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Oeuvres de Crébillon de l'Académie françoise

Prosper Jolyot de CRÉBILLON - François BOUCHER · 1750 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

Rare envoi de Crébillon | Imprimerie Royale | 1750 | 21 x 25.5 cm | Relié | Edition collective que Louis XV fit établir après le succès de Catilina, qui contient les 9 tragédies de Crébillon et ses discours académiques, sans le Triumvirat qui est ajouté sur quelques exemplaires…

"Ce sera pour moi un désastre final" • Lettre autographe signée au poète Catulle Mendès

(à Catulle MENDÈS) - Georges de PEYREBRUNE · 1909 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

"Lorsqu'on ne peut plus gagner sa vie n’est-il pas juste que l'on meure ?" | Asnières-sur-Seine 12 décembre [1909] | 9.1 x 11.6 cm | Une carte | Lettre autographe signée de Georges de Peyrebrune à Catulle Mendès, 1 page et demi à l'encre violette sur une carte, date "12 X bre" e…

"Tu veux entrer dans mon cœur ? — Mon cœur n'est qu'un miroir où tu te mires..." • Lettre d'amour autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney

Renée VIVIEN · 1900 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€3,000.00 ($3,306.55 | £2,502.80 | ¥528,013)

s. l. • [Londres] Le 20 mars [1900] | 9.90 x 15.20 cm | 4 pages sur un double feuillet | Très longue lettre autographe manuscrite de Renée Vivien signée « Pauline » rédigée à l'encre noire sur un double feuillet de papier à en-tête du 24 Hyde Park Street. Pliures transversales i…

"Je lirai « Séraphita » pour te retrouver un peu dans ces pages de Balzac." • Lettre d'amour autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney

Renée VIVIEN · 1900 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€3,800.00 ($4,188.29 | £3,170.21 | ¥668,816)

s. l. • [Londres] Le 14 mars [1900] | 9.90 x 15.20 cm | 8 pages sur 2 doubles feuillets | Lettre autographe manuscrite de Renée Vivien signée « Pauline » rédigée à l'encre noire sur deux doubles feuillets de papier à en-tête du 24 Hyde Park Street. Pliures transversales inhérent…

Lettre autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney et enrichie d'un poème intitulé "Le Miroir"

Renée VIVIEN · 1900 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€6,000.00 ($6,613.09 | £5,005.60 | ¥1,056,025)

s. l. • [Londres] 24 mars 1900 | 10 x 15.70 cm | 6 pages sur 2 doubles feuillets | Lettre manuscrite autographe de Renée Vivien signée « Pauline » et rédigée à l'encre noire sur un double feuillet à en-tête du 24 Hyde Park Street. Cette lettre contient un poème manuscrit en alex…

Decks Awash . (Aboard the Cutty Sark - the Great Tea Race). Signed. First Edition of the Print

Stobart, John (1929-2023) · 1978 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,000.00 (€907.29 | £756.92 | ¥159,687)

Maritime Heritage Prints. 1978. Color print . Signed Aatist proof apart from the 850 signed and numbered impressions. 67.5 x 90 cm. sheet size..74.5 x 101cm. mat size. Matted and can be shipped flat for $200.00..$35,00 shipped in a tube without the mat... John Stobart was inspir…

Harbourtown by Moonlight, (Hilton Head Island). Signed

Stobart, John (1929-2023) · 1984 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.75 | £908.31 | ¥191,624)

Maritime Heritage Prints. 1984. Color print One of 750 signed and numbered impressions. 65 x 86cm.25 x 33.5 inches sheet size..Double Matted and shipped flat. Harbourtown, Hilton Head Island, is an idyllic place with unquestionable charm. This view looks west over the Intracoast…

The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland During the Middle Ages

Various · 1859 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.69 | $1,288.11 | ¥205,695)

London, Longman & Co, 1859-79. Leather. A collection of sixteen volumes of the influential and monumental 'Rolls Series', detailing the Medieval history of Britain. Sixteen volumes of the 'Rolls Series', the major collection of British and Irish historical do…

Lettre d'amour autographe signée adressée à Natalie Clifford Barney : "J'ai laissé mon cœur sur tes lèvres, il y frémira quand tu me diras : Je t'aime !"

Renée VIVIEN - (à Natalie Clifford BARNEY) · 1900 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

s. l. • [Londres] Le 18 mars [1900] | 9.90 x 15.20 cm | 14 pages sur 3 doubles feuillets et 1 feuillet simple | Très longue lettre autographe manuscrite de Renée Vivien signée « Pauline » rédigée à l'encre noire sur trois doubles feuillets de papier à en-tête du 24 Hyde Park Str…

Loyal Volunteers of London & Environs

ROWLANDSON, Thomas · 1798 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$14,500.00 (€13,155.72 | £10,975.37 | ¥2,315,463)

London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1798-9. Thomas Rowlandson's Masterpiece of British Military Costume The Finest Illustrated Record of the Loyal Volunteer Movement A Superb Early Copy with the Plates Heightened in Gold and Silver ROWLANDSON, Thomas. Loyal Volunteers of London & Environ…

Hartford. The "City of Hartford" Arriving from New York at the Foot of State Street in 1870. Signed

Stobart, John (1929-2023) · 1993 · Wittenborn Art Books

$500.00 (€453.65 | £378.46 | ¥79,844)

Maritime Heritage Prints. 1993. Color print One of 950 signed and numbered impressions. 17 × 33 in.. Hartford, State Capital of Connecticut, lies on the west bank of the winding Connecticut River at the head of deep water navigation, some sixty miles north of its confluence with…

