Pierre Calvet's rare book shop
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Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1756-1842), painter, marvelous portraitist. Autograph letter signed, no place. [Paris], “ce mercredi soir 7 February ” [1821, to Louis-Aimé Martin (?), writer and journalist]. 4 pp. double-sheets in-12. ” voila, mon bien bon, la notule des […]
Japanese Album. Village scenes. 日本のアルバム。村に。Around 1820-1830. 6 dressed painted canvases (24,5 x 31 cm each) Leporello, blue and gold woven covers, modern folding box in grey fabric, navy blue suede interior, 2 bone clasps. The decorations are delicately watercoloured on […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Leendert Jurriaan Jordaan (1885-1980). De openbare Terechtstellingen in Frankrijk. [In English : Public executions in France]. 1789 – „ Fiat Iustita” [sic]– 1909. Black grease pencil drawing heightened with white, signed lower right Jodaan’09. 1909. Dim : 33 x […]
Fake Almanac, binding only, hiding a clandestine crucifix in a box glued to the back and back inner cover, the monting probably dating from the revolutionary era, around 1793. 10,6 x 5,5 cm. Contemporary red morocco , long […]
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955). Automne. Autograph musical manuscript signed, Zurich, August 1915. Notated in black ink on 2 folio pages with 12 lines. Handwritten title in blue ink, in another hand, on a white endpaper. : « Arthur Honegger / […]
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau », Milly, 18 juin 1956, to « mon très cher ami » [the painter Jean-Paul Brusset]. 2 pp. in-4° in pencil. In 1955, the painter Jean-Paul Brusset (1909-1985) settled on […]