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[Delacoste, toy manufacturer]. Archives of André Beuret, painter-decorator in Paris, designer of toys for the Delacoste et Cie company. Over 250 drawings, sketches and models, with documents and correspondence. 1951-1959. The Delacoste company was founded in France in 1860 […]
Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1927-1938. Complete collection. 68 issues in-4°. Sewed volumes, square back, very elaborate typographic covers, 70 pp for the regular issues. The eight thematic special issues are devoted to Photography (n°16), […]
Pierre Mignard (after). The Virgin, the Child Jesus and Saint John the Baptist. Paris, Image St Benoist, no date [XVIIIe century]. Beautiful copperplate engraving signed “P. R.”, after the one engraved by François de Poilly (“F. P. ex. […]
Gustave Doré (1832-1883). [Ils amenèrent d’abord le domestique.] Original engraved wood signed ” G Doré ” for one of the 31 full-page plates of Aventures du baron de Münchhausen. Traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils, illustrées par Gustave Doré. […]
Etrennes mignonnes pour l’an de Grace de Notre-Seigneur. M.DCCLXII. Liège, Everard Kints, no date [1762]. In-32 (9,7 x 5,5 cm or 3.81″ x 2,16″). [56] ff. and [14] ff. blanks, 12 full-page woodcut showing coin wood ingraved in the […]
Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877), painter. Autograph letter signed ” Gustave Courbet “, Salins, 28 November 1864, to the ” cher et grand poète ” [Victor Hugo]. 3 pages and a half in-8°. Magnificent letter addressed to the great […]
[Omocha-e. 玩具絵].Shimizu Seifū. 清水晴風. Unai no tomo (Children’s Friends [Japanese toys]). Volume 1 [alone].うなゐの友 初編. [Kyoto], Unsodo, Yamada Naosaburo, Meiji 24 [Octobre 1891]. 芸艸堂, 山田直三郎, 明治廿四年 十月. In-8° (25,2 x 17,5 cm) . 62 leaves, 52 full-page prints (which […]
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 […]
[Charles Simon Pradier (1783-1847), Swiss engraver]. Moulding of Juliette Drouet’s hand. Plaster. Dimensions 25 x 10 x 5 cm. With handwritten mention in ink on the base ” one-hand moulding of Juliette Drouet ” and glued label indicating […]
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). III. Heroic Symphony. Proofs with the composer’s autograph corrections. No place, no date [ca. 1862]. 10 pp. in-8° glued on sheets in-4° mounted on guards. Antique binding of red paper boards, black morocco title piece […]