Rare treatises on the hydraulic organ and clockmaking

Traité d'Horlogerie

  [Anonymous collection of 15 illustrated scientific treatises, manuscript circa 1631]. Traité des machines hidroliques par lesquelles ons imite les voix & faict iouer lorgue. [With, a few pages further on:] Leçons horolographiques. Two extensively and finely illustrated manuscripts, in […]

Rare war caricature by Georges Villa

Villa

    Georges Villa. (Montmédy (Meuse), 1883 – Paris, 1965). Aux Lettres !! Original watercolour and ink on strong paper. Signed autograph : « souvenir reconnaissant. Hopital 2. Georges Villar, avril-mai 1915 ». Dim. 29 x 44,3 cm. Georges Villa, cartoonist, […]

‘perhaps a child’s dream come true…’

  Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005). Projet de film, pour célébrer les 20 ans de SONY. minimum 30 secondes ou 1 minute. No place, Février 1973. Story-board of 27 watercolours enhanced with coloured pencil and pastel (3 watercolours mounted) ; size of […]

Sultry Isabelle Adjani sketched by Gotlib

Gotlib Adjani

  Gotlib. A quoi ça sert que la mère Ducros elle se décarcasse ? [1983]. China ink on strong paper. Signed in black marker lower right. References in pencil top right:« gotlib IL53 ». Size: 15.2 x 14.1 cm. Framed. Original […]

Moving calendar by Pauline Viardot, then aged 80

Pauline Viardot

  Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), French singer and composer, sister of La Malibran. [Son] Agenda ou Tablettes journalières [pour l’année] 1901. In-18. Full cream contemporary morocco, gilt metal cipher inlaid on upper cover, white tabis counter-plates and endpapers with gusset on […]

Durand-Ruel supports and encourages Claude Monet

Durand-Ruel à Monet

  Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), painting merchant. 2 autograph letters signed “DurandRuel”, Paris, June 20 and [Le Havre] August 15, 1881, to Claude Monet, 4 pp. in-8°, and 4 letters signed by his accountant Charles Marriott to the artist, Paris, March […]

Tchaïkovski by Burne Hogarth

Hogarth

  Burne Hogarth (born Spinoza Bernard Ginsburg) (Chicago, 1911 – Paris, 1996), American comic strip artist, illustrator and teacher, best known for his work on anatomy and comic strips Tarzan. Tschaikowsky. no place no date. Red graphite. Drawing monogrammed lower […]