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They discovered America or penicillin. They explored the immense Terra Incognita and infinite space. They are researchers, explorers or poets. They came, they saw and overcame prejudice and ignorance.
"E pure si muove!"
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First edition
Charles MALO
Voyages de Nadir-Shah en Europe, en Asie de 1840 à 1843
R. Pornin & Cie, Tours 1845, 13x21,5cm, relié.
Originale.binding Edition in full calf iced fir, flat spine decorated with golden arabesques romantic with a restored head hitch, split bits in heads and feet, small traces of friction on the back, upper caps missing, framing a net gilt boards struck with a great romantic arabesque tooled, scuffs [...]
250 €
First edition
CHAMPAGNAC & OLIVIER
Le voyageur de la jeunesse dans les cinq parties du Monde, contenant la description géographique ...
Belin-Leprieur et Morizot, Paris 1858, Fort in 8 (17x28cm), 644pp., relié.
First edition, illustrated with 22 engravings of colored and embellished by hand with 16 suits; the other 6 are steel engravings of cityscapes; by Rouargue brothers. The engravings are fine, detailed and very beautiful the golden qualité.Cartonnage editor. Solid black calico. Special plate to the [...]
450 €
Dom PERNETY
Histoire d'un voyage aux isles Malouines, fait en 1763 & 1764; Avec des observations sur le ...
Chez Saillant & Nyon & Delallain, à Paris 1770, 2 tomes en 2 Vol. in 8 (12x19,5cm), iv, 385pp. et (2) 314pp. (2), relié.
Second edition, the first of some parts, following the first, which appeared in Berlin the year before. With 16 folding plates at the end of volume two, 3 maps, charts, fauna and inhabitants…(2 plates missing). This edition also contains the "Journal historique du voyage fait aux îles Malouines [...]
700 €
Gilbert Saulnier du VERDIER & Claude de VARENNES
Le Voyage de France, dressé pour la commodité des François et Estrangers. Avec une Description ...
Chez Nicolas Le Gras, à Paris 1687, in-12 (9x16,7cm), (4) 368pp., relié.
New edition of Travel France Claude de Varennes, edited and enhanced by the Verdier. Latest edition of this trip that contains 100p. additional. Full sheepskin brown ice. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Top plate split tail. Friction, dull and bare edges in the corners. Good copy. [...]
450 €
Giovanni BOTERO
Relationi universali
Perli Bertani, in Venetia 1671, in-4 (16x22,8cm), (8) 747pp. (36), relié.
New edition, after the original was published in 1591 and 1593. Illustrated with 4 folding maps of Gioseppe Rosatio, Europe, Asia, America and Africa, on gray background. The work went through many reprints in the seventeenth. Full vellum flexible time. Back to nerves Jansenist. Title in black pen. [...]
1 500 €
First edition
Charles BONNET
Considérations sur les corps organisés
Chez Marc Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1762, in-8 (13,5x22,5cm), XLII (4) 274pp. et XX, 328pp., 2 volumes reliés.
First Edition. 2 vignettes title drawn by Picart. Cardboard to Bradel nineteenth black. Parts securities orange calf. Small friction cap. Nice copy. Work on capital generation and embrylogie, one discovers the hypothesis of chromosomes but also the influence of the environment. Bonnet there [...]
750 €
First edition
SPALLANZANI
Expériences pour servir à l'histoire de la génération des animaux et des plantes. Avec une ...
Chez Barthélémi Chirol, à Genève 1785, in-8 (12,5x20,6cm), (4) XCVI, 413pp., relié.
Original French edition, illustrated with 3 folding plates containing many figures. Full calf blond marbled time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Two small restorations on the upper flat. Nice copy. Fundamental work on the theory of generation. The conclusions reached above those [...]
950 €
First edition
Benoît de MAILLET
Telliamed ou entretiens d'un philosophe indien avec un missionnaire françois sur la diminution de ...
Chez L'honoré fils, à Amsterdam 1748, in-8 (11,5x19,5cm), (10) cxix, (7) 208pp. (1) ; 231pp. (1), 2 tomes reliés en un volume.
First Edition. Telliamed is an anagram of Maillet, name of the author. Editing was done by J. Ant. Guers. The book is dedicated to Cyrano de Bergerac. Full sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Skillful restorations, almost invisible caps and nerves. Good copy, [...]
1 000 €
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