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Explorations, Discoveries, Inventions

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

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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John CARR

L'été du nord, ou voyage autour de la Baltique par le Danemark, la suède, la Russie et partie de ...

Chez Chaumerot, à Paris 1808, in-8 (13x20cm), vj, 310pp. (1) et 303pp. (1), 2 volumes reliés.

First Edition. 2 frontispieces illustrated leaflets depicting a view of Castle Cronenbourg and Copenhagen. translated from English by Bertin. The original English edition date 1805 Half aggrieved brown calico. spine smooth fillets with cold securities. Good practices. Relationship travel in the [...]

350 €

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Thomas ARTUS (Sieur d' EMBRY)

Description de l'isle des hermaphrodites. Nouvellement decouverte, concernant les moeurs, les ...

chez les héritiers de Herman Demen [François Foppens], Cologne [Bruxelles] 1724, (8) 352pp., relié.

Second edition, the first edition from 1605 is extremely rare. Illustrated with a frontispiece depicting a hermaphrodite, with the inscription 'I am neither male nor female ...'. Sheepskin full of used time. Back tooled raised. Missing part of title. Light foxing in the margins endnotes. Considered [...]

700 €

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First edition

Bryan EDOUARD

Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur ...

Dentu, Paris 1801, 13,5x21,5cm, broché.


BRYAN Edouard
Histoire civile et commerciale des colonies anglaises dans les Indes occidentales depuis leur découverte par Christophe Colomb jusqu'à nos jour, suivie d'un tableau historique et politique
Dentu, Paris 1801, 13,5 x 21,5 cm, original [...]

500 €

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First edition

Pierre BOITEL (Sieur de GOUBERTIN)

Le tableau des merveilles du monde

Chez Toussaint du Bray, à Paris 1617, in-8 (16x11cm), (12) (1bc) 627pp. -20., relié.

First Edition. Rather rare. A copy of the BNF, one at Tours. Cioranescu only reports Historical Chronicles Boitel. Full Parchment Contemporary flaps. Back mute. Historian, poet and polemicist of the first half of the seventeenth, we know that very little of the character, he wrote theater of [...]

750 €

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First edition

Vicomte G. D'AVENEL

Découvertes d'histoire sociale 1200-1910

Flammarion, Paris 1917, 12x19cm, broché.

First Edition, a thousand words. A trace on the first fold flat, otherwise nice copy. --- Please note that the translation in english is done automatically, we apologize if the formulas are inaccurate. Contact us for any information!

40 €

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Polydorus VERGILIUS

Les livres de Polydore Vergil d'Urbin, des inventeurs des choses

Benoist Rigaud, à Lyon 1576, in-16 (11,3x8,5cm), 313pp. (7), relié.

The work was blacklisted and was republished in 1575 in redacted form, the first French translation seems to have appeared in 1527 as a copy of the University of Glasgow., Although given contradictory gives 1528 as the date of the first French edition in Latin by Robert Etienne. Rare, like all [...]

600 €

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First edition

Jean-Baptiste AYMEN

Dissertation dans laquelle on examine si les jours critiques sont les mêmes en nos climats qu'ils ...

Chez Prault, à Paris 1752, petit in-8 (11,5x18,5cm), (16) 114pp. Manque la dernière page de la préface., relié.

First edition, rare.plein modern brown speckled calf, spine ribbed features 5 jewels. Adroit contemporary pastiche of a time binding. Yellowed title page, Clear and yellow wetness on 30 pages in the middle of the book. A leaflet missing the last page of the preface. Beautiful copy. After outlining [...]

250 €

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