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I. The plaster hand of Juliette Drouet, the love of his life. [Charles Simon Pradier (1783-1847), Swiss engraver]. Moulding of Juliette Drouet’s hand. Plaster. around 1826. Dimensions 25 x 10 x 5 cm. With handwritten mention in ink on […]
Voltaire (1694-1778). Autograph letter signed “Voltaire “, Castle of Ferney, 30 March 1761, to the “king’s actors “. 1 p. in-4°. Beautiful diplomatic letter that Voltaire addresses to the troupe of the Comédie-Française concerning the restaging of Tancrède, his last […]
Paul Eluard (1895-1952). Bonne Justice. Autograph poem-calligram signed in its center, no place no date [around 1949]. 1 page, circle, 23,7 cm in diameter. Moving poem, the last of the collection Pouvoir tout dire published by Gallimard in 1951, […]
Henry Miller (1891-1980). 71 documents (62 in French, sometimes with a few sentences in English, and 9 in English). California (Big Sur then Pacific Palisades), Monte-Carlo (5), La Ciotat (at Michel Simon’s home) (4), Vienna (Isère) (at Albert Maillé’s […]
[Molière]. Armande Béjart (1638 ?-1700), French actress, one of the most famous during the seventeenth century, wife of Molière who wrote many roles for her, including that of Célimène in Le Misanthrope and who had founded with his mother Madeleine […]
“This book is of a completely different kind. ; this is the foundation of a large building, all its merit must consist in its solidity” (Foreword, p. 26). Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830). L’Isle des enfans. […]
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), Autograph letter signed, [Ixelles], 15 February 1862, to Gustave Chaudey. 3 pp. in-16. Addresses on the back “to Mr. / Gustave Chaudey, lawyer at the imperial court / of the Seine, Grenelle street, / St. […]
André Malraux (1901-1976). Correspondence and documents. 8 autograph letters signed, Provins, Sens and Collemiers, April-October 1940, (7 addressed to Josette Clotis and one to her father, Joseph Clotis, with a correspondence card from Josette addressed to him, Neuilly, […]
Alphonse de Lamartine. La Chute d’un ange. Episode. Paris, Furne et Cie, Pagnerre, L. Hachette et Cie, 1858. In-8°. 420 pp., [8] pp. [author’s general catalogue]. Sewed, uncut, yellow wrapper. The working copy completely and extensively revised and corrected […]
Almanach royal, année M. DCC. XLV […]. Paris, Veuve d’Houry, 1745. In-8°. 443 pp. The calendar is interfoliate and the copy is annotated. Contemporary red morocco , flat spines decorated with fleurs-de-lis, title and vintage pieces in fawn-colored […]