Henri III (1551-1589), King of France, then King of Poland. Signed letter “Vostre bon amy Henri “, Paris, 7 August 1573, to [Louis de Chasteigner de La Roche-Posay], Mons[ieur] d’Abin, gentilhomme de la chambre du Roy, monseigneur et fr[ere] “. […]
Henri IV (1553-1610), King of France. Signed letter, Saint-Denis, 1st August 1593, to Monsieur d’Abin, Knight of Orders, councillor in his council of state and captain of fifty men-at-arms of his ordinances, Governor and Lieutenant General in his country […]
Armand Ruhlmann (Mulhouse, 1896 – In a cave in the Oujda region, Morocco, 1948), Inspector of Prehistoric Antiquities of Morocco and Director of Studies at the Institute of Moroccan Higher Studies. Morocco owes him its prehistoric museum. Correspondence addressed […]
“The lucky adventurer is a hero ; the hero who fails and succumbs is just an adventurer.” Charles René Gaston Gustave de Raousset-Boulbon (Avignon, 1817- Guaymas, in Mexico, 1854), filibuster and adventurer, has made his fortune in San Francisco […]
Victor Considerant (Salins, 1808 – Paris, 1893), french philosopher and economist. 8 autograph letters signed, 1827-1846, to Clarisse Vigoureux in Besançon and Montagney [5], and to her daughter Julie Vigoureux, Mrs Victor Considerant [3]. 26 pages in-8°, one heading […]
Jules Lemaitre (1853-1914), member of the French Academy, antiDreyfusard and president of the Patriotic French League. Few documents about Freemasonry. Autograph manuscript signed twice ” Jules Lemaitre ” (on the 12th page), no place no date [around 1899]. 13 numbered […]
Jacques Le Brigant. Observations fondamentales sur les langues anciennes et modernes ; ou Prospectus de l’Ouvrage intitulé : La Langue primitive conservée. Paris, Barrois l’aîné, 1787. In-4°. [2] pp. of warning and errata, 111 pp., [1] p. of approval. Typographical ornament […]
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 […]
形態之吉凶 陰陽合復學 [The Doctrine of In-Yô brought back to the sexual principles of the male and female]. Japanese copy handwritten in the 18 th century (Edo era), a text from the Genroku era 元祿年百書 (1688-1704) (printed seal and […]
Proof copy of the collection Amour with the author’s dedication, sort of poetic testament of a miserable and desperate Verlaine, with his autograph call for help addressed to his publisher Léon Vanier and the petty advance that he granted […]
