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[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. […]
Recueil de plusieurs choses utiles intéressantes, et curieuses concernant : La République de Genève. [Genève], 1771. Manuscript in-8°, written in elegant, highly legible ink. Title, [2] pp. of table, 168 pp. Early 20th century glazed green sheepskin, spine with […]
A. Vémar [Gustave Marx’s pseudonym]. Almanach illustré de l’Homme qui rit, parodie en vers comiques. Paris, A. Panis, Et chez tous les Libraires de France et de l’Étranger, [1869]. Little in-4°. 43, [5] pp. Vignette on the title and […]
Geslin cadet [?]. Promotion des Officiers de la Compagnie des Indes. Du 28 7bre 1756. [Suivi de ] Tableau de la marine de la Compagnie des Indes arrêté par une délibération du 2 août 1766. Promotion de 1747. No […]