LETTERS AND AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPTS
Tuesday 4 October 2022 at 14:00
3, rue Favart, 75002 Paris
327 lots
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151 - Victor HUGO (1802-1885). L.A.S. "V.," Marine Terrace December 18 [1852, to Pierre-Jules Hetzel]; 4 pages in-12 (trace of tab; portrait attached). On Les Châtiments. He first mentions money issues and a dispute with the publisher Tarride... "we have only counted so far after each edition. Please, I beg you, return to the treaty and count with Mr. Tarride on January 15 and every 15 following. We can have a long future together, and very profitable for him, and as for me, I do not ask for more,
Result €1,280Estimate €600 - €800 -
152 - Victor HUGO. Autograph poem, [Lueur à l'horizon, 1854]; 1 page in-8 (lined on the back with fine Japanese paper). First draft of this poem collected in Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit. Lueur à l'horizon is dated in the edition "Jersey 18 mars 1854"; the poem will be collected in 1881 in Les Quatre Vents de l'esprit, piece XXII of the "Livre lyrique" La Destinée. This draft gives a first version of the first six quatrains, with alternative variants. "I dream dream, a clear ray gleams on t
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
153 - Victor HUGO. L.A.S., [Paris] January 26, 1874, to A. Michiels imprimeur; 1 page in-12 (small mourning), address (address sheet reinforced with tape). He received "remarkable verses signed Rochard. These verses having been printed (under the title La Conscience) at Monsieur Michels", Hugo asks the printer to "let the author know how much I was touched by his sending" .... [This is La Conscience, a popular scene in verse (1873) by Émile Rochard (1851-1918)].
Result €448Estimate €200 - €250 -
154 - Victor HUGO. L.A.S., January 12, 1877, to Henri Chatau; 1 page in-12, framed with a photograph of V. Hugo. "I authorize Mr. Chatau to publish with his music Sara la baigneuse and some stanzas of the Tristesse d'Olympio; in case there is a sale and a profit, I beg him to fix my copyright at the figure he wants, and to give it to the poor"...
Result €704Estimate €400 - €500 -
155 - Victor HUGO. Autograph Apostille signed at the head of a L.S. from Henri Nadaud de Buffon (1831-1890), June 6, 1880; 3 pages in-4 on the letterhead of the Société des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons. Nadaud de Buffon, president of the Société des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, writes to Senator Victor Hugo to thank him for his authorization to "publish an album of romances on verses of yours, for the benefit of the Breton rescuers [...] The Bretons are particularly fond of you, Mr. Sena
Result €384Estimate €300 - €350 -
156 - Max JACOB (1876-1944). Autograph manuscript, " From God, from others, what do you come to claim, fragile soul... "; 1 page in-fol., number 234 written on the back in red pencil. Very beautiful unpublished meditation on the beauty of life. "From God, from others, what do you claim, fragile soul, mortal body? You live and your blood beats and your senses are there functioning, by miracle, by a daily miracle! You live! O sublime gift and made to confound me, I live! O my heart, swell with love i
Result €576Estimate €300 - €400 -
157 - Joseph KESSEL (1898-1979). L.S., Paris April 8, 1968; 1 page in-4 dactyl, on his letterhead. To an aspiring academician, whom he assures of his support: "I am only passing through Paris, which deprives me of the pleasure I would have had to see you. I say see, not receive, because I am against the principle of "Visits". My support is entirely yours. I have been your faithful and admiring reader for many years. My only fear however is that I will not be in France on the day of the election.
