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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.
2 800€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1 000€An important unpublished manuscript treatise on consular jurisdiction, i.e. the commercial courts that adjudicate disputes between merchants.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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Catalogue de mes armes & objets d’antiquité, lépidoptères & insectes divers, variétés & espèces rares ou inédites. Dessins d’après nature.
3 500€Superb hand-illustrated catalog by Dijon lawyer and artist Henry de La Cuisine (d. 1891), listing a total of 1,500 arms, objets d’art, paintings, engravings, albums, natural history objects, books and manuscripts, and illustrated by him with 62 superb full-page plates, most of them gouaches in brilliant colors.
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Croquis d’animaux d’après nature. Reproductions de dessins préhistoriques représentant des Equidés quaternaires complétés sans en altérer l’exactitude. Trois animaux fabuleux.
1 800€Fascinating artistic production by the mysterious Henry de La Cuisine.
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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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