Gus Bofa. 3 studies of women’s heads.

Gus Bofa

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 […]

Exceptional and moving collection from the library of King Louis-Philippe, where are described the tragedies and sufferings endured by the members of his dear family during the Revolution

Duc d'Orléans, futur Louis-Philippe Ier

  [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

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, […]

Pierre Louÿs plays his Scales singing the saphic pleasures

Pierre Louÿs. Gammes.

  Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), french poet and novellist. Gammes. Autograph poem in purple ink, unsigned, no place no date [around 1905]. 1 p. in-4°, Joyson Superfine watermarked paper.                                                                                                              Very erotic poem of 3 heptasyllabic rhyming couplets quatrains, that […]