Geiger,F.
Computus ecclesiasticus sive tractatus chronologicus in quo agitur de …

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Geiger,F. Computus ecclesiasticus sive tractatus chronologicus in quo agitur de scientia observandi, calculandi aut supputandi solis & lunae motus... Item quomodo paranda & instruenda calendaria usui civili & politico servientia. Mannheim, J. Mayer 1731. 9 folding plates (with woodcut vellum), 1 text copperplate and 10 folding tables. 20 leaves, 383 pp. Central hardcover (edges damaged, worn and rubbed, waterstained). Houzeau/Lanc. 13961. de Backer/S. III, 1304, 5. only edition. - Extremely rare handbook for the calculation of the phases of the moon and sun according to the arithmetical method and on the basis of volvelles and tables. - The mathematician and theologian Friedrich Geiger (1655-1734) taught in Bamberg, among other places. - Waterstained in places, beginning and end somewhat spotty, footbridge with ink stain, plates and tables partly with losses, 2 tables with fold tears, scarcely trimmed. torn through. - Extremely rare manual for the calculation of lunar and solar phases by arithmetic method and based on volvelles and tables. Not in RBH, ABPC and JAP. Only a handful of copies in public libraries.

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[Chemistry] [Pharmacy] GEOFFROY (Etienne-François): Tractatus de materia medica, sive de medicamentorum simplicium. Historia, virtute, delectu & usu. Parisiis, Joannis Desaint & Caroli Saillant, 1741, 3 volumes. 12 by 19.5 cm. (4)-197-(3)-318-(6) pages + 1 folding plate; (4)-794-(6) pages and (4)-836 pages. Contemporary full calf, 5-rib spine, ornate bindings, red title-pieces. Minor old and well-executed restorations, very good condition of binding. Paper sometimes slightly foxed. 1) De fossilibus ; 2) De vegetabilibus exoticis ; 3) De vegetabilibus indigenis. First edition. Conlon 41: 497; European Americana 741: 93; Muller, Biblio. des Kaffee 91. "Previously 1st published, London, 1736, as Geoffroy's "A treatise of the fossil vegetable, and animal substances that are made use of in physick", which purports to be based upon a ms. of the author's lectures. American plants include balsam of Peru, cacao, ipecacuanha, Jamaica pepper, Virginian snakeroot, etc." (European Americana). "Etienne-François Geoffroy, a native of Paris, was a master apothecary and doctor of medicine in Paris. Geoffroy proposed a classification of chemical substances according to their greater or lesser "disposition to unite" with a reference substance. The idea that some substances could unite more easily than others was not new, but Geoffroy took credit for bringing together all available information in a large general table, later called the affinity table. The controversy between him and Louis LEMERY, one of his colleagues at the Académie, bears witness to the new way of practicing science, with everyone putting forward a conjecture that they tried to corroborate with experiments, and proposing new experiments to refute the opposing conjecture. This new art of scientific debate was to provide a solid foundation for the emerging science of chemistry.

