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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 […]
Le Trésor des Almanachs, Etrennes nationales, considérablement augmentées. Etrennes nationales, curieuses et instructives enrichies de figures, d’anecdotes historiques, et d’une infinité de traits remarquables. Année bissextile 1788. Paris, chez Cailleau, [1787]. In-32 (9,5 x 5,7 cm). 143 pp. including […]
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 […]
Joseph-Athanase Dano. Plans concernant les manœuvres et évolutions de l’Infanterie suivant l’ordonnance du Roÿ du 20 Mars 1764. Désignés par Joseph Dano, Officier au Regmt suisse d’Eptingen. In-folio (311 x 215 mm). Handwritten title in ink within a pencil-sketched […]
Burne Hogarth (born Spinoza Bernard Ginsburg) (Chicago, 1911 – Paris, 1996), American comic strip artist, illustrator and teacher, best known for his work on anatomy and comic strips Tarzan. Tschaikowsky. no place no date. Red graphite. Drawing monogrammed lower […]
Louis-François Du Bois. Recherches historiques et physiologiques sur la guillotine, et détails sur Sanson : ouvrage rédigé sur pièces officielles. Paris, France, 1843. In-8°. 35, [1] pages, one plate in fine. Contemporary pink half-percaline, long gilt title on spine. […]
Leendert Jurriaan Jordaan (1885-1980). De openbare Terechtstellingen in Frankrijk. [In English : Public executions in France]. 1789 – „ Fiat Iustita” [sic]– 1909. Black grease pencil drawing heightened with white, signed lower right Jodaan’09. 1909. Dim : 33 x […]