Petrus de Natalibus. Lyon, Sacon, 1519. Most attractive book with Massena’s arms. Rare Lyon printing on behalf of the Giunta in Venice.
Erasmus. 3 rare first editions of Paris. Wechel, 1533 and 1537.
Henri III, then Duke of Anjou, elected King of Poland, prepares his journey with an entourage worthy of his rank and power.
His kingdom is well worth a mass ! Henry IV abjured and wants peace. He announces it to the Earl of Abin, devout Catholic and old friend of Montaigne. Lesson in political realism.
Claude Flamand. Three rare editions from 1611, published in Montbéliard by Jacques Foillet, including his treatise on surveying in its original edition.
Louis XIII defeats the great Huguenot revolt in Languedoc in 1622. Rare contemporary engraving.
Louis XIV, shocked, addressed “the sad news of the death of the Queen Madame Ma Mère” on January 21, 1666, the day after her death. Particularly moving letter signed by his hand.
Louis XIV, son of his mother Queen Anne of Austria’s adulterous love affair with Cardinal Richelieu!
The powerful Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismaïl (مولاي إسماعيل) in love with Mademoiselle de Blois, daughter of Louis XIV, wishes to marry her.
“L’Histoire des plus fameuses courtisanes de la Grèce“, with the coat of arms of “the King’s W…“, the Countess of VERRUE, the famous “Dame de volupté”.
The Statutes of the Order of St. Michael, a symbol of loyalty to the King, in an edifying binding with the arms of LOUIS XV, from the library of NAPOLÉON III.
BOULAINVILLIERS, his famous writing about gabelle. Handwritten copy with the coat of arms of Louis-Charles de MACHAULT, Intendant and Advisor to the Conseil de Commerce, Lieutenant-General of the Paris Police, first President of the Grand Conseil under LOUIS XV.
形態之吉凶 陰陽合復學. In-Yô. 18th century Japanese erotic manuscript, illustrated with colour drawings.
Christophe Huet. How do you do… ? Drawing and engravings.
Voltaire.Le poème de Fontenoy. Only 600 copies printed by the Imprimerie Royale, this one bearing the royal coat of arms.Almanac with arms, 1745. Rare binding by René Dubuisson.
Grimoire. La Véritable Magie noire. 1750. Very rare original edition.
La Mettrie. Œuvres philosophiques. First edition, blacklisting for materialism and atheism, annotated, arms of Pope Pius IX !
About the Cup of Stones. Unpublished manuscript treatise written by Louis Chausson during the reign of Louis XV. Fully illustrated.
Statement of sailing officers in the service of the French East India Company, 1756 & 1766. Precious contemporary manuscript in a sumptuous binding.
Voltaire, demanding but nevertheless diplomatic author with the troupe of the Comédie-Française, very emancipated. Autograph letter signed about Tancrède.
Miniature book. Étrennes mignonnes for 1762 published in Liège by Kints, in a splendid binding embroidered with gold and silver thread.
Antoine Petit‘s Physiology Course. Precious autograph manuscript.
Eptingen Regiment on parade. March 20th 1764.
Louis XVI, aged 12, prophesies the Revolution!Maximes morales et politiques tirées de Télémaque, printed in Versailles by the Dauphin himself in only 25 copies. Enriched with the autograph Anecdote. An exceptional copy of a very rare edition.
François Louis Rumpler. A moving letter of plenary indulgence at the point of death granted to Madame Rumpler, a nun of the Order of Saint Dominic.
Celtic language is the mother tongue. The beginnings of linguistics in the 18th century. Precious manuscript of J. Le Brigant, singer of Celtomania.
Two violent revolutionary pamphlets, including Le Parc au cerf with its extremely rare original engraving.
Situation of the French Guards Regiment in June 1789. Exceptional document written on the eve of the storming of the Bastille, sumptuously bound by the Comte de Caumont.
French Revolution. 1789. 18 satirical miniatures to the glory of the Third Estate, in a single etching.
Fake book containing a wax crucifix, a clandestine devotion during the French Revolution.
“Lord, save the King and bless his family“. 1792. The autograph book of prayers of Mademoiselle LEDUC, former dancer at the Opéra, widow of the Comte de CLERMONT, prince of the blood.
Italian war against Masséna and Bonaparte. Precious correspondence from the Baron d’Athénaz, a Savoyard officer in the Sardinian army.
Madame de Genlis.Le Jeu à la Madame, followed by the tale L’Isle des enfans, and by an unprecedented scientific study on the Agathe. Rare manuscripts.
