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A. Vémar [Gustave Marx’s pseudonym]. Almanach illustré de l’Homme qui rit, parodie en vers comiques. Paris, A. Panis, Et chez tous les Libraires de France et de l’Étranger, [1869]. Little in-4°. 43, [5] pp. Vignette on the title and […]
Geslin cadet [?]. Promotion des Officiers de la Compagnie des Indes. Du 28 7bre 1756. [Suivi de ] Tableau de la marine de la Compagnie des Indes arrêté par une délibération du 2 août 1766. Promotion de 1747. No […]
Statuts de l’ordre de St Michel. [Paris], Imprimerie Royale, 1725. In-4°. [6], xiv, 449, [29] pp.Title engraved by Charles-Nicolas Cochin père after Louis de Boullogne, 3 out of text plates engraved by Simonneau fils, copper-engraved hedbands, ornemental initials and […]
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly. Les Bas-bleus. Paris, Victor Palmé et Bruxelles, G. Lebrocquy, 1878. In-12. XXIII introductory pages, 1 blank page, and 346 pages. Blue velvet Bradel binding, havana sheepskin morocconed label , blue and red cover preserved. Original edition […]
[Elisabeth-Claire Leduc]. [Prayer book]. No place [Paris ?], march 1792. Notebook. In-32. 170 pp., autograph manuscript in a beautiful handwriting in brown ink, framed by a border in brown ink. Contemporary red morocco, plain spine, lace decorated covers with […]
Charles Malo. L’Ami des Jeunes Demoiselles. Paris, Louis Janet, no date [1824]. In-18 (11,5 x 7,5 cm). Illustrated title, 143 pp, [1] p. of table, [4] pp. of calendar for the year 1825. 6 lithographed engravings under serpents out […]
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955). Automne. Autograph musical manuscript signed, Zurich, August 1915. Notated in black ink on 2 folio pages with 12 lines. Handwritten title in blue ink, in another hand, on a white endpaper. : « Arthur Honegger / […]
35 Miniature almanacs (around 5,5 x 3,8 cm). Year 1906, 1929, 1931 to 1933, 1935 to 1940, 1947, 1956 and 1959. Dijon mainly, Versailles and Paris. Illustrated covers, various techniques (stencil, lithograph, gouache, etc.), some signed. Illustrated metal […]
Marcel Pagnol. Marius. Fanny. César. Paris, Fasquelle, [1946]. 3 vol. in-8°. 261, 1 bl. pp. ; 214, [1] pp. ; 247 pp. Bound in contemporary marbled fawn half-basin with corners, spine with 4 false bands, gilt title, almond […]
[Louis Gabriel Bourdon]. Le Parc au cerf, ou l’Origine de l’affreux déficit. Paris, no name, l’an deuxième de la liberté 1790. In-8°. 187 pp. Frontispiece and 3 hors-texte engraved plates. [Preceded by :] [Antoine Mongez]. Vie privée du Cardinal […]