Rare botany books: flora, herbaria, medicinal plants, horticulture, atlases and colored plates of natural history

Rare first edition of the French translation established by Edmond Barbier.
Biographical introduction and additional notes by Charles Martins.
Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth spine, headcaps skillfully restored, blind-ruled frame on boards, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Some foxing, gift inscription dated in blue ballpoint pen at head of half-title page.
Work illustrated with 30 figures in the text.

First edition of the French translation established by Edmond Barbier.
Biographical introduction and supplementary notes by Charles Martins.
Publisher's full green percale binding, smooth spine, head caps lightly rubbed, blind fillet frame on covers, grey paper endpapers and pastedowns.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Work illustrated with 30 figures in the text.
Very rare and handsome copy.

First edition.
A handsome and rare pamphlet.

First edition illustrated with 72 folding plates of which 68 have been finely hand-colored. One folding table. At the end of the first three volumes, 4 plates of prices for recreations found at Guyot's.
Contemporary full glazed lavallière calf binding. Smooth spine handsomely decorated. Red morocco title labels, green morocco volume labels. Triple-ruled frame. Upper joint of volume I rubbed, with a hole, split at foot. Lower joint of second volume narrowly split at foot. Headcap of volume IV worn, tailcap partially worn. The corner of one board exposed. Signs of rubbing. 3 holes to half-title of volume II, in volume I p241 at the end, trace of pale dampstaining to corner, otherwise fresh throughout on white paper. Despite some defects, a handsome copy in a quality binding.
A collection composed of scientific amusements designated under the term recreations. (Caillet, 4900, "Collection infinitely more complete than all those published since, including Robert Houdin's"). These recreations would later be called magic tricks, Guyot here provides the mathematical, physical, chemical and optical methods; for make no mistake, these recreations are today a manual of magic. The first volume deals with mathematics, magnets, mechanics and numbers. The second volume covers geometry, light, optics and electricity. The third volume contains "recreations" around magnets, sleight of hand and catoptrics. And the last, fourth volume consists of chapters on mechanics, on occult writing, magnets, water, fire and air... (with "tricks" involving the camera obscura).

First edition.
Light marginal stains to covers with some minor creasing.
Preface by Maurice Farman.
Rare pamphlet.

First edition.
The oath of Cabanis, the marriage of Cabanis, Cabanis as politician.
Work illustrated with two portraits and one view.
Fine copy.

First edition in French.
A small lack at foot of spine, some minimal foxing to margins of boards, handsome copy.

First edition.
Boards lightly and marginally discolored.
Rare and handsome pamphlet.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Royal Academy of Sciences of Uppsala.
Tears and corner lacks to spine and boards, a small dampstain to upper right corner of leaves.
Rare fascicle illustrated with one plate hors-texte at rear containing 5 figures.

First edition.
Small tears to the spine and slight angular lacks to the boards, handsome interior condition.
Rare pamphlet illustrated with 24 figures.

First edition.
Small angular lacks to the slightly sunned boards, handsome interior condition.
Rare illustrated pamphlet with 14 figures in the text.

First edition.
Corner lacks to boards marginally sunned, manuscript library classification marking to upper left corner of first board, handsome interior condition.
Rare illustrated pamphlet with 15 figures in the text.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Boards marginally and slightly browned, a number written in pen in upper left corner of front board which also bears trace of a postal stamp, handsome interior condition.
Rare copy.
Printed stamp reproducing Professor Peugniez's signature at head of title page.
Illustrated pamphlet with 6 photographic plates hors-texte and figures in the text.

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, with a press clipping pasted at the foot of the page bearing the autograph inscription, the sales price reference has yellowed at the foot of the back cover.
Autograph inscription dated and signed by Professor Christian Cabrol to Pierre Troillard.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Half brown sheep binding, spine lightly faded with four raised bands, a tear at foot of spine, marbled paper boards, wood-grain endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers and spine preserved,
Handsome copy.
Fraternal autograph inscription signed by the Immortal and Resistance member Louis Pasteur-Vallery-Radot to the Immortal Vichy supporter General Weygand.

First edition on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Autograph inscription signed by Jean-Pierre Luminet to a woman named Nathalie: "... ces chutes & trouvailles célestes..." ["... these celestial falls & findings..."]

