Auction 01 December 2022 56 • VARIA • LETTRES & MANUSCRITS AUTOGRAPHES • Philatélie - œuvres graphiques - Neuilly-sur-Seine

POSTERS 9 posters, 1757 - 1815. Request...

POSTERS 9 posters, 1757 - 1815. Request to the Intendant of Dauphiné from Prador, farmer of the coches & messageries (1757). Proclamation of the Minister of War Berthier to the requisitioners and conscripts (March 12, 1800). 12th Bulletin of the Grand...

ALBUM AMICORUM Album, ca. 1850-1860;...

ALBUM AMICORUM Album, ca. 1850-1860; 19 leaves of one vol. in-8 (the rest blank), worn brown leather binding with clasp, gilt edges. Poems : Viscount d'Arlincourt (Le Mystère), L. Belmontet (Pensées), Count de Blocqueville, J.B. Bouché de Cluny (Vision),...

AMERICA Album, Presidents of the...

AMERICA Album, Presidents of the United States; folio, bound in long-grain brown morocco, large gilt and mosaic decoration on boards, blue morocco lining with gilt and cold decoration, case. Superb binding with eagles. The autographs have been removed....

ANCIEN RÉGIME 28 letters and documents. Mandement...

ANCIEN RÉGIME 28 letters and documents. Mandement de CHARLES le Téméraire, duc de BOURGOGNE, 1476. Letters addressed to the engineer Raguet de Fossé by Louis XV (secretary, countersigned by Voyer d'Argenson), Paris-Duverney (2), Du Muy (2), Monteynard...

ENGLAND 12 letters and documents...

ENGLAND 12 letters and documents addressed to Jean de SELVE, 1514; 16 pages in-fol. or in-4. Set of letters and documents on the embassy to the court of HENRY VIII to negotiate peace with England, from the archives of Jean de SELVE (1475 - 1529), first...

ANTIPHONARY MUSICAL MANUSCRIT,...

ANTIPHONARY MUSICAL MANUSCRIT, Antiphonas, 1748; 50 ff. on parchment in one vol. in-fol., modern parchment binding. Spanish antiphonary from the convent of S. Pablo and S. Domingo de Ezija (Ecija) in Andalusia. A title page, with coat of arms, gives in...

APOLLINAIRE Guillaume (1880-1918) L.A.S....

APOLLINAIRE Guillaume (1880-1918) L.A.S. "Guillaume Apollinaire," Paris September 12, 1917, to Jean-Émile LABOUREUR in Nantes; 2 pages in-8, envelope with ink stamp Ministry of War, General Directorate of Relations with the Press. "I am aware of your...

BALZAC Honoré de (1799 - 1850)

L.A.S. "de Bc", Paris 31 August 1848, to Hippolyte SOUVERAIN; 1 page in-8, address. Business letter to his publisher, concerning his shares in the Northern railroads: "I cannot increase the number of my shares, you talk to me about 30 and I have only...

BEAUX-ARTS 18 letters (L.A.S.)...

BEAUX-ARTS 18 letters (L.A.S.) and documents; and 2 sketchbooks. Gustave DORÉ (3 visiting car tes a.s.), Paul DURAND-RUEL (4 to Mme Hoschedé, 1886; and 5 from his employee Ch. Casbury), Jean-Dominique INGRES (list of monuments and paintings "to be seen...

BLÉRIOT Louis (1872 - 1936)

Framed photograph with autograph signature; 12 x 14 cm, in 22 x 32 cm frame. Photograph of the pilot in his plane in 1909, framed with an autograph signature. We join the alarm clock of Jean MERMOZ; metal and glass, diameter 7,5 cm. Alarm clock Haller,...

BRITTANY 13 charters, 1256 - 1313;...

BRITTANY 13 charters, 1256 - 1313; parchments (most of them have a stamp of deposit in the Archives of Morbihan); Latin and French. Set of charters concerning the house of ROHAN. They come from the Kerguéhennec chartrier. We refer to the number of the...

BRITTANY About 90 documents, 14th-16th...

