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[Louis Chausson]. Traité de la coupe des pierres. No place, no date [1754-1774]. Manuscript in-4 4 white pages, 541 pages, 5 white pages, all marged. Contemporary full havana calf, back with 5 raised bands richly decorated, label “Manuel […]
Henry Schenck Tanner. A New Universal Atlas, containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, plans of cities, &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and […]
Lighthouse St. George Reef, Californie. [Technical plan in half vertical cut of the lantern of St. George’s Lighthouse]. No place, 14 septembre 1886. Drawing in watercoloured China ink (68 x 48 cm.) of the focal plane of the […]
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). [Address to the Academic Council of the North as the first Dean of the new Faculty of Sciences of Lille, on the reform of secondary education]. Autograph draft, Lille [between 1855 and 1857] ; 7 pp. […]
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. […]
“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. […]
[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 […]
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 […]
The Berger model Guillotine. Drawing in watercolour enhanced ink [around 1868]. Dim. 47,8 x 62 cm. Representation on a scale 1/10th with dimensions and legend, on BFK Rives. Alphonse Léon Berger (1841-1906) was one of the assistants of […]
[Register of magistral prescriptions in the Hospices of Beaune]. 1661-1663. Manuscrit. Large in-8°. Title and 579 unnumbered pages. Fawn half-sheepskin, nineteenth-century bindingth, back with 4 false bands adorned with golden fillets, label in black marocco. Valuable and important register […]