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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 […]
Pierre Chatillon (1885-1974), Swiss illustrator. [German High Command during the Great War] Hindenbourg [sic], on Kronprinz, Tirpitz [and the generals] Below, Bernstorff, Linsingen, Moltke, Bissing, and Woyrsch. Series of 9 captioned and signed portraits-charges, no date [1914-1918], no place. […]
Exceptional copy of Count Kirill Grigorievitch RAZOUMOVSKI, President of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, with the cypher of the Empress Elisabeth the Ist Редкое издание Графа Кирилла Григорьевича Разумовского, Президента Академии наук и художеств в Санкт-Петербурге. С вензелем […]
Le Prince de Hombourg, T.N.P., Chaillot, May 1952. 23 anonymous sketches in ink, elegantly handcoloured and embellished with gold and silver, annotated, some captioned (“Gérard Philipe “, “l’électeur de Brandebourg Jean Vilar “, “Jeanne Moreau “, “Jean Négroni “), with some sketches of […]