Purchasing – Sale – Expertise
[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 […]
[Voltaire]. Lettres de M. de V*** avec plusieurs pièces de différens auteurs. La Haye, Pierre Poppy, 1738. In-12. 175, [3], 2 bl. pp. Full contemporary tan calfskin, spine with 5 raised bands, title label in fawn morocco, edges […]
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 […]