‎Jacques-Henri-Bernardin DE SAINT-PIERRE‎
‎ÉTUDES DE LA NATURE.‎

‎Études sur la Nature Humaine. Essai de philosophie optimiste. - [FOUNDING AND COINING GERONTOLOGY]‎

‎Paris, 1903. 8vo. Nice contemporary half calf with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Inner hinge a bit weak, but still tight. 3 leaves with a tear, no loss. Otherwise a nice and clean copy. Inscribed by the author to half-title, to the preeminent Russian Byzantinist F.I. Uspenky. (6), II, 399 pp.‎

‎First edition, first issue, presentation-copy, of the groundbreaking work, in which Metchikoff coins ""gerontology"" and establishes the field, which today is considered more important than ever, namely the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.Earlier on, Metchnikoff had made pioneering studies in immunology, and these led him on to the problems of biological ageing. His first work on the subject is the present, in which he coins the term ""gerontology"" and advances the idea that senile changes result from the toxins produced by bacteria in the intestine. In order to prevent these ""unhealthy fermentations"", Metchnikoff advocates the inclusion of sour milk on one's diet. As his ideas of ""right living"" were so closely connected with the consummation of large amounts of fermented milk or yoghurt made with a Bulgarian bacillus, his name actually came to be associated with a popular commercial preparation of yogurt (although he received no royalties). His studies into the potential life-lengthening properties of lactic acid bacteria, inspired Japanese scientist Minoru Shirota to begin investigating the causal relationship between bacteria and good intestinal health, which eventually led to the worldwide marketing of Kefir and other fermented milk drinks or probiotics, still extremely popular today.Apart from the consummation of yoghurt, Metchnikoff warned of eating uncooked foods, claiming that the bacteria present on them could cause cancer. Metchnikoff claimed he even plunged bananas into boiling water after unpeeling them and passed his silverware through flames before using it.""In his ""Nature of Man"" Metchnikoff argued that when diseases have been suppressed and life has been hygienically regulated, death would come only with extreme old age. Death would then be natural, accepted gratefully, and robbed of its terrors."" (D.S.B. IX: 334-35).He continued writing on ageing and death until 1910. In 1908 he shared the Nobel Prize for medicine with Ehrlich for his work on immunity.The interesting presentation-inscription reads: ""Dorogim Naste I Fedoru/ Ivanovich Uspenskim/ na dobruyu panijat ot Il. Metchnikova."" [In Russian, i.e.: For dear Nastya and Fyodor/ Ivanovich Uspenski/ in good memory from Il. Metchnikov."" Fyodor Ivanovich Uspensky or Uspenskij (1845-1928) was the preeminent Russian Byzantinist in the first third of the 20th century. His works are considered to be among the finest illustrations of the flowering of Byzantine studies in Tsarist Russia.Uspensky was educated at the University of St. Petersburg, with his first thesis (1872) dedicated to Nicetas Choniates. For two decades (1874-94) he read lectures at the Novorossiysky University in Odessa. This position allowed him to spend considerable time abroad.Uspensky's doctoral thesis (1879) dealt with the foundation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. Although he specialized in the Byzantine-Bulgarian relations and investigated the Slavic influence on the Byzantine economy, Uspensky also researched and wrote extensively on the Crusades.In 1894 Uspensky, who shared Slavophile ideals, decided to move to Constantinople in order to study and protect the surviving monuments of Byzantine antiquity, which had been neglected by the Ottoman authorities for centuries. He founded the Russian Archaeological Institute (headquartered at Studion) and presided over its pioneering archaeological research in Constantinople, Asia Minor, Macedonia and Bulgaria. In 1900, he was elected into the Russian Academy of Sciences. With the outbreak of World War I, Uspensky was forced to abandon his work and flee Turkey.Back in Petrograd, the 70-year-old professor was invited to edit the organ of Byzantine studies, ""Vizantiysky Vremennik"". After the October Revolution, he delivered lectures at the Leningrad University (1922-27) and, enduring criticism of the Bolshevik authorities, prepared for publication the results of a lifelong study - a monumental three-volume account of the history of the Byzantine Empire.Uspensky died in Leningrad in 1928. The posthumous publication of his magnum opus, based on numerous unpublished sources and unprecedented in scope, demonstrated the wide range of his scholarship. His book about the Trapezuntine Empire also appeared posthumously.‎

‎Études su la Nature Humaine. Essai de philosophie optimiste. - [FOUNDING GERONTOLOGY]‎

