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Stefano Egidio Petronj. La Napoleonide dedicata a Sua Maestà l’Imperatrice Regina e Reggente. Parigi, dai torchi di P. Didot il magg[iore], [Paris, Pierre Didot l’aîné], 1813. In-4°. xxiv, 550, [2] pp. Frontispiece and 100 medals engraved in the […]
Louise Michel. Le Livre du jour de l’an. Historiettes, contes et légendes pour les enfants. Paris, J. Brare, 1872. In-12. 118 pp., [1] p. of table, [1] p. publisher’s catalogue. Publisher’s green percaline, spine decorated with gilt fillets and […]
Alsatians of the French Colony of Basel. Au Maréchal Joffre Vainqueur de la Marne. Basel, 12th March 1917. Large diploma entirely handwritten in red and black ink on parchment, awarded to Marshal Joffre, congratulating him on his new […]
[Thomas a. Kempis]. De Imitatione Christi. Libri quatuor, Ad Manuscriptorum ac primarum editionum fidem castigati, & mendis plus sexcentis expurgati. Recensuit J. Valart, Acad. Amb. Dissertationemque de ejusdem operis auctore addidit. Nova editio. Paris, J. Barbou, 1764. In-12. XI, […]
Champagne Giesler (Friedrich Giesler, 1793-1870, founder in 1827 of Mumm & Cie with Gotlieb Mumm, created his own Champagne House in Avize in 1837, taken over by Lanson). Important business correspondence from Friedrich Giesler Fils (b. 1850), London, 5 […]
Libro de Nobili, che portano Veste, cioè L’Anno Mese e Giorno, che sono nati, et anco L’Anno che sono congiunti in Mattrimonio. Fatto del Mese di Marzo l’Anno 1708. [Register of nobles ‘who wear the habit’ (patricians), it […]
Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), French singer and composer, sister of La Malibran. [Son] Agenda ou Tablettes journalières [pour l’année] 1901. In-18. Full cream contemporary morocco, gilt metal cipher inlaid on upper cover, white tabis counter-plates and endpapers with gusset on […]
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] […]
Voltaire (1694-1778). Letter signed ‘Voltaire’, Château de Ferney, 29 January 1765, to ‘Monsieur’ [André Gallatin le jeune, syndic of Genève]. 2 pp. in-4°. With its envelope written in the same hand: ‘A Monsieur / Monsieur le Sindic De La […]
Alexander Harrison (1774 – after 1854), Quarter Master, 1st [then 3rd] Garrison Battalion. [Housebook]. 1808-1854. Manuscript in-4° (24 x 19,5 cm). [1], 1 bl., [52] leaves, 78 bl. leaves. Contemporary fawn basane, smooth spine decorated with double cold fillets, […]