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[ 18th CENTURY - ALBUM OF DRAWINGS – NATURAL HISTORY
63 BEAUTIFUL & CURIOUS DRAWINGS ]
[ NATURAL HISTORY]
Album of drawings,
8vo, cardboard. 63 plates of drawings (126 pp.)
This beautiful album contains 63 plates of pencil drawings of animals - including large full-page drawings.
Some of these drawings were "sketched from nature" as the author indicates "made by me from nature" and others obviously after natural history books. The title indicates moreover: "Supplément de différents morceaux détachées de l'histoire naturelle prises dans leuvre (sic) de Mr Pluche, et différente étude d'animaux tant quadrupède que (...) fait par moy daprès nature et autres composent 137 dessins". 26 drawings with annotations in front of each other. The handwritten pagination here indicates 137 p., We have 126 : missing pp. 63-70 and 73-74. Charming and curious album of 18th century drawings.
In addition to drawings of insects, butterflies, birds, parrots, ostriches, tigers and peacocks, there are curious &… Read More

IMPORTANT MANUSCRIPT OF MESMER'S APHORISMS "THIS PARAGRAPH IS THE RESULT OF MR. ALPHONSE'S OBSERVATIONS AT MESMER'S HOUSE MESMER, Aphorisms, [and comments on Mesmer], Manuscript. Circa 1800-1820. In-8, paperback, 32 p. Dimensions : 19 x 25 cm. Remarkable manuscript of Mesmer's Aphorisms : one finds variants in the details of certain passages as well as in the organization of the texts ; one also notes some comments & observations. The present manuscript testifies to the diffusion of Mesmer's teachings and practices in the years 1800-1820. The writer remains anonymous, but he is clearly a "practitioner" of magnetism: the aphorisms are indeed completed by a few short, unpublished personal remarks. One notes in particular p. 29, the intriguing formulation: "this paragraph is the result of M. Alphonse's observations at Mesmer's house". There are also notes on the organization of the aphorisms: "The article "Magnet" on page 18 should follow this one and is the 8th part"; comments: "What makes attraction… Read More