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Antwerpen,: J.-E. Buschmann,, 1916.. xi, [i], 190 pp. 8vo. (14,5 x 23 cm.). Original illustrated printed wrappers (soiled), uncut. With 35 photographic plates & illustrations. ** A charmingly illustrated, and uncommon work.

Paris,: A. Maloine,, 1901.. [iv], 137 pp. 8vo (17 x 25 cm.). Brown cloth, gilt lettered label on front side, original printed wrappers bound in. With 19 figures and 5 plates. ¶ A charming and uncommon history. Copy with the bookplate of Dr. A. De Mets, lithographed after Edmond van Offel (1871-1959).-- (Half-title cropped; paper slightly browned and fragile).

Paris,: Le François,, 1930.. xii, 159, [i] pp. 8vo (16.5 x 25.3 cm.).Original printed wrappers, entirely uncut and unopened. With a portrait of Paré.

Paris,: J.B. Ballière,, 1846.. xvi, 371, (i) pp. In-8 (14 x 22 cm.). Couverture originale imprimée, non rogné. Avec 1 plance dépliant, h.t., représentant un fac-similé de la lettre de Pascal trouvée dans son purpoint, après sa mort. ¶ Première édition. Intéressant ouvrage dans lequel Lélut s'attache à démontrer que Pascal était un aliéné. Il élabore une théorie des idées: les idées étaint examinées à leur point de départ, puis à leur retour au point de départ. "C'est à ce second état que se rapportent les hallucinations qu'il définit comme des transformations spontanées de la pensée en sensations les plas souvent externes" (Brierre de Boismon, De maladies mentales p. 695). Ainsi Lélut attribue la naissance de Provinciales et de Pensées… Read More

Paris,: La Poste,, 1985. A first day sheet (A4) composed of the original stamp, a brief history, and a nice portrait of Pasteur after Bequet. Document Philatélique Officiel printed at the presses of the Imprimerie dess Timbres-Poste.

Paris,: Masson,, (ca. 1920).. Published as a postcard (9 x 14 cm).

Paris,: Delagrave,, 1921.. 296 pp. Small 8vo (13,5 x 20 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut (slightly dust soiled and some foxing), uncut. With a frontispiece (portarit of Paster) and some text figures. ¶ First 4 pages slightly foxed.

Paris,: Imprimirie de Gauthier-Villars,, 1874.. 8 pp. 9vo(13,3 x 21,5 cm.). Modern blind wrapper, uncut. ¶ Pasteur himself was a former pupil of the Collège d'Arbois. In this lecture Pasteur defends the value of scientific research and the freedom of thinking. No wrappers here printed for this publication. A good copy. Rare.

Moscou,: Editions en Langues Etrangeres,, 1954.. 679, [i] pp. 8vo 14 x 20,5 cm.). Original published cloth. With a portrait. ¶ "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion"(G&M 1022). A selection of 60 paper, including Pavlov's authobiography.

Moscou,: Editions en Langues Etrangeres,, (n.d., ca. 1955).. 690, [ii] pp. 8vo 14 x 20,5 cm.). Original published cloth. With a portrait. Title printed in red and black. ¶ "Pavlov made perhaps the greatest contribution to our knowledge of the physiology of digestion"(G&M 1022). A selection of 60 paper, including Pavlov's authobiography.

Paris,: Librarie L. Hachette,, 1876.. [ii], xv, [i], 277, [iii] pp. 8vo (13,5 x 22 cm.). Contemporary half blue morocco, spine gilt decorated (top & bottom of spine slightly damaged; rubbed). With 100 charming illustrations in the text. ¶ Paz, directeur du Grand Gymnase Médical, was the most ardent promotor of Gymnastics in France those days, and became the French champion of gymnastics. During his youth Paz was curred from neuralgic complains as the result of gymnastics exercise and hydrotherapy. He took up studies in anatomy, physiology and gymnastics. He was a student of H. Triat, the precursor of power lifting.

Paris,: Le Bailly,, (1886).. 48 pp. 8vo (14 x 22,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers, uncut. With 24 charming steel engraved plates. Originally published in 1845. This edition is quite rare (only a few copies in the WorldCat). -- (The plates have some scattered pencil annotation in their margins).

(Paris,: Goqué),, 1770. 88 pp Small 8vo (12,5 x 20 cm.). Contemporary marbled wrappers. ¶ Rare, no copy in the WorldCat. A long laudatory poem in the form of a letter by an admirer of Petit, probably written to support Petit in his polemic with Portal. Copy with ample margins.

Paris,: Gauthier-Villars,, 1904.. vii, ;i], 359, [i]; v, [iii]; [viii, beer related advertisements] pp. 8vo (16,5 x 25 cm.). Original green decorative (Art Nouveau) publisher's buckram (slightly dust soiled and worn at the extremities). With 2 plates and 87 figures in the text. ¶ Petit was the founder and director of the "école de brasserie de Nancy", the most distinguished brewing school in France.

London,: Taylor & Francis,, 1868.. [ii]p. 179-277, [i] pp.4to. Modern blue wrappers. With numerous figures and 4 lithographed plates. ¶ A classic on animal locomotion. Casey Wood 1867; Hirsch IV, 549. From the Transactions of the Linnean Society, vol. xxvi. Copy with author's autograph dedication. -- (Partly waterstained).

Paris,: Pharmathèmes,, (2003).. 435, [v] pp. Large 8vo (17 x 24 cm.). Original illustrated limp boards. ¶ A very handy dictionaire for the history of pharmacy, with good biographies of chiefly French pharmacists.

Paris,: Gathier-Villars & Cie,, 1883-1889.. 3 works bound in one volume: xvi, 86; 116; ix, 96; [30, publisher's catalogue on photography] pp. Small 8vo (11,5 x 18 cm.). Contemporary black buckram (partly slightly rubbed), spine gilt lettered. With 27 text figures. Three classic texts from the series 'Bibliothèque photographique'. Rare.--(Some scattered light foxing; very small red stain at the outer margin).

Paris,: Collection de L'Ecritoire,, 1933. [iv, blank], [ii], iv, 328, [iii] pp. Rual 8vo (14,5 x 22,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers (some minute imperfections), unopened and uncut. With 30 vignettes and portraits in the text. Garrison & Morton 6621. A most charming anthology of French poetry by 33 different authors (i.a. Synphorien Champier,Jean Lebon, Clusius, J.-F Sacnmbe, Nicolas Ellain, etc.). The works is concluded by a glossary and brief bibliography. In his preface, Pia criticizes Chéreau's dictionary "Le Parnasse médicale français" (1874): "Chéreau n'a pas lu les ouvrages dont il parle...".

(Paris),: Grasset,, (1957).. 418 pp. Small 8vo (12 x 19 cm.).. Original printed wrappers (slightly dust soiled), uncut. With 1 frontispiece. ¶ Copy with author's autograph dedication to Père Robinot-Marcy.

New York,: The Cosmopolitan,, (n.d. ca. 19000.. One illustrated advertisment leaf, separated from the Cosmopolitan, for one of the many World's Dispernsary Medical Associations' nostrums. 15 x 24 cm.