‎All under heaven: the chinese world. With text by Jonathan Porter.‎

‎New York, Pantheon Books, 1983, in-4to, 190 p., rich. ill. with color plates, orig. cloth, with DJ.‎

‎Toscane et Rome correspondance d’Italie‎

‎in 8 plein cuir glacé vert,fers à la rocaille,en long, filet en encadrement,et titre dorés,au dos.Plaque à froid avec filet doré en encadrement,sur les plats.Filet doré sur coupe.(Ecole Ste Barbe doré sur le premier plat)Faux-titre, frontispice gravé sous serpente,titre,2 pages de table,423 pages, tranches marbrées.Paris Dezobry,E Magdeleine & Cie 1840, bine complet du frontispice qui manque souvent, rousseurs éparses,principalement en début et fin de volume. Un petit frottement sur le premier plat,sans gravité‎

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‎LE POUVOIR DU MONDE.‎

‎, Paris, Editions la Decouverte, 2003., Broche, couverure d' editeur, 13,5x22cm, 259pp.‎

‎Quand un journal veut changer la France.‎

‎Polyzoa (Bryozoa) - Ascophora - from Norh New Zealand (Discovery Reports Vol. XXXIV)‎

‎1 vol. in-4 br., Discovery Reports Vol. XXXIV, Cambridge University Press, 1967, pp. 199-394 avec 17 planches hors texte‎

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‎Inscribed by the auhor ("Compliment of the author"). Etat très satisfaisant (accroc restauré en coiffes, bon état par ailleurs).‎

‎White settlers in the tropics. With additional notes by R. G. Stone. "American geographical society", 23.‎

‎New York, American geographical society, 1939,. gr. in-8vo, XII + 311 p. + 88 ill. (photogr. plates), orig. publisher’s illustrated red cloth. Spines sunned, else a fine set.‎

‎Memoire sur le Sucre de raisin" (+) Suite du Mémoire....sur le sucre de raisin. (2 Parts).‎

‎Paris, Chez Bernard, 1806. No wrappers. Ectracts from ""Annales de Chimie ou Recueil de Mémoires.."" Vol. 57. Pp. 131-174 a. pp. 225-272. With the titlepage to volume 57.‎

‎First appearance of a classic paper in which Proust describes his discovery of Grape.Sugar and the identificationof this with glucose. He investigated the varieties of sugar that occur in sweet vegetable juices, distinguishing three kinds, and he showed that the sugar in grapes, of which he announced the existence to his classes at Madrid, is identical with that obtained from honey by the Russian chemist J. T. Lowitz.Proust is famous for his work on the steadiness of composition of chemical compounds.""In chemistry, the law of definite proportions, sometimes called Proust's Law, states that a chemical compound always contains exactly the same proportion of elements by mass. An equivalent statement is the law of constant composition, which states that all samples of a given chemical compound have the same elemental composition. For example, oxygen makes up 8/9 of the mass of any sample of pure water, while hydrogen makes up the remaining 1/9 of the mass. Along with the law of multiple proportions, the law of definite proportions forms the basis of stoichiometry.""(Wikipedia).‎

‎Naquane. Découverte d'un pays et d'une civilisation. Richt illustré et documenté. Edition originale.‎

‎Lausanne 1966. Bel ex. relié, rel. Ornée d'éd., gd in-8 (24 cm x 21), 152 p. avec cartes, table chronologique, ill. et tables.‎

‎Périgord Découverte. Guide 2017. Infos tourisme Dordogne‎

‎Département de la Dordogne. 2017. In-4. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 144 pages. Nombreuses illustrations en couleur dans et hors texte.. . . . Classification Dewey : 53-Guide‎

‎ Classification Dewey : 53-Guide‎

‎Traversées de la France‎

‎BARTILLAT 2004 525 pages 14x3 6x21 8cm. 2004. Broché. 525 pages.‎

‎Très bon état‎

‎ Promenades équatoriales‎

‎In 12 carré pleine toile rouge éditeur(ville de Paris sur le premier plat)titre doré au dos.373 pages illustrations photographiques hors-texte.Bornéo,Malaisie,Ceylan,Afrique Orientale.Albin Michel éditeur sans date ‎

