DE LA CAILLE & Abbé NOLLET

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1748

Chez J. Schoeuler, A Amsterdam 1757, In-12 (10x17cm), (8) 371pp. et (2) 216-566p. et (2) 570-911p., 3 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 5 boards for volume 1, most unfolding.
Binding full brown marbled vintage calf. Back to nerves adorned. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. Small part coming off in a headdress. A blunt corner. Friction. Good copy.
The following remarkable articles [...]

450 €

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René-Antoine Ferchault de REAUMUR & CASSINI

Histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences. Année 1729

Chez Pierre Mortier, à Amsterdam 1733, In-12 (10x17cm), (12) 164pp. ; 256pp. et 259-597p., 2 volumes reliés.

A frontispiece and a title sticker in Volume 1. Title pages in red and black. 16 plates in volume 1, 11 in volume II.
Binders full marbled vintage brown calfskin. Back with ornate nerves. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in black wax. 3 blunt corners. Friction. Trace of burning and [...]

400 €

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Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

Venus physique

S.n., s.l. [La Haye] 1751, petit in-12 (8x14cm), 5pp. (1) 240pp., relié.

Sixth edition, after the original without date in 1745. Edition consisting of two parts: Physical Dissertation on the Occasion of the White Negro and Varieties in the Human Species . The first text was published separately.
Binding full marbled blond calf of the time. Smooth [...]

550 €

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First edition

Jean-François TRABAUD

Principes sur le mouvement et l'equilibre, pour servir d'introduction aux mécaniques & à la ...

Chez Jean Desaint & Charles Saillant, Paris 1741, In-4 (20x27,2cm), (4) xxiv, 616pp. lvij (1).

First Edition
Binding in full brown contemporary brown. Back with richly ornate nerves. Title piece in brown morocco. Head cap partly torn off 1.5 cm. A lack in tail, another with the upper bit in tail. Lower joint open at the tail. 2 holes along the lower joint. Blunt corners. Rubbed boards.

2 500 €

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First edition

Robert SMITH

Cours complet d'optique

Chez La veuve Girard & chez Charles Antoine Jombert, à Avignon se vend à Paris 1767, In-4 (20x25,5cm), (6) iij-xxviij

French Edition in translating Spirit Pézenas, and illustrated 73 plates engraved by Faure.
Binders full mottled calf contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. as exhibits in red morocco and volume number in black leather.

2 000 €

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First edition

Jean PICARD & Philippe LA HIRE de

Traité du nivellement par M. Picard

Chez Etienne Michalet, à Paris 1684, In-12 (9x16cm), (12) 248pp. (2), relié.

first edition.
Binding in full speckled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. brown calf as an exhibit. 3 corners bumped. friction. Good copy.

800 €

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Pierre Louis Moreau de MAUPERTUIS

Oeuvres

Chez Jean-Marie Bruyset, à Lyon 1756, in-8 (12,5x20cm), (4) vj (2) XXVIII 309pp. (3) et (4) iv, 399pp. (7) et (4) vij

the most comprehensive collective Edition.
Binders full mottled brown sheepskin contemporary. Back with nerves decorated. parts of title and volume number in red morocco. Frayed headdresses, very threadbare in mind. As part of Volume I in missing part. Mors of Volume II in part closely split. [...]

1 800 €

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Gilbert-Charles LE GENDRE Marquis de Saint-Aubin

Traite de l'opinion, ou memoires pour servir a l'histoire de l'esprit humain

Chez Briasson, à Paris 1735, In-12 (10x16,8cm), 6 volumes reliés.

Second edition, after the first published by the same publisher in 1733. A folding plate in the second volume and 4 astronomical figures in Volume III.
Binders full of speckled brown sheepskin time. Back with nerves decorated with four jewels, tail wheel. parts of title in red morocco, gilt [...]

700 €

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