Madame de Genlis.Le Jeu à la Madame, followed by the tale L’Isle des enfans, and by an unprecedented scientific study on the Agathe. Rare manuscripts.
Napoleon. Chronological ribbon to his glory. 1809. From Adam to Napoleon, from the Creation of the world to the foundation of a new Europe. A rare miniature object.
Clandestine counterfeit of the petit Etteilla, with its folding plate of cards, lottery draws and the winning numbers to be played for the year 1811.
Complete collection of the 29 Bulletins de la Grande Armée published in 1812 during the Russian Campaign.
Napoleon prisoner on St. Helena. State of the English garrison in November 1816, during the arrest of Las Cases.
Bons Cousins Charbonniers. Rare Dole ritual, including that of the “Fendeurs”, published in 1812, printed in only 300 copies.” Are you shooting or pointing ? ” Lovers of the game of bowls playing on the Champs Elysees. Paris, Basset, [1817]. Hand colored lithography.
Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Prochaska. Adelstitel. Letters of nobility of Baron Prochaska, hero of the revolutionary and imperial wars against France (Marengo, Wagram). Document issued by Austrian Emperor Francois I.
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun. Emotional testimony of affection and admiration for the painter Franz-Niklaus Konig.
Rare Japanese album in dressed painted fabric. Village scenes. 日本のアルバム。村に。Around 1820-1830.
Exceptional and moving collection from the library of King Louis-Philippe, in which are described the tragedies and sufferings endured by the members of his dear family during the Revolution.
L’Ami des Jeunes Demoiselles. 1824.French educational work, copy from the Tsarskoie-Selo imperial library. Французское учебное сочинение, копия из Императорской библиотекиЦарское Село.Brillat-Savarin.La Physiologie du goût. Rare first edition in contemporary binding.
Beautiful atlas by Brué in 8 large maps, published by J. Goujon in 1827, in its elegant contemporary slipcase.
Victor Hugo. Love and Death. Juliette Drouet’s passion, the feeling of infinity and The Clock which leads to the fatal moment. Unique set.
Victor Hugo. Love and Death. Juliette Drouet’s passion, the feeling of infinity and The Clock which leads to the fatal moment. Unique set.
Victor Considerant. Interesting intimate correspondence.
“Car le moyen d’atteindre au vice radical Est d’arracher le masque au monde médical”. Violent pamphlet against medicine. 1829. Poem 2 566 alexandrines.
She swoons and he is the fall guy. Rare original drawing unpublished by Grandville.
E. Desmares. Les Métamorphoses du jour, ou La Fontaine en 1831. Political parody of the Fables after the Trois Glorieuses. Rare copy of a condemned work.
Gustave Flaubert. Unpublished youth manuscript.
Emir Abd el-Kader [ عبد القادر بن محي الدين ] proposes a duel to the Duke of Aumale. “If you want to send for the singular fight your leader the son of the King, I, the slave of God, will fight against him”. Holy War and chivalry.
A. de Lamartine by L. A. Bisson. Exceptional daguerreotype around 1841.
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin.Des Nombres. 1843. Very rare original edition.
Guillotine and Executioners. Recherches historiques et physiologiques sur la guillotine, et détails sur Sanson by Louis-François Du Bois, rare booklet from 1843. With the execution of Papavoine in 1846.
A surprising Bible that reveals the secrets of canonisation.
Antique deck of 32 transformed cards
Louis Pasteur criticizes the reform of secondary education, especially teacher recruitment and training, as well as the attractiveness of the profession. A striking today speech !
Chinese album. Shanghai 1860 咸豐十年 (1860年), 照片集, 上海徐家匯
Berlioz revises his analytical study of Beethoven’s Heroic Symphony. “Why this despair ? why this rage ? we do not discover the reason. “
G. Courbet writes to V. Hugo in exile. Persecution and Hope. One of his most beautiful letters.
“Like a drunken man, I didn’t care about cars, I didn’t care about the pavement, it seemed too short, I was painting“. G. Courbet found inspiration at his friend Etienne Carjat’s house. Unpublished letter.
L’Homme qui en rit. A rare parody of Victor Hugo’s work.
Three Légendes comtoises transcribed and illuminated by Louise de Coligny-Chatillon for her son Raoul. Overwhelming testimony of maternal love.
Barbey d’Aurevilly misogynist.
Miniature Book Shaped Box, lovely keepsake.
