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Libro de Nobili, che portano Veste, cioè L’Anno Mese e Giorno, che sono nati, et anco L’Anno che sono congiunti in Mattrimonio. Fatto del Mese di Marzo l’Anno 1708. [Register of nobles ‘who wear the habit’ (patricians), it […]
Pauline Viardot (1821-1910), French singer and composer, sister of La Malibran. [Son] Agenda ou Tablettes journalières [pour l’année] 1901. In-18. Full cream contemporary morocco, gilt metal cipher inlaid on upper cover, white tabis counter-plates and endpapers with gusset on […]
[Military photographs]. Germaine Krull. World War II. Rhine and Danube. Liberation of Alsace and Colmar. General de Lattre de Tassigny in Colmar. Around 13 February 1945. 13 photographs from the time period, unpublished. middle format size : 9 x […]
Louise Georgine Elisabeth Nancy de Thoisy, Countess of Coligny-Chatillon. Légendes comtoises, copiées de Charles-Amédé Beneyton, peinct, escript et aorné par la comtesse de Coligni-Chatillon. 1875 in Choye [near Gy, Haute-Saône]. Richly illuminated manuscript. In-8°. 3 blank leaves, [10] […]
Saturnin Fabre. [Album de dessins, souvenirs de guerre 14-18]. No place [Savy, in Aisne], May 3rd to 5th 1917. 20 tracing paper loose sheets (28 x 22,5 cm) inserted in a notebook with blank cardboard pages (32 x 24 […]
Réglement pour M.M. les directeurs et Répétiteurs des petits Séminaires. Manuscript in-4°. 1 blank sheet, 14 unnumbered pp. . [Followed by :] Réglement Pour MM. Les Directeurs et Professeurs des petits séminaires. Besançon. No place, no date [Besançon, early XIX century ?]. […]
[Claude Marie Giraud (Lons-le-Saunier,1711 – Paris, 1780), doctor]. La peronie aux enfers chez Minos. Arrest de Pluton contre la faculté de Medecine. No place no date [around 1750]. Manuscript. 15 pp. in-4°. Sewn. A rare contemporary copy of this […]
Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France. Letter signed ‘Louis’ (autograph signature), probably from the pen of Toussaint Rose, the cabinet secretary, Au camp près de Dole, 9 June 1674, addressed to ‘ma cousine’ [Louise Christine de Savoie]. 1 p. […]
[François I, Emperor of Austria]. Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Prochaska (ou Prohaska) (Vienna (Isère), 3 July 1760 – id., 24 April 1823), Marshal-Lieutenant of the Austrian Empire, hero of the revolutionary and imperial wars against France. Letters of nobility, […]
Voltaire (1694-1778). Letter signed ‘Voltaire’, Château de Ferney, 29 January 1765, to ‘Monsieur’ [André Gallatin le jeune, syndic of Genève]. 2 pp. in-4°. With its envelope written in the same hand: ‘A Monsieur / Monsieur le Sindic De La […]