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First Editions
  1. Traité-répertoire des applications de la chimie
    Jules GARCON

    Traité-répertoire des applications de la chimie

    Vve C. Dunod|Paris 1901|15 x 24.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    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.
    €100
  2. Traité du tissage mécanique
    Franz REH

    Traité du tissage mécanique

    Edition de la société anonyme des publications industrielles|Paris 1928|16 x 24.50 cm|relié
    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.
    €60
  3. Traité des matières colorantes artificielles dérivées du goudron de houille
    A.-Mathieu VILLON

    Traité des matières colorantes artificielles dérivées du goudron de houille

    Librairie polytechnique Baudry & Cie|Paris 1890|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    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.
    €80
  4. De l'organe phrénologique de destruction chez les animaux ou examen de cette question
    Louis-Francisque LÉLUT

    De l'organe phrénologique de destruction chez les animaux ou examen de cette question

    J.B. Baillière|Paris 1838|13 x 20 cm|broché
    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.
    €80
  5. De la folie. Considérations sur cette maladie : son siège et ses symptômes ; la nature et le mode d'action de ses causes ; sa marche et ses terminaisons ; les différences qui se distinguent du délire aigu ; les moyens de traitement qui lui conviennent ; suivies de recherches cadavériques
    Étienne-Jean GEORGET

    De la folie. Considérations sur cette maladie : son siège et ses symptômes ; la nature et le mode d'action de ses causes ; sa marche et ses terminaisons ; les différences qui se distinguent du délire aigu ; les moyens de traitement qui lui conviennent ; suivies de recherches cadavériques

    Crevot|Paris 1820|13 x 21 cm|relié
    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."]

    €800
  6. Opuscules chimiques
    Pierre BAYEN

    Opuscules chimiques

    Chez A. J. Dugour et Durand|Paris 1798 (An VI)|12.50 x 20 cm|2 volumes reliés
    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...
    €400
  8. Population et prudence procréatrice
    Paul ROBIN

    Population et prudence procréatrice

    Bidault éditeur|Paris 1916|10.50 x 15.50 cm|broché
    New edition.
    Covers marginally sunned with small lacks.
    Rare libertarian and Malthusian pamphlet.

    €60
  9. Etude sur la géographie botanique de l'Auvergne. Esquisse phytogéographique du massif des Monts-Dores
    Aimé LUQUET

    Etude sur la géographie botanique de l'Auvergne. Esquisse phytogéographique du massif des Monts-Dores

    Université de Grenoble|Grenoble 1926|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    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.
    €100
  10. Chimie des gens du monde
    Samuel PARKES

    Chimie des gens du monde

    Leblanc|Paris 1822|13 x 20.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
    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...
    €120
  16. Leçons sur le carbone. La combustion, les lois chimiques
    Henry LE CHATELIER

    Leçons sur le carbone. La combustion, les lois chimiques

    Dunot & Pinat • A. Hermann|Paris 1908|16.50 x 25.50 cm|broché
    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.
    €100
  18. Système financier de la France
    Charles, marquis D'AUDIFFRET

    Système financier de la France

    Librairie de P. Dufart|Paris 1840|14 x 22 cm|2 volumes brochés
    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.


    €100
  19. L'industrie française du pétrole en 1955
    COLLECTIF

    L'industrie française du pétrole en 1955

    Union des chambres syndicales de l'industrie du pétrole|Paris 1956|21 x 27.50 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Iconography.
    Handsome copy despite two small tears at the head of the spine.
    €40
  20. L'industrie française du pétrole en 1952
    COLLECTIF

    L'industrie française du pétrole en 1952

    Union des chambres syndicales de l'industrie du pétrole|Paris 1953|21 x 27 cm|broché
    First edition.
    Iconography.
    Handsome copy despite two small stains at the foot of the first cover.
    €40
  22. Histoire et prestige de l'Académie des sciences 1666-1966
    COLLECTIF

    Histoire et prestige de l'Académie des sciences 1666-1966

    Musée du conservatoire national des Arts et métiers|Paris 1966|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
    First edition published on the occasion of the tricentenary of the Academy of Sciences.
    Work decorated with illustrations.
    Handsome copy.
    €40
  23. Zoologie Tomes I & II
    COLLECTIF

