First edition

VOLTAIRE

Le siècle de Louis XIV

Chez C. F. Henning, à Berlin 1751, in-12 (8,5x14,5cm), (14) 488pp. (2) et (2) 466pp., 2 volumes reliés.

First edition presenting well the peculiarities inherent to its publication: it does not present any capital except at the beginning of the paragraphs and it is the very first work to have been printed with the spelling of Voltaire. Our copy is full of his errata sheet, which is often [...]

6 000 €

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Charles BAUDELAIRE

Lettre autographe signée à Poulet-Malassis à propos de Sainte-Beuve : « voilà un vieillard ...

Honfleur 28 février 1859, 13,1x20,5cm, 3 pages sur un feuillet remplié.

Letter autograph signed by Charles Baudelaire to Auguste Poulet-Malassis, publisher of the Flowers of Evil , written in Honfleur and dated February 28, 1859. Letter devoted to "the case of Sainte-Beuve / Babou", in which the writer Hippolyte Babou accuses Sainte-Beuve not to have [...]

17 000 €

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Arthur RIMBAUD

Lettres de la vie littéraire (1870-1875)

Nrf, Paris 1931, 17x22cm, relié.

First edition, one of 109 numbered copies on vergé Lafuma Navarre and re-imposed in Tellière quarto format, the tirage de tête.
Bradel binding, covers and spine preserved, binding signed by Honnelaître.
A nice copy.

1 500 €

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Louis-Ferdinand CELINE

Lettres de prison à Lucette Destouches et maître Mikkelsen 1945-1947

Gallimard, Paris 1998, 17,5x22,5cm, broché.

First edition, one of 111 numbered copies on chiffon de Lana, the only grand papier (deluxe) copies.
A nice copy.

1 800 €

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Henry GAUTHIER-VILLARS DIT WILLY

Carte autographe de Willy "Ah ! ah ! vous aussi, vous êtes pornographe !"

s.d., 11,5x8cm, une carte.

Carte autographe signée de Henry Gauthier-Villars dit Willy, 6 lignes à l'encre violette, adresse de l'expéditeur en pied : « Rue de Courcelles 93 ». 
Cocasse lettre de Willy, personnalité centrale de la vie mondaine parisienne du tournant du XIXe, où transparaît tout son goût pour [...]

200 €

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Napoléon-Jérôme BONAPARTE

Quatre lettres de Napoléon-Jérôme Bonaparte, aux signatures maçonniques, adressées au peintre ...

Italie, circa 1842, 13,5x20,5cm, 4 feuillets rempliés.

Set of four letters from Napoleon-Jerome Bonaparte to the painter Geniole, two are dated August 21 and December 12 [1842], 6 pages in brown ink, recipient address on the back of the sheets, two seals of the sender in part preserved.
Folds inherent in envelopes.
Some tiny [...]

800 €

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Henry de MONTHERLANT

Lettre autographe de Henry de Montherlant à Noël B. de la Mort " il y a des périodes pour les ...

s.l. 12 septembre 1942, 20,5x27cm, un feuillet.

Signed autograph letter of Henry de Montherlant at Christmas B. de la Mort, dated September 12, 1942, 16 lines in black ink, envelope attached.

250 €

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Pierre PUVIS DE CHAVANNES

Lettre autographe signée de Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

Paris, 9 mai 1898, 12x15cm, un feuillet.

Autograph letter signed by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, dated May 9, 1898, 19 lines in black ink on letterhead with the address of the mansion of his wife Marie Cantacuzène "89 avenue de Villiers" .
A moving letter of thanks from the painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes: " [...]

350 €

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