Romain VIGOUROUX
Neurasthénie et arthristisme.Urologie, régime alimentaire, traitement
A. Maloine|Paris 1893|11.50 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's brown cloth binding, smooth spine, small foxing to boards.
Preface by Dr. F. Levillain.
Autograph inscription signed by the preface writer to his colleague Dr. Bérillon.
One stain to edges.
€70
Henri BLAQUIÈRE, Anne de FONT-REAULX
Documents sur le canal des deux mers et la politique de Colbert en Languedoc
Centre régional de documentation pédagogique|Toulouse 1967|21 x 26.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Ouvrage illustrated with 15 planches hors texte.
€30
ANONYME
Projet de charte du métier de charcutier 1415-1941. Réunis en congrès à Lyon les charcutiers de France et des colonies à Monsieur le Maréchal de France Philippe Pétain, chef de l'Etat français
S. n.|s. l. 1941|-|relié
First edition.
Half sand cloth binding, smooth spine, red shagreen title-label with small scratches, marbled paper boards.
Work illustrated with two photographic facsimiles.
Some light foxing to endpapers, handsome interior condition.
€80
COLLECTIF
Etude botanique de l'étage alpin particulièrement en France
René-P. Colas|Bayeux 1954|20 x 26 cm|broché
First edition.
With figures to text and 8 plates hors texte.
A good copy.
€70
Jean-Baptiste Baron de ROISSARD DE BELLET
La Sardaigne à vol d'oiseau en 1882. Son histoire, ses moeurs, sa géologie, ses richesses métallifères et ses productions de toutes sortes
E. Plon, Nourrit & Cie|Paris 1884|17.50 x 26 cm|relié
First edition.
Half fir-green shagreen binding, darkened spine with five raised bands, initials with faded gilding at foot of spine, one joint split then reglued at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, one corner slightly bumped without consequence, contemporary binding.
Work complete with its 11 lithographs or wood engravings: 1 folding plate of a view of Cagliari at the beginning of the volume, 1 folding map at the end as well as 9 plates of which 4 are heightened in watercolor representing Sardinians in traditional costumes, ceramics and sculptures.
Some minor foxing without consequence, a lack without consequence and not touching the text at the
€700
Antoine Constant SAUCEROTTE
Elémens d'histoire naturelle présentant une suite de tableaux synoptiques, accompagnés de figures, un précis complet de cette science... Minéralogie et géologie. - Botanique. - Zoologie
Jules Delalain • Roret • Creusat|Paris • & Lunéville 1836|14 x 23 cm|3 volumes reliés en 1
First edition.
Half tan sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons and fillets, scuffing to marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding. Work complete with its 63 plates (10 for the first volume, 28 for the second and 25 for the last) as well as its 2 folding plates.
Scattered foxing. Rare.
€350
François Noël Alexandre DUBOIS
Méthode éprouvée, avec laquelle on peut parvenir facilement, et sans maître, à connoître les plantes de l'intérieur de la France, et en particulier celles des environs d'Orléans
Chez l'auteur • Cretté|Paris • & Orléans 1803|12.50 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half tan sheep binding, smooth browned spine decorated with gilt fleurons, spine and joints rubbed, marbled paper boards, yellow edges, contemporary binding.
Handsome interior condition.
€100
ANONYME
Cours sur le tracé et la construction des batteries de toute espèce à l'usage des écoles royales d'artillerie
Imprimerie Royale|Paris 1833|14 x 21.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half brown sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with gilt fleurons, friezes and fillets, hazelnut sheep title-label, fragile joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, marbled edges, contemporary binding.
Complete with its 7 folding plates at rear.
Some light foxing, a small ink stain at head of one of the plates.
Rare.
