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[Antoine-Joseph-François Robert]. Tableau des bigarrures médicales et autres, ou Coup- d’œil sur le charlatanisme, poème satirique, accompagné de notes et suivi de commentaires ou annotations analogues au sujet. Par Decourtel notaire breton. No place, no date [1829-1831]. unpublished manuscript. […]
Louis Pergaud (1882-1915). Autograph letter signed, Landresse, Octobre [19]06, to “ Mon cher maître ” [Edouard Droz ?]. 3 pages in-12. Magnifique lettre inédite de Louis Pergaud qui fustige le « cretinism few compatriots “The world Franche-Comté letters. L’écrivain Edouard Droz (Besançon, 1855-1923) […]
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, […]
Beautiful and moving elegiac poem by Hugo on time and death Victor Hugo. The Clock. 4 first autograph stanzas [of 6], no place no date [1859]. Only front side on a large strip of watermarked blue paper (15,5 x […]
Elise Marianne de Lamartine, née Mary-Ann Elisa Birch (1790 – Paris, 1863), Artiste Peintre et sculptrice française d’origine anglaise, married Alphonse de Lamartine the 6 June 1820. Autograph letter signed ” your M – “, no place [Saint-Point?], on […]
Antoine Petit. Cours de Phisïologie par Mun Antoine Petit, Docteur Regent de la faculté de médecine de Paris. Paris, 18 November 1763. Manuscript autograph. In-4°. 425 pp., 1 p. white, [3] pp. (table). Contemporary full marbled fawn-coloured calf, back […]
Alfred de Musset sends to George Sand’s daughter a collection of his poems , sweet nostalgic fragrance of passionate loves of the most romantic couple in French literature. Alfred de Musset. Poésies complètes. Paris, Charpentier, 1840. In-12. ii, […]
Victor Hugo (1802-1885). Autograph letter signed, Haute-Ville House, 8 septembre [1872], [to Raoul Lafagette]. 2 pp. double-sheets in-12. With autograph envelope addressed to « Monsieur Raoul Lafagette / 14, rue des Ursulines / Paris / Via London / France “, […]