Purchasing – Sale – Expertise
[René Vallery-Radot]. M. Pasteur. Histoire d’un savant par un ignorant. Paris, J. Hetzel and Cie, n.d. [1884]. Large in-12. xiv, [2], 392 pp. Black half-morocco, back with 5 false bands, gilt title, gilt head, gilt cypher on the spine, gilt […]
Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal de Richelieu (1585-1642). Letter signed « Le Card. de Richelieu », Paris, 24 July 1631, addressed to the Marquis de Brezé, Captain of the King’s Bodyguard and Governor of Saumur. 1 page in-folio (36 […]
[Pascal Amouroux]. Hommage respectueux du personnel des Etablissements Amouroux fres à la mémoire vénérée de son Chef : Pascal Amouroux. [A respectful tribute from the staff of Etablissements Amouroux bros. to the cherished memory of their Director: Pascal Amouroux]. […]
Amour, sort of poetic testament of a miserable and desperate Verlaine, the autograph manuscript to the deluxe first edition, including a proof copy and a letter which the poet, in distress, wrote to his publisher. Paul Verlaine. Amour. […]
Armand de Roquelaure. Discours prononcé, le Mardi 1 Octobre mil sept-cent soixante-onze, en l’église des religieuses carmélites de S. Denys, pour la cérémonie de la prise du voile de profession de Madame Louise-Marie de France. [Speech delivered on Tuesday, […]
Léo Ferré (Monaco, 1916 – Castellina in Chianti (Tuscany), 1993), singer and poet. Viens… Autograph manuscript signed “Leo“, no place no date. [ca. 1982], with dedication : “A toi, Claude ” [Fléouter]. 5 pp. in-4. Written with a fine point-marker, […]
Auguste Bartholdi (1834-1905), sculptor. Signed autograph letter, 1 March 1880, to « mon cher ami ». One and a half pages in-8° with his initial. On his replica of his famous sculpture of the Lion of Belfort in Place Denfert-Rochereau […]
Juan Francisco Piferrer. [Corrida,aleluya broadside]. [Barcelone], Libreria de Piferrer, plaza del Angel, no date [ca. 1800]. Folio broadside with 48 numbered woodcut fields of bullfighting scenes printed black on recto, verso blank, on uncut chain-laid paper, with publisher’s caption […]
Great War. 75 original vintage stereoscopic photographs on positive glass plates (6 x 13 cm). S.T.L., [ca.1914-1920]. In their 4 Lumière plate boxes, with their handwritten labels, which only partially correspond, and a blue reference stamp on the lid. […]
Stephanus Junius Brutus [i. e. Philippe de Mornay, said Duplessis-Mornay or Hubert Languet]. De la Puissance légitime du Prince sur le peuple, et du peuple sur le Prince. Traité très-utile & digne de lecture en ce temps, escrit en […]