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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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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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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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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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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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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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