Pierre Calvet's rare book shop
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Le Divan Japonais. Paris, published by Edouard Fournier, printed by Edward Ancourt, [January 1893]. Pencil, brush and crachis lithography with four-color carry-on frame, linestone in olive green and colored stones in black, yellow and […]
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 […]
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 (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 Very beautiful unpublished letter in which the poet expresses his conception of […]
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 […]
Jean Cocteau. [Diaghilev et Nijinski] [Дягилев и Нижинский]. Sketch in ink, signed and dated ” 1913 “. Dim. 26,5 x 20,5 cm. Framed, golden frame. Exceptional drawing to our knowledge unpublished. 1913 is the year of the creation […]
Léo Ferré (Monaco, 1916 – Castellina in Chianti (Tuscany), 1993), singer and poet. Viens… Autograph manuscript signed “Leo“, no place no date. [ca. 1982], with dedication : “A toi, Claude ” [Fléouter]. 5 pp. in-4. Written with a fine point-marker, […]
Le Prince de Hombourg, T.N.P., Chaillot, May 1952. 23 anonymous sketches in ink, elegantly handcoloured and embellished with gold and silver, annotated, some captioned (“Gérard Philipe “, “l’électeur de Brandebourg Jean Vilar “, “Jeanne Moreau “, “Jean Négroni “), with some sketches of […]