José Marin-Baldo. Proyecto de un monumento á la gloria de Cristóbal Colon y de España. 1880. Gift copy given to Queen of Spain Isabella II. With photographs of the pharaonic project.
“I’m counting on you to make me masterpieces like you’re capable of making. You need courage and confidence.” The art dealer Paul DURAND-RUEL supports his friend Claude MONET.
Louis PASTEUR seeks the rabies vaccine. Autograph results of inoculations on dogs from rabbits, monkeys and children !
Tonkin War. 1884. Le Figaro, the french newspaper, denounces Chinese false propaganda.
St. George Reef Lighthouse Lantern, in California.
Precious General Boulanger’s agenda for 1888, the year in which he shook the Third Republic.
“Tout existe pourvu que cela chante”. Mallarmé entrusts his vision of poetic art in 1888. Unpublished letter.
Verlaine, in misery, desperate, sings the love of God and men. Poignant documents.
Jules Clarétie. Valuable correspondence concerning the Comédie-Française of which he was the administrator.
Steinlen and his cats. An amusing feline variation on the initial of his name. Original drawing.
Shimizu Seifū. 清水晴風. Unai no tomo. うなゐの友 初編. 1st volume of the rare first edition published in 1891.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Le Divan japonais. 1893. Original litographed poster.
Gustave Le Bon. Treatise on horseback riding. Enriched copy with original photos, with an autograph sent to the son of President Sadi Carnot.
Gulliver attacked by the Lilliputians. Expression blocks. English alphabet toy, late 19th century.
L. Hayard.The Great Secret of Freemasonry. The art and the way of being elected Member of Parliament . Anti-Masonic comic strip around 1902. Rare poster.
Pierre Louÿs plays his Scales singing the saphic pleasures. Very erotic poem. For warned amateur.
Lovely collection of 35 miniature almanacs.
“Fiat Iustitia !”. The Guillotine, a terrible instrument of revolutionary justice. Striking drawing by Jordaan.
Jean Cocteau.Diaghilev et Nijinski [Дягилев и Нижинский] period of Stravinsky‘s Rite of Spring.
Louis Pergaud, in the trenches, on 3 March 1915, a few weeks before his death, written to his friend Lucien Descaves. Unpublished moving letter.
First war 14-18. German high command caricatured by Pierre Chatillon.
Arthur HONEGGER. Exceptional autograph manuscript of Automne, mélodie on a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire, the composer’s first masterpiece, with a handwritten sent to the godmother of his daughter Pascale.
Louis Aragon. Love, Humour and Anarchy. Annotated proof of Libertinage and two unpublished autograph manuscripts.
Graphic Arts and Crafts. 1927-1938. The most phenomenal magazine of the time, devoted to French graphic design of the 1930s. Rare complete in 68 issues.
Facetious drawing by Jules Pascin, a few months before his suicide. L’Heure des croquis (Germaine Eisenmann, Pierre Dubreuil and 3 models).
A. Ruhlmann, archaeologist. Morocco owes him its prehistoric museum. Precious correspondence and documents.
André Malraux “prisoner“. His loves, his struggles, his work. Intimate correspondence with Josette Clotis during the war and various documents. 1940-1975.
Germaine Krull. Rare photographies taken during the liberation of Alsace and Colmar in February 1945.
Marcel Pagnol.Marius, Fanny and César. The famous trilogy from Marseille, each volume with the author’s dedication.
André Gide.Glory’s thumbs in nose. Handwritten autograph talk.
Paul Eluard sings love, hope and fraternity. Bonne Justice, one of his most beautiful poems. Magnificent autograph calligram signed.
Hiawatha, Cléo, Henry, Woody, Kopa, and their friends. Delacoste toys that made children happy. 1951-1959. From design to production.
Henry Miller to his publisher Edmond Buchet. Unpublished correspondence. 1952-1969.
Gérard Philipe and Jeanne Moreau in the Prince of Homburg.
Jean COCTEAU presented his ideas to the painter Jean-Paul BRUSSET for decorating the chapel of Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer and the wedding hall at Menton Town Hall.
“Here a Barber, there a Lucia, my life is spent in theatres and on trains, but it’s her I’ve chosen and I’m happy with it.” Precious unpublished correspondence from the great soprano Mady Mesplé.
Tschaikowsky by Burne HOGARTH, the “Michelangelo of 9th art”. Original drawing.
Léo Ferré.Viens… Memories of childhood and adolescence, disappointment, his love for the theater and women. May 68.
Lucien Carny.L’Alchimie. Exceptional collection of original gouaches.