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‎Jésus, l'homme et le fils de Dieu‎

‎ Flammarion In-8°, broché, couverture souple ill ( jésus en toutes lettres) 231 pages, bel ensemble.‎

‎ Bon Etat Franco de port France jusqu'à 29 euros iclus. PAYPAL immédiat. MONDIAL RELAY pour : FRANCE, Portugal, Pologne, Espagne, Allemagne, Autriche, Pays Bas, Luxembourg, Italie, Belgique. Toutes les étapes sont accompagnées. Achat, estimations et listages (Papiers, Archives, monographies, arts et métiers, sciences humaines et bibliophilie) France / Suisse (sur rdv). ‎

‎Historique de la Découverte improprement nommée Daguérréotype‎

‎La Courneuve.Garamont.1972.In-8,couv.à rabats jaune avec portrait.69 p.Portrait et documents.BE.‎

‎A travers la Russie boréale‎

‎in 12 demi-chagrin vert à nerfs ; titre, fer dorés. Filet à froid sur les plats, charnière intérieure toile verte. Faux-titre, frontispice, titre illustré, 320 pages, 61 gravures dans le texte et hors texte, dont 2 cartes, tranches mouchetées. Paris Librairie Hachette & Cie 1894. Très bon état.de Pétersbourg à Kazan, Kazan, au pays des Tchérénisses, le paganisme en Europe, les Tchouaves, les permiaks, traversée de l’Oural septentrional, traversée de l’Oural, la Sygva et la Slava, les grandes routes de Sibérie, ‎

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‎Pérou - Archaeologia Mundi‎

‎Relié, 264 pages, paru en 1968 chez Nagel, livre en très bon état général, proche du neuf.‎

‎On a new Constituent of Atmospheric Air. Received June 8 - Read June 9, 1898.‎

‎(London, Taylor and Francis, 1898) No wrappers. In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society of London."", Vol.63, Nos. 399-400 (both issues offered).. Pp. 373-480 a. 5 plates. Ransay & Travers' paper: pp. 405-408.‎

‎First appearance of the paper in which Ramsay and Travers announced their discovery of a new element which they named ""krypton"" (meaning hidden).""Dr. William Hampson presented them (Ransay & Travers) with about a liter of liquid air, which they used, not for liquefying the argon, but for obstaining sufficient skill in manipulation so that they would not risk loosing their precious fifteen liter of argon......The residue left after most of the liquid air had boliled away consisted largly of oxygen and nitrogen, which Ramsay and Travers temoved with red-hot copper and magnesium. ....(they) then examined the twenty-five cibic centimeters of residual gas, and when they found it to be inerst, they immediately placedit in a Pl'ucker tube connected to and induction coil and observed its spectrum. There was a bright yelælow line with a greener tint than that of the helium line and a brilliant green line that did nor coincide with any line of argon, helium, mercury, or hydrogen. They discoverede this gas on 30 May, 1898, and named it 'krypton'....they found that it belonged between bromine and rubidium in the periodic table, and so great was their excitement that the younger chemist almost forgot about his examination for doctor of sciwence which had been schedules for the next day.""(Weeks, p. 267).Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1898 C.‎

‎On a Gas showing the Spectrum of Helium, the reputed cause of D3, one of the Lines in the Coronal Spectrum. preliminary Note. (Received March 26, 1895). (+) Helium, a Gaseous Constituent of certain Minerals. Part I. And (P.E. CLEVE:) Sur la présence d...‎

