‎SYSTEME D. N°106‎
‎Système D.‎

‎Tableaux du système planétaire‎

‎Paris, chez Longuet 1839 Atlas seul (il y manque, comme souvent, un précis in-12 comme indiqué sur le titre), contenant 7 superbes planches en double -page coloriées à la main et gravées par A. Gianni d'après les dessins de S. Visconti & A.-H. Dufour, 54x36cm., reliure cart. d'épqoue en bon état (plats marbrés, dos en cuir vert avec titre doré, étiquette de titre bleue sur le premier plat), "Nouvelle édition revue et considérablement augmentée", rousseurs sur la page de titre, les planches sont frais sauf quelques rares petites taches, bon état, rare, poids: 1.2kg., [Titres des planches: I: Système solaire ou planétaire, II: Orbite de la revolution annuelle de la Terre autour du Soleil avec l'indication des Saisons, III: Planisphère représentant les différentes positions de la Terre relativement au Soleil pendant les douze mois de l'année, IV: Phases de la lune, V: Eclipses de Soleil et de la Lune, VI: Du Flux et Reflux ou Marées, VII: Coupe de la Terre prise sur l'équateur et vue du côté du Pole Arctique], [Rare splendid atlas volume (without the often missing text volume), containing 7 double-page handcoloured plates engraved by A.Gianni from the drawings of Visconti & Dufour, nice and solid contemporary hardcover binding (marbled boards, spine in green leather with gilt title, blue label with title on frontcover), some foxing on title page, the plates are clean and bright except for few marginal stains, good condition, rare, weight: 1.2kg.], W119389‎

‎Contribution à la géologie du Katanga - le système du Kundelungu et le système schisto-dolomitique [2 tomes]‎

‎Bruxelles, G.Van Campenhout 1940 2 parties: 110 + 35pp., dans la série "Institut Royal Colonial Belge. Section des sciences naturelles et médicales. Mémoires, collection in-4" Tome VI fasc.2, ex.bibl. (qqs. cachets), non coupé, C44479‎

‎Recherches sur le système cutané et sur le système musculaire du lombric terrestre ('Lumbricus agricola' Hoffmeister)‎

‎Bruxelles, Académie royale (impr.par Hayez) 1890-1893 100pp.+ 4 planches hors-texte (représentant 56 figures), publié dans et extrait de "Mémoires couronnés et mémoires des savants étrangers publiés par l'Académie Royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique" Tome LII (1890-1893), in-4, non coupé, W57649‎

‎Le système solaire , (La genèse du système solaire - L'origine et l'évolution du système solaire - La formation de la terre par accrétion de planétoïdes - La chimie du système solaire - L'effet des marées dans le système solaire - L'âge du système solaire - Une supernova a-t-elle engendré le système solaire ? - Les planètes actives et les planètes géantes - La surface de Vénus - L'atmosphère de Vénus - Les premiers jours de la Terre - La surface de Mars -La vie sur Mars - Jupiter et Saturne - Les anneaux dans le système solaire - Titan - Les planètes mortes et les petits corps - Mercure - La lune - Phobos et Deimos - Les satellites Galiléens et Jupiter - Les satellites de Saturne - Les objets Apollo - Le soleil et l'espace interplanétaire - Le Soleil - Les ondes dans le vent solaire - La rotation des comètes - Champs et particules interplanétaires)‎

‎Belin , Bibliothèque Pour la Science Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1982 Book condition, Etat : Bon relié, cartonnage éditeur blanc, illustré par la couronne solaire observée de l'espace ( photo NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center) In-4 1 vol. - 288 pages‎

‎très nombreuses illustrations dans le texte en noir et blanc, quelques-unes en couleurs nouvelle édition française, 1982 Contents, Chapitres : Hubert Curien : Préface - 1. La genèse du système solaire : A. Cameron : L'origine et l'évolution du système solaire - George Wetherill : La formation de la terre par accrétion de planétoïdes - John Lewis : La chimie du système solaire - Anny Cazenave et André Brahic : L'effet des marées dans le système solaire - Jean-François Minster : L'âge du système solaire - David Schramm et Robert Clayton : Une supernova a-t-elle engendré le système solaire ? - 2. Les planètes actives et les planètes géantes : Gordon Pettengill, Donald Campbell et Harold Masursky : La surface de Vénus - Gerald Schubert et Curt Covey : L'atmosphère de Vénus - Claude Allègre : Les premiers jours de la Terre - Raymond Arvidson, Alan Binder et Kenneth Jones : La surface de Mars - Norman Horowitz : La vie sur Mars - Andrew Ingersoll : Jupiter et Saturne - James Pollack et Jeffrey Cuzzi : Les anneaux dans le système solaire - Tobias Owen : Titan - 3. Les planètes mortes et les petits corps : Bruce Murray : Mercure - John Wood : La lune - Joseph Veverka : Phobos et Deimos - Laurence Soderblom : Les satellites Galiléens et Jupiter - Torrence Johnson : Les satellites de Saturne - George Wetherill : Les objets Apollo - 4. Le soleil et l'espace interplanétaire : E. Parker : Le Soleil - J. Gosling et A. Hundhausen : Les ondes dans le vent solaire - Fred Whipple : La rotation des comètes - James van Allen : Champs et particules interplanétaires - Index et Bibliographie cartonnage légèrement jauni, coin inférieur gauche du plat inférieur à peine émoussés, légères tâches de rousseurs sur les deux premières et dernières pages, sinon en bon état, intérieur propre, papier à peine jauni‎

