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Auction 51 • LES COLLECTIONS ARISTOPHIL • LITTÉRATURE - Paris

Bid on the lot list Drouot Estimations : 08 July 2022 - Salle 2 - Hôtel Drouot - Paris

51 • LES COLLECTIONS ARISTOPHIL • LITTÉRATURE

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Lot n° 1

ALBUM AMICORUM. GAUTIER Théophile. HUGO...

ALBUM AMICORUM. GAUTIER Théophile. HUGO Victor. NERVAL Gérard de. Album amicorum, 1833-1865; in-8 oblong (12,7 x 20 cm), contemporary binding blue half-chagrin with corners, initials E. Be D. in gilt letters on the upper cover, spine decorated with gilt...

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Lot n° 2

ALEMBERT Jean Le Rond d' (1717-1783).

L.A. signed at head, August 7 1770, to notary Guillaume-Claude DELALEU; 1/3 page in-4, address. "Mr. d'Alembert has the honor to send to Mr. Delaleu 2 louis for Mr. Mercier, author of various works." This is the subscription of Louis-Sébastien MERCIER...

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Lot n° 3

ALEXEÏEFF Alexandre (1901-1982).

2 books illustrated by him, bound. Charles BAUDELAIRE. Petits Poèmes en prose. Eaux-fortes by M. Alexeieff (Paris Société du Livre d'art, 1934); in-4, beige morocco, top board with mosaic title in large black box letters, midnight blue morocco lining,...

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Lot n° 4

APOLLINAIRE Guillaume (1880-1918).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Guillaume Apollinaire", La Vie anecdotique, March 1911; 6 pages large in-8. First of the chronicles of La Vie anecdotique that Apollinaire published in the Mercure de France. It was published, under the pseudonym of "Montade"...

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Lot n° 5

APOLLINAIRE Guillaume (1880-1918).

L.A.S. "Guillaume Apollinaire", January 14 1918, to Gaston PICARD; 1 page in-8, address on back with ink stamp of the Hôpital complémentaire de l'Hôpital militaire du Val-de-Grâce, Villa Molière. He is "in the hospital sick with a pulmonary congestion...

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Lot n° 6

ARAGON Louis (1897-1982).

L.A.S. "Georges Meyzargues", Saint-Donat autumn 1943, to André ROUSSEAUX; 1 page and a quarter in-8. Letter signed with a pseudonym during the Resistance Aragon will use various pseudonyms in the underground, including that of Georges Meyzargues to sign L'Année...

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Lot n° 7

ARP Jean (1886-1966).

Le Voilier dans la forêt, decorated with woodcuts by the author (Paris, Louis Broder, 1957); in-12, black morocco, top board mosaiced with an Arpian shape in green morocco, double endpapers in green morocco, cover preserved, folder and slipcase (Françoise...

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Lot n° 8

BALZAC Jean-Louis GUEZ, sieur de (1597-1654)

literary scholar and letter writer; founding member of the French Academy, he was the first donor to create the prize of eloquence. L.A.S. from three farms, ca. 1620, to Monseigneur le cardinal de LA VALLETTE; 6 pages small in-4, address (3 farms) with...

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Lot n° 9

BALZAC Honoré de (1799-1850).

L.A.S. "from Balzac", late October 1834, to Charles NODIER; 2 pages in-12 on fine wove paper. Nice invitation to the famous "dinner of the tigers". "My dear Nodier, would you do me the pleasure of coming to dine in my Cassinière on the first of November,...

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Lot n° 10

BALZAC Honoré de (1799-1850).

L.A., Paris about January 16, 1835, to the Marquise de CASTRIES; 3 1/4 pages in-8 on fine wove paper. Beautiful love letter to the Marquise de Castries, who had rejected him two years earlier. "Your letter makes me very sad. Yes, you don't know me very...

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Lot n° 11

BALZAC Honoré de (1799-1850).

BUTOR Michel (1926-2016). ALECHINSKY Pierre (born 1927). Traité des excitants modernes, followed by : Michel Butor, Scènes de la vie excitante (Yves Rivière éditeur, Paris, 1989). In-plano (53 x 47 cm), in sheets, in a white filled cover, black...

