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Emotional testimony of gratitude from the author to his queen, now exiled to Paris since 1868, who had supported him in his pharaonic architectural project, one of the grandest of its century in that area. José Marin-Baldo. […]
Johann-Daniel Schoepflin – Andreas Lamey. Alsatia diplomatica. Mannhemii, ex typographia elect. aulica et academica, 1772-1775. 2 vol. in folio (dim. 40 x 26 cm). [Volume I] : Alsatia ævi Merovingici Carolingici Saxonici Salici Suevici diplomatica. Mannhemii, ex typographia academica, […]
Marguerite Yourcenar. Alexis ou le Traité du Vain Combat. Paris, Plon, 1952. In-8°. 191 pp. Bradel binding of green papier boards, gilt title, cover kept. 2th edition, preceded by a short preface that can be considered the first outline […]
[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 […]