Le Littre laconically defines bibliophile like "love of books."

A first edition is the first text print in a given state. Is the first impression of a work. It is sought after by collectors, bibliophiles, for its rarity, specific characteristics and quality of his condition.

An autograph is a handwritten message affixed by an author on a copy of one of his works. It can be specifically addressed to the near of the author, a colleague, and signed or not. Sometimes it is decorated with a drawing (Cocteau), a collage (Prévert) ...

Gustave Doré occupied a central place in the visual culture of the nineteenth century. It marked the imagination of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and comics - he is considered one of the founding fathers - and film.
The Orsay Museum devotes a virtual exhibition.

"There is no human species, there is a human race. This is because we are men like them that the SS will ultimately powerless before us."
This testimony of Robert Antelme, Deported Resistance to Buchenwald to Dachau and then released thanks to the intervention of François Mitterrand, had not immediately impact it has today.

Period of profound change, the civilization of the Renaissance will be completely new design of the book in the decades that constitute it.

The library is pleased to offer this intellectual journey through this civilization disappeared bibliophiles to his friends.

Our catalog of modern books of January 2015:

First editions, authors mailings, fine bindings.

The invention of printing is one of the most important victories of thought on ignorance and obscurantism.

D'Etienne Dolet Editions de Minuit, writers, publishers and printers together led the fight for the emancipation of nations
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