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Auction 02 June 2022 BOOKS OF THE XIXth C. MODERN and AUTOGRAPHS - Paris

Bid on the lot list Giquello : 02 June 2022 - AUTOGRAPHES ET MANUSCRITS - LIVRES XIXE ET MODERNES EXPOSITIONS PRIVÉES :Pour les autographes : Galerie Frédéric Castaing, 30 rue Jacob, sur rendez-vousPour les livres : Étude Binoche et Giquello, 5 rue de la Boétie, sur rendez-vous EXPOSITIONS PUBLIQUES :Hôtel Drouot - salle 11Mercredi 1er juin de 11h à 18het le matin de la vente de 11h à 12h Tél. pendant les expositions : 01 48 00 20 11 contact :Odile CAULE 01 47 70 48 90<a href="mailto:o.caule@betg.fr" target="_blank">o.caule@betg.fr</a> Salle 11 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

BOOKS OF THE XIXth C. MODERN and AUTOGRAPHS

Thursday 02 June 2022 - 14:30 (CEST) - Live

Salle 11 - Hôtel Drouot - 75009 Paris

Giquello

BOOKS OF THE XIXth C. MODERN and AUTOGRAPHS

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Lot n° 1

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules Amédée (1808-1889)

Portrait of the author in medallion, sepia, by Ad. BRAUN & Cie. 6,3 x 10,5 cm. On the back a dedication signed with his initials in red ink, accompanied by the drawing of an arrow "Il attend. J. B. d'A.". Some ink marks on the portrait at the level of...

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Lot n° 2

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules Amédée (1808-1889)

Autograph letter signed to a young lady, July 4 1884. 1 p. in-8. Engraved header "Never more". He informs her "In all haste, I gave yesterday your novel, not to Coppée, but to Coppée (...) on his work table, warning his sister. The ending I had planned...

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Lot n° 3

BARNEY Natalie CLIFFORD (1876-1972)

Autograph letter signed "l'Amazone Natalie Barney" postscript signed "NCB" Paris, October 4 1966. 1 p. in-8. Header printed at her address "20, Rue Jacob VIe". She warmly thanks her correspondent "(...) It is again to you that I owe this complete article...

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Lot n° 4

BEAUMARCHAIS Pierre-Augustin Caron de (1732-1799).

Autograph letter signed, (s.l.) 6 frimaire an 5 (26 novembre 1793) 1 p. in-4. He takes the defense of the famous Vestris (1746-1804) "... the short attestation that I enclose has the excellent answer of the citizen Vestris. She has a mother and a sister...

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Lot n° 5

BERLIOZ (Hector).

Autograph letter signed to his sister Nanci Berlioz, dated Paris, this 13 December 1821, 3 p. ¼ in-4, autograph address. Remarkable letter of youth, intimate and musical, written at 18 years old. The young Berlioz had been in Paris since October, where...

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Lot n° 6

BERLIOZ (Hector).

Autograph letter signed to his mother Joséphine Berlioz, dated Paris, this 10 May 1829, 6 p. in-4. Long musical letter, evoking Lesueur, Cherubini, Rossini and Auber. Knowing that his mother did not approve of his vocation, Berlioz tries to show her that...

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Lot n° 7

BERLIOZ (Hector).

Autograph letter signed to his sister Nanci. Paris, August 4, 1830. 4 p. in-8 (201 x 125 mm). Letter signed "H. Berlioz". Trace of tab. Beautiful letter on the Revolution of 1830 and on his cantata for the Prix de Rome. He understands his sister's concern...

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Lot n° 8

BERLIOZ (Hector).

Autograph letter signed to his sister Nanci. Paris. October 18 1833. 4 p. in-12 (174 x 114 mm). Letter signed "H. Berlioz Minor paper losses due to the acidity of the ink. Remarkable and violent plea, partly unpublished, for Harriet Smithson whom Berlioz...

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Lot n° 9

BERLIOZ (Hector).

Autograph letter signed to his sister Nanci Pal, dated Paris June 29 1846, 4 p. in-8, autograph address and postmarks. Letter on The Damnation of Faust. Berlioz has just spent a week in Lille, where his cantata Chant des chemins de fer, specially composed...

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Lot n° 10

BERLIOZ, Hector.

3/4May 1864. Autograph letter signed to his son Louis Berlioz Paris. 3-4 May 1864). Gp. in-8 (208 x 133 mm). Letter signed H. Berlioz. Trace of tab. Very beautiful and long letter, all musical, in which it is question of the death of Meyerbeer, of Rossini,...

