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Pierre Mignard (after). The Virgin, the Child Jesus and Saint John the Baptist. Paris, Image St Benoist, no date [XVIIIe century]. Beautiful copperplate engraving signed “P. R.”, after the one engraved by François de Poilly (“F. P. ex. […]
[Marquis de Thuisy]. État du Régiment des Gardes Françoises du Roy au mois de Juin 1789. [Paris, 1789]. Manuscript in-16. [1], 7 white, 93 pp., 13 ff. white. Long-grained blue morocco, richly decorated long back, plates decorated with […]
Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Œuvres philosophiques. Londres [i.e. Berlin], Jean Nourse, 1751. In-4°. lvi, 364 pp. Vignette engraved on the title page with “Si prodire vetas, intus vehementior ardet ” on the phylactery. Contemporary fawn-coloured calf, back […]
Voltaire (1694-1778). Autograph letter signed “Voltaire “, Castle of Ferney, 30 March 1761, to the “king’s actors “. 1 p. in-4°. Beautiful diplomatic letter that Voltaire addresses to the troupe of the Comédie-Française concerning the restaging of Tancrède, his last […]
I. The plaster hand of Juliette Drouet, the love of his life. [Charles Simon Pradier (1783-1847), Swiss engraver]. Moulding of Juliette Drouet’s hand. Plaster. around 1826. Dimensions 25 x 10 x 5 cm. With handwritten mention in ink on […]
Proof copy of the collection Amour with the author’s dedication, sort of poetic testament of a miserable and desperate Verlaine, with his autograph call for help addressed to his publisher Léon Vanier and the petty advance that he granted […]
Comte Léon Tolstoï. La Guerre et la Paix. Roman historique traduit avec l’autorisation de l’auteur par une russe. Paris, Hachette et Cie [Saint-Pétersbourg Imprimerie Trenké & Fusnot], 1879. 3 parts in 3 volumes in-8°. 530 pp.; 450, [2] pp.; […]
Petrus de Natalibus. Catalogus sanctorum & gestoru[m] eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus : editus a reverendissimo in christo patre d[omi]no Petro de natalibus de venetiis dei gratia episcopo Equilino. [Colophon :] Lyon, Jacques Saccon [sic] [for Luc’Antonio Giunta in Venice], […]
Henry Schenck Tanner. A New Universal Atlas, containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, plans of cities, &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and […]
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), Autograph letter signed, [Ixelles], 15 February 1862, to Gustave Chaudey. 3 pp. in-16. Addresses on the back “to Mr. / Gustave Chaudey, lawyer at the imperial court / of the Seine, Grenelle street, / St. […]