First edition in French.
Half aubergine shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Boards slightly and marginally lightened, a small tear to upper right corner of front board, foxing.
Rare copy of this major text on homeopathy.

First edition.
Two tears with slight lacks of no consequence at foot and head of spine, a light stain and a small scratch on the first cover.
Illustrated catalogue with 12 folding plates at rear of volume as well as in-text figures.
Rare.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Fine full-page autograph inscription, dated and signed, from Odette Joyeux to Jean-Paul Gibiat.

First edition.
A small inconsequential lack to the foot of one joint, handsome interior condition.

Rare first edition published anonymously.
Lacks to spine, small lacks with tears to board margins, some foxing.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy, iconography.
Beautiful full-page autograph inscription dated and signed by Odette Joyeux to Christian Giudicelli: "A Christian Giudicelli, à mon cher Christian à mon tour de "doubler". Je te fais parvenir un nouvel exemplaire de ces troisièmes regards dont je t'ai tant parlé en souhaitant que tu en sois content. Ton amie, ton interrète Odette (Joyeux), Mars 1990." ["To Christian Giudicelli, to my dear Christian, my turn to 'double.' I am sending you a new copy of these 'Third Looks' which I have spoken to you about so much, hoping that you will be pleased with it. Your friend, your interpreter Odette (Joyeux), March 1990."]

First edition of this catalogue concerning the twin-engine biplane Type G.6 which was first used by the French military aviation in 1916.
Some marginal foxing on the covers.
Brochure illustrated with 2 photographs hors-texte and complete with its folding plan at the end.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Two corner creases to upper right of rear cover.
Signed autograph inscription from Jacques Séguéla to a man named Hervé.

First edition illustrated with 29 plates and 12 trigonometric tables. The first 3 volumes are found in second edition dated 1793.
Contemporary full marbled brown sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with roulettes at head and foot. Brown morocco title labels, tan morocco volume labels. One lack at foot of volume IV. Scuffs and scratches on boards. Volume V: title page creased with a lack to inner margin not touching text. Paper generally fresh with some occasional pale foxing to titles and endpapers. One corner bumped, others rubbed. The folding plates, not always well folded, protrude. Good copy.
Detail of the volumes which concern different aspects and fields of mathematics:
I: "Éléments d'Arithmétique". II: "Contenant les Élemens de Géometrie, la Trigonométrie rectiligne, et la Trigonométrie sphérique". III: "Contenant l'Algèbre & l'application de cette science à l'Arithmétique & la Géométrie". IV: "Contenant les Principes généraux de la Méchanique, précédes des Principes de Calcul qui servent d'introduction aux Sciences Physico-Mathématiques". V: "Suite du Cours de Mathématiques . contenant le Traité de Navigation".
The mathematician Etienne Bezout remained famous, not only for his research in mathematics but especially for the eminent role he played in his time in the development of mathematics pedagogy. He was professor of mathematics to the Marine Guards and the Artillery School.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Jacques Séguéla to a friend named Pierre.

First edition with four plates bound at the rear. On the last endpaper has been pasted a conversion table for timber from log to the sixth deduction.
Contemporary binding in half brown calf, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets and a red paper title-label, brown paper boards showing some rubbing, all edges yellow. Scattered foxing.
Handsome copy.

First edition.
Fine copy.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Henri Laborit to Madame Lachatrape.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies.
Publisher's full red cloth binding, smooth spine, front cover stamped with the manufacturer's chevrons.
Handsome copy complete with its illustrated dust jacket, beautiful iconography.
Fine autograph inscription signed by Jacques Séguéla to a couple of friends.

First edition illustrated with more than 100 superb heliogravure photographs of French monuments and churches illuminated by the Mazda company.
A slight lack to foot of spine.
Handsome copy with unfaded blue covers and complete with its two tissue paper sheets protecting the very first and very last pages of this catalogue celebrating the glory of the Mazda company.

First edition on ordinary paper, stating "second edition".
Illustrated cover.
A small tear and slight lack at foot of spine.
Autograph inscription signed by Marcel-Etienne Grancher to Alfred Fabre-Luce: "... ces pages moroses..." ["... these morose pages..."]

