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Aristophil part five: Charlotte, Victor and Charles
Nineteenth-century literature was in the spotlight, dominated by a miniature manuscript by the greatRead more
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Lot n° 1
ALDHELM (SAINT) (c. 639-709)
Bishop of Sherbourne, Latin poet and scholar. Two leaves from De laude virginitatis [In Praise of Virginity]. In Latin, in Insular Southumbrian minuscule, decorated manuscript on parchment [Southern England…
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Lot n° 2
AUDUBON JOHN JAMES (1785-1851)
 American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. Autograph MANUSCRIPT of the episode entitled The Lost Portfolio from his renowned Ornithological Biography with a few autograph revisions, [1830], 2 and…
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Lot n° 3
BARNEY NATALIE CLIFFORD (1876-1972)
« l’Amazone », Franco-American playwright, poet and novelist. 28 autograph signed letters. « Nathalie Clifford Barney » dated 1901-1916, letters to Pierre LOUŸS ; approximately 75 pages, variable formats,…
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Lot n° 4
BECKETT SAMUEL (1906-1989)
 Le monde et le pantalon. Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1989. Editor’s paperback cover. Uncut copy. Fine condition. Dimensions : 180 x 102 mm. Dedication copy, to « Josette » : « Pour Josette. Aff ectueusement…
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Lot n° 5
BERNANOS GEORGES (1888-1948)
65 autograph letters signed « G. Bernanos » (one is signed « votre vieil ami » [Your old friend] and one is unsigned), 1939-1942, to Charles OFAIRE, in French ; approximately 170 pages in-4 or in-8 (perforations),…
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Lot n° 6
BLAKE WILLIAM (1757-1827)
English poet, painter and printmaker. Signed document signed « William Blake », one page, oblong small octavo (dimensions: 7,7 x 18,8 cm), 5 July, 1805; in English. An extremely rare autograph of the great…
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Lot n° 7
BOLIVAR SIMON (1783-1830).
« El Libertador », South American revolutionary leader and statesman. Signed letter, signed « Bolivar », Guanare [Venezuela], May 25, 1821 to Alejandro Osorio, three pages, in-4 format, in Spanish. Red…
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Lot n° 8
BOLIVAR SIMON (1783-1830).
« El Libertador », Venezuelan military and political leader. Signed letter, signed « Bolivar », Huaraz (Pérou) 13 June 1824, to Commodore Isaac HULL (commander in chief of the United States Navy in the…
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Lot n° 9
BOLIVAR SIMON (1783-1830).
« El Libertador », Venezuelan military and political leader. Signed letter, Bogota 27 November 1828, to his friend José Angel ALAMO in Caracas; 2 pages, in-4 format (foxing to paper; small slitting to…
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Lot n° 10
BOLIVAR SIMON (1783-1830).
El Libertador, Venezuelan military and political leader. Signed letter, signed « Bolivar », Guayaquil 21 August 1829, to Daniel Florence O’LEARY ; 2 pages and a half, in-4 format (splitting repaired (last…
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Lot n° 11
BRONTË CHARLOTTE (1816-1855)
Autograph MANUSCRIPT signed « CHARLOTTE BRONTË », Second Series of The Young Men’s Magazines. No Second. For September 1830 Edited by Charlotte Brontë. Sold by Sergeant Tree and all other booksellers in…
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Lot n° 12
BRONTË PATRICK (1777-1861)
Irish and British Anglican priest and author, father of the Brontë children. Signed autograph letter, signed « P. Brontë », Haworth 5 December 1850, to John GREENWOOD, book-dealer in Haworth ; 1 page oblong…
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Lot n° 13
BROOKE RUPERT (1887-1915). English poet
Signed autograph letter, signed « Rupert Brooke », Rugby 16 December 1908, to Sydney COCKERELL, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge; 1 page in-12 format, with address on the reverse (Post Card)…
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Lot n° 14
BROWN HERBERT CHARLES (1912-2004). American Chemist (colaureate with George Wittig of the Nobel Prize in 1979).
Autograph MANUSCRIPT, signed « Herbert C. Brown », New Continent Awaiting Discovery, [1992] ; 9 pages in-4 format, stapled; in English. Account of his work on the chemistry of boranes. This text underscores…
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Lot n° 15
BRY THÉODORE DE (1528-1598). Alsatian and Belgian engraver.
Admiranda Narratio, fi da tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae, nuper admodum ab Anglis, qui a Dn. Richardo Greinville equestris ordinis viro eo in coloniam anno M D LXXXV deducti sunt, inventae,…
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Lot n° 16
CALDER ALEXANDER (1898-1976)
Signed autograph letter, signed « Alexander Calder » with a DRAWING, Saché 9 July 1960, to his plumber M. Ferry in Azayle-Rideau ; 1 page and a half, in-4 format (perforations from a binder), envelope;…
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Lot n° 17
CALDER ALEXANDER (1898-1976). American sculptor.
