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Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard as GRANDVILLE (Nancy, 1803 – Vanves, 1847). [Elegant and hunter]. Pen and black ink. Signed at bottom left, no date [around 1830]. 15,5 x 19,8 cm. Formerly glued on strong brown paper. Zoomorphic […]
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Le Divan Japonais. Paris, published by Edouard Fournier, printed by Edward Ancourt, [January 1893]. Pencil, brush and crachis lithography with four-color carry-on frame, linestone in olive green and colored stones in black, yellow and […]
Thiébaut. Lovers of the game of bowls playing on the Champs Elysees. Paris, Basset, [1817]. Hand colored lithography (230 x 330 mm). Cartoon to be published in the collection entitled “Caricatures françaises “, by Basset, Martinet and Christmas, […]
Dom Augustin Calmet. Histoire généalogique de la Maison du Chatelet, branche puînée de la Maison de Lorraine. Justifiée par les titres les plus autentiques, la plûpart tirés du Trésor des Chartres de Lorraine, Tombeaux, Sceaux, Monnoyes & autres […]
[Besançon]. Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. 5 views of Besançon engraved on copper, finely contemporary watercoloured . “Vue de la porte taillée à Besançon “, “Vue du pont de Besançon, Et de l’Arc de Triomphe nouvellement détruite ” [sic] and “Vue d’un ancien arc de […]
[Louis Chausson]. Traité de la coupe des pierres. No place, no date [1754-1774]. Manuscript in-4 4 white pages, 541 pages, 5 white pages, all marged. Contemporary full havana calf, back with 5 raised bands richly decorated, label “Manuel […]
Petrus de Natalibus. Catalogus sanctorum & gestoru[m] eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus : editus a reverendissimo in christo patre d[omi]no Petro de natalibus de venetiis dei gratia episcopo Equilino. [Colophon :] Lyon, Jacques Saccon [sic] [for Luc’Antonio Giunta in Venice], […]
Gustave Doré (1832-1883). [Nous célébrâmes cette journée mémorable le plus gaiement du monde.] Original engraved wood of one of the 31 full-page plates of Aventures du baron de Münchhausen. Traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils, illustrées par Gustave Doré. Paris, […]
Henry Schenck Tanner. A New Universal Atlas, containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, plans of cities, &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and […]
Adrien-Hubert Brué. Atlas. Paris, J. Goujon and J. Andriveau, 1827 [for the map France]-1829. World map – Europa – Asia – Oceania – Africa – North America [,] – South America [,] – France, Suisse et Italie septentrionale. There is […]