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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 […]
[Abraham Nicolas Amelot de La Houssaye]. Abrégé du procès fait aux Juifs de Mets. Avec trois Arrests du Parlement qui les déclarent convaincus de plusieurs Crimes, & particulierement Rahaël [sic] Levi d’avoir enlevé sur le grand chemin de Mets […]
Jean de Bry (1760-1834), conventional, member of the Five Hundreds Council. Autograph letter signed “J. Debry “, Besançon, on 12 thermidor year 9 [31 July 1801], to “my dear J[oseph] Bonaparte “. 2 pp. in-4°. Beautiful letter of complaint from […]
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 […]
Louise Georgine Elisabeth Nancy de Thoisy, Countess of Coligny-Chatillon. Légendes comtoises, copiées de Charles-Amédé Beneyton, peinct, escript et aorné par la comtesse de Coligni-Chatillon. 1875 in Choye [near Gy, Haute-Saône]. Richly illuminated manuscript. In-8°. 3 blank leaves, [10] […]
[Military photographs]. Germaine Krull. World War II. Rhine and Danube. Liberation of Alsace and Colmar. General de Lattre de Tassigny in Colmar. Around 13 February 1945. 13 photographs from the time period, unpublished. middle format size : 9 x […]
[General Georges Boulanger (1837-1891)]. Petit Souvenir. Paris, no name, 1888. Miniature calendar (7,8 x 5,5 cm), all printed in red. Full tobacco morocco, silver metal clasp and trims open with a leafy frieze, peacock-eyes edges on a gold background, […]
Louis Pergaud (1882-1915), writer. Autograph letter signed “Louis Pergaud “, [Verdun], wednesday 3 March 1915, to his “ dear master and friend » Lucien Descaves. 4 pages in-12. Autograph envelope with the address “Monsieur Lucien Descaves / 46 Rue […]
Precious set from René Thorel (1877-1916), captain of the 347th Infantry Regiment, 24th Company, fell in the field of honour on 8 June 1916 in Fleury-sous-Thiaumont (Verdun). Journalist, columnist, author of tales, he is one of the 560 writers who […]
[Jean Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), French admiral, hero of Dunkirk and then minister of the navy of the Vichy regime from November 1942 to March 1943]. Mediterranean Wing Fanions Album. 1936 ● 1938. No place, no name, [1938]. Oblong […]