    Zoologie Tomes I & II

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1963-1974|10.50 x 18 cm|2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur
    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.
    €40
  24. De l'emploi du chalumeau dans les analyses chimiques et les déterminations minéralogiques
    Jöns Jacob BERZELIUS

    De l'emploi du chalumeau dans les analyses chimiques et les déterminations minéralogiques

    Méquignon-Marvis|Paris 1821|14 x 21.50 cm|relié
    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.
    €200
  25. Prolapsus du rectum
    CARRASCO

    Prolapsus du rectum

    Masson & Cie|Paris 1934|16.50 x 25.50 cm|relié
    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.
    €80
  26. Mea culpa suivi de La vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis
    Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE

    Mea culpa suivi de La vie et l'oeuvre de Semmelweis

    Denoël & Steele|Paris 1937|11.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
    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.
    €4,500
  27. Recherches sur le soufre
    Marcellin BERTHELOT

    Recherches sur le soufre

    Annales de chimie et physique|Paris s. d. [1857]|14.50 x 23 cm|cousu sous couverture
    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".
    €450
  28. La pêche et les poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire général des pêches
    Henri de LA BLANCHÈRE

    La pêche et les poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire général des pêches

    Librairie de Ch. Delagrave et Cie|Paris 1868|19.50 x 27.30 cm|relié
    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.
    €350
  29. Illuminations. Cosmos et esthétique
    Jean-Pierre LUMINET

    Illuminations. Cosmos et esthétique

    Odile Jacob|Paris 2011|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
    first edition.
    Iconography.
    Autograph signed by Jean-Pierre Luminet to the poet Charles Dobzynski.
    €100
  30. L'enseigne. Son histoire & sa philosophie. Ses particularités
    John GRAND-CARTERET, Gustave GIRRANE

    L'enseigne. Son histoire & sa philosophie. Ses particularités

    Librairie Dauphinoise H. Falque & F. Perrin • Librairie Savoyarde François Ducloz|Grenoble • & Moutiers 1902|22 x 29 cm|relié
    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...
    €250
  31. Zoologie, Tome 1
    COLLECTIF

    Zoologie, Tome 1

    Gallimard • , Bibliothèque de La Pléiade|Paris 1963|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    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.
    €25
  32. Les fruits de France - Historique diététique et thérapeutique
    Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE, Henri LECLERC

    Les fruits de France - Historique diététique et thérapeutique

    Masson & Cie|Paris 1925|14.50 x 21 cm|broché
    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.
    €150
  34. Memoria sobre la cria caballar de Espana
    Don Francisco LAIGLESIA Y DARRAC

    Memoria sobre la cria caballar de Espana

    D. Leon Amarita|Madrid 1831|15 x 21.50 cm|relié
    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.
    €500
  35. Recherches expérimentales sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - Mémoire sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - De la digestion et de la résorption des matières grasses sans le concours du fluide pancréatique
    William Frederic EDWARDS, Jean Baptiste Marie BAUDRY DE BALSAC

    Recherches expérimentales sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - Mémoire sur l'emploi de la gélatine comme substance alimentaire. - De la digestion et de la résorption des matières grasses sans le concours du fluide pancréatique

    Imprimerie de Migneret • Imprimerie et fonderie de Rignoux et Cie • Victor Masson|Paris 1833 & 1835 & 1857|13.50 x 21 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
    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.
    €800
  36. Histoire physiologique et pathologique de la salive considérée particulièrement sous le rapport de ses usages, du rôle que joue ce fluide dans les fonctions digestives et dans les affections gastriques
    Alfred DONNÉ

    Histoire physiologique et pathologique de la salive considérée particulièrement sous le rapport de ses usages, du rôle que joue ce fluide dans les fonctions digestives et dans les affections gastriques

    Béchet jeune|Paris 1836|14 x 22.50 cm|relié
    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.

