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[Thomas a. Kempis]. De Imitatione Christi. Libri quatuor, Ad Manuscriptorum ac primarum editionum fidem castigati, & mendis plus sexcentis expurgati. Recensuit J. Valart, Acad. Amb. Dissertationemque de ejusdem operis auctore addidit. Nova editio. Paris, J. Barbou, 1764. In-12. XI, […]
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 […]
Louis Crusius. Calendrier Antikamnia 1900. St. Louis, États-Unis, The Antikamnia Chemical Company, 1899. 6 sheets of strong paper in-8°.(25,3 x 17,6 cm) printed on both sides, illustrated with 7 macabre plates, 6 in colour with captions. Bound together with […]
Lighthouse St. George Reef, Californie. [Technical plan in half vertical cut of the lantern of St. George’s Lighthouse]. No place, 14 septembre 1886. Drawing in watercoloured China ink (68 x 48 cm.) of the focal plane of the […]
Louise Georgine Elisabeth Nancy de Thoisy, Countess of Coligny-Chatillon. Légendes comtoises, copiées de Charles-Amédé Beneyton, peinct, escript et aorné par la comtesse de Coligni-Chatillon. 1875 in Choye [near Gy, Haute-Saône]. Richly illuminated manuscript. In-8°. 3 blank leaves, [10] […]
Saturnin Fabre. [Album de dessins, souvenirs de guerre 14-18]. No place [Savy, in Aisne], May 3rd to 5th 1917. 20 tracing paper loose sheets (28 x 22,5 cm) inserted in a notebook with blank cardboard pages (32 x 24 […]
[François I, Emperor of Austria]. Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Prochaska (ou Prohaska) (Vienna (Isère), 3 July 1760 – id., 24 April 1823), Marshal-Lieutenant of the Austrian Empire, hero of the revolutionary and imperial wars against France. Letters of nobility, […]
Comin’Ache (pseudonym of H. Comin). Capitalisme. 1899. Transfer printing. Plate 16 for the album Les Temps nouveaux, published by Jean Grave. Beautiful proof on watermarked laid paper, untrimmed margins. Cartoonist and lithographer, Comin’Ache collaborated with Almanach de la Révolution […]
Psalterium chorale fratrum S. Dominici cum versiculis, Responsorijs horarum, Annis nocturnalibus, Psalmis, Himnisque omnibus, cantu et litera, summo studio recognitum et emendatum: in hac parva forma ita redactum ut Novitii et Moniales dicti ordinis, commodius cantare, sine legere queant. […]
Statuts de l’ordre de St Michel. [Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1725. In-4°. [6], xiv, 449, [29] pp.Title engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin père after Louis de Boullogne, 3 out of text plates engraved by Simonneau fils, copper-engraved hedbands, ornemental initials and […]