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Charles Edouard BROWN-SEQUARD

Lettre autographe signée sur la longévité de la vie : "Ne pas vieillir avant le temps et ...

12 juillet 1890, 11,2x17,9cm, une feuille.

Signed autograph letter about human aging

Autograph letter signed by the physiologist and neurologist Charles Edouard Brown-Séquard, dated 12 July 1890, one folded sheet. He outlines a scientific method of prolonging [...]

1 700 €

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Philippe PETAIN

Photographie originale de Philippe Pétain qu'il a dédicacée aux élèves en histoire de la ...

Henri Manuel, Paris s.d. (circa 1927), 9,5x13cm, une photographie.

Original photograph on albumen paper laminated on cardboard and produced by the art gallery Henri Manuel and representing, slightly in profile, Marshal Philippe Pétain. Vintage print.
Autograph signed by Philippe Pétain: "To the students of the history school. Virginia. Ph. [...]

500 €

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Signed book

André René Polydore ALYSSAN DE CHAZET

Mémoires, souvenirs, oeuvres et portraits

Postel & Allardin & Dentu & Tessier & Delloye, Paris 1837, 13,5x21,5cm, 3 volumes reliés.

Illustrated edition of 11 original etchings by Eugène Béjot, one of 300 numbered copies on laid Arches paper, only one print after 25 imperial Japan, variously enriched.
Bindings in fawn half sheepskin, smooth backs adorned with golden romantic arabesques, small losses and slight friction in [...]

350 €

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Pierre-Joseph-Marie PROUDHON

Lettre autographe signée de 4 pages rédigée depuis la prison de Sainte-Pélagie

Paris, Prison de Sainte-Pélagie 12 Novembre 1851, 13x20,5cm, une feuille.

Signed handwritten 4-page letter written from the Sainte-Pélagie prison


Paris | Prison of Sainte-Pélagie 12 November 1851 | 13 x 20.5 cm | single sheet
«I still appear to many people as only the pure and simple negation of what is.»
Handwritten [...]

8 000 €

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ANONYME

(Prostitution) Brevet d'invention - Caisse d'Horloge

Paris s.d. (circa 1800), 23,5x18,3cm, une feuille.

Brevet d'invention – Caisse d'Horloge [Patent of Invention – Clock Case]


Paris [ca 1800] | 23.5 x 18.3 cm | single sheet
A curious manuscript comprising fifteen or so lines in pencil on lined paper, bearing the title «Brevet d'invention – [...]

700 €

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Louis, Chevalier de SADE

Ensemble complet des archives du Chevalier de Sade

s.l. (Londres, Paris, Toulon...) 1791-1832, 12 000 feuillets de divers formats, en feuilles.

The Complete Archives of Louis, Chevalier de Sade

Unpublished political, scientific and historical archives

The complete manuscript unpublished papers of Louis, Chevalier de Sade (1753-1832), [...]

90 000 €

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Père CASIMIR

Manuscrit original : Le triomphe de la croix sur les attraits de la souveraineté ou la vie du duc ...

1800, In-12 (9x16cm), 123pp., relié.

Original manuscript of a work published in 1674 under the same title. The text, in a state certainly before the publication presents many variants with the edition which contains additions and variations of style. The manuscript thus presents a state prior to the edition, the copy is clean and [...]

700 €

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Jean JAURES

Lettre autographe signée à Arthur Huc

s.d. (1909), 13,5x21cm, 2 feuillets sur une page rempliée.

Autograph letter signed by Jean Jaurès, headed by the Chamber of Deputies, politician and journalist Arthur Huc (1854-1932), co-director of the newspaper La Dépêche in which Jean Jaurès publishes weekly articles.
Jean Jaurès apologizes for the irregularity with which he [...]

900 €

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