    €400
  37. Recherches sur la route que prennent diverses substances pour passer de l'estomac et du canal intestinal dans le sang ; sur la fonction de la rate et sur les voies cachées de l'urine
    Friedrich TIEDEMANN, Leopold GMELIN

    Recherches sur la route que prennent diverses substances pour passer de l'estomac et du canal intestinal dans le sang ; sur la fonction de la rate et sur les voies cachées de l'urine

    Méquignon-Marvis|Paris 1821|13 x 21 cm|relié
    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.
    €500
  41. Monnaies inédites des Ethiopiens et des Homérites
    Gustave SCHLUMBERGER

    Monnaies inédites des Ethiopiens et des Homérites

    S. n.|s. l. 1886|16 x 25 cm|broché
    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.



    €80
  42. Monographie des monnaies arméniennes
    Marie-Félicité BROSSET

    Monographie des monnaies arméniennes

    Académie impériale des sciences|Saint-Pétersbourg [Saint Petersburg] 1839|16 x 25 cm|broché
    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.



    €200
  43. Institutions astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d'astronomie
    John KEILL, Pierre Charles LEMONNIER

    Institutions astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d'astronomie

    Chez Hippolyte-Louis Guerin|à Paris 1746|20 x 26 cm|relié
    First French edition, translated from Latin by Lemonnier according to Barbier and J. de Lalande (astronomical bibliography). It is illustrated with 16 folding plates (moon, zodiac, astronomical calculations), numerous tables of the sun and moon, of Jupiter and Saturn, and logarithms. General privilege granted to the Royal Academy of Sciences on November 12, 1734. It should be noted with interest that this edition is, according to Lalande, so extensively augmented and so different from its English counterpart that it is considered original. The selenographic maps noted I, II, III, inserted on page 140, are reproduced respectively from the works of: Hevelius (1645), Royal Academy of Sciences...
    €800
  44. Elément de chymie, suivant les principes de Becker & de Stahl
    Jean-François DEMACHY

    Elément de chymie, suivant les principes de Becker & de Stahl

    Chez Siméon-Prosper Hardy|à Paris 1757|10 x 17 cm|6 volumes reliés
    First edition. One folding plate at the end of volume I on chemical symbols.
    Contemporary full marbled blonde sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Beige sheep title and volume labels. Set rubbed throughout. Headcaps worn. Scratches to boards. Corners slightly bumped. Upper joint of volume I cracked, lower joint of volume I cracked at foot. Lower joint of volume IV split at head over the first 3 compartments; upper joint cracked at head.
    Treatise and manual of chemistry according to the German theories of Becker and Stahl. Becker originated the phlogiston theory, which held that a principle of combustion was present and active in air, a theory that would be disproved by...
    €600
  45. Elemens de chymie theorique
    Pierre-Joseph MACQUER

    Elemens de chymie theorique

    Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant|à Paris 1749|10 x 17 cm|relié
    First illustrated edition with 4 folding plates at the end (instruments and tables of different elements).
    Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Spine with raised bands, decorated. Red morocco title-label. One lack at head. Spine very rubbed overall. 2 corners slightly bumped. Gilt dulled on spine.
    Engraved esoteric bookplate of AuG. Gilbert.
    The first work published by the chemist and pharmacist Pierre Joseph Macquer, before composing his dictionary of chemistry in 1766 which made him famous. Working alongside Sigaud de la Fond then Lavoisier, he was one of the protagonists of modern chemistry and the abandonment of the Aristotelian system of 4 elements (air, water, earth...
    €350
  46. Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale
    Joseph-Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

    Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

    Chez Gueffier|à Paris 1775|12.50 x 20.30 cm|2 volumes reliés
    First edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for volume I and 28 for the second, at end of volumes) on heavy paper.
    Contemporary full marbled blonde calf binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Red morocco title and volume labels. Head of volume I split. One lack in head compartment of volume I. One lack in tail compartment of volume II. Set rubbed and scuffed. Tail of volume I worn. One strip of leather on lower cover of volume I torn away. 3 corners bumped on volume I. 2 plates badly folded in volume I and protruding.
    An extraordinary pedagogue and demonstrator, Sigaud de la Fond early attended the courses of Abbé Nollet (no less famous for his experiments in physics...
    €800
  51. Cours de physique experimentale
    John Theophilus DESAGULIERS

    Cours de physique experimentale

    chez Charles Antoine Jombert • chez Jacques Rollin|à Paris 1751|20.50 x 26.50 cm|relié

    Rare French first edition in the translation by Esprit Pézenas, illustrated with 2 title vignettes and 78 folding plates representing instruments used for physics demonstrations.



