Pierre Calvet's rare book shop
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Miniature keepsake shaped box (55 x 45 mm), no place, no name, may 12, 1879. Green shagreen, upper cover framed by a gilt garland, decorated with a chromolithograph representing a swallow depositing, on a red camellia, a card with […]
Lucien Carny. L’Alchimie. No place [Chaumont ?], 1977-1978. Collection of 38 original gouache drawings on a watercolor background, dated with monogram, mounted on a beige notebook (23,6 x 17,7 cm) with the collage title mounted on a brown strong […]
[Léon Hayard]. The Great Secret of Freemasonry. The art and the way of being elected Member of Parliament . Patented method with guarantee and government stamp. Initiation to be an Apprentice, Companion, Master, Rosicrucian and Kadosch. Paris, Léon […]
Jean-Louis Barrault (1910-1914). Autograph letter signed “Your poor Barrault “, Dijon, on 4 March 1933, to his “old Tosi ” [Guy Tosi, next literary director of Éditions Denoël; he was the publisher, among others,, of Céline, Cendrars, Malaparte and Miller], with […]
[Molière]. Armande Béjart (1638 ?-1700), French actress, one of the most famous during the seventeenth century, wife of Molière who wrote many roles for her, including that of Célimène in Le Misanthrope and who had founded with his mother Madeleine […]
Julius Mordecaï Pincas alias Jules Pascin (1885-1930). Time for Sketches – Germaine Eisenmann [“Pierre Dubreuil and 3 Models ” (added by another hand)]. Pencil on paper, signed lower right and titled on the back by the artist followed by […]
Gus Bofa, pseudonym of Gustave Henri Émile Blanchot (Brive-la-Gaillarde, 1883 – Aubagne, 1968), french illustrator. 3 studies and a sketch of women’s heads with pencil lead, no place no date [around 1928], signed ” Gus Bofa “, on a sheet (20,5 […]
Lodge of the Seven Philanthropists. O[rient] of Dijon. Original seal in bronze of the Lodge with an ivory handle, [around 1832]. Dimension 13,5 cm high and 4,6 cm diameter. Valuable matrix of . cncient Lodge located in Dijon; founded […]
[Dummy collection about the House of Orléans] ● Louis-Antoine-Philippe d’Orléans, duc de Montpensier. Mémoires. Paris, Baudouin frères, 1824. In-4°. xv, 1 white, 207 pp. [Bound together:] ●● Louis-François Gamache. Récit de la translation de Louis-Philippe-Joseph duc d’Orléans, des prisons […]
Closed Doors or Double Surprises. No place, no date [around 1820]. Miniature collection (77 x 55 mm) . 6 short stories in 6 quires of 4 pages and 6 pretty finely watercoloured transformacy plates, (transparency also watercoloured), all in leaves, […]