AUTOGRAPH LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS
Tuesday 6 October 2020 at 14:00
9, rue Drouot, 75009 Paris
312 lots
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250 - Gustave FLAUBERT. L.A.S., Croisset April 24 [1871], to his friend Félix-Archimède Pouchet; 1 page in-8 on blue paper. "I would like to introduce my nephew Mr. Commanville, who needs scientific information on oak woods. Can you tell him what he should read? "... Correspondence (Pléiade), t. IV, p. 308.
Result €768Estimate €600 - €800 -
251 - Fernand FLEURET (1883-1945). Autograph manuscript, Description des passages de Dominique Fleuret ; 65 pages in fol. bound bradel demi-percaline rouge, title piece on the spine (stamped in the Jean-Louis Debauve collection). Enclosed is a copy of the Description des Passages de Dominique Fleuret (Paris, Firmin-Didot et Cie, 1929), sent to André Thérive. Complete manuscript of his transcription of the memories of his great-grandfather, born in 1787, a soldier of the Empire during the Spanish Wa
Result €448Estimate €400 - €500 -
252 - Paul FORT (1872-1960). 4 L.A.S. and 2 L.S., Paris 1891-1922, to Henry Cochin; 11 pages in-8, 4 on the letterhead of the Théâtre d'Art, one envelope. 4 printed leaflets of the Théâtre d'Art are enclosed . November 1, 1891. It invites him to take an interest in "our work of idealistic Art - as did pure artists who considered necessary an Art Theater where the ideal and even mysticism would replace the too low naturalism which invades the other scenes"... November 23rd. Robert de Bonnières an
Result €179Estimate €100 - €150 -
253 - Paul FORT. Signed autograph manuscript, The only useful thing in the world; 2 and a half pages in-8. Enclosed is the L.A.S. of sending this text to André Parinaud (May 11, 1952); and the small poster woodcut by Anna Diriks for the Banquet offered to Paul Fort on Thursday, February 9, 1911 (42 x 31 cm, without margin, small slits). Text published in 1952 in the magazine Arts in the form of a letter to its director, André Parinaud. "You kindly ask me, in the name of your Arts, what was my major
Result €102Estimate €100 - €150 -
254 - Pierre GRIPARI (1925-1990). Autograph manuscript, La Maison aux sept pignons, [1966] ; 18 pages in-4. Radio adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel, La Maison aux sept pignons (1851), broadcast on France-Culture on December 29, 1966, and collected in the Adaptations théâtrales published in 1985 at L'Âge d'Homme in Lausanne. The manuscript, a small blue ballpoint pen on yellow paper, a first draft with erasures and corrections, with notes and additions in the margins, seems to correspond to
Estimate €300 - €400 -
255 - Sacha GUITRY (1885-1957). Autograph notes; 2 pages in-4, in pencil. Attached is an L.S. by Maurice Genevoix (December 8 , 1969). This draft includes on the first page quotations from André Gide: "Nothing is as obsolete as serious works. Neither Molière, nor Cervantes, nor even Pascal are serious: they are serious...". Etc. Guitry notes: "Look for Gide's preface to a reprint by H. Monnier. This sentence by Gide, which did not find its place in this preface: "When he (H. M.) laughs, his laughte
Estimate €200 - €250 -
256 - HISTORIANS. 10 letters, most of them L.A.S., to Joseph de Pellissier, baron de Saint-Ferréol, president of the Apostolic Chamber of the Comtat Venaissin, 1763-1768. François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois (3, with some proof pages of his Dictionary of Nobility), Jean-Joseph Expilly (5), Jean-Antoine Pithon-Curt (2, one incomplete).
