Purchasing – Sale – Expertise
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 […]
[Dummy collection about the House of Orléans] ● Louis-Antoine-Philippe d’Orléans, duc de Montpensier. Mémoires. Paris, Baudouin frères, 1824. In-4°. xv, 1 white, 207 pp. [Bound together:] ●● Louis-François Gamache. Récit de la translation de Louis-Philippe-Joseph duc d’Orléans, des prisons […]
[Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin]. Physiologie du goût, ou Méditations de gastronomie transcendante ; ouvrage théorique, historique et à l’ordre du jour, Dédié aux Gastronomes parisiens, par un professeur, membre de plusieurs Sociétés littéraires et savantes. Paris, For. Sautelet et Cie […]