    Armorial copy with unidentified coat of arms.
    Contemporary full porphyry sheep binding. Decorated spine with raised bands. Beige calf title label, brown sheep volume label. One lack to foot of volume I. Light lack to head compartment of volume II and to foot compartment. Split to upper joints at foot of both volumes, 1cm. Corners with leather losses, as well as to edges. The use of acid to achieve the porphyry marbling has caused certain alterations to the leather, notably...

    €4,000
  53. Zoologie Tome II
    COLLECTIF

    Zoologie Tome II

    Gallimard|Paris 1963|10.50 x 17.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition published in the Bibliothèque de La Pléiade series.
    Publisher's binding in full green grained sheep, smooth spine decorated with gilt fillets, complete with its cellophane wrapper and dust jacket.
    Top edge slightly faded.


    €20
  54. Cours de phrénologie
    François-Joseph-Victor BROUSSAIS

    Cours de phrénologie

    J.B. Baillière|Paris 1836|13 x 21.50 cm|relié
    First edition with its board engraved by Tradieu representing a phrenological fugure.
    Binding in caramel half calf, smooth back decorated with gold friezes as well as cold stamped typographic motifs, a major lack in foot of the back, title label of black shagreen, bit threatening to detach, framing of a golden net on the marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, fragile Contemporary binding.
    Ex-libris in the pen of François-Antoine de Boissy of Anglas next to the page of fake title.
    Foxing.
    Rare and precious autograph signed by François Joseph Victor Broussais to François-Antoine de Boissy of Anglas on the title page.
    €450
  55. Traité de la lumière
    John Frederick William HERSCHEL

    Traité de la lumière

    Malher & Cie|Paris 1829 - 1833|13 x 21.50 cm|relié
    First French edition of this important study. Translation from English with notes by MM. Verhulst and A. Quetelet. The second volume is from 1833. The significant publication delay between the first and second volumes allowed for some remarkable additions: Supplement to the treatise on light by Quetelet, p. 336-602 of volume 2, in which the latter exposes recent research in optics. The illustration comprises 15 folding plates. The treatise on light had only appeared in the form of articles in the Philosophical transactions, and this is its first edition in volume form to which Herschel contributed with his corrections.
    Full olive green sheep bindings, slightly later ca 1840...
    €780
  56. Compte rendu des travaux des ingénieurs des mines pendant l'année 1839
    MINISTERE DES TRAVAUX PUBLICS

    Compte rendu des travaux des ingénieurs des mines pendant l'année 1839

    Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1840|23.50 x 29.50 cm|relié
    First edition, rare. A large hand-colored map.
    Contemporary full red long-grain morocco binding. Smooth spine decorated with rocaille tools and small tools. Covers decorated with central panels featuring rich Restoration ornamentation. Complex angular Restoration cornerpieces connected by curved fillets. Wide decorative border. Blue silk endpapers. A black line crossing the title. Lower joint cracked at head for 2 cm but stopping before the headcap. Scratches on the second cover, and 2 black stains. Scraped area on the first cover. The 2 lower corners slightly worn. Traces of rubbing. Very fresh laid paper. Despite some flaws, splendid contemporary binding, bound for a high official...
    €500
  57. J'avais 20 ans... ou la mission
    Trajan SAINT-INÈS, Alfred Baring GARROD

    J'avais 20 ans... ou la mission

    Editions Nicolas|Niort 1955|14 x 20.50 cm|broché
    First edition on current paper.
    Some slight bites without gravity on the boards, nice copy.
    Illustrated book of 42 photographs and 46 drawings of the author.
    Our copy is complete of his trailer on which a previous owner of the book wrote this handwritten note about the author: "Totally eliminated from the RTF since December 1957 ... It was his only additional livelihood . "
    Signed autograph from Trajan Saint-Inès to Jean Mahé: "... last confident hope of the author in a bit of human justice ..."
    €50
  58. La vie passionnée de André-Marie Ampère
    Tancrède de VISAN

