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✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful and complete vintage issue of Tout l'Univers — the celebrated French illustrated encyclopedic weekly published by Hachette, in an issue of exceptional ...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful and complete vintage issue of Tout l'Univers — the celebrated French illustrated encyclopedic weekly published by Hachette, in a particularly rich and ...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful and complete vintage issue of Tout l'Univers — the celebrated French illustrated encyclopedic weekly published by Hachette, one of the most beloved and...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A large-format vintage score of a Mozart Piano Concerto in the celebrated Bärenreiter Urtext edition — the definitive scholarly edition of Mozart's works, publishe...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A monumental large-format full orchestral and choral score of a major German Romantic opera or oratorio — 395 pages of dense, multi-stave notation in the grand tra...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A vintage 1987 French hardcover edition of Astérix chez Rahàzade — Album No. 28 in the legendary Astérix series by René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, published by Ha...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A complete and monumental full orchestral score of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro (Le Nozze di Figaro) — published by Dover Publications in their celebrated large...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A complete and beautiful vintage vocal score of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) — published by Ricordi, the most prestigious name in Italian and Europea...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful and unusually ambitious large-format illustrated folk song anthology — a complete collection of Anglo-American traditional songs presented with full pi...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful and complete vintage French world atlas from 1981 — the Atlas Bordas, published by one of France's most respected educational publishers and one of the...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A spectacular large-format vintage astronomy book from 1978 — L'Univers by Ian Ridpath, one of Britain's most celebrated popular science writers, in its French edi...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A rare and musically rich antique German Protestant hymnal from the 1930s — a complete congregational Choralbuch containing over 110 numbered hymns in full four-pa...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful and deeply personal antique German Catholic missal from 1951 — a complete liturgical companion for the Mass, the feast days, and the daily prayers of t...

A charming and characterful vintage hand-painted faïence pitcher from the 20th century — a piece of Southern European folk ceramic tradition at its most expressive and joyful. The f...

Two stripes. Two polka dots. Four cups. One very French table. This set of four vintage Linvosges cider cups (bolées de cidre) is a coordinated mix-and-match service in the classic ...

Four cups. One table. The smell of Norman cider and a French café on a Sunday afternoon. These four vintage French cider cups (bolées de cidre) are the real thing — thick-walled sto...

A seesaw. A jack-o'-lantern. An owl in spectacles. Seven birds flying south. Herbst. This 1966 Hutschenreuther collector plate is the most atmospheric of the four seasons — a comple...

A boy fishing. A girl reaching for a bluebird. A toddler picking dandelions. Frühling. This 1966 Hutschenreuther collector plate is the most joyful and narratively rich of the four ...

Two girls at the water's edge. A blue crab. A sleeping dog. Sailboats on the horizon. Sommer. This 1966 Hutschenreuther collector plate carries one of the most beloved illustration ...

A crescent moon. A red cart. A billy goat. Two children under a fur blanket. Winter. This 1966 Hutschenreuther collector plate is the most atmospheric of the four seasons — and one ...

Six months of the year. Six birds. One vase. One of the most beloved German porcelain collector series of the 20th century. This set brings together six miniature monthly collector ...

Twenty-seven of the most beloved songs ever written — Hey Jude, Imagine, Yesterday, My Way, Misty, Georgia on My Mind, The Girl from Ipanema, Autumn Leaves, Round Midnight, Satin Dol...

La Java des Bombes Atomiques. Oh! C'est Divin. Le Vieux Séchal. Eighty pages of Boris Vian. This 1996 Warner Chappell / TUTTI edition collects the complete piano, vocal, and guitar ...

Open it anywhere and the world opens with it. This 1982 Fernand Nathan large-format world geography atlas-encyclopedia is one of the most beautifully illustrated French reference bo...

Mozart's complete songs for voice and piano — in one of the oldest and most beautiful Edition Peters printings to survive in Good condition. Lieder für eine Singstimme mit Klavierbe...

One artist. Thirty-two pages. Every major work. Regards sur la Peinture — the celebrated French art partwork series published by Éditions Fabbri — dedicated Issue No. 83 entirely to...

Twenty Mozart piano sonatas — the complete canon — in a single substantial volume. This is the Éditions Choudens (Paris) edition of the 20 Sonates pour Piano de Mozart — a complete ...

Two of Mozart's greatest piano works — the Fantasie KV 475 and the Sonata KV 457, both in C minor — in a single volume. Mozart himself paired them: the Fantasie was published togethe...

One piece. Ten pages. The complete text. Franz Schubert's Impromptu in C minor, Op. 99 No. 1 — one of the most beloved solo piano works in the repertoire — in the G. Henle Verlag Ur...

Sixteen of the greatest Gospel and Spiritual songs ever written — Amazing Grace, When the Saints Go Marchin' In, Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Go Down Moses, Oh Happy Day, Deep River, Kum...

One of the most important operas of the 20th century — complete, in full orchestral score, in a single substantial volume. Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande (1902) — the opera t...

Eighty-eight Schubert songs — Der Erlkönig, Die Forelle, Ave Maria, Ständchen, Der Tod und das Mädchen, An die Musik, songs from Winterreise and Schwanengesang — in a single volume. ...

He looks like he just came in from a walk on the Normandy coast — sweater, knickerbockers, and all. This vintage porcelain collector boy doll — the rarest format in the collector doll market — wears a complete and beautifully coordinated French preppy country outfit: a cream and navy Breton-stripe knitted sweater (marinière), a white Peter Pan collar, beige tweed-check knickerbockers, dark navy ribbed knee socks, and — the finest detail — black Oxford lace-up shoes with metal toe caps. Every element is present, intact, and well-preserved. The face is immediately winning: a round child's face with wide blue-grey fixed glass eyes, a small coral painted mouth, rosy cheeks, and smooth warm-ivory bisque porcelain — no chips, no cracks. The short tousled golden-blonde hair is boyish and natural. The expression is open and curious — genuinely charming. The shoes deserve a close look: perfectly proportioned black Oxford lace-ups with proper lace eyelets, black ties, and a silver metal toe cap reinforcement at each tip — a level of miniature shoemaking detail that is characteristic of the better-tier collector dolls...

