author has studied the entire genital diseases known hitherto, taking care to separate [...]

350 €

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First edition

Charles BONNET

La palingénésie philosophique ou Idées sur l'état passé et sur l'état futur des êtres ...

Chez Claude Philibert et Barthelemi Chirol, à Genève 1769, in-8 (11,5x20cm), xxvj (2) 427pp; (1) et (2) iv (2) 448pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, rare; infringement is published on the same date in Amsterdam. Full glossy blond calf and marbled contemporary. Back smooth decorated. Parts of title and volume numbers of red morocco. A small loss in head volume I. Five corners bumped. Friction. Without doubt the most ambitious and [...]

900 €

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First edition

Georges CUVIER

Recueil des éloges historiques lus dans les séances publiques

F.G. Levrault, Strasbourg 1819, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12x20cm), viij, 430pp; (1) et (4) 484pp., relié.

First Edition, a sequel published in 1827, then another until 1832. Sheepskin Half brunette time. Back smooth and net roulette. Yellow edges. Permanent Secretary of the Academy of Sciences, he was in the allocation of Cuvier to compose these biographies of famous scientists who were members. These [...]

300 €

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