    La vie passionnée de André-Marie Ampère

    Agence Archat|Lyon s. d. [circa 1936]|14.50 x 23 cm|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 plates.
    Autograph signed by Tancède de Visan to Claude Carret: "... this little essay on a big Gone ..."
    €30
  59. La lutte contre la mort
    Sergej Ivanovic METALNIKOV

    La lutte contre la mort

    Gallimard|Paris 1937|12.50 x 19 cm|broché
    First edition for which it was not drawn from great papers, one of the review copies service.
    Some spots on the boards, complete copy of his prayer to insert.
    Autograph signed by Serguej Metalnikov to Emmanuel Couvreux.
    €60
  60. Etude sur l'utilité agricole et les gisements géologiques du phosphore
    Elie de BEAUMONT, Adrien MOREAU

    Etude sur l'utilité agricole et les gisements géologiques du phosphore

    Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard|Paris 1857|13.50 x 21.50 cm|relié
    First Edition printed in small numbers of this reprinted from the memoirs of the imperial and central society of agriculture.
    Binding in full fir green shagreen, smooth back adorned with gilded and black fillets, framing of gilt and black fillets on the boards, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, framing of a frieze of rhombuses and golden circles on the contreplats, nets golden on the cups, all gilded edges, Contemporary binding.
    Rare and nice copy.
    Precious autograph signed by Elie de Beaumont to the Duke of Bassano.
    €200
  62. Marius Berliet l'homme et son oeuvre 1866-1949
    COLLECTIF

    Marius Berliet l'homme et son oeuvre 1866-1949

    Draeger frères|Montrouge 1950|21.50 x 27 cm|broché
    First edition, our copy printed for Monsieur Betmont.
    Calling card of Madame Marius Berliet included.
    Work illustrated with photographs.
    Handsome copy.



    €60
  64. Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité
    Nicolas Gabriel CLERC

    Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa première simplicité

    Chez Lacombe|à Paris 1767|13 x 20 cm|2 tomes en un volume relié
    First edition.
    Near-contemporary half vellum binding with small corners, ca 1800. Smooth spine with title in black ink. 2 small splits at head, another at foot.
    Epistemological and philosophical approach to medicine. The author traces back to Hippocrates to understand how medicine has evolved and returns to simple principles, based on observation, ridding medicine of too many remedies that contaminate it. Thus Clerc returns to Hippocrates' opinions on air and climate, and their influence on disease. The second volume has a more practical aspect and abounds with clinical examples and remedies, often very simple, such as milk. The final chapters concern particular themes such as...
    €350
  65. Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie
    Charles BONNET

    Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie

    Chez Samuel Fauche|à Neuchâtel 1779 - 1783|12 x 20.70 cm|18 volumes reliés
    First collected edition illustrated with 58 folding plates (with numerous figures), and very numerous folding tables. The portrait which should appear as frontispiece to the first volume is absent, as well as 4 plates out of 8 in volume 11. This octavo edition appeared at the same time as the quarto edition which has title vignettes. The author took charge of the editorial enterprise himself and composed prefaces, notes, additions, to all his writings, which he chose to separate into 2 parts: the first concerns works on natural history, the second, those on speculative philosophy, as he himself recounts in the general preface. The preliminary matter contains a bibliography of Charles...
    €2,200
  66. Publication complète des nouvelles découvertes de Sir John Herschel dans le ciel austral et dans la lune. - Découvertes dans la lune, faites au Cap de Bonne-Espérance par Herschel fils, astronome anglais
    John Frederick William HERSCHEL

    Publication complète des nouvelles découvertes de Sir John Herschel dans le ciel austral et dans la lune. - Découvertes dans la lune, faites au Cap de Bonne-Espérance par Herschel fils, astronome anglais

