First edition

Pierre Joseph MACQUER

Elemens de chymie theorique

Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, à Paris 1749, In-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 336pp. (24), relié.

First edition illustrated with 4 folding boards in fine (instruments and tables of different elements).
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. A lack in mind. Very rubbed together. 2 blunt corners.

350 €

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Joseph Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

Chez Gueffier, à Paris 1775, in 8 (12,5x20,3cm), xxiv, 342pp. 24Pl. et (4) 456pp. 28Pl., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for volume I and 28 for the second, at the end of volumes) on hard paper.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to ornate nerve. title label in red morocco and tomaison in black morocco. Headdresses of Volume II removed. Grip of [...]

800 €

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First edition

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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First edition

John Theophilus DESAGULIERS

Cours de physique experimentale

chez Jacques Rollin & chez Charles Antoine Jombert, à Paris 1751, In-4 (20,5x26,5cm), (2) xij (2) 503pp. et (4) iv, 636pp., relié.

First french edition, in the translation of Jean Pezenas.

Copy to arms
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary.

4 000 €

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First edition

Jean-François DEMACHY

Recueil de dissertations physico - chimiques, présentées à différentes académies

Chez Monory, A Amsterdam [Paris] 1774, In-8 (13x20cm), (4) xvj, 489pp. [491] (2), relié.

First edition, rare, illustrated in fine of 7 folding plates of which 6 numbered (they were connected in a relative disorder).
Binding full icy blond calf vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. Triple framing net on the boards. A lack of the lower bit in the head [...]

500 €

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First edition

John William HERSCHEL

Traité de la lumière

Malher & Cie, Paris 1829 - 1833, In-8 (13x21,5cm), 508pp. et 620pp., relié.

First edition
Bindings in plain olive green olive slightly posterior ca 1840. Smooth back decorated with geometric arabesques in length. Cold-cut plates of a large floral plate, central medallion on the upper plate of the Royal College of Orléan with laurel wreath. Back insolated and become [...]

780 €

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First edition, Signed book

Tancrède de VISAN

La vie passionnée de André-Marie Ampère

Agence Archat, Lyon s.d. (circa 1936), 14,5x23cm, broché.

First edition of which there is no mention of great papers and published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Andre-Marie Ampere.
Small foxing on the margins of the boards.
Illustrated book, frontispiece, a portrait of André-Marie Ampère and 5 inset photographic [...]

30 €

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