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Mady Mesplé (Toulouse, 1931-2020), opera singer. 43 autograph letters or cards signed, Nice, Paris, Vienne, Liège, Toulouse, Lyon, Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, Nantes, Rennes, Saint-Etienne, Les Rousses, and Brueil, 1963-1970, addressed to her “Chère amie” Marie Louise Martin-Gardin, 37, chemin […]
François-Modeste Perrin d’Avressieux, baron d’Athenaz, seigneur de Belmont (1755-1835), decorated with the cross of Saint-Maurice, serving as a Savoyard Major at the head of a company of Chasseurs in the Royal Grenadiers of the Sardinian army. 12 letters [one […]
Voltaire. Le Poëme de Fontenoy. Paris, Imprimerie royale, 1745. In-4°. 28 pp. Engraved vignette on the title, the poem (pp. 16 to 28) in a Greek frame. Contemporary full marbled fawn calf, spine with 5 raised bands decorated […]
Eugène Desmares. Les Métamorphoses du jour, ou La Fontaine en 1831. Paris, Delaunay, 1831. 2 vol. in-8°, 256 pp. [numbered VI-[7-9]-256] ; 319 pp. Half-night blue long-grained morocco with corners, long romantic spine, gilt title, raised title and […]
Louis Aragon. Le Libertinage. Paris, la Nouvelle Revue Française, 1924. In-8° of 254, [1] pp. Red and yellow half-chagrin with corners, flat spines, gilt title, year gilt at foot, double cold fillet on covers, plum-coloured percaline with small […]
Dominican Diurnal. Diurnum sacri ordinis Fratrum Prædicatorum. Pro communi temporis et Sanctorum. Entirely handwritten and hand-ornamented on laid paper, no place, ca. 1900. Small in-4°. 158 unnumbered ff. Jansenist brown morocco, spine with 5 false-nerves, gilt title, gilt […]
[Repères] Chronologiques Depuis la création du monde jusqu’à nos jours. [Paris, vers 1809]. A two-and-a-half-metre printed scroll, consisting of 12 sheets of vellum paper glued end to end. Curious and rare small cylindrical empire case in long-grained red […]
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877), painter. Autograph letter signed “Gustave Courbet“, [Paris], 32 rue Haute-Feuille, 26 July 1869, to “mon cher Carjat” [Etienne Carjat (1828-1906), famous photographer, journalist, caricaturist and poet]. 2 pages in-8°. With autograph address on reverse “Monsieur / […]
[Delacoste, toy manufacturer]. Archives of André Beuret, painter-decorator in Paris, designer of toys for the Delacoste et Cie company. Over 250 drawings, sketches and models, with documents and correspondence. 1951-1959. The Delacoste company was founded in France in 1860 […]
Louis XVI. Maximes morales et politiques tirées de Télémaque ; imprimées par Louis-Auguste, Dauphin. Versailles, De l’Imprimerie de Mgr le Dauphin, dirigée par A. M. Lottin, Libraire & Imprimeur ordinaire de Monseigneur le Dauphin, 1766. In-8°. Wood with the […]