First edition

Jules MICHELET, Hector GIACOMELLI

The insect

T. Nelson and sons, London 1875, 17x26cm, relié.

The Insect
T. Nelson and Sons | London 1875 | 17 x 26 cm | morocco
First English edition decorated with 140 illustrations by Hector Giacomelli.
Bound in half red morocco, spine with gilt stippling and adorned with double gilt compartments richly decorated with gilt typographic motifs and [...]

450 €

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ANONYME

Département du Finistère. Le pont Albert Louppe

Société anonyme des entreprises Limousin, s.l. 1930, 27x21,5cm, broché.

First edition.
Illustrated book of 31 inset photographs as well as 3 in-text figures and 1 photographic caption
Nice copy.

40 €

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SIRA-KAWA (DE SENDAI OSYOU)

Traité de l'éducation des vers à soie du Japon

Imprimerie impériale, Paris 1868, 13,5x22,5cm, relié.

Second edition partly original because revised and corrected.
Binding in half aubergine calf, back with four nerves slightly faded adorned with double boxes and double golden nets, a tiny scratch on a nerve, marbled paper plates, a small lack of paper at the top of the first board, guards and [...]

780 €

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Jean-Etienne BERCE

Faune entomologique française : Papillons (lépidoptères). Description de tous les papillons qui ...

Deyrolle, Paris 1867-1878, 11x18cm, 7 volumes reliés.

First edition.
Binding half brown sheepskin, back slightly discolored five nerves adorned with golden floral motifs, marbled paper plates, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, speckled edges, bindings of the time.
Illustrated book of 74 plates inset of which 67 hand-colored.
Our [...]

600 €

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John KEILL & Pierre Charles LEMONNIER

Institutions astronomiques, ou leçons élémentaires d'astronomie

Chez Hyppolyte-Louis Guerin, A Paris 1746, In-4 (20x26cm), (8) lxiv, 660pp., relié.

First edition
Binding full brown basement contemporary. Back with ornate nerves. title label of brown sheepskin. Upper joint tightly split largely. Lower joint open in tail and head. Rubbed and scratched boards, with some gaps. Corners very dull and trimmed, bare. Scattered bites.

800 €

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Michel Eugène CHEVREUL

De la loi du contraste simultané des couleurs, et de l'assortiment des objets colorés, ...

Pitois-Levrault et Cie, Paris 1839, volume de texte : 13x21cm / atlas : 24x28,5cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Pitois-Levrault et Cie | Paris 1839 | text: 13 x 21 cm / plate volume: 24 x 28.5 cm | contemporary calf
The first edition, complete with the two folding tables in the text volume. The second volume has 40 plates, making up a hundred or so illustrations, partly colored and all signed by [...]

12 000 €

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Charles DARWIN

La descendance de l'homme et la sélection sexuelle

C. Reinwald, Paris 1872 - 1873, in-8 (14,5x23,5cm), 452pp. et 494pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First french edition, translated from the English by Moulinié. Foreword by Carl Vogt. 76 figures on wood in-text. In fine in volume I, 24 pages of catalog of the Reinwald bookstore.
Cartonnage of the publisher in green grained percaline, signed in tail Lenègre. Smooth back with roulette head [...]

1 000 €

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Thomas THOMSON & André-Marie AMPERE

Systeme de chimie

Méquignon-Marvis, Paris 1818 - 1822, In-8 (13x20,5cm), xxvj, 638pp. et viij, 784pp. et vij (1) 727pp. et viij, 822pp. et

Second augmented French edition of a supplement volume in original which contains The expose of the new discoveries on the magnetism and the electricity of Ampère and Babinet and the Treaty of Fresnel light.
Binding half brown sheepskin contemporary. Smooth back decorated with 3 florets and [...]

700 €

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