Autograph Letters & Manuscripts - lots 1 to 303
Tuesday 22 February 2022 at 14:00
3, rue Favart, 75002 Paris
302 lots
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102 - Louis-Ange PITOU (1767-1846) chansonnier. L.A.S., Paris May 20, 1820, to Édouard Mounier, Director General of the Police and the Bookshop, ; 2 pages in-fol. (frayed edges). Rare and curious letter about the deathbed of the duke of Berry. Pitou published that same year Le trône du martyr du 13 février 1820, oublié, demandé ensuite aux possesseurs, au bout d'un mois, par Monsieur, comte d'Artois (Duriez, 1820), and Véritable dernier coucher de Monseigneur le duc de Berry, le 13 février 1
Estimate €150 - €200 -
103 - Francis POULENC (1899-1963). 2 printed scores with autograph dedications signed to René Chalupt; folio, stapled, very good condition. Sonate pour deux clarinettes (London, J. & W. Chester, 1919) : " Pour Chalupt avec toute mon affection. Fr. Poulenc 1919". Mouvements perpétuels (London, J. & W. Chester, 1919): "to René Chalupt his friend F. Poulenc 1919".
Estimate €400 - €500 -
104 - RACHEL (1821-1858). L.A.S. "Rachel Félix", August 27, 1839, to M. Cavé; 1 page in-8. She asks him to "finish the performance of Madame Thénard [...] one cannot play if there is no order from the minister (says Monsieur Védel) and I thought that you alone could do everything"...
Estimate €250 - €300 -
105 - Maurice RAVEL (1875-1937). Quartet for 2 Violins, Viola and Cello (Paris, A. Durand & Fils, 1910); in-12, paperback (small accident on spine). Pocket score of the "Nouvelle Édition revue par l'Auteur". A copy of Arthur Honegger, who has twice signed "AHonegger" on the cover with the mention "Paris", and on the title page.
Result €192Estimate €100 - €120 -
106 - Maurice RAVEL. L.A.S., Valvins 14 April 1910, to Eugène Gaveau, piano maker; 1 page in-12, address. He does not know if he will see him at the concert on Wednesday. He must be away from Paris, and asks to send the draft to Levallois, where his brother will pay it... Attached is a small L.A.S. to René Chalupt, [London] 20 / 12 1913 (obl. card in-12, adr. on back); plus a facsimile and a copy of letter.
Result €1,472Estimate €300 - €400 -
107 - Jean RIVIER (1896-1987). 2 autographed musical manuscripts; title and 2 pages in-4 each. Two melodies on poems by René Chalupt. To be translated into Esthonian: " N'avez pas un porte-plume "...; in G, in 4/4, marked Tempo di polka; 27 bars. The manuscript is in black ink on the two inner pages of a 12-line bifeuillet. Hommage à Valery Larbaud : " Le rapide de Bordeaux-Trieste "... ; in 3/4, marked Grazioso (tempo di valza) ; 99 bars. The manuscript is in black ink on the two inner pages of a
Estimate €400 - €500 -
108 - ROLAND-MANUEL (1891-1966). 2 autograph musical manuscripts, the 2nd signed; 2 pages in-fol., and 4 pages oblong in-4. Melody on a famous poem by Paul-Jean Toulet, which will open the collection of the Three Romances by P.J. Toulet. In Arles : " Dans Arle, où sont les Aliscams "... In E, in 4/4, it counts 26 measures, for voice and piano. The manuscript, in black ink on 22 lines paper, presents corrections by scratching, as well as a large collet modifying the last 9 measures; one notices some
Result €576Estimate €500 - €700 -
109 - Gioacchino ROSSINI (1792-1868). L.S. with autograph date, Bologna 29 October 1841, to Eugène Scribe; the letter is written by his wife, Olympe Pélissier; 1 page in-4, address. He recommends his friend the Chevalier Gabussi, who "recently obtained a brilliant success in Venice in Clemenza de Valois (translation by Gustave). This remarkable score makes me address you a prayer, would it not be possible that you entrust to the Chevalier Gabussi one of your masterpieces, with the support of a Euro
Result €1,152Estimate €400 - €500 -
110 - Gioacchino ROSSINI. P.A., Florence June 3, 1852; 1 page oblong in-8; in Italian. Received for the sum of 770.17 lire from Signori Jacobbe, Dr. Salomone and David Paolo Lampronti: anticipated monthly maturity of the life benefit taking effect this day by order of the contract...