Signed autograph letter, signed « Calder », Saché 30 September 1969, to M. Tappy; 1 page, in-4 format (perforations from a binder); in English. Calder requests multiple copies of a photograph showing his…
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Lot n° 18
CALDER ALEXANDER (1898-1976). American sculptor.
Signed autograph letter, signed « Sandy Calder », Saché [17 May 1971] to Pierre DESCARGUES, 1 page, in-4 format, envelope. He asks Pierre Descargues to avoid speaking about his collection of paintings,…
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Lot n° 19
CALVIN MELVIN (1911-1997). American biochemist (Nobel Prize)
Signed letter, signed « Melvin Calvin », Director of Laboratoire des Biodynamiques chimiques, Berkeley, California 26 July 1978, to Carl DAVIS ; 2 pages in-4 format, typed letter, on letterhead “University…
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Lot n° 20
CAPONE ALPHONSE [AL] (1899-1947)
Autograph MANUSCRIPT, signed « Alphonse Capone », music and lyrics for Madonna Mia, [Alcatraz, between 1934 and 1939]; 1 page in-fol. format (pencil); in English Dedicated to his favorite Jesuit priest:…
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Lot n° 21
CASSATT MARY (1844-1926).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Mary Cassatt », Villa Angeletto, Grasse 6 April [1913], to the art critic Achille SEGARD; 4 pages in-8 format. Lovely letter relative to her mother and family, addressed…
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Lot n° 22
CASSATT MARY (1844-1926).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Mary Cassatt » and autograph NOTE, Villa Angeletto, Grasse, Wednesday [May 1913], to the art critic Achille SEGARD ; 4 pages and 1 page and a quarter, in-8 format; in…
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Lot n° 23
CASSATT MARY (1844-1926).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Mary Cassatt », Villa Angeletto, Grasse, Monday [23 November 1914], to the art critic Achille SEGARD ; 3 pages, in-8 format; in French Fine letter. Mary Cassatt thanks…
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Lot n° 24
CASSATT MARY (1844-1926).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Mary Cassatt », Villa Angeletto, Grasse, 7 February [1918], to Ambroise VOLLARD; 4 pages, in-8 format with her address, envelope (stamp collection Max Thorek); in French.…
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Lot n° 25
CASSATT MARY (1844-1926).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Mary Cassatt », an unidentified correspondant [Paris] 2 November, 2 pages, in-12 format, from her address 10, Rue de Marignan ; en français. Cassatt has not forgotten…
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Lot n° 26
CASTRO FIDEL (1926-2016).
Autographe manuscript, signed « Fidel Castro », [1959] ; 2 pages in-4 format, with erasures and corrections, on letterhead “Republica de Cuba. Ministerio de Defensa nacional. Ejercito” (perforations to…
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Lot n° 27
CATESBY MARK (1683-1749). English naturalist and artist
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands: Containing the Figures of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, and Plants; Particularly those not hitherto described, or incorrectly…
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Lot n° 28
CHARLES II (1630-1685). King of England, Scotland and Ireland
Signed letter, signed « Charles R. », Whitehall [“Court at Whitehall”, London] 8 May 1675, to the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, Heneage FINCH, lst Earl of Nottingham (1621-1682); 1 page in-fol., seal…
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Lot n° 29
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Winston S. Churchill », 105 Mount Street [London] 15 May 1905, to the journalist C.F. Moberley BELLl; 4 pages in-8 format, his address; in English. A candid and confidential…
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Lot n° 30
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965).
Signed note, « W.S.C. » in red pencil, 16 March 1918; 1 page and a quarter in-fol. format, typed note on administrative stationary, ink and red crayon inscriptions (small slits in the upper portion of…
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Lot n° 31
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965).
29 signed letters, signed « Winston S. Churchill », with a few autograph addenda, 1934-1951, to A.G. WATERS editor of News of the World, or other employees of the newspaper; approximately 34 pages, most…
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Lot n° 32
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965).
Signed letter, signed « Winston S. Churchill » with an autograph note, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, 23 March 1939, to the commander of the squadron [and future Air Commodore and Parliamentarian] Vere HARVEY…
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Lot n° 33
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965).
Signed letter, signed « Winston S. Churchill » with an autograph note, Chartwell, Westerham, Kent, 28 April 1939, to the commander of the squadron [and future Air Commodore and Parliamentarian] Vere HARVEY…
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Lot n° 34
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965).
Signed document, signed « Winston S. Churchill », also signed three times by his son Randolph CHURCHILL, and by 11 other British and French fi gures, [Paris] 6 January 1940 ; 21 x 15,5 cm, with a drawing.…
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Lot n° 35
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965).