‎Paris, Masson et Cie, 1903. 8vo. Nice contemporary half calf with four raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Light miscolouring to spine. A nice and clean copy. (8), 399 pp.‎

‎First edition of the groundbreaking work, in which Metchikoff coins ""gerontology"" and establishes the field, which today is considered more important than ever, namely the study of the social, psychological and biological aspects of aging.Earlier on, Metchnikoff had made pioneering studies in immunology, and these led him on to the problems of biological ageing. His first work on the subject is the present, in which he coins the term ""gerontology"" and advances the idea that senile changes result from the toxins produced by bacteria in the intestine. In order to prevent these ""unhealthy fermentations"", Metchnikoff advocates the inclusion of sour milk on one's diet. As his ideas of ""right living"" were so closely connected with the consummation of large amounts of fermented milk or yoghurt made with a Bulgarian bacillus, his name actually came to be associated with a popular commercial preparation of yogurt (although he received no royalties). His studies into the potential life-lengthening properties of lactic acid bacteria, inspired Japanese scientist Minoru Shirota to begin investigating the causal relationship between bacteria and good intestinal health, which eventually led to the worldwide marketing of Kefir and other fermented milk drinks or probiotics, still extremely popular today.Apart from the consummation of yoghurt, Metchnikoff warned of eating uncooked foods, claiming that the bacteria present on them could cause cancer. Metchnikoff claimed he even plunged bananas into boiling water after unpeeling them and passed his silverware through flames before using it.""In his ""Nature of Man"" Metchnikoff argued that when diseases have been suppressed and life has been hygienically regulated, death would come only with extreme old age. Death would then be natural, accepted gratefully, and robbed of its terrors."" (D.S.B. IX: 334-35).He continued writing on ageing and death until 1910. In 1908 he shared the Nobel Prize for medicine with Ehrlich for his work on immunity.‎

‎Etudes de la Nature, par Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Nouvelle édition, revue, corrigée, et conforme à celle publiée par M. Aimé-Martin. On y a joint l'Etude littéraire sur la partie historique du roman de Paul et Virginie, et les Pièces officielles relatives au naufrage du vaisseau le Saint-Géran, par P.L. Lemontey (5 volumes).‎

‎ Aimé André, Libraire-Editeur, 1825, 5 volumes in-8 de 215x135 mm environ, Tome 1 : 1f.blanc, faux-titre, frontispice, titre, iv-xxiv-494 pages, 1f.(table, 1f.blanc, - Tome 2 : 1f.blanc, faux-titre, titre, 492 pages, 1f.blanc, - Tome 3 : 1f.blanc, faux-titre, titre, 448 pages, 1f.blanc, - Tome 4 : 1f.blanc, faux-titre, titre, xliii-32-334 pages, 1f.(table), 1f.blanc, - Tome 5 : 1f.blanc, faux-titre, titre, lxxviii-507 pages, 1f.blanc, reliures demi veau bleu nuit, titres et tomaisons dorés sur dos lisses, ornés de caissons à motifs dorés, gardes marbrées, tranches finement mouchetées. Contient un portrait-frontispice et 10 planches gravées (dont une carte dépliante "Hémisphère Atlantique"), pour Etudes de la Nature et 2 planches gravées pour Paul et Virginie.Des rousseurs fortes par endroits, traces d'humidité et mouillures claires, des passages soulignés dans les marges au crayon à papier, une partie des planches détachées, cuir insolé sur les dos avec frottements et petites épidermures, frottements sur le cartonnage également, début de fente sur un mors interne (tome 5). ‎