‎London, arrison and Sons, 1895. - (Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1895. 8vo. and 4to. Later full cloth, gilt lettering to spine (Ramsay) and without wrappers (Cleve). In ""Proceedings of the Royal Society"" (Ramsay), Vol. 58. (Entire vol. offered). And in ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"" (Cleve), Tome 120, No 15. Pp. (797-) 850. (Entire issue offered). Ramsay's papers: pp. 65-67 and pp. 81-89. - Cleve's paper: p. 834. Stamps tp edges and a few corners a bit bumped on vol. 58, otherwise clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of both papers in which Ramsay and Cleve - independently - announced their discovery of Helium on the Earth. Although Ramsay announced the discovery of Helium before Cleve had completed his research, the Swedish chemist was independent discoverer of the element.Helium was discovered in the sun already in 1868 by Jules Janssen and independently by Lockyer the same year. Janssen discovered helium in the sun when he observed a total eclipse in India by studying the spectra of the suns chromosphere and Lockyer, also by spectroscopy, found that the new line in the spectrum did not belong to any element then known and he named it Helium for the sun.In the same volume as Ramsays paper there are 5 papers by NORMAN LOCKYER dealing with the discovery of Helium on the earth, examining Ramsay's and Cleve's findings.Parkinson ""Breakthroughs"", 1895.‎

‎Loi générale de congélation des dissolvants, Mémoire de... (Extrait par l'auteur). (+) Loi générale des tensions de vapeur des dissolvants. (2 Papers).‎

‎(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1882. 4to. No wrappers. In: ""Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences"", Tome 95, No 22 a. Tome 104 No 21 (entire issues offered). Pp. 1017-1076 and pp. 1387-1462. Raoult's papers: pp. 1030-33 (tome 95) and pp. 1430-1433 (tome 104).‎

‎First appearance of Raoult's two importent papers in which described a method for finding the molecular weight of an organic compound by the determination of the lowering of the freezing point of water that resulted from dissolving that compound in water and the law governing the relation between solutes and vapor pressure.""Then in 1882, F.-M. Raoult published his results on the effects of nondissociating organic solutes, from which he deduced a general law controlling the lowering of freezing points (the first paper offered). Four years later he extended this work to show the effect of solutes on vapor pressure (the second paper offered). Having established the effect of nondissociating compounds, he was in position to show that salts produced an eeffect which, though anomalous, could nevertheless be explained by the supposition that a dissolved molecule broke up into other molecules. This work was of great value in supplying a new method for determining molecular weights, since the depression of freezing point and vapor pressure (as well a the related rise in boiling point later discovered) are proportional to the moleculat concentrations ofthe solutions"" it was of equal value in supporting the ideas of van't Hoff on osmotic pressure. With the announcement of the dissociation theory of Arrhenius, the anomalies were explained and the full significance of the generalizations of Raoult was recognized. Raoult published the formulations of his laws in the ""Comptes Rendus"" for 1882 and 1887 (the papers offered)"" (Leicester a. Klickstein ""A Source Book in Chemistry"", pp. 471 ff).‎

‎La porte sous les eaux‎

‎ 1960 Ed. SPES - Coll. Jamboree - 1960 - In-12 broché, sous jaquette papier illustrée en couleurs - 188 p. - Illustrations en N&B de M. Raffray - Non coupé (sauf les premières pages)‎

‎Assez bon état - Jaquette légèrement défraîchie (frottements, légèrement gondolée, légères traces de mouillure, petit déchirure sur la quatrième de couv. de la jaquette) - Couv. partiellement ombragée et ternie par le temps ‎

‎Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere. Received and Read January 31, 1895.‎

‎(London, Harrison and Sons, 1895). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. Pp. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). Fine and clean.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, Lord Rayleigh's most famous discovery, announcing the discovery of this new gas, the first finding of one of the rare gases (inert gases) having unusual properties, and forming a distinct group in the periodic table, and all with zero valency.""The original paper in the ""Philosophical Transactions"" will undoubtly rank as a classic, the investigation having been a particularly brilliant ine."" (Ernst von Meyer in History of Chemistry). For this discovery Lord Rayleigh and W. Ramsay received the Nobel Prize (1904).After having made several measuring of the densities of gases, ""Rayleigh came across a curious puzzle. With oxygen, he always obtained the same density, regardless of how the oxygen might be produced, whether from one particular compound, from a second compound, or from the air. The situation was different with nitrogen. The nitrogen he obtained from air constantly showed a slightly higher density than the nitrogen he obtained from any of various compounds. Rayleigh could think of several ways in which the nitrogen obtained from air might be contaminated but none of the possibilities checked out experimentally. He was so frustrated that he went so far as to write to the journal ""Nature"" asking for suggestions. Ramsay, a brilliant Scottish chemist, asked permission to tackle the problem and received it. The upshot was that a new gas, somewhat denser that nitrogen, was discovered to exist in the atmosphere. It was named argon and it was the first of a series of rare gases of unusual properties whose existence had never been suspected.""(Asimow).Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 50 - Neville, Historical Chemical Library vol. II, p.358.‎

