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226 items found
Feynman, R. [Balian, R. and C. H. L. Smith (Eds.)]
Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions at High Energy [Gauge Theories]. Les Houches Session XXIX. 5 Juillet - 14 Août 1976.
Amsterdam, North-Holland [Elsevier Science Publishers], 1977. Thick 8vo (22.4 x 15.2 cm). xxv, 668 pp.; several photos, numerous text figures. Original blue printed cloth.
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Réalisations, & projets d'architectures de Niki de Saint Phalle. [AND] Niki de Saint Phalle Museum Boymans-van Beuningen 22 juli - 5 september 1976. [Exhibition catalogue].
Paris, Alexandre Iolas, [1974]. Oblong, elongate leporello with 23 folds (16.1 x 590.4 cm), with stiff printed boards(16.1 x 24.6 cm).
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Verdin, Auriparus flaviceps. [Original watercolour].
Paris, Larousse, [ca. 1970, but published 2013]. Single sheet (24.4 x 17.5 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of grey paper (32.4 x 25.0 cm).
Read moreBarruel, P. [L. E. A.]
Roitelet à triple bandeau, Regulus ignicapilla. [Original watercolour].
[Unpublished], [ca. 1970]. Single, oblong sheet (17.5 x 24.2 cm). Original watercolour drawing with pencilled caption, and ink signature. Mounted on a larger sheet of greyish-brown paper (25.0 x 32.5 cm).
Read moreDelaunay, S.
Simultané. [by Sonia Delaunay].
Bielefeld, Bielefelder Spielkarten GmbH, 1964. 16 pp. booklet, partly printed in colour (12.6 x 9.0 cm) and 110 playing cards (9.2 x 6.0 cm) [two French decks with differently coloured backs in blue, black and white, combined with, respectively, red or green, each consisting of 52 standard cards and three jokers] in original transparent plastic box (13.2 x 9.8 cm).
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Premier Congrès Scientifique Internationale du Tabac / First International Scientific Tobacco Congress. Paris - Bergerac Septembre 1955.
Paris, CORESTA,1956. Two volumes in three. Large 8vo (25.5 x 17.8 cm). Two full colour frontispieces (mounted), lxxx, 803; 10 pp. numerous text figures, 15 plates. Original uniform printed cloth (both main volumes), and blind blue wrappers (CORESTA list of founders, members, programs and statutes). Marbled endpapers.
Read moreVictor, P. É. and R. Pommier et al.
Terre Adélie 1949-1951. [Original photographs and signed brochure of a French Antarctic expedition].
France and Terre Adélie (Antarctica), 1949-1951. A suite of 12 original photos [size between 17 x 13 cm (two) and 24 x 18 cm (all others)]; and one printed brochure (27.0 x 20.8 cm) with four pp. of text and illustrations, and original printed wrappers.
Read moreLicent, É.
Vingt deux années d'exploration dans le Nord de la Chine, en Manchourie, en Mongolie et au Bas-Tibet. (1914-1935).
Tientsin [Tianjin], Musée Hoang ho Pai ho, [1936]. Folio (30.9 x 23.0 cm). 42 pp.; numerous illustrations; one very large, double-folded map in two colours showing the itineraries of Licent's expeditions. Original pictorial wrappers.
Read moreGuffroy, C. [É.]
L'Étude de la flore de Seine-et-Oise au XXè siècle.
Versailles, Société des Sciences Naturelles de Seine-et-Oise, 1932-1934. 8vo (22.3 x 14.0 cm). 73 pp. [numbered 49-82, 105-120; 1-15; 89-98]. 20th-century full cloth. Spine with black, printed title. Marbled endpapers. Original printed front wrapper bound in.
Read moreGard, M.
Atlas d'hybrides artificiels de Cistes ( Cistus T.) obtenus par E. Bornet à la Villa Thuret à Antibes. Compenant 41 planches, dont 5 en couleurs horse texte, d'après les photographies de E. Bornet et les aquarelles de Riocreux, précédées de la description de ces hybrides.
Paris, G. Dion, 1933. Large 4to (36.1 x 25.2 cm). 99 pp.; 41 plates of which five in full colour. Original printed wrappers. In a marbled slipcase (37.0 x 26.6 x 2.6 cm).
Read moreRhine river [photos]
Album with original, large photographs of the building of the locks in the Rhine at Kembs, France (1929-1932).
Kembs, no publisher indicated, [1929]-1932. Oblong photo album (board size 22.5 x 34.0 x 3.0 cm). 26 tissue-guarded original photographs mounted on 26 cardboard sheets with printed captions. Original burgundy half cloth over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers.
Read moreSéguy, E. A.
Prismes. 40 planches de dessins et coloris nouveaux.
Paris, Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, [1931]. Folio portfolio (33.5 x 25.5 cm). [iv] pp. (half-title and title page); 40 very fine full colour pochoir plates. The original publisher's full-colour pictorial portfolio.