Result €153Estimate €100 - €120 -
158 - Joseph KESSEL (1898-1979) writer. 2 L.S., April-October 1968, to Abbé Casy-Rivière; 1 page in-4 with an autographed line, on his letterhead, and 1 1/2 pages in-8. April 25. Assures his "dear Casy" that he too is "delighted with the friendship that has developed between us on the occasion of Olivier's baptism, and that it took place under the favorable auspices of the mas de Titi [Coste]. He has sent him the promised books that he has requested from his publishers, and has informed Dr. Bénic
Estimate €150 - €200 -
159 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, countess of LAFAYETTE (1634-1693). L.A.S. "From La Vergne," [Espinasse] December 12 [1656], to Abbé Gilles Ménage in Paris; 2 1/2 pages in-4, address with trace of black wax seal (old transcription attached). Beautiful literary and friendly letter. "You have had such good reasons for not writing me two ordinary letters that I would be very wrong to complain about them. I think they are too good and I would like you to have less valid reasons than the o
Estimate €2,500 - €3,000 -
160 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne, countess of LAFAYETTE. Manuscript, Caraccio. History. By Madame de La Fayette; one volume in-8 (17,5 x 12 cm) of 87 unnumbered ff. (including 1 f. of title), bound in brown calf of the end of the XVIIth c., red edges, spine decorated and titled Caraccio. An unpublished novel by Mme de La Fayette ? This manuscript has been known for a long time only by the mention of it in the Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu M. le Duc de La Vallière, pre
Estimate €8,000 - €10,000 -
161 - Alphonse de LAMARTINE (1790-1869). 2 L.A.S., 1855 and n.d., to Mme Isaure Garre; 3 and 1 pages in-8. To the sister of Delphine de Girardin, who died on June 29, 1855 [Delphine had wished in her will that Lamartine complete his poem of Madeleine]. July 29, 1855, declining this wish: "I have neither the age, nor the inspiration, nor even the suitability of beautiful verses. I would wither what I would have the temerity to touch. [...] It seems to me that an entire biography of the unique woman
Result €512Estimate €300 - €400 -
162 - Alphonse de LAMARTINE. L.A.S., March 28, 1860, to a colleague; 3 pages in-8. Beautiful letter. He has received the 3rd volume of his work, the reading of which gave him great pleasure: "It is a letter of Cicero in eight hundred pages! [...] What I know by rereading this eloquent calendar of your public life, is that the nation never built a man of more virile, more universal and more powerful elements. Live long, write often, speak always; all by yourself, you will be a Corinthian brass among
Result €384Estimate €120 - €150 -
163 - Hyacinthe de LATOUCHE (1785-1851). 2 L.A.S. and one L.A., [1831]-1843 and n.d.; 2 pages in-8 and 1 page in-4. Wednesday [November 1831], to Mme Récamier (after the failure of his play La Reine d'Espagne): "I send you, hesitating, a poor dethroned Queen. Setbacks make one a bit defiant and touchy. He asks for an appointment "where I could not fail to meet your illustrious friend, I was given to think that in this century of great misfortunes the small ones were ridiculous"... To Delphine de
Result €1,280Estimate €250 - €300 -
164 - Michel LEIRIS (1901-1990). Autograph manuscript of a Prière d'insérer; 1 page in-4. Very beautiful text on the dream. "The dream is not an escape. Our thoughts of the night - even the most absurd - come from the same crucible as our thoughts of the day. Desires, fears, or simple turn of mind that mark with their claw each phase of our existence, in vain we would count to escape them in the illusions of sleep. The dream is not a revelation. That a dream brings to the sleeper some clarity o
Result €409Estimate €500 - €700 -
165 - Pierre LEROUX (1797-1871). 4 L.A.S., 1841-[1844?], to George Sand; 5 and a half pages in-4 and 4 pages in-8, addresses (some slight defects). Interesting correspondence with George Sand about the creation of La Revue indépendante. La Châtre June 11, 1841. He has been to see Nohant and leaves when she arrives: "Thus wills Fate, which has regulated the relationships and conjunctions of the wandering stars in the sky and of the souls that seek each other on earth". He tells of his trip to th
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
166 - LITERATORS, late 18th-early 19th century. 13 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S. A. Angelet (August 1815, to Deslongchamps, on the royal house of Saint-Denis), Aude et Descombet (poem À Aristhenete, adr. to Félix Nogaret), P.B Boucher (on his courses at the Academy of Legislation), Charles de Chênedollé (ms of an article on his Études poëtiques by Al. P.J.), Dumont, Alphonse de Launay (to Dussaulchoy), Perchio (2, Nottingham 1825-1826, to Reiding), Charles Pigault-Lebrun, etc.; and a list o
Estimate €100 - €150 -
167 - LITERATURE. About 60 letters or manuscripts, most of them L.A.S. addressed to Jacques Brenner or Jean Freustié (some defects) Marcel Arland, Michel Aubin (8, 1941-1944), Michel Bataille (3), Jacques Berne, Henri Borgeaud, Gérard Boutelleau, José Cabanis, Jacques Chardonne (to B. Frank), René-Jean Clot (6, with small drawings), André Dhôtel, Pierre Fauchery (5), Matthieu Galey (3, including one signed "Conrad Jansen"), Marie-Louise Hart de Keating (3, about Germain Nouveau), Yves-Gérard
Estimate €500 - €700 -
168 - LITERATURE and POLITICS. 8 L.A.S or P.A.S., in-8. Letters or album pages (some portraits attached) by Emmanuel Arago, Jean Barancy, Louis Blanc (to L. Ulbach), Alexandre Dumas fils, Garnier-Pagès, Clovis Hugues, Pierre Loti (on Japan), Pierre Sales.