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Lot n° 12

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889).

L.A.S. "Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly", Good Friday 21 March 1856, to Armand DUTACQ; 3 pages and a half in-8. Beautiful letter about his critical articles. He sent him about ten days ago an article on BOSSUET about the Studies on the life of Bossuet by Amable...

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Lot n° 13

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889).

L.A.S. "Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly", 1860, to his publisher Achille BOURDILLIAT; 2 pages in-8 in red ink (small crack repaired). Barbey d'Aurevilly intervenes with his publisher to warmly recommend the writer Prosper VIALON (1817-1873). "Dear Editor, I...

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Lot n° 14

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889).

autograph manuscript, À un dîner d'athées; 38 leaves (31 x 20 cm) mounted on tabs, and bound in a folio volume, red morocco, boards decorated with a set of 9 gilt fillets, parchment lining and endpapers in an inner morocco frame decorated with six gilt...

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Lot n° 15

BARBEY D'AUREVILLY Jules (1808-1889).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "J. Barbey d'Aurevilly", L'Académie sans candidats, 1873; 3 fol. pages in brown, red and green inks, cut out for typesetting and reassembled on vellum paper, bound in red half-maroquin, title-piece on upper cover. Amusing polemical...

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Lot n° 16

BARJAVEL René (1911-1985).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "René Barjavel", Passage du Malin (Madeleine), December 1947; 9 pages in-4 with erasures and corrections. Dramatic chronicle on the play by François MAURIAC. Article for Carrefour, with numerous erasures and corrections, having...

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Lot n° 17

BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867).

L.A.S. "Charles", Monday evening February 10, 1862, to his mother Madame Caroline AUPICK; 3 pages in-8. Baudelaire announces to his mother the withdrawal of his candidacy for the French Academy. "Dear Mother, AS SOON AS you receive this letter, go up...

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Lot n° 18

BAUDELAIRE Charles (1821-1867).

L.A.S. "Ch. Baudelaire", Paris "22, Rue d'Amsterdam" August 1862, to Arsène HOUSSAYE; 1 page small in-4. About the Petits Poèmes en prose. The letter is about the publication in La Presse of the Petits Poèmes en prose, on August 26, 1862, preceded by...

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Lot n° 19

BEAUVOIR Simone de (1908-1986).

Set of preparatory documents for Les Écrits de Simone de Beauvoir, by Claude FRANCIS and Fernande GONTIER, 1976-1979. Vocal archives: 2 audio cassettes and 9 CDs of interviews. Unpublished audio interviews to prepare the book, i.e. 2 audio cassettes (and...

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Lot n° 20

BECQUE Henry (1837-1899).

MANUSCRIT autograph "Henry Becque", Les Corbeaux; 2-171 folios in-fol. (31 x 20 cm) written on the recto, mounted on tabs and bound in one volume in-fol. black jansenist morocco, spine ribbed, red morocco lining with gilt fillet, red moire endpapers,...

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Lot n° 21

BERNARD Tristan (1866-1947).

L.A.S. "Tristan Bernard", to Sacha GUITRY; 1 page in-8 at his address 9, Rue Édouard Detaille. "So, what? You put yourself in a bad position with regard to LACLOS. I took from him his subject of Dangerous Liaisons, his method of presentation, his idea...

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Lot n° 22

BLOY Léon (1846-1917).

MANUSCRIT autograph, La Femme pauvre et autres textes, 1890-1901; small notebook in-4 (21,5 x 17 cm) of 110 pages, beige cloth boards (cover stained, spine worn, detached, a few ff. ). Precious working manuscript of the novel The Poor Woman, Salvation...

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Lot n° 23

BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX Nicolas (1636-1711).

L.A.S. "Despreaux", early January 1698, to Reverend Father BOUHOURS; 2 pages in-4, address with remnants of red wax stamps. Beautiful letter on his Epistles. In January 1698, Boileau publishes new Epistles (X, XI and XII) with a Preface where he disavows...

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Lot n° 24

BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX Nicolas (1636-1711).

