Purchasing – Sale – Expertise
[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 […]
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, […]