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1819 Medical Letter from “Lunatic Asylum” Maison Royale de Charenton Stating a Criminal Is Unfit to Attend Court

ANTOINE-ATHANASE ROYER-COLLARD · 1819 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$389.99 (€353.83 | £295.14 | ¥62,284)

France, 1819. Ephemera. On offer is a fascinating medical letter, written for legal purposes, on the letterhead of the French ‘lunatic asylum’, Maison Royale De Charenton. This letter was authored by French physician and psychiatrist, Antoine-Athanase Royer-Collard. At the time …

Les Lorettes

GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier] · 1841 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$3,500.00 (€3,175.45 | £2,648.78 | ¥558,972)

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1841. Love is their business, and they drive hard bargains They are as luxurious and idle as they are beautiful Their lives are a tissue of deception and hypocrisy" GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Les Lorettes. Paris: Chez Aubert, J…

Application de la main-d'oeuvre féminine au travail des obus. [AND] Usines André Citroën. Vues photographiques des usines André Citroën de mars a ocobre 1915 [at] 143 quai de javel, Paris.

[Women's Liberation] [André Citroën] · 1915 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€6,800.00 ($7,495.01 | £5,672.19 | ¥1,196,999)

Paris, Citroën, [1915]-1916. In two volumes. Oblong folio (31.5 x 43.7 cm). 71 original photographs (22.0 x 28.5-35.5 cm) mounted on grey cardboard with printed captions [60; 11]. Uniform full mottled calf. Boards with double gilt-rolled ornamental borders and gilt title. = A ve…

1940-41 Hutchinson Internment Camp Almanac Signed by Internees with Largely Hand-Coloured Artwork

KURT SCHWITTERS, FRED UHLMAN, HELLMUTH WEISSENBORN, HEINRICH FRAENKEL, ERNST SCHWITTERS-GULDAHL, SIEGFRIED OPPENHEIMER, BRUNO AHRENDS, FREDERICK SOLOMON, MICHAEL CORVIN, AND OTHERS · 1940 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$22,475.99 (€20,391.80 | £17,009.72 | ¥3,589,554)

Hutchinson Camp, Isle OF Man, Artists Camp, 1940. Softcover. On offer is a sensational and extremely rare copy of The Camp Almanac 1941, no.13-14, which was created and published at Hutchinson Internment Camp (see NOTES at end of listing) on the Isle of Man in December of 1940, …

Report from the Select Committee on the Contagious Diseases Acts; Together with the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix [Command 351]

House of Commons · 1881 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$72.00 (€65.32 | £54.49 | ¥11,499)

London, England, House of Commons, by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1881. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. An uncommonly handsome exemplar of a scarce item, a comprehensive addition to the suite of volumes published for the Queen about the enactment and en…

Histoire des guerres d'Italie

François GUICHARDIN · 1738 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,200.00 ($1,322.65 | £1,000.97 | ¥211,235)

Chez Paul et Isaac Vaillant | Londres 1738 | 19.50 x 26 cm | 3 volumes reliés | Nouvelle édition de la traduction française établie par Favre, revue par Gorgeons et d'autres auteurs. Bien que d'autres éditions aient été données au XVIe et au XVIIe siècle, celle-ci constitue non …

"Nous sommes tous bien emprisonnés en nous-mêmes." • Lettre autographe signée adressée à Marc Barbezat

Jean WAHL · 1937 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)

Paris 22 novembre 1937 | 14.10 x 18.10 cm | 2 pages sur un feuillet, enveloppe jointe | Lettre autographe signée de Jean Wahl adressée à Marc Barbezat, deux pages rédigées à l'encre bleue sur un feuillet. Enveloppe jointe. Pliure transversale inhérente à l'envoi. Jean Wahl fut l…

Mélanges philosophiques

Johann Heinrich Samuel FORMEY · 1754 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

Elie Luzac, fils | à Leyde 1754 | 10 x 16.50 cm | 2 volumes reliés | Edition originale collective. Un portrait au frontispice et une vignette de titre répétée. Reliures en plein veau brun d'époque. Dos à nerfs ornés. Pièces de titre de maroquin rouge, et de tomaison de basane no…

Deux petits dessins à l'encre

Pierre-François-Eugène GIRAUD · 1870 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)

S. n. | s. l. (circa 1870) | 12.50 x 17.50 cm | une feuille | Deux encres originales sur papier fort, représentant à chaque fois deux hommes conversant, dans deux styles différents. Tampon de la vente Giraud en bas à droite de la feuille. Trois infimes déchirures en tête du feui…

La sage folie de Spelte. Poëte & historiographe du roy d'Espagne. Traduite d'italien en françois par Louys Garon. [Première partie: La sage folie, fontaine d'allegresse, mere des plaisirs, reyne des belles humeurs : pour la defense des personnes Ioviales, à la confusion des archisages & protomaistres... Seconde partie : La delectable folie, support des capricieux, soulas des fantasques , nourriture des Bigearres : pour l'utilité des cerveaux faibles, & retenuë des boutadeux]

Antonio Maria SPELTA · 1628 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)

Chez Claude Larjot. | à Lyon 1628 | 9 x 15 cm | deux parties reliées en un volume | Edition originale française. La première édition du texte italien est de 1607. Illustrée de deux frontispices allégoriques signés Gr. Huret. Edition peu courante. Un exemplaire à la BN de France …

