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Les Nouveaux Principes De L’art d’Ecrire, ou La vraie Méthode d’y exceller Sans Maitre. (20 ff.), Traité pour rendre flexibles les Articulations des doigts & du bras (2 ff.), Cahier d’Ecriture. (18 ff.)
3 800€Superb work calligraphed in brown and red ink by a calligrapher named Diot, practicing in Remiremont in the Vosges.
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Humorous handwritten placard directed against Dom Denis Cambier (died 1780), provost of the Abbey of Saint-Martin in Tournai.
2 600€Superb humorous calligraphic placard mocking Dom Denis Cambier (died 1780), provost of the abbey of Saint-Martin de Tournai.
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Maison a vendre, sise Rue Neuve Saint Eustache.
1 200€Large placard announcing the sale of a house in Rue Neuve Saint Eustache, today part of Rue d’Aboukir (Paris II).
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Criminal trials and judgments rendered by the Peers and against the Peers.
2 800€An interesting specimen of a legal compendium, testifying to the work of compiling trial documents from the Peers of France.
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Catalogue de mes armes & objets d’antiquité, lépidoptères & insectes divers, variétés & espèces rares ou inédites. Dessins d’après nature.
3 500€Superb hand-illustrated catalog by Dijon lawyer and artist Henry de La Cuisine (d. 1891), listing a total of 1,500 arms, objets d’art, paintings, engravings, albums, natural history objects, books and manuscripts, and illustrated by him with 62 superb full-page plates, most of them gouaches in brilliant colors.
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Croquis d’animaux d’après nature. Reproductions de dessins préhistoriques représentant des Equidés quaternaires complétés sans en altérer l’exactitude. Trois animaux fabuleux.
1 800€Fascinating artistic production by the mysterious Henry de La Cuisine.
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Portrait of a blind man.
800€Curious miniature painted on cardboard depicting a blind man.
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Hieroglyphic prints.
1 200€Beautiful and rare set of hieroglyphic engravings.
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