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[Erasmus]. Dummy collection. ● Erasmus. Problema et Epicureus Des[iderii] Erasmi Roterodami recèns adiecta colloquijs ab autore, mirè festivi Dialogi. Paris, Christian Wechel, 1533. In-8°. 30 pp. Woodcut printer’s device on title page and final leaf verso., ornamental initials. ● […]
Jacques Le Brigant. Observations fondamentales sur les langues anciennes et modernes ; ou Prospectus de l’Ouvrage intitulé : La Langue primitive conservée. Paris, Barrois l’aîné, 1787. In-4°. [2] pp. of warning and errata, 111 pp., [1] p. of approval. Typographical ornament […]
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.; […]
[Sténographie]. Arthur George Doughty – Alfred Tennyson. The Idylls of the King, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated). In shorthand by Arthur G. Doughty. By kind permission of Messrs. MacMillan & Co. Montréal, Dominion illustrated Press, 1889. In-4°. 1 f. blanc, […]
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 […]
Beautiful and moving elegiac poem by Hugo on time and death Victor Hugo. The Clock. 4 first autograph stanzas [of 6], no place no date [1859]. Only front side on a large strip of watermarked blue paper (15,5 x […]
Elise Marianne de Lamartine, née Mary-Ann Elisa Birch (1790 – Paris, 1863), Artiste Peintre et sculptrice française d’origine anglaise, married Alphonse de Lamartine the 6 June 1820. Autograph letter signed ” your M – “, no place [Saint-Point?], on […]
Alfred de Musset sends to George Sand’s daughter a collection of his poems , sweet nostalgic fragrance of passionate loves of the most romantic couple in French literature. Alfred de Musset. Poésies complètes. Paris, Charpentier, 1840. In-12. ii, […]
Meng Tseu [Mencius in western language, by Stanislas Julien]. 道光四年（1824年），石板鐫刻 西講孟子，梁茹蓮校訂. [The Fourth Canonical Book]. No place, no name, no date [Paris, Dondrey-Dupré fils, Société Asiatique, 1824]. 2 parts in 1 vol. in-8°. 1 large title page, 122 pp.; […]
Exceptional copy of Count Kirill Grigorievitch RAZOUMOVSKI, President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, with the cypher of the Empress Elisabeth the Ist Редкое издание Графа Кирилла Григорьевича Разумовского, Президента Академии наук и художеств в Санкт-Петербурге. С вензелем […]