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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 […]
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.; […]