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Stephen HALES (traduction) Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON) (traduction) François BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES) La Statique des végétaux, et l'analyse de l'air [avec] Haemastatique, ou La Statique des animaux

Stephen HALES (traduction) Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON) (traduction) François BOISSIER DE SAUVAGES)

La Statique des végétaux, et l'analyse de l'air [avec] Haemastatique, ou La Statique des animaux

Chez Debure l'aîné & Chez les héritiers Cramer et Frères Philibert, Paris & Genève 1735 et 1744, in-4 (19x25cm), xviij (7 p.) 408 pp. (2 p.) et xxii ; 348 pp., 2 ouvrages reliés en un volume.


La Statique des végétaux, et l'analyse de l'air [with] Haemastatique, ou La Statique des animaux [Vegetable Staticks]

First edition of the French translation of these two texts by Stephen Hales. The translation of the first work, originally entitled Vegetable Staticks published in 1727, is the first text published by Buffon. The translation of the second book, published originally under the title Haemastaticks in 1733, is the work of François Boissier de Sauvages.

 
Our copy is complete of its 20 engraved figures on 10 folding plates for the first text and its in-fine folding plate for the second.
 
Contemporary bindings in full speckled blond sheep, spine in five compartments richly decorated with gilt raised bands, roll tooling and fleurons, as well as a title piece in Havana morocco, marbled endpapers, all edges speckled with red. Top spine end and two corners skillfully restored. Some leaves a little browned.

2 500 €

Réf : 74286

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