André Gide. Talk about the vanity of glory.
André Gide (1869-1951). [Glory's thumb of nose]. No place, no date [c. 1947?]. Autograph manuscript. 15 ff. unnumbered in-8°, recto only, thumb-indexed on strong paper sheets. Pleine moire argentée à […]
Literature
Unpublished correspondence from Henry MILLER to his publisher Edmond BUCHET (1952-1969)
Henry Miller (1891-1980). 71 documents (62 in French, sometimes with a few sentences in English, et 9 in English). California (Big Sur puis Pacific Palisades), Monte-Carlo (5), La Ciotat (at Michel Simon's home) (4), Vienna (Isère) (at Albert Maillé's home) (4), Montpellier […]
Precious autograph signature of Armande Béjart, Molière's widow
[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, dont celui de Célimène dans Le Misanthrope et qui avait fondé avec sa mère Madeleine […]
Madame de Genlis. The tale “L’Isle des enfans”, a child's play and an unprecedented scientific study on the agate. Precious autograph manuscripts.
"This book is of a completely different kind. ; c’est le fondement d’un grand édifice, all its merit must consist in its solidity" (Foreword, p. 26). Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830). L’Isle des enfans. History […]
Proudhon scoffs at Hugo. " Les Misérables. – Someone assures me that if it's not miserable, it's not Superhuman. "
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), Autograph letter signed, [Ixelles], 15 February 1862, to Gustave Chaudey. 3 pp. in-16. Adresses au dos « a Monsieur / Gustave Chaudey, lawyer at the imperial court / of the Seine, Grenelle street, […]
Louis Pasteur, in his search for the rabies vaccine, inoculates dogs from bulbs of rabbits, monkeys and even children
[René Vallery-Radot]. M. Pasteur. Histoire d’un savant par un ignorant. Paris, J. Hetzel et Cie, n.d. [1884]. Large in-12. xiv, [2], 392 pp. Black half-morocco, back with 5 false bands, gilt title, gilt head, gilt cypher on the spine, tête […]
The working copy completely and extensively revised and corrected by the hand of Marianne Elisa de Lamartine, the poet's wife.
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. L’exemplaire de travail entièrement et […]
Almanac with arms bound by René Dubuisson
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, pièces de titre […]
Exceptional and moving collection from the library of King Louis-Philippe, where are described the tragedies and sufferings endured by the members of his dear family during the Revolution
[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 […]
Legends from Franche-Comté transcribed and richly illuminated by Louise de Coligny-Chatillon, just before her death, in memoriam, for her son Raoul and her offspring
Louise Georgine Elisabeth Nancy de Thoisy, Countess of Coligny-Chatillon. Légendes comtoises, copiées de Charles-Amédé Beneyton, peinct, escript et aorné par la comtesse de Coligni-Chatillon. 1875 in Choye [near Gy, Haute-Saône]. Richly illuminated manuscript. In-8°. […]