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Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly. Les Bas-bleus. Paris, Victor Palmé et Bruxelles, G. Lebrocquy, 1878. In-12. XXIII introductory pages, 1 blank page, and 346 pages. Blue velvet Bradel binding, havana sheepskin morocconed label , blue and red cover preserved. Original edition […]
Alphonse de Lamartine. Daguerreotype by Louis Auguste Bisson, Paris, [around 1841]. Photographic print (9,7 x 7,5 cm), with passe-partout (13,5 x 12 cm), the photographer’s embossed stamp with his label on the back. Benjamin Elbel’s box and slipcase. […]
Burne Hogarth (born Spinoza Bernard Ginsburg) (Chicago, 1911 – Paris, 1996), American comic strip artist, illustrator and teacher, best known for his work on anatomy and comic strips Tarzan. Tschaikowsky. no place no date. Red graphite. Drawing monogrammed lower […]
Louis-François Du Bois. Recherches historiques et physiologiques sur la guillotine, et détails sur Sanson : ouvrage rédigé sur pièces officielles. Paris, France, 1843. In-8°. 35, [1] pages, one plate in fine. Contemporary pink half-percaline, long gilt title on spine. […]
Leendert Jurriaan Jordaan (1885-1980). De openbare Terechtstellingen in Frankrijk. [In English : Public executions in France]. 1789 – „ Fiat Iustita” [sic]– 1909. Black grease pencil drawing heightened with white, signed lower right Jodaan’09. 1909. Dim : 33 x […]
Charles Malo. L’Ami des Jeunes Demoiselles. Paris, Louis Janet, no date [1824]. In-18 (11,5 x 7,5 cm). Illustrated title, 143 pp, [1] p. of table, [4] pp. of calendar for the year 1825. 6 lithographed engravings under serpents out […]
[Casimir Freschot]. Relation historique de l’Amour de l’Empereur de Maroc, pour Madame la Princesse Doüairiere de Conty, ecrite en forme de Lettres à une Personne de Qualité, par Mr. le Comte D.***. A Cologne, Chez Pierre Marteau, 1707. Small […]
Le Figaro . L’Expédition du Tonkin racontée par les Chinois. Sunday Supplement. Saturday 28 June 1884. 4 pp. in-folio (64 x 44 cm), 1st and 4th colored. Fine example of Chinese false propaganda denounced by the French press. With […]
Fake Almanac, binding only, hiding a clandestine crucifix in a box glued to the back and back inner cover, the monting probably dating from the revolutionary era, around 1793. 10,6 x 5,5 cm. Contemporary red morocco , long […]
Iroé-Grego. La Véritable Magie noire, ou le Secret des Secrets. Manuscrit trouvé à Jérusalem, dans le sépulcre de Salomon. Contenant : I° Quarante-cinq Talismans avec leurs Gravures, ainsi que la manière de s’en servir, et leurs merveilleuses propriétés […]