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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 […]
Comin’Ache (pseudonym of H. Comin). Capitalisme. 1899. Transfer printing. Plate 16 for the album Les Temps nouveaux, published by Jean Grave. Beautiful proof on watermarked laid paper, untrimmed margins. Cartoonist and lithographer, Comin’Ache collaborated with Almanach de la Révolution […]
Alexander Harrison (1774 – after 1854), Quarter Master, 1st [then 3rd] Garrison Battalion. [Housebook]. 1808-1854. Manuscript in-4° (24 x 19,5 cm). [1], 1 bl., [52] leaves, 78 bl. leaves. Contemporary fawn basane, smooth spine decorated with double cold fillets, […]
Psalterium chorale fratrum S. Dominici cum versiculis, Responsorijs horarum, Annis nocturnalibus, Psalmis, Himnisque omnibus, cantu et litera, summo studio recognitum et emendatum: in hac parva forma ita redactum ut Novitii et Moniales dicti ordinis, commodius cantare, sine legere queant. […]