€350
Wilhelm JUNK, Sigmund SCHENKLING
Coleopterorum catalogus auspiciis et auxilio. Pars 114 : S. Schenkling & G.A.K. Marshall, Curculionidae : Eremninae, Leptopinae, Tanyrrhynchinae, Cylindrorrhinae, Thecesterninae (Suppl.), Rhytirrhininae (Suppl.), Rhyparosominae (Suppl)[Catalogue of Coleoptera under the Auspices and with the Assistance [of…]. Part 114: S. Schenkling & G.A.K. Marshall, Curculionidae: Eremninae, Leptopinae, Tanyrrhynchinae, Cylindrorrhinae, Thecesterninae (Suppl.), Rhytirrhininae (Suppl.), Rhyparosominae (Suppl.)]
W. Junk|Berlin 1931|18.50 x 26 cm|broché
First edition in Latin and German.
Spine restored with an adhesive piece due to wear, pen and pencil annotations on certain pages written by an entomologist.
€40
Wilhelm JUNK, Sigmund SCHENKLING
Coleopterorum catalogus auspiciis et auxilio. Pars 55 : M.Pic : Bruchidae[Catalogue of Coleoptera under the Auspices and with the Assistance [of…]. Part 55: M. Pic: Bruchidae]
W. Junk|Berlin 1913|18.50 x 26.50 cm|broché
First edition in german and latin.
A good copy.
€40
Wilhelm JUNK, Sigmund SCHENKLING
Coleopterorum catalogus auspiciis et auxilio. Pars 31 : K.W. von Dalla Torre : Aglycyderidae, Proterrhinidae
W. Junk|Berlin 1911|18.50 x 26.50 cm|broché
Original edition in Latin and German.
Nice copy.
€40
Henry BERTHOUD
Le monde des insectes
Garnier frères|Paris s. d. [circa 1880]|15.50 x 24.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands elaborately gilt in compartments with gilt typographical motif, covers triple-ruled in blind on black paper boards, white watered silk endpapers and pastedowns marginally soiled, all edges gilt.
Work illustrated with numerous wood-engraved vignettes by Joliet, Thomas, Lacoste, Dupeyron, Ecosse and drawings by Yan' Dargent.
Some minor foxing, otherwise handsome copy.
€80
Hermann E.S. CHAYES
La préparation des cavités
S. n.|Genève [Geneva] s. d. [circa 1950]|13.50 x 20.50 cm|agrafé
First edition.
Illustrated with photographs to text and hors texte.
A good and rare copy.
€45
Lucien POINCARÉ
La physique moderne, son évolution
Flammarion|Paris 1911|12 x 19 cm|broché
New edition based on the first 1906 printing, with a false statement of edition (thirteenth thousand).
Rare and appealing copy.
€50
COLLECTIF
Guide pratique pour l'emploi des bois du nord, charpente
Fédération nationale des importateurs de bois du nord des ports français|Paris Juillet 1956|11 x 21.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's green paper boards greene.
A very good copy.
€20
Ernst NEUFERT
L'architecture et l'isolation à base de mousses rigides de Styropor
Dunod|Paris 1971|21 x 29.50 cm|broché
First edition in French.
Richly illustrated.
A rare and good copy.
€60
Hans Edouard FIERZ
Opérations fondamentales de la chimie des colorants
Attinger frères|Paris • & Neuchâtel 1921|15.50 x 23 cm|broché
First edition of the French translation by Camille G. Vernet.
Illustrated with 17 in-text figures and 19 plates.
A tiny tear of no consequence at the head of the first cover, handsome copy.
€70
Florent TESNIER
Essai sur l'histoire de quelques fleurs d'ornement : la paquerette
L. Maretheux|Paris s. d. [1928]|11.50 x 18 cm|agrafé
First edition printed in a very small number of copies.
A rare and good copy in plain covers.
€40
Ludwig REDTENBACHER
Fauna austriaca. Die Käfer. Nach der analytischen Methode bearbeitet[Fauna austriaca. The Beetles. Treated According to the Analytical Method]
Carl Gerold's Sohn|Wien [Vienna] 1874|15.50 x 24.50 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First edition.
Half brown cloth binding, smooth spine faded with a pasted title label showing small losses, a lack at foot of spine, one joint cracked at head, marbled paper boards with surface wear, lower corners bumped, contemporary binding.
Work illustrated with two engravings.
