Librairie-Galerie Emmanuel Fradois

The rare and resounding two first collections of profane odes of the greatest Neo-Latin poet of the 16th century, "French Horace", the precursor of the "Pleiad"

2200 €

SALMON MACRIN - Carminum libri quatuor [SUIVI DE] Carminum libellus

Precious copy of Madame de Montespan, favourite of Louis XIV

6300 €

Vingt-uniesme tome du Mercure françois

Rare vellum copy of the time

440 €

GILBERT - Les Amours de Diane et d’Endimion. Tragédie

The staging of female homosexual desire in the 17th century

800 €

[SCUDERY] - Mathilde

The famous account of the depravity assumed by the Cordeliers of Provins

350 €

[VARET/BURLUGUAY] - Factum pour les religieuses de S. Catherine-les-Provins contre les Pères cordeliers

The rare and famous memories of the abbot of Choisy "dressed as a woman"

500 €

CHOISY - Histoire de Madame la comtesse Des Barres

The Duchess of Gramont's copy

2500 €

AUTREAU - Oeuvres

Rare copy of the first issue, enterely uncut

400 €

CAYLUS / VOLTAIRE - Les souvenirs de Madame de Caylus

The inauguration of a new literary genre: the journey in the feminine

500 €

CRAVEN - Voyage de Milady Craven a Constantinople, par la Crimée, en 1786

DEMOUSTIER - Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie

Fine morocco copy of this edition illustrated with a portrait and 36 fine figures of Monnet.

500 €

DEMOUSTIER - Lettres à Émilie sur la mythologie

The poems of one of the great "teneuse de salon" of the First French Empire bound to Lucien Bonaparte's presumed cipher

1200 €

DUFRENOY - Élégies suivies de poésies diverses

A superb collection of 97 plates adorned with an important archive enlightening on the patronage of the late husband of the duchess

2800 €

[Archive concerning the collection of modern paintings of the duke of Berry]

Four sublime libertine novels in very large paper

330 €

BALBO - Quattro novelle narrate da un maestro di scuola

The story of a marriage by order which is none other than that of Empress Marie-Louise.

3000 €

GAY - Un mariage sous l’Empire

Curious song in verse, scandalous and unpublished, which pins alternately number of personalities of artistic Paris of period

1000 €

[CURIOSA] - Chanson des Théâtres et des Bals de Paris

Violent anti-bourbon pamphlet in verse, original and unpublished

250 €

BARTHÉLEMY - A S.A.I. Madame la Princesse Mathilde Bonaparte

Copy of this document with a letter containing information about the main actor of the play

130 €

AUGIER - Gabrielle. Comédie

A photographic portrait on salt paper of one of the 19th century figures

100 €

PIERRON - Virginie Déjazet

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