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Le Siècle, commencera le 1er Juin, L’Auberge du Monde, tableau de Paris de 1867 à 1870, par Hector Malot.
900€A beautiful poster showing the most beautiful monuments in Paris on a single map.
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Elévations au Sacré-coeur.
650€A rare edition which only appeared during the month of April 1834 in order to pray for the events of the Rue Transnonain, the massacre of Parisians by Louis-Philippe’s soldiers.
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SAINT-HILAIRE (Emile)
Incendie de Salins. Notice historique sur cette ville, son origine, sa position topographique, sa population, son industrie, etc. Suivie du récit de sa catastrophe.
550€Rare work printed in aid of the Salins-les-Bains fire victims in the Jura.
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Échange de cartes.
600€Copy enriched with an original drawing and 6 autograph postcards, four from Devillers to Boutet and two from Boutet to Devillers.
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Box for account books by Chaulin, papermaker to the King.
400€Charming book-box signed Chaulin, papermaker to the King.
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Le Rire aux éclats. Journal de Poilus rédigé dans les tranchées pendant la Grande Guerre 1914-1918. 74e Division d’Infanterie Secteur 185.
680€Complete collection of 24 issues of this rare trench journal.
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Journal de Guignol, drolatique, satirique, amphigourique, cascadeur, fouailleur et gouailleur [Followed by] Journal de Gnafron, cousin de Guignol, organe de la décentralisation littéraire et artistique [Followed by] La Galerie du Journal de Guignol.
800€Rare satirical reviews from Lyon, testimony to republican and internationalist opposition under the Second Empire.
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[BECELLI (Giulio Cesare)]
Della novella poesia cioe’ del vero genere e particolari bellezze della poesia italiana. Libri tre.
900€A fine copy in contemporary red morocco bearing the label formerly affixed by the bookbinder Padeloup.
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Nécessaire Mademoiselle Eléonore Moreau.
500€Charming book containing a young girl’s toiletries in 1820.
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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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Important album of Epinal imagery and engravings composed by a child.
1 500€A charming record of a child’s print collection, with 68 Epinal images and engravings about childhood.
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Invoice from a surgeon treating the Jewish community of Avignon.
1 500€An intimate source for the inhabitants of the Avignon quarry in the 18th century.
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Sculpted bas-relief used as a model in the “ABC des travaux manuels” published by Hetzel in 1912.
1 200€Executed by E.-J. Faix, “an amateur who became an accomplished master, a consummate artist”.
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Two plates of uncut posters for Fantasio magazine.
800€Charming color lithographed posters by Auguste Roubille (1872-1955), the resident illustrator of all Fantasio magazine covers.
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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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Calligraphy on vellum skin.
650€The letters feature feathered lines indicating their proportions, revealing the educational nature of this document.
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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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A notebook of watercolors and drawings echoing his work as an engraver.
1 400€à mon vieil ami Lucien [Scheler] ces exercices autour du large dans ce monde très à l’étroit, Paris le 6 3 81, ton Flocon
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Charming painting of the Virgin Mary crowned with a calligram on the reverse.
900€Charming painting on vellum skin depicting the Virgin Mary crowned, with a lovely calligram on the reverse.
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Pen drawing, Indian ink, watercolor, wash, with matchbox collage.
680€O tempora! O Mores!
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Charming depiction of Saint Barbara made from a combination of different materials mounted on vellum skin.
550€Enhanced engravings, varnished and gilded (?) paper, various fabrics and brilliant mica glitter ornaments.
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Charming depiction of Saint Catherine composed of an assemblage of different materials mounted on vellum skin.
650€Enhanced engravings, drawn elements, fabrics…
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Union des Femmes trompées de France. Diplôme d’honneur.
550€A rare document for husbands with dubious humor to offer on April 1st.
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Manuscript collection of revolutionary songs.
1 200€9 revolutionary songs singing of the Montagnards, the Sans-culotte, the Phrygian Cap, the Supreme Being…
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Service du Grand Écuyer. Voyage de Leurs Majestés en Bretagne.
2 200€Very rare booklet-program of this important imperial journey, drawn up and printed in a dozen copies by the Grand Écuyer to serve as a logbook for members of Their Majesties’ honorary service.
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Service du Grand Écuyer. Voyage de Leurs Majestés et de Son Altesse le Prince Impérial. En Lorraine.
2 000€Very rare booklet-program of this important imperial journey, drawn up and printed in a dozen copies by the Grand Écuyer to serve as a logbook for members of Their Majesties’ honorary service.
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Drawing of the King in hunter’s garb.
1 500€A previously unpublished original drawing by the King of the disowned version of the legendary first French animated feature The King and the Bird.
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Specimen des nouveaux caractères de la fonderie et de l’imprimerie de P. Didot, l’aîné. Dédié à Jules Didot, fils.
2 600€The very first collection of Didot typefaces in book form.
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Collection of three different versions of the untraceable prospectus for the Encyclopédie méthodique.
