Sylvain Sauvage. 17 wood engravings.

Sylvain Sauvage

  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 […]

The Charles Bozonnet’s apprenticeship booklet, a potter who is mentionned at length by Alexandre Dumas in his “Causeries” during his stay in Bourg-en-Bresse.

Bozonnet

  [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 […]

The Piferrer’s Bullfight. Rare aleluya.

Pifferer. Corrida.

  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, 60 years of sculpture.

Arno Breker

  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 […]

George Sand mentions Chopin’s illness.

Sand Chopin

    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, […]

Rare treatises on the hydraulic organ and clockmaking

Traité d'Horlogerie

  [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 & […]

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 Villa, avril-mai 1915 ». Dim. 29 x 44,3 cm. Georges Villa, […]