First edition

Etienne Bonnot de CONDILLAC

Essai sur l'origine des connoissances humaines

Chez Pierre Mortier, à Amsterdam [Paris] 1746, in-8 (9,5x17cm), xxx, 265pp. ; (4) 292pp., 2 tomes reliés en un volume.

First Edition.
Full Sheepskin vintage blonde. Back tooled raised. Tail wheels. Part of title in red morocco. A small loss in mind. 3 corners bumped with loss of leather. Light to work on the right margin of the first leaf becomes a simple hole to the whole work. Pretty good copy.
The first [...]

1 200 €

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Guillaume Hyacinthe BOUGEANT

Observations curieuses sur toutes les parties de la physique. Extraites et recueillies des ...

Chez André Cailleau, à Paris 1730, petit in-8 (9x17cm), 2 volumes reliés.

New edition. The first volume of these observations appeared in 1719, the second component later in 1725 In this edition, Volume I is 1730 and the second from 1737 will be noted that it is very rare to find the two volumes together, d even more uniform binding
Full Sheepskin contemporary. Back [...]

550 €

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Antonio NERI & Christopher MERRET

Art de la verrerie, de Neri, Merret et Kunckel auquel on a ajouté le Sol Sine Veste d'Orschall ; ...

Chez Durand, Pissot, à Paris 1752, in-4 (19,5x26cm), (4) lv (1), 629pp. (3), relié.

First edition, translated by Baron d'Holbach German, illustrated frontispiece of 1 and 15 folding plates on cuivre.Plein Calf time. Back tooled raised. Part of title in red morocco. Flush caps with headbands apparent. The lower jaw flat head split in the first two boxes. Scuffs with gaps on upper [...]

1 500 €

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Joseph DAQUIN

Analyse des eaux thermales d'Aix en Savoye ; dans laquelle on expose les diverses manières d'user ...

De l'Imprimerie de M. F. Gorrin, Chambéry 1772, in-8 (12x20cm), (4) XI ; 184pp., relié.

first edition not cited by QuÚrard offering date 1773.Plein blond speckled calf time. Smooth back adorned with a piece of red morocco. Small irons set thistles and tassels and gold stars. All slices marbrées.Une guard slightly detached and sitting frotté.Le doctor Savoyard Joseph Daquin addition [...]

600 €

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Charles BONNET

Contemplation de la nature

Chez Marc-Michel Rey, à Amsterdam 1770, in-8 (10x17cm), xxxiv, 324pp. et viij, 291pp., 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition, after the original was published in 1764. Calf Full time. Back to nerves decorated with jewels in boxes. Parts in red morocco title and volume number in morocco beige. Tail headdress of Volume I threadbare. Lack the second chamber of the second volume. Volume II joints open tail. [...]

550 €

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Carl LINNE

Philosophia botanica, in qua explicantur fundamenta botanica, cum definitionibus partium, exemplis ...

Iohannis Thomae De Trattnern, Vindobonae (Vienne) 1770, In 8 (13x22cm), (2) 364pp., relié.

Second edition revised and enlarged by Iohanne Gottlieb Gleditsch, after the original 1751 Illustrated with 11 boards related to plants. Only very few copies contain a portrait frontispiece of Linnaeus, unbound in ours.
half calf brown antique wedge. Back nerve nets. As part black. 3 small [...]

450 €

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First edition

Elie BERTRAND

Memoires historiques et physiques sur les tremblemens de terre

Chez Pierre Gosse, à La Haye 1757, in-12 (10x17cm), (2) ij, 326pp. (2), relié.

First Edition. Title page in red and black. Enough rare.Pleine modern beige canvas. Smooth back with part of title green sheepskin. 2 first leaves skilfully restored and doubled (the first two letters of memoirs are missing) .Réunion 8 memories Swiss geologist Elie Bertrand on earthquakes, [...]

350 €

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NOUET

Description de l'Egypte. Observations astronomiques faites en Egypte pendant les années VI, VII et ...

Imprimerie Impériale, à Paris 1809, In Folio, 1 - 20p., relié.

First edition of this brief excerpt of the first issue, Section Modern State, the description Egypte.Cartonnage modern parchment cream. Part of title black sheepskin. Copy with great margins, not rogné.Considérations on the instruments and the method used for the observations and astronomical [...]

250 €

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