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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
Joseph Guichard DU VERNEY
Traité de l'organe de l'ouie, contenant la structure, les usages & les maladies de toutes les ...
Chez Estienne Michallet, à Paris 1683, in-12 (9x17cm), (24) 210pp., relié.
The very rare first edition with 16 unsigned folding plates.
Contemporary brown sheep, spine in compartments, headpiece and one corner repaired, wormtrack to middle of upper margin, a few insignificant wormholes. The final engraving is shaved and lacking the last lines [...]
3 000 €
John PERRY
Etat present de la grande Russie ou Moscovie
Chez André Cailleau, à Paris 1718, in-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (8) 76, 83 (13) 339pp., 3 parties reliées en un volume.
New French Edition, quite rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Peter the 1st and a large folding map. Reprint of the French original published in 1717 in John Boudot. Full Sheepskin brown time. Back tooled raised. Head cap partly threadbare. Scuffs on the boards. Friction in caps and [...]
1 000 €
First edition
Etienne Bonnot de CONDILLAC
Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines
Chez Pierre Mortier, à Amsterdam [Paris] 1746, in-8 (9,5x17cm), xxx, 265pp. ; (4) 292pp., 2 tomes reliés en un volume.
First Edition.
Full Sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Tail wheels. Part of title in red morocco. A small loss in mind. 3 corners bumped with loss of leather. Light to work on the right margin of the first leaf becomes a simple hole to the whole work. Pretty good copy.
The first [...]
1 200 €
First edition
Amédée JAUBERT
Voyage en Arménie et en Perse, fait dans les années 1805 et 1806, par P. Amédée Jaubert
Chez Pelicier et Nepveu, à Paris 1821, Un Vol. in 8 (12,5x20,5cm), (4) xij, 506pp. (1), relié.
First edition, rare, illustrated with a large folding map of Constantinople between Tehran and regions, and 9 lithographs (by Aubry, Vernet ...), and a portrait frontispiece of the Persian prince Mirza Albas. Sheepskin half light brown boards. Smooth back decorated with nets and chains; roulette [...]
1 600 €
First edition
William GILPIN
Observations Pittoresques sur différentes parties de l'Angleterre, particulièrement sur les ...
Chez Defer de Maisonneuve, à Paris 1789, in-8 (12X19,3cm), 2 volumes reliés.
Original French edition, very rare. Illustrated with 28 plates including 2 containing two figures in Volume 2, 15 for Volume I and Volume II 13, as announced by the descriptions of the figures at the beginning of the book. Most of these boards are in aquatint and was designed by the author. Some [...]
600 €
First edition
NOUET
Description de l'Egypte. Observations astronomiques faites en Egypte pendant les années VI, VII et ...
Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1809, In Folio, 1 - 20p., relié.
First edition of this brief excerpt of the first issue, Section Modern State, the description Egypte.Cartonnage modern parchment cream. Part of title black sheepskin. Copy with great margins, not rogné.Considérations on the instruments and the method used for the observations and astronomical [...]
250 €
First edition
Jean-Baptiste DELISLE DE SALES
De la philosophie de la nature ou traité de morale pour le genre humain tiré de la philosophie et ...
S.n., à Londres et se trouve dans la plupart des capitales de l'Europe 1777, in-8 (12,5x19,5cm), (4) xlv (3) 366pp. et
New and improved and enlarged edition (partly original), illustrated with a frontispiece, 12 figures unsigned and six vignettes title (title pages are fully engraved). Nice print. The original 1770 edition was only 3 in 12 Volumes Full Calf tortoiseshell contemporary. Smooth back adorned with [...]
1 200 €
First edition
Armand Gaston CAMUS & ARISTOTE
Histoire des animaux d'Aristote
Chez La veuve Desaint, à Paris 1783, in-4 (20x26cm), 758pp. et 850pp., 2 volumes reliés.
First edition of the French translation of Camus with the Greek text in regard.Plein calf marbled time. Smooth back decorated with two boxes to the Grotesque and two chains, nets and wheels. Pieces of red morocco title and volume numbers in black morocco. Hat Volume I threadbare. Frottements.La [...]
1 000 €
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