Pierre Calvet's rare book shop
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Mady Mesplé (Toulouse, 1931-2020), opera singer. 43 autograph letters or cards signed, Nice, Paris, Vienne, Liège, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Etienne, Les Rousses, and Brueil, 1963-1970, addressed to her “Chère amie” Marie Louise Martin-Gardin, 37, chemin […]
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), painter. Autograph letter signed “Gustave Courbet“, [Paris], 32 rue Haute-Feuille, 26 July 1869, to “mon cher Carjat” [Etienne Carjat (1828-1906), famous photographer, journalist, caricaturist and poet]. 2 pages in-8°. With autograph address on reverse “Monsieur / […]
[Delacoste, toy manufacturer]. Archives of André Beuret, painter-decorator in Paris, designer of toys for the Delacoste et Cie company. Over 250 drawings, sketches and models, with documents and correspondence. 1951-1959. The Delacoste company was founded in France in 1860 […]
Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1927-1938. Complete collection. 68 issues in-4°. Sewed volumes, square back, very elaborate typographic covers, 70 pp for the regular issues. The eight thematic special issues are devoted to Photography (n°16), […]
Henry Miller (1891-1980). 71 documents (62 in French, sometimes with a few sentences in English, and 9 in English). California (Big Sur then Pacific Palisades), Monte-Carlo (5), La Ciotat (at Michel Simon’s home) (4), Vienna (Isère) (at Albert Maillé’s […]
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, […]
[Military photographs]. Germaine Krull. World War II. Rhine and Danube. Liberation of Alsace and Colmar. General de Lattre de Tassigny in Colmar. Around 13 February 1945. 13 photographs from the time period, unpublished. middle format size : 9 x […]
Precious set from René Thorel (1877-1916), captain of the 347th Infantry Regiment, 24th Company, fell in the field of honour on 8 June 1916 in Fleury-sous-Thiaumont (Verdun). Journalist, columnist, author of tales, he is one of the 560 writers who […]
Emotional testimony of gratitude from the author to his queen, now exiled to Paris since 1868, who had supported him in his pharaonic architectural project, one of the grandest of its century in that area. José Marin-Baldo. […]
[Jean Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), French admiral, hero of Dunkirk and then minister of the navy of the Vichy regime from November 1942 to March 1943]. Mediterranean Wing Fanions Album. 1936 ● 1938. No place, no name, [1938]. Oblong […]