The work was curiously bound at the time by a lovestruck binder: volume II comes first, then the text of volume I and finally the title page of Volume I, the preface and the 2 plates come at the end...
Handsome interior condition.
€60
Karl PETRI
Bestimmungs-Tabellen der europäischen Coleopteren. LV Heft (55). Enthält : Curculionidae. 11 Theil : Genus Lixus Fabr[Identification Tables of the European Coleoptera. Volume 55. Containing: Curculionidae. Part 11: Genus Lixus Fabr]
Edm. Reitter|Paskau [Paskov] 1905|15.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Wiener entomologischen Zeitung.
Light scuffs of no consequence to covers.
Handsome pamphlet.
Rare.
€50
Ernö CSIKI
Coleopterum catalogus auspiciis et auxilio W. Junk editus a S. Schenkling. Pars 134 : E. Csiki : curculionidae : subfam. Cleoninae
W. Junk|Berlin 1934|18.50 x 26 cm|broché
First edition.
Spine faded, back cover detached, some minor foxing.
Pen annotations in margins of some pages.
Rare pamphlet.
€40
Heinrich KUSTER, Carl Gustav KRAATZ
Die Käfer Europa's. N°42[The Beetles of Europe No. 42]
Bauer & Raspe|Nürnberg [Nuremberg] 1906|11.50 x 14 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's half aubergine cloth with corners, smooth spine slightly faded, marbled paper boards, marbled edges.
Handsome copy.
€40
Heinrich KUSTER, Carl Gustav KRAATZ
Die Käfer Europ's N°39[The Beetles of Europe No. 39]
Bauer & Raspe|Nürnberg [Nuremberg] 1902|11.50 x 14 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's half burgundy cloth with corners, smooth spine slightly faded, marbled paper boards, marbled edges.
Handsome copy.
€40
Adolf HORION
Nachtrag zu Fauna Germanica. Die Käfer des Deutschen Reiches von Edmund Ritter[Supplement to Fauna Germanica. The Beetles of the German Empire, by Edmund Ritter]
Hans Goecke|Krefeld 1970|14.50 x 22.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
New edition.
Publisher's full grey cloth Bradel binding, smooth spine. Work illustrated with 15 figures in the text.
Handsome copy.
€70
A. WINKLER
Catalogus coleopterum regionis polarticae : Pars 11-12 & 13 : Rhynchophora
S. n.|s. l. 1930-1932|15.50 x 24 cm|relié
The first edition, published in a small number of copies, of these offprints.
Half brown sheep binding, spine with five raised bands lightly faded and rubbed, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Rare.
€80
Håkan LINDBERG
Die Cicadinen der Kanarischen Inseln[The Cicadines of the Canary Islands]
Akademische Buchhandlung • R. Friedländer & Sohn|Helsingfors [Helsinki] • & Berlin 1931|16.50 x 24 cm|agrafé
The first edition, published in a small number of copies, of this offprint.
Spine and covers lightly and marginally sunned without significance, otherwise a handsome copy.
Pamphlet illustrated with 5 figures in the text.
€30
Håkan LINDBERG
Die Hemipteren der Azorischen Inseln. Nebst Anhang : zur Kenntnis der Hemipterenfauna von Madeira[The Hemiptera of the Azorean Islands. With Appendix: on the Knowledge of the Hemiptera Fauna of Madeira]
Akademische Buchhandlung • Otto Harrassowitz|Helsingfors [Helsinki] • & Leipzig 1938|16.50 x 24 cm|agrafé
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned without gravity, otherwise handsome copy.
Illustrated pamphlet with 3 figures in the text.
€30
Håkan LINDBERG
Notes on the biology of dryinids
S. n.|s. l. 1950|16.50 x 24 cm|agrafé
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Spine and covers slightly and marginally sunned without gravity, otherwise handsome copy.
Illustrated pamphlet with 19 figures in the text.
€30
Cécile SOSA-BOURDOUIL
Hérédité des caractères biochimiques chez les végétaux
Editions du Museum|Paris 1939|18.50 x 27 cm|broché
First edition of this offprint from the Mémoires du Museum national d'histoire naturelle.
