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Elie de BEAUMONT, Adrien MOREAU

Etude sur l'utilité agricole et les gisements géologiques du phosphore

Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard, Paris 1857, 13,5x21,5cm, relié.

First Edition printed in small numbers of this reprinted from the memoirs of the imperial and central society of agriculture.
Binding in full fir green shagreen, smooth back adorned with gilded and black fillets, framing of gilt and black fillets on the boards, guards and contreplats of [...]

200 €

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de BUFFON

Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière

Aux Deux-Ponts, chez Sanson & Compagnie 1785-1790, in-12 (10x17,5cm), 54 volumes reliés.

First edition after those published by the Imprimerie Royale.

10 000 €

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Pierre MEGNIN

Les chenils et leur hygiène comprenant la construction rationnelle des habitations des chiens et ...

Aux bureaux de l'Eleveur, Vincennes 1896, 14x23cm, broché.

First edition.
Two snags without missing in the head and foot of the back.
Illustrated book of 60 figures in the text.

120 €

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Frédéric BOUYER, Gaston RIOU

La Guyane française. Notes et souvenirs d'un voyage exécuté en 1862-1863

Hachette & Cie, Paris 1867, 26x35cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition illustrated with drawings by Riou, Rapine and Delahaye.
Binding half shagreen red back five nerves end decorated with five golden boxes decorated in their centers of golden florets, framing of cold nets on red cardboard plates, guards and contreplats of white moire silk with some [...]

200 €

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Pierre BERNARD & Louis COUAILHAC

Le jardin des plantes. Description complète, historique et pittoresque du museum d'histoire ...

L. Curmer, Paris 1842, Fort Grd. in-8 (18x26cm), (6) XXIV, 416pp. et 664pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition
Bindings half green shagreen contemporary. Back to false nerves coffered richly decorated, wheels on the nerves. Double framing net on the boards. Golden slices. White guards moiré. Traces of friction on the boards and on the borders. A snag on the bottom edge of Volume 1 on [...]

800 €

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Alphonse TOUSSENEL

Le monde des oiseaux. Ornithologie passionnelle

E. Dentu & Librairie phalanstérienne, Paris 1864, 13,5x22cm, 3 volumes reliés.

Third edition, partly original because entirely revised and corrected.
Binders of the editor in half red shagreen, smooth back illuminated adorned with golden arabesques, framing of arabesques in cold on the plates struck in their centers of a great golden decoration, corners slightly blunt, [...]

150 €

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ULLIAC TREMADEURE

Les jeunes naturalistes, ou entretiens sur l'histoire naturelle

Didier, Paris 1841, in-12 (11x17,5cm), 2 volumes reliés.

New revised and reworked edition illustrated with 16 boards 2 figures enhanced and colored by hand on strong paper.
Binders full romantic black shagreen. Smooth spine widely adorned with rock shoes. boards decorated with a rococo frame and a double supervisory net. Indoor Friesland. shimmering [...]

400 €

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Maurice MAETERLINCK

La vie des termites

Charpentier, Paris 1926, 15x21cm, broché.

First edition, one of 520 numbered copies on Hollande paper, the only large paper copies after 130 on Japan paper.
A good, well-margined copy.
 

50 €

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