Arno Breker, 60 years of sculpture.

Arno Breker

  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 […]

George Sand mentions Chopin’s illness.

Sand Chopin

    George Sand (1804-1876). Autograph letter signed « George Sand », no place, no date [Nohant, between May 8th and 15th 1847], to « Mon cher Falempin [sic] ». Gabriel Falampin (1803-1860), a notary clerk and then a lawyer, […]

Hermetic Philosophy, Occultism and Distillation

  Alexis Piémontois. [i.e. Girolamo Ruscelli et Etienne Michel]. Les secrets du S. Alexis Piemontois, devisez en six livres, reveuz de nouveau sur le dernier exemplaire Italien, & augmentez d’un liure de Distillations non par cy devant imprimé. Le tout […]

Rare treatises on the hydraulic organ and clockmaking

Traité d'Horlogerie

  [Anonymous collection of 15 illustrated scientific treatises, manuscript circa 1631]. Traité des machines hidroliques par lesquelles ons imite les voix & faict iouer lorgue. [With, a few pages further on:] Leçons horolographiques. Two extensively and finely illustrated manuscripts, in […]

Rare war caricature by Georges Villa

Villa

    Georges Villa. (Montmédy (Meuse), 1883 – Paris, 1965). Aux Lettres !! Original watercolour and ink on strong paper. Signed autograph : « souvenir reconnaissant. Hopital 2. Georges Villa, avril-mai 1915 ». Dim. 29 x 44,3 cm. Georges Villa, […]