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“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 […]
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 […]
[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 unpublished manuscript.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) […]
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 […]