Result €512Estimate €300 - €400 -
257 - Georges HUGNET (1906-1974). Autograph manuscript, L'Arbre des voyageurs, [1930] ; 4 pages in4 numbered, with some erasures. Beautiful text of literary criticism on Tristan TZARA's book The Traveller's Tree (1930), the first book illustrated by Miró. "How, without vanity and deception, can one speak of certain works that deny dishonourable criticism and tie any paraphrase to the bottom of her silo where she marvels at the forbidden splendours? ...] L'arbre des voyageurs is a pure, certain work,
Result €832Estimate €700 - €800 -
258 - Victor HUGO (1802-1885). L.A.S., May 17 [1832], to Mme de Sauvignier; 2 pages in-8, address with stamp Bureau de la Mon du Roi, red wax stamp broken. An a.s. manuscript and 3 l.a.s. are enclosed. (plus a copy of a poem): Léon Daudet (ms The Opium, Wine and Prohibition), Marie Brunier baroness Dupin (1834), Gyp (she was one of the first to make a long journey by car in 1896), Pigault-Lebrun (1819). "I read with great interest the beautiful verses you have done me the honour of sending me. I wou
Result €576Estimate €400 - €500 -
259 - Victor HUGO. L.A.S., July 29 [1850], to Nicolas Villiaumé; 1 page in-8, address. One joins a photographic portrait by Anatole Pougnet [1876], business card size. About Villiaumé's History of the French Revolution (1789). "I will, Monsieur, take your book with me, but before I read you, I want to thank you. The pages that I have already gone through have given me a good idea of the whole book; I have found both the historian and the writer. Allow me, Sir, to congratulate you under this twofold
Result €576Estimate €400 - €500 -
260 - Victor HUGO. Photograph with autograph dedication, [1862]; business card size. Portrait of three-quarters of the author of Les Misérables, one hand on the back of a chair, dedicated to Paul Meurice: "A Paul Meurice por jamas suyo Victor Hugo".
Result €960Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
261 - Victor HUGO. L.A.S., October 13 [1864, to Hippolyte Destrem]; 1 page in-8. "My honourable fellow citizen, Your book, the Divine Self [Of the Divine Self and its action on the universe], is one of those that deserve meditation. I do not want to wait until I have read it in its entirety to tell you all the good that I already think of it. I would make a few objections of detail, but the whole appears to me now, and your book is a work. You are a noble spirit "...
Result €448Estimate €400 - €500 -
262 - Victor HUGO. L.A.S., March 1 [1874?], to a confrere [Léon Richer?]; 1 page in-12 (small mourning). His confrere certainly did not believe that an oversight had been made: "Your copy was intercepted, which does not surprise me, and often happens with books sent to newspapers. Here is a voucher that you can wear yourself or have someone else wear it, and that way no interception will be possible. Thank you for the cordial and excellent lines that I read this morning "...
Estimate €600 - €700 -
263 - [Victor HUGO]. Juliette DROUET (1806-1883). L.A.S. "Juliette", May 11 [1845?], to Victor Hugo; 4 pages in-8. Nice love letter. "Hello, my poor sweet beloved, hello, my blessed love, hello. I see with sorrow that the weather is dark, rainy and cold this morning. I fear it is a bias for the whole moon, which is the red moon, and I grieve for it because of the bad influence it may have on your poor throat. What a torment it is to know that your healing is bound up with more or less variations in t
Result €1,024Estimate €700 - €800 -
264 - [Victor HUGO]. 8 pieces printed or engraved. Appendix to the minutes of the Senate session of 23 May 1885 : bill for a state funeral for Victor Hugo. Le Monde illustré nos 1470 and 1471 with their supplements, devoted to Victor Hugo and his funeral, 30 May and 6 June 1885. Commemorative medal with tricolour ribbon and piece of black tulle, [1885]. Prospectus: National and Universal Pilgrimage to the Victor Hugo House and Museum [avenue Victor Hugo, 1889]. Invitation cards for the ceremony comm
Result €25Estimate €80 - €100 -
265 - Joris-Karl HUYSMANS (1848-1907). L.A.S., to a colleague; 3 pages small in-8 filled with tight writing (trace of rusty paper clip p. 4). He congratulates him for his "absolutely remarkable news, not at all dull, [...] but on the contrary very alert and very colourful". He is a bit critical of the end, where "there is a sort of haste to finish. [......] Nevertheless, there are tables of wretches, a surprising bellman of life, and admirable mocking of vice - It's a short story, unfortunately, beca
Estimate €500 - €600 -
266 - Max JACOB (1876-1944). 2 L.A.S., Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire 1927-1928, [to his friend Adolphe Aynaud, in Lille]; 2 pages small in-4 each. To the collector from Lille to whom Jacob sells gouaches and gives advice [Aynaud was also a client of the ceramist Giovanni Leonardi (1876-1957), a friend of Jacob's who asks about him in these letters ]18 April 1927. He announces the publication by Crès of "a beautiful book by me: the re-edition of a small book from 1911: La Côte which was a collection of su
Result €512Estimate €400 - €500 -
267 - Max JACOB. L.A.S., Paris April 8, 1936, to his "dear Julien"; 2 pages in-4 (holes in the binder). "You're putting me too high and making me dizzy. Thank you for loving me and I love you. I have sought Wisdom, I believe that it is found only in Jesus Christ. The understanding that comes from love is symbolized in the drop of water that is matter and the drop of blood that is spirit. The union of matter and spirit which is both charity and intelligence. You remember the spear that pierces the Sa
Result €192Estimate €200 - €300 -
268 - Max JACOB. L.A.S., to a friend; 2 pages in-8. He warns him that Fernand Léger "is installed on the walls of Kahnweiler: this information can be useful to you if you've brought your Léger, because it will go up. Kissling and I have gone two days without eating: it is not a religious fast first of all because I am no longer young and Kissling is not religious. Derain has returned ...