He has been grinning for forty years — and he shows no sign of stopping. A vintage decorative ceramic clown figure from the golden era of the collector clown market — the 1980s–1990...

She looks like she just came in from the garden — and she has the hat to prove it. A vintage German collector porcelain doll — bilingual English/German maker's labels intact ("Adult Collectors Dolls...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE She is dressed for the Highlands — and she has not forgotten it. This vintage porcelain collector doll wears one of the most richly layered costumes in the collector doll...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A vintage Elite Collection Porzellan doll — a named German collector doll brand of the 1980s–1990s — in a beautifully made Victorian-inspired white lace dress, offered honestly as-found, for restoration. The face tells the story: a round child's face with soft blue-grey fixed glass eyes, painted pink Cupid's bow lips, rosy cheeks — and a significant crack on the right cheek, where a large fragment of porcelain has broken away, exposing the hollow interior. The break is clean — a single large fragment, not a shatter — and experienced porcelain restorers consider this type of crack restorable, either by locating the missing piece or by professional ceramic repair. The left side of the face is perfect. Everything else is in good condition. The white cotton and broderie anglaise dress — long sleeves, eyelet lace collar, pink organza sash with pearl bead trim at the waist — is well-preserved and charming. The cream porcelain shoes...

She has presence. A vintage porcelain collector doll from the golden era of the collector market — the 1980s–1990s — made for the adult collector, not ...

✦ ABOUT THIS ISSUE April 1966 — and Tout l'Univers N°234 delivers one of its most visually and intellectually rich issues: Don Quichotte charging into a flock of sheep, an insect evo...

✦ ABOUT THIS ISSUE March 1966 — and Tout l'Univers N°229 delivers one of its most intellectually and visually ambitious issues: a voyage across the Pacific, a descent into the micros...

agazine's pages. "Hamlet de Shakespeare" (Part 2) delivers the play's tragic conclusion — the death of Ophelia in a dramatic Pre-Raphaelite illustration, the duel of Hamlet and Laert...

✦ ABOUT THIS ISSUE February 1965 — and the issue immediately before N°174 in the Tout l'Univers run delivers one of the most visually spectacular back covers in the magazine's histor...

✦ ABOUT THIS ISSUE February 1965. France is deep in the Trente Glorieuses — and Tout l'Univers is at its creative peak. The cover stops you immediately: a dramatic full-color painti...

✦ ABOUT THIS ISSUE June 1966. France is in the middle of its Trente Glorieuses — the thirty glorious years of postwar prosperity and optimism — and Tout l'Univers, Hachette's beloved...

✦ ABOUT THIS ISSUE Christmas 1957. The Cold War is 83 days old in space — Sputnik launched in October — and the Journal de Tintin marks the season with one of its most extraordinary ...

✦ ABOUT THIS ISSUE January 2, 1960. Paris Match hits the newsstands with one of the most celebrated covers in its history — and one of the most glamorous royal weddings of the 20th c...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE Small dog. Big presence. This is a vintage German Shepherd miniature figurine — solid metal cast, silver-grey with natural dark patination, rendered with the anat...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE Small dog. Big presence. This is a vintage German Shepherd miniature figurine — solid metal cast, silver-grey with natural dark patination, rendered with the anat...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE Good fortune has arrived — and he's brought it with both hands. This is Fu Xing (福星) — the God of Good Fortune — the "Fu" (福) of the celebrated Sanxing triad (三星 ...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE He's been bringing good fortune for decades — and he's ready to bring some to your home. This is Shoulao (壽星) — the God of Longevity — the most beloved and immedi...

This stunning antique Art Deco Chinese rug from the 1920s is a handmade masterpiece crafted from high-quality wool. Featuring a rich red central field framed by a deep brown border, ...

Fu is the most beloved of the three Chinese Star Gods — the deity of good fortune and blessings. This finely detailed figurine depicts him as a bearded elder in flowing scholar's rob...

A delightful mid-20th century souvenir doll depicting a British Royal Guard at attention. The plastic face features charming sleepy eyes that open and close, rosy cheeks, and red lip...

✦ ABOUT THIS DOLL She's arrived straight from Brittany — and she's brought her basket. This is a vintage "Made in France" Breton folk costume doll, representing a woman from the Pay...

✦ ABOUT THIS DOLL Meet this charming vintage European folk costume doll — a mustachioed gentleman in full traditional dress, full of personality and ready to find a new home on a she...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful vintage Carl Schumann Arzberg Bavaria reticulated oval dish — hand-finished in fine Bavarian porcelain at the Carl Schumann factory in Arzberg, c. 1930...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A charming vintage French porcelain shell-form dish — moulded in the form of a large scallop shell, decorated with a naturalistic dog rose and forget-me-not flower...

✦ ABOUT THIS PIECE A beautiful vintage Rosenthal Bavaria "Chippendale" covered soup tureen — hand-finished in fine Bavarian porcelain at the Rosenthal factory in Selb, Bavaria, c. 19...

✦ ABOUT THIS RUG An antique Persian Serab runner from the 1920s — hand-knotted in the tribal village tradition of the northwestern Middle East, in the most characteristic and visuall...

✦ ABOUT THIS RUG A beautiful vintage Persian Sarouk rug from the 1950s — hand-knotted in the great workshop tradition of Sarouk, western Middle East, in the most celebrated and comme...