Brochure illustrated with one photographic plate at rear.
Handsome copy.
€50
Bernard de VAULX
Une curiste exemplaire : Madame de Sévigné ou du bon usage des rhumatismes
Imp. C. Sotty|Bourbon-Lancy s. d. [circa 1960]|16 x 24 cm|agrafé
First edition.
A good copy.
Rare.
€30
WENCKER, DU MARSEUL
Apionides, tribu des curulionides. - Monographie des otiorhynchides d'après les travaux de MM. les Drs Seidlitz et Stierlin coordonnés par M. S.A. du Marseul. - Monographie des phyllobiides d'Europe et des confins de la Méditérannée en Afrique et en Asie. - Espèces de la tribu des otiorhynchides décrites pendant l'impression de la monographie
chez l'auteur • In L'abeille (volumes I & II)|Paris 1864 & 1872|11.50 x 18.50 cm|4 volumes reliés en 1
First edition for each volume.
Half brown sheep over marbled paper boards, spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
A rare set.
€150
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Sous-tribu des calosomina. A (Callisthéniens)
In Miscellanea entomologica Vol XXXIII|Paris 13 Août 1929|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of Miscellanea entomologica.
Rare brochure.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Les céroglosses
In Miscellanea entomologica Vol XXXI|Paris 20 Mai 1928|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of Miscellanea entomologica.
Rare brochure.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : I - L'archétype du carabe
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1897|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuillets
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la société scientifique and médicale de l'ouest.
A rare copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : III - Les aulacocarabus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1898|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : IV - Rameau du cumanus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1898|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : V - Le groupe du Parreyssi
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1899|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : VIII - Les mesocarabus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1899|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : IX - Le groupe Intricatus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1900|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : X - Le groupe du violaceus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1901|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : XI - Groupe du caelatus et des procerus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1902|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : XII - Groupe des Platycarabus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1903|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : XIII - Groupe du granulatus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1903|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : XV - Groupe du latus
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1904|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
Georges VACHER DE LAPOUGE
Phylogénie des carabus : XVI - Groupe du Monilis
In Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest|Rennes 1909|16.50 x 25 cm|en feuilles
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of the Bulletin de la sté scientifique et médicale de l'ouest.
A rare and good copy.
€30
BRENNUS
L'acte bref, traité de l'incontinence spasmodique. L'érection fugitive, l'aspermatisme et les noueurs d'aiguillettes
Maison Universelle|Paris s. d. [circa 1930]|13.50 x 20 cm|broché
First edition.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.
A lack to head of spine, angular tears with lacks to rear board, occasional light foxing.
€80
Henri COUPIN
Comment on collectionne les fleurs, les bêtes, les pierres
Armand Colin|Paris 1913|13 x 20.50 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's binding in full flexible almond cloth, smooth spine, original wrappers preserved.
Work illustrated with 100 engravings.
Handsome copy.
€40
Albert GRANGER
Coelentérés. Echinordermes, protozoaires
Les fils d'Emile Deyrolle|Paris s. d. [circa 1900]|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Work illustrated with 187 in-text figures.
Handsome copy.
This work forms the twenty-seventh volume bis of the "Histoire naturelle de la France" collection.
€40
Rémy SAINT-LOUP
Vers
Les fils d'Emile Deyrolle|Paris s. d. [circa 1900]|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
Work illustrated with 203 in-text figures.
A small marginal tear at the head of the front cover, handsome copy.
This work forms the sixteenth volume bis of the "Histoire naturelle de la France" collection.
€40
Paul GIROD
Les sociétés chez les animaux
J.-B. Baillière & fils|Paris 1891|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition.
With 53 figures to text.
A good copy slightly warped, a trace of folding to head of upper cover.
€40
F. GUSTAVE
Clef analytique de la flore d'Auvergne permettant de déterminer le nom spécifique de toutes les plantes vasculaires qui croissent spontanément dans cette province et qui y sont cultivées en grand
Ferdinand Thibaud|Clermont-Ferrand 1873|10 x 15.50 cm|broché
First edition published anonymously.
