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Almanach royal, année M. DCC. XLV […]. Paris, Veuve d’Houry, 1745. In-8°. 443 pp. The calendar is interfoliate and the copy is annotated. Contemporary red morocco , flat spines decorated with fleurs-de-lis, title and vintage pieces in fawn-colored […]
[Gradual]. Graduale Romanum juxta missale ex decreto sacrosancti concilii trindentini, Pii V. Pont. Max. jussu antea editum. Et Clementiis VIII. Etiam Pont. Max. auctoritate nuper recognitum. Cui additus est Cantus Missarum omnium votivarum qui desiderabatur ante hac : item […]
Jean de Bry (1760-1834), conventional, member of the Five Hundreds Council. Autograph letter signed “J. Debry “, Besançon, on 12 thermidor year 9 [31 July 1801], to “my dear J[oseph] Bonaparte “. 2 pp. in-4°. Beautiful letter of complaint from […]
Pierre Louÿs (1870-1925), french poet and novellist. Gammes. Autograph poem in purple ink, unsigned, no place no date [around 1905]. 1 p. in-4°, Joyson Superfine watermarked paper. Very erotic poem of 3 heptasyllabic rhyming couplets quatrains, that […]
[General Georges Boulanger (1837-1891)]. Petit Souvenir. Paris, no name, 1888. Miniature calendar (7,8 x 5,5 cm), all printed in red. Full tobacco morocco, silver metal clasp and trims open with a leafy frieze, peacock-eyes edges on a gold background, […]
Louis Pergaud (1882-1915), writer. Autograph letter signed “Louis Pergaud “, [Verdun], wednesday 3 March 1915, to his “ dear master and friend » Lucien Descaves. 4 pages in-12. Autograph envelope with the address “Monsieur Lucien Descaves / 46 Rue […]
[Louis Chausson]. Traité de la coupe des pierres. No place, no date [1754-1774]. Manuscript in-4 4 white pages, 541 pages, 5 white pages, all marged. Contemporary full havana calf, back with 5 raised bands richly decorated, label “Manuel […]
Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), frensh poet. Autograph letter signed “Stéphane Mallarmé “, Paris, 29 th April 1888, to “Monsieur ” [Ernest Lefeuve]. 4 pp. in-12 watermarked paper “Original stair’s mill ». Very beautiful unpublished letter in which the poet expresses his conception of […]
Gustave FLAUBERT (1821-1880). Loi salique. Manuscript autograph, [Rouen, 1837]. 2 pp. in folio. Beautifully slipcase by Benjamin Elbel. Exceptional unpublished manuscript, probably written in September 1837, while Flaubert, fifteen years old, ended his holiday in Rouen, before he […]
Abd el-Kader [ عبد القادر بن محي الدين ] [Abdelkader ibn Muhieddine, called] (Mascara, 1808 – Damas, 1883]), Arab emir of Algeria, writer, poet, philosopher, military resistant, Sufi politician and theologian, founder of the Algerian state. Letter signed with […]