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Paris,: Vigot,, 1959.. [ii], 134, [vi] pp. 8vo. (16 x 24 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With some illustrations and diagrams. In 1958 the author published a thesis with the title: "Les points sensibles cutanés couplés; leur fonction de protection physiologique; leur rôle dans l'origine de l'acupuncture".

Paris,: Grangé & Didot,, 1770 & 1783.. 365, [iii] for Ailhaud; 476, [iv] for the Journal pp. 12mo (10,5 x 17,5 cm.). Contemporary half calf, gilt lettered on red & black morocco label (joints worn; some rubbing, top of spine slightly damaged). A rare ensemble. Ailhaud, the greatest of all French quackers, became famous for his "Poudre". He established selling points in the major cities of France and Germany and gained a fortune with his patented "poudre". According to Jourdan, the nostrum was composed from resin, soot, and scammony. Ailhaud powders are said to have destroyed as many people as Napoleon's campaigns. After Ailhaud's dead, the quackery was successfully continued by his son Jean-Gaspard. --(The title page of Ailhaud has a small hole, not affecting the text; else some scattered light staining or foxing).

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,: 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,: Furne,, (n.d. ca. 1. The illustration is printed on "papier de chine". Sheet size: 18 x 27.5 cm; picture: 10 x 15 cm. Printed on the presses of Charles Chardon of Paris. Not in Burgess, Portraits in the Wellcome

Lille,: Emile, Raoust,, 1929.. [iv], xlii, 502 pp. 8vo (14 x 23 cm.). Original orange printed wrappers, entirely unopened and uncut. With 24 black and white plates. ¶ The standard reasoned catalogue of the work of Cornelis Engebrechtsz (1475-1527), who lived in Leiden and established a large and productive workshop there that trained many important painters. He primarily painted biblical scenes hat were distinctive through their use of warm colours and layered glazes. This work contains ample bibliographical references, learned notes, indexes and a "life of Engebrechtsz" after Van Mander (1604). -(Edges partly slightly foxed).

Bruxelles,: J. Moris,, 1759.. vi, 283, [xiii] pp. Small 8vo (10,5 x 16,5 cm.). Bound in 19th century half olive morocco, spine divided into 5 compartments with 7 quadruple gilt rulers, gilt lettered; 4 blind tooled floral ornaments in 4 compartments; marbled end papers (partly some very slight rubbing). Title printed in red and black. With some wood-engraved headers, and one engraved figure of a pantograph. ¶ This very popular and outstanding treatise on miniature painting with ample attention for flower painting. It went, at least, through 11 editions. The first (1672) & the second (1674) were entitles "Traité de la Mignature". From the "nouvelle édition, first published at Lyon in 1679, the title has changed into "Elole de la Mignature. The present edition is the only one published at Brussels, the last edition was published in 1817 in Paris. A very good copy. Barbier II, 15 (in the 2nd edition of Barbier, the work was attributed to Christophe Ballard).

Paris,: Charles Mendel,, (n.d., ca. 1912).. 3 volumes: 32; 25; 36 pp. 8vo (15,7 x 24 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly dust soiled). With 21 illustrations in the text. ¶ [I] Généralités sur les courants continus, [II] Généralités sur les courants alternatifs et les transformateurs, [III] Généralités sur les magnétisme et l'Electro-magnétisme. --(Bibliothèque Générale de Cinématographie).

Strasbourg & Paris,: Le Roux,, 1949.. 47, [i] pp. 8vo (15,5 x 21 cm.). Original mprinted wrappers. With 9 illustrations in the text and 9 plates. A popular description the the astronomical clock-work of the Strassburg cathedral which was constructed in 1352. The author, successor of D. Schwilgué, was a noted Alsacian watchmaker.

Bruxelles,: Arscia,, (1947).. 89, [vii] pp. Small 4to (17,5 x 22,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With numerous. With 62 illustrations.

Paris,: Balliète,, 1881.. viii, [ii], 384, [ii] & [vi catalogue] pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (slightly soiled and worn), uncut. With an oval portrait of Bernard after a photograph of Trinquart (photoglyptie Lemercier) The original edition of the Complete bibliography of the work of the "Father of modern experimental Physiology". Première edition. Importante bibliographie des travaux de Cl.Bernard.

Paris,: J.-B. Baillière,, 1953.. 256, [iv] pp. Small 8vo (13 x 19,5 cm.). Original printed wrappers. With 196 illustrations. A detailed and richly illustrated textbook for the student oculist spectacle maker. Published in the series "Nouvelle Bibliothèque professionelle".

Utrecht,: L.J. Beijers,, (1968).. 124 pp. 8vo (14 x 23 cm.). Original printed wrappers (slightly soiled; spine discoloured). With illustrations. The pressent collection consist of some 600 sixteenth century books on Humanism. Detailed bibliographical descriptions. With index on authors and printers.

Paris,: Edition Hippocrate,, 1936.. 121, [vii] pp. Large 8vo (17 x 25.5 pp.). Original printed wrappers (slightly discoloured, top of spine slightly rubbed), uncut. With 1 frontispiece and 1 plate. ** Jan Yperman, a pupil of Lanfranc, became the first and great authority on surgery in the Low Countries during the 14th century. Yperman was amongst the first who wrote a medical account in vernacular. The codex was discovered by J.F. Willems in 1836 (in the rich library of Charles van Hulthem). Garrison & Morton 5555.

Paris,: J,-B. Baillière,, 1932.. 382,[ii] pp. Small 8vo. Original printed wrappers, uncut. With 74 illustrations. A detailed and practical study.--(Encyclopédie Industrielle).

Paris,: Masson,, 1944.. [vi], 83, [iii] pp. Small 8vo (14,5 x 22 cm.). Original overlapping limp boards (slightly faded), entirely uncut and unopened. With a few plates and illustrations. ¶ Finely printed in black and blue in a limited edition of 640 numbered copies on "papier Vélin à la forme du Marais" by the master printed Soulisse-Martin. This copy is number 364.

Paris,: Payot,, 1939.. 278 pp. Small 8vo (15 x 22 cm.). Black cloth, spine gilt lettered; original printed wrappers bound in. With numerous interesting photographs on 32 plates and 2 maps. ¶ Including a brief bibliography.

Lyon,: Association Typographique,, 1889.. 56 pp. 8vo. Original printed wrappers (foxed), uncut and unopened. Chambaud was physician of the Service de Santé Militaire.

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,: L'Illustration,, 1928).. Nice black and white Art-Deco advertisment separated from "L'Illustration" of 24 novembre 1928, after the poster by Frugier-Fem, published by Editions Pièrre Argence in Lyon. Deminsion: 28,5 x39 cm.