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, […]
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 […]
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 […]