Spine faded, boards detached with small corner lacks, printed library stamp at foot of title page.
Rare but in this condition.
€100
COLLECTIF
Nouvel atlas d'entomologie : atlas des névroptères de France, de Belgique, Suisse
Editions N. Boubée & Cie|Paris 1962|13.50 x 18.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Work illustrated with 8 plates and 67 in-text figures as well as 4 color plates at the end.
Handsome and rare copy.
€70
F. GUSTAVE, HÉRIBAUD JOSEPH
Flore d'Auvergne contenant la description des familles, genres, espèces et variétés de toutes les plantes vasculaires qui croissent spontanément dans les départements du Puy-de-Dôme et du Cantal, l'indication de leurs propriétés usuelles, des analytiques conduisant rapidement aux noms spécifiques et un vocabulaire des termes techniques employés dans cet ouvrage
Michel Bellet & fils|Clermont-Ferrand 1888|9 x 18.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Half black sheep binding, smooth spine decorated with two double gilt fillets, spine and boards rubbed, corners and edges worn and bumped, endpapers stained, modest contemporary binding.
Rare.
€80
Louis MONTILLOT
Les insectes nuisibles
J.-B. Baillière & fils|Paris 1891|11 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full sienna cloth binding, smooth spine.
Work illustrated with 156 figures in the text.
Handsome copy.
€50
Louis MONTILLOT
L'amateur d'insectes
J.-B. Baillière & fils|Paris 1890|11 x 18 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full sienna cloth binding, smooth spine.
Work illustrated with 197 figures in the text.
Handsome copy.
€50
R. KUHNER, V. PIANE
Remarques sur quelques caractères microscopiques habituellement négligés des Cortinaires et particulièrement sur la localisation de leurs substances colorées. - Le genre Cortinarius Fries. - Traduction des Cortinaires tirée des Agaricaceae de Ricken
S. n.|Oyonnax 1949|16 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint of th Bulletin de la société des naturalistes d'Oyonnax.
A rare and good copy.
€50
Håkan LINDBERG
A contribution to the study of beetles in the Madeira islands, results of expeditions in 1957 and 1959
S. n.|Helsinki 1963|16.50 x 23 cm|broché
The first edition, published in a small number of copies.
Signed autograph inscription by Hakan Lindberg at head of front cover.
Work illustrated with figures in the text.
A handsome and rare copy.
€60
Harald LINDBERG
Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Käferfauna der Kanarischen Inseln[Contribution to the Knowledge of the Beetle Fauna of the Canary Islands]
Ejnar Munksgaards Forlag|Kobenhavn [Copenhagen] • (Copenhague) [Copenhagen] 1950|17 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
A good and rare copy.
€40
Harald LINDBERG
Zweiter Beitrag zur Kenntnis der Käferfauna der Kanarischen Inseln[Second Contribution to the Knowledge of the Coleopteran Fauna of the Canary Islands]
Ejnar Munksgaards Forlag|Kobenhavn [Copenhagen] • (Copenhague) [Copenhagen] 1953|17 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint.
A good and rare copy.
€40
Jean BALAZUC
La tératologie des coléoptères et expériences de transplantation sur Tenebro Molitor L
Editions du Museum|Paris 1948|18.50 x 26.50 cm|broché
First edition.
223 illustrations.
A good copy.
€60
COLLECTIF
La vie dans la région désertique nord-tropicale de l'ancien monde
Paul Lechevalier|Paris 1938|16 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Illustrated.
A good copy.
€50
Léonce JOLEAUD
Atlas de paléobiogéographie
Paul Lechevalier|Paris 1939|28.50 x 23 cm|reliure de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's full grey boards in oblong format, smooth spine.
Illustrated with 99 plates and 1 portrait.
€70
Claude François MILLIET DECHALES
L'Art de fortifier, de défendre et d'attaquer les places
S. n.|Franckfurt [Frankfurt am Main] 1677|8.50 x 14 cm|relié
First bilingual French-German edition, illustrated with 71 plates and a fortification table.
