First edition

Marc Antoine PETIT

Onan, ou le tombeau du Mont Cindre

de l'imprimerie de J. B. Kindelem., à Lyon 1809, in 8 (22x14cm), (4) x, 99pp. (1bc) (3)., broché.

first edition presented in its original pinout with blue and mute covers.
Doctor Petit, chief surgeon of the Lyon hospital, composed this poetry which is intended to be a metaphor for the dangers of onanism. The work begins with an eulogy from Tissot, the author of onanism. The poem, rewarded [...]

250 €

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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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Friedrich TIEDEMANN & Léopold GMELIN

Recherches sur la route que prennent diverses substances pour passer de l'estomac et du canal ...

Méquignon-Marvis, Paris 1821, 13x21cm, relié.

First edition of the French translation by S Heller.
Binding in red half calf, back with five small nerves set with golden dots and adorned with double gilded and decorated boxes, piece of black calf title, double gilded nets framing of marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of combed [...]

500 €

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Alfred DONNE

Histoire physiologique et pathologique de la salive considérée particulièrement sous le rapport ...

Béchet jeune, Paris 1836, 14x22,5cm, relié.

First edition.
Binding half shagreen red, back with five small nerves set with golden dots and adorned with gilded boxes in their centers a green mosaic piece of morocco representing a flower, double gilded nets framing marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of paper combed, gilded head, [...]

400 €

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William Frédéric EDWARDS & Jean Baptiste Marie [...]

Recherches expérimentales sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - Mémoire sur ...

Imprimerie de Migneret & Imprimerie et fonderie de Rignoux et Cie & Victor Masson, Paris 1833 & 1835 & 1857, 13,5x21cm, 3 volumes reliés en 1.

First edition for each issue.
Some foxinges, pleasantly established examples.
Binding half morocco green fir, back with five small nerves set with golden dots and adorned with gilt fleurons with a piece of red mosaic morocco, double gilded nets framing marbled paper plates, guards and [...]

800 €

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First edition

Ahmed DJEYHOUN

Préceptes religieux des Musulmans au point de vue de l'hygiène

Typographie et lithographie Osmanié, Constantinople 1892, 13,5x19,5cm, agrafé.

First edition.
Back with gaps, tears, stains and angular gaps on the boards, exemplary disconnected, second flat flying.
Rare but in the state.
 

60 €

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First edition

Michel FOUCAULT

Folie et déraison - Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique

Plon, Paris 1961, 14x20,5cm, broché.

first edition for which it was not drawn from great papers.
Pleasant complete copy of its illustrated jacket that includes some tears and lack of film that covers it.
 

1 000 €

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Pedanius DIOSCORIDE & Marcellus VERGILIUS

Pedacii Dioscoridae Anazarbei de Medica materia Libri sex [Traité de matière médicale]

Filippo Giunta, Florence 1518, in-folio (21x32,5cm), (6 f.) 352 ff. (6 f.), relié.

| Longest-lasting pharmacology book by a Humanist scholar |
Filippo Giunta | Florence 1518 | folio (21 x 32,5 cm) | [6] 352 [6] p. | pastiche renaissance binding
First edition of the Marcello Virgilio translation in [...]

8 000 €

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