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[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 […]
[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 […]
Gustave FLAUBERT (1821-1880). Loi salique. Manuscript autograph, [Rouen, 1837]. 2 pp. in folio. Beautifully slipcase by Benjamin Elbel. Exceptional unpublished manuscript, probably written in September 1837, while Flaubert, fifteen years old, ended his holiday in Rouen, before he […]
Abd el-Kader [ عبد القادر بن محي الدين ] [Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine, called] (Mascara, 1808 – Damas, 1883]), Arab emir of Algeria, writer, poet, philosopher, military resistant, Sufi politician and theologian, founder of the Algerian state. Letter signed with […]