‎Collectibles‎

‎Louis-Joseph-Gabriel de CHENIER‎

‎Histoire de la vie politique militaire et administrative du maréchal Davout duc d'Auerstaedt prince d'Eckmühl d'après des documents officiels‎

‎Paris: Cosse Marchal & Cie 1866. Fine. Cosse Marchal & Cie Paris 1866 14 x 22.50 cm 2 volumes reliés First editions. Bradel bindings in sienna half-cloth smooth spines decorated with gilt floral motifs double gilt fillets at tails black shagreen title-labels marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns. Light scattered foxing gift inscriptions in pen from a previous owner on the half-title pages of the volumes. Rare. Cosse, Marchal & Cie hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 63106

‎Louis-Joseph-Ferdinand HEROLD - Alfred LEBEAU‎

‎Marie fantaisie pour orgue-harmonium‎

‎Paris: E.Gerard et Cie 1850. Fine. E.Gerard et Cie Paris s. d. 27 x 34.50 cm en feuilles First edition entirely engraved of the organ-harmonium arrangement of themes from Hérold's opera Marie. Some occasional light foxing. E.Gerard et Cie unknown‎

Référence libraire : 64154

‎Louis-Joseph-Ferdinand HEROLD‎

‎Partie de violon 1 de l'Illusion drame lyrique en un acte dédié à Madame Pradher‎

‎Paris: Chez Mlles Erard 1829. Fine. Chez Mlles Erard Paris s. d. circa 1829 27 x 34.50 cm en feuilles First edition entirely engraved on laid paper containing the separate first violin part old stitching traces manuscript note in ink indicating ""premier violon"" on the first cover. This score comes from Hérold's personal library. Some light foxing. Chez Mlles Erard unknown‎

Référence libraire : 64148

‎Louis-Julien de ROCHEMOND‎

‎Mémoires d'un vieillard de vingt-cinq ans‎

‎Amsterdam: Auguste Brancart 1886. Fine. Auguste Brancart Amsterdam 1886 11 x 18 cm 2 volumes reliés New edition printed in 500 copies on laid paper and reprinted from the very rare Hamburg edition of 1809. Bradel binding in full paper smooth spines green shagreen title-labels original wrappers preserved with lacks at feet. Work illustrated with 2 engraved frontispieces. Endpapers toned otherwise handsome copy. Auguste Brancart unknown‎

Référence libraire : 40458

‎Louis-Napoleon BONAPARTE‎

‎Considérations politiques et militaires sur la Suisse‎

‎Paris: Alphonse LevavasseurLib. Bousquet 1833. Fine. Alphonse Levavasseur Lib. Bousquet Paris 1833 14 x 22.50 cm broché First edition. Spine lacking second cover absent replaced by a blank temporary cover lacks to first cover soiled some interior foxing. Rare pamphlet written by the future Napoleon III. Alphonse LevavasseurLib. Bousquet unknown‎

Référence libraire : 40524

‎LOUIS-PHILIPPE I‎

‎Almanach royal et national pour l'an M DCCC XLVI‎

‎Paris: Chez A. Guyot et Scribe 1846. Fine. Chez A. Guyot et Scribe Paris 1846 13.50 x 22 cm relié First edition. Royal arms vignette on title page. Royal families of Europe. Overview of the French administration. Contemporary full green glazed calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with large interlaced romantic stamps. Gilt title and date. Ornamental blind-stamped plate on covers with thick framing fillet. Marbled edges. Signs of rubbing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Lower joint split 2cm at head. Scattered foxing. Handsome copy in full contemporary binding. Chez A. Guyot et Scribe unknown‎

Référence libraire : 69292

‎Louis-Pierre, abbe de SAINT-MARTIN‎

‎Les établissemens de Saint-Louis roi de France suivant le texte original & rendus dans le langage actuel avec des notes suivis du panégyrique de Saint-Louis prononcé dans la chapelle du Louvre le 25 Août 1784 en présence de l'Académie Françoise‎