Estim. 2 800 - 3 000 EUR

[CIRIER (Nicolas)]. L'Apprentif Administrateur, a picturesque (!), literary-typographical-bureaucratic pamphlet that may (nam tua res agitur paries cùm proximus ardet) be of interest to anyone employed, employable, exemployée. By someone in the latter category. Paris, Chez l'auteur, 1840. In-8 (227 x 144 mm) of [1] f. for the Mémoire à l'appui d'une pétition, IV pp. for the Dédiquasse, 72 pp, (2) ff. for I [between pages 18 and 19], (1) f., 17 pp. and 1 folded lithographed portrait for III [between pages 24 and 25], 1 large folded lithographed table. Paperback in printed green paper cover with remnants of red wax stamp and handwritten bill laminated to first board, several small pieces of blank paper laminated to second board to mask engraved drawings in corners. First edition of 100 copies (of which less than ten have survived) of this incredible publication by Nicolas Cirier (1792-1869), proofreader and protector at the Imprimerie Royale from 1826 to 1836, when he resigned following a refusal of promotion. "This pamphlet, "bariolé d'observations" (Cirier dixit), that is to say, lithographic vignettes pasted on, woodcuts and copper engravings, a jumble of recriminations and considerations on the author's craft, interests us above all for the typographic delirium employed, for what Cirier called his horror vacui [...] The most extravagant of Cirier's productions is also the rarest: as soon as it was published, its author announced that he was going to destroy all but "five or six" copies. Little more is known of it. (Antoine Coron). According to Raymond Queneau (who worked to bring Cirier out of oblivion): "No literary madman has ever made such profound use of the resources of printing, nor so conscious an expression of his delirium." (in Bâtons, chiffres et lettres.) Copy enriched with 19 additional cut and pasted lithographs (not including the fold-out portrait and table) and 13 pasted printed texts, one flyleaf printed on pink paper before p. 5 (with the continuation of the text of the page also printed on pink paper pasted at the bottom of page 5). Cover very worn, missing at lower corner of first cover, tears with small missing pieces at upper corner of first cover (with small piece of paper laminated on verso, for reinforcement?), major missing piece on second cover. Rousseurs. (Des livres rares depuis l'invention de l'imprimerie, BnF, 1998, no. 241: notice by Antoine Coron; Blavier, Les Fous littéraires, 2000, pp. 595-604).

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Lot of silver medals including Three silver tokens engraved by Tiollet featuring on the obverse the city of Bordeaux seated in front of the port holding a globe surmounted by the titular Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Bordeaux and dated 1965, the reverse showing the stern of a Bordeaux vessel carrying the compass flanked by the titular "quo non hac duce" and "XXX viri burdigalenses commerqiis regendis". Diameter: 3.2 cm A silver token featuring on the obverse the Place de la Bourse with the titulature Crédit Commercal et Industrel and on the reverse the arms of the city of Bordeaux with the epigraph Compagnie des Agens de Change de Bordeaux 1835. Diameter: 3.3 cm A silver token engraved by Stern F. featuring architecture on the obverse and the epigraph Caisse d'épargne de Bordeaux founded in 1819 between laurel and oak leaves on the reverse. Diameter: 3.5 cm A silver token engraved by J.B.J. Constant depicting a woman and two children in the allegory of Charity with the title Société des fêtes de Charité de Bordeaux on the obverse and Mr Gautier Ainé Maire de Bordeaux between two laurel branches on the reverse. Diameter: 3.5 cm Two silver tokens engraved by J.B.J. Constant featuring on the obverse Saint André in profile with the title Chef de service médical and on the reverse a view of the Hôpital Saint André with the title Hopital Saint André / Bordeaux. Diameter: 3.2 cm A silver medal engraved by Bescher Ed featuring on the obverse a horse's head in cape in profile with the titulation Société hippique française / Concours Midi-Bordeaux 1883 and on the reverse a medallion with the epigraph 1re Classe / 1re Division / 2e Section between two laurel branches. Diameter: 4 cm A silver medal engraved by Daniel Dupuis featuring on the obverse a bust of Marianne crowned with an oak branch and marked République Française and on the reverse the epigraph Prix de tir offert par le Ministère de la guerre between an oak branch and a laurel branch underlined by military attributes. Diameter: 5 cm A silver medal engraved by Adolphe Rivet featuring on the obverse a woman's bust wearing a ship's headdress with the coat of arms of the city of Bordeaux to the right and marked Bvrdigala and on the reverse a partially draped woman holding a book and a quill with the epigraph XIIIe Eposition de Bordeaux 1895 / Société Philomatique Diameter: 4.4 cm A 50-franc coin featuring on the obverse Hercules engraved by Augustin Dupré and dated 1977 and a 1-franc République française coin dated 1913 are included. Total weight: 345.67 g

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