J. TOURDES

Notices sur la vie littéraire de Spallanzani, avec un sonnet de l'abbé Césarotti , des remarques ...

S.n., Milan 1800, Pet. in-8 (11,5x17,8cm), 184pp., broché.

Second edition. Brochur contemporary under blue paper publication. Gaps in mind. A bend on the top plate. Blank copy, uncut. Learned men of lights, Spallanzani embraced many scientific disciplines, and experience were decisive for many fields, such as for fertilization, the refutation of [...]

180 €

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Polydorus VERGILIUS

De rerum inventoribus libri octo. [Ensemble] Marci Tullii Ciceronis sententiae illustriores, ...

apud Seb. Gryphium; Ex officina Roberti Stephani, Lugduni (Lyon) ; Lutetiae (Paris) 1546, in-8 (10,2x16,6cm), (48)

New edition for the book of inventions Polydore Vergil and first edition for sentences of Cicero. beautiful impressions in Italics. Brands of the printer on the title page. The edition of Cicero is missing the English catalogs. De Rerum inventoribus was blacklisted in 1575 and reissued in redacted [...]

650 €

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First edition

Albrecht von HALLER

La generation ou exposition des phenomenes relatifs a cette fonction naturelle de leur mechanisme, ...

Chez Des Ventes de la Doué, à Paris 1774, in-8 (12,5x20cm), vj (2) 641pp. et (4) 548pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Original French edition and first translation into the vernacular after the Latin original, which had appeared in the Elementa PHYSIOLOGICA in 8 volumes, published from 1757 to 1766.
Full blond speckled calf. Back to bands decorated. Parts of title and volume numbers in red morocco. Caps head [...]

550 €

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First edition

Georgio BAGLIVI

Opera omnia medico - pratica, et anatomica

Sumptibus Anisson, & Joannis Posuel, Lugduni (Lyon) 1704, In 4 (17x23cm), relié.

First Edition collective, bringing together for the first time the various treaties of the author. A portrait frontispiece by Duflos; in some woods in the treaty text: From Blood and respiratione; board contained two tarantulas in the Tarantula ..
Full Sheepskin brown vintage. Back tooled [...]

600 €

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First edition

François QUESNAY

Traité de la suppuration

Chez d'Houry, à Paris 1749, In 12 (10x17cm), (12) 432pp., relié.

Originale.Plein Edition Calf marbled time. Spine ribbed features 5 jewels in caisoons. Part of title in red morocco. Caps threadbare. Friction on the plats.Un conventional medical works of that great spirit that was Francois Quesnay, great surgeon and physician, who became the father of Physiocracy [...]

500 €

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First edition

Joseph Guichard DU VERNEY

Traité de l'organe de l'ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les ...

Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1683, in-12 (9x17cm), (24) 210pp., relié.

The very rare first edition with 16 unsigned folding plates.

Contemporary brown sheep, spine in compartments, headpiece and one corner repaired, wormtrack to middle of upper margin, a few insignificant wormholes. The final engraving is shaved and lacking the last lines [...]

3 000 €

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Albrecht von HALLER

Elemens de physiologie

Chez Guillyn, à Paris 1769, in-12 (10x17cm), (2) ix (1) 161pp. (2) ; (3) 305pp. (3), relié.

Second edition of the translation by Bordenave. The work was published in Latin year 1749 to Gottingen.Pleine blond faux sheepskin. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Caps threadbare. Scattered spots. Paper partly jauni.Considéré as one of the leading figures of his time, Haller [...]

350 €

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First edition

Etienne Bonnot de CONDILLAC

Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines

Chez Pierre Mortier, à Amsterdam [Paris] 1746, in-8 (9,5x17cm), xxx, 265pp. ; (4) 292pp., 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

First Edition.
Full Sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Tail wheels. Part of title in red morocco. A small loss in mind. 3 corners bumped with loss of leather. Light to work on the right margin of the first leaf becomes a simple hole to the whole work. Pretty good copy.
The first [...]

1 200 €

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