Pierre Calvet's rare book shop
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Jacques Prévert (1900-1977). 3 autograph poems in blue ink, titles doubly underlined in red pencil. No place, no date [around 1943]. 1 p. in folio with small squares (dim 37 x 27 cm.). « Immense et rouge » […]
[Register of magistral prescriptions in the Hospices of Beaune]. 1661-1663. Manuscrit. Large in-8°. Title and 579 unnumbered pages. Fawn half-sheepskin, nineteenth-century bindingth, back with 4 false bands adorned with golden fillets, label in black marocco. Valuable and important register […]
I. The plaster hand of Juliette Drouet, the love of his life. [Charles Simon Pradier (1783-1847), Swiss engraver]. Moulding of Juliette Drouet’s hand. Plaster. around 1826. Dimensions 25 x 10 x 5 cm. With handwritten mention in ink on […]
Juliette Drouet (alias Julienne Gauvain,1806-1883), French actress who was the mistress of Victor Hugo for nearly fifty years. Autograph letter signed “Juliette “, no place [Paris], 31 July [1849 ?], saturday noon 1/2 “Day of Sta Panties ” [to Victor […]
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). III. Heroic Symphony. Proofs with the composer’s autograph corrections. No place, no date [ca. 1862]. 10 pp. in-8° glued on sheets in-4° mounted on guards. Antique binding of red paper boards, black morocco title piece […]
Voltaire (1694-1778). Autograph letter signed “Voltaire “, Castle of Ferney, 30 March 1761, to the “king’s actors “. 1 p. in-4°. Beautiful diplomatic letter that Voltaire addresses to the troupe of the Comédie-Française concerning the restaging of Tancrède, his last […]
Paul Eluard (1895-1952). Bonne Justice. Autograph poem-calligram signed in its center, no place no date [around 1949]. 1 page, circle, 23,7 cm in diameter. Moving poem, the last of the collection Pouvoir tout dire published by Gallimard in 1951, […]
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). [Address to the Academic Council of the North as the first Dean of the new Faculty of Sciences of Lille, on the reform of secondary education]. Autograph draft, Lille [between 1855 and 1857] ; 7 pp. […]
André Gide (1869-1951). [Glory’s thumb of nose]. No place, no date [c. 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 […]
Henry Miller (1891-1980). 71 documents (62 in French, sometimes with a few sentences in English, and 9 in English). California (Big Sur then Pacific Palisades), Monte-Carlo (5), La Ciotat (at Michel Simon’s home) (4), Vienna (Isère) (at Albert Maillé’s […]