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 to […]
Voltaire (1694-1778). Lettre autographe signée « Voltaire », Castle of Ferney, 30 March 1761, aux « comédiens du roy ». 1 .. in-4°. Belle lettre diplomatique que Voltaire adresse à la troupe de la Comédie-Française concernant la reprise de Tancrède, son dernier […]
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, le dernier du recueil Pouvoir tout dire paru chez Gallimard en 1951, […]
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 […]
Henry Miller (1891-1980). 71 documents (62 in French, sometimes with a few sentences in English, and 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 […]
[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 […]
"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, .. 26). Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830). L’Isle des enfans. History […]
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, […]
[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 […]
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 […]