Recent arrivals and highlights

Historical significance & modern relevance: Pathé’s manual for developing and printing film

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

Catalogs and an almanach documenting cycling in the early 20th century

Inspired by William Morris and the Arts & Crafts Movement in England

The pieces range from poetry to comic drama and translated verse from Latin, in short, a representative sampling of mid-eighteenth-century French literature, brought together by a contemporary reader.

A Banned Book and its scarce follow-up: incontestable evidence that woman can conceive sans homme

71 Hand-drawn and etched plates by Didier Mutel

“Enemy animals of human industry” and “the scourge of southern Russia”: the Tettigopsis

Trade Catalog as Work of Art: Paul Haviland’s photographs promoting a master craftsman: The Art Deco glasswork of René Lalique

Unpublished c. 1968/70 Spanish protest album including two texts by Fernando Arrabal and Jorge Luis Borges