    Masson & Duprey • Louis Babeuf & Ainé|Paris • & Lyon 1836|12.50 x 19.50 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
    First edition of the French translation for the first volume, second edition of the french translation for the second.
    Bradel binding, signed by Thomas Boichot.
    Occasional foxing.
    Rare set.
    €750
  67. Anatomie et physiologie cellulaires
    Charles ROBIN

    Anatomie et physiologie cellulaires

    J.-B. Baillière & fils|Paris 1873|14 x 23 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition illustrated with 82 in-text figures.
    Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth spine, headcaps rubbed, boards with cold-stamped Greek fret borders, corners slightly bumped.
    Handsome interior condition.
    €100
  68. Leçons sur la transfusion directe du sang. - Un cas grave de phtisie. Application de l'antisepsie pulmonaire. Injections sous-cutanées d'eucalyptol et des antiseptiques toniques
    Joseph ROUSSEL

    Leçons sur la transfusion directe du sang. - Un cas grave de phtisie. Application de l'antisepsie pulmonaire. Injections sous-cutanées d'eucalyptol et des antiseptiques toniques

    Asselin & Houzeau • Imprimerie Charaire & fils|Paris • & Sceaux 1885-1888|14 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
    First edition for each of the volumes.
    The first work is illustrated with 47 figures in the text, the second contains 1 in-text figure.
    Bradel binding in half mouse-grey cloth, smooth spine, brown shagreen title-label running lengthwise with scratches, gilt date and double fillet at foot, marbled paper boards, original wrappers preserved for each volume, upper corners slightly bumped.
    Printed stamps of Doctor Joseph Roussel on the half-title pages.
    A name inscribed in pen at the head of an endpaper as bookplate; below, the title of the second work, bound following, has been inscribed in turquoise ink.
    Pleasant interior condition.
    Important gathering of these two...
    €700
  69. Traité de la diphtérie
    Albert SANNÉ

    Traité de la diphtérie

    G. Masson|Paris 1877|13.50 x 22 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with 4 plates.
    Half black sheep binding, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt fillets and dots, spine showing traces of rubbing, marbled paper boards with small lacks of leather at margins, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
    Some light foxing.



    €100
  70. Le mobilier provençal
    Henri ALGOUD

    Le mobilier provençal

    Charles Massin & Cie|Paris s. d. [circa 1925]|22 x 32 cm|en feuilles sous chemise à lacet
    First edition.
    Complete with all 44 plates.
    Copy complete with text and its full cardboard chemise secured with ties.
    The chemise shows one corner slightly bumped and some foxing to the covers.
    €50
  71. Les dates et les oeuvres. Symbolisme et poésie scientifique
    René GHIL

    Les dates et les oeuvres. Symbolisme et poésie scientifique

    Georges Crès & Cie|Paris 1923|13 x 19.50 cm|relié
    First edition, one of 25 numbered copies on vergé pur fil paper, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
    Bradel binding, covers and spine preserved, top edge gilt, binding signed by T. Boichot.
    Nice and rare copy with edges preserved.
    €680
  72. L'art du souffleur à la lampe et au chalumeau
    Henri-Frédéric PEDRONI FILS

    L'art du souffleur à la lampe et au chalumeau

    Librairie encyclopédique de Roret|Paris 1849|9 x 15 cm|relié
    First edition illustrated with 3 folding plates at the end containing 93 figures.

    Half chocolate brown shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt fleurons, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, speckled edges.

    Rare and handsome copy.



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    €150
  73. Tissus des Indes néerlandaises
    Daniel RÉAL

    Tissus des Indes néerlandaises

    Librairie des Arts décoratifs|Paris s. d. [circa 1930]|25.50 x 33 cm|en feuilles

    First edition.
    Work complete with its 49 plates hors-texte including 6 in color.
    Spine and boards of the chemise lightly and marginally discolored and sunned as usual.

    €150
  74. Dictionnaire des arts et métiers
    Philippe MACQUER

    Dictionnaire des arts et métiers

    Chez Lacombe|à Paris 1766|10 x 17 cm (In-12)|2 volumes reliés

    First edition.
    Full mottled brown calf bindings. Spines with raised bands, gilt-tooled. Title and volume labels in Havana morocco. Losses at the head of volume I. Upper border of volume I partly trimmed. Abrasions to the boards with a loss on the lower board of volume I. Overall, a good copy.