‎Paris: Chez Nyon 1786. Fine. Chez Nyon Paris 1786 13 x 20.50 cm relié New edition illustrated with a portrait of Saint-Louis as frontispiece and engraved by Boizot. Half navy blue glazed calf binding lightened spine with four raised bands set with gilt garlands decorated with gilt fillets and fleurons slight scratches of no consequence to the joints marbled paper boards marbled endpapers and pastedowns marbled edges elegant Romantic binding signed by Bibolet. Handsome copy. Chez Nyon hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 51218

‎Louis-Rene DES FORETS‎

‎Le malheur au Lido‎

‎Montpellier: Fata Morgana 1987. Fine. Fata Morgana Montpellier 1987 12.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition one of 30 copies on wove paper deluxe copy. Minute worming to the front cover otherwise a handsome copy. Fata Morgana unknown‎

Référence libraire : 87517

‎Louis-Sebastien LE NAIN DE TILLEMONT‎

‎Histoire des empereurs et des autres princes qui ont régné durant les six premiers siècles de l'eglise de leurs guerres contre les Juifs des écivains profanes & des personnes les plus illustres de leur temps‎

‎Venise Venice: Chez François Pitteri 1732. Fine. Chez François Pitteri Venise Venice 1732 - 1739 20.50 x 28 cm 6 volumes reliés First Venetian edition after the original published in Paris from 1690 to 1701 for the first five volumes 1738 for the sixth posthumous volume published from the author's manuscript. 6 title vignettes signed Cattini. Contemporary Italian full vellum binding. Smooth Jansenist spine. Beige morocco title labels. Some soiling to the spines and various stains to the boards. Very handsome set in vellum on beautiful rag paper in perfectly fresh condition. This history of the emperors a biographical compendium of all emperors and great princes of the first six centuries without distinction between East and West earned the Jansenist author his reputation and lasting influence as a historian. What earned him criticism in his time assured him a fruitful future namely a simple style devoid of affectation or flourish for Le Nain addressed scholars rather than the general public a method based on the use of reliable historical materials that is to say validated by scrupulous examination and principles of historical criticism; however he admits himself that to separate true information from false he relies on his experience. As a counterpoint to this history of the emperors and of all the emperors the author never loses sight of that of the Jews and of Christianity which is for him the guiding thread the true meaning of History. Le Nain de Tillemont knew his vocation as historian very early and assembled from the age of 18 the historical material that enabled him to write this work at the end of his life. The numerous notes and tables clarify the vast sum of knowledge contained in the six volumes. Chez François Pitteri hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 64407

‎Louis-Sebastien MERCIER - DESFORGES‎

‎Le vindicatif. Le déserteur. Jenneval. La piété filiale. Tom Jones. Richard et Derlet‎

‎Bordeaux et Toulouse: Chez PhillipotJean-Florent Baour 1774. Fine. Chez Phillipot Jean-Florent Baour Bordeaux • et Toulouse 1774 -1784 20 x 13 cm relié Collection of various plays containing by Mercier: Le Vindicatif date corresponding to the privilege 1774 Le déserteur 1770 Jenneval 1783 and by Desforges: La piété filiale 1784 Richard et Derlet 1779 Tom Jones adapted from Fielding's novel 1783. Contemporary full sheep binding in marbled and speckled brown marbled edges raised band spine decorated. A tear with loss to the lower joint on the front board light scuffing. Good overall condition of the paper but dampstains on the first leaves. Chez PhillipotJean-Florent Baour unknown‎

Référence libraire : 15419

‎Louis-Victor DE BROGLIE‎

‎Discours de réception de M. le Prince Louis-Victor de Broglie à l'Académie Française et réponse de M. le Duc de Broglie‎

‎Paris: Albin Michel 1945. Fine. Albin Michel Paris 1945 13.50 x 19 cm broché First edition one of 800 numbered copies on Holland paper the only deluxe copies. A tiny lack at foot of spine two small stains at head of first board. Albin Michel unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74451

