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Voltaire. Le Poëme de Fontenoy. Rare edition printed at 600 copies by the Imprimerie Royale, with the royal coat of arms.

Voltaire. Le Poëme de Fontenoy. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1745. In-4°. 28 pp. Engraved vignette on the title, the poem (pp. 16 to 28) in a Greek frame. Contemporary full marbled fawn calf, spine with 5 raised bands decorated […]

Eugène Desmares. Les Métamorphoses du jour, ou La Fontaine en 1831. Paris, Delaunay, 1831. 2 vol. in-8°, 256 pp. [numbered VI-[7-9]-256] ; 319 pp. Half-night blue long-grained morocco with corners, long romantic spine, gilt title, raised title and […]

[Repères] Chronologiques Depuis la création du monde jusqu’à nos jours. [Paris, vers 1809]. A two-and-a-half-metre printed scroll, consisting of 12 sheets of vellum paper glued end to end. Curious and rare small cylindrical empire case in long-grained red […]

Louis XVI. Maximes morales et politiques tirées de Télémaque ; imprimées par Louis-Auguste, Dauphin. Versailles, De l’Imprimerie de Mgr le Dauphin, dirigée par A. M. Lottin, Libraire & Imprimeur ordinaire de Monseigneur le Dauphin, 1766. In-8°. Wood with the […]

[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 […]

Louis XIV. Décès de sa mère Anne d'Autriche. 21 janvier 1666. Lettre signée.

Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France. Letter signed “Louis” (autograph signature), written by the secretary of the hand Toussaint Rose, Versailles, 21 January 1666, addressed to “ma seur“. 1 p. in-4°, very discreet mourning border. A particularly moving letter […]

Napoleon on St. Helena. Painting by François Martinet. State of the [British garrison]. St Helena. [.]. Saint Helena, 17-29 November 1816. Anonymous manuscript [Superior Officer ?] in-16, in English, . 34 unnumbered pages, written in fine and elegant writing […]

[Marquis de Thuisy]. État du Régiment des Gardes Françoises du Roy au mois de Juin 1789. [Paris, 1789]. Manuscript in-16. [1], 7 white, 93 pp., 13 ff. white. Long-grained blue morocco, richly decorated long back, plates decorated with […]

Bulletins de la Grande Armée 1812 Campagne de Russie

Complete collection of the Bulletins de la Grande Armée during the Russian campaign : 20 June 1812 – 3 December 1812. 29 numbers of the Bulletin de la Grande Armée in the form of posters in-plano (n° 28 […]

Pacifique [Claude-François] Rousselet. Histoire et Description de l’église royale de Brou, élevée à Bourg-en-Bresse, sous les ordres de Marguerite d’Autriche, entre les années 1511 & 1536. Paris, Desaint et Comte, 1767. In-12. vii, [1 p. chapter table], 131 pp., […]

Voltaire. Le Poëme de Fontenoy. Rare edition printed at 600 copies by the Imprimerie Royale, with the royal coat of arms.

Extremely rare satirical collection. La Fontaine’s Fables turned into political fables after the revolution of the Trois Glorieuses.

Chronological ribbon unfurling to the glory of Napoleon at the height of his power. From Adam to Napoleon, from the Creation of the world to the foundation of a new Europe.

Louis XVI, 12 years old, prophesies the Revolution that will cause the loss of the monarchy. Precious and exceptional enriched copy of this rare edition, which Nodier classified “among the rarest curiosities of [his] library. “

Miniature Military Atlas XVIIIth

Louis XIV upset by the death of his mother Anne of Austria

Napoleon under guard on St. Helena, end of November 1816

Complete collection of the 29 Bulletins of the Grande Armée published in 1812 during the Russian Campaign

“L’Église royale de Brou” with the arms of Madame de Marsan