Pierre Calvet's rare book shop
Purchasing – Sale – Expertise
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 […]
Libro de Nobili, che portano Veste, cioè L’Anno Mese e Giorno, che sono nati, et anco L’Anno che sono congiunti in Mattrimonio. Fatto del Mese di Marzo l’Anno 1708. [Register of nobles ‘who wear the habit’ (patricians), it […]
Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), French singer and composer, sister of La Malibran. [Son] Agenda ou Tablettes journalières [pour l’année] 1901. In-18. Full cream contemporary morocco, gilt metal cipher inlaid on upper cover, white tabis counter-plates and endpapers with gusset on […]
Louise Georgine Elisabeth Nancy de Thoisy, Countess of Coligny-Chatillon. Légendes comtoises, copiées de Charles-Amédé Beneyton, peinct, escript et aorné par la comtesse de Coligni-Chatillon. 1875 in Choye [near Gy, Haute-Saône]. Richly illuminated manuscript. In-8°. 3 blank leaves, [10] […]
Saturnin Fabre. [Album de dessins, souvenirs de guerre 14-18]. No place [Savy, in Aisne], May 3rd to 5th 1917. 20 tracing paper loose sheets (28 x 22,5 cm) inserted in a notebook with blank cardboard pages (32 x 24 […]
Réglement pour M.M. les directeurs et Répétiteurs des petits Séminaires. Manuscript in-4°. 1 blank sheet, 14 unnumbered pp. . [Followed by :] Réglement Pour MM. Les Directeurs et Professeurs des petits séminaires. Besançon. No place, no date [Besançon, early XIX century ?]. […]
[Claude Marie Giraud (Lons-le-Saunier,1711 – Paris, 1780), doctor]. La peronie aux enfers chez Minos. Arrest de Pluton contre la faculté de Medecine. No place no date [around 1750]. Manuscript. 15 pp. in-4°. Sewn. A rare contemporary copy of this […]
Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France. Letter signed ‘Louis’ (autograph signature), probably from the pen of Toussaint Rose, the cabinet secretary, Au camp près de Dole, 9 June 1674, addressed to ‘ma cousine’ [Louise Christine de Savoie]. 1 p. […]