‎Louis-Welden HAWKINS - (Paul DELAROCHE)‎

‎"Liseuses"" - Lithographie originale sur Chine - L'Estampe Moderne‎

‎Paris: Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza 1899. Fine. Imprimerie Champenois pour CH. Masson H. Piazza Paris Février 1899 25.50 x 31 cm une feuille Rare original lithograph executed by Louis Welden Hawkins for L'Estampe Moderne series number 22 published in February 1899. One of 50 deluxe proofs printed on China paper with wide margins artist's signature in the plate publisher's blind stamp depicting a child's profile in the lower margin mounted on a sheet of laid paper with the numbered luxury edition stamp on the reverse some foxing. Lithograph inspired by an excerpt from Aux champs by Paul Delaroche. Magnificent French monthly publication edited between May 1897 and April 1899 L'Estampe moderne consists of unpublished chromolithographs which unlike other magazines such as Les Maîtres de l'Affiche and as stipulated on the tissue guards were created specially by each artist for the magazine. Thus 100 prints appeared in total covering the major artistic movements of the late 19th century: Symbolism Art Nouveau Pre-Raphaelites Orientalists and Belle Époque. Each issue of four prints was printed in 2000 copies sold for 3.50F and 100 on Japan paper offered at 10F. Henri Piazza also planned a confidential printing of very grand luxury: 50 copies on Japan paper with wide margins and 50 in black on China paper at the considerable price of 30F. This print of beautiful format is superbly printed on one of the most prestigious papers: China paper. ""Despite all its qualities China paper too inconsistent owes its reputation not to its own beauty but indeed to its particular affinities with printing ink. Its texture smooth and soft together is more apt than any other to receive a beautiful impression. This property makes China paper sought after for printing engravings."" Anatole France. French collectors' interest in artistic posters intensified in the early 1890s. Octave Uzanne to describe this fever invented the term ""affichomanie."" The poster originally popular and plastered on the streets of the capital then became an art object and its ephemeral medium became precious and destined for preservation. Piazza decided to remove the poster from its advertising purpose and elevate it to the rank of a complete work of art on the same level as the luxury illustrated book. He thus composed a prestigious collection of entirely original works by the most prominent European artists of the moment: Georges de Feure Eugène Grasset Henri Detouche Emile Berchmans Louis Rhead Gaston de Latenay Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer Gustave-Max Stevens Charles Doudelet Hans Christiansen Henri Fantin-Latour Steinlen Ibels Engels Willette Henri Meunier Evenepoël Bellery-Desfontaines Charles Léandre etc. Handsome copy. Imprimerie Champenoispour CH. MassonH. Piazza unknown‎