First edition, one of 100 numbered copies on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Handsome copy.
About Littré, Claude Bernard, Louis Pasteur, Jean Charcot, Honoré de Balzac, Marcel Proust, Gustave Flaubert, Emile Zola, Eugène Delacroix, Stendhal, Prosper Mérimée, Georges Clemenceau, Paul Valéry, Charles Baudelaire...

First edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Complete with publisher's slip.
Autograph inscription signed by Albert Ducrocq to radio journalist Jacques Ourévitch.

First edition.
Half purple cloth binding, smooth discoloured spine decorated with blind fillets, two tears on spine, top headcap worn away, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, corners slightly bumped.
Handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Precious signed autograph inscription from Bernard Fonty, gynecologist-obstetrician surgeon, to Gisèle Halimi.

Second edition, with some parts in first edition as revised and augmented.
Half caramel sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black fleurons as well as quadruple gilt fillets, gilt frieze at foot, red morocco title-label, upper headcap missing, one joint cracked and re-adhered at foot, marbled paper boards, speckled endpapers and pastedowns.
Some light foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands and decorated with blind-tooled compartments, rubbing to spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some light foxing.

First edition.
Half bronze sheep binding, spine slightly faded with four raised bands set with black fillets, head of spine rubbed and worn, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Each monthly fascicle is decorated with one or two plates of 8 dye samples, in all 15 plates for the year 1898.
The September plate is detached.
The journal is also illustrated with text figures.

First edition of the French translation by André Juliard.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine slightly faded decorated with quadruple gilt fillets, rubbing traces on the spine, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some scratches on the boards, chemistry library stamp on the title page.
Work illustrated with 41 figures in the text.
Rare.

First edition.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, minor rubbing traces on the spine, blind fillets on brown cardboard boards, four scratches on the front board, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Some foxing particularly affecting the edges.
Work illustrated with 225 figures in the text.
Rare.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Half brown shagreen binding, faded and lightened spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, endpapers and pastedowns of marbled paper.
Work illustrated with 211 figures in and out of text.

First edition.
Handsome copy despite minor rubbing to spine and joints.
Work illustrated with 345 figures in the text and complete with the 23 fabric samples at the end of the volume.
Half bottle-green shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with black and gilt fillets, green cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, endpapers and pastedowns of combed paper.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with 119 figures in the text.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine faded and lightened with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Work illustrated with 119 figures in the text.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine faded and lightened with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.

First edition.
Some minor foxing.
Half dark green shagreen binding, spine faded and browned with four raised bands, combed paper boards, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.

First edition.
Handsome copy illustrated with a photographic frontispiece.
Complete work with its 10 pages containing 84 fabric samples.
Publisher's binding in half burgundy cardboard with corners, black percaline boards, smooth spine decorated with blind and gilt fillets, endpapers and pastedowns of decorative patterned paper.
Rare.

First edition.
Handsome copy.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine faded and lightened with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt floral motifs, red cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled paper endpapers and pastedowns.

Third edition of the French translation established by André Simon and expanded with studies and a supplement by the translator.
Handsome copy despite a stain on the fore edge.
Work illustrated with 800 figures.
Gift inscription from a former owner of the work.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fillets, brown cardboard boards decorated with blind fillets, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.

First edition illustrated with 92 figures in the text.
Handsome copy despite some minor foxing.
Half brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt garlands and decorated with gilt fleurons, combed paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.

First edition.
Our copy is presented in temporary full marbled paper covers, with handwritten title label pasted at head of first cover.
Small gift inscription in pen at head of title page, occasional foxing, one small hole not affecting text at head of table of contents page.
Rare and handsome copy complete with its folding plate at rear illustrated with 8 figures.

Important first edition.
Half havana sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, two light dampstains on spine which also shows some scuffs, marbled paper boards, contemporary binding.
Some foxing, one dampstain in margins of final leaves not touching text.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Etienne Jean Georget: "L'auteur à son confrère le Dr Moulin. Georget." ["The author to his colleague Dr. Moulin. Georget."]