‎Tome 1. Avis de l'Editeur. Etude I. Immensité de la Nature. Plan de mon ouvrage. Etude II. Bienfaisance de la Nature. Etude III. Objections contre la Providence. Etude IV. Réponses aux objections contre la Providence, tirées des désordres du Globe. Etude V. Réponses aux objections contre la Providence, tirées des désordres du règne végétal. Etude VI. Réponses aux objections contre la Providence, tirées des désordres du règne animal. Etude VII. Réponses aux objections contre la Providence, tirées des maux du genre humain. Etude VIII. Réponses aux objections contre la Providence divine et les espérances d'une autre vie, tirées de la nature incompréhensible de Dieu, et des misères de ce monde. Notes de l'auteur. Tome 2. Etude IX. Objections contre les méthodes de notre raison, et les principes de nos sciences. Etude X. De quelques lois générales de la nature, et premièrement des lois physiques. De la Convenance. De l'ordre. De l'harmonie. Des couleurs. Des formes. Des mouvements. Des consonnances. De la progression. Des contrastes. De la Figure humaine. Des concerts. De quelques autres lois de la nature, peu connues. Etude XI. Application de quelques lois générales de la nature aux plantes. Harmonies élémentaires des plantes. Harmonies élémentaires des plantes avec le soleil, par les fleurs. Harmonies élémentaires des plantes avec l'eau et l'aire, par leurs feuilles et leurs fruits. Harmonies végétales des plantes. Harmonies animales des plantes. Harmonies humaines des plantes. Des harmonies élémentaires des plantes par rapport à l'homme. Harmonies végétales des plantes avec l'homme. Harmonies animales des plantes avec l'homme. Harmonies humaines ou alimentaires des plantes. Notes de l'auteur.Tome III. Etude XII. De quelques lois morales de la nature. Faiblesse de la raison. Du sentiment ; preuve de la Divinité et de l'immortalité de l'ame par le sentiment. Des sensations physiques. Du goût. De l'odorat. De la vue. De l'ouïe. Du toucher. Des sentiments de l'ame, et premièrement des affections de l'esprit. Du sentiment de l'innocence. De la pitié. De l'amoure de la patrie. Du sentiment de l'admiration. Du merveilleux. Plaisir du mystère. Plaisir de l'ignorance. Du sentiment de la mélancolie. Plaisir de la ruine. Plaisir des tombeaux. Ruines de la nature. Plaisir de la solitude. Du sentiment de l'amour. De quelques autres sentiments de la Divinité, et entre autres celui de la vertu. Etude XIII. Application des lois de la nature au maux de la Société. De Paris. De la noblesse. D'un élysée. du clergé. Etude XIV. De l'éducation. Récapitulation. Notes de l'auteur. Explication des Figures.Table du tome 4 : Avis de l'Editeur. Paul et Virginie, Avant-propos, Préambule. Paul et Virginie. - La Chaumière indienne. Avant-propos, Préambule, La Chaumière indienne. - Le Café de Surate. - Voyage en Silésie. - Eloge de mon ami. - Voyages de Codrus. - Le Vieux Paysan Polonais. - Notes de l'avant-propos de la Chaumière. Table du tome 5 : L'Arcadie, Fragment servant de Préambule à l'Arcadie. L'Arcadie, Livre premier. Les Gaules. Fragments de l'Arcadie, Préface de l'Editeur, Fragment du livre second, Fragment du livre troisième. Fragments de l'Amazone, Commencement de Mon Journal, Suite de Mon Journal. Essai sur J.-J. Rousseau. Epitaphe de J.-J. Rousseau par Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Essai sur J.-J. Rousseau. Parallèle de Voltaire et de J.-J. Rousseau. De la Nature de la Morale. Fragment. Préface de l'Editeur sur les travaux de Bernardin de Saint-Pierre à l'Institut. De la Nature de la Morale. Merci de nous contacter à l'avance si vous souhaitez consulter une référence au sein de notre librairie.‎

‎uvres de Jacques-Bernardin-Henri de Saint-Pierre. Études de la nature. Troisième édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée ‎

‎ 1793 Paris: 1793, Complet en 10 vol. pt. in-12: 9 x 14 cm. Édition collective complète des Études de la nature illustrée d'un frontispice, d'un planisphère dép., de trois pl. dép., et de deux figures hors-texte. Contient les Études de la nature (t. I-VI), la Chaumière Indienne (t. VII), Paul et Virginie (t. VIII), Fragments servant de préambule à l'Arcadie (t. IX), Veux d'un solitaire, avec la suite (t. X). Reliures uniformes de l'époque en demi-basane. Dos lisses avec pièces de titre et de tomaison en basane noir. Traces d'usage. Charmante collection décorative et agréable à la lecture. "Le succès des Études de la Nature surpassa l'attente de l'auteur lui-même. Elles sont un hymne à Dieu qui ne périra qu'avec le sentiment du beau" (Quérard, VII, p. 364). ‎

‎Mechnikov Ilya. Etudes sur la nature humane. Studies about human nature. In Fren‎

‎Mechnikov Ilya. Etudes sur la nature humane. Studies about human nature. In French (ask us if in doubt)/Mechnikov Ilya. Etudes sur la nature humaine. Etyudy o prirode cheloveka. Essai de philosophie optimiste par Elie Vetchnikoff. First Edition. In French. Paris. Masson Cie Editeurs. 1903.399p. SKUalb3281e472d60e5779.‎