Typed document (minute) with an autograph date « 10.6.40 » in Churchill’s hand, [10 June 1940]; 1 page small in-4 format (perforations to paper); in English. Famous message of support to French Prime Minister…
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Lot n° 36
CHURCHILL WINSTON (1874-1965)
Signed letter, signed « Winston S. Churchill », London, 3 February 1948, to Commodore A.V. HARVEY ; 1 page in-8 format, typed letter, from his address 28, Hyde Park Gate ; in English. Invitation to lunch…
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Lot n° 37
CHURCHILL CLARISSA SPENCER (born in 1920)
Signed autograph letter, signed « Clarissa Churchill », Paris, Tuesday evening [Autumn 1945], to Jean COCTEAU ; 2 pages in-4 format, in pencil, on letterhead “British Embassy, Paris” ; in French. Letter…
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Lot n° 38
CLEMENS SAMUEL LANGHORNE [MARK TWAIN] (1835-1910).
Signed autograph letter, signed « S.L. Clemens » with an autograph POEM, Elmira (New York) 1 September 1886, To the Bride [Clara SPAULDING] ; 4 pages in-8 format (letter on pp. 1-2, poem on pp. 3-4), tied…
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Lot n° 39
CLEMENS SAMUEL LANGHORNE [MARK TWAIN] (1835-1910).
Autograph MANUSCRIPT, Huck & Tom, undated; 3 pages in-8 format, pencil (slight foxing to the first page; ifolds and paper frayed). Clemens’s manuscript notes for a projected stage version of “Tom Sawyer”.…
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Lot n° 40
COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963). French poet, playwright, novelist and artist.
Autograph MANUSCRIPT, signed « Jean Cocteau », Salut à Louis Armstrong [Salutation to Louis Armstrong] 4 January 1961 ; 4 pages in-4 format, black ink on 4 pages on letterhead “Santo-Sospir”, St Jean Cap-Ferrat;…
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Lot n° 41
DARWIN CHARLES (1809-1882)
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. London: [W. Clowes and Sons for] John Murray, 1859. In-8 format, IX, 502 pp. with…
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Lot n° 42
DARWIN CHARLES (1809-1882)
Autograph MANUSCRIPT, [circa 1875 ?]; 2 pages in-4 format (scattered foxing); in English. Darwin’s notes on “insectivorous plants” and regeneration. The fi rst side contains Darwin’s notes for his work,…
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Lot n° 43
DARWIN CHARLES (1809-1882)
La faculté motrice dans les plantes par Ch. Darwin ; avec la collaboration de Fr. Darwin fils ; ouvrage traduit de l’anglais, annoté et augmenté d’une préface par le Dr Édouard Heckel, Paris, C. Reinwald,…
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Lot n° 44
DEFOE DANIEL (1660-1731).
La vie et les aventures de Robinson Crusoë. Ancienne traduction revue et corrigée sur la belle édition donnée par Stockdale en 1790, augmentée de la vie de l’Auteur, qui n’avoit pas encore paru. Edition…
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Lot n° 45
DICKENS CHARLES (1812-1870).
Signed autograph letter, [London] 8 February 1836, to Lord STANLEY (Secretary of State for Ireland); 2 pages and a half, in-4 format; in English. Rare letter in which the budding author presents his fi…
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Lot n° 46
DICKENS CHARLES (1812-1870).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Charles Dickens », London 1 September 1842, to Thomas C. GRATTAN, Irish novelist and British Consul at Boston; 1 page in-4 format, integral address with postmarks [two…
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Lot n° 47
DICKENS CHARLES (1812-1870).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Charles Dickens », Athenaeum Club, London 27 June 1847, to Moritz FEIST, in Frankfurt am Main; 2 pages in-8 format, envelope ; in English. Letter to Julius Moritz FEIST…
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Lot n° 48
DICKENS CHARLES (1812-1870).
Signed autograph letter, signed « Charles Dickens », 5 Hyde Park Place [London] 23 April 1870, to Mrs BENZONI ; 1 page in-8 format, blue ink, letterhead “Gad’s Hill Place”; in English (sold with engraved…
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Lot n° 49
VARIA
7 letters or manuscript documents, one printed document, 18th to 19th centuries. CAZOTTE DE LA CHASSAIGNE (Commander of the artillery corps based in the Island of Oléron; signed autograph letter, dated…
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Lot n° 50
DODGSON CHARLES LUTWIDGE [LEWIS CARROLL] (1832-1898).
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland… Sixteenth Thousand. London: Macmillan & Co., 1869. With: Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There... Thirteenth Thousand. London: Macmillan & Co., 1872 In-8,…
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