Une belle reliure de Marcel-Thomas Lavollée (1876–1940)
Posted 7th May 2026r/rarebooks
[1931] Le Bibliophile Complete first year of a French bibliophile review, bound in a stunning Art Deco red morocco with inlaid arabesques. Marius Audin on music typography, Louis XIV autograph facsimile, Victor Hugo quatrain, Christopher Columbus map ca. 1492.
Posted 6th May 2026r/rarebooks
Found: a 1972 UNESCO typography dossier compiled by John Dreyfus, Hans Schmoller & Fernand Baudin — never sold, never reprinted. Includes original Penguin working layouts, a Dwiggins title-page draft, and manuscript exemplars from the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle.
Posted 4th May 2026r/typography
1720 French travel guide complete with all 12 folding engraved plates, including two extraordinary astronomical clocks
Posted 3rd May 2026r/rarebooks
Found a complete set of French Army NCO training notebooks, ca. 1955
Posted 1st May 2026r/ephemera
These 1884 engineering notebooks from one of France's most elite schools belonged to a student who abandoned his degree to become one of the greatest Art Nouveau ceramicists of his generation.
Posted 30th Apr 2026r/rarebooks
Two scrapbooks belonging to the same girl, Yvonne Luttringer, aged 4 and 6 — Alsace, 1913 & 1915. She was collecting German, French AND English chromolithographs while WWI raged around her.
Posted 26th Apr 2026r/ephemera
[1855] Horace's Opera in a stunning crimson morocco Didot binding with a heartfelt 1887 dedication linking Pasteur's family to the heart of French Republican education.
Posted 25th Apr 2026r/rarebooks
"We believe ourselves initiated, but we merely stand in the vestibule" — 1786 chemistry treatise organized around the Three Kingdoms, with Senecan epigraph and a Revolutionary annotator's hidden dialogue
Posted 22nd Apr 2026r/alchemy
1786 first edition of Sage's "Analyse Chimique et Concordance des Trois Règnes" 5 vols complete, Imprimerie Royale, with a remarkable Revolutionary-era annotator identified by address
Posted 22nd Apr 2026r/rarebooks
[1776] L'An 2440 by Louis-Sébastien Mercier — the world's first future-set utopian novel, banned in France, in a stunning contemporary gilt calf binding — with aristocratic provenance from the Starhemberg family library, Schloss Eferding, Austria
Posted 19th Apr 2026r/rarebooks
Found in a private collection: 1758 first Dutch edition of Goquet's "De l'Origine des Loix" — signed by a member of one of Switzerland's oldest patrician families (attested 1106), donated to a secret learned society whose library vanished for 200 years
Posted 18th Apr 2026r/rarebooks
L'Intrigue du Cabinet, sous Henri IV et Louis XIII, terminée par la Frond par Louis-Pierre Anquetil (1723–1806) Première édition 1780.
Posted 12th Apr 2026r/rarebooks
Le carnet d'un expert en linguistique, professeur au Caire au début des années 1900.
Posted 12th Apr 2026r/Calligraphy
[Unknown > English] J'ai besoin de l'aide d'un expert en linguistique pour comprendre ce carnet.
Posted 12th Apr 2026r/translator
Piège à chenilles processionnaire dans un pin.
Posted 5th Apr 2026r/Entomology
Batailles d'un siècle.
Posted 4th Apr 2026r/rarebooks
Séminaire de psychanalyse de Lacan.
Posted 3rd Apr 2026r/rarebooks
Cahier ancien.
Posted 2nd Apr 2026r/Calligraphy
L'art Héraldique, étude manuscrite. (Napoléon III)
Posted 2nd Apr 2026r/heraldry
Cahier de cours d'histoire de l'art 1890–1905
Posted 2nd Apr 2026r/ephemera
Holbein
Posted 29th Mar 2026r/rarebooks
Exemplaire personnel de Wiliam Johnson Cory.
Posted 28th Mar 2026r/rarebooks
Collection de timbres du Vatican.
Posted 25th Mar 2026r/philately
Beau casque 🙂
Posted 15th Mar 2026r/heraldry
Dessin original des armoieries de la ville de Montbrison lors de sa modification sous la IIIème république (Arcive Atelier Stern)
Manual of Heraldry
Posted 14th Mar 2026r/heraldry
Tarots de Mantegna
Posted 25th Feb 2026r/rarebooks
Répertoire de l'art quaternaire.
L'imitation de jésus Christ entièrement retranscrit à la main.
Posted 23rd Feb 2026r/Calligraphy
cours des Jésuites XIXe siècle entièrement manuscrit, d'une beauté calligraphique remarquable.
Posted 22nd Feb 2026r/Calligraphy
Journal intime datant de 1919 rédigé en sténographie Gabelsberger rapportant la vie quotidienne à Leipzig pendant la Révolution de novembre et les premiers mois de la République de Weimar.
Posted 22nd Feb 2026r/ephemera
Manuscrit du général Camille Alphonse de Polignac (1832–1913), qui servira notamment dans l'armée confédérée américaine durant la Guerre de Sécession, où il atteindra le grade de général de division, le seul officier français à avoir atteint ce rang dans ce conflit.
Posted 21st Feb 2026r/rarebooks
Bureaux Français en Chine
Posted 20th Feb 2026r/stampcollecting
Que pensez vous de ce petit Costa Rica de 1863?
Posted 20th Feb 2026r/askStampCollectors
philatélie ferroviaire belge. Les cachets de gares datés
Posted 19th Feb 2026r/askStampCollectors
Thrace Interalliée
Posted 19th Feb 2026r/stampcollecting
Panama
Posted 19th Feb 2026r/stamps
Dantzig hyperinflation
Posted 19th Feb 2026r/philately
Vrai Samoa Express?
Posted 18th Feb 2026r/stampcollecting
Liberia "HARPER" and "CAPE PALMAS".
Posted 15th Feb 2026r/philately
an authentic witness to French agricultural life, 90 years of documented agricultural activity.
Posted 12th Feb 2026r/ephemera
"Sassa Yo Yassa" Japanese Dances
Posted 8th Feb 2026r/rarebooks
First edition of a Victorian scientific work.
Calligraphy journal
Posted 7th Feb 2026r/Calligraphy
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