Result €128Estimate €150 - €200 -
111 - Gioacchino ROSSINI. L.A.S., Paris May 14, 1861, to the lawyer Leopoldo Pini in Florence; 1 page in-4, addressed; in Italian (engraved and watercolored portrait enclosed). He has just received the mail from the American aristocrats ("aristocratiche americane!!!") and will be busy answering it with courtesy. He thinks that Bonani is wrong about the titles of the Fenzi life estate. Rossini has left in Florence all the deeds concerning his business, and Bonani should have gone to the notary's off
Result €2,304Estimate €700 - €800 -
112 - Albert ROUSSEL (1869-1937). L.A.S., Paris April 26, 1929, to René Chalupt; 1 page and a quarter in-4, addressed to him, envelope. Roussel evokes a letter from Chalupt's father "which was the origin of our friendship. I was at that time only the author of the Ode chinoise and the Poème de la Forêt, and yet this letter seemed to presage and announce events that have come true. Last night, I missed shaking hands with the author of the letter," he thanked him and expressed his "deep and intimate
Result €320Estimate €250 - €300 -
113 - Albert ROUSSEL. 4 printed scores with autograph dedications signed to René or Linette Chalupt; in-fol. stapled (some slight defects to covers). Le Marchand de sable qui passe..., reduction for piano (Paris, E. Demets, 1910) : " à René Chalupt très cordialement Albert Roussel ". - Evocations for orchestra. Transcription for piano 4 hands, I [and III not dedicated] (Paris, Durand, 1913): " to my friend René Chalupt poet moved and delicate very affectionately Albert Roussel ". [Roussel comp
Result €640Estimate €600 - €800 -
114 - Henri SAUGUET (1901-1989). Autograph musical manuscript, Le chalet tyrolien, 1948; title and 6 pages in-fol. Melody on a poem by René Chalupt: " Dans le parc de cette demoiselle protestante "... In D major, at 3/4, it is marked Andantino. The manuscript, in black ink on 16-line paper, is dated at the end " Coutras, September 1948 "; it presents two crossed-out bars. On the title page, this melody is dedicated " to Joseph Weterings ". A copy by Ch. Delsaux is attached.
Result €832Estimate €500 - €700 -
115 - SPECTACLE. 6 documents and 10 business cards. Louis de Funès, Jean Nohain (l.s. " Jaboune ", 1931), Didier Lockwood (color photo of his portrait of Stéphane Grappelli, signed), Suc et Serre (signed photo), Charles Trenet (signed program, 1940). Printed page of Intermezzo by Giraudoux, dedicated by J. Giraudoux, Louis Jouvet, and the actors of the play (Pierre Renoi, Valentine Tessier, etc.). Visiting cards a.s. by Marie Casarès, F. Coppée, Robert Enrico, Eduardo de Filippo, Auguste Lumière
Result €448Estimate €150 - €200 -
116 - Germaine TAILLEFERRE (1892-1983). Autograph musical manuscript signed, Hommage à Érik Satie, 1918; 5 pages in-fol., in a brown paper folder with title. Melody in homage to Satie on a poem by René Chalupt: " Honfleur Honfleur Toutes les vagues sont en fleurs "... At 2/4, it is marked not too fast; it counts 96 measures. The manuscript, in black ink on 2 double-sheets at 20 lines, presents some corrections by scratching. It is dated at the end " February 1918 ", and signed with the GT monogram
Result €1,792Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
117 - THEATER. 32 letters or pieces, most of them L.A.S., addressed to the poet and novelist Pierre AGUÉTANT. Émile Albert, Julia Bartet (photo dedication), Henriette Barreau (photo dedication), Léon Bernard (2), Janine Borelli (large photo dedication), Béatrice Bretty (large photo dedication.), Pierre Fresnay (big photo dedication), Jacques Grétillat (big photo dedication), Irma Grignon-Faintrenie, Marguerite Moreno (2), Roger Monteaux (photo dedication), Mary Marquet (6, and photo dedication),
Estimate €300 - €400 -
118 - François TRUFFAUT (1932-1984). Autograph manuscript, Que vivent les Cinés-Club !, [1981]; 2 pages and a half in-4, with erasures and corrections. Defense of the cine-clubs, at the time when they find in television a very strong audience: "the movement of the cine-clubs crosses its biggest difficulties in front of the indifference of the public authorities". Created in France in the post-war period, it "was a victim of its own success, since it gave birth to a form of popular and selective exh
Result €768Estimate €500 - €700 -
119 - François TRUFFAUT. Autograph manuscript, [1984]; 1 1/2 pages in-4 in turquoise ink, with erasures and corrections. Short scene for Vivement Dimanche: conversation between three characters (Bertrand, Yann, and the lady) preparing for the opening of a nightclub. Plus a shooting plan printed. Attached is the typescript with autograph corrections, of Truffaut's sarcastic reply to Pierre Philippe (1 p.½ in-4 on his letterhead) who accused him of plagiarism for the screenplay of Dernier Métro: "Th
