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René Armand François Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet and writer, the first Nobel Literature Prize laureate, in 1901. Les Principes de M. Taine sur l’Art. Signed autograph manuscript, [c. 1869]. 43 folios, in-8° [numbered 35], rectos […]
Louis-Hyacinthe Bouilhet (1822-1869) poet and playwright, a friend of Flaubert’s. Rognures. Signed autograph manuscript. 1840-ca. 1862. Notebook in-4°. [4], 63 pp., 81 blank leaves, [3] pp. of table, 1 blank leave. Contemporary half-percal, back in midnight blue chagrin, marbled […]
[François Joseph Flamenq (died August 23, 1757, in Tripoli, Syria), chancellor of the consulate in Candia [Heraklion], Crete, and later of that in Tripoli, Syria. Register of his correspondence, circa 1760, compiled by a family member, likely his father-in-law, […]
[Charles Bozonnet]. Livret d’Ouvrier-Compagnon, etc. Département de l’Ain. Arrondissement de « Bourg ». Commune de « Bourg ». Bourg, Bottier, 1825. Little in-4°. 8 pp. printed, followed by 16 unnumbered handwritten leaves bearing stamps (2 leaves remain blank). Contemporary mute ivory-coloured vellum. A […]
[René Vallery-Radot]. M. Pasteur. Histoire d’un savant par un ignorant. Paris, J. Hetzel and 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, gilt […]
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642). Letter signed « Le Card. de Richelieu », Paris, 24 July 1631, addressed to the Marquis de Brezé, Captain of the King’s Bodyguard and Governor of Saumur. 1 page in-folio (36 […]
[Pascal Amouroux]. Hommage respectueux du personnel des Etablissements Amouroux fres à la mémoire vénérée de son Chef : Pascal Amouroux. [A respectful tribute from the staff of Etablissements Amouroux bros. to the cherished memory of their Director: Pascal Amouroux]. […]
Amour, sort of poetic testament of a miserable and desperate Verlaine, the autograph manuscript to the deluxe first edition, including a proof copy and a letter which the poet, in distress, wrote to his publisher. Paul Verlaine. Amour. […]
Léo Ferré (Monaco, 1916 – Castellina in Chianti (Tuscany), 1993), singer and poet. Viens… Autograph manuscript signed “Leo“, no place no date. [ca. 1982], with dedication : “A toi, Claude ” [Fléouter]. 5 pp. in-4. Written with a fine point-marker, […]
Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1905), sculptor. Signed autograph letter, 1 March 1880, to « mon cher ami ». One and a half pages in-8° with his initial. On his replica of his famous sculpture of the Lion of Belfort in Place Denfert-Rochereau […]