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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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Cours d’arithmétique fait par Jean Baptiste Chambonnau, Ecolier des frères des écoles chrétiennes.
800€Charming calligraphic manuscript with numerous drawings of faces and smokers.
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Recueil de jurisprudence.
680€Interesting collection of jurisprudence sorted by theme and alphabetical order, with innumerable summaries of ancient legal decisions and references to other works of reference.
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Grammaire française fondée sur l’histoire de la langue. Tome premier. [et] Tome second. Première partie.
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Portrait of a blind man.
800€Curious miniature painted on cardboard depicting a blind man.
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Vignettes typographiques de la Fonderie Turlot.
1 000€A very rare and handsome specimen featuring Turlot’s letterpress vignettes, with ornaments printed in black, color, gold and silver.
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Bibliothèque photographique A. Giraudon. Catalog of the work of Jules Dalou.
2 500€Very rare photographic catalog of the works of sculptor Jules Dalou (1838-1902), published shortly after his death by Adolphe Giraudon.
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Poésies recueillées par Larue Duverne fils, relieur-doreur à Autun. – Album de poésies.
1 200€Charming albums of handwritten poetry, with a first volume containing 140 handwritten poems decorated with drawn or pasted elements, and a second volume containing 108 collages of printed poems pasted onto various book covers and brochures (probably from the bookbinder’s work).
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Collection of 129 drawings on postcards by Berthe Larue, from a family of bookbinders.
1 500€Beautiful art nouveau aesthetic and related to childhood, with some drawings using bookbinder techniques.
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Voyage d’Amérique. Etats-Unis et Canada. 1901.
2 800€Superb album containing 238 captioned photographs of the tour of the United States and Canada taken by three young men in 1901.
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HOUARD (Georges)
Almost complete collection of his first magazine L’Echo du Cerf-Volant.
5 000€Exceptional and rare pioneering documents for unpowered aviation and its press.
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Decretalium copiosum argumentum. Divisiones glosarum ex Johanis andree novella diligenter deprompte: hic diligenter annotantur.
1 800€Important Lyon edition of Gregory IX’s “Decretals”, published by François Fradin in 1515.
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Neue freie Dekorationsmotive entwickelt aus dem Tier- und Pflanzenreich. Eine Auswahl von Entwürfen im modernen Stil mit Rücksicht auf die praktische Verwendung im Kunstgewerbe.
1 600€Superb album containing 20 Jugendstil chromolithographed plates, some of them japonisantes.
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Notebook of gouache, pen and pencil drawings of Art Nouveau decorative elements.
450€Charming schoolbook containing gouache compositions and numerous Art Nouveau drawings.
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Poetarum omnium seculorum longe principis Homeri omnia quae quidem extant opera, Graece, adiecta versione Latina ad verbum […]
450€Charming Basel edition of the ancient Greek and Latin texts of the Iliad and Odyssey.
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Set of two illustrated manuscript volumes on bookbinding and its history, and a volume of drawings by bookbinder Claude Larue Duverne, known as Larue Duverne fils.
1 400€One volume is illustrated with 78 reproductions of bindings cut from catalogs, and 6 original drawings of decorated bindings signed by the bookbinder.
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CÉLINE (Louis-Ferdinand)
Carbon copy of the publishing contract for Voyage au bout de la nuit, from the author’s archives.
3 500€A publishing contract for Voyage au bout de la nuit from the Céline archives.
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Historia de la Curación de Antigua de San Pablito Pahuatlan Pue.
1 000€Folk medicine manuscript describing shamanic rituals, illustrated with 30 cut-and-paste elements, by Mexican shaman Alfonso García Téllez.
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Prospectus for a new edition of the Encyclopédie, which will contain 32 two-column in-4 volumes, offered for subscription by Pellet, Bookseller in Geneva.
1 000€Very rare prospectus of the first in-4 edition of Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie, published by Jean Léonard Pellet in Geneva.
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RAPIN (René)
Hortorum libri 4. Editio altera.
900€A charming copy with the crowned double arms and double numeral of Julie d’Angennes and her husband, whose text resonates with their love story.
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Albums souvenirs des dîners du Bon Bock.
1 650€Rare collection of the three Albums du Bon Bock, off-the-shelf collections of souvenirs from the dinners of this society of literati and artists.
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Collection of 300 decorative stencilled motifs.
1 000€Important recueil de plus de 300 motifs réalisés pour des papiers peints et/ou tissus.
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Traits pour former la main.
3 000€Superb large-format manuscript for teaching calligraphy, signed by a master calligrapher by the name of Huin (?).
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VIGNÉ (Jean-Baptiste)
Copies of his correspondence with colleagues, learned societies and patients.
4 000€An important source on the activities of a particularly active corresponding member of several medical societies, and a pioneer in the practice of vaccination.
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Rules for the inaugural Port-Aviation kite contest.
2 200€A moving document of the little pioneers’ contest to celebrate the inauguration of the world’s first aerodrome, at one of the very first international airshows.
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Différentes Oeuvres de Monsieur Gacon qui ne sont pas compris dans le Recueil de ses pièces imprimées.Done in Paris on January 27, 1727.
2 200€Curious manuscript containing 140 “unpublished” pieces by Lyon poet François Gacon (1667-1725), known as “le Poète sans fard”.
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Wine prices.
1 200€A first-rate source on the trade and export of southwestern wines in the early 19th century.
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LEMAIRE (Charles)
Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d’Europe.
900€Superb brush-colored illustration consisting of a title plate “Oiseaux d’Europe” and 80 steel-engraved plates after Pauquet.
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Spécimen de la langue berbère.
1 000€“Lead us. If you betray us, we’ll cut off your head.”
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Diploma in theology by priest and historian Auguste Bâtard (1850-1934).
500€Rare specimen of a theology diploma issued by the Pontifical Gregorian University of the Roman College in Rome to Auguste Bâtard (1850-1934), a priest from the diocese of Laval.
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Ecole supérieur de commerce de Paris. Le Livre de Poche. Société Brodard & Taupin.
900€Interesting memoir of an internship at the Brodard & Taupin printing company, where the Livre de poche was manufactured.
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La Musette. Recueil d’élucubrations versifiées des Typos de l’Imprimerie Nouvelle. [puis] des Typo-poètes de France. [puis] des petits poètes et chansonniers de France.
2 200€Complete collection of this untraceable workers’ magazine written by and for the typographers at Imprimerie Nouvelle. With the issues that led to the manager being charged with indecent exposure.
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Les Sentimens de l’Académie françoise sur la tragi-comedie du Cid.
2 500€Rare first edition of the first work of the Académie française, founded two years earlier.
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Diploma of a young German journeyman bookbinder.
1 200€Superb “Buchbinder” diploma stamped by the Frankfurt am Main bookbinders’ guild.
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Notebook of drawings of some twenty Norwegian medieval churches (stavkirker).
650€Charming manuscript of Norwegian architecture.
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