Référence libraire : 74824

‎LOUISE BLACK‎

‎1920 ORIGINAL UPSTATE NEW YORK FARM DIARY HANDWRITTEN BY A HARD WORKING ALL AMERICAN GIRL‎

‎WATKINS GLEN; ITHACA; SYRACUSE; ROCHESTER NEW YORK. Good. 1920. On offer is a detailed journal of life on a farm in upstate New York following WWI. Louise Black is the author of this journal who does a super job detailing the life and times of she her family and local events and talk. Although her name does not appear to be mentioned within there is a receipt made out to her tucked into the journal. The journal recounts the day-to-day experiences and events on a farm in upstate New York in the Ithaca NY and Watkins Glen NY area between June 1920 and June 1922. There are references in the journal to Rochester Ithaca Watkins Glen and Syracuse all in western upstate New York. The farm is a mixed-farm operation with cattle and crops such as corn wheat and alfalfa fruits and vegetables. Most of the entries revolve around its operations: 'Fred and Warner made new stanchions for the Guernseys others have been working on the four acres ready to plant - for corn. L the author who refers to herself throughout in the 3rd person had green peas for dinner yesterday and cooked some for tomorrow . vegetation growing abound July 10 1920 . Mr. Simpson here to set cabbage so Walden tried the tractor too wet so they pulled stumps cleared the fields . fellows picked cherries in p.m. L washed a calico skirt starched a bonnet that was washed last fall . June 23 1921 She has many visitors both family and friends. Those visits often include local gossip. Many mentions are made of births illnesses and deaths. Bad accident in stables last night . Feb 3 1922 . Libbi bad with asthma . Feb 5 1922 This journal is absolutely filled with the daily minutiae of farm life. For a historian or researcher it provides a wealth of information about farm operations in the early 20th century and the social environment that these people lived in. It also provides an in-depth look at the life of a rural woman at this time and would be a valuable reference for Women's Studies programs. This journal is a top bound undated notebook. It measures 6.75 inches by 4.25 inches and contains approximately 300 pages. It is 100% complete. The hard cover is fabric -covered. The binding at the front of the cover has broken but all pages are intact. The handwriting is small neat and legible.; Manuscript; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; KEYWORDS: HISTORY OF LOUISE BLACK; WATKINS GLEN; ITHACA; SYRACUSE; ROCHESTER; RURAL LIFE IN UPSTATE NEW YORK EMPIRE STATE GENDER STUDIES WOMENS STUDIES ROARING 20S TWENTIES AMERICANA HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT LETTER AUTOGRAPH WRITER HAND WRITTEN DOCUMENTS SIGNED LETTERS MANUSCRIPTS DIARY DIARIES JOURNALS PERSONAL HISTORY SOCIAL HISTORY HISTORICAL HOLOGRAPH WRITERS AUTOGRAPHS PERSONAL MEMOIR MEMORIAL ANTIQUITÉ CONTRAT VÉLIN DOCUMENT MANUSCRIT PAPIER ANTIKE BRIEF PERGAMENT DOKUMENT MANUSKRIPT PAPIER OGGETTO D'ANTIQUARIATO ATTO VELINA DOCUMENTO MANOSCRITTO CARTA ANTIGÜEDAD HECHO VITELA DOCUMENTO MANUSCRITO PAPEL . unknown‎

Référence libraire : 0007014

‎Louise COLET‎

‎Lettres de Benjamin Constant à Madame Récamier‎

‎Paris: E. Dentu 1864. Fine. E. Dentu Paris 1864 S.d 14.50 x 23.20 cm relié The rare first edition. A manuscript note bound at the beginning of the work states: First edition suppressed by court order it contains 74 unpublished letters. One can read on a manuscript leaf bound before the title: ""Edition seized and destroyed when it was about to be put on sale at the request of Benjamin Constant's sister and the niece and universal legatee of Madame Récamier Madame Charles Lenormant. Is not in the Bibliothèque Nationale."" A second manuscript leaf on Louis Colet has also been bound following the first. Modern half morocco binding with tan corners signed Alix at the bottom of the pastedown. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Gilt title. Gilt edges. Covers and spine preserved. Uncut copy with full margins. Very handsome copy. ""Few love letters are as beautiful as those from Benjamin Constant to Mme Récamier"". Jean Mistler in La Revue des deux mondes. Mistler specifies that Lenormant's 1882 edition was much altered whereas Louise Colet's edition is accurate. Introduction and preface by Louise Colet. E. Dentu hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 73164

‎Louise COLET - (Gustave FLAUBERT)‎

‎« Le Vrai Beau » un poème d'amour contrarié de Louise Colet à Gustave Flaubert avec un vers inédit • Autograph manuscript‎