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Lot n° 11

BERLIOZ (Hector).

Autograph letter signed to his sister Nanci Pal, dated Paris April 3, 1850, 4 p. in-8. Envelope. Witty letter about his musical activities, Hugo and Dumas père. His sister Nanci is ill, and he is worried: ... "How much I would like to be able to give...

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Lot n° 12

BONAPARTE Marie, princesse de Grèce (1882-1962).

File consisting of: an autograph manuscript signed and 13 autograph letters signed, addressed to Philippe Kah. Correspondence written in Saint-Cloud, Vienna, Paris, Villa Roth (Austria) and (s.l.), between 1927 and 1930. About 46 pp. in-8 and in-4. Full...

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Lot n° 13

BONAPARTE Marie, princesse de Grèce (1882-1962).

Autograph letter signed "Marie princesse de Grèce" Paris, May 10, 1930. 2 pp. in-folio. Engraved letterhead with her address "Rue Adolphe-Yvon Paris (XVIe)". Letter written 4 days before her second operation (May 14, 1930 at the American Hospital in Neuilly)...

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Lot n° 14

BONAPARTE Marie, princesse de Grèce (1882-1962).

Beautiful signed and autographed photographic portrait, black & white. 28,3 x 44 cm. "for Jello Frankel in friendly memory of several years of collaboration". Document presented during the exhibition Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) princess Georges of Greece...

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Lot n° 15

BRAZZA Pierre Savorgnan de (1852-1905).

Autograph letter signed, to the president of the Geographical Society of the Province of Oran, Aïn Fezza near Tlemcen in the province of Oran, May 1, 1897, 2 1/2 pp. in-folio, name of addressee partly scratched. The father of the French Congo a victim...

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Lot n° 16

BRAZZA Pierre Savorgnan de (1852-1905).

Autograph manuscript signed, (s.l.), June 4, 1886. 1 p. in-4. Very interesting linguistic notes "The monkey is a man; he does not speak for fear of working. This proverb is translated by Brazza into two African languages including the Bantu of the Batékés...

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Lot n° 17

BRETON André (1896-1966).

Autograph letter signed to his publisher, Paris 42 rue Fontaine, Paris IXe, January 28, 1937. 1 p. folio. Breton refers to his work L'Amour fou, published in 1937, the third part of his surrealist trilogy after "Nadja" and "Vases communicants". He asks...

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Lot n° 18

CÉLINE (Louis Destouches, dit Louis-Ferdinand).

Unpublished manuscript chapter of Journey to the End of the Night. 11 autograph pages in-4, numbered 1 to 10 (2 pages numbered 7), written in black ink on a sheet of Salmorenc stationery (one page on yellowed peeling paper without watermark), bradel black...

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Lot n° 19

CENDRARS Blaise (1887-1961).

Autograph letter signed "Blaise" to Madeleine and Marcelin Castaing. (s.l.) December 1923. 1 p. in-8. "...I can't phone you, my voice is completely gone. That is why I am sending you this tire. Nothing to do yesterday at Grasset with the funeral of this...

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Lot n° 20

CHAM Amédée de Noé dit (1819-1879).

Exceptional set of more than 350 autographed pen-and-ink drawings (s.d.). Of various sizes, on unevenly torn pieces of paper. These caricatures for Le Charivari offer us an exceptional panorama of life in Paris and in France under the Second Empire. Everyday...

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Lot n° 21

CHATEAUBRIAND François-René vicomte de (1768-1848).

Autograph letter signed to M. le secrétaire perpétuel Louis-Simon AUGER (1772-1829), Paris, January 14, 1826. 1 p.2/3 in-4. "... you have kindly asked me to read something at the Academy on the day of the reception of M. the duke of Montmorency. According...

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Lot n° 22

CHAUSSON (Ernest).

Autograph letter signed to Claude Debussy, dated Luzancy, Thursday 4 May 1893, 4 pages in-12 (179 x 116 mm), in a modern red half-maroquin folder. Touching testimony of the deep friendship between the two composers. Here is already that I fall on your...

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Lot n° 23

CHÉREAU Patrice (1944-2013).

2 autograph letters signed, Nanterre, November 10 1984 and (s.l.n.d.). 3 pp. in-folio. One letter on paper on the letterhead of the Théâtre des Amandiers. These two letters were written at the time Patrice Chéreau was staging La Finta Serva, the adaptation...

