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Marguerite YOURCENAR. L’Œuvre au Noir. Paris, NRF, 1968. In-8°. 340, [2] pp. Binding to Bradel in black half-Rexine, title label and decorative label in red morocco leather, colour jacket and cover preserved. Third edition published a few months after […]
Georges Villa. (Montmédy (Meuse), 1883 – Paris, 1965). Aux Lettres !! Original watercolour and ink on strong paper. Signed autograph : « souvenir reconnaissant. Hopital 2. Georges Villar, avril-mai 1915 ». Dim. 29 x 44,3 cm. Georges Villa, cartoonist, […]
Edmond Rostand, Henri de Régnier, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and 32 other poets. Les Sonnets de la Guerre. [戦争のソネット ]. Paris, Émile-Paul frères,1916. Little in-4°. xii, 230, [7] pp. Text framed by orange laurel leaves, frontispiece by Combet-Descombes. Orange half morocco […]
Revue de Paris. Nouvelle série ; – Année 1838. Tome cinquante-neuvième [-soixantième]. Paris, au Bureau de la Revue, 1838. November and December in 1 vol. in-8°. 291, [1] pp. ; 367, [1] pp. Contemporary fawn half-sheepskin, smooth spine decorated with […]
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 […]