n. l.

Extract from the first edition of the Procès-verbal of the attempted coup of August 6, 1840.

Half midnight-blue chagrin, brown marbled paper sides, arms of Ernest-Gabriel, Marquis des Roys, on the upper cover with the motto "monstrant regibus astra viam", smooth spine, gilt-lettered title lengthwise on spine, combed paper pastedowns. Copy annotated in the margins. Some rubbing and scuffing, light foxing.

Bookplate of the Marquis des Roys with his arms and motto. Bookplate of Libes.

A rare copy of the list of defendants in Louis Bonaparte's insurrection, annotated in ink with the sentences handed down, preserved in the library of the son of a sitting...

Second edition, one of 20 copies on japon, followed by 480 numbered copies on hollande.

Contemporary full green morocco binding, spine with five raised bands, title and author lettered in gilt,  armorial stamp of Aleister Crowley and his motto “SPES” on upper cover and crowned cipher “AC” on lower cover, original wrappers preserved, marbled paper pastedowns and endpapers, inner gilt dentelle, roll tool on edges and spine-ends, top edge gilt, sunned spine, boards with slightly darkened margins, split at foot of upper joint.

Reprint in 12mo published the same year as the first edition in 4to. Both issued from the Elzevier press.

Pastiche binding in half light brown sheep, spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt and six compartments decorated with gilt rolls, one containing the title in gilt, marbled paper boards, sprinkled edges, shell-pattern marbled pastedowns and endpapers.

Hinges rubbed, one with a slight split at the upper right extending 2...

Touching autograph card, dated and signed by Julio Cortázar, addressed to his friend, the writer Christiane Baroche: eight lines in black ink, thanking her for the comfort she had given to his wife Carol, then suffering from an incurable illness.

"29/11/82

je n'oublierai jamais, Christiane, ta présence près de Carol, ta bonté que - je le sais - l'encourageait tant dans sa souffrance. Je ne peux pas écrire davantage, je t'embrasse très fort, Julio. Ton poème sera toujours près de mon coeur."

Photographic three-quarter bust portrait of Jean de Lattre de Tassigny in uniform.

Slight foxing.

Autograph inscription signed by Jean de Lattre de Tassigny in faded blue ink in the upper right corner: "To my friend Pauchant, President of Rancourt-Verdun, most cordially and faithfully... Verdun 1937 - Colmar 1947." (our own translation)

Original ink composition in magenta, brown, green, and blue hues, titled and signed “Moscou / L D” by Léon Deubel made on the verso of a leaf from his collection of poems titled La Lumière natale.

Magnificent multicoloured ink-blot drawing (klecksography) signed by the poète maudit Léon Deubel, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud’s Illuminations. This early Rorschach-like fold drawing was created using a...

Autograph manuscript by Louis Pasteur. One page in black ink on a single leaf, with numerous erased words and crossed-out passages.

Unpublished note by pasteur on his rabies vaccine.

Pasteur was under the scrutiny of...

Bronze cast of the Marquis de Sade's skull by the master founder Avangini. One of a unique numbered edition of 99 bearing a reproduction of Sade's signature, this one no.31.
Also included is a certificate of authenticity signed by the Comtesse de Sade, with the family's wax seal.
Provenance: family archives.

Autograph manuscript by the author, two and a half pages in-8, published in the issue of May 11, 1944 of the Journal des Débats. Complete manuscript in very dense handwriting, with numerous erasures, corrections, and additions. Literary column published on the occasion of the release of Gaston Bachelard's L'air et les songes. Accompanied by the complete typescript.

« L'homme est d'abord rêverie, puissance d'imaginer avant d'être sensibilité et raison », Blanchot’s analysis of this new essay by Bachelard provides an opportunity to confront the philosopher with the uncertainties of his theory, which tends to fragment in the plurality of its forms...