‎1846. Fine. ""Aimer c'est vivre ! / C'est incarner le rêve et sentir les transports / Dont l'art ne peut donner que des emblèmes morts !"" ""To love is to live! / It is to incarnate the dream and feel the transports / Of which art can give only dead emblems!"" s. d. 1846 19.50 x 35.50 cm une feuille Autograph manuscript poem signed by Louise Colet titled ""Le Vrai Beau"" ""True Beauty"" 38 Alexandrine verses in black ink on a folded sheet of satined cardboard paper in oblong format folded in two places. A small stain to the blank verso. Published in 1852 under the title ""L'Art et l'Amour"" ""Art and Love"" dated 1846 in Ce qui est dans le cœur des femmes : Poésies nouvelles What is in Women's Hearts: New Poems. This manuscript version with a different title presents one verse and several unpublished words. Superb cry from the heart by Louise Colet who puts into verse the conceptions - of life love art - that set her against her lover Gustave Flaubert witnessing the first stirrings of their tumultuous relationship. Written shortly after their meeting on July 29 1846 the poem is an impassioned response to a letter from Flaubert of September 2nd ""Oh! va aime plutôt l'Art que moi"" ""Oh! go love Art rather than me"" to which its first verse makes explicit reference: ""Tu me dis : Aime l'art il vaut mieux que l'amour . Et moi. je te réponds : La langue du poête Ne rend du sentiment que l'image incomplète"" ""You tell me: Love art it is better than love . And I answer you: The poet's language renders only an incomplete image of feeling"". After granting Louise Colet a few rare passionate nights following their meeting in James Pradier's studio the aptly named hermit of Croisset had kept his distance to devote himself to writing while proclaiming his love for her. This poetic response by Louise Colet to Flaubert's epistolary exchanges is all the more important as her letters were destroyed by the writer in 1879. The Alexandrines address Flaubert in the second person in this theoretical and lyrical manifesto addressed to her lover eleven years her junior from the hand of a poetess already recognized by her peers who first captivated the philosopher Victor Cousin and later Musset and Vigny. She gives form to their dialogues under the grip of Romanticism which she embodies and of Realism to which Flaubert clings fiercely. Beyond the role of exasperating lover often attributed to her Colet claims the impulses of her heart that Flaubert ignores in himself; and argues that the transports of reality will always surpass those of Art condemned to imitate them: ""Des maîtres les plus grands les œuvres les plus belles Auprès du beau vivant compare que sont-elles "" ""The most beautiful works of the greatest masters compared to living beauty what are they"" Rare vestige rescued from Flaubert's censorship restoring Louise Colet's voice within their amorous dialogue. Louise Colet's poem takes the form both of a discussion on aesthetics and a tender declaration of love to Flaubert; their destinies as writers being inextricably linked to their intimate life. Tu me dis : Aime l'art il vaut mieux que l'amour ; Tout sentiment s'altère et doit périr un jour ! Pour que le cœur devienne une immortelle chose Il faut qu'en poésie il se métamorphose Et que chaque pensée en sorte incessamment En parant sa beauté d'un divin vêtement. Sentir c'est aspirer!. c'est encor la souffrance ; Mais créer c'est jouir ! c'est prouver sa puissance ; C'est faire triompher de la mort de l'oubli Toutes les passions dont l'âme a tressailli! Et moi. je te réponds : La langue du poête Ne rend du sentiment que l'image incomplète ; Concevoir le désir goûter la passion Nous fait dédaigner l'art et sa création ; Formuler les pensers dont notre esprit s'enivre Ce n'est que simuler la vie : aimer c'est vivre ; ! C'est incarner le rêve et sentir les transports Dont l'art ne peut donner que des emblèmes morts ! Des maîtres unknown‎

Référence libraire : 73074

‎Louise Francoise Duchesse de LA VALLIERE‎

‎Reflexions sur la misericorde de Dieu. Par une dame penitente‎

‎à Paris: Chez Antoine Dezallier 1688. Fine. Chez Antoine Dezallier à Paris 1688 8.50 x 15.50 cm relié New edition after the original published in 1680. Copy entirely ruled. Contemporary binding in full glazed burgundy morocco. Jansenist spine with raised bands. Gilt title. Interior fillet. Gilt edges. Work inseparable from the life of Madame de la Vallière which she wrote upon recovering from a long illness during her years of retreat at the Carmelite convent. Mistress of King Louis XIV and abandoned after 7 years she withdrew from court to enter the convent. Nothing would make her renounce this path and she spent the last 36 years of her life in this retreat where in her later years she wrote this work with the concern of repairing the errors of her past life. Manuscript gift inscription on endpaper: ""Pour Zezette. La Celle Saint Cloud. Jeudi 8 septembre 1910."" ""For Zezette. La Celle Saint Cloud. Thursday September 8 1910."" Chez Antoine Dezallier hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 48768

