First edition

Pierre Joseph MACQUER

Elemens de chymie theorique

Chez Jean-Thomas Herissant, A Paris 1749, In-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 336pp. (24), relié.

First edition illustrated with 4 folding boards in fine (instruments and tables of different elements).
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. A lack in mind. Very rubbed together. 2 blunt corners.

350 €

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Joseph Aignan SIGAUD DE LA FOND

Description et usage d'un cabinet de physique experimentale

Chez Gueffier, A Paris 1775, in 8 (12,5x20,3cm), xxiv, 342pp. 24Pl. et (4) 456pp. 28Pl., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition, illustrated with 51 folding plates (23 for volume I and 28 for the second, at the end of volumes) on hard paper.
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary. Back to ornate nerve. title label in red morocco and tomaison in black morocco. Headdresses of Volume II removed. Grip of [...]

800 €

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First edition

Jacques Christophe VALMONT DE BOMARE

Minéralogie, ou nouvelle exposition du regne minéral

Chez Vincent, A Paris 1774, In-8 (13x20cm), LXII (2) 590pp. (2) et (2) 640pp. (4 pp.), relié.

Mention second edition, after the first published in 1762, with 14 unfolding tables (most copies' nen annoking only 13).

Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in black morocco. Headdress of volume I [...]

800 €

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First edition

Pierre de Lorraine, abbé de VALLEMONT

La Sphère du monde, selon l'hypothèse de Copernic, décrite, démontrée, & comparée avec les ...

Prosper Marchand, Paris 1707, in-12 (10x17cm), (24) 377 pp. (4), relié.

First edition containing 5 folding plates.

1 200 €

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William NICHOLSON

A dictionary of practical and theoretical chemistry, with its application to the arts and ...

Printed for Richard Phillips, London 1808, Fort in-8 (14x22cm), Titre B-Z 2A-2Z 3A-3F, relié.

New edition, after the original of 1795, illustrated with 12 boards with several figures, including folding tables, 2 leaflets of the nomenclature, double-sided, and 20 leaflets in fine on 10 boards.

850 €

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First edition

John Theophilus DESAGULIERS

Cours de physique experimentale

Chez jacques Rollin & Chez Charles Antoine Jombert, A Paris 1751, In-4 (20,5x26,5cm), (2) xij (2) 503pp. et (4) iv, 636pp., relié.

First french edition, in the translation of Jean Pezenas.

Copy to arms
Binding full brown sheepskin contemporary.

3 500 €

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First edition

Laurent JOUBERT

Erreurs populaires au fait de la medecine et regime de sante

Par Guillaume Bertrand, En Avignon 1578, In-16 (7x11,5cm), (80) 614pp., relié.

Very rare edition given by Guillaume Bertrand of which we know only this unique production. The work was printed the same year by Pierre Roux in Avignon. The work ends with a treatise with its own title page occupying the pages 575 to 674, the sheet 577 is missing. Only one copy is known from this [...]

900 €

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First edition

Marquis de CONDORCET

Moyens d'apprendre à compter avec facilité

Chez Moutardier, A Paris 1798 (An VII), In-12 (10x17,3cm), 11 (1) 132pp., relié.

First edition, posthumous, established on a manuscript owned by Madame de Condorcet.

Binding half brown sheepskin contemporary corners. Smooth back decorated with 5 small florets. title label in garnet morocco. Cracks along the first bit. Friction. An epidermis in mind. The headdress [...]

300 €

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