BRITTANY About 90 documents, 14th-16th century; parchment (several with wax seals on tails) or paper (several bear a deposit stamp of the Morbihan archives). Archives of the lordship of Kerlevenan in Plescop and of the lordship of Acigné and Saint-Samson;...

BRITTANY File of approximately...

BRITTANY File of approximately 200 documents, 16th-19th c.; parchment and paper (most bearing a deposit stamp in the Archives of Morbihan). Important file concerning the seigneuries of Bernac in Saint-Allouestre and Moréac in Morbihan. Property titles:...

CATHERINE DE MEDICIS (1519 - 1589)

L.S. "Caterine", Chinon May 13, 1560, to the bishop of Limoges, Sébastien de L'AUBESPINE; countersigned by Simon FIZES; 1 page in-fol., address on the back (slight wetness; framed). To the French ambassador to Spain, concerning the galley slaves. "Some...

CATHERINE DE WURTEMBERG (1783 - 1835) épouse de Jérôme Bonaparte, Reine de Westphalie, mère de la Princesse Mathilde.

L.A.S. "Catherine", Cassel December 16, 1807, to Empress JOSÉPHINE; 1 page in-4. She thanks her "very dear sister" for her friendship during her stay in Paris; she is "tenderly attached" to her... "the union that I contracted by marrying the King makes...

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894 - 1961)

18 L.A.S. (mostly initials or initials) and 1 P.A., Copenhagen Rigshospital Feb. 28-June 15, 1947, to Thorvald MIKKELSEN; 40 pages in-4 or in-fol. (small flaws to qs letters). Letters to his Danish lawyer during his stay for convalescence at the Rigshospitalet...

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894 - 1961)

2 L.A.S. "Destouches", 1952 - 1955, to Jean-Louis TIXIER-VIGNANCOUR, and Céline's legal file, 1948-1955. Voluminous file on Céline's defense by his lawyer. This file comes from the office of Jean-Louis TIXIER-VIGNANCOUR (1907-1989), who defended Céline...

CÉLINE Louis-Ferdinand (1894 - 1961)

Death on credit. New edition with 16 drawings by GEN-PAUL (Denoël, 1943); large in-8 paperback, cover with flaps (spine worn). First copy. One of the 25 off-market copies on vellum pur fil (n° XXV), from a total edition of 52. Edition illustrated with...

CENDRARS Blaise (1887 - 1961)

3 L.A.S. "Blaise Cendrars", to Robert de LA CROIX in Nantes; 2 pages in-4, and 1 page in-12 with address on back. Thursday, 12 av. Montaigne. "Nothing could give me greater pleasure than the magnificent gift you have just given me of the 12 vols. of the...

CHATEAUBRIAND François-René de (1768 - 1848)

L.A.S. "Le vte de Chateaubriand", Paris, June 29, 1825, to Jean-Baptiste GASTALDI; 3 pages in-4. Marriage proposal on behalf of his nephew Frederic de Chateaubriand. "My first cousin, Count Armand de Chateaubriand, shot by Buonaparte, for the service...

COCTEAU Jean (1889 - 1963)

AUTOGRAPHIC MANUSCRIT, Ruy Blas, film based on Victor Hugo's drama, 1946; 51 pages in-fol. in titled folder, plus 3 pages in-fol. Complete script, with dialogues, of the film after Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo. Pierre Billon directed this film, released in...

COLETTE (1873 - 1954)

7 L.A.S., 1909 - 1948; 10 pages various sizes, 3 envelopes and an address. 25 rue Torricelli, early 1909, signed "Colette Willy", about her play En camarades: "Dear and indulgent friend, I thank you very sincerely for welcoming with a seriousness that...

DEGAS Edgar (1834 - 1917)

L.A.S. "Degas," Paris August 10, 1904, to Paul VALÉRY; 1 page in-12, address on back (letter card). "So see you tomorrow, Thursday, my dear Valéry, so that I may have the pleasure of seeing you eat veal"...

