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[Miniature Military Atlas]. [Pierre Lemau de La Jaisse]. [Fortifications de la France]. No place, no name and no date [Paris, between 1733 and 1736]. 110 engraved maps in 3 volumes in-32 Italian style (8,2 X 12,2 cm). 4 […]
Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France. Letter signed “Louis” (autograph signature), written by the secretary of the hand Toussaint Rose, Versailles, 21 January 1666, addressed to “ma seur“. 1 p. in-4°, very discreet mourning border. A particularly moving letter […]
Arts et Métiers Graphiques. Paris, Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1927-1938. Complete collection. 68 issues in-4°. Sewed volumes, square back, very elaborate typographic covers, 70 pp for the regular issues. The eight thematic special issues are devoted to Photography (n°16), […]
Pierre Mignard (after). The Virgin, the Child Jesus and Saint John the Baptist. Paris, Image St Benoist, no date [XVIIIe century]. Beautiful copperplate engraving signed “P. R.”, after the one engraved by François de Poilly (“F. P. ex. […]
Napoleon on St. Helena. Painting by François Martinet. State of the [British garrison]. St Helena. [.]. Saint Helena, 17-29 November 1816. Anonymous manuscript [Superior Officer ?] in-16, in English, . 34 unnumbered pages, written in fine and elegant writing […]
[Marquis de Thuisy]. État du Régiment des Gardes Françoises du Roy au mois de Juin 1789. [Paris, 1789]. Manuscript in-16. [1], 7 white, 93 pp., 13 ff. white. Long-grained blue morocco, richly decorated long back, plates decorated with […]
Gustave Doré (1832-1883). [Ils amenèrent d’abord le domestique.] Original engraved wood signed ” G Doré ” for one of the 31 full-page plates of Aventures du baron de Münchhausen. Traduction nouvelle par Théophile Gautier fils, illustrées par Gustave Doré. […]
Etrennes mignonnes pour l’an de Grace de Notre-Seigneur. M.DCCLXII. Liège, Everard Kints, no date [1762]. In-32 (9,7 x 5,5 cm or 3.81″ x 2,16″). [56] ff. and [14] ff. blanks, 12 full-page woodcut showing coin wood ingraved in the […]
Complete collection of the Bulletins de la Grande Armée during the Russian campaign : 20 June 1812 – 3 December 1812. 29 numbers of the Bulletin de la Grande Armée in the form of posters in-plano (n° 28 […]
Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877), painter. Autograph letter signed ” Gustave Courbet “, Salins, 28 November 1864, to the ” cher et grand poète ” [Victor Hugo]. 3 pages and a half in-8°. Magnificent letter addressed to the great […]