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Amour, sort of poetic testament of a miserable and desperate Verlaine, the autograph manuscript to the deluxe first edition, including a proof copy and a letter which the poet, in distress, wrote to his publisher. Paul Verlaine. Amour. […]
Armand de Roquelaure. Discours prononcé, le Mardi 1 Octobre mil sept-cent soixante-onze, en l’église des religieuses carmélites de S. Denys, pour la cérémonie de la prise du voile de profession de Madame Louise-Marie de France. [Speech delivered on Tuesday, […]
Léo Ferré (Monaco, 1916 – Castellina in Chianti (Tuscany), 1993), singer and poet. Viens… Autograph manuscript signed “Leo“, no place no date. [ca. 1982], with dedication : “A toi, Claude ” [Fléouter]. 5 pp. in-4. Written with a fine point-marker, […]
Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1905), sculptor. Signed autograph letter, 1 March 1880, to « mon cher ami ». One and a half pages in-8° with his initial. On his replica of his famous sculpture of the Lion of Belfort in Place Denfert-Rochereau […]
Juan Francisco Piferrer. [Corrida,aleluya broadside]. [Barcelone], Libreria de Piferrer, plaza del Angel, no date [ca. 1800]. Folio broadside with 48 numbered woodcut fields of bullfighting scenes printed black on recto, verso blank, on uncut chain-laid paper, with publisher’s caption […]
Great War. 75 original vintage stereoscopic photographs on positive glass plates (6 x 13 cm). S.T.L., [ca.1914-1920]. In their 4 Lumière plate boxes, with their handwritten labels, which only partially correspond, and a blue reference stamp on the lid. […]
Stephanus Junius Brutus [i. e. Philippe de Mornay, said Duplessis-Mornay or Hubert Languet]. De la Puissance légitime du Prince sur le peuple, et du peuple sur le Prince. Traité très-utile & digne de lecture en ce temps, escrit en […]
[Freemasonry]. Tableau des FF qui composent la R[espectable] [Loge] de Saint-Jean, sous le titre distinctif de la Concorde, à l’Or[ient] de Colmar, à l’époque du 27e jour du 4e mois de la V[raie] L[umière] 5811. [i.e., “vulgar era” 27 […]
[Voltaire]. Lettres de M. de V*** avec plusieurs pièces de différens auteurs. La Haye, Pierre Poppy, 1738. In-12. 175, [3], 2 bl. pp. Full contemporary tan calfskin, spine with 5 raised bands, title label in fawn morocco, edges […]
Arno Breker (Elberfeld, 1900- Düsseldorf, 1991), German sculptor, official artist under the Nazi regime, [and Jacques Damase, Joe F. Bodenstein, Bernard Noël, Michel Marmin]. 39 handwritten and typewritten documents, Düsseldorf, Bonn, Paris, Saint-Cloud, 1979–1986 [mainly 1979–1981] and 133 silver-based […]