DELACROIX Eugène (1798 - 1863)

L.A.S. "Eug. Delacroix", February 7, 1863, to Édouard MONNAIS; half-page in-8, address (portrait enclosed). He regrets not being able to "take part in our dinner"... On the back, a text (by Monnais?) on the "rarity of great operas".

DESNOS Robert (1900-1945)

Mines de rien (Paris, Louis Broder, 1957); in-8, navy blue morocco with abstract mosaic pattern on the upper cover, green suede lining in an int. frame with green morocco border, cover and spine kept (Françoise Lévy-Bauer). First edition, illustrated...

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About 75 letters and documents. CHARLES IX (L.S. to Fourquevaulx, 1571). HENRI III (L.S., 1585). CHRESTIENNE de France, duchess of SAVOIE (41 L.S., 6 with autogr. additions, 1640-1662, to Marquis Villa). Honoré III Grimaldi prince of Monaco (1782), Honoré-Gabriel...

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About 50 letters and documents. CHRESTIENNE of France, duchess of SAVOIE (16 L.S., 1652 - 1661, to marquis Villa). P.S. by Bailly and Lafayette (1789). Revolution and Empire: generals Caulaincourt (2), Dumas, Grundler, Junot duc d'Abrantès, Francesco...

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About 35 letters and documents. An engraving by Rembrandt, 2 drawings in graphite, one of them by Célestin NANTEUIL, watercolor portrait of Demolder by Claire Rops, 2 drawings by Ferdinand BAC in grease pencil and colored pencils (Voltaire and a Medrano...

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About 33 letters and documents. Jérôme Carcopino, Théobald Chartran, Raymond Clauzel (to Reynaldo Hahn, annotated by him), Romain Coolus, Louis XV (secretary), Paul Reynaud, Charles Spaak, Charles Spoelberch de Lovenjoul, Richard Strauss (envelope a.s.),...

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About 23 letters and documents. CHRESTIENNE de France, duchess of SAVOIE (8 L.S., one with autogr. addition, one incomplete from the end, 1639 - 1650, to marquis Villa). Empire, generals and marshals: Cervoni, Davout prince of Eckmühl, Francesco Macdonald...

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About 42 letters and documents. François Buloz, René Fauchois (6), F. Funck-Brentano, Charles de Gaulle (signed photo), Gavarni (plus engraving), Georges Ghika (3), Otto Hahn, Edmond Haraucourt (photo ded.), P. Heidsieck, Ch. d'Héricault, Paul von Hindenburg,...

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About 19 letters and documents. Revolution and Empire, generals: César Berthier, L.A. Pille, Songis, Vaubois. Louis Blanc, Léon Gambetta, Charles Garnier, F. Guizot, Jules Hetzel, Eug. Labiche, Germain Rampont, Jules Romains, Eug. Rouher, Ad. Thiers,...

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About 16 letters and documents. CHRESTIENNE of France, duchess of SAVOIE (4 L.S., one with autogr. addition, 1663, to marquis Villa). Henry de Bourbon prince of Condé (1636), Louis XVI (secretary, with the evil of Ségur), Victor-Amédée II of Savoy (2,...

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About 20 letters and documents. HENRI II (1548). Mandate in the name of Charles-Emmanuel II of Savoy. CHRESTIENNE of France, duchess of SAVOIE (4 L.S., one with autogr. addition, 1651, to marquis Villa). Marshals de Castries and de Segur. Empire: Bernadotte,...

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About 37 letters and documents. CHRESTIENNE de France, duchess of SAVOIE (18 L.S., 6 with autogr. addition, 1641 - 1660, to Marquis Villa). NAPOLEON I (P.S., 1813, navigation and trade permit for an American ship). Empire, generals and marshals: Barbou,...

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About 65 letters and documents. CHRESTIENNE de France, duchess of SAVOIE (36 L.S., 15 with autogr. addition, 1638 - 1656, to Marquis Villa). Louis XVI (secretary, countersigned by Vergennes) Revolution and Empire: generals and marshals: Berthier, Bourmont,...

