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Le Bout de L'Oreille

COMBA, Pierre-Paul · 1855 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$6,500.00 (€5,897.66 | £4,920.29 | ¥1,037,969)

Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, 1855. Whisperings in the Ear" "A Little Bit of One's True Self" COMBA, Pierre-Paul. Le Bout de L'Oreille par Comba. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, [ca. 1855]. First edition. Folio (12 15/16 x 10 inches; 338 x 254 mm.). Pictorial hand colored lithograph title…

Heart Wrenching 19th Century Manuscript Letter in Which an Alcoholic Man Writes His Mother to Make Amends for His Past, Describe His Recent Troubles, and Share His Newfound Faith in the Roman Catholic Church

DAVID · 0 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,255.99 (€1,139.60 | £950.74 | ¥200,566)

Non-Book. On offer is a letter from a man named David to his mother that is so intimate, reading it feels like taking a peek into the heart of a man who likely lived nearly 200 years ago. The origin of the letter is something of a mystery. There is no accompanying envelope. We k…

1989-1990 Handwritten Diary of a Self-Aware, Articulate, Profane, Sarcastic College Student, Coping with Roommates, Lovers and Coming-of-Age in the 20th Century America

JOHN BOGGS · 1989 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$895.99 (€812.96 | £678.24 | ¥143,078)

United States: Northern American College, Strip Club, Art School, Young Dreamer, Goals, 1989-1990. Hardcover. On offer is a quite revealing look inside the life of a self-aware young college student experiencing the challenges stepping out from the shadow of his home life. The d…

Computing Projects in Visual Basic

CHRISTOPHER, DEREK · 2000 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£16.70 (€20.02 | $22.06 | ¥3,523)

Payne-Gallway Publishers. 2000. (ISBN: 9781903112335). Paperback, 27.2 x 21.4 x 1.6 cm. Condition good. Isbn 1-903112-33-8, 1903112338. Great book, 8 September, 2001 Reviewer: Elaine Graham from Scotland I have just started college to do an HNC IT course. I was advised to get th…

Un feuillet autographe manuscrit pour Normance (Féérie pour une autre fois II) : "ça arrivera pas à Lauriac ! ni à Tartron ! ni Larengue !... Ils ont pris le bon versant de la vie : le flan !"

Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE · 1954 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,200.00 ($1,322.56 | £1,001.13 | ¥211,196)

Meudon 1954 | 21.20 x 26.10 cm | une page sur un feuillet | Manuscrit autographe signé de Louis-Ferdinand Céline rédigé au stylo à bille bleu sur un feuillet de papier blanc numéroté 243 au coin gauche. Quelques taches ainsi qu'une pliure centrale sans gravité. Un infime manque …

Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis Buñuel

Alexander CALDER - (Juan-Luis BUÑUEL) · 1956 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,400.00 ($1,542.98 | £1,167.99 | ¥246,395)

(Saché) 29 décembre 1956 | 14.70 x 10.40 cm | une carte postale | Carte postale autographe signée d'Alexander Calder à Juan Luis Buñuel, rédigée en anglais au stylo bille et au feutre bleu. Tampon postal de Sa­ché (Indre-et-Loire). Adresse parisienne de Juan Luis Buñuel. Carte p…

Autograph Letter Signed ("Beatrix Heelis") to Mrs. Edwards. Sawrey, 10 November 1943

POTTER, Beatrix · 1943 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$14,500.00 (€13,156.32 | £10,976.03 | ¥2,315,468)

Sawrey: , 1943. An Unpublished Beatrix Potter Letter Written Six Weeks Before Her Death Concerning Her Declining Health, Nurse Edwards, Hill Top Farm, Wartime Labor Shortages, and the Management of Her Lake District Estate POTTER, Beatrix (1866-1943). Autograph Letter Signed ("B…

View of Ladies Hall. Purdue University. Original Etching. Signed

Lark-Horovitz, Betty (1894-1995) · 1929 · Wittenborn Art Books

$250.00 (€226.83 | £189.24 | ¥39,922)

West Lafayette Indiana: 1929. Original etching, 46.5 x 50 cm. Signed and titled in pencil...Ladies Hall, one of the original three buildings on Purdue's West Lafayette campus, was a majestic, vibrant structure that served several purposes until its demolition in 1927.. Like Purd…

Eenige morale of zedige werken van Plutarchus. Vertaalt door R. T.