L.A.S. "Despreaux", Paris July 30, 1706, to Adrien-Maurice, duc de NOAILLES; 3 pages in-4 (inner fold reinforced). Superb letter on his Satire XII on the Equivoque, which will be published only after his death, and on the glorious conduct of the duke...

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Lot n° 25

BOILEAU-DESPRÉAUX Nicolas (1636-1711).

Autograph MANUSCRIT of two POEMS; 1 page in-4, mounted on tab and bound in soft red morocco, slipcase. A collection of two quatrains, one of them in praise of RACINE, from the collection formed by his friend Claude Brossette; they are numbered IX and...

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Lot n° 26

BOSSUET JACQUES-BÉNIGNE (1627-1704)

prelate, theologian, preacher and historian; bishop of Condom and then of Meaux. TWO autograph MANUSCRIPTS of preparatory plans for his sermons, 1662-1666; 2 pages in-4 and 6 pages in-fol. mounted on tabs, and bound in one volume in-fol. soft black morocco,...

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Lot n° 27

BOSSUET Jacques-Bénigne (1627-1704).

autograph manuscript, Défense de la Tradition et des Saints Pères, 1693; 42 pages on 22 small leaves in-4, mounted at the head of the Discours sur l'Histoire universelle, à Monseigneur le Dauphin : pour expliquer la suite de La Religion & les changemens...

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Lot n° 28

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894-1961).

autograph manuscript, Maudits Soupirs pour une autre fois, 1947; about 905 pages in-fol. (about 34 x 21 cm) mounted on tabs and bound in 4 small in-fol. volumes, plus one volume of annotated folders, full sharkskin, black boards, spines and corners in...

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Lot n° 29

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894-1961).

38 L.A.S. ("LFDestouches", "LFCeline" or "LFC"), 1947-1951, to his father-in-law Jules ALMANSOR; about 145 pages mostly folio, 3 envelopes (cracks and edges a bit frayed to some letters). Important unpublished correspondence to his father-in-law, about...

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Lot n° 30

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894-1961).

Autograph manuscript for D'un château l'autre (1957); 47 pages in-4 (27 x 21 cm). Important fragment of a first version of D'un château l'autre (novel published by Gallimard in 1957). The manuscript is written in blue ballpoint pen on the front of Navarre...

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Lot n° 31

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894-1961).

AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT, Nord, ca. 1959; 1509 pages in-4 (mostly 27 x 21 cm). Important manuscript of the first version of the novel Nord. Second novel of the German trilogy, transposing in novelistic form the peregrinations in Germany, at the end of the...

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Lot n° 32

CHAGALL MARC (1887-1985).

2 books illustrated by him, bound. Marcel ARLAND. Maternity. Narrative decorated with five engravings out of text by Marc CHAGALL (Paris, Au Sans Pareil, 1926); in-8, turquoise blue morocco, large mosaic floral composition, gilt and cold-stamped on the...

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Lot n° 33

CHAPELAIN Jean (1595-1674)

poet; founding member of the French Academy, where he played an important role, notably by drafting its statutes. 6 L.A.S. "Chapelain", Paris 1664-1670, to Carlo DATI, in Florence; 11 pages in-8 or in-4, 3 addresses with fragments of red wax seals; the...

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Lot n° 34

CHAR René (1907-1988).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "René Char", and corrected PROOFS, La Conjuration, 1946; in-4 mustard box janseniste, suede lining and endpapers of same color, spine titled in gold, gilt edges on witnesses; titled folder with flaps, lined slipcase (P.L. Martin,...

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Lot n° 35

CHAR René (1907-1988).

MIRÓ Joan (1893-1983). Nous avons (Paris, Louis Broder, 1959); oblong in-12, havana morocco decorated on the boards with a large mosaic composition inspired by Miró, int. frame with green morocco listel, beige suede lining, folder and case (Françoise Lévy-Bauer). Partly...

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Lot n° 36

CHARLES D'ORLÉANS (1394-1465).

Les Poésies du duc Charles d'Orléans, published on the original manuscript of the Grenoble Library and accompanied by a preface, notes and clarifications, by Aimé Champollion-Figeac (Paris, Belin-Leprieur et Colomb de Batines, 1842); in-8, garnet-colored...