‎Système social, ou principes naturels de la morale et de la politique, avec un examen de l'influence du gouvernement sur les moeurs. Par l'Auteur du Systême de la Nature [Mirabaud]. 3 Tomes. - [THE SYSTEM OF NATURE CONTINUED... THE SOCIAL SYSTEM]‎

‎London [recte: Amsterdam, M.M. Rey], 1773. 8vo. Bound in one beautiful contemporary full mottled calf binding with five raised bands to richly gilt spine triple gilt line-borders to boards and inner gilt dentelles. Edges of boards with single gilt line. All edges gilt. Corners abit bumped and a bit of overall wear. Inner hinges a bit weak. Internally very fine and clean. All in all a very fine copy indeed. (4), 210176" 167 pp. With all three half-titles, all three title-pages and all three indexes, as well as the introduction.‎

‎The rare first edition, first issue (though Tchermerzine mentions an unknown 2-volume-edition form the same year - this edition has never been verified), of one of d'Holbach's most important works, his influential ""social"" and political continuation of his seminal main work ""Systeme de la nature"" - the bible of materialism. D'Holbach (1723-1789), who was raised by a wealthy uncle, whom he inherited, together with his title of Baron, in 1753, maintained one of the most famous salons in Paris. This salon became the social and intellectual centre for the Encyclopédie, which was edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, whom he became closely connected with. D'Holbach himself also contributed decisively to the Encyclopédie, with at least 400 signed contributions, and probably as many unsigned, between 1752 and 1765. The ""Côterie holbachique"" or ""the café of Europe"", as the salon was known, attracted the most brilliant scientists, philosophers, writers and artists of the time (e.g. Diderot, d'Alembert, Helvetius, Voltaire, Hume, Sterne etc, etc.), and it became one of the most important gathering-places for the exchange of philosophical, scientific and political views under the ""ancient régime"". Apart from developing several foundational theories of seminal scientific and philosophical value, D'Holbach became known as one of the most skilled propagators and popularizers of scientific and philosophical ideas, promoting scientific progress and spreading philosophical ideas in a new and highly effective manner. D'Holbach was himself the most audacious philosophe of this circle. During the 1760's he caused numerous anticlerical tracts (written in large, but not entirely, by himself) to be clandestinely printed abroad and illegally circulated in France. His philosophical masterpiece, the ""Système de la nature, ou des lois du monde physique et du monde moral"", a methodological and intransigent affirmation of materialism and atheism, appeared anonymously in 1770"" (D.S.B. VI:468), as did the social and political follow-up of it, the famous ""Systême social"" in 1773. That is to say, Mirabeau whom he had used as the author on the ""System of Nature"" in 1770 is not mentioned in the ""Social System"", on the title-page of which is merely stated ""By the Author of ""Systême de la Nature"". As the theories of d'Holbach's two systematic works were at least as anticlerical and unaccepted as those of his smaller tracts, and on top of that so well presented and so convincing, it would have been dangerous for him to print any of them under his own name, and even under the name of the city or printer. Thus, ""Systême de la Nature"" appeared pseudonomously under the name of the secretary of the Académie Francaise, J.B. Mirabaud, who had died 10 years earlier, and under a fictive place of printing, namely London instead of Amsterdam. ""He could not publish safely under his own name, but had the ingenious idea of using the names of recently dead French authors. Thus, in 1770, his most famous book, ""The System of Nature"", appeared under the name Jean-Baptiste Mirabaud."" (PMM 215), and so the next ""System"" also appeared in the same manner three years later.In his ""Systême de la Nature"", d'Holbach had presented philosophical materialism in an actual system for the first time and had created a work that dared unite the essence of all the essential material of the English and French Enlightenment and incorporate it into a closed materialistic system"" on the basis of a completely materialistic and atheistic foundation, he provided the modern world with a moral and ethic philosophy, the effects of which were tremendous. It is this materialism and atheism that he continues three years later in his next systematic work ""Systême social"", through which politics, morality, and sociology are also incorporated into his system and take the place of the Christianity that he had so fiercely attacked earlier on. In this great work he extends his ethical views to the state and continues the description of human interest from ""Systême de la Nature"" by developing a notion of the just state (by d'Holbach calle ""ethocracy"") that is to secure general welfare. ""Système social (1773"" ""Social System"") placed morality and politics in a utilitarian framework wherein duty became prudent self-interest."" (Encyclopaedia Brittanica). ""Holbach's foundational view is that the most valuable thing a person seeking self-preservation can do is to unite with another person: ""Man is of all beings the most necessary to man"" (Sysème social, 76"" cf. Spinoza's Ethics IVP35C1, C2, and S). Society, when it is just, unites for the common purpose of preservation and the securing of welfare, and society contracts with government for this purpose."" (SEP).As the ""Systême de la Nature"" had been condemned to burning in the year of its publication, so the ""Systême social"" was on the list of books to be confiscated already in 1773, and it was placed on the Index of the Church in August 1775. As the ""Systême de la Nature"", the ""Systême social"" is thus also of great scarcity. Another edition of the work appeared later the same year, in 12mo. Tchermerzine says that ""Il ya une édition, que nous ne connaissons pas, en 2 vol. in-8. C'est sans doute l'originale."" The present edition was reprinted the following year, in 1774.Tschermerzine VI:246" Graesse III:317 Barbier IV:622 (only listing later editions).‎