Henri RAPIN & Camille BOIGNARD 
Original Bonds Emission poster - 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs

Lapina Imp. • Paris [1925]

Original color lithograph poster for the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, signed in the plate "C. Boignard" and "H. Rapin," printed by Lapina.

Striking large-format original bonds emission poster for the renowned 1925 Paris International Exhibition, which gave its name to the "Art Deco" movement.

Mikhai͏l Gorbatchev 
Memoirs

Doubleday • Londres 1996

First UK edition.

Rare inscribed copy signed by the last leader of the Soviet Union to a USSR émigré, the journalist Sam Yossman.

Walt DISNEY

Signed portrait of Walt Disney

[ca. 1960] • 20,4 x 25,5 cm

Promotional portrait for Disney studios.

Rare and striking manuscript signature by "Uncle Walt" in black ink, signed directly within the image.

Victor HUGO to Eugène PELLETAN

"A republic in Spain would be the simple and pure affirmation of man’s sovereignty over himself"

Hauteville House [Guernesey] • 1868

Proof copy of an appeal for a Republic in Spain following the September Revolution with a presentation inscription to literary critic and political polemicist Eugène Pelletan. Hugo harboured great hope that a Spanish republic could be decisive for peace and democracy in Europe.

One month earlier, Pelletan had published a scathing article on the Queen of Spain's departure in his newspaper La Tribune.

COLLECTIVE

[JESUIT MISSION IN CHINA] Nouvelles lettres édifiantes des missions de la Chine et des Indes orientales

Adrien Le Clère • Paris 1818-1823

First edition of this continuation of the series Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, documenting events from 1767 onward in the missions led by the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris (M.E.P.) in Sichuan, Tonkin, Cochinchina, Siam, and along the Coromandel Coast. 

Contemporary bindings. 

Raymond QUENEAU

Petite cosmogonie portative

Gallimard • Paris 1950

First edition, press copy.

Twice inscribed and signed by Raymond Queneau to Madame Bonnet, the first in blue ink: "A madame Bonnet en sincère hommage Queneau", the asterisk referring to the second signed inscription: "complété en II II III, 131789076, ABCDEFG... Queneau". The inscription is in reference to his essay on langage also published in 1950, titled "Bâtons, chiffres et lettres" [Sticks, numbers and letters].

BORY DE SAINT-VINCENT

Sur l'Anthropologie de l'Afrique française, lu à l'Académie des Sciences dans sa séance du 30 juin 1845

Paris [1845]

First edition, printed in small numbers, of this excerpt from the Magasin de zoologie, d'anatomie comparée et de paléontologie, published by M. Guérin-Méneville in October 1845.

Illustrated with 3 hand-colored plates numbered 59–61 at rear.

BATAILLE & PICASSO & DESNOS & LEIRIS & CARPENTIER

Documents - Complete collection in 15 issues 

Documents • Paris 1929-1930

First edition, 15 issues abundantly illustrated with black and white photographs. Complete with the special issue "Hommage à Picasso" (No. 3, 1930) and the index for the year 1929.

Complete collection of this legendary and non-conformist magazine founded by Georges Bataille. 

Armand BUDAN

La Guadeloupe pittoresque

Noblet & Baudry • Paris 1863

Very rare first edition of this album illustrated with 12 lithographs by Émile Verdier after drawings by the author (1 frontispiece and 11 plates, including one large folding plate depicting Pointe-à-Pitre).

Text and illustrations by Armand Budan.