Estimate €500 - €600 -
269 - Jules JANIN (1804-1874). 4 L.A.S. and 2 P.A.S.; 7 pages in-8 and an envelope, and 2 oblong pages in-4. April 8, 1850: "An unfortunate company of Arcachon claims from me, after six years of silence, a sum of money that I will have great difficulty in paying, if I am condemned. This untimely, cruel claim [...] is for me an everyday threat...". October 27, 1853, "to the good comedian Tisserant", about a commitment to the Odeon: "These people are people of little faith! They offer you today much le
Estimate €100 - €120 -
270 - Alfred JARRY (1873-1907). Autograph manuscript, Pantagruel Prologue - Act I; 33 pages on 30 folios in-fol. (scraps at the first and last leaves of Act I), under green cardboard folder bearing the stamp of J.H. Sainmont and the crocodile head stamp. Working manuscript of a very first version of Pantagruel, with an unpublished Prologue. The project of Pantagruel, an opera-bouffe libretto after Rabelais for his friend the composer Claude Terrasse (1867-1923), occupied Jarry for nearly ten years, f
Result €8,960Estimate €7,000 - €8,000 -
271 - Marcel JOUHANDEAU (1888-1979). 4 L.A.S. and 1 P.A.S.; 7 pages in-8. Guéret 1 January 1924, [to Franz Hellens, director of the Green Disc]. "I had a lot of worries and I don't feel able to work to order: a great weakness which you will excuse"; he promises to give a news before Easter ... July 28, 1937, to Georges Poupet, to pick up his two manuscripts in Rue Garancière . [1950]. "In 1928, he met his wife Élisabeth-Claire Toulemon, who had danced under the name of Cariatis. The marriage took
Result €256Estimate €200 - €300 -
272 - Alphonse KARR (1808-1890). 3 L.A.S., and a P.A.S.; 5 pages in-8 or in-12, an envelope, and 1 oblong page in-4 (2 lines; a facsimile is attached). One joins 2 letters of a Lebrun de Riom (1836), and of Jules Michelet (1874). To Théodore de Banville, about a theatrical adaptation of L'été sous les tilleuls, an idea he had often caressed but which had not come to fruition for lack of means: "Send me the script you are talking about [...]. If it seems possible to me - after reading this script -
Estimate €100 - €120 -
273 - Henri-Dominique LACORDAIRE (1802-1861) Dominican, preacher and pedagogue. L.A.S., Notre-Dame de Chalais 26th May 1846, to the viscount of Falloux; 3 pages in-4, address. A very beautiful letter on religious freedom, and on Church and State, in response to an article in Falloux: "The question you deal with is perhaps the most important and difficult question in the world [...] and it does not seem to me that your work answers in breadth, lucidity and depth to the subject in question. Is the prop
Result €384Estimate €200 - €250 -
274 - [Jean-François Leriget de LA FAYE (1674-1731) diplomat and poet, of the Académie française, châtelain of Condé-en-Brie]. Set of manuscripts and documents from his archives. Important collection of manuscripts and documents from his archives. Some drafts appear to be autographs, and some pieces may be annotated by him. We can only give here a summary state of them. A large manuscript volume in folio, carefully written by a copyist, in all 258 numbered folios (fol. 1-9 are missing), contain
Result €1,920Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
275 - [Jean de LA FONTAINE]. False manuscript, Pour la Paix; 3 pages in-4, address "Au Roy" on page 4 (slight marginal wetness, some small ink corrosions, restored fold slit). Remarkable forgery of La Fontaine's manuscript, made by the very skilled forger Félix-Sébastien Feuillet de Conches (1798-1887). Head of protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a renowned scholar, a friend of painters, and an unrepentant collector, Feuillet de Conches began his counterfeiting activity by replacing certai
Result €960Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
276 - Felicity of LAMENNAIS (1782-1854). L.A.S., Paris December 14 [1830], to Augustin Périer, deputy of Isère; 2 pages in-8, address. 4 L.A.S., to M. de Musigny (on Dr. Allin's fees, 1825), to the bookseller Jean-François Delion (on the sale of his books, 1852), to Émile Forgues (2, requesting the loan of books by Balzac, Ph. Chasles, etc.). Plus an L.A.S. of his brother Jean-Marie after an "odious article" against his brother in Le Drapeau blanc, a lithographed portrait of Delpech, and the deli
