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[Miniature Military Atlas]. [Pierre Lemau de La Jaisse]. [Fortifications de la France]. No place, no name and no date [Paris, between 1733 and 1736]. 110 engraved maps in 3 volumes in-32 Italian style (8,2 X 12,2 cm). 4 […]
Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1927-1938. Complete collection. 68 issues in-4°. Sewed volumes, square back, very elaborate typographic covers, 70 pp for the regular issues. The eight thematic special issues are devoted to Photography (n°16), […]
Pierre Mignard (after). The Virgin, the Child Jesus and Saint John the Baptist. Paris, Image St Benoist, no date [XVIIIe century]. Beautiful copperplate engraving signed “P. R.”, after the one engraved by François de Poilly (“F. P. ex. […]
Gustave Doré (1832-1883). [Ils amenèrent d’abord le domestique.] Original engraved wood signed ” G Doré ” for one of the 31 full-page plates of Aventures du baron de Münchhausen. Traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils, illustrées par Gustave Doré. […]
[Omocha-e. 玩具絵].Shimizu Seifū. 清水晴風. Unai no tomo (Children’s Friends [Japanese toys]). Volume 1 [alone].うなゐの友 初編. [Kyoto], Unsodo, Yamada Naosaburo, Meiji 24 [Octobre 1891]. 芸艸堂, 山田直三郎, 明治廿四年 十月. In-8° (25,2 x 17,5 cm) . 62 leaves, 52 full-page prints (which […]
Honoré Daumier. Robert-Macaire journaliste. Engraved wooden matrix monogrammed “h D”, no date [ca. 1836], with on the back the handwritten mention in ink: “Daumier / Robert Macaire / Banquier “, then, upside down and by another hand: “page 225 “. (Dim. 14,5 x […]
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 […]