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Lot n° 24

CINEMA. Set of 4 autograph letters...

CINEMA. Set of 4 autograph letters signed. CLAIR René (1898-1981) autograph letter signed to Jérôme Carcopino, (s.l.) May 15 1966. 1 p. in-4. Header with his name. He thanks the historian Jérôme Carcopino for sending his "(...) magnificent ? Julius Caesar";...

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Lot n° 25

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

Beautiful set of two autograph drawings, dedicated, dated and signed, Las Palmas (Canary Islands), April 1, 1961. 2 pp. in-folio. Heading "Hotel Santa Catalina". These two drawings represent a couple looking at each other. They were drawn for Jean-Pierre...

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Lot n° 26

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

Beautiful drawing in black ink, entitled "La mémoire", "Villefranche sur mer", dated "juin 1935". 1 p. big in-4 (21 x 27,1 cm). This drawing represents a woman with her eyes closed, above her face the following inscription "Jean Cocteau apologizes very...

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Lot n° 27

COLETTE Sidonie-Gabrielle dite (1873-1954) et MARCHAND Léopold (1891-1952).

Typescript (complete) of the play "La Seconde" annotated by Colette and Marchand, (s.l.n.d.). 131 pp. in-4. Colette worked with Léopold Marchand on a theatrical adaptation of her eponymous novel. The play was created not without difficulty in 1951 at...

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Lot n° 28

CORSICA. Congé en faveur du citoyen...

CORSICA. Congé en faveur du citoyen Hubert, délivré par le conseiller André-François Miot, Ajaccio, le 5 messidor an 9 (24 juin 1801). Attached a brown pencil drawing of a monk, as well as engravings printed in color and pasted on a sheet of blue pap...

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Lot n° 29

CORTOT Alfred (1877-1962).

2 autograph letters signed to Claude Rémusat, Lausanne and Paris, June 30 1957 and November 10 1957. 2 pp. in-8 and in-folio. Heading "Ecole normale de musique de Paris". On June 30, he thanks his correspondent: "I am deeply touched by your sending, and...

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Lot n° 30

DEBUSSY (Claude).

Correspondence with André Messager. 1902-1910. Set of 21 autograph letters signed, in all 60 pages in-8 or in-12, with 13 stamped autograph envelopes. Bound in an in-8 volume (220 x 150 mm), Lavallière jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, gilt inner lace...

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Lot n° 31

DUMAS Alexandre (1802-1870).

Autograph manuscript signed to his doctor, "April 24" (n.d.) 8 pp. in-4, on blue paper. Transcript attached. Manuscript written in the manner of a fantastic story that could be entitled: Histoire de quatre crânes ou comment quatre crânes tombèrent entre...

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Lot n° 32

FAMOUS WOMEN. Set of 9 documents. ABBEMA...

FAMOUS WOMEN. Set of 9 documents. ABBEMA Louise (1853-1927) autograph card signed, (s.l.n.d.) 2 pp. in-12. Engraved motto "I want". "Thank you for thinking of my party my old darling Makoko. My arm is torn by a dog, my foot is damaged by a wasp. Long...

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Lot n° 33

FLAUBERT (Gustave).

Autograph letter signed to Théophile Gautier, dated Thursday, January 27 1859, 3 pages and a half in-8 (209 x 133 mm) in brown ink on blue laid paper, in a modern black half-maroquin folder. Superb letter about Salammbô. In this long friendly letter,...

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Lot n° 34

FOUCHÉ Joseph (1759-1820).

Signed document, Paris, 11 brumaire an XIII (2 November 1804). 1 p. in-folio. Nice vignette of the Ministry of the General Police. Pass for "Hubert Rohault, clerk of the Academy of architecture, returning to France (...)" comes then his physical description...

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Lot n° 35

GAULLE Charles de (1890-1970).

Autograph card signed, Metz, September 25, 1938. 2 pp. in-12 oblong. Engraved header "507th tank regiment - The colonel -". He describes himself for the press service of his book La France et son armée "(...) One could say that: "One found this colonel...

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Lot n° 36

GAUTIER Théophile (1811-1872).

Autograph letter signed to "My dear Jean-Baptiste Porcher" (s.l.n.d. end of March 1858). 1 p. in-8. Attached a drawing representing him. Interesting letter in which he asks for an advance on his royalties of "(...) one thousand francs (...)", he will...