Estimate €400 - €500 -
277 - Valery LARBAUD (1881-1957). L.A.S., 71 rue du Cardinal Lemoine [Paris] March 14, 1927; 3 pages and a quarter in-8, with strikethrough letterhead from Commerce magazine. Attached are two L.A.S. from Eugène Scribe to M. Meade, Saint-Mandé June 1821, in response to a proposal for collaboration; and an L.A.S. from Roland Bonaparte to Anatole Bouquet de la Grye (1907). "The case you are talking about is very exciting! There is an anthology of this kind for Uruguay. Los Majores Cuentistas Urugayes,
Estimate €150 - €200 -
278 - Raymond de LA TAILHÈDE (1867-1938). Autograph manuscript, Le deuxième Livre des Odes, [1920?]; 13 pages in-4 (pag. 1 to 14, missing p. 11, end of Ode III) in blue ink, plus title page on yellow paper, bound in half-heaven havana with corners (Aussourd; blunt caption with capes and corners). This is probably the manuscript used for the 1920 Bernouard edition, printed in 280 copies. The second book includes 4 Odes: I In Praise of Athens, II To Jean Moréas, III To Maurice du Plessys, IV Victory
Estimate €200 - €300 -
279 - Hyacinth of LATOUCHE (1785-1851). L.A.S., November 10, 1843, to the critic Émile Forgues; 1 page in-8. Sending farewell poems. "You don't like verse. You've made more than one hard profession of faith in this regard. The National, to whom you devote your work, extends this singular antipathy to almost every other art. But Le National is the political sheet for which I feel the highest esteem. But you, Sir, you honour criticism with your character and your talents, I send you the humble book of
Result €192Estimate €150 - €200 -
280 - Maurice LEBLANC (1864-1941). L.A.S., October 15, 1894, to Louis Fabulet; 4 pages in-8. Nice, intimate letter about his divorce. [Marie-Ernestine Lalanne (1865-1941), whom he had married in January 1889, had just filed for divorce.] "It's been a hard fight, my poor old man. Six or seven years of habits, and my faith quite gentle in certain respects, a pretty child's soul to save, all that was hard to leave. Anyway, I'm cured. Shall I complain about this six-year old disease? No, I bring back one
Result €384Estimate €300 - €400 -
281 - Julie de LESPINASSE (1732-1776). L.A., " Thursday evening ", to Jean-Baptiste Suard; 1 page petit in-8, address (part of the address sheet torn, slight wetness). "Man proposes and the devil disposes; count me not. Mde de St. Shamans needs me, that must come before what is only my pleasure. Please be good enough to say my intention and my regrets, and I beg you also to make mantion of me in the temple. Say that you've been kind enough to tell me about them. Good evening, if I live much and live
Estimate €300 - €400 -
282 - LITERATURE. 13 L.A.S., and an a.s. business card, 19th century. Enclosed is an L.A.S. from notary Louis-Joseph Sainte-Beuve (Évreux 1811), and the critic's business card. Théodore de Banville (beautiful letter on poetry to Edmund Gosse 1877), Pierre-Jean de Béranger (2, on his verses and those of his correspondent), Champfleury (reproaches to his publisher Bourdillat, 1860), Remy de Gourmont (2, one to Pierre Dauze), Ludovic Halévy (2), Edmond Haraucourt (3, one to Pierre Louÿs, and a long
Result €384Estimate €300 - €400 -
283 - literature. 24 L.A.S., late 19th-early 20th century. Maurice Beaubourg (1923, referring to T. Bernard, Béraud, Barrès, Hermant, Gide, Loti), Lucien Descaves (subscription for the late Tailhade), Gustave Guiches (in favour of the immutable and untouchable traditions of the Académie), Gabriel Hanotaux, Abel Hermant, Édouard Hervé (5, to Charles Chincholle in Le Figaro, or to Julia Pingard of the secretariat at the Institute, 1887-1891), Paul Hervieu, Charles-Henry Hirsch (long and interestin
Result €588Estimate €250 - €300 -
284 - LITERATURE. 14 letters or coins, most of them L.A.S., 20th century. Georges Arnaud (3, including a corrected and dedicated typescript fragment, and a long letter of transmittal, 1967), Eugène Dabit (to a critic), Jean Guitton (2), Bernard Halda (2), Louis Guilloux (2, to critics), including Dominique Braga, 1930-1931), Henri Guillemin, Émile Henriot (to Bertrand Guégan, editor of the Almanach de Cocagne, 1920), Pierre Humbourg (1941), Henri de Régnier (to Paul Souday, 1925).
