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Autograph draft letter to the Duchesse de Montmorency-Bouteville.
1 000€The Chevalière intercedes on behalf of Madame Church.
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Mes amis les bêtes.
3 800€Charming “manuscript edition”, produced in a single copy by Fernande Perrinet, wife of Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878–1952), one of the sons of Camille Pissarro (1830–1903).
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Fables de S. Lavalette illustrées de nouvelles eaux-fortes par Granville.
2 200€A Tocqueville relic, bearing witness to the close ties between the Tocqueville and Beaumont families.
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Manuscript minutes of the Board of Directors of the Société Anonyme des Papeteries du Marais et de Sainte-Marie, from 21 November 1860 to 21 October 1868.
2 600€An unpublished primary source on one of the most important paper manufacturers of the Second Empire, which supplied a large number of the leading printers and publishers of the period.
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L’Enfer du Dante. Poème italien traduit en vers français par L. Lasne de Nevers.
2 400€A remarkably early undertaking, predating the numerous French translations of Dante published from the 1830s onwards.
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Bibliothèque d’un ami des livres.
1 200€Extremely rare private catalogue of the library of the banker Raymond Claude-Lafontaine (1866–1914), a member of the Société des Amis des Livres.
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Autograph manuscript of Journal d’un nègre à l’exposition de 1900.
1 600€This work has been repeatedly discussed in scholarship for its representation of a Black man in France at the turn of the twentieth century.
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Woodblock depicting Saint Denis holding his head.
2 000€Spectacular woodblock depicting Saint Denis holding his head.
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