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Travel, travel... If there's one human activity that characterizes our century, it might just be that. Never ...]]> Fri, 05 Sep 2025 14:58:15 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=79 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=78

This summer, our bookshop is pleased to present an original initiative, born from friendly exchanges between two independent houses ...]]> Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:52:43 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=78 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=76

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The "Encyclopédie des Voyages" by Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, ...]]> Tue, 17 Sep 2024 19:58:20 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=75 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=74

But what is this bundle of handwritten letters, filled with spelling mistakes and all ...]]> Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:50:50 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=74 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=73

Dear readers, the silence of this blog has lasted too long!

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A few years ago, a customer of mine asked me if rare books could be an investment. Here are ...]]> Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:17:43 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=72 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=71

Among the great mysteries of Creation, one is often forgotten in the classical cosmogony: How does ...]]> Wed, 06 May 2020 19:17:59 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=71 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=70

In the middle of this confinement the question can seem a little bit perverse! ...]]> Sun, 26 Apr 2020 22:35:05 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=70 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=69

In this situation of full confinement, the traditional easter egg hunt would prove to be unpractical. Fortunately though, ...]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2020 15:16:26 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=69 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67

A profane question that often comes back to us rare books dealers, is whether our customers "read the books ...]]> Sat, 04 Apr 2020 16:32:31 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=67 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=66

So... Here we are, almost all of us confined in our homes because of ...]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2020 20:05:45 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=66 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=65 Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, born on this day in 1580, we present to you ...]]> Fri, 14 Sep 2018 16:16:31 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=65 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=64 suite of fine lithographs depicting the barricades of the Revolution ...]]> Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:14:08 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=64 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=63 Petrarch was born !
As a tribute to the founder of Humanism, we present to you ...]]> Fri, 20 Jul 2018 12:48:10 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=63 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=62 Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:30:14 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=62 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=61 grecs ...]]> Fri, 06 Jul 2018 13:06:07 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=61 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=60 Fri, 29 Jun 2018 17:08:03 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=60 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=58 Fri, 22 Jun 2018 16:13:40 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=58 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=57 Antoine-François de Fourcroy was one of the founders of the Annales de Chimie, a journal ...]]> Fri, 15 Jun 2018 16:58:09 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=57 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=56 La Marine au XIXe siècle (Paris, Langlumé [c.1855]), a very rare suite of marine lithographs ...]]> Fri, 08 Jun 2018 17:11:54 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=56 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=55 Sadi Carnot was born, a man whose only published work – Réflexions sur la ...]]> Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:24:50 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=55 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=59 Roman Iconography by Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751-1818), commissioned by Napoleon himself to ...]]> Fri, 18 May 2018 14:27:51 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=59 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=53 Vue Philosophique de la Gradation Naturelle des ...]]> Fri, 04 May 2018 15:24:57 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=53 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=52 Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:56:23 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=52 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=51 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:20:00 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=51 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=50 Benito Pereira ...]]> Thu, 12 Apr 2018 18:14:00 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=50 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=49 Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:07:11 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=49 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=48 New York Antiquarian Bookfair 2018 ! Please come and say hello to Julien Comellas ...]]> Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:38:47 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=48 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=47 defence of the Waldensian Christian movement ! A copy that may have belonged to ...]]> Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:55:19 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=47 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=46

Chances are one of you might help us solve ...]]> Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:01:53 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=46 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=45
To celebrate the passage to 2018, we invite you to discover this ...]]> Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:35:00 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=45 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=44 Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:04:46 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=44 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=43 Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:12:32 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=43 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=42 trait pour trait”, if ...]]> Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:29:10 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=42 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=41 Charles-Michel de l'Epée, founder of the Institute for the Deaf and Mute and inventor of "sign language", was born: a century ...]]> Fri, 24 Nov 2017 16:47:22 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=41 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=40 Sat, 11 Nov 2017 11:52:42 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=40 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=39 INK Fair, in London! Julien Comellas has filled his suitcases with a hundred ...]]> Fri, 20 Oct 2017 17:00:35 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=39 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=38 Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:33:16 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=38 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=37 Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:36:52 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=37 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=36 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 18:07:03 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=36 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=35 in your libraries? In your opinion, should maverick intellectuals, hermit ...]]> Fri, 07 Jul 2017 17:34:13 +0200 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=35 https://www.livres-rares.com/english/blog/blog_comment.asp?bi=34

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