    €500
  76. De l'état de la culture en France, et des améliorations dont elle est suceptible
    Dominique Dufour de PRADT

    De l'état de la culture en France, et des améliorations dont elle est suceptible

    De l'imprimerie de Guilleminet|à Paris 1802 (An X)|13.50 x 21.50 cm (In-8)|2 volumes reliés

    First edition.
    Bound in slightly later (ca. 1820) half navy sheep. Smooth spines decorated with four small tools and fillets. Some rubbing, particularly to the boards. A pleasing copy, relatively clean, printed on good laid paper.

    €550
  77. Le Grand dictionnaire géographique, historique et critique
    Antoine-Augustin BRUZEN DE LA MARTINIÈRE

    Le Grand dictionnaire géographique, historique et critique

    Chez P. G. Le Mercier • Le Mercier & Boudet|à Paris 1739-1741|25.50 x 38.50 cm|6 volumes reliés

    Complete first edition in six volumes, illustrated with decorative headpieces. 


    Contemporary bindings in full marbled brown calf, spines with six raised bands decorated with red morocco title and volume labels, fleurons and double gilt frame fillets, triple fillets stamped in blind framing the boards, double gilt fillets on the leading edges, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges marbled. Title pages in red and black. Headcaps worn, title labels of volumes 1, 3, 4 and 6 and volume labels of volumes 4, 5 and 6 missing, some lacks to the compartments, leather split at the joint of the first volume, joints of other volumes often slightly cracked at head or foot, boards and...

    €1,000
  78. Leçons élémentaires de botanique fondées sur l'analyse de 50 plantes vulgaires et formant un traité complet d'organographie et de physiologie végétale
    Emmanuel LE MAOUT

    Leçons élémentaires de botanique fondées sur l'analyse de 50 plantes vulgaires et formant un traité complet d'organographie et de physiologie végétale

    Chez Fortin, Masson|Paris 1854 (S.d)|Pet. in-8|2 volumes reliés
    Illustrated edition with an atlas of 50 finely watercolored figures and approximately 700 small black figures in the text.
    Publisher's gauffered navy cardboard bindings. Smooth spines richly decorated. Covers ornamented with a bouquet of flowers on the boards and a wide blind frame. Gilt edges. Upper board of the second volume slightly warped by humidity (the gilt on this board is faded). A light dampstain across all volumes in the upper margin, more pronounced on the first leaves of volume 1 (framing the entire page) then fading. Scattered browning on the second volume, mainly at the beginning. Despite the mentioned defects, a handsome-looking copy in publisher's boards.
    Le Maout...
    €500
  80. Mémoires sur la diathèse osseuse en général, et la théorie de l'ankylose vraie des auteurs en particulier. - De la régénération des parties molles du corps humain
    Henri-Marcel KUHNHOLTZ

    Mémoires sur la diathèse osseuse en général, et la théorie de l'ankylose vraie des auteurs en particulier. - De la régénération des parties molles du corps humain

    Imprimerie de X. Jullien • Louis Castel & J.B. Baillière|Montpellier • & Paris 1834-1841|14.50 x 23 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
    First edition for each volume, the second being printed on green paper.
    Half aubergine shagreen binding with corners, spine slightly faded with four raised bands set with gilt fillets, double gilt fillet frame on marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
    The first volume is complete with its 3 lithographed plates at the end.
    Some foxing in margins of certain leaves of the first volume.
    Rare and handsome set.
    €250
  86. Vues et coupes principales formations géologiques du Puy-de-Dôme accompagnées de la description et des échantillons des roches qui les composent. Atlas seul
    Henri LECOQ, Jean-Baptiste BOUILLET

    Vues et coupes principales formations géologiques du Puy-de-Dôme accompagnées de la description et des échantillons des roches qui les composent. Atlas seul

