Eptingen Regiment on parade

Régiment d'Eptingen

  Joseph-Athanase Dano. Plans concernant les manœuvres et évolutions de l’Infanterie suivant l’ordonnance du Roÿ du 20 Mars 1764. Désignés par Joseph Dano, Officier au Regmt suisse d’Eptingen. In-folio (311 x 215 mm). Handwritten title in ink within a pencil-sketched […]

Durand-Ruel supports and encourages Claude Monet

Durand-Ruel à Monet

  Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), painting merchant. 2 autograph letters signed “DurandRuel”, Paris, June 20 and [Le Havre] August 15, 1881, to Claude Monet, 4 pp. in-8°, and 4 letters signed by his accountant Charles Marriott to the artist, Paris, March […]

Barbey d’Aurevilly misogynist

  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 […]

Tchaïkovski by Burne Hogarth

Hogarth

  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 […]

The guillotine. History and executioners.

Guillotine Schmidt

  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. […]

Copy from the Tsarskoie-Selo Imperial Library

Tsarskoié-Selo

  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 […]