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Jules Clarétie (1840-1913), man of letters and administrator of the Comédie-Française (1885-1913). 57 autograph letters and notes signed , [Paris], Viroflay and London, 1889-1905, to Edouard Noël (1848-1926), man of letters, correspondent of the newspaper Le Gaulois and […]
“This book is of a completely different kind. ; this is the foundation of a large building, all its merit must consist in its solidity” (Foreword, p. 26). Stéphanie Félicité du Crest, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830). L’Isle des enfans. […]
Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865), Autograph letter signed, [Ixelles], 15 February 1862, to Gustave Chaudey. 3 pp. in-16. Addresses on the back “to Mr. / Gustave Chaudey, lawyer at the imperial court / of the Seine, Grenelle street, / St. […]
[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 […]
André Malraux (1901-1976). Correspondence and documents. 8 autograph letters signed, Provins, Sens and Collemiers, April-October 1940, (7 addressed to Josette Clotis and one to her father, Joseph Clotis, with a correspondence card from Josette addressed to him, Neuilly, […]
Alphonse de Lamartine. La Chute d’un ange. Episode. Paris, Furne et Cie, Pagnerre, L. Hachette et Cie, 1858. In-8°. 420 pp., [8] pp. [author’s general catalogue]. Sewed, uncut, yellow wrapper. The working copy completely and extensively revised and corrected […]
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 […]