Estimate €250 - €300 -
285 - Pierre LOTI (1850-1923). 5 L.A.S. "Julien", [1872-1889], to his sister Marie Viaud-Bon; 13 pages in-8 or in-12 (an incomplete letter). Nice correspondence to his "dear sister" Marie, during his travels. [Las Palmas 1870, while he was an apprentice on the training ship Jean-Bart]. He went "to take a long walk on land, in a humid valley, between high green mountains covered with mist. It rained in torrents and I waded through herbaceous vegetation quite similar to our June hay, but three times hi
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
286 - Pierre LOTI. 9 L.A.S "Julien", [1871-1887], to his niece Nadine Bon, known as Ninette (future Mrs. Duvignau); 20 pages in various formats (small cut-out in the 1st letter). Nice match to his beloved niece Ninette. [At sea 1871]. He sent her from Cherbourg an iron box: "there is inside a big pineapple from Brazil that we had put in a candy box for you; you'd better hurry up and smash the box, and eat it"; there is also "a small silver cup, worked in the manner of the island of Malta"; he will al
Result €1,216Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
287 - Pierre LOTI. 24 L.A.S. (one unsigned), 1884-1894, to Marcel Sémézies in Montauban; about 50 pages most in-12 or in-8, 2 envelopes. Attached are 3 telegrams, an invitation card and a business card with autogr. additions, an a.s. dedication cut out of his speech of reception at the Academy, from Pierre Loti to Sémézies; an autogr. card from Mrs. Julien Viaud to the same; an L.A.S. from Émile Pouvillon to Sémézies about Loti; and 6 L.A.S. from Samuel Loti-Viaud to the same. Very nice friend
Result €1,280Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
288 - Pierre LOTI. 75 L.A.S., 1885-1910, to Julia Daudet; 153 pages in various formats, most of them in-8, some with his number (some with the motto Mon mal m'enchante) or various headings, some addresses. An L.A.S. from her son Samuel Viaud is attached to Julia Daudet about the publication of Daudet's letters kept in the Loti newspaper. Important correspondence to Madame Daudet. We can only give a glimpse of it here. [1885]. He was extremely pleased to receive his book [Impressions de nature et d'a
Result €2,368Estimate €2,000 - €3,000 -
289 - Pierre LOTI. Signed autograph manuscript, À Yann Nibor, [1892] ; 2 pages large in-fol. (traces of framing, folds slits repaired). Preface to Yann Nibor's Songs and Tales of the Sea. The sailor Jean Robin, known as Yann Nibor (1857-1947), a native of St. Malo, after leaving active service, entered as a librarian in the Ministry of the Navy, and began to write sea stories and sailor songs that soon became popular. His Chansons et récits de mer, illustrated by Léon Couturier, with a preface by
Result €960Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
290 - Pierre LOTI. Signed autograph manuscript, Visit to the Queen, 1898; 5 pages large in-fol. cut out for printing and glued on cards, with some erasures and corrections. Account of a visit to Queen Mary Christina of Spain during the Spanish-American War. This account, dated at the head "Madrid, Saturday April 30, 98", was published in Le Figaro of May 6, 1898, and collected in 1899 in Reflections on the Dark Road. The original title, crossed out on the manuscript, was: "Au Palais de Madrid". Loti
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
291 - Pierre LOTI. Manuscript signed, [Above all, let us never forget!], and 15 L.A.S., 1915-1918 and n.d., to Élisabeth de Caraman-Chimay, Comtesse Greffulhe, or to her sister Geneviève de Caraman-Chimay, the general of Tinan; 3 pages in-fol., 39 pages small in-4, most of them mourning or to her motto Mon mal m'enchante and 1 page in-12 with address. Beautiful set around the invaded Belgium and its sovereigns. Signed copy of his war report of August 1, 1915, for the first anniversary of "the shame
Result €1,024Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
292 - Stéphane MALLARMÉ (1842-1898). L.A.S., Paris [July 20, 1883], to his friend Henry Roujon; 7 pages in-8 (traces of old assembly). Nice letter. "What have you become? A bit of sunshine that didn't go through the curtains well made us think of good weather for the off-season: is summer over? We've been thinking about you while the rain fell. How painful to be only a month old, all wet [...] You are almost halfway through your vacation...". They leave Tuesday evening for Valvins, and he will retu
Result €1,920Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
293 - Stéphane MALLARMÉ, L.A.S., Sunday [January 8, 1888 ?], to the painter Jean-François Raffaëlli; 2 pages oblong in-12. He thanks him for his friendly memory: "I'm so sick when I come back in the evening with insomnia, that I don't go out much [...] but I hope for better times and I won't forget dinner, eager as I am to meet you, among all of you"...
