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[Henri, Earl of Boulainvilliers]. Mémoire contenant les moyens d’establir le droit d’amortissement des gabelles ; et de convertir le revenu des aydes en droit de Bouchon ; avec les avantages que le Roy, & ses sujets en peuvent retirer. Manuscript in-8°. […]
Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), painting merchant. 2 autograph letters signed “DurandRuel”, Paris, June 20 and [Le Havre] August 15, 1881, to Claude Monet, 4 pp. in-8°, and 4 letters signed by his accountant Charles Marriott to the artist, Paris, March […]
Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly. Les Bas-bleus. Paris, Victor Palmé et Bruxelles, G. Lebrocquy, 1878. In-12. XXIII introductory pages, 1 blank page, and 346 pages. Blue velvet Bradel binding, havana sheepskin morocconed label , blue and red cover preserved. Original edition […]
[Elisabeth-Claire Leduc]. [Prayer book]. No place [Paris ?], march 1792. Notebook. In-32. 170 pp., autograph manuscript in a beautiful handwriting in brown ink, framed by a border in brown ink. Contemporary red morocco, plain spine, lace decorated covers with […]
Arthur Honegger (1892-1955). Automne. Autograph musical manuscript signed, Zurich, August 1915. Notated in black ink on 2 folio pages with 12 lines. Handwritten title in blue ink, in another hand, on a white endpaper. : « Arthur Honegger / […]
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). Autograph letter signed « Jean Cocteau », Milly, 18 juin 1956, to « mon très cher ami » [the painter Jean-Paul Brusset]. 2 pp. in-4° in pencil. In 1955, the painter Jean-Paul Brusset (1909-1985) settled on […]
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 typescript documents, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Paris, Saint-Cloud, 1979-1986 [mainly 1979-1981] and 133 […]
Étienne Carjat (1828-1906). Victor Hugo, photographic bust portrait circa 1872. Vintage print on albumen paper (15.5 x 20.5 cm) mounted on cardboard, in its contemporary mourning frame (32 x 42.5 cm), in black velvet, bearing on the back the […]
Pierre-Marie GAULT DE SAINT-GERMAIN (1757-1848). Recueil de Lettres sur les Départemens de la Creuse et du Puy-de-Dome. Engraved frontispiece of the author, title, [3] pp. [followed by a second title:] Vues Générales sur la Géographie physique, l’histoire naturelle, […]
Mady Mesplé (Toulouse, 1931-2020), opera singer. 43 autograph letters or cards signed, Nice, Paris, Vienne, Liège, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Etienne, Les Rousses, and Brueil, 1963-1970, addressed to her “Chère amie” Marie Louise Martin-Gardin, 37, chemin […]