Result €2,048Estimate €500 - €600 -
120 - Léon VASSEUR (1844-1917). Autograph musical manuscript signed, La Famille Trouillat, [1874 ?]; 236 oblong pages in-fol. Orchestral score of this operetta in 3 acts, libretto by Hector Crémieux and Ernest Blum, music by Léon Vasseur, first performed on September 10, 1874, at the Théâtre de la Renaissance. The composer signed at the end of act I. Attached is a manuscript by George Street, Mignonnette, [operetta in 3 acts, 1896], orchestral score by a copyist with some passages arranged by He
Result €512Estimate €400 - €500 -
121 - [Giuseppe VERDI (1813-1901). L.A.S. (minute) to him from the engineer Luigi Ronchetti, Milan 17 August 1895; 3 pages in-8 on his letterhead with erasures and corrections; in Italian. Back in Milan after an absence of a few days, he finds his letter of the 12th and a check on the Ricordi House in payment of his invoice. He regrets not having been able to discuss his project with Verdi; he could clarify his ideas in person...
Estimate €70 - €80 -
122 - Pauline VIARDOT (1821-1910). L.A.S., to Monsieur Leni; 1 page in-8, on pink paper (mounted on card). ... She cannot go to Mannheim and cancels her tickets "I have so many things to do yet for Weimar!" She wishes Lachner and "the Meistersingers a great success"...
Result €128Estimate €100 - €120 -
123 - Ricardo VIÑES (1875-1943). 5 L.A.S., 1910-1912, to Linette Chalupt (one to her mother); 7 pages in-8, and a postcard, addresses. About piano lessons for Linette Chalupt: the fee will be 30 francs per hour; he gives his possibilities and has "a small autograph of Séverac for you". 2 letters from his niece Elvira Viñes Soto (July-August 1950) to René Chalupt. about Ravel's correspondence; and the typed copy of Viñes' answer to a questionnaire of the Courrier Musical Français (1927), and t
Result €192Estimate €200 - €300 -
124 - Cosima WAGNER (1837-1930) daughter of Liszt and Marie d'Agoult, wife of Richard Wagner: L.A.S. "your little Why", [Berlin mid-November 1858], to "dear mimi" [Marie d'AGOULT]; 6 pages in-8. Long letter to her mother. She speaks first of various works she has commissioned, including Paul HEYSE's Sabines, which she will perhaps translate. She is immersed "in the quiet and fortifying waters" of the English theologian Theodore PARKER, "the Unitarian, who from the pulpit calmly says that the mystery
Result €2,048Estimate €500 - €700 -
125 - Cosima WAGNER. 2 L.A.S. "Cose" and "Cosi", [1862], to her "little Bugler" [her half-sister Claire de CHARNACÉ]; 4 pages in-8 with her crowned figure each, filled with small handwriting. Thursday morning [February 13]. She is at the castle of Löwenberg in Silesia, at the home of Prince HOHENZOLLERN HECHINGEN, "our patron, with whom we lead a life of cocooning, made up of music, freedom, amiability, and animation. The concerts follow the rehearsals, which are also concerts because they often re
Result €1,408Estimate €500 - €600 -
126 - Cosima WAGNER. 2 L.A.S. "Cosima" and one L.A., [Berlin 1863], to "Clairon" [Claire de CHARNACÉ, her half-sister]; 4 pages in-8 each, filled with small handwriting. September 19. She talks about her problems with moving in, her readings, from which she excludes Daniel Stern (their mother Marie d'Agoult), Goethe's letters to Baroness von Stein on which she is going to write an article for the Revue germanique... October 29. About the illness of her daughter Daniella, the Bojanowski couple... She
Result €1,408Estimate €500 - €600 -
127 - Cosima WAGNER. 3 L.A.S. "Cosima", [Munich] 1867, [to Claire de CHARNACÉ, her half-sister]; 4, 1 and 4 pages in-8, filled with a small handwriting, the first two on pink paper. On their mother Marie d'Agoult. June 15. On his mother: "with her, impossible, I turn my sentences around and around when I write to her, fearing to hurt her by my harshness, or to mislead her by my expansion. [...] How is it possible that mother is so struck by a ruin that must not have surprised her? The ruin could not
Result €2,048Estimate €500 - €600 -
128 - Cosima WAGNER. 8 L.A.S. "Cosima", Munich then Tribschen 1868, [to Claire de CHARNACÉ, her half-sister]; 8 pages in-12 and 18 pages and a quarter in-8 filled with small handwriting, 2 envelopes (cut at the bottom of a blank sheet). long and interesting letters about their mother Marie d'Agoult, and about Wagner, Liszt, and Bulow [Munich] January 31. About the framing of a photograph of the Medici tombs by Michelangelo. 31 March. She asks Claire to choose a "mantilla hat" for her... 24 April.
