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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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J. Hermin, metal engraver. Specializing in gilt presses and plates for leather, canvas, paper, fabrics, etc., plates in gold & black, black gold, silver & colors, for luxury bookbinding. Stamps for silks, velvets, merino wools, etc. Heads and heads of pieces. Inlays for chromolithographs, luxury bindings, wall hanging papers, embossing plates.
1 800€A fine album of models by Parisian metal engraver Jean Hermin, a specialist in gilding irons and plates for leather, plates for luxury bookbindings, and other stamps, who practiced at 56 rue Daguerre (Paris’s 14th arrondissement).
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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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Dessins tracés mécaniquement par le campylographe de Dechevrens.
2 800€A rare collection of nearly 600 drawings reproduced after the ingenious invention of Marc Dechevrens (1845-1923), a Swiss Jesuit and scientist, who combined art and mathematics.
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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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Lithographic stone for plate no. 1 in the Les Petits mordent series.
Very rare lithographic stone for the first lithograph in the Les Petits mordent series from Masques et visages.
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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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Collection of 10 death broadsides.
880€Un Premier Commis du Trésor Royal, un Conseiller du Roy en les conseils d’Etat et Privé, un Ancien Notaire au Chastelet, un Avocat au Parlement et Notaire au Chastelet et deux Bourgeois de Paris.
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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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Letterpress album produced for the European Jubilee of the Invention of Printing. History of the invention of printing through monuments.
680€Charming typographic album produced for the European jubilee of the invention of printing. The dedication leaf features a “First proof of a new typeface”.
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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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Invoice from a surgeon treating the Jewish community of Avignon.
1 050€An intimate source for the inhabitants of the Avignon quarry in the 18th century.
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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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Lysiae Oratoris Graeciae disertissimi Orationes.
550€Charming relic bound for the Duc de Montausier with the arms and cipher he shared with his late wife Julie d’Angennes.
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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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