First edition

Johann Gottlob LEHMANN

L'art des mines, avec un traité des exhalaisons minerales ou moufettes & plusieurs mémoires sur ...

Chez Thomas Herissant, à Paris 1759, In-12 (10x17,2cm), (4) xvj, 419pp. et xvj, 402pp. (1) et xxvj (1) 498pp. (4), 3 volumes reliés.

Rare first edition, illustrated with 4 pictures in the first volume and 6, including 5 folded pictures, in the third. Translated from German with the translators notes. Half title common to the 3 volumes: Treatises on physics, natural history, mineralogy and metallurgy.
Bound in contemporary, [...]

3 500 €

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Henri de la BLANCHERE

La pêche et les poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire général des pêches

Librairie de Ch. Delagrave et Cie, Paris 1868, Très fort in-8 (19,5x27,3cm), 859pp., relié.

First edition abundantly illustrated with 1110 in-text illustrations on wood and 50 color lithographs by Mesnel from the author's photographs.
Binding in half black glazed vintage calf with small corners. Restorations on caps and joints, boards of blue percaline redone, corners redone. Traces [...]

350 €

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COLLECTIF

Zoologie, Tome 1

Gallimard & Bibliothèque de La Pléiade, Paris 1963, 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition of the French translation, one of 110 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only large papers.
Beautiful copy, from the "Crossfire, Souls and Foreign Lands" collection.

25 €

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Signed book

LONGCHENE

Le monde souterrain ou merveilles géologiques

A. Mame & fils, Tours s.d. (circa 1840), 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New edition.
Binding in full black shagreen, smooth back decorated with golden romantic arabesques, golden wheels slightly dimmed on the caps, framing of a golden thread on the boards richly decorated with romantic arabesques cold stamped, marbled edges, golden borders at the heads and in [...]

100 €

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First edition

Edmond NOCARD & Emmanuel LECLAINCHE

Les maladies microbiennes des animaux

Masson & Cie, Paris 1903, 15,5x25cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition partly original because completely remelted and considerably increased.
Bindings in Havana half shagreen, back with five nerves, rubbed backs, framing of cold fillets on caramel cardboard trays, first board of the second volume marginally shorn, guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

350 €

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ANONYME

Théorie pour l'exercice et les manoeuvres de l'infanterie. Ordonnance du 4 Mars 1831. Ecole du ...

C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, Paris 1848, 7,5x12,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New augmented edition of the service in the posts.
Binding in half brown sheepskin with small corners, smooth discolored back adorned with a gilt typographic floret, marbled paper plates with some scratches, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, speckled edges, Contemporary [...]

60 €

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Jacques Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE

Minéralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral

Chez Vincent, à Paris 1774, In-8 (13x20cm), LXII (2) 590pp. (2) et (2) 640pp. (4 pp.), 2 volumes reliés.

Mention second edition, after the first published in 1762, with 14 unfolding tables (most copies' nen annoking only 13).

Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in black morocco. Headdress of volume I [...]

800 €

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Francis Xavier Paul GARNIER

Traité des chemins de toute espèce, comprenant les grandes routes, chemins de halage, vicinaux et ...

S.n., Paris 1827, 13,5x21cm, relié.

Third edition.
Black spots on a guard.
Binding half tawny sheepskin, smooth back decorated with friezes and gilded florets, title label of black shagreen, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, yellow slices, some small friction on the plates and the upper corners, Contemporary [...]

150 €

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