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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2 600€An unpublished primary source on one of the most important paper manufacturers of the Second Empire, which supplied a large number of the leading printers and publishers of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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Signed reply by Restaut (?) to a friendly letter from Antoine Duchesne (1708–1795), accepting an invitation to dinner.
1 000€A very rare example of a manuscript letter written entirely in mirror writing.
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Two important works on the classification of cuneiform signs.
1 000€Important witnesses to the early efforts to create the scholarly tools required to organize, compare, and systematically identify cuneiform signs.
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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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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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Maison a vendre, sise Rue Neuve Saint Eustache.
1 200€Large placard announcing the sale of a house in Rue Neuve Saint Eustache, today part of Rue d’Aboukir (Paris II).
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Criminal trials and judgments rendered by the Peers and against the Peers.
2 500€An interesting specimen of a legal compendium, testifying to the work of compiling trial documents from the Peers of France.
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Institutiones oratoria seu Rhetorica variarum variis adornata figurarum exemplis Reverendissimi Reverend patre A. N. Delagrave S.J. profesore.
600€Interesting rhetoric course given by the Jesuit Reverend Father Delagrave (or de Lagrave?) between December 1742 and July 1743 in Nevers.
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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 Différents ouvrages de. – et. contre J.J. Rousseau, citoyen de Genève, avec autres ouvrages séparées de M. de Voltaire, et différents auteurs.
1 600€Interesting manuscript collection around the Enlightenment and one of the most important works in educational philosophy.
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Traité sur la jurisdiction consulaire.
1 000€An important unpublished manuscript treatise on consular jurisdiction, i.e. the commercial courts that adjudicate disputes between merchants.
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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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Hieroglyphic prints.
1 200€Beautiful and rare set of hieroglyphic engravings.
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Semainier typographique 1889. Fonderie Turlot.
1 000€Very rare and beautiful typographic production by Valentin Cournichoux (1854-1894).
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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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Un Drame en huit tableaux. A l’eau les hypocrites. Le peuple découvre ce que les bleus cachent sous le manteau de la religion. Vive Laurier !
500€A rare popular booklet featuring a series of eight illustrated scenes humorously recounting the rise to power of Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919), the seventh Prime Minister of Canada, who served from 1896 to 1911.
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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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Lettres de J.F.M.F.*** à F.se. P.***, inutiles et ennuieuses. Promettre est un, & tenir est un autre. Suite de La Fontaine.
2 200€Gallant collection of love letters illustrated with 31 small pen-and-ink drawings as headbands and tailpieces.
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Set of 27 letters addressed to the Lenglart and Carpentier sisters, Lille’s most important lace merchants of the 18th century.
2 200€Interesting correspondence on the trade in Lille lace in France and abroad in the 18th century, with two letters containing samples.
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Ship Alfred of Salem Cap’ Joseph Felt
14 000€Magnificent, large watercolor depicting the three-masted Alfred of Salem leaving Marseille’s Old Port.
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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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Voyage scolaire de 1900. L’École Estienne en Allemagne.
800€An amusing account of a school trip to Germany by students of the Ecole Estienne.
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Large composition of typographic art executed for the Exposition ouvrière internationale of 1886.
800€Superb typographical composition executed by Victor Breton as a member of the Fédération française des travailleurs du livre for the Exposition ouvrière internationale of 1886.
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Composition “Panthéon de l’imprimerie typographique” executed for the 1883 typographic competition, known as the Berthier Competition.
800€Superb typographic composition in green, black and red, executed by typographer Emile Marquily, who represented the Chaix printing house at the 1883 Berthier competition.
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Typographic art composition executed for the 1883 typographic competition, known as the Berthier Competition.
650€Two prints, one in bistre, the other in dark green, of this typographical composition executed by Victor Breton for the 1883 Berthier competition.
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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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Small archive of a student in the workshop of William Bouguereau and Gabriel Ferrier at the Académie Julian.
1 200€Original drawings, invitations to studio balls, silver photographs of workshops…
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GIRAUDOUX (Jean)
Ondine.
1 800€A copiously annotated working copy by Dominique Blanchar, showing his appropriation of the Ondine character and the reworking of the text compared with the 1939 version.
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Fan project “Une nuit d’été”.
350€Charming fan design printed on satin and enhanced with gouache and watercolor.
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Dissertation civico-théologique ou Discours sur l’organisation civile du clergé.
680€A collection of revolutionary documents reflecting on the clergy and theology, particularly in Limoges.
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Arrest du Conseil d’Etat du Roy, qui ordonne l’exécution des Statuts et Règlement pour les fabriques de Lyon. Du 19 juin 1744. Paris, de l’Imprimerie royale, 1744. [Suivi de :] Statuts et règlements pour la communauté des maîtres marchands et maîtres ouvriers […] [Suivi de :] Arrest du Conseil d’Etat du Roy, qui révoque l’Arrêt du Conseil du 10. août 1744. Du 25. Février 1745.
680€Copy of a master guard from the Communauté des maîtres et marchands fabricants en étoffes d’or, d’argent et de soie de Lyon, with his handwritten letter of permission.
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Reglemens et statuts, Concernant le Commerce, Art et Fabrique des Draps, d’Or, d’Argent et de Soye, & autres Etoffes mélangées, qui se font dans la Ville de Lyon et Faux-bourgs d’icelle, et dans tout le Païs de Lyonnois.
680€Copy of Ennemond Mogniat de l’Écluse (circa 1681-1751), alderman of the city of Lyon.
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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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LAMARTINE (Alphonse de)
Le Civilisateur, histoire de l’humanité par les grands hommes.
550€A charming copy preserved as issued, in rare condition.
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Défense des Émigrés français adressée au peuple français par Trophime Gérard de Lally Tolendal.
1 000€A period copy of this vigorous plea in favor of French émigrés, which met with great success in post-revolutionary France.
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Anecdotes de médecine.
450€Amusing literary trickery, “une petite pyraterie”.
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VALLERIOLA (François)
Loci medicinae communes, tribus libris digesti. [Suivi de :] Appendix ad tres superiores locorum medicinae communium libros.
400€First edition, decorated with a portrait of the author in an engraved medallion and fine engraved marks by Sébastien Gryphe.
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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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Broadside for L’École des femmes at the Théâtre de l’Athénée.
1 200€Dominique Blanchar’s personal poster, framed and carefully preserved by her.
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SPINOLA (Publio Francesco)
P. Francisci Spinulae Mediolanensis Opera.
450€First collective edition of the works of Publio Francesco Spinola.
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Au Théâtre de la Renaissance. Véra Korène. Pour vos enfants. Tous les jeudis à 15 heures. Une Aventure de Babar.
680€Charming and rare poster for a Babar adventure
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Suite of two pen-and-ink drawings enhanced with watercolor: Extension exercises. Judging their own time.
500€An amusing cockfight drawn by British cartoonist Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925).
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Collection of 5 advertising drawings and 5 countertypes or drawings of telephone materials, mainly for the Thomson-Houston Telephone Company.
800€5 advertising drawings in Indian ink, 2 drawings in gouache and 3 countertypes of telephone cabinets.
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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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