Result €5,376Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
129 - Cosima WAGNER. L.A.S. "Cosima," [Tribschen June 30, 1871, to Claire de CHARNACÉ, her half-sister]; 2 pages in-8, filled with small handwriting, envelope. Concerns about the health of their mother Marie d'Agoult, who has gone insane. "Poor dear, what sad things you are telling me and enduring! I can't explain such a sudden illness, mother's last letter is dated June 15, and makes perfect sense. I must confess that since the events that kept her away I was afraid of a relapse; when I saw her her
Result €768Estimate €400 - €500 -
130 - Raymond ABELLIO (1907-1986). 30 L.A.S., 1948-1965, to Yvonne JUILLET; 48 pages in-8 or in-4 (including 3 dactyl. with autogr. additions, one incomplete from the beginning). Important friendly, literary, philosophical and artistic correspondence. Yvonne JUILLET was a painter, and a pupil of the painter Léon Detroy; she was the niece of Albert Thibaudet, and a friend of Jean Paulhan. Most of this correspondence dates from the years 1949 to 1951, when Abellio was in exile in Switzerland. The l
Estimate €900 - €1,000 -
131 - Paul ADAM (1862-1920). Autograph manuscript signed, La Fin de l'Aventure, [1901]; 8 pages in-fol. with erasures and corrections. On the European intervention against the Boxer revolt, and the confused situation at the end of the operation which is characterized by a waltz-hesitation of the intervening powers after the repression of the movement, especially concerning the repatriation of the expeditionary corps. "Tired of having uselessly demanded barbaric vengeance, Europe, along with the Unite
Estimate €300 - €350 -
132 - Pierre AGUÉTANT (1890-1940). Autograph manuscript, Le Poème du cœur, [1914]; 265 pages small in-4. Manuscript of this collection of poems, published by Plon in 1914 with a preface by Hélène Vacaresco. This manuscript, having been used for the printing (with the marks of the typographers), includes the list of the works of the same author and the copy of the preface by Hélène Vacaresco. It presents erasures and corrections. The 2nd part (after p. 110) is partly composed of printed texts,
Estimate €400 - €500 -
133 - Pierre AGUÉTANT. Autograph manuscript, Le Poème du Bugey, [1918]; 136 pages small in-4. Manuscript of this collection of poems about his native Bugey, published in 1918 by Alphonse Lemerre, illustrated by Johannès Son, with a preface by Georges Normandy. The manuscript, carefully written in black ink on watermarked laid paper, shows some erasures and corrections, with a few poems in blue ink added. It must have been used for printing. Attached is the autograph manuscript of the Preface by Ge
Result €435Estimate €400 - €500 -
134 - Pierre AGUÉTANT. Autograph manuscript, Le Poème du Beaujolais, [1922]; 133 pages small in-4, and 37 pages in-8. Drafts and working manuscripts of this collection on Beaujolais, published in 1922 by G. Van Oest, with a preface by Hélène Vacaresco, and illustrations by E. Brouillard and P. Combet-Descombes. A first draft, from the very first draft, is abundantly crossed out and corrected (78 p.). A second set is a first clean-up, with erasures and corrections (55 p.). A set of 35 new poems, c
Estimate €200 - €300 -
135 - Pierre AGUÉTANT. Set of autograph manuscripts of poetry. Important set of poetry manuscripts, mostly unpublished. - Notebook of about forty poems, dated Bourg and Ambérieux in 1910, most of them signed, with numerous erasures and corrections (uncropped, 48 p.). - La Vieille Terre (published in 1911 in Lyon, Edition des Nouvelles Annales; 21 ff., drafts, and proofs of the title). - Le Cœur serré, Jujurieux, Ambérieu, Guéreins, Jullié October-November 1913, unpublished collection (134 p.,
Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
136 - Pierre AGUÉTANT. Set of autograph manuscripts of prose. Manuscripts of four published volumes, plus a set of unpublished prose. - Mobilization (published by Plon in 1918 under the title Pour ceux qui pleurent, it won the spiritualist literature prize; 77 p. in-4). - Nos maris, nos femmes, nos jeunes filles (Plon, 1920), in 3 in-8 paperbacks (48, 86 and 129 p.). - Le Divin Roman d'amour (Plon, 1921; 197 p. small in-8; plus a corrected print for a new edition). - Nous deux (Plon, 1922), draft (3
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
