René Armand François Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet and writer, the first Nobel Literature Prize laureate, in 1901. Les Principes de M. Taine sur l’Art. Signed autograph manuscript, [c. 1869]. 43 folios, in-8° [numbered 35], rectos […]
Louis-Hyacinthe Bouilhet (1822-1869) poet and playwright, a friend of Flaubert’s. Rognures. Signed autograph manuscript. 1840-ca. 1862. Notebook in-4°. [4], 63 pp., 81 blank leaves, [3] pp. of table, 1 blank leave. Contemporary half-percal, back in midnight blue chagrin, marbled […]
[Charles Bozonnet]. Livret d’Ouvrier-Compagnon, etc. Département de l’Ain. Arrondissement de « Bourg ». Commune de « Bourg ». Bourg, Bottier, 1825. Little in-4°. 8 pp. printed, followed by 16 unnumbered handwritten leaves bearing stamps (2 leaves remain blank). Contemporary mute ivory-coloured vellum. A […]
Léon Husson [- Sacha Simon]. L’Occupant. Nancy, imprimerie Victor Idoux, novembre 1946. In-folio. 2 blank leaves, 64 unnumbered leaves. 59 lithographed drawings by Léon Husson, with a preface by Sacha Simon. Green morocco-bound, long spine (sun-faded), gilt title, bevelled […]
[René Vallery-Radot]. M. Pasteur. Histoire d’un savant par un ignorant. Paris, J. Hetzel and Cie, n.d. [1884]. Large in-12. xiv, [2], 392 pp. Black half-morocco, back with 5 false bands, gilt title, gilt head, gilt cypher on the spine, gilt […]
[Pascal Amouroux]. Hommage respectueux du personnel des Etablissements Amouroux fres à la mémoire vénérée de son Chef : Pascal Amouroux. [A respectful tribute from the staff of Etablissements Amouroux bros. to the cherished memory of their Director: Pascal Amouroux]. […]
Amour, sort of poetic testament of a miserable and desperate Verlaine, the autograph manuscript to the deluxe first edition, including a proof copy and a letter which the poet, in distress, wrote to his publisher. Paul Verlaine. Amour. […]
[Voltaire]. Lettres de M. de V*** avec plusieurs pièces de différens auteurs. La Haye, Pierre Poppy, 1738. In-12. 175, [3], 2 bl. pp. Full contemporary tan calfskin, spine with 5 raised bands, title label in fawn morocco, edges […]
George Sand (1804-1876). Autograph letter signed « George Sand », no place, no date [Nohant, between May 8th and 15th 1847], to « Mon cher Falempin [sic] ». Gabriel Falampin (1803-1860), a notary clerk and then a lawyer, […]
Jules Lemaitre (1853-1914), writer, academician, figure of nationalism. Notes – Impression de Belfort. [No place, 1902]. Signed autograph manuscript, with deletions and corrections. 3 pp. in-8° on 3 ff. recto only. Draft of the article that Jules Lemaître, on […]