First edition

William WHARBURTHON & Marc-Antoine léonard de [...]

Essai sur les hieroglyphes des Egyptiens, où l'on voit l'origine & le progrès du langage & de ...

Chez Hyppolyte-Louis Guerin, A Paris 1744, In-12 (9,5x17cm), xxxij, 336pp. et xxxv (3) 339-675p. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, rare

1 200 €

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DELUC

Lettres physiques et morales sur l'histoire de la terre et de l'homme

Chez la V. Duchesne, Paris 1779, In-8 (12,5x20,3cm), VIII, 430pp. et XXVIII, 226pp. et 566pp. et (4) 640pp. et (4)

First complete edition of these letters. The author had published a first edition of these letters in a single volume in 1778, this edition constitutes the first volume of this new publication.
Binders full brown calf vintage marbled. Back with ornate nerves. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces [...]

1 000 €

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Sébastien LE CLERC

Pratique de la géométrie, sur le papier et sur le terrain

Jean Jombert, Paris 1682, in-12 (9x15,5cm), (8p.) 188pp. (8), relié.

Second edition, the original was published in 1668. It is illustrated with a frontispiece, a vignette and 81 figures in the text.
Contemporary binding in full calf granita, back with five nerves richly adorned, cold net framing boards, golden roulette on the cuts and caps, all slices red [...]

700 €

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Abbé NOLLET

L'Art des Expériences, Ou Avis Aux Amateurs De La Physique, Sur le Choix, la Construction et ...

Chez Durand, A Paris 1770, In-12 (10x17cm), xx, 480pp. et (4) 518pp. et (4) 507pp., 3 volumes reliés.

First edition, much less common than the second edition published the same year (with different pagination). It is illustrated with 56 folding boards.
Bindings full brown sheepskin speckled contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. Title pieces in red morocco, pieces of tomaison of brown [...]

850 €

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Giovanni Battista FERRARI

Flora, seu De Florum cultura lib. IV

Apud Johannem Janssonium, Amstelodami 1646, in-4 (17x23cm), (46p.) 522pp. (12p.), relié.

Second edition, after the very rare original published in 1633 in Rome (Pritzel).

4 000 €

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Alexandre SAVERIEN

Dictionnaire universel de mathematique et de physique, où l'on traite de l'origine, du progrès de ...

Chez Jacques Rollin & Charles-Antoine Jombert, A Paris 1753, In-4 (21,5x27,5cm), (4) xxxvij (1) 483pp. et (4) 486pp. (2), 2 volumes reliés.

First illustrated edition of 101 folding plates representing instruments (compass, dials, astronomical ring, globes, electro-static machines, etc.) and experiments. Printing on two columns.
Binders full brown calf vintage granite. Back with ornate nerves.

650 €

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Jacques-Julien Houtou de LA BILLARDIERE

Icones Plantarum Syriae rariorum, descriptionibus et observationibus illustratae

Impensis Autoris, Lutetiae Parisiorum 1791-1812, in-4 (20x26,5cm), 22pp. ; 18pp. ; 16pp. ; 16pp. ; 16pp., 5 livraisons reliées en un volume.

First edition, one of the rare complete copies of the 5 deliveries. It is illustrated with 50 boards, some unfolding and one enhanced in color, drawn by PJ and Henri Redouté, Turpin and Poiteau.

7 000 €

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Antoine DEIDIER

Quaestiones medicae eaque therapeuticae de morbis internis ventris, capitis, pectoris, de morbis ...

1724, In-12 carré (12x17,3cm), 425pp. (7) et 170, 70 (4), 151pp. (4), 2 volumes reliés.

Manuscript

800 €

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