137 - Pierre AGUÉTANT. 5 autograph manuscripts of novels. - Les Amours incertaines (published in La Nouvelle Revue critique, 1927), very erased and corrected draft (135 p. in-8). - Les Noces de la Terre et de l'Amour (in the Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace, 1932), working ms (138 p. in-8), with all the leaflets of the publication. - Les Femmes que nous tuons (F. Sorlot, 1937), working ms with the first sketches (93p. in-8). - Marthe Darmoise (Frazier-Soye, 1938, Grand Prix de l'Académie de Lyon), w
Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
138 - ALAIN (1868-1951). Autograph manuscript signed of Propos d'un Normand, [1909]; 2 pages in-8 (pencil typograph marks). On taxes. Propos published in La Dépêche de Rouen on October 4, 1909. Alain quotes a reader's letter concerning sumptuary taxes... He adds: "If I exercised the smallest political mandate, then I would have the concern to determine the doctrine according to which I would act. But I only meddle with stirring up ideas, sometimes here, sometimes there. [...] And if my readers so
Result €512Estimate €250 - €300 -
139 - Guillaume APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918). 7 autograph postcards, 6 of which signed with his real name "Wilhelm de Kostrowitzky" (or "W. Kostrowitzky ", 1901-1902, to Mlle Émilie Gaillet, in Paris; illustrated cards, addresses on the back, mounted on tabs in an in-12 volume with printed text opposite, bound in black half-box, title in red on the back (D. Montecot). Nice set of postcards written during the poet's first stay in Germany, which was to profoundly influence his work, notably in the "Rhén
Estimate €4,000 - €5,000 -
140 - Guillaume APOLLINAIRE. Autograph poem, " O mon très cher amour "... ; 1 page in-8. Working manuscript of this very beautiful sonnet, collected in Il y a. Here untitled, this sonnet was published in 1912 by Apollinaire under two different titles: in February 1912 under the title Per te præsentit aruspex (title preserved in Il y a) in the first issue of his review Les Soirées de Paris, with Le Pont Mirabeau; and the same year in the third issue of the review Arthénice, under the title Immor
Result €5,376Estimate €4,000 - €5,000 -
141 - [Guillaume APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918). Autograph manuscript by Jacqueline APOLLINAIRE (1891-1967), Casanova; small in-4 schoolbook with pink cover of about 51 pages. Complete manuscript, copied by his wife, of Apollinaire's Casanova. The manuscript, written on the front of the notebook pages, contains corrections and additions, sometimes important, on the left side; it presents some passages crossed out and some cuts, with variants and changes compared to the edition, and also some differences (
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
142 - Louis ARAGON (1897-1982). Corrected proofs, with title and 6 autographed lines, Les Voies aériennes by Boris Pasternak, [1966]; broadside in fol. (65 x 15 cm.). Article published in Les Lettres Françaises, May 12, 1966, on the occasion of the release by Gallimard of four short stories by Boris Pasternak under the title Les Voies Aériennes. On this proof, which he corrected in turquoise ink, Aragon added the title and wrote the cap himself: "The collection Littératures soviétiques that A
Estimate €400 - €500 -
143 - Anne Desclos, known as Dominique AURY (1907-1998). Autograph manuscript, Un village et son maquis, 1944; 55 pages in-8, on blue-green paper. La vie d'un village et d'un maquis sous l'Occupation (Life in a village and a maquis during the Occupation), by the future author of Histoire d'O. Manuscript, with erasures and corrections, of an account published in Les Lettres Françaises on October 21, 1944, illustrated by Bernard Milleret. It presents some differences with the published text. The villa
Result €1,280Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
144 - Théodore de BANVILLE (1823-1891). L.A.S., Villa Banville, Lucenay-les-Aix (Nièvre) June 17, 1887, to Paul Meurice; 3 pages in-8. Beautiful letter. He has read with delight the Songe de l'Amour, "among the flowers and in the shade of the leaves. What a delicious idyll you have written, and what a tragedy! What tact and art in the preparations, which in sum are everything! A long time ago, centuries ago, when I read Notre-Dame de Paris for the first time, I composed this formula, which more th
Result €76Estimate €80 - €100 -
145 - Théodore de BANVILLE. L.A.S., Villa Banville, Lucenay-lès-Aix (Nièvre), July 1, 1887, to the publisher J. Rouam; 1 page and a half in-8. He accepts with pleasure to join his name "to those of my colleagues and friends that you list for me". He asks for the conditions and that they send him "a proof of the etching that should accompany my sonnet"...