‎Louise HERVIEU‎

‎Sangs‎

‎Paris: Denoël & Steele 1936. Fine. Denoël & Steele Paris 1936 12 x 19 cm relié First edition on ordinary paper. Superb and deferential full-page autograph inscription from the author to Marius Leblond. One small tear re-glued at foot of joint. Denoël & Steele unknown‎

Référence libraire : 20155

‎Louise LEFRANCOIS-PILLION‎

‎Les sculpteurs français du XIIe siècle‎

‎Paris: Plon 1931. Fine. Plon Paris 1931 15.50 x 21.50 cm broché First edition. Work illustrated with illustrations. Handsome copy despite the spine and boards being marginally sunned. Plon hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 72889

‎Louise MICHEL‎

‎" Il faut enfin que ce soit vous qui rappeliez cette pauvre femme qui a rendu tant de services."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Lucien Barrois‎

‎s. l. Paris 1885. Fine. s. l. • Paris 12 juin 1885 11 x 16.90 cm 2 pages 1/2 sur un bifeuillet Autograph letter signed by Louise Michel addressed to Lucien Barrois; two and a half pages written in black ink on a white paper bifolium with black border. Transverse folds inherent to postal delivery. Louise Michel requests help for one of her acquaintances: ""Madame Maron à qui Lafont ou Clémenceau avait fait avoir promesse à la mairie d'un terme de son loyer elle en doit trois n'a plus entendu parler de rien et il faut qu'elle déménage pour aller en face où elle paiera moins. Sa propriétaire l'aurait attendue avec un terme payé sur les trois. Il faut enfin que ce soit vous qui rappeliez cette pauvre femme qui a rendu tant de services."" ""Madam Maron for whom Lafont or Clémenceau had secured a promise from the town hall for one term of her rent she owes three has heard nothing more and must move across the street where she will pay less. Her landlady would have waited for her with one term paid out of the three. You must finally be the one to remind them of this poor woman who has rendered so many services."" Moving letter testimony to the unwavering devotion of the former Communard. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 83957

‎Louise MICHEL‎

‎"Clemenceau serait en droit de dire que je suis bien ennuyeuse mais montrez lui la lettre du petit si on pouvait obtenir qu'il ait un peu d'instruction."" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Lucien Barrois‎

‎s. l. Paris 1885. Fine. s. l. • Paris 6 février 1885 11.10 x 17.60 cm 1 page 1/2 sur un bifeuillet Autograph letter signed by Louise Michel addressed to Lucien Barrois; one and a half pages written in black ink on a bifolium of white paper with black border. Transverse folds inherent to mailing. A trace of glue on the second sheet where Louise Michel had probably pasted a letter from her cousin. News of Louise Michel's little cousin Lucien Dacheux: ""Je reçois une lettre de mon petit cousin Dacheux qui me demande de remercier encore pour lui Clemenceau et lui. Je le fais moi-même de tout coeur. N'oubliez pas de le dire à Clemenceau. Le petit Dacheux est à Brest 1ère division de recrutement. . Clemenceau serait en droit de dire que je suis bien ennuyeuse mais montrez lui la lettre du petit si on pouvait obtenir qu'il ait un peu d'instruction. Je ne sais pas s'ils peuvent avoir des leçons. Y a-t-il une école je ne sais rien de tout cela dans la division où il est."" ""I receive a letter from my little cousin Dacheux who asks me to thank Clemenceau and him again on his behalf. I do so myself wholeheartedly. Don't forget to tell Clemenceau. Little Dacheux is in Brest 1st recruitment division. . Clemenceau would have the right to say that I am quite bothersome but show him the little one's letter if we could obtain that he have a little education. I don't know if they can have lessons. Is there a school I know nothing of all that in the division where he is."" Moving letter testimony to the unfailing devotion of the former communard. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 83964

