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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., […]
André Malraux (1901-1976). Correspondence and documents. 8 autograph letters signed, Provins, Sens and Collemiers, April-October 1940, (7 addressed to Josette Clotis and one to her father, Joseph Clotis, with a correspondence card from Josette addressed to him, Neuilly, […]
Almanach royal, année M. DCC. XLV […]. Paris, Veuve d’Houry, 1745. In-8°. 443 pp. The calendar is interfoliate and the copy is annotated. Contemporary red morocco , flat spines decorated with fleurs-de-lis, title and vintage pieces in fawn-colored […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]