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[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, […]
Psalterium chorale fratrum S. Dominici cum versiculis, Responsorijs horarum, Annis nocturnalibus, Psalmis, Himnisque omnibus, cantu et litera, summo studio recognitum et emendatum: in hac parva forma ita redactum ut Novitii et Moniales dicti ordinis, commodius cantare, sine legere queant. […]
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 […]