Victor Hugo. Love and Death.

Hugo. L'Amour et la Mort.

  I. The plaster hand of Juliette Drouet, the love of his life. [Charles Simon Pradier (1783-1847), Swiss engraver]. Moulding of Juliette Drouet’s hand. Plaster. around 1826. Dimensions 25 x 10 x 5 cm. With handwritten mention in ink on […]

Parisian gradual, 1609, published during the reign of Henry IV.

Graduel Paris 1609

    [Gradual]. Graduale Romanum juxta missale ex decreto sacrosancti concilii trindentini, Pii V. Pont. Max. jussu antea editum. Et Clementiis VIII. Etiam Pont. Max. auctoritate nuper recognitum. Cui additus est Cantus Missarum omnium votivarum qui desiderabatur ante hac : item […]

Original and unpublished drawing by Grandville

Grandville

    Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard as GRANDVILLE (Nancy, 1803 – Vanves, 1847). [Elegant and hunter]. Pen and black ink. Signed at bottom left, no date [around 1830]. 15,5 x 19,8 cm. Formerly glued on strong brown paper.   Zoomorphic […]

Gustave Doré. Original large engraved wood.

Gustave Doré Bois gravé

Gustave Doré (1832-1883). [Nous célébrâmes cette journée mémorable le plus gaiement du monde.] Original engraved wood of one of the 31 full-page plates of Aventures du baron de Münchhausen. Traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils, illustrées par Gustave Doré. Paris, […]

Stéphane Mallarmé. Poetry is music above all.

Mallarmé. Lettre autographe inédite

  Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), frensh poet. Autograph letter signed “Stéphane Mallarmé “, Paris, 29 th April 1888, to “Monsieur ” [Ernest Lefeuve]. 4 pp. in-12 watermarked paper “Original stair’s mill ».      Very beautiful unpublished letter in which the poet expresses his conception of […]