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Le Livre du destin. Traduction ou imitation en vers du celèbre Indovinela Grillo de Innocenzio Paribonda.
800€The Book of Destiny contains 70 queries whose answers are obtained by activating a metal needle mounted in the book.
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HALÉVY (Ludovic)
Guignol.
680€Edition of only 25 copies, this being no. 1, with three original watercolors by Georges Meunier (1869-1942).
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[KOOPS (Matthias)]
Historical account of the substances which have been used to describe events and to convey ideas, from the earliest date, to the invention of paper. Printed on the first useful paper manufactured sole[l]y from straw.
2 500€First edition printed on “the first useful Paper which has ever been made from Straw” in order to present this paper to George III and no doubt to potential investors.
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DESNOS (Louis Charles)
Dissertation historique sur l’invention des lettres ou Caractères d’écriture : sur les instruments dont les anciens se sont servi pour écrire et sur les matières qu’ils ont employées.
1 500€48 sample sheets of a new paper invented by Desnos, with an ingenious compartment in the spine for a stylus.
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Notebook.
1 500€A curious specimen of bookbinding with geometric embroidered decoration, far removed from the figurative productions more widespread at the time.
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An album of London samples of materials used to create bindings, collected by Canadian bookbinder Oswald Rogers.
3 000€An interesting set of bookbinding materials available in London in the 1930s.
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Prières à Dieu à Notre Dame et aux Saints.
2 200€Charming work entirely illuminated on vellum skin with gold and silver highlights.
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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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LAMENNAIS (Félicité de La Mennais dit)
Collection of autograph reading notes on Mahometism and the Koran, as well as writings from his youth.
3 000€Important autograph record of the study of Mahometism and the Koran by the very Catholic Félicité de La Mennais (1782-1854).
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Set of original drawings of observations of the Littrow lunar region.
2 800€Charming suite of seven drawings of Moon observations by astronomer and selenographer Maurice Darney (1882-1958).
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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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[LA ROCHE GUILHEN (Anne de)]
Histoire des Favorites, containing the most remarkable events of several reigns.
650€A famous collection of ten short stories featuring famous favorites whose personalities or destinies left their mark on their contemporaries
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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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DIDEROT (Denis)
Pensées philosophiques.
1 600€A rare specimen copy of the first philosophical steps of one of the greatest philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment.
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