BATAILLE (Georges) - The practice of joy in the face of death. Paris, Mercure de France, 1967; in-8, 51 pp., paperback, folded cover. First edition, numbered copy. Text established by Bernard Noël.
Beautiful brassware work for this washing machine in red copper and wrought iron, in good general condition, origin Center France around 1850, height 90 cm, diameter 50 cm
the problem with addictive collections is that we evolve and we finally like areas that we refused at the beginning "no plastic! finally some plastics have magnificent shapes and colors Released in [...]
Suresnes – Saint Cloud.
Canton de Neuilly.
2 grandes cartes originales réalisées en 1874. Lefèvre géographe.
Coloris aquarelle dans la Seine.
Très bon état.
Format feuille : 95 x 64,5 cm.
Origin[...]
Angelot en bois sculpté origine certainement Portugal fin XVII eme -debut Xviii eme.
sculpture reposant sur un socle en métal .quelques manques (voir photo). Belle patine d origine.
Pretty sculpture, elm or ash wood, featuring a child seated in reeds, the resting on a marine anchor, other on a mill wheel. Traditionally, it represents the young source of a river or river, and was [...]
Grand plateau circulaire à fond plat, parois à biseau et rebord à décor de frises épigraphiques, en laiton ciselé.
Décoré au centre de sept rondeaux aux motifs enchevêtrés pour certains et d'autres [...]
Cruets with lids with a circular foot and a large embossed body on which a different decoration is chiselled on each of them. On the wine cruet: a garland of bunches of grapes, and on the water cruet:[...]
Silver medal mounted on a brooch rewarding Mr Quenioux, painter of Anatomy in 1890-1891 By Ecole Natiinale Des Beaux Arts medal signed E Gatteau E (Gustave François Raoul Quenioux, born August 16, 186[...]
Machete holder (called parang in Indonesian), which was attached to the belt. It is decorated with floral motifs and friezes. A date "1942" is engraved on it. Brown wood with patina of use.
Size: 18 [...]
ANTHOLOGY - The poets of travel. Paris, Book Club, 1991; in-4, 93 pp., paperback in sheets, folded cover, full navy blue cloth slipcase. One of the 250 numbered copies on Rives with original engraving[...]
Old painting fixed under glass. Subject representing Saint Bruno the Carthusian (1030-1101). Catholic saint founder of the Carthusian order. His worship in the universal Church was authorized on July [...]
ANTHOLOGY - The dream poets. Paris, Book Club, 1989; in-4, 91 pp., paperback in sheets, folded cover, full black cloth casing. One of the 295 numbered copies on Rives with the original engravings by D[...]
Salter's brand "Spring Balance" English bronze market scale, 19th century Very beautiful bronze dial with double graduations Engraved with its brand on the knotted rope Iron needle Rear movement in it[...]
[Protestantism]. Collection of Edicts, Declarations and Orders of the Council rendered on the subject of the so-called reformed religion from 1679 to the present. In Paris, at Charles Saugrain, 1701. [...]
ANONYMOUS - The book of a thousand nights and one night. Paris, Eugene Fasquelle, 1920; in-folio, around 1200 pp., blue half-calf bindings, spine decorated with an Arabic design both struck and stampe[...]
Rare and large pewter guild goblin dated 1666. This piece is exceptionally unique in that the names of the guild members are engraved and still clearly legible:
- Erdtman Lindenberg
- Martinus Stent[...]
Solar enlarger .
This enlarger worked with sunlight (electricity will come later).
The negative was placed in the smallest part of the camera, door closed.
The plate has impress in the opposite p[...]
Female statuette from the Jo society, it presents a naked young woman standing, her face has a beautiful soft expression, she wears a characteristic headdress symbolically evoking the mane of a liones[...]
Large pewter "cardinal" dish,17th centuryPresence of the control stamp imposed by Louis XIV in 1657 and compulsory from 1691which required the name of the city, the letter C or F (common or fine pewte[...]
VIOLLET-LE-DUC (Eugène) - Dictionary of French architecture from the 11th to the 16th century. Paris, Librairies-Imprimeurs Réunis, circa 1880; in-4, about 5000 pp., red half-shagreen bindings, spine [...]
Large oval copper BASIN resting on a frustoconical foot, decorated in embossed, on the wing heads of cherubs alternating with heraldic lions, at the bottom by an armorial motif with two facing lions o[...]
Boxwood cup worked in the round with floral and geometric motifs. Total height 18 cm. Under the cup there is a signature and a date "S. PASSARAL X BRE 1923"
Mushroom type phallic PUZZLE. Kanak culture, New Caledonia late 19th century or early 20th century. Rare by its size: Length 95 cm. The most common being the "bird's beak", "pickaxe" and above all "ph[...]
Rare map of the Riviera / Côte d'Azur around 1740-1750, including among others: Juan les Pins, Antibes, Cagnes, Nice, St-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Monaco, Menton, Ventimiglia, Bordighera, San Remo.Pen, black a[...]
Amusing couple of Tyrolean dancers in polychrome hand-carved wood. Under the base, a label indicating that it is a rural work, probably Austrian, from the end of the 1920s.
VÉRON (L.) - Memoirs of a bourgeois of Paris. Paris, Gabriel de Gonet, 1853-1855; octavo, 380, 400, 356, 316, 327, 354 pp., brown half-calf bindings, smooth spines with the arms and initials of Baron [...]
Precious bronze box engraved with calligraphy, Islamic motifs, interlacing, botehs.
Of great beauty, a clasp on the front, two hinges on the back and a lid with four sides finely chiselled by hand.
[...]
Panoramic of the XVII of the City of CHALONS on skin. Perspective view of the fortified city with these monuments with animated scenes Presence of a few holes Dimension without frame 26.5 cm X 19.5 cm
Lives of the Saints for every day of the year.
By Revered Father Jean CROISET of the Society of Jesus.
2 vol. folio bound in full leather, spine with six raised bands.
Edition of 1723 in Lyon at th[...]
probablement un objet de maïtrise, réunissant dans un éventail de couleurs contrastées des lames de corne pressées à chaud pour créer une tabatière à couvercle ouvrant à charnière, très ajustée et éta[...]
SURGEON BOX by CHARRIERE.
Rectangular in wood veneer, retractable copper handle on the lid. Interior sheathed in red skin - on 2 levels 1 inside the lid.
Set of 14 accessories and instruments + set [...]
A beautiful 18th century boxwood and boxwood snuff box with a beautiful aged patina Good condition as shown in the pictures Size 6.5 cm high, diameter 3.3 x 3.7 cm
Embossed medallion in deep relief where Gautama Buddha stands out, his hands joined in dharmachakrâ mudra signifying the setting in motion of the wheel of the law. Copper plate where the gilding remai[...]
[SANTO-DOMINGO (Joseph-Hippolyte de)] - Roman tablets, containing facts, anecdotes and observations on the manners, customs, ceremonies, government of Rome. By a Frenchman who recently stayed in this [...]
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