Recent arrivals and highlights

The birth of a literary genre: the Grand Tour reduced to a voyage through a single room

A seminal psychoanalytical literary study: Marie Bonaparte’s essential work on Edgar Allan Poe. One of the large paper nominative copies on Arches, inscribed by the author

An elegant watercolor album of historical costumes, an academic study

Establishing color standardization in the textile industry by the leading firms of St-Etienne

Passenger Guide for US Troops & Civilians returning from the Philippines after WWII aboard the USAT General C.G. Morton, June 1947

An unpublished vaudeville play with street vendors on Boulevard du Temple near Madame Tussaud’s wax museum

A sales catalog for a Parisian women’s clothing designer displaying 150 different designs (1904-06), for dresses, coats, hats, furs, parasols, etc. for different seasons—complemented by 8 photographs of dresses.

The HELLMAP ATLAS is a geography of Hell inspired by Sandro Botticelli's (circa 1485) drawings for an unrealized edition of Dante's Inferno.

Sketches of six new birds by Didier Mutel

The Rosetta Stone for Mutel’s Poetics of Acid Etching.