Courtiers and Court Life in Poland, 1386-1795

Bozena Czwojdrak (ed) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, 304 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 maps b/w, Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503610733. Summary This collection of studies explores the complexities of the royal courts of Poland from the late medieval period to the cusp of modernity. Draw…

Meanings of Water in Early Medieval England

Carolyn Twomey, Daniel Anlezark (eds) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 289 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:16 b/w, 2 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588889. Summary Water is both a practical and symbolic element. Whether a drop blessed by saintly relics or a river flowing to the sea, water formed part of the…

Cultic Graffiti in the Late Antique Mediterranean and Beyond

Bryan Ward - Perkins, Antonio E. Felle (eds) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, xx + 192 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:108 b/w, 21 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503593111. Summary Graffiti, scratched or drawn on the walls of religious shrines, provide unique unmediated evidence of how ordinary men and women, many o…

Carvers and Customers in Roman Palmyra. The Production Economy of Limestone Loculus Reliefs

Julia Steding · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€105.00 ($115.73 | £87.59 | ¥18,483)

, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, xiv + 294 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:49 b/w, 39 col., 23 tables b/w., 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503597850. Summary Palmyra, located in the Syrian desert, is famous for the portraiture of its citizens, produced when the an…

Rare theological book women 1624 | Soliloquium oft alleenspraecke des H. Seraphischen Leeraer Bonaventura (...) Met den Gheestelycken Nachtegael op de Passie des Heeren ende A.B. der Religieusen. [Dutch translation C. Thielmans], Antwerpen, C. Verschuren, 1624, (14)+146+12+(2) pp.

Bonaventura, translation by Thielmans, C. · 1671 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€599.50 ($660.77 | £500.07 | ¥105,530)

Very rare Dutch translation of Bonaventura's Soliloquium, previously owned by Maria Leermans, abbess of the old Belgium abbey Kortenberg from 1671-1682.Full contemporary vellum binding without the ties. Octavo edition, in -8. First pages with 'Sent-brief" and "Voor-reden van S. …

Dutch student drinking game, early 20th century | Erin geloopen, no 2104, Trading Co Late Perry & Co, Ketelstraat 35 Arnhem, 1 box and 10 wooden blocks, complete game. Oprechte Dordrechtschen Almanach Na de Nieuwe en Oude Stijl / Op het jaar (...) 1698 door Pieter Rembrantsz. van Nierop, By S. Onder de Linde [Dordrecht], [32] pp. (Copy)

Perry & Co, Warenhuis Perry (Sport) · 1934 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€98.10 ($108.13 | £81.83 | ¥17,268)

Dutch student drinking game, published by Warenhuis Perry (later Perry sport) who brought Monopoly game to The Netherlands. Eight cheerful students are sitting together at a table in a tavern, with two empty seats left. Two men ask if they may join, and are gladly allowed—but wi…

Sun and flare.Dharan, Saudi Arabia, Arabian American Oil Company, 1959. Folio (ca. 35.5 x 25 cm). With black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout. loosely included at the back is a calendar for the year 1960 (and 1379-1380 AH) captioned "Happy 1960 from the staff of Sun and Flare 1960/1379,80" and marked on the calendar are non-work Tuesdays. Publisher's gold- and blind-stamped pebble-grained black cloth.

[ARAMCO]. · 1959 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.86 | £1,459.75 | ¥308,051)

Special, nicely bound edition of all 1959 issues of Aramco's in-house weekly newspaper, published and bound together for presentation as a New Year's gift - presumably for Aramco staff and associates. The newspaper issues and especially the present New Year's edition are all ver…

Carols. The Trial of Christ. First Edition of the Broadside

Wilson, John (Ca. 1799-1865) · 1830 · Wittenborn Art Books

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

Bideford, Devon, UK: John Wilson, circa 1830s. Wood-engraving on thin tissue paper. 48 x 38 cm. Very rare . Not listed in "Exeter Working Papers in Book History. Biographical and bibliographical information on the book trades." "Glimpses into the 19th Century Broadside Ballad Tr…

Friesland, Utingeradeel - Wopke Eekhoff, 1849

Eekhoff-- Wopke (1809-1880) · 1849 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€375.00 ($413.33 | £312.80 | ¥66,011)

Utingeradeel de eerste Grietenij van Zevenwouden. Groot formaat staalgravure vervaardigd in 1849 door Daniel Veelwaard voor de Nieuwe Atlas van Provincie Friesland van Wopke Eekhoff. Later met de hand gekleurd. Afm. ca. 56 x 63 cm. Utingeradeel (ook bekend als Utingeradiel) w…

Reize naar de bronnen van den Missouri, en door het vaste land van America naar de Zuidzee. Gedaan op last van de regering der Vereenigde Staten van America, in de jaren 1804, 1805 en 1806.Dordrecht, A. Blussé and son, 1816-1818. 3 volumes. 8vo. With a large folding engraved map of the Missouri River (34.5 x 71 cm) by Cornelis van Baarsel and son, after the map in the first British edition. Modern half calf.

LEWIS, Meriwether, William CLARKE and Nicolaas Godfried van KAMPEN (translator). · 1804 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

XXXII, 398; VIII, 390; "XII" (lacking I-II), 335, [1 blank] pp.Rare first Dutch edition of Travels to the source of the Missouri River and across the American continent to the Pacific Ocean by Meriwether Lewis and William Clarke, translated by the prolific Amsterdam based writer…