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[Register of magistral prescriptions in the Hospices of Beaune]. 1661-1663. Manuscrit. Large in-8°. Title and 579 unnumbered pages. Fawn half-sheepskin, nineteenth-century bindingth, back with 4 false bands adorned with golden fillets, label in black marocco. Valuable and important register […]
I. The plaster hand of Juliette Drouet, the love of his life. [Charles Simon Pradier (1783-1847), Swiss engraver]. Moulding of Juliette Drouet’s hand. Plaster. around 1826. Dimensions 25 x 10 x 5 cm. With handwritten mention in ink on […]
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). III. Heroic Symphony. Proofs with the composer’s autograph corrections. No place, no date [ca. 1862]. 10 pp. in-8° glued on sheets in-4° mounted on guards. Antique binding of red paper boards, black morocco title piece […]
Julius Mordecaï Pincas alias Jules Pascin (1885-1930). Time for Sketches – Germaine Eisenmann [“Pierre Dubreuil and 3 Models ” (added by another hand)]. Pencil on paper, signed lower right and titled on the back by the artist followed by […]
André Malraux (1901-1976). Correspondence and documents. 8 autograph letters signed, Provins, Sens and Collemiers, April-October 1940, (7 addressed to Josette Clotis and one to her father, Joseph Clotis, with a correspondence card from Josette addressed to him, Neuilly, […]
[Besançon]. Jean-Baptiste Lallemand. 5 views of Besançon engraved on copper, finely contemporary watercoloured . “Vue de la porte taillée à Besançon “, “Vue du pont de Besançon, Et de l’Arc de Triomphe nouvellement détruite ” [sic] and “Vue d’un ancien arc de […]
Petrus de Natalibus. Catalogus sanctorum & gestoru[m] eorum ex diversis voluminibus collectus : editus a reverendissimo in christo patre d[omi]no Petro de natalibus de venetiis dei gratia episcopo Equilino. [Colophon :] Lyon, Jacques Saccon [sic] [for Luc’Antonio Giunta in Venice], […]
Henry Schenck Tanner. A New Universal Atlas, containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, plans of cities, &c. Comprehended in seventy sheets and […]
[Jean Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), French admiral, hero of Dunkirk and then minister of the navy of the Vichy regime from November 1942 to March 1943]. Mediterranean Wing Fanions Album. 1936 ● 1938. No place, no name, [1938]. Oblong […]
Jacques Le Brigant. Observations fondamentales sur les langues anciennes et modernes ; ou Prospectus de l’Ouvrage intitulé : La Langue primitive conservée. Paris, Barrois l’aîné, 1787. In-4°. [2] pp. of warning and errata, 111 pp., [1] p. of approval. Typographical ornament […]