‎Louise MICHEL‎

‎"je n'ai pas trop compris la lettre du petit parce qu'il en est resté une bonne partie dans l'encrier"" • Signed autograph letter addressed to Lucien Barrois‎

‎s. l. Paris 1885. Fine. s. l. • Paris 20 avril 1885 11 x 17.70 cm 2 pages sur un bifeuillet et un feuillet encollé sur la 3e page Autograph letter signed by Louise Michel addressed to Lucien Barrois; two pages written in black ink on a white paper bifolium with black border. One sheet in the hand of a naval adjutant from Brest pasted on the third page. Transverse folds inherent to postal delivery. Louise Michel asks the recipient of this letter for advice regarding her young cousin: ""Ignorant si Clémenceau aurait le temps d'écrire un mot de recommandation pour quelques leçons à mon petit cousin Dacheux je vous le dis d'abord afin que vous preniez un moment où ce sera possible pour le dire à Clemenceau. Je vous avoue que je n'ai pas trop compris la lettre du petit parce qu'il en est resté une bonne partie dans l'encrier il écrit si mal."" ""Not knowing if Clémenceau would have time to write a word of recommendation for some lessons for my young cousin Dacheux I tell you first so that you may find a moment when it would be possible to mention it to Clémenceau. I confess that I did not quite understand the boy's letter because a good part of it remained in the inkwell—he writes so poorly."" Moving letter testimony to the unwavering devotion of the former Communard. unknown‎

Référence libraire : 83956

‎Louise MICHEL‎

‎Fleurs et ronces‎

‎Paris: Fontemoing 1913. Fine. Fontemoing Paris 1913 12 x 19 cm broché First edition for which there was no mention of large paper copies press stamp. A rare and very good copy. Fontemoing unknown‎

Référence libraire : 3919

‎Louise S Fry‎

‎A Glimpse of Fairyland‎

‎London: Hutchinson and Co Beautifully illustrated book 124 pages in overall clean condition but occassional light foxing to first and last few pages.a little heavier to front endpaper with former owners name dated 1907 rear endpapers more heavily foxed see images outer edges of pages lightly foxed. Many B/w illustrations and full page colour illustrations all present as listed Dustwrapper is also a little marked with a few small tears and wear to edges not price clipped Though not perfect still a pleasing example of this book SEE IMAGES. DETAILED IMAGES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST . Gold Decorated Boards. Good Plus/Good Plus. Illus. by Winefred V Barker . 10 x 7¾ Inches. Hardcover. Hutchinson and Co Hardcover‎

Référence libraire : 009139

‎Louise Tardieu d'Esclavelles EPINAY‎

‎Mémoires et correspondance‎

‎à Paris: Chez Brunet 1818. Fine. Chez Brunet à Paris 1818 13 x 20 cm 3 volumes reliés First edition. There would be three editions the same year. Contemporary half brown sheep bindings with corners. Smooth spines decorated with gilt compartments and fleurons as well as red and blue morocco title and volume labels. Joints slightly cracked and showing some rubbing. Some dampstaining. ""Woman writer salonnière and friend of philosophers and famous writers in the 18th century Louise d'Épinay is the author of Memoirs whose originality is situated on two levels: from the point of view of content first because it is a history of her family and the literary events of the century a history however 'self-reflective' and filled with her own feelings and reflections; then from the point of view of form since it involves a singular combination of letters memories and first-person diary pages and short third-person narratives."" Sanda Nemeth-Badescu Dalhousie French Studies 2005. The famous muse of the late 18th century was indeed a friend of Rousseau Grimm Diderot Voltaire etc and her memoirs interspersed with correspondence best illustrate the world of letters of this late 18th century. Chez Brunet unknown‎

Référence libraire : 49877

‎Louise WEISS‎

‎La résurrection du chevalier‎

‎Paris: Albin Michel 1974. Fine. Albin Michel Paris 1974 14 x 22.50 cm broché Edition of wich no leading copies exists. Signed autograph of the Louise Weiss Denis sergeant. Some bites. Albin Michel unknown‎

Référence libraire : 54388