First edition, Signed book

Edouard DETAILLE

Lettre autographe signée au ministre de la Guerre à propos du casque créé pour l'Infanterie ...

s.d. (vers 1911), 12,8x17,1cm, une feuille.

Lettre autographe signée du peintre et illustrateur Edouard Detaille au ministre de l'Intérieur, une feuille rempliée.
En novembre 191127, le ministre de la Guerre Adolphe Messimy décide de rénover les uniformes de l'armée française et lance [...]

300 €

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Jean-Jacques Paul Félix RESSAYRE

Lettres d'un lieutenant-colonel de Dragons à la guerre de Crimée

Maison d'édition et imprimerie moderne, Agen 1910, 16,5x25,5cm, relié.

first edition printed in small numbers on laid by Canon A. Durengues.
Binding in half tan sheepskin with corners, back with five nerves decorated with golden and decorated double boxes, golden date in tail, framing of double golden threads on the marbled paper boards, guards and counterplates [...]

150 €

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Pierre-François-Félix-Joseph GIRAUD

Campagne de Paris, en 1814, précédée d'un coup-d'oeil sur celle de 1813...

A. Eymery, Paris 1814, 13x21,5cm, relié.

Second edition, partly original as revised, corrected and increased.
Binding at the brade in full purple percaline, smooth discolored back decorated with double golden threads, marginally discolored boards.
Some foxinges.
Very complete work of its folding map placed at the beginning of volume.

120 €

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Signed book

Jean Des VALLIERES

Sous le drapeau de la légion étrangère. Les hommes sans nom

Albin Michel, Paris 1949, 12x19cm, broché.

Reissue.
Nice autograph dedication of the author of Jean Des Vallières to a legionnaire.
A slight snag on the back, a slightly split bit at the head, another at the foot, spots on the second plate, nice interior condition.

50 €

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Charles DE GAULLE

Discours et messages

Plon, Paris 1970, 14x21,5cm, 5 volumes brochés.

First edition, one of the 69 numbered copies on Holland paper, deluxe copies ("tirage de tête").
Very nice copy wide-margined and complete in five volumes.

4 000 €

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First edition, Signed book

Georges BLOND

Le débarquement

Fayard, Paris 1951, 12x19cm, broché.

first edition on current paper.
Slightly curled copy.
Autograph signed by Georges Blond to Maurice Gaït.
Complete copy of his illustrated jacket.

30 €

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First edition

MALLET DU PAN

Essai historique sur la destruction de la ligue et de la liberté helvétique

de l'imprimerie de Spilsbury, et se trouve chez l'auteur, à Londres 1798, in-8 (13,5x21cm), viij, 296pp., broché.

First edition of a suite of five issues of the English Mercure (published by Du Pan himself), with a preface and additions.
There were in fact 3 editions on the date of 1798.
The work paints a picture of the oppression exercised by the young French republic after the Revolution on the Swiss [...]

180 €

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First edition, Signed book

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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