Pierre Calvet's rare book shop
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35 Miniature almanacs (around 5,5 x 3,8 cm). Year 1906, 1929, 1931 to 1933, 1935 to 1940, 1947, 1956 and 1959. Dijon mainly, Versailles and Paris. Illustrated covers, various techniques (stencil, lithograph, gouache, etc.), some signed. Illustrated metal […]
Anonymous French playing card set, undated (circa 1850). 32 cards (complete). Etching and watercolor, pink back with tangled patterns. Size: 9.3 x 6.5 cm. The zoomorphic figures of diamonds and hearts are in the vein of Grandville, while […]
Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (Lausanne,1859-Paris,1923). Study of cats. Original drawing in black pencil, signed “Steinlen” lower right. 20.8 x 15.1 cm at sight. Circa 1890. Coaster in an antique frame of gilt palmettes. A beautiful and amusing feline variation on […]
André Gill. Les Chansons des grues et des boas. Paris, chez tous les libraires [A. Parent], 1865. In-8°. [16] pp. including title, typographical ornament to title and 6 lithographs by Gill out of text Strawberry percal Bradel, black […]
[Gulliver attacked by the Lilliputians]. Expression Blocks. H. Jewitt & Co’s patent, 141 Leighton road, London. V. W. Late XIXe century. 28 square wooden plaques with the letters of the alphabet in red, with, on the reverse, the assembled […]
Ordre des villes d’ostage et places de seureté Retirées par force ou autrement sur ceux de la religion prét[endue] Réf[ormée] par le Roy Louys le Juste ez années 1620.21 et 22. Anonymous woodcut [circa 1623] on heavy laid […]
[Catherine Durand Bedacier]. Les Belles Grecques, ou l’Histoire des plus fameuses courtisanes de la Grèce. Et Dialogues nouveaux des galantes modernes. Volume orné de Figures en taille douce. Augmenté de deux Pieces de Poësies du même Auteur. Paris, […]
Adrien-Hubert Brué. Atlas. Paris, J. Goujon, 1826 [France, Suisse et Italie septentrionale], and J. Goujon & J. Andriveau, 1827 [Mappemonde, Asie, Amérique méridionale and Amérique septentrionale, Afrique, Océanie and Europe]. 8 watercolour enhanced maps, (65 x 96 cm), cloth-backed, […]
[The Three Orders, French Revolution, allegorical political cartoons]. Etching (18.5 x 32 cm) composed of 18 miniature medallions (4.4 cm diameter each) finely heightened in watercolour. No place no date [circa 1790]. Framed under glass, Marie-Louise chocolate, modern […]
Eugène Desmares. Les Métamorphoses du jour, ou La Fontaine en 1831. Paris, Delaunay, 1831. 2 vol. in-8°, 256 pp. [numbered VI-[7-9]-256] ; 319 pp. Half-night blue long-grained morocco with corners, long romantic spine, gilt title, raised title and […]