First edition

Johannn Gottlob LEHMANN

L'art des mines, avec un traité des exhalaisons minerales ou moufettes & plusieurs mémoires sur ...

Chez Thomas Herissant, A Paris 1759, In-12 (10x17,2cm), (4) xvj, 419pp. et xvj, 402pp. (1) et xxvj (1) 498pp. (4), 3 volumes reliés.

Edition originale, rare, et illustrée de 4 figures dans le premier volume et 6 dont 5 dépliantes dans le troisième tome.
binding en pleine basane brune granitée d'époque. spine à nerfs orné. Pièces de titre en maroquin rouge, tomaisons dorées en queue. Traces de frottement, notamment [...]

3 500 €

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Henri de la BLANCHERE

La pêche et les poissons. Nouveau Dictionnaire général des pêches

Librairie de Ch. Delagrave et Cie, Paris 1868, Très fort in-8 (19,5x27,3cm), 859pp., relié.

First edition abundantly illustrated with 1110 in-text illustrations on wood and 50 color lithographs by Mesnel from the author's photographs.
Binding in half black glazed vintage calf with small corners. Restorations on caps and joints, boards of blue percaline redone, corners redone. Traces [...]

350 €

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COLLECTIF

Zoologie, Tome 1

Gallimard, Galerie de La Pléiade, Paris 1963, 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

First edition of the French translation, one of 110 numbered copies on Alfa paper, only large papers.
Beautiful copy, from the "Crossfire, Souls and Foreign Lands" collection.

25 €

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Signed book

LONGCHENE

Le monde souterrain ou merveilles géologiques

A. Mame & fils, Tours s.d. (circa 1840), 10,5x17,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New edition.
Binding in full black shagreen, smooth back decorated with golden romantic arabesques, golden wheels slightly dimmed on the caps, framing of a golden thread on the boards richly decorated with romantic arabesques cold stamped, marbled edges, golden borders at the heads and in [...]

100 €

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Edmond NOCARD & Emmanuel LECLAINCHE

Les maladies microbiennes des animaux

Masson & Cie, Paris 1903, 15,5x25cm, 2 volumes reliés.

Third edition partly original because completely remelted and considerably increased.
Bindings in Havana half shagreen, back with five nerves, rubbed backs, framing of cold fillets on caramel cardboard trays, first board of the second volume marginally shorn, guards and contreplats of handmade [...]

350 €

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ANONYME

Théorie pour l'exercice et les manoeuvres de l'infanterie. Ordonnance du 4 Mars 1831. Ecole du ...

C. Marpon et E. Flammarion, Paris 1848, 7,5x12,5cm, reliure de l'éditeur.

New augmented edition of the service in the posts.
Binding in half brown sheepskin with small corners, smooth discolored back adorned with a gilt typographic floret, marbled paper plates with some scratches, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, speckled edges, Contemporary [...]

60 €

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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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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 [...]

1 200 €

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