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[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 […]
[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 […]
Adrien-Hubert Brué. Atlas. Paris, J. Goujon and J. Andriveau, 1827 [for the map France]-1829. World map – Europa – Asia – Oceania – Africa – North America [,] – South America [,] – France, Suisse et Italie septentrionale. There is […]
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 […]
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. […]
Claude Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), architect, french urban planner and utopian, one of the main creators of the neoclassical style. Autograph letter signed ” LeDoux “, no place [Paris], on 24 Octobre 1787, to “mes chers confrères “, 2 pp. in-4°. Ledoux, […]
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 […]
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 […]
[Sténographie]. Arthur George Doughty – Alfred Tennyson. The Idylls of the King, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated). In shorthand by Arthur G. Doughty. By kind permission of Messrs. MacMillan & Co. Montréal, Dominion illustrated Press, 1889. In-4°. 1 f. blanc, […]