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Gustave Le Bon. L’Équitation actuelle et ses principes. Recherches expérimentales. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1895. Small in-4° of VIII, 399 pp. followed by the Atlas of annotated photographs: [4] pp and 25 pl. Contemporary midnight blue half-chagrin, smooth […]
Claude Flamand. Les Mathematiques et Geometrie, departies en cinq livres, contenant ce qu’est le plus necessaire pour l’utilité du public. [Bound in the suite] La Guide des fortifications et conduitte millitaire, pour bien se fortifier & deffendre. [Bound […]
Adrien-Hubert Brué. Atlas. Paris, J. Goujon, 1826 [France, Suisse et Italie septentrionale], and J. Goujon & J. Andriveau, 1827 [Mappemonde, Asie, Amérique méridionale and Amérique septentrionale, Afrique, Océanie and Europe]. 8 watercolour enhanced maps, (65 x 96 cm), cloth-backed, […]
Pierre-Marie GAULT DE SAINT-GERMAIN (1757-1848). Recueil de Lettres sur les Départemens de la Creuse et du Puy-de-Dome. Engraved frontispiece of the author, title, [3] pp. [followed by a second title:] Vues Générales sur la Géographie physique, l’histoire naturelle, […]
[Register of magistral prescriptions in the Hospices of Beaune]. 1661-1663. Manuscrit. Large in-8°. Title and 579 unnumbered pages. Fawn half-sheepskin, nineteenth-century bindingth, back with 4 false bands adorned with golden fillets, label in black marocco. Valuable and important register […]
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). [Address to the Academic Council of the North as the first Dean of the new Faculty of Sciences of Lille, on the reform of secondary education]. Autograph draft, Lille [between 1855 and 1857] ; 7 pp. […]
“This book is of a completely different kind. ; this is the foundation of a large building, all its merit must consist in its solidity” (Foreword, p. 26). Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830). L’Isle des enfans. […]
[René Vallery-Radot]. M. Pasteur. Histoire d’un savant par un ignorant. Paris, J. Hetzel and Cie, n.d. [1884]. Large in-12. xiv, [2], 392 pp. Black half-morocco, back with 5 false bands, gilt title, gilt head, gilt cypher on the spine, gilt […]
[Louis Chausson]. Traité de la coupe des pierres. No place, no date [1754-1774]. Manuscript in-4 4 white pages, 541 pages, 5 white pages, all marged. Contemporary full havana calf, back with 5 raised bands richly decorated, label “Manuel […]
Henry Schenck Tanner. A New Universal Atlas, containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, plans of cities, &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and […]