First edition of the complete collection of these texts, most of which had only appeared in journals. These works were assembled and published by his nephew P. Malatret and Antoine Augustin Parmentier. 2 tables at end of volume 1.
Contemporary half blonde sheep binding. Smooth spine decorated with 4 small fleurons and roulettes. Red morocco title-label, volume numbering in wax, faded on volume 1. Head of volume 1 cut down, that of volume 2 with slight lack. A lack on the foot of both volumes. Upper joint of volume 2 split and open at foot for 15 cm, the lower joint narrowly cracked in part. Upper joint of volume 1 split at head and foot, lower joint narrowly cracked at foot. Foxing on endpapers, pale scattered foxing in upper margin.
Among the texts and articles, the Researches on tin occupy the major part of the second volume. We should also distinguish the Analysis of the waters of Luchon, which occupies more than 200 pages. Through his experiments and his texts, Pierre Bayen, apothecary and chemist, remained the great opponent of the phlogistic theory whose validity he doubted, a theory almost sovereign in chemistry in this late eighteenth century. In the dedication, Malatret thanks Parmentier for having given him the idea of assembling the works of Payen.

First edition under the reissue label of Armand Rosière in Paris.
Illustrated catalogue with 140 figures.
One scratch and a small paper loss at the head of the first cover, otherwise a handsome copy.

New edition.
Covers marginally sunned with small lacks.
Rare libertarian and Malthusian pamphlet.

First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from "Revue de géographie alpine".
Half green cloth binding, smooth spine slightly faded, double gilt fillet at tail, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved.
Some light foxing, a hole with loss affecting the "T" of the word "tir" in the work's title on the title page, manuscript signature of a previous owner on the title page.
Work illustrated with 8 photographic plates and complete with its large folding map at the end of the volume.
Autograph inscription signed by Aimé Luquet at the head of the title page.

First edition of the French translation based on the ninth English edition.
Half black shagreen bindings, spines with four raised bands decorated with blind double compartments, traces of rubbing to spines, traces of library shelf labels at head of spines, black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.
Foxing, gift inscriptions in pen at head of half-title pages, it appears that an endpaper has been torn at the beginning of each volume.
Another particularity of our copy: numerous blank leaves have been bound at the end of each volume, certainly intended to contain manuscript observations from a previous owner.
Copy complete with its folding plate contained in the second volume.

First edition.
Half black shagreen binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and wide black fillets, minor rubbing to headcaps, black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns,
Scattered foxing.

First edition illustrated with 54 figures in the text and 8 tables at the end of the volume.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 25 figures in the text and a large folding map at the beginning of the volume.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 8 figures in the text.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

First edition illustrated with 55 figures in the text and one plate.
Unlettered spine.
Rare and handsome copy.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the "Annales de chimie et de physique".
Two tears to the spine lightly cracked at foot, handsome interior condition.
Gift inscription from a previous owner at head of first cover which has been almost entirely scraped away, gift inscription in pen on the half-title page.
Work illustrated with 54 figures in the text.

The first edition, of which there were no deluxe copies, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.
Spine sunned with a small lack at foot, handsome interior condition.

First edition.
Spine of the first volume cracked with small angular lacks, three tears at head and foot of both spines, foxing.
Complete copy with its 6 folding tables at the end of the volume.

First edition.
Iconography.
Handsome copy despite two small tears at the head of the spine.

First edition.
Iconography.
Handsome copy despite two small stains at the foot of the first cover.

First edition.
Iconography.
nice copy.

First edition published on the occasion of the tricentenary of the Academy of Sciences.
Work decorated with illustrations.
Handsome copy.

Bibliothèque de La Pléiade edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full green grained sheepskin bindings, blue top edges, smooth spines decorated with gilt fillets, complete with rhodoid for volume I and their dust jackets.
The rhodoid for volume I has tears and lacks.

First edition in French established by F. Fresnel.
Half bronze sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets and typographical motifs, joints cracked and reglued at head and foot, small lacks to headcaps, marbled paper boards, some epidermures to second board, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Work complete with its 4 folding plates at rear.

First edition.
Half marbled fawn sheep binding, spine with four raised bands set with gilt undulating fillets decorated with gilt fillets and typographical motifs stamped in blind, red shagreen title and author labels, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Handsome copy beautifully executed.
Autograph inscription signed by Professor Carrasco to his colleague Ernest Robidet.