Result €1,280Estimate €800 - €11,000 -
294 - Stéphane MALLARMÉ, L.A.S., Paris vendredi matin [June 1, 1888, to Édouard Dujardin]; 2 pages in-8. He leaves the next morning for the countryside for a week, and asks to have a few copies of the Review brought to him during the day. "I have the last corrections ready to be transcribed on the interline proof. Send everything, including the money, to Valvins, by Avon "... He's really counting on the copies tonight... [This is the publication in the Independent Review of his translation of Whis
Result €1,536Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
295 - Stéphane MALLARMÉ, L.A.S., Paris, Wednesday morning [March 9, 1892, to Léon Dierx ?] ; 2 pages oblong in-12. He invites her next Friday at 7:30 a.m. to the "family dinner. These ladies are anxious, as I am, to have you [...] before such a long journey; and as I think you will be a little in demand at the end of the month, the desire has come here to register now.
Result €1,152Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
296 - Stéphane MALLARMÉ. L.A.S. (monogram) on his business card, Valvins, near Fontainebleau May 1896 [sic for 1897, to Albert Boissière]; business card written on both sides. "Thank you, from L'Illusoire Aventure; you have an exquisite sense of the poem, knowing where to take it and where to leave it, and it is through the verse itself, so alive in you and unexpected, without it ever being tackled and with the proper attitudes, that you openly lead the whole: hence, everywhere, such delicate inst
Result €1,024Estimate €800 - €900 -
297 - Stéphane MALLARMÉ. L.A.S. (from his monogram SM), Paris Mardi; on his business card (in16) 89, Rue de Rome. "Sending a card is fun; but really what an item like yours today and like a masterpiece, this diamond pavé, is, with you always ready" .
Result €1,152Estimate €500 - €700 -
298 - André MALRAUX (1901-1976). Autograph manuscript; 1 page and a half in-4 on 2 folios numbered 18-19 made up of six glued pieces (small angular lack at the bottom of the 2nd folio), with blue pencil scratches. Interesting text on art. "What era has seen art undergo such upheavals as we have since Akhnaton? Even the end of the 6th century in Greece, the Renaissance in Italy, did not experience the mortal struggle that marked the end of the 19th century. Leonardo's opponents were neither Gothic n
Result €448Estimate €300 - €400 -
299 - Alessandro MANZONI (1785-1873). L.A.S., Milan 10 February 1857, to Padre Caccia; 2 pages and a quarter in-8; in Italian. Attached is an l.a.s. in Italian by Father Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855), at Placido Battallier in Carpentras (Stresa 24 July 1853). It is a new inconvenience for him to have to answer negatively again to a proposal made to him through his correspondent, and which affects another person. But he cannot conceal the fact that, whatever the negotiation with the New York publisher,
Result €3,072Estimate €400 - €500
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- 28 % TTC (20 % de TVA) sauf pour les livres 26 % TTC (5,5 % de TVA).
- 5,5 % de frais additionnels au titre de la taxe à l’importation temporaire, pour les lots dont le numéro est précédé d’un astérisque.
Dans certains cas, ces frais pourront faire l’objet d’un remboursement à l’acheteur.