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Lot n° 37

GENET Jean (1910-1986).

2 autograph letters signed to Antoine Bourseiller, March 24, 1975 and (s.l.n.d.) 2 pp. in-folio. Beautiful letterhead of the Théâtre Récamier Bourseiller, for the letter of March 24. (s.d.) He begins by presenting his apologies, then evokes the theater...

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Lot n° 38

THE ZARAFA GIRAFFE. PRÉVOST Florent...

THE ZARAFA GIRAFFE. PRÉVOST Florent (1794-1870). Autograph bill signed, Paris October 26, 1846. 1 p. in-8 oblong. It announces "Calignan is charged to go and fetch the skeleton of the Giraffe with his car." Florent Prévost naturalist and illustrator,...

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Lot n° 39

GRACQ Louis Poirier dit Julien (1910-2007).

2 autograph cards signed to Dominique Noguez, St-Florent, June 29 1986 and October 6 1996. 2 pp. in-12 and in-16 oblong. Envelopes enclosed. On June 29, he answers her "I thank you for showing me your sympathy. But it is already a long time that I do...

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Lot n° 40

GRIS (Juan).

Autograph letter signed to Léonce Rosenberg, dated Beaulieu près Loches, Indre et Loire, 10-5-1918, 2 1/4 pages in-8 (212 x 134 mm), in modern blue half-maroquin folder. The point on his painting. In 1912, Juan Gris had signed an exclusive contract with...

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Lot n° 41

WAR 14-18 - CARICATURES. Set of...

WAR 14-18 - CARICATURES. Set of more than 300 original caricatures, published in various newspapers in 1916. Very nice set of caricatures on the theme of the 14-18 war, in pencil, ink, gouache and watercolor, most of them captioned and signed. The themes...

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Lot n° 42

GUITRY Sacha (1885-1957).

Autograph poster signed, (s.l.n.d.) 2 pp. in-folio and black & white photograph, dedicated and signed to "Jean Vietti", 8,1 x 13,1 cm. On the front the poster for "Le Voyage de Tchong-Li", on the back a list of Guitry's main plays. Poster for: "Le Voyage...

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Lot n° 43

GUITRY Sacha (1885-1957).

Fragment of manuscript for his work De MCDXXIX à MCMXLII, that is to say: From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain, that is to say: 500 years of the history of France, work conceived, composed and commented by Sacha Guitry... 1944. Approximately 29 pp. in-folio Preparatory...

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Lot n° 44

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Lot n° 45

HENRI IV (1553-1610).

Autograph letter signed to his friend Captain Portal, (s.l.n.d. Circa 1576). 1 p. in-8 oblong. Hole from a burn outside the text. He orders his childhood friend Captain Portal to go and join the troops who are leaving to take Casteljaloux. This order...

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Lot n° 46

POLITICAL & MILITARY MEN. Set of...

POLITICAL & MILITARY MEN. Set of 8 documents. BARTHOU Louis (1862-1934) 2 autograph letters signed, Paris, March 23 and April 24, 1913. 2 pp. in-8 and in-12. March 23, he explains "But this last moment was decisive; it was necessary either to close or...

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Lot n° 47

[HUGO Victor]. DROUET Juliette (1806-1883).

Autograph manuscript (s.l.) "April 1842". 2 pp. in-folio. Account of Juliette Drouet entitled "Recette générale du mois d'avril 1842". Touching document where one perceives the sweetness and the devotion of Juliette for her "adoré", the titles of the...

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Lot n° 48

[HUGO Victor]. DROUET Juliette (1806-1883).

Autograph letter signed "Juliette" to Victor Hugo, (s.l.) February 12 1849. 4pp. in-8. Mark of the collector Henri Ledoux. Lovely love letter with a few points of erotic humor. "Good morning, my sweet little man, good morning, good morning with the sun...

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Lot n° 49

[HUGO VICTOR]. HUGO Adèle (1803-1868) et Victor (1802-1885).

Autograph letter signed Guernsey (s.d.) 3 pp.1/2. in-8. With autograph corrections by Victor Hugo. Very nice and interesting letter about poor children, the corrections in Victor Hugo's hand are mentioned in bold. "Sir, I was passing the other day on...

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Lot n° 50

HUGO Victor (1802-1885).

Sepia photograph, by Etienne Carjat. Victor Hugo standing on an armchair, signed and autographed. 6,5 x 9 cm.

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