First edition, one of 125 numbered copies on alfa paper, ours one of 25 hors commerce copies, the only deluxe copies after 15 Holland and 40 pur fil.
Spine and margins of covers skilfully restored.
Autograph inscription signed by Louis-Ferdinand Céline "A Madame Marthe Pujol Bien affectueusement L.F. Céline".
Precious deluxe copy with an autograph inscription by the author.

First edition of this offprint, extracted from Annales de Chimie et de Physique, 3rd series, vol. XLIX.
Blue temporary wrapper, with the author's name and title written in pen at the head of the first cover.
Rare autograph inscription signed by Marcellin Berthelot to his colleague and elder Michel-Eugène Chevreul: "A Monsieur Chevreul membre de l'Institut hommage respectueux".

First edition abundantly illustrated with 1110 in-text wood engravings and 47 hand-colored lithographs by Mesnel after the author's photographs.
Contemporary half-glazed black calf binding with small corners. Smooth spine decorated with 4 fleurons. Restorations to headcaps and joints, blue percale boards renewed, corners renewed. Light marginal dampstains on first and last leaves of the table. Scattered foxing mainly in the margins.
One of the most famous works on fishing, and certainly the most exhaustive ever published.

first edition.
Iconography.
Autograph signed by Jean-Pierre Luminet to the poet Charles Dobzynski.

First edition printed in a numbered edition of 1,250 copies.
Half tan shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded and rubbed with four raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt double compartments, gilt friezes at head and foot, a mosaic shagreen piece in sand and black in the middle of the spine representing a sign, gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original wrappers preserved, red top edge, bookplate pasted at head of one pastedown, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition without foxing.
Work illustrated with numerous drawings in black and color, within the text and full-page by Gustave Girrane.

Pléiade library edition printed on Bible paper.
Publisher's full black grained sheepskin binding, blue top edge, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, with its rhodoid protective wrapper.
A bookshop label discretely pasted at the head of one endpaper.

first edition for which it was not printed in large papers and which the author dedicated to Louis-Ferdinand Céline: "to doctor Louis Destouches, editor-in-chief of medical mail. To the friend of the first hour and always I dedicate this book in homage to the old and faithful affection ".
Pleasant copy.

First edition illustrated with a title vignette.
Our copy is presented in original wrappers.
The first two leaves are detached.

First edition.
Contemporary Spanish binding in full brown tree calf. Smooth spine decorated with rolls and stars. Black shagreen title label. A tear in the tail compartment, with loss. Slash on the upper board. Rubbing. Scattered foxing. A trace of yellowish dampstaining to margin at center on about fifty leaves, in the middle of the work.
Treatise on horse breeding in Spain. The author analyzes the reasons for the decline of horses in Spain and advocates crossing Spanish horses with Arabian horses. This project was adopted by royal decree in 1831.

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 contreplats of combed paper, three corners blunt , golden head.
Signed autograph dedication of Alfred Donne which was largely cut off by the binder.
Rare together.

First edition.
Half red shagreen binding, spine with five small raised bands set with gilt dots and decorated with gilt compartments having at their centers a green mosaic morocco piece representing a flower, double gilt fillets framing the marbled paper boards, combed paper endpapers and pastedowns, top edge gilt, near-contemporary binding.
Some minor foxing.
Rare and handsome copy beautifully executed.

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 paper, head gilded, Contemporary binding.
Some small foxinges.
Rare and nice copy nicely established.
Autograph dedication signed by S Heller to Dr. Renauldin.

First edition.
Spine with lacks, tears, stains and corner lacks to boards, loose copy, rear board detached.
Rare but in poor condition.

First edition.
Small tears with lacks and marginal creases to boards, some interior foxing.
Rare.

First edition.
Spine broken with lacks, lacks and angular tears to boards, front board detached, handsome interior condition.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Revue numismatique.
Covers absent, small fold marks at head of leaves, handsome interior condition.
Pamphlet with one plate.

The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Light foxing, small fold marks to margins of leaves, light dampstain at foot of both plates.
Pamphlet with 2 plates.
Copy in original temporary binding awaiting binding.
Rare.