    F.G. Levrault • Bouillet|Strasbourg • & Clermont-Ferrand 1830|28 x 22 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
    First edition.
    Publisher's Bradel binding in full boards, smooth spine with a tear at foot, boards soiled, corners slightly bumped.
    Our atlas volume, which we offer for sale alone, is illustrated with 31 lithographed plates outside the text, sometimes double-page and some mounted, and heightened with watercolor.
    Angular dampstain at head of endpaper and title pages, some minor interior foxing.
    Rare but incomplete without the text.
    €800
  87. Monographie du thé. Description pittoresque, torréfaction, composition chimique, propriétés hygiénique de cette feuille
    J. G. HOUSSAYE

    Monographie du thé. Description pittoresque, torréfaction, composition chimique, propriétés hygiénique de cette feuille

    Chez L'auteur|Paris 1843 [S.d.]|16 x 24.50 cm|relié
    First edition, illustrated with 17 woodcut plates (roasting, planting, watering, plant, harvest, drying...) and several tables. 1 advertising engraving for the porte chinoise in Paris at the end.
    Publisher's blue cloth boards. Smooth spine with gilt title. Gilt block on upper board and blind ruling frame, depicting La porte chinoise in Paris, with figures and boat. Lack at tail. Slight lack at head. 3 corners with small lacks of cloth. Scattered browning, more marked on the first leaves then fading. 2 engravings with traces of dampstains and pale stains. Missing the lemon endpaper before the half-title. A label replaces the old address, now rue Vivienne (the author had indeed...
    €450
  88. Cours de multiplication et de perfectionnement des animaux domestiques, où l'on traite de leurs services et de leurs produits
    Louis-Furcy GROGNIER

    Cours de multiplication et de perfectionnement des animaux domestiques, où l'on traite de leurs services et de leurs produits

    Bouchard-Huzard • C. Savy jeune|Paris • & Lyon 1841|12.50 x 22.50 cm|relié
    Third edition, revised and expanded with general considerations on the improvement of breeds and a treatise on pigs by H. Magne.
    Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with black and gilt fillets, a tear on the brown sheep title-label, headcaps rubbed and worn, some rubbing on the spine, one cracked joint, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some tears on the leading edges, contemporary binding.
    Work illustrated with 2 plates outside the text decorated with figures.
    Printed bibliophile stamps and pen gift inscriptions on one endpaper and the half-title page.
    €100
  89. Pheasants : their lives and their homes
    William BEEBE

    Pheasants : their lives and their homes

    Doubleday • Page and Company|New-York [New York] 1926|19.50 x 26.50 cm|2 volumes en reliures de l'éditeur
    First edition.
    Publisher's full green cloth binding, smooth spines, front covers decorated with central gilt medallion, top edges gilt.
    Work illustrated with plates.
    €80
  90. Traité d'orfévrerie, bijouterie et joaillerie ; contenant la description détaillée des caractères physiques et chimiques des métaux et pierres précieuses qui constituent les matières premières de cette belle branche de l'industrie française; de leur extraction du sein de la terre ; de l'art de les essayer, de les évaluer et de les mettre en oeuvre ; et généralement tout ce qui se rapporte à la théorie ou à la pratique de ces trois arts, qui, par leur analogie, n'en font qu'un
    Placide BOUÉ

    Traité d'orfévrerie, bijouterie et joaillerie ; contenant la description détaillée des caractères physiques et chimiques des métaux et pierres précieuses qui constituent les matières premières de cette belle branche de l'industrie française; de leur extraction du sein de la terre ; de l'art de les essayer, de les évaluer et de les mettre en oeuvre ; et généralement tout ce qui se rapporte à la théorie ou à la pratique de ces trois arts, qui, par leur analogie, n'en font qu'un

    Delaunay • Borely ainé • Joanne frères • Levasseur • Marteau • Pailhiez • Vallory|Paris 1832|14.50 x 22 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Half red shagreen over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments with black fillets to bands, foot of spine scratched (the initials of a former owner which have been scratched out), brown shagreen title label, covers preserved (a little rubbing to edges).
    Retaining its seven folding plates.
    Occasional spotting, principally affecting the plates of the second volume.
    Rare.
    €1,800
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