3 000€General prospectus, abridged general prospectus and prospectus reduced to the essentials of the Methodical Encyclopedia.
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Letterpress poster for the 1886 Workers’ Exhibition.
800€Rare proof of this artistic typographic poster by Valentin Courchinoux (1854-1894) for the 1886 workers’ exhibition.
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Carnet de bal.
680€Rare specimen binding with chased brass boards, decorated with a painted miniature of a young woman.
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Set of engraved plates of labels from a Norman pharmacist.
900€An unusual set of label plates for medicine bottles or boxes, probably engraved for François Auguste Jouenne Longchamp (1767-1835), a pharmacist in Eu.
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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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Recueil de Nouvelles à la main.
1 000€An interesting account of this unofficial journalism, whose subjects merit further study.
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Recüeil des pièces de poësie présentées à la Reine de Sardaigne à son passage à Lyon, par les pensionnaires du Collège de la Ste Trinité de la Compagnie de Jésus.
650€A rare little Lyonnais celebration book published for the wedding of Élisabeth-Thérèse of Lorraine (1711-1741) and Charles-Emmanuel III of Sardinia (1701-1773).
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MOREL DE RUBEMPRÉ (Joseph)
La véritable médecine de Vénus sans le médecin pour la guérison prompte et radicale de la syphilis ou maladies secrètes
450€An interesting account of attempts to treat secret illnesses in the 1830s.
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L’Institution de la noblesse, divisée en trois livres.
600€A rare Toulouse printing from the presses of Dominique Bosc (15..-1619), featuring his woodcut shepherd’s mark on the title.
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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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Poster for the 1856 Almanac du jardinier.
350€Charming illustrated poster from 1856.
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Tables for measuring surfaces.
3 500€Superb specimen of a handwritten toolbook on vellum skin, featuring some forty small sketches and geometric figures.
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Albums souvenirs des dîners du Bon Bock.
2 000€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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Collections of 16th-century lettering.
1 800€75 plates of lettering from prints in Paris, Basel, Venice and Florence.
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Large volume of handwritten copies of travel books from the late 18th century.
900€Important manuscript containing four copies of travel books from the late 18th century.
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Album of 1,000 small drawings and engravings.
1 800€Superb collection of a thousand small cut-out drawings and engravings, some of them early.
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Bains Marie-Thérèse.
450€Very rare brochure promoting the Marie-Thérèse Baths, La Rochelle’s very first baths, published before they opened in June 1827.
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Dieu et Patrie ! Souvenirs d’un volontaire de l’Ouest.
1 800€Probably the only surviving record of this rich testimony to the commitment and service of a young Western Volunteer soldier.
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Collection of drawings and engravings of ancient bas-reliefs and scenes.
1 200€Extensive iconography featuring 110 tracing drawings and 10 engravings of ancient Greek and Roman bas-reliefs (except for two drawings after Jean Goujon).
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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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Collection of decorative patterns for handbags, tunics and scarves.
1 200€Large volume containing over 1000 patterns for decorated fabrics, mainly for handbags, tunics and scarves.
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LECOY DE LA MARCHE (Albert)
Les manuscrits et la miniature.
300€A unique copy featuring a reproduction of a miniature from Anne de Bretagne’s Book of Hours, colored and enhanced with gold and silver by an amateur of the period.
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Les Flibustiers de la mer du Sud.
800€Beautifully decorated binding by the painter and architect Jean-Paul Alaux (1876-1955), with a preparatory drawing for the decoration.
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DUCHESNE (Jean)
Essai sur les nielles, gravures des orfèvres florentins du XVe siècle.
1 800€One of two copies printed on straw paper, offering a very rare specimen of this type of paper from the Montgolfier brothers’ factory in Annonay.
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FÉNELON (François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon dit)
Directions pour la conscience d’un roi, ou Examen de conscience sur les devoirs de la royauté.
2 800€A very rare specimen of straw vellum paper chosen by Antoine-Augustin Renouard as bibliophilic paper.
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Adora un folo Dio, qual n’hà creato, Nô nominar il fuo gran nome in vano…
1 600€A very rare specimen of a religious printing sheet intended for cutting and distribution.
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Diploma in Canon and Civil Law from the University of Rome, now La Sapienza.
4 500€Precious diploma in canon and civil law from the University of Rome, calligraphed on vellum in gold ink.
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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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BERNY DE NOGENT (Pierre-Jean-Paul)
La belle allemande.
800€Superb calligraphic engraving by master writer Pierre-Jean-Paul Berny de Nogent (1722-1779), engraved in Frankfurt by Jakob Conrad Back.
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Lithographed advertising calendar for the Au bon Diable store.
1 400€Rare advertising calendar for the Bon Diable cheap clothing house in Paris, 39 rue de Rivoli.
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Wallet with perpetual calendar illustrated with compositions printed on leather.
2 200€Charming advertising wallet-calendar-perpetual illustrated with 6 compositions including 2 large ones printed on leather.
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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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