Unique and unpublished materials, autograph manuscripts, working notebooks, medical and household recipe books that capture the private intellectual life of their age.
France: 1780-1820. Illustration: None (manuscript in a single hand) Edition: Unique manuscript (autograph or scribal copy), late 18th–early 19th century Binding: Contemporary green paper-covered boards, spine plain, edges stained red. Some rubbing, corners worn, but binding intact and attractive for a manuscript of this type. Description: Unique French manuscript pastoral.....
France (likely Burgundy/Lorraine, given armorial evidence): Manuscript (not printed), 1690–1720. Edition: Manuscript on paper, French, late 17th–early 18th century. Binding: Contemporary full calf, spine gilt in compartments with red morocco label (“REMEDE”), rubbed and worn with losses at head and tail, joints cracked but holding. Corners rounded, surface scuffed. Attractive.....
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France: Manuscript (unpublished), 1700-1750. Edition: Manuscript, ca. 1700–1750 Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with raised bands, red-sprinkled edges. Worn, corners bumped, small losses to head of spine, but binding solid. Large thick quarto. Description: A substantial French medical manuscript, written ca. 1700–1750, offering a comprehensive compendium of human anatomy.....
Combes (southern France): Unpublished manuscript, 1680-1720. Edition: Unique autograph manuscript Binding: Contemporary limp vellum, soiled and wrinkled, with handwritten provenance on pastedown: “A Combes, propriété du Sr Joseph Julien Breuil Salvétat.” Description: A unique autograph manuscript collection of poetry by Joseph Julien Breuil Salvétat, composed in Combes (southern France) in.....