First edition

SPALLANZANI, NEEDHAM

Nouvelles recherches sur les découvertes microscopiques, et la génération des corps organisés. ...

Chez Lacombe, A Londres & A Paris 1769, Fort. in-8 (12,5x20cm), (2) liv (2) 298pp. ; (4) xvj, 293pp. (1), 2 tomes en un volume relié.

Edition originale illustrée de 9 planches dont 6 dépliantes.
Reliure en plein veau granité. Dos à nerfs orné. Pièce de titre en maroquin rouge. Coiffe de tête finement restaurée, idem pour 2 coins. Un manque sur le plat inférieur en bordure. Légère fente au mors supérieur en tête. [...]

850 €

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First edition, Signed book

Jean QUATRESOLZ

Traitté du coeur humain. Manuscrit inédit

1668, 23x35,5cm, 214pp. (6), relié.

Traitté du cœur humain. Unpublished manuscript [Treatise on Human Heart]

1668 | 214 pp. (6)| 23 x 35.5 cm | contemporary full parchment

Handwritten, unpublished manuscript signed «Jean Quatresolz» on the first page of the preface. A [...]

5 000 €

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First edition

Guillaume de HOUPPEVILLE

La generation de l'homme par le moyen des oeufs, et la production des tumeurs impures par l'action ...

Chez Jacques Lucas , à Rouen 1676, In-12 (9,5x15,5cm), (20) 205pp. (2), relié.

First edition.

Binding full vellum flexible contemporary. Smooth back with feathered title, date and place in tail. Headdress crushed. Dirt and stains. Good copy.

350 €

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Signed book

DUPLAY & J. B. BRISEBARE

Cayer des mathématiques dictées par monsieur Duplay oratorien dans la salle de l'oratoire ...

1750, 14x17,7cm, 93pp., relié.

Mathematical notebook of an Angevin student
Binding
The College of the Oratory of Angers operates as a municipal institution, it is the college of the city body, opposed to the college of university. In the 17th century the college was attended by 1000 to 1200 students. The oratorians of [...]

830 €

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First edition

Nicolas Gabriel CLERC

Histoire naturelle de l'homme considéré dans l'état de maladie ; ou la médecine ramenée à sa ...

Chez Lacombe, à Paris 1767, Fort in-8 (13x20cm), xxviij (4) 454pp. et 513pp. (3), 2 tomes en un volume relié.

First edition.
Binding in half vellum with small posterior corners, ca 1800. Smooth back with title to the black pen. 2 small slits in the head, another in tail.
Epistemological and philosophical approach of medicine. The author goes back to Hippocrates to understand how medicine has [...]

350 €

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First edition

Charles BONNET

Oeuvres d'histoire naturelle et de philosophie

Chez Samuel Fauche, à Neuchatel 1779 - 1783, In-8 (12x20,7cm), (2) xlviij, 362pp. et (4) 461pp. (2) et (4) 262pp. et

Collective first edition.
Bindings in full calf rooted blond slightly posterior. Smooth backs decorated with two flies and two alternating wasps; various wheels. Title pieces in red morocco; pieces of tomaison in a shield in black morocco. Triple framing net on the boards, with a second [...]

2 200 €

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First edition

ANDRY

De la generation des vers dans le corps de l'homme, de la nature et des especes de cette maladie ; ...

Chez la veuve Alix 1741, In-12 (9,5x16,5cm), (16) xxx (32) 395pp. et (2) 397-861p. (3), 2 volumes reliés.

Mention third edition.
Binders full brown calf vintage flecked. Back with nerves adorned with 4 florets. Title pieces in red morocco, and tomaison in morocco tobacco.

500 €

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First edition

NEEDHAM

Nouvelles observations microscopiques, avec des découvertes intéressantes sur la composition & la ...

Chez Louis-Etienne Ganeau, à Paris 1750, Fort in-12 (9,5x17cm), xviij, 524pp. (4) 29pp., relié.

First french edition, illustrated with 8 folding plates in fine. Translation of Louis Anne Lavirotte.
Binding full brown marbled vintage brown sheepskin. Back with nerves adorned with 5 florets. Title piece in red morocco. Headdress very faded. Missing at the upper bit in the tail. Upper joint [...]

700 €

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