Contemporary full ivory vellum binding. Smooth spine decorated with triple blind fillets, title and author in pen. Boards framed with triple blind fillets; traces of clasps. All edges blue. Six small contemporary leather bookmarks. Bavarian bookplate of the period.
Spine split with a small loss along its entire length. One joint slightly cracked (1.5cm). A small ink stain on the second board. Pages uniformly and lightly browned. Front pastedown affected by bookworm damage.

€850
Paul JOVET
Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France par l'abbé H. Coste. Second supplément
Lib. scientifique • technique Albert Blanchard|Paris 1974|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
First edition.
Illustrated at the end.
A good copy.
€40
Ernest GAUGIRAN
Mémoires couronnés : Troupeau, Reboisement, 1886-1888, Vaches laitières, 1893
Standachar - Giraud|Romorantin, [Romorantin-Lanthenay] • Blois 1886 - 1893|15.50 x 24 cm|relié
Author's copy.
First edition for each of the pamphlets: Le Troupeau (1886), Annexes du Comité central agricole de Sologne - Le Reboisement de la Sologne (1888) Choix de vaches laitières - La laiterie (1894).
Half cherry red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands decorated with gilt dotwork, marginal abrasions to boards, original wrappers preserved. A photograph of the author mounted on one of the endpapers.
Various letters addressed to the author, notes and articles mounted or loosely inserted.
Ernest Gaugiran was general secretary of the central agricultural committee of Sologne.
€150
COLLECTIF
Annuaire de la société de médecine, chirurgie et pharmacie du département de l'Eure pour l'année 1820, par les membres du comité central de cette société
Imp. Ancelle fils|Évreux 1820|12 x 20.50 cm|relié
First edition.
Contemporary half bottle-green sheep binding, smooth spine with traces of title label, cardboard covers.
Handsome copy.
€120
Jean BALAZUC
Coléoptères de l'Ardèche
Société linnéenne de Lyon|s. l. 1984|17 x 24.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Signed autograph inscription by Jean Balazuc to a fellow entomologist.
Work illustrated with 47 figures in the text.
We include the first supplement to J. Balazuc's inventory as well as autograph notes by the dedicatee on loose sheets.
Handsome copy.
€60
C. HOUARD
Les zoocécidies des plantes d'Europe et du bassin de la Méditerranée. Tomes 1 & 2 (sur 3)
Lib. scientifique A. Hermann et fils|Paris 1908|16 x 24.50 cm|2 volumes reliés
First edition.
Half mouse-colored cloth bindings, smooth spines, marbled paper boards, contemporary bindings.
Work illustrated with numerous figures in the text.
Some minor foxing.
Handsome copy.
€200
Edmund REITTER, A. FLEISCHER
Tableaux analytiques pour la détermination des coléoptères d'Europe Carabidae, 1ère tribu : Carabini. - Tableau de détermination des coléoptères d'Europe comprenant les carabidae : classification des harpalini. - Tableaux de détermination des coléoptères d'Europe renfermant carabidae, tribu : pogonini. - Tableaux de détermination des coléoptères d'Europe renfermant carabidae sous famille des brachyninae. - Tableaux de détermination des coléoptères d'Europe comprenant la tribu des scaritini. - Tableaux de détermination des coléoptères d'Europe carabidae genre bembidium latr. d'Europe et de la région méditerranéenne. - Tableaux analytiques pour la détermination des coléoptères d'Europe : histeridae
S. n.|Toulouse • & Paris 1906 & 1923 & 1908 & 1926 & 1907|15.50 x 24.50 cm|6 volumes reliés en 1
First edition of each volume.
Half red sheep binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
The first four fascicles are written by Edmund Reitter.
Rare and handsome set.
€280
Eugène BARTHE, Louis FALCOZ
Tableaux analytiques des coléoptères de la France rhénane (France, Hollande, Belgique, région rhénane, Valais) Famille XIV Liodidae. - Famille XXXIII : Cryptophagidae. - Famille XLV : Dryopidae. - Familles LIII & LIV : Cerophytidae, Eucnemidae. - Famille LXX : Melandryidae. - Famille LXXII : Lagriidae
Imp. J. Bonnet • Imp. Passeman & fils|Toulouse 1927 & 1929 & 1928 & 1934 & 1932|15.50 x 24.50 cm|6 volumes reliés en 1
First edition for each of the volumes.