Le paiement devra être effectué immédiatement après la vente :
- en espèces (euros) jusqu’à 1 000 € pour les ressortissants français ou jusqu’à 15 000 € pour les ressortissants étrangers (sur présentation d’un justificatif de domicile, avis d’imposition, etc. ; en plus du passeport).
- par carte bancaire (Visa, Mastercard).
- par paiement « 3D Secure » sur le site www.ader-paris.fr
- par virement bancaire en euros à l’ordre de ADER.
Banque Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations, DRFIP Paris, 94 rue Réaumur, 75104 PARIS Cedex 02
RIB : 40031 00001 000042 3555K 89 - IBAN : FR72 4003 1000 0100 0042 3555 K89 - BIC : CDCGFRPPXXX
Le règlement par chèque n’est plus accepté.
Ordres d’achat :
Un enchérisseur ne pouvant assister à la vente devra remplir le formulaire d’ordre d’achat inclus dans ce catalogue et le signer.
ADER agira pour le compte de l’enchérisseur, selon les instructions contenues dans le formulaire d’ordre d’achat, ceci afin d’essayer d’acheter le ou les lots au prix le plus bas possible et ne dépassant, en aucun cas, le montant maximum indiqué par l’enchérisseur.
Ledit formulaire devra être adressé et reçu à l’étude au plus tard 24 heures avant le début de la vente.
Les ordres d’achat ou les enchères par téléphone sont une facilité pour les clients. ADER n’est pas responsable pour avoir manqué d’exécuter un ordre par erreur ou pour toute autre cause. Merci de vérifier après envoi que votre ordre d’achat a été dûment enregistré.
ADER se réserve le droit de ne pas enregistrer l’ordre d’achat s’il n’est pas complet ou si elle considère que le client n’apporte pas toutes les garanties pour la sécurité des transactions ; sans recours possible. Pour garantir la bonne volonté de l’acheteur, une consignation pourra être demandée avant la vente qui ne sera validée qu’en cas d’adjudication.
Drouot Live étant un service indépendant, nous déclinons toute responsabilité en cas de dysfonctionnement.
Transports des lots / Exportation :
Dès l’adjudication prononcée, les achats sont sous l’entière responsabilité de l’adjudicataire.
Aucun lot ne sera remis aux acquéreurs avant acquittement de l’intégralité des sommes dues.
Les achats de petit volume seront transportés chez ADER, 3 rue Favart 75002 Paris, où ils seront gardés en dépôt à titre gracieux pendant 14 jours.
L’étude est ouverte du lundi au vendredi, de 9 h à 18 h.
Les achats volumineux seront entreposés, à leurs conditions et frais, au magasinage de l’Hôtel Drouot, 6 bis rue Rossini 75009 Paris (Tél. : 01 48 00 20 18), où ils pourront être retirés sur présentation du bordereau acquitté.
Les acheteurs, souhaitant exporter leurs achats, devront le faire savoir au plus tard le jour de la vente. Ils pourront récupérer la TVA sur les honoraires d’achat à la condition qu’un justificatif de douane en bonne et due forme soit remis à ADER et que le nom de la Maison de Vente y soit mentionné en tant qu’exportateur.
Le bordereau d’adjudication est dû intégralement ; la TVA est remboursable par la suite sur présentation des références du compte bancaire.
L’envoi des lots achetés peut être organisé par ADER à la charge et sous la responsabilité de l’acheteur. C’est un service rendu par ADER qui se réserve la possibilité d’y renoncer si les conditions légales ou pratiques présentent le moindre risque. Les délais ne sont pas garantis et sont tributaires de l’activité de la Maison de Vente. Le coût de l’emballage et de l’expédition est à la charge de l’acheteur ; le règlement à l’ordre d’ADER.
Les acheteurs sont invités à organiser eux-mêmes le transport de leurs achats si ces conditions ne leur conviennent pas.
Défaut de paiement :
À défaut de paiement par l’adjudicataire de la totalité des sommes dues, dans le mois qui suit la vente, et après une seule mise en demeure restée infructueuse, ADER entamera une procédure de recouvrement. L’acheteur sera inscrit au fichier centralisé d’incidents de paiement du SYMEV (www.symev.org) et l’ensemble des dépens restera à sa charge. A compter d’un mois après la vente et à la demande du vendeur, la vente pourra être annulée sans recours possible.