PLUTARCHUS. · 1634 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€340.00 ($374.72 | £283.65 | ¥59,839)

Amsterdam, Voor Hendrik Maneke, 1634. 12mo. (VIII),477,(3 blank) p., frontispiece. Vellum 12.5 cm (Ref: Geerebaert 69,8; Geerebaert gives as date 1644; OiN 307) (Details: 5 thongs laced through the joints. Engraved frontispiece, depicting a writer/philosopher and the Greek god …

C. 17th Century Manuscript Extract After Edward Johnson on Indigenous Peoples of Early New England, Headed 1647

UNKNOWN. · 1654 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$3,455.99 (€3,135.73 | £2,616.07 | ¥551,878)

New England, Indigenous Land, c1600s. Ephemera. On offer is a remarkable early manuscript extract preserving a 17th-century English colonial description of Indigenous peoples in New England. The text closely follows a passage from Edward Johnson’s important Puritan history, Wond…

La Filosofia En la Nueva España [Bound with] Treinta Sofismas I Un Buen Argumento Del Señor Doctor D. Agustin de la Rosa. .

Rivera, Agustín · 1885 · Kaaterskill Books

$300.00 (€272.20 | £227.09 | ¥47,906)

Lagos, V. Veloz a cargo de A. Lopez Arce, 1885. First edition. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. [1 lv], 402 pp.; [1 lv], 210 pp. 8vo. Two rare works by Agustin Rivera on the the merits of intellectual life during the Colonial Mexico, the…

TICKET. Steamer Fremont. For Salt River, via "Bleeding Kansas" This Ticket Entitles the Holder to a Free Passage up Salt River, on and after Novmber 5th, 1856.

[Political Satire]. "Beecher, Rev. Rifle, Agent." Frémont, John Charles [1813 - 1890] - Subject · 1856 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$825.00 (€748.55 | £624.50 | ¥131,742)

(n. p.): , 1856. 1st printing (presumed). Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 8 lines of type. Verso blank. Small cut of a river packet in center. Oblong format: 1-7/8" x 2-3/4" Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 4, 1856. Democratic nominee Jam…

1919-1920 Diary of a Cornell University Freshman Who Has Waited out the Great War to Finally Achieve His College Dream

FREDERICK WILLIAM ABENDSCHEIN (PRESUMED AUTHOR) · 1919 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,855.99 (€1,684.00 | £1,404.92 | ¥296,378)

Ithica, New York, 1919. Softcover. On offer is the engaging diary of a post WWI student at Cornell University. The author of this diary is believed to be Frederick William Abendschein (1894-1975) , though this cannot be confirmed. There are contextual clues that loosely identify…

1933-1937 Diary Following a Pennsylvania Girl from Pre-Teen to High School Senior

EMILY MARY KEHOE · 1920 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$549.99 (€499.02 | £416.32 | ¥87,827)

Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania. Hardcover. On offer is a fascinating 5 year diary of Emily Mary Kehoe (1920-2013) , who writes from age 12 through 17. Born in Manhattan, Emily is in her final year of middle school and becomes a teenager on August 2, 1933. She keeps the diary unti…

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, ‘55

KANE, ELISHA KENT · 1996 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1996. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt Lakeside Press medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with two fold-out maps, frontispiece and 28 plate…

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, ‘55

KANE, ELISHA KENT · 1996 · Round Table Books, LLC

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company / The Lakeside Press, 1996. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt Lakeside Press medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with two fold-out maps, frontispiece and 28 plate…

Arctic Explorations: The Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, 54, ‘55

KANE, ELISHA KENT · 1996 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company / The Lakeside Press, 1996. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt Lakeside Press medallion on cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with two fold-out maps, frontispiece and 28 plate…

1943-47 Diary of a Camrose, Alberta Student, Labourer and Film Buff Discussing Work, Life, the War, and Many, Many Movies

GEORGE GRANGER · 1927 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$699.99 (€635.12 | £529.87 | ¥111,780)

Camrose, Alberta, Canada, Canadian Prairies. Hardcover. On offer is a fine example of a multi-year diary kept by a young man named George Granger in rural Alberta, Canada during World War Two (WWII). The author of the diary is George Beverley Granger (b. 1927). He was the younge…

1869 Chinese Coolie Arrival Manifest for Passengers of the San Salvadorian Vessel Aurora’S Voyage from Macau to Havana

D.S. BURNHAM · 1869 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$2,199.99 (€1,996.12 | £1,665.32 | ¥351,311)

Havana, Matanzas, Cuba: Chinese Coolie Trade Ship Manifest Cuba, 1869. Non-Book. On offer is an arrival manifest recording the names, information and fates of 26 Chinese men who were transported on an complicated voyage of the Aurora, from the port of Macau to Havana, Cuba to co…

Collection of 1800s Financial Receipts and Letters of a Rich Frenchman Who Loaned Money in the Cote D’or Region

FRENCH NOTARY · 1800 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$199.99 (€181.46 | £151.39 | ¥31,936)

France, 1800s. Ephemera. On offer is a small collection of loan documents from the early and mid 19th century France. The documents are receipts for various financial transactions involving a Monsieur Henry Codelier who lived in Seurre in east central France. In the 19th century…