Half red sheep binding, spine with five raised bands, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Some fascicles are illustrated with in-text figures.
Rare and handsome collection.
€280
BERTHOLLET
Instruction sur la conservation et les usages des pommes-de-terre
De l'imprimerie de la Feuille du cultivateur|à Paris ca 1795 S.d.|13 x 21 cm|cousu
The rare first edition of this pamphlet.
Stitched pamphlet, unbound.

The commission of agriculture and arts was founded in 1794 and Parmentier was from its creation an eminent and influential member. The potato was soon perceived, thanks to Parmentier, as a means to combat famine and food shortages, whether for humans or animals.

NB: This work is available at the bookshop on request within 48 hours.
€400
Nicolas JOLYCLERC
Phytologie universelle, Ou Histoire Naturelle et méthodique des plantes, de leurs propriétés, de leurs vertus et de leur culture
Chez Gueffier|A Paris 1799|13 x 20.50 cm (In-8)|5 volumes reliés
First edition, rare.
Contemporary full blond calf bindings, mottled. Smooth spines decorated with urn tools and fillets. Red morocco lettering-pieces and green morocco volume labels, the latter additionally bearing the letters AB, NZ... Rich border of palmettes and frieze on the covers, with on the upper cover: Prix des Ecoles Académiques; and on the lower cover: Lille 1812. Rubbing. Some corners bumped. A handsome and highly decorative set.

€900
COLLECTIF
La production fruitière en France et dans le monde, de la production à la consommation
C.N.R.S. • Georges Delbard|Paris 1949|24 x 31.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Iconography.
Slight stains to endpapers, a good copy.
€70
A. RADCLYFFE DUGMORE
Les Fauves d'Afrique photographiés chez eux d'après cinquante-huit clichés de l'auteur
Hachette|Paris 1910|17 x 24 cm|relié
First edition on laid paper illustrated with 58 black and white photographs by the author, as well as a map of British East Africa.
Half sheep binding with caramel corners, smooth spine decorated with gilt and blind fillets, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, some corners slightly rubbed, covers and spine preserved.
€80
COLLECTIF
Journal de l'académie d'horticulture. Tête de collection du tome 1 au tome 4
Au bureau du journal de l'académie d'horticulture|Paris 1831|14 x 22.50 cm|4 volumes reliés en 2
First edition.
Half tan sheep bindings, smooth spines decorated with gilt fleurons and friezes, red morocco title-label, green morocco volume labels, traces of rubbing on joints, blue paper boards with some surface wear, corners slightly bumped, speckled edges, contemporary bindings.
Illustrated periodical with figures in text and hors-texte as well as hors-texte plates.
Foxing, two pale dampstains affecting beginning and end of volumes.
Rare complete run.
€200
M. LACASSAGNE, Henri GAUSSEN
Une nouvelle espèce d'épicéa Picea Kamtchatkensis. - La répartition du châtaignier aux Pyrénées
Faculté des sciences de Toulouse|Toulouse 1929|16.50 x 25.50 cm|agrafé
First edition.
A rare and good copy, softcover.
€40
COLLECTIF
Congrès pomologique de France. 27-28-29 Septembre 1946. 77ème session - Dijon
Imp. Marchand|Thoissey 1946|16 x 25.50 cm|broché
First edition.
Slight foxing to the covers.
€50
Gabriel COLIN
Etude de l'asperge
Imp. arts graphiques|Nancy 1937|16.50 x 25 cm|broché
The first edition of this thesis presented on November 25, 1937 for the degree of Doctor of the University.

Work illustrated with in-text figures.

Handsome copy.
€100
Pierre ROBIN
Contribution à l'étude des rosacées-prunées-amygdalées : le pêcher au point de vue phytologie, phytothérapie, diététique, bromatologie, phytopathologie et phytopharmacie
Imp. R. Foulon|Paris 1945|15.50 x 24 cm|broché
First edition.
