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 […]
Alfred Sensier (1815-1877), art dealer, critic and historian, attached to the Fine Arts Department, he was then a member of the cabinet of the Minister of the Interior. 10 signed autograph letters addressed to Jules Niel (1800-1872), then Librarian […]
Louis-Philippe Ier and François Guizot. Paris, [around 1848]. 2 plaster caricature portraits. Dimensions : H. 10 cm, L. 6 cm, P. 4,5 cm. A very rare pair of caricature portraits created in the style of Dantan the Younger (1800–1869) […]
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, […]
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 […]
Jules Lemaitre (1853-1914), writer, academician, figure of nationalism. Notes – Impression de Belfort. [No place, 1902]. Signed autograph manuscript, with deletions and corrections. 3 pp. in-8° on 3 ff. recto only. Draft of the article that Jules Lemaître, on […]
Marguerite YOURCENAR. L’Œuvre au Noir. Paris, NRF, 1968. In-8°. 340, [2] pp. Binding to Bradel in black half-Rexine, title label and decorative label in red morocco leather, colour jacket and cover preserved. Third edition published a few months after […]
[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 […]
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, […]
Edmond Rostand, Henri de Régnier, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus and 32 other poets. Les Sonnets de la Guerre. [戦争のソネット ]. Paris, Émile-Paul frères,1916. Little in-4°. xii, 230, [7] pp. Text framed by orange laurel leaves, frontispiece by Combet-Descombes. Orange half morocco […]