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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 […]
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 / […]
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 […]
Gustave Le Bon. L’Équitation actuelle et ses principes. Recherches expérimentales. Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1895. Small in-4° of VIII, 399 pp. followed by the Atlas of annotated photographs: [4] pp and 25 pl. Contemporary midnight blue half-chagrin, smooth […]
Claude Flamand. Les Mathematiques et Geometrie, departies en cinq livres, contenant ce qu’est le plus necessaire pour l’utilité du public. [Bound in the suite] La Guide des fortifications et conduitte millitaire, pour bien se fortifier & deffendre. [Bound […]
[Catherine Durand Bedacier]. Les Belles Grecques, ou l’Histoire des plus fameuses courtisanes de la Grèce. Et Dialogues nouveaux des galantes modernes. Volume orné de Figures en taille douce. Augmenté de deux Pieces de Poësies du même Auteur. Paris, […]
Étienne Carjat (1828-1906). Victor Hugo, photographic bust portrait circa 1872. Vintage print on albumen paper (15.5 x 20.5 cm) mounted on cardboard, in its contemporary mourning frame (32 x 42.5 cm), in black velvet, bearing on the back the […]
Mady Mesplé (Toulouse, 1931-2020), opera singer. 43 autograph letters or cards signed, Nice, Paris, Vienne, Liège, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Etienne, Les Rousses, and Brueil, 1963-1970, addressed to her “Chère amie” Marie Louise Martin-Gardin, 37, chemin […]
Voltaire. Le Poëme de Fontenoy. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1745. In-4°. 28 pp. Engraved vignette on the title, the poem (pp. 16 to 28) in a Greek frame. Contemporary full marbled fawn calf, spine with 5 raised bands decorated […]