Signed autograph inscription by Pierre Robin.
Work illustrated with 112 figures in the text.
Marginal worming on covers and endpapers, otherwise a rare and handsome copy.
€100
Magdeleine-Alexis COSSONNET
Pratique raisonnée de la taille des arbres fruitiers et de la vigne
Chez l'auteur • Vve Bouchard-Huzard • Bossin Louesse & Cie • Gontier...|Paris • & Montrouge • & Versailles 1849|16 x 25 cm|broché
Rare first edition.
Work illustrated with 21 lithographed plates hors-texte.
One joint cracked at foot, marginal foxing to boards, some light foxing, a clear angular dampstain affecting the foot of the entire text block, two pale dampstains to first endpaper.
Rare.
€200
H. LEVEILLE
Les centaurea de l'ouest de la France
Typ. Edmond Monnoyer|Le Mans 1898|17.50 x 27.50 cm|broché
First edition published in a small number of copies of this offprint.
Autograph inscription signed by H. Léveillé.
Covers slightly and marginally sunned without consequence, small angular tears to covers, otherwise handsome copy.
Rare pamphlet.
€60
Jules-Célestin JAMIN
Le météorologie et ses moyens d'observation
La Revue des deux mondes|Paris 1856|15.50 x 25 cm|en feuillets
First edition.
Extracted from the Revue des deux mondes.
In sheets, under chemise.
€50
BABINET
Des eaux minérales et de la chaleur centrale de la terre
La Revue des deux mondes|Paris 1856|15.50 x 25 cm|en feuillets
First edition.
Extract from the Revue des deux mondes.
In sheets, under chemise.
€30
Charles MARTINS
La géographie botanique et ses progrès
La Revue des deux mondes|Paris 1856|15.50 x 25 cm|en feuillets
First edition. Extract from the Revue des deux mondes.
In loose sheets, under chemise.
€60
Auguste LAUGEL
Progrès et découvertes de la paléontologie. Les révolutions du globe
La Revue des deux mondes|Paris 1856|15.50 x 25 cm|en feuillets
First edition.
Extract from the Revue des deux mondes.
In sheets, under chemise.
€40
BABINET
De l'application des mathématiques transcendantes
La Revue des deux mondes|Paris 1856|15.50 x 25 cm|en feuillets
First edition.
Extract from the Revue des deux mondes.
Unfolded sheets, under chemise.
€40
Charles LACOUTURE
Hépatiques de la France. Tableaux synoptiques des caractères saillants des tribus, des genres et des espèces
Paul Klincksieck|Paris 1905|22.50 x 28 cm|broché
First edition.
With 200 figures to text.
Slight stains to endpapers, a good copy.
€45
Anton HARTINGER, Docteur PALLA
Atlas der Alpenflora. - Handbuch zum Atlas der Alpenflora
Verlag des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereines|Graz • & München [Munich] 1897-1899|12.50 x 19 cm|6 volumes reliures de l'éditeur
First edition.
Publisher's bindings over paperboards.
Illustrated with 500 chromolithographs.
Spine slightly warped, otherwise nice and rare set.
€700
ANONYME
Latreille entomologiste né à Brive la Gaillarde. 1762-1833
S. n.|s. l. s. d. [circa 1840]|15.50 x 23.50 cm|broché
First edition printed in small number and anonymously.
Pencil annotations at foot of last page of text.
Rare pamphlet.
€40
Pierre-André LATREILLE
Cours d'entomologie ou de l'histoire naturelle des crustacés, des arachnides, des myriapodes et des insectes. - Cours d'entomologie : Atlas
Roret|Paris 1831|13.50 x 21.50 cm|2 volumes reliés en 1
First edition.
Half black shagreen binding, spine with four raised bands ornately gilt and decorated in blind in compartments, gilt initials at foot, black paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns.
Our copy is complete with its atlas, bound at rear, comprising 24 plates illustrated with figures.
Some minor foxing of no consequence.
Handsome copy.
€400