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72 - [SCIENCES AND ARTS]. Factitious collection of fifteen prints…
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[SCIENCES AND ARTS]. Factitious collection of fifteen prints, entitled "Sciences et Art". Rare memoirs, essays and practical treatises published between 1774 and 1791 in Besançon, Rouen, Paris, Grenoble, Geneva and Metz. Volume in-12 (186 × 125 mm), contemporary binding in marbled half calf, spine ribbed and decorated with a red morocco title-piece: Sciences et Arts. Multiple pagination. This remarkable collection brings together scholarly and technical publications issued on the eve of the French Revolution. These texts - often anonymous or confidential - illustrate efforts to disseminate knowledge in the provinces in various fields such as hippology & veterinary medicine, planning, hydraulics, chemistry and genealogy. 1. DE FORNO. Observations on various memoirs concerning stud farms In which one will find some brief reflections on the stallions of the depot and on the King's Academy of Besançon. By Captain de Forno, citizen of Besançon. Besançon, printed by J.-F. Couches, 1790. 45 pp. 2. M. BRASIER. Reply to the observations made by Mr de Forno on the project indicating the least costly and safest means of raising the species of horses in Franche-Comté. By M. Braster, Doctor of Medicine, correspondent of the Royal Society of Medicine, and former head of the study room at the Royal Veterinary School in Lyon. (Without title page). 27 pp. In fine: From the printing house of Métoyer ( Doubs) 1790 3. DUBOIS DE FOLFEUX. Translation of a Chinese manuscript Read on 9 January 1789, at a session of the Royal Academy of Belles-Lettres of Arras, by M. Dubois de Folfeux, perpetual secretary of the said Academy, on the occasion of the first visit of Mgr. the Duke of Guînes, appointed governor-general of the province of Artois, his homeland, and protector of the Academy. (Without title page). 6pp 4. DOM GOURDIN. Dissertation on Mercury Read at the public session of the Académie de Rouen, 11 August 1790. À Rouen, chez l'auteur.1791, 28pp. 5. LORIOT ( Antoine-Joseph ). Mémoire sur une découverte dans l'art de bâtir ; faite par le sieur Loriot, mécanicien, pensionnaire du Roi In which is made public, by order of His Majesty, the method of composing a cement or mortar suitable for an infinite number of works, both for construction and decoration. À Paris, de l'Imprimerie de Michel Lambert,1774. 53 pp. 6. [MANUSCRIT - Anonymous]. Manière de peindre à l'huile sur gravure et de poser sur toile (Manner of painting in oil on engraving and laying on canvas) By Gatier, approved by M. Cochin, first censor and secretary of the Académie de Peinture. Grenoble, Imp. André Arnaud 1772. 26 pages 7. The only means of guaranteeing the town of Besançon against the damage of a new flood (Without title page). 23pp. 8. [ANONYMOUS]. Mémoire historique et critique sur les écluses de Besançon et sur la navigation du Doubs. By a citizen. "Salus populi suprema lex esto. Geneva, 1785. 92 pp( 2)pp 9. LE NOIR (Dom Jacques-Louis). Collection chronologique des actes et des titres de Normandie. Concerning the history, noble families and fiefs of the three generalities of this province, from the XI? century to the present day. By Dom J.-L. Le Noir, Benedictine monk of the abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, congregation of Saint-Maur. (No title page). 16pp. In fine: From the Didot printing house (ca 1788) 10. [ANONYMOUS] Mémoire pour les entrepreneurs des nitrières artificielles en Franche-Comté (Memorandum for the contractors of artificial nitrification in Franche-Comté) (Without title page). 22pp. In fine: Besençon De l'imprimerie Couché. S.d. 11. LE PAYEN Description of the construction carried out in Metz in 1779 of masonry vessels suitable for housing and preserving wine By M. Le Payen, King's prosecutor at the office of Finance, and former director of the Metz Academy. Second edition. À Metz, chez Joseph Antoine, imprimeur ordinaire du Roi et de la Ville, 1780. 37 pp. 12. [ANONYMOUS] Journal de Besançon, or Historical, Economic and Literary Journal of Franche-Comté Prospectus. 12 pp . Colophon: De l'imprimerie de Daclin 1789. 13. Response of the Protestants of the four lands of Blâmont, Clémont, Héricourt and Châtelot to the memorandum published under the name of the municipality of Tavel, and of the Catholics of these same lands. (Without title page). 37 pp. Colophon: De l'imprimerie de Daclin. 1790 14. Réponse à la lettre adressée par un militaire retiré à la campagne a M. De ***, magistrat à Besançon. (Without title page). 25 pp. 15. Memoir by François-Joseph De Maucler. (Without title page). 48pp. Colophon: De l'imprimerie de Daclin. S.d.
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