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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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An important unpublished manuscript treatise on consular jurisdiction, i.e. the commercial courts that adjudicate disputes between merchants.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.
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.
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.
Fascinating artistic production by the mysterious Henry de La Cuisine.
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Portrait of a blind man.
Curious miniature painted on cardboard depicting a blind man.
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Hieroglyphic prints.
Beautiful and rare set of hieroglyphic engravings.
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Semainier typographique 1889. Fonderie Turlot.
Very rare and beautiful typographic production by Valentin Cournichoux (1854-1894).
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Vignettes typographiques de la Fonderie Turlot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !
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.
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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