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.
Parisian gradual, 1609, published during the reign of Henry IV. Paris was really worth a mass !
Hospices of Beaune. Magistral prescriptions at the time of Louis XIV.
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.
Bussy-Rabutin, “Les amours du Palais Royal, written in Greek characters, at a time when it was risky to possess it in ordinary characters“. Clandestine pamphlet written in Greek about Louis XIV’s love affair with the young Louise de La Vallière.
形態之吉凶 陰陽合復學. In-Yô. 18th century Japanese erotic manuscript, illustrated with colour drawings.
Rare miniature military atlas XVIIIth century, bound by Padeloup Son.
Christophe Huet. How do you do… ? Drawing and engravings.
Almanac with arms, 1745. Rare binding by René Dubuisson.
Copy of earl Razumovsky monogram of the Empress Elizabeth I
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 Unpublished manuscript treatise written by Louis Chausson during the reign of Louis XV.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.
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.
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.
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux argues on the gates of his Longchamp grant barrier. Rare autograph letter signed.
Celtic language is the mother tongue. The beginnings of linguistics in the 18th century. Precious manuscript of J. Le Brigant, singer of Celtomania.
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.
Fake book containing a wax crucifix, a clandestine devotion during the French Revolution.
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.
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.
” 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.
Brillat-Savarin. La Physiologie du goût. Rare first edition in contemporary binding.
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.
Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon, “a man against a century“. Letters and autograph writings of one of the last romantic heroes. (1835-1847)
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 Musset – G. Sand. Nostalgia.
A. de Lamartine by L. A. Bisson. Exceptional daguerreotype around 1841.
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. Des Nombres. 1843. Very rare original edition.
Rare Tanner’s Atlas. Philadelphia, 1844.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Flags of the Mediterranean Wing. 1936-1938. Album offered to Vice-Admiral Abrial, controversial hero of the French Navy.
A. Dubout. Original drawing for Tartarin de Tarascon by A. Daudet.
Jacques Prévert. 3 beautiful autograph poems. Love and nostalgia.
A. 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.
A. 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.
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.
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