[Memoirs of Count Grammont. ]

HAMILTON, Anthony; GRAMMONT, Count · 1808 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$2,850.00 (€2,585.78 | £2,157.23 | ¥455,108)

London: John White, 1808. A Rare Series of Plates depicting the Characters of Seventeenth Century England and France [HAMILTON, Anthony]. [Memoirs of Count Grammont.] A series of thirty-nine stipple plates printed in colors. [London: John White, 1808]. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inc…

St. Louis the "Gateway to the West" in 1878 Signed

Stobart, John (1929-2023) · 1978 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.75 | £908.31 | ¥191,624)

Maritime Heritage Prints. 1978. Color print . Artist proof signed, apart from the 750 signed and numbered impressions. 23 x 34 inches sheet size..29 x 40 inches mat size. Double Matted and shipped flat.. This scene, which shows the busy levee in its heyday as the commercial metr…

1882-1884 Captain’S Log for the First 17 Voyages of the British Warren Line’S Steamship Kansas Which Sailed between Liverpool and Boston

CAPTAIN ALBERT HENRY BURWELL AND CAPTAIN HENRY BORLAND TASKER · 1882 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,755.99 (€1,593.19 | £1,329.15 | ¥280,409)

AT SEA, Liverpool, Boston, New Brunswick. Hardcover. On offer is the handwritten ship’s log for the first 17 voyages of the Scottish-built, British-owned SS Kansas, owned by the passenger steamship line, George Warren & Company (now the Warren Line) , in Liverpool. The log book …

Country Versus Town. Designed and Etched by D.T. Egerton

EGERTON, Daniel Thomas · 1823 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$8,500.00 (€7,711.97 | £6,433.84 | ¥1,357,340)

London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, 1823. Excessively Rare Daniel Egerton Title A Colorful Country Life in Comparison to an Exhausting Urban Life EGERTON, Daniel Thomas. Country versus Town, Twelve Plates, Designed and Etched by D.T. Egerton. London: Published by Thomas M'Lean, …

1928 Diary of a Michigan Teacher on the Trip of a Lifetime, Cruising Through Europe, Grand Tour-Style

HELEN T. MITCHELL MARUSKA · 1928 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$489.99 (€444.56 | £370.88 | ¥78,245)

Michigan, Quebec, Onboard A Ship, Europe, 1928. Hardcover. On offer is a very interesting travel diary dating from the later 1920’s detailing a trip to Europe. This travel diary was kept in 1928 by Helen T. Mitchell (later Maruska) (1904-1972). Helen was born to parents Charles …

Characters at the West End of the Town. Drawn and Etched by Richard Dighton

DIGHTON, Richard · 1825 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$9,500.00 (€8,619.27 | £7,190.76 | ¥1,517,027)

London: Thomas M'Lean: Repository of Wit and Humour, 1825. Richard Dighton's Caricatures of British Society Forty Fine Hand Colored Engraved Plates DIGHTON, Richard. Characters at the West End of the Town. Drawn and Etched by Richard Dighton. London: Thomas M'Lean, Repository of…

A survey of the cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase, modern estate and government of those cities. Written at first in the year MDXCVIII. By John Stow, citizen and native of London. Since reprinted and augmented by A.M. H.D. and other. Now lastly, corrected, improved, and very much enlarged: and the survey and history brought down from the year 1633, (being near fourscore years since it was last printed) to the present time; by John Strype, M.A. a native also of the said city. Illustrated with exact maps of the city and suburbs, and of all the wards; and likewise of the out-parishes of London and Westminster: together with many other fair draughts of the more eminent and publick edifices and monuments. In six books. To which is prefixed, the life of the author, writ by the editor. At the end is added, an appendiz of certain tracts, discourses and remarks, concerning the state of the city of London. Together with a perambulation, or circuit-walk four or five miles round about London, to the parish churches: describing the monuments of the dead there interred: with other antiquities observable in those places. And concluding with a second appendix, as a supply and review: and a large index of the whole work

STOW, John (1525?-1605) · 1720 · Fine Editions Ltd

$5,749.00 (€5,216.02 | £4,351.55 | ¥918,041)

London printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward First Edition thus First Strype Edition, best and most desirable edition of Stow's magisterial study—the "starting point of all inquiry into…

Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Describe Districts Described in those Words by Bede etc. Also: Ducatus Leodiensis: or, Topography of the Ancient and Populous Town & Parish of Leedes etc, Musaeum Thoresbyanum.

Ralph Thoresby; Thomas Whitaker, Vicar of Whalley and Rector of Heysham in Lancashire; Addenda by Rev. Dr. George Hickes, Pedigrees by Chrisopher Bolland · 1816 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£375.00 (€449.50 | $495.43 | ¥79,113)

Printed by B Dewhirst for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield, Leeds; Wakefield, 1816. Second Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I. Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Describe Districts Described in those Words by Bede; a…

Loidis and Elmete: Or An Attempt to Illustrate the Districts Described in those Words by Bede; etc. Also: Ducatus Leodiensis: or The Topography of the Ancient & Populous Town & Parish of Leedes etc, Musaeum Thoresbyanum.

Ralph Thoresby; Thomas Whitaker, Vicar of Whalley and Rector of Heysham in Lancashire; Addenda by Rev. Dr. George Hickes, Pedigrees by Chrisopher Bolland · 1816 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

Printed by T Davison (Volume 1) and B Dewhirst (Volume II) for Robinson, Son, and Houldsworth, Leeds and John Hurst, Wakefield, Leeds; Wakefield, 1816. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Volume I. Loidis and Elmete: Or, An Attempt to Illustrate the District…