‎Argon, a New Constituent of the Atmosphere. Received and Read January 31, 1895.‎

‎London, Harrison and Sons, 1895. 4to. Orig. full cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Blindtooled covers. First corner a bit bumped. In ""Philosophical Transactions"", Vol. 186 - I, Series A. XIV,(2),602,(4) pp. (Entire volume offered). The paper: p. 187-241 a. 8 textillustrations (apparatus). The title-page with faint brownspots. Otherwise internally clean and fine.‎

‎First printing of this importent paper in the history of chemistry, Lord Rayleigh's most famous discovery, announcing the discovery of this new gas, the first finding of one of the rare gases (inert gases) having unusual properties, and forming a distinct group in the periodic table, and all with zero valency.""The original paper in the ""Philosophical Transactions"" will undoubtly rank as a classic, the investigation having been a particularly brilliant ine."" (Ernst von Meyer in History of Chemistry). For this discovery Lord Rayleigh and W. Ramsay received the Nobel Prize (1904). The volume also contains WILLIAM CROOKES ""On the Spectra of Argon"", OSBORNE REYNOLD ""On the Dynamical Theory of Incompressible Viscous Fluids and the determination of the Criterion"", KARL PEARSON ""Contributions to the Mathematical Theory of Evolution. - II. Skew Variations in Homogenous Materials"" etc.After having made several measuring of the densities of gases, ""Rayleigh came across a curious puzzle. With oxygen, he always obtained the same density, regardless of how the oxygen might be produced, whether from one particular compound, from a second compound, or from the air. The situation was different with nitrogen. The nitrogen he obtained from air constantly showed a slightly higher density than the nitrogen he obtained from any of various compounds. Rayleigh could think of several ways in which the nitrogen obtained from air might be contaminated but none of the possibilities checked out experimentally. He was so frustrated that he went so far as to write to the journal ""Nature"" asking for suggestions. Ramsay, a brilliant Scottish chemist, asked permission to tackle the problem and received it. The upshot was that a new gas, somewhat denser that nitrogen, was discovered to exist in the atmosphere. It was named argon and it was the first of a series of rare gases of unusual properties whose existence had never been suspected.""(Asimow).Dibner, Heralds of Science No. 50 - Neville, Historical Chemical Library vol. II, p.358.‎

‎Histoire Philosophique et Politique des Etablissemens et du Commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes - 10 volumes‎

‎ 1780 A Genève, Chez Jean-Léonard Pellet, Imprimeur de la Ville & de l'Académie - M. DCC. LXXX. (1780) - Dix volumes In-12, reliures pleine peau marbrée d'époque, dos à 5 nerfs avec pièce de titre et de tomaison sur fond marron clair, caissons ornés de fleurons en doré, toutes tranches marbrées, signet vert - xij-571 + 624 + 608 + 500 + 425 + 511 + 589 + 599 + 431 + 564 pages - Sans le volume d'Atlas‎

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‎Bon état général malgré de menus frottements sur les dos, les tranches et les coins des 10 volumes - Quelques trous de vers sans galerie au dos des volumes - Accrocs avec légers manque de matière sur les plats du tome III, IV et VI - Coiffe de queue du tome IV et V FROTTÉ AVEC MANQUE DE MATIÈRE - Tranche de tête du quatrième plat du tome VI frottée avec manque de matière - Travaux de vers sur le quatrième plat du tome VII, sur le premier plat du tome IX et sur le quatrième plat du tome X - Intérieur frais Bon ‎

‎Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des européens dans les deux Indes.‎