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About 23 letters and documents. CHRESTIENNE de France, duchess of SAVOIE (13 L.S., 4 with autogr. addition, 1652 - 1658, to marquis Villa). Revolution and Empire: Fréville (on the Legion of Honor), soldier's letter. Paul Fort (4), Alphonse de Lamartine. 3...

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About 21 letters and documents. CHRESTIENNE of France, duchess of SAVOIE (11 L.S., 6 with autogr. addition, 1653 - 1659, to marquis Villa). Louis XV (secretary). Revolution and Empire: generals and marshals: Cambronne, Suchet; Cambaceres; 2 letters from...

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About 80 letters and documents. Copy of a bull of Pius VI (1780). Manuscript of a Treaty of fugitive poems. 7 letters from Portuguese personalities addressed to Charles Stuart (1813). Henri Cialdini (2 to the male of Mac-Mahon), P. Cot, C. Desprez, J....

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About 35 letters and documents (some defects). Patent of arms on parchment for Charles Cochet of the parliament of Metz (1680). Engraved map of the island of Martinique. Patent : Patriotic cartouche (Saint-Pierre-Martinique 1791). Documents concerning...

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About 36 letters and documents. Marriage contract (Bourges 1786). Patent of National Guard, signed by SANTERRE (Paris 6 March 1793). P.S. by PIE IX, plenary indulgence (1860). L.A.S. from Félicien Rops (1892). P.S. by CHARLOTTE of Luxembourg (1956). Letters...

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About 20 letters and documents. NECKER (L.S. to L'Averdy, 1780). Auguste GIRAUD (12 mss of songs). Telegram of Henri Rochefort and letter to him. François d'Orléans prince of Joinville (1875), Louis d'Orléans duke of Nemours (1877), duchess of Chartres....

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Approximately 58 letters and documents, mostly L.A.S. in German addressed to A. Linder; in an oblong folder. Hans von Balthasar (2), F. Bircher, O. Bosshard, Th. Bovet, Hans Brun, O. Fischer, A. Forel (3), Anna Hegner, E.S. von der Heyden, Hans and Max...

DOCUMENTATION Meeting of works...

DOCUMENTATION Meeting of works and documentary files. JOB, Tenues des Troupes de France (Combet & Cie, 1901). H. Lachouque, Uniforms of the Imperial Guard after Marbot (Éd. du Chêne, 1968). Napoleon (iconographic album of 87 documents, introd. by Raymond...

DROUET Juliette (1806 - 1883)

28 L.A.S. "Juliette" (one "J. Drouet", 8 unsigned), 1834 - 1879, to Victor HUGO; 95 pages various sizes, some addresses. Very nice set of love letters to Victor Hugo, from the beginning of their affair to their old age. You have used this night to burden...

ÉLISABETH DE ROUMANIE (1894 - 1956)

Queen of the Hellenes Important set of personal archives. MANUSCRITS. 10 autograph notebooks, 1928 - 1952. Diary, memoirs and souvenirs, poems, in French, Romanian or English; some illustrated with drawings. One is dedicated to her lover and adopted son,...

ÉLUARD Paul (1895 - 1952)

Au rendez-vous allemand (Éditions de Minuit, 1944); in-8, paperback (top cover slightly omitted, cracked spine). First edition. One of 120 copies on vellum (n° 25). Autograph letter signed with drawing on the flyleaf to Hubert de SAINT-SENOCH: "to Hubert...

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FÉNELON François de Salignac de La Mothe (1651 - 1715)

Aventures de Télémaque (Paris, imprimerie de J.A. Lebel, 1824); 2 vols. in-8, contemporary binding in midnight blue glazed calf, romantic plate on the boards within a frame of gilt fillets, ornate smooth spines, gilt edges (slight interior foxing). "Edition...

FLAMMARION Camille (1842 - 1925)

MANUSCRIT autograph "Camille Flammarion", Paris January 1, 1887; 2 pages and a half in-8. Speech to the members of the committee of the Flammarion Scientific Society, assessment of the action of the society at the dawn of its third year of existence,...