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Julien Offray de La Mettrie. Œuvres philosophiques. Londres [i.e. Berlin], Jean Nourse, 1751. In-4°. lvi, 364 pp. Vignette engraved on the title page with “Si prodire vetas, intus vehementior ardet ” on the phylactery. Contemporary fawn-coloured calf, back […]
[Omocha-e. 玩具絵].Shimizu Seifū. 清水晴風. Unai no tomo (Children’s Friends [Japanese toys]). Volume 1 [alone].うなゐの友 初編. [Kyoto], Unsodo, Yamada Naosaburo, Meiji 24 [Octobre 1891]. 芸艸堂, 山田直三郎, 明治廿四年 十月. In-8° (25,2 x 17,5 cm) . 62 leaves, 52 full-page prints (which […]
Honoré Daumier. Robert-Macaire journaliste. Engraved wooden matrix monogrammed “h D”, no date [ca. 1836], with on the back the handwritten mention in ink: “Daumier / Robert Macaire / Banquier “, then, upside down and by another hand: “page 225 “. (Dim. 14,5 x […]
Jacques Prévert (1900-1977). 3 autograph poems in blue ink, titles doubly underlined in red pencil. No place, no date [around 1943]. 1 p. in folio with small squares (dim 37 x 27 cm.). « Immense et rouge » […]
Miniature keepsake shaped box (55 x 45 mm), no place, no name, may 12, 1879. Green shagreen, upper cover framed by a gilt garland, decorated with a chromolithograph representing a swallow depositing, on a red camellia, a card with […]
Pacifique [Claude-François] Rousselet. Histoire et Description de l’église royale de Brou, élevée à Bourg-en-Bresse, sous les ordres de Marguerite d’Autriche, entre les années 1511 & 1536. Paris, Desaint et Comte, 1767. In-12. vii, [1 p. chapter table], 131 pp., […]
[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 […]