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The powerful Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismaïl (مولاي إسماعيل) in love with the daughter of Louis XIV, Mademoiselle de Blois

Muley Ismael et Mademoiselle de Blois

  [Casimir Freschot]. Relation historique de l’Amour de l’Empereur de Maroc, pour Madame la Princesse Doüairiere de Conty, ecrite en forme de Lettres à une Personne de Qualité, par Mr. le Comte D.***. A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1707. Small […]

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Fake Almanac containing a crucifix, clandestine devotion during the Revolution

Faux almanach. Crucifixion. Révolution.

    Fake Almanac, binding only, hiding a clandestine crucifix in a box glued to the back and back inner cover, the monting probably dating from the revolutionary era, around 1793. 10,6 x 5,5 cm. Contemporary red morocco , long […]

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Louis XIV, illegitimate king of France, bastard of Austria.

Lenoble. Louis XIV et Anne d'Autriche.

    [Eustache Le Noble]. Les Amours d’Anne d’Autriche epouse de Louïs XIII. Avec Monsieur le C. D. R. le veritable Pere de Louïs XIV. aujourd’hui Roi de France. Ou l’on voit au long comment on s’y prit pour donner […]

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Louis XIII, King of France, victorious of the Huguenots

Louis XIII Huguenots Révolte du Languedoc

    Ordre des villes d’ostage et places de seureté Retirées par force ou autrement sur ceux de la religion prét[endue] Réf[ormée] par le Roy Louys le Juste ez années 1620.21 et 22. Anonymous woodcut [circa 1623] on heavy laid […]

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“L’Histoire des plus fameuses courtisanes”, with the coat of arms of “the King’s Whore”, the Countess of VERRUE, the famous “Dame de volupté”.

Comtesse de Verrue

    [Catherine Durand Bedacier]. Les Belles Grecques, ou l’Histoire des plus fameuses courtisanes de la Grèce. Et Dialogues nouveaux des galantes modernes. Volume orné de Figures en taille douce. Augmenté de deux Pieces de Poësies du même Auteur. Paris, […]

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18 miniature vignettes in one engraving to the glory of the Third Estate.

    [The Three Orders, French Revolution, allegorical political cartoons]. Etching (18.5 x 32 cm) composed of 18 miniature medallions (4.4 cm diameter each) finely heightened in watercolour. No place no date [circa 1790]. Framed under glass, Marie-Louise chocolate, modern […]

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Precious correspondence from an officer in the Sardinian army who, having left Chambéry during the French invasion, fought the entire war against the French army in Italy.

Athénaz. Campagne d'Italie contre Masséna puis Bonaparte.

  François-Modeste Perrin d’Avressieux, baron d’Athenaz, seigneur de Belmont (1755-1835), decorated with the cross of Saint-Maurice, serving as a Savoyard Major at the head of a company of Chasseurs in the Royal Grenadiers of the Sardinian army. 12 letters [one […]

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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.

Votaire Fontenoy

    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 […]

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

Desmares. Les Métamorphoses du jour ou La Fontaine en 1831.

    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 […]

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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.

Chronologie miniature

    [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 […]

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