EUGÉNIE (Empress). Set of 18 pieces, including... Lot 24

EUGÉNIE (Empress). Set of 18 pieces, including 15 manuscripts and 3 prints. RARE TEMOINS OF EMPRESS EUGENIE'S MAGNIFICENT COLLECTION OF JEWELRY, most of which she sold in 1872, mainly at auction, to meet the financial needs imposed by exile. - CLARY (Joseph-Adolphe) and other hands. 12 items, including 2 autographs by Count Clary, Napoleon III's executive officer. Notes on the appraisal and sale of Empress Eugénie's jewelry, including detailed lists with prices. Some references to pre-auction sales to the London jewelry houses Garrard and Harry Emanuel. - EMANUEL (Harry). 3 receipts, 2 signed autographs and one autograph. January 1872, June 1872 and n.d. For brooches, bracelets, tiara, etc., adorned with emeralds, diamonds, pearls... - CATALOGUE OF A PORTION OF THE MAGNIFICENT JEWELS, THE PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PERSONAGE ; also, a few fans and parasols : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs Christie, Manson Woods [...] on Monday, June 24, 1872. In-8, 9-(one blank) pp. in purple cover printed in gilt ink. 3 EXEMPLAIRES annotated by different hands, 2 of which in perfect condition, the third without cover and with title leaf missing. Booklet not in the BnF collections. ATTACHED : - BISCHOFFSHEIM (Henri-Louis). 2 autograph letters signed to Count Edmond Davillier, son-in-law of Marshal Auguste Regnaud de Saint-Jean-d'Angély, who was First Squire to Napoleon III and then one of his familiars at Camden Place. Cowes [on the Isle of Wight], August 31, 1872, and Southampton, September 18, 1872. The famous banker invites Empress Eugénie to come and sail on his yacht. - LA RHOËLLERIE (Eugène Rebut de). Autograph letter signed to Count Edmond Davillier. Toulouse, [1880]. Tears. Letter accompanying the shipment to Empress Eugénie of his work Les Abeilles, and detailed account of his participation in the suppression of the Commune in 1871.