Read morePasquet, O.
Coléoptères de la Manche.
Cherbourg, Société Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathématiques de Cherbourg, 1929. Large 8vo (24.0 x 15.5 cm). Title page, 332 pp., interleaved; large, folded map of the Cotentin Peninsula (Normandy) region. Dark green pebbled morocco over marbled boards. Spine with gilt ornamental bands, floral vignettes and title. Marbled endpapers. [AND] Six additional items, of which three supplemental to this work.
Read moreMéheut, M.
Étude de la forêt. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].
Paris, Albert Lévy, 1927. Two parts in two. Folio (34.5 x 26.7 cm). Two title pages, printed in black and green; 57 text pages (numbered [5]-[63], with several due-tone illustrations; 110 [50; 60] plates of which 40 [15; 25] in full colour, mounted on thicker sheets. Uniform dark grey buckram with gilt title on the front boards and spines. Green patterned endpapers.
Read moreLaborde, C. [Chas Laborde]
Scenes of Decadence. [Collection of coloured proof prints, perhaps for Rues et Visages De Paris, but one with a nudist scene from Rues et Visages De Berlin].
[Paris], 1926. Four proof plates (ca. 43.0 x 33.0 cm; printed surfaces ca. 27.0 x 24.0 cm) showing the Parisian and Berlin beau monde at its most decadent.
Read moreAllorge, P.
Les associations végétales du Vexin français.
Nemours, Lestot, 1922. 8vo (23.6 x 15.6 cm). 342 pp.; 37 text figures, 16 collotype plates based on the author's photographs, double-page map. Later full cloth. Spine with morocco label with gilt title. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read more[Women's Liberation] [André Citroën]
Application de la main-d'oeuvre féminine au travail des obus. [AND] Usines André Citroën. Vues photographiques des usines André Citroën de mars a ocobre 1915 [at] 143 quai de javel, Paris.
Paris, Citroën, [1915]-1916. In two volumes. Oblong folio (31.5 x 43.7 cm). 71 original photographs (22.0 x 28.5-35.5 cm) mounted on grey cardboard with printed captions [60; 11]. Uniform full mottled calf. Boards with double gilt-rolled ornamental borders and gilt title.
Read moreMéheut, M.
Études d'animaux. Tome premier - Tome second. [Complete].
Paris, Albert Lévy, 1911. Two parts in two [and an addition, described below]. Folio (44.0 x 34.0 cm). Title page in red and black, pp. 5-9 (introduction), index leaf; second title page in red and black, half-title; 100 [42; 58] loose, unnumbered plates in original, printed passepartouts. Uniform quarter cloth portfolios (45.0 x 35.0 cm); front boards with large vignette and printed title.
Read more[Letourneux, E.] Couffon, O and T. Surrault (eds.)
Collection malacologique T. Letourneux offerte au Musée d'Histoire naturelle de la ville d'Angers. Catalogue par MM. O. Couffon (Coquilles marines) Th. Surrault (coquilles terrestres et fluviatiles). Ouvrage honoré d'une subvention de M. le Ministre de l'Instruction publique.
Angers, Germain et G. Grassin, 1909. 8vo (21.4 x 13.6 cm). Half-title, title page, xiii, 202 pp.; two portraits. Mid-20th-century red buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in.
Read moreHoulbert, C. et al.
Faune Entomologique Armoricaine. Publiée par la Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes. Tome I-II.
Rennes, Station Entomologique de l'Université de Rennes, 1909-1912. Three parts in three. 8vo (25.0 x 16.5 cm). 624 pp. [viii, 97; 140; 111-311; vi, 172]. 600 text illustrations [146; 149; 150-237; 217]. Near uniform original wrappers.
Read moreGuinier, P.
Le Roc de Chère. Étude phytographique. Essai d'application des principes de la géographie botanique à l'étude détaillée d'une région. Avec cartes botanique et géologique et vues photographiques d'associations végétales.
Annecy, J. Abry, 1906. 8vo (24.0 x 16.0 cm). 125 pp.; five plates (two with printed overlay), one large, double-folded, coloured map. Original quarter cloth over printed boards.
Read moreBecquerel, H.
Recherches sur une propriété nouvelle de la matière, activité radiante spontanée ou radioactive de la matière.
Paris, Académie des Sciences de l'Institut de France, 1903. Large 4to (28.4 x 22.5 cm). Half title, title page, 360, [i] pp.; 13 plates. Original printed wrappers. Protective transparent sleeve.
Read moreCarez, L. [L. H.]
La géologie des Pyrénées Françaises.
Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1903-1909. In six volumes, including the supplement. Large 4to (29.5 x 22.6 cm). 3,908 [ix, 3,899] pp.; 39 mainly geological folded maps or profiles (six in full-colour), and heliogravures (photogravures), some with printed overlays. Uniform contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spines with four raised bands and gilt title.
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