First edition

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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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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Jean Sylvain BAILLY

Histoire de l'astronomie moderne depuis la fondation de l'école d'Alexandrie, jusqu'à l'époque ...

Chez De Bure fils aîné, A Paris 1781 - 1785, In-4 (20x25,7cm), xvj, 728pp. (13Pl.) et 751pp. (5Pl.) et (4) 415pp., 4 volumes reliés.

Second edition.
Binding full marbled and glossy brown calfskin. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco, piece of tomaison in red morocco. Upper joint of volume I split in the lead. A hitch with lack on the lower joint at the level of the first box. Upper joint of volume II closely [...]

1 800 €

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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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First edition

Jean-François DEMACHY

Elément de chymie, suivant les principes de Becker & de Stahl

Chez Siméon-Prosper Hardy, A Paris 1757, In-12 (10x17cm), xxiv, 526pp. et viij, 623pp. et viij, 599pp. et viij, 392pp.

First edition.
Binding full brown sheepskin marbled vintage. Back with ornate nerves. Title and volume pieces of beige sheepskin. Rubbed together. Flat headdresses. Estafilades on the boards. Blunt corners.

600 €

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BAUME

Manuel de chymie

Chez Didot le jeune, A Paris 1763, In-12 (10x16,5cm), xvj, 501pp. (3), relié.

Mention second edition.
Binding full brown marbled sheepskin used vintage. Back with ornate nerves. title label in red morocco. Headdress trimmed. Tail cap partly missing. Upper joint split in the head and tail. Blunt corners, one broken and trimmed. Epidermures on the boards. Rubbed together. [...]

250 €

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First edition

BAUME

Manuel de chymie

Chez Didot le jeune, A Paris 1763, In-12 (10x16,5cm), xij, 495pp. (1), relié.

First edition.
Binding in full marbled brown calfskin. Back with ornate nerves. Missing title label. 2 small gaps on the top plate, one on the lower plate. Good copy, fresh.
Summary of all chemical experiments governed by the postulate of phlogiston theory which implies that there is a [...]

450 €

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