René Armand François Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet and writer, the first Nobel Literature Prize laureate, in 1901. Les Principes de M. Taine sur l’Art. Signed autograph manuscript, [c. 1869]. 43 folios, in-8° [numbered 35], rectos […]
Sylvain Sauvage. 17 wood engravings. Various sizes (12 x 7 to 16 x 12 cm). Ten woodcuts were used to illustrate René Boylesve’s latest erotic masterpiece, La Leçon d’amour dans un parc (5 woodcuts); and its continuation, Les Nouvelles […]
[Charles Bozonnet]. Livret d’Ouvrier-Compagnon, etc. Département de l’Ain. Arrondissement de « Bourg ». Commune de « Bourg ». Bourg, Bottier, 1825. Little in-4°. 8 pp. printed, followed by 16 unnumbered handwritten leaves bearing stamps (2 leaves remain blank). Contemporary mute ivory-coloured vellum. A […]
Léo Ferré (Monaco, 1916 – Castellina in Chianti (Tuscany), 1993), singer and poet. Viens… Autograph manuscript signed “Leo“, no place no date. [ca. 1982], with dedication : “A toi, Claude ” [Fléouter]. 5 pp. in-4. Written with a fine point-marker, […]
Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1905), sculptor. Signed autograph letter, 1 March 1880, to « mon cher ami ». One and a half pages in-8° with his initial. On his replica of his famous sculpture of the Lion of Belfort in Place Denfert-Rochereau […]
Juan Francisco Piferrer. [Corrida,aleluya broadside]. [Barcelone], Libreria de Piferrer, plaza del Angel, no date [ca. 1800]. Folio broadside with 48 numbered woodcut fields of bullfighting scenes printed black on recto, verso blank, on uncut chain-laid paper, with publisher’s caption […]
Arno Breker (Elberfeld, 1900- Düsseldorf, 1991), German sculptor, official artist under the Nazi regime, [and Jacques Damase, Joe F. Bodenstein, Bernard Noël, Michel Marmin]. 39 handwritten and typewritten documents, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Paris, Saint-Cloud, 1979–1986 [mainly 1979–1981] and 133 silver-based […]
Louis-Philippe Ier and François Guizot. Paris, [around 1848]. 2 plaster caricature portraits. Dimensions : H. 10 cm, L. 6 cm, P. 4,5 cm. A very rare pair of caricature portraits created in the style of Dantan the Younger (1800–1869) […]
George Sand (1804-1876). Autograph letter signed « George Sand », no place, no date [Nohant, between May 8th and 15th 1847], to « Mon cher Falempin [sic] ». Gabriel Falampin (1803-1860), a notary clerk and then a lawyer, […]
[Anonymous collection of 15 illustrated scientific treatises, a manuscript compilation dating from around 1631, based in particular on Book I of Les Forces mouvantes by Salomon de Caus]. Traité des machines hidroliques par lesquelles ons imite les voix & […]