‎9 tomes sur 10 en 9 volumes in 8 pleine cuir fauve raciné, pièce de titre cuir rouge, pièce de tomaison cuir vert, roulette, filets, fers dorés, triple filet doré encadrant les plats, roulette dorée sur coupes, tranches marbrées. Tome1 : faux-titre, portrait de l’auteur, en médaillon d’après COCHIN gravé par LARDY. Titre, XVI-532 pages. (Petite mouillure angle supérieur droit en début de volume) Tome 2 : faux-titre- 1 gravure en frontispice, titre, VIII, 582 pages. Tome 3 : faux-titre, 1 gravure en frontispice, titre, VIII, 580 pages(une pâle mouillure angle supérieur droit, en début de volume, une mouillure triangulaire en partie supérieure, aux dernières pages de table des matières. Tome 4 : faux titre, une gravure en frontispice, titre, VIII, 472 pages. Tome 5 faux-titre, une gravure en frontispice, titre, VII, 405 pages. Tome 6 : faux-titre, gravure en frontispice, titre, VII, 484 pages, pâle moulure en marge extérieure, plus apparente en fin de fin de volume. Tome7 : faux-titre, gravure en frontispice, titre, XVI, 558 pages. Tome 8 : faux-titre, gravure en frontispice, titre, II-538 pages. Pas de tome 9. Tome 10 : faux-titre, gravure en frontispice, titre, II, 538 pages. A Genève chez jean Léonard PELLET 1780. Les gravures en frontispice sont de MOREAU LE JEUNE. Troisième édition, la meilleure et la plus complète, le nombre de volume passe de 7 volumes auparavant, à 10 volumes. Belle édition sur beau papier. ‎

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‎LA FRANCE ‎

‎La Terre et les Hommes Tome 2:LA FRANCE in 4 demi-chagrin marron à nerfs,titre et fers dorés. Faux-titre,titre,carte dépliante(une petite déchirure)959 pages,1 page de table des matières,10 cartes en couleurs la plupart sur double page.69 vues et types gravés sur bois ,hors-texte,234 cartes dans le texte. Hachette & Cie 1877.rousseurs éparses habituelles, plus fortes en début et fin de volume. ‎

‎le Japon en images‎

‎reliure cartonnée de l’éditeur. Dessins d’après nature et documents originaux.Petit in 4 à l’italienne, demi-toile rouge,plats papier chagriné rouge.Avec titre argenté sur le premier plat.Faux-titre,titre avec vignette,64 pages 245 illustrations.Paul Paclot & Cie éditeur sans date,pages de garde renouvelées.Le pays et ses habitants -l'armée - religion-us et coutumes -la musique et la danse - le théâtre et les lutteurs, enseignement public - l'art et les artistes ‎

‎Jean de Westphalie et Thierry Martens. La decouverte de la Logica Vetus (1474) et les debuts de l'imprimerie dans les Pays-Bas meridionaux (avec un fac-simile).‎

‎Turnhout, Brepols, 2009 Broche, 127pp + facsimile en coul. hors texte, 16x25cm., *neuf. Texte francais et latin. ISBN 9782503528410.‎

‎La Bibliotheque royale de Belgique a fait l?acquisition recemment d?une edition de la Logica vetus d?Aristote imprimee a Alost par Jean de Westphalie et Thierry Martens en 1474. Cet achat revet un caractere exceptionnel tant par la rarete de cette impression que pour son interet concernant l?histoire de l?emergence de l?imprimerie en Belgique. En effet, ce livre, jusqu?alors uniquement connu par huit feuillets, comporte un colophon mentionnant non seulement l?adresse bibliographique complete du livre, mais aussi le lien qui unissait les deux typographes : Thierry Martens est ainsi qualifie d?associe ? socius ? de Jean de Westphalie. La presentation de cet ouvrage sera l?occasion de revenir sur les debuts du premier atelier typographique de Belgique ainsi que sur les debats historiographiques qui lui sont lies. Un fac-simile de cet unicum rehausse l?interet de cette publication pour les incunabulistes et les amateurs de livres anciens.‎