Estimate €70 - €80 -
146 - Pierre-Jean de BÉRANGER (1780-1857). 4 L.A.S., 1829-1831, to Ludovic Vitet; 6 pages in-8, addresses. June 29, 1829: he congratulates him at length for his dramatic talent in La Mort d'Henri III and has noticed "this art of highlighting and summarizing the action and the characters [...] Having succeeded so young in making a reputation for yourself, you cannot fail to increase it still further, either by writing history or by working for the theater"... December 16: he recommends "poor Perrot
Estimate €200 - €250 -
147 - Maurice BARRèS (1862-1923). L.A.S., Wednesday [ca. 1922?], to a publisher friend; 1 page in-8. On his Chronique de la Grande Guerre. "Decidedly I stop Volume VIII on Feb. 21, 1916. It will go from Dec. 1, 1915 to Feb. 21, 1916 and will be entitled Le Suffrage des morts. How do you want me to put the word "Verdun" in a collection where there is not a single article on Verdun? It is the following volume Tome IX (from Feb. 21, 1916 to July 7, 1916) which will be called During the battle or Verdun
Result €102Estimate €80 - €100 -
148 - Henry BECQUE (1837-1899). L.A.S., to Steinlen; 1 and a half pages in-8 (crack in fold repaired). He has been ill for two weeks: "I am going through a very acute and persistent attack of eczema, which does not let me rest for a moment. He cannot respond to the invitation: "tell the newlyweds from me that I really don't have a chance with them"... On the back of the letter, graphological analysis in pencil.
Estimate €80 - €100 -
149 - Gabriel BELOT (1882-1962). 6 L.A.S., 4 of which illustrated, 1920 and n.d., to Marguerite Steinlen and Germaine Perrin; 8 pages and a half in-fol. or in-4. Nice gallant correspondence illustrated with pen-and-ink drawings, some of them enhanced with colors. The painter-poet addresses his "dear little ones", Marguerite Steinlen (niece of the painter) and his companion Germaine Perrin (who will become the third wife of the composer and conductor D.E. Inghelbrecht). Saturday. He thanks them for th
Estimate €800 - €900 -
150 - Henri BERGSON (1859-1941). L.A.S., Paris, March 18, 1921, [to Léon Bérard]; 2 pages in-8. He thanks him for having accepted his request for retirement; his letter touched him very much: "Such a testimony would be precious to me anyway, coming from the great master of the University. But the signature it bears makes me particularly proud of it"...
Result €153Estimate €120 - €150 -
151 - Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986). P.S. with autograph date, July 20, 1953; 1 page in-4 typewritten on the letterhead of The New American Library of World Literature (binder holes, crack repaired); in English. Letter-contract for the assignment of world rights for an English language edition of La Forma de la espada. The letter confirms their agreement to acquire the periodical rights for the sum of $40, or 2 cents a word for a print run of 100,000 copies (or less) of the translation. The work will
Estimate €500 - €700
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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.
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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 et Interenchères étant des services indépendants, nous déclinons toute responsabilité en cas de dysfonctionnement. Le coût supplémentaire lié aux achats sur internet est détaillé sur chacun des sites et dans nos conditions de vente.
Transports des lots / Exportation :
La présente vente est effectuée sur désignation.
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 lots sont à retirer au plus vite dans leur lieu de stockage.
Les acheteurs, souhaitant exporter leurs achats, 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.
L’étude ADER ne fait pas les envois de bijoux, les acheteurs sont invités à organiser eux-mêmes le transport de leurs achats.
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 susceptible d’inscription au Fichier des restrictions d’accès aux ventes aux enchères (Fichier TEMIS – www.temis.auction) mis en œuvre par la société Commissaires-Priseurs Multimédia (CPM – 37 rue de Châteaudun 75009 Paris) et l’ensemble des dépends 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.