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Lot n° 37

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Jean Cocteau", La Lampe d'Aladin, 1907-1909; about 100 pages in-4 (mostly 29 x 22,5 cm); and corrected COPY; 94 pages in-4. Precious working manuscript of Jean Cocteau's first book, illustrated with drawings. Jean Cocteau's...

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Lot n° 38

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

10 autographed POETHS, 1917-1925; 10 pages in-4 or in-fol. Set of ten poems written between 1917 and 1925, two of which appear to be unpublished. The others were published in various collections: Poésies (1917-1920) in 1920, Vocabulaire in 1922...

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Lot n° 39

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "JC", Le Baron Lazare, 1920; 157 folios in-fol. or in-4 written on the front, in autograph folder (margins frayed on very first folios). Complete manuscript of this play in three acts, one of Cocteau's first dramatic attempts. The...

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Lot n° 40

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

L.S. "Jean Cocteau" dictated to Raymond RADIGUET, March 3, 1922, to Germaine EVERLING-PICABIA; 1 page in-4. Breakup with Francis Picabia. "My dear Germaine You know that I love you very much, but alas, after the last piece of garbage I just received from...

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Lot n° 41

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

5 works in first edition, with dispatches. Le Secret professionnel (Paris, Librairie Stock, Delamain, Boutelleau & Cie, 1922); in-16, paperback, yellow covers printed in black (false title leaf yellowed). First edition on vellum pur fil Lafuma de Voiron,...

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Lot n° 42

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Jean Cocteau", Preface to Le Rappel à l'ordre, 1923; 10 pages on 7 small leaves in-4 (22 x 17 cm), in black ink on lined paper, in a schoolboy notebook with its original cover partly autograph (leaves detached from the cover,...

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Lot n° 43

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

CORRECTED PROOFS for the Potomak, "Definitive Edition," 1924; 8 folded broadsides (240 x 160 mm.), numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10, and 11 (the end is missing; fragile paper, splits at folds and fraying). Corrected plates for the definitive edition of Potomak. Six...

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Lot n° 44

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, La Jeunesse et le Scandale, 1925; 76 pages of a small in-4 notebook (22 x 17 cm), in black ink on lined paper, brown cloth spine and cardboard covers (spine a little worn). Conference on avant-garde art and artistic scandals. Cocteau...

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Lot n° 45

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

3 works, with mailings and DRAWINGS for Jean MARAIS. Poetry 1916-1923 ** Poetry. Vocabulaire. Plain Chant (Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1925) : in-8, paperback (small stains on the cover). Collective edition on publisher's paper. Autograph letter with...

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Lot n° 46

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

Corrected proofs, and 4 L.A.S., 1927-1944. Poetry. Morceaux choisis Paris, Librairie Gallimard, 1930. Corrected proofs, in-12, in sheets (fragile paper, a few small tears); in burgundy half-maroquin slipcase, smooth spine titled in gold. Corrected proofs...

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Lot n° 47

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

TAPScript with autograph ADDITIONS and CORRECTIONS, Les Enfants terribles, 1929; 1-154 pages in-4, bound in half burgundy morocco, gilt on the bottom of the first board (two intertwined C's surmounted by a crown), spine with 2 bands underlined with cold...

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Lot n° 48

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

autograph manuscript, presentation of the film Le Sang d'un poète, 1932; 8 pages in-4 on 8 cardboard sheets (25 x 22.5 cm). Notes for the presentation of his film Le Sang d'un poète, before its first screening in the Vieux-Colombier theater on January...

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Lot n° 49

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

MANUSCRIT autograph signed "Jean Cocteau", Cherchez la femme, 1933; 4 pages in-4 in pencil with corrections and additions in ink. On Mae West and femininity. Jean Cocteau wrote this text after having seen Lowell Sherman's film, She Done Him Wrong (in...

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Lot n° 50

COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963).

Autograph MANUSCRIT, La Maison hantée, 1937; 35 pages in-4, in a spiral notebook and in sheets. Complete manuscript of this impromptu for the Comédie-Française. Cocteau wrote this short play in verse and prose for the farewell performance of ALBERT-LAMBERT...

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