Purchasing – Sale – Expertise
Arno Breker (Elberfeld, 1900- Düsseldorf, 1991), German sculptor, official artist under the Nazi regime, [and Jacques Damase, Joe F. Bodenstein, Bernard Noël, Michel Marmin]. 39 handwritten and typewritten documents, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Paris, Saint-Cloud, 1979–1986 [mainly 1979–1981] and 133 silver-based […]
Alfred Sensier (1815-1877), art dealer, critic and historian, attached to the Fine Arts Department, he was then a member of the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. 10 signed autograph letters addressed to Jules Niel (1800-1872), then Librarian […]
George Sand (1804-1876). Autograph letter signed « George Sand », no place, no date [Nohant, between May 8th and 15th 1847], to « Mon cher Falempin [sic] ». Gabriel Falampin (1803-1860), a notary clerk and then a lawyer, […]
Jules Lemaitre (1853-1914), writer, academician, figure of nationalism. Notes – Impression de Belfort. [No place, 1902]. Signed autograph manuscript, with deletions and corrections. 3 pp. in-8° on 3 ff. recto only. Draft of the article that Jules Lemaître, on […]
[Anonymous collection of 15 illustrated scientific treatises, manuscript circa 1631]. Traité des machines hidroliques par lesquelles ons imite les voix & faict iouer lorgue. [With, a few pages further on:] Leçons horolographiques. Two extensively and finely illustrated manuscripts, in […]
Edmond Rostand, Henri de Régnier, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and 32 other poets. Les Sonnets de la Guerre. [戦争のソネット ]. Paris, Émile-Paul frères,1916. Little in-4°. xii, 230, [7] pp. Text framed by orange laurel leaves, frontispiece by Combet-Descombes. Orange half morocco […]
Jean-Michel Folon (1934-2005). Projet de film, pour célébrer les 20 ans de SONY. minimum 30 secondes ou 1 minute. No place, Février 1973. Story-board of 27 watercolours enhanced with coloured pencil and pastel (3 watercolours mounted) ; size of […]
Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1756-1842), painter, marvelous portraitist. Autograph letter signed, no place. [Paris], “ce mercredi soir 7 February ” [1821, to Louis-Aimé Martin (?), writer and journalist]. 4 pp. double-sheets in-12. ” voila, mon bien bon, la notule des […]
André Gide (1869-1951). [Glory’s thumb of nose]. No place, no date [ca. 1947?]. Autograph manuscript. 15 ff. unnumbered in-8°, recto only, thumb-indexed on strong paper sheets. Bradel full silver moire, title piece in garnet morocco on the front […]
Champagne Giesler (Friedrich Giesler, 1793-1870, founder in 1827 of Mumm & Cie with Gotlieb Mumm, created his own Champagne House in Avize in 1837, taken over by Lanson). Important business correspondence from Friedrich Giesler Fils (b. 1850), London, 5 […]