Set of volumes on science and biology:

MULLER, the forest

Volume 9 of the enc…

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Set of volumes on science and biology: MULLER, the forest Volume 9 of the encyclopedia or dictionary of sciences, arts and crafts. Neufchastel, 1765. Incomplete, stained binding. And various volumes.

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Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

LACROIX (Paul). Fine set of 8 in-4 volumes in publisher's bindings: - Vie militaire et religieuse au Moyen-Âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance. Third edition. Illustrated with 14 chromolithographs by F. KELLERHOVEN, REGAMEY and L. ALLARD and 410 woodcuts by Huyot père et fils. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1876. Third edition. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilt, gilt edges (Engel). Wet stamp of Château de La Roche Guyon (La Rochefoucauld). Handwritten bookplate Mathieu de La Rochefoucauld (January 1, 1876). - Mœurs, usages et costumes au Moyen-Âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance. Illustrated with 15 chromolithographic plates by F. KELLERHOVEN, and 440 engravings. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1871. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilt, gilt edges (Ch. Magnier). Wet stamp of the Château de La Roche Guyon (La Rochefoucauld) and engraved libris of the Duke and Duchess of La Rochefoucauld. Some freckling on the covers. Inside spine weakened. - Les Arts au Moyen-Âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance. Illustrated with 19 chromolithographic plates by F. KELLERHOVEN, and 400 woodcuts. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1873. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilt, gilt edges (Engel). - Sciences & Lettres au Moyen-Âge et à l'époque de la Renaissance. Illustrated with 13 chromolithographs by Compère, Daumont, Pralon and Werne and 400 woodcuts. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1877. Red half-chagrin, richly decorated ribbed spine, gilt head. Minor foxing. - Seventeenth century. Letters, Sciences and Arts. Illustrated with 17 chromolithographs and 300 woodcuts. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1882. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilt, gilt edges. Some minor foxing. - XVIIe siècle. Institutions, customs and costumes. Illustrated with 16 chromolithographs and 300 woodcuts. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1891. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilt, gilt edges. Some minor foxing. - 18th century. Letters, Sciences and Arts. Illustrated with 16 chromolithographs and 250 woodcuts. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1878. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilt, gilt edges. Spine very slightly oiled. - Eighteenth century. Institutions, Customs and Costumes. Illustrated with 21 chromolithographs and 350 woodcuts. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1875. Red half-chagrin, smooth spine and boards richly decorated with gilt, gilt edges. Wet stamp of the Château de La Roche Guyon (La Rochefoucauld) and engraved libris of the Duke and Duchess of La Rochefoucauld.

Estim. 2 500 - 2 800 EUR

PALLIOT (Pierre). La vraye et parfaite science des armoiries ou l'indice armorial de feu Maistre Louvan Geliot, Advocat au parlement de Bourgogne. Learning, and summarily explaining the words & figures used in the blazon of coats of arms, & the origin of such coats of arms. Augmenté de nombre de termes, & enrichy de grande multitude d'exemple des armes des familles tant francoises qu'estrangeres, des institutions des ordres & de leurs colliers, des marques des dignités & charges, des ornemens des escus de; l'office des Roys, des herauds, & des poursuiuans d'armes, & autres curiosités despendantes des armoiries. Paris, Leonard, 1664. In-folio, half granite basane, spine with ornate nerves. The illustration consists of a burin-engraved title-frontispiece by Le Brun, 2 double-page plates (tableau des 16 quartiers d'Honoré de Chevriers and those of Louis de Bourbon, Prince de Condé), a large allegorical composition on the verso of the title burin-engraved by Le Brun with the arms of the principal towns of Burgundy, innumerable burin-engraved coats of arms in the text, some full-page, as well as numerous bands, lettrines and culs-de-lampe. A copy in which the 2 genealogies and all 4762 figures (including numerous coats of arms, costumes, standards, etc.) have been colorized at the time. Bound at the head of the volume are 14 double-page genealogies, also in color (Aremberg, Bournonville, Berghes, De Croy, d'Oingnyes, d'Egmont, de Gaure, de Hornes, de La Laing, de Nassau, de Noyelles, de Frazegnies, d'Arschot, d'Immersele). Second edition of this highly regarded work. One of the most complete manuals, easy to consult thanks to its alphabetical distribution and index. A table of families is also included. (Saffroy 2229.) A fine copy in contemporary Dutch binding.

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Miscellaneous. xviiie-xixesiècles. -Set of around 50 volumes: Balzac, LeCarpentier (Histoire genealogique des Païs-Bas ou Histoire de Cambray), Liger (Maison rustique), Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (Genève, Pellet, 1778-1779, 39volumes in-4, period worn basane, with incompleteness), etc.

Estim. 300 - 400 EUR

SCHEELE (Carl Wilhelm). Mémoires de Chymie, taken from Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences de Stockholm, translated from Swedish and German. Dijon, chez l'éditeur, et est à Paris, chez Théophile Barrois et Cuchet, 1785. One folding engraved plate. Also by the same author, in identical binding: Traité chimique de l'air et du feu. With an introduction by Torbern BERGMANN [...] Translated from the German by Baron de DIETRICH. Second edition. Paris, Rue et hôtel Serpente, 1787. One folding engraved plate in fine. [Following:] Supplément au traité chimique de l'air et du feu de M. Scheele, contenant un tableau abrégé des nouvelles découvertes sur les diverses espèces d'air, par Jean-Godefroi LEONHARDY ; des notes de M. Richard KIRWAN, & une Lettre du Docteur PRIESTLEY à ce chimiste anglois, sur l'ouvrage de M. Scheele ; traduit et augmenté de notes & du complément du tableau abrégé de ce qui a été publié jusqu'hui sur les différentes espèces d'air ; par m. le Baron de Dietrich [...] Avec la traduction, par MM. de l'Académie de Dijon, des expériences de M. Scheele sur la quantité d'air pur qui se trouve dans l'atmosphère. Paris, Rue et Hôtel Serpente, 1785. A set of 3 volumes in-12, havana half-calf with green vellum corners, smooth spine, red and black calf title and tomaison (period binding). Very good copies. A rare and valuable collection of the works of the Swedish-German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786), famous for his discovery of many chemical elements and compounds, such as oxygen and chlorine.

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