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, […]
[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 unpublished manuscript. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Exceptional copy of Count Kirill Grigorievitch RAZOUMOVSKI, President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, with the cypher of the Empress Elisabeth the Ist Редкое издание Графа Кирилла Григорьевича Разумовского, Президента Академии наук и художеств в Санкт-Петербурге. С вензелем […]