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Albert Racinet (1825-1893), illustrator, painter, and author of books on costumes and ornaments. A collection of preparatory drawings for the publication of the book *Le Costume historique*, published in 1876 by Firmin-Didot. 7 drawings labeled in pencil, ink, and […]
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, born in Paris on 14 February 1925. An interesting collection of documents relating to his activities as a member of the Resistance, particularly in Franche-Comté. Photographs, drawings, letters and various documents kept in two red canvas-bound folders. […]
Philippe-Auguste Demesmay (Pontarlier, 1805 – 1853) was a Member of Parliament for the Doubs during the July Monarchy, the Second Republic and the Second Empire, as well as mayor and sub-prefect of Pontarlier. A fierce opponent of the salt […]
René Armand François Prudhomme, known as Sully Prudhomme (1839–1907), French poet and writer, the first Nobel Literature Prize laureate, in 1901. Les Principes de M. Taine sur l’Art. Signed autograph manuscript, [c. 1869]. 43 folios, in-8° [numbered 35], rectos […]
Louis-Hyacinthe Bouilhet (1822-1869) poet and playwright, a friend of Flaubert’s. Rognures. Signed autograph manuscript. 1840-ca. 1862. Notebook in-4°. [4], 63 pp., 81 blank leaves, [3] pp. of table, 1 blank leave. Contemporary half-percal, back in midnight blue chagrin, marbled […]
Sylvain Sauvage. 17 wood engravings. Various sizes (12 x 7 to 16 x 12 cm). Ten woodcuts were used to illustrate René Boylesve’s latest erotic masterpiece, La Leçon d’amour dans un parc (5 woodcuts); and its continuation, Les Nouvelles […]
[François Joseph Flamenq (died August 23, 1757, in Tripoli, Syria), chancellor of the consulate in Candia [Heraklion], Crete, and later of that in Tripoli, Syria. Register of his correspondence, circa 1760, compiled by a family member, likely his father-in-law, […]
Peter of Spain [Petrus Hispanus, Pope John XXI] – Johannes Versor [latin name for Jean Le Tourneur]. Dicta versoris super septe[m] tractatus magistri petri hyspani cum textu. Cologne, Heinrich Quentell, [14]89. Small in-4° (21,5 x 14,5 cm). 260 sheets […]
[Charles Bozonnet]. Livret d’Ouvrier-Compagnon, etc. Département de l’Ain. Arrondissement de « Bourg ». Commune de « Bourg ». Bourg, Bottier, 1825. Little in-4°. 8 pp. printed, followed by 16 unnumbered handwritten leaves bearing stamps (2 leaves remain blank). Contemporary mute ivory-coloured vellum. A […]
Léon Husson [- Sacha Simon]. L’Occupant. Nancy, imprimerie Victor Idoux, novembre 1946. In-folio. 2 blank leaves, 64 unnumbered leaves. 59 lithographed drawings by Léon Husson, with a preface by Sacha Simon. Green morocco-bound, long spine (sun-faded), gilt title, bevelled […]