Result €281Estimate €200 - €250 -
169 - Pierre LOTI (1850-1923). L.S. to his friend the commander "François; 1 page in-4 on yellow paper with his motto Mon mal m'enchante (portrait attached). He wants to send some documents to be sent to Constantinople by a reliable friend: "I would be happier if you would take them yourself, but I know that, because you are a turcophile, the government did not want you to return there. Also I wrote, on your subject, very recently, to the Minister of War to tell him my indignation" ... A L.A.S. fr
Estimate €100 - €150 -
170 - Pierre LOUŸS (1870-1925). L.A.S. "Pierre", Paris, March 8, 1885, ; 5 pages in-8 (slight foxing). Schooling at the Alsatian School. "We are all doing well here. Georges' toothache has almost disappeared. He told me yesterday when he received your letter that your foot swelled even more in the evening. It is very annoying to be nailed to your recliner for so long. [...] The moving in, or rather moving out, is almost entirely finished. There are only curtains to be put up in the living room
Result €448Estimate €200 - €250 -
171 - Guy de MAUPASSANT (1850-1893). P.S. and 9 copies of notarial acts, 1872-1907; 4 pages small in-4 on stamped paper, and 9 bound books small in-fol. Acquisition of his property of La Guillette, with the titles of ownership of this property. Menton and Paris March 13 and 29, 1882. Laure de Maupassant, born Le Poittevin, sells to her son Guy de Maupassant, "man of letters" : "A piece of land in garden, situated in Étretat (Seine inférieure) in the Grand Val, containing about fourteen ares, bo
Result €10,240Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
172 - François MAURIAC (1885-1970). L.A.S. "Fr. M.," Paris March 29 [1935], [to Jacques Laval]; 1 page ¾ in-8 addressed to him. He assures his young friend, then a seminarian, that "I have never withdrawn my friendship from you. I only warned you that it was established on a different level - because you wanted it to be. He felt no remorse, "But I know this habit of the 'spirituals' of turning everything into a 'cross' that others impose on them"; he could not have the same attitude with a friend
Estimate €200 - €300 -
173 - François MAURIAC. L.A.S. "Fr.", February 7 [1938?], to his "dear little Jacques" [Jacques Laval]; 4 pages small in-4. Very beautiful letter, to the young priest Jacques Laval, in which he speaks half-heartedly about his homosexuality and his temptations. He has guessed in his letters "many difficulties, many struggles", now that he is no longer carried by the rules, by "the mechanics of the seminary". What is new is to "play your part in the secret drama of our lives, alone and under the gaz
Result €486Estimate €400 - €500 -
174 - François MAURIAC. L.A.S. "Fr. M.", Paris Pentecost 1941, to his friend Jacques Laval; 3 pages in-8. Beautiful letter, on the return from the Pentecost mass. "Dear Jacques. Only love can save love. I dare to hope that you feel it today more than on any other day, by reading the first gospel". He writes to her after Mass, "with this feeling so deep, so strange, of an obviousness. That I, this novelist, this playwright, this sick person, the being I am and that you know, received this host with
Estimate €400 - €500 -
175 - Prosper MÉRIMÉE (1803-1870). L.A.S., Friday evening [23 September 1859]; 1 page in-8. He leaves on Monday for Madrid and invites his friend to come and have "a bad lunch on Sunday at my place". He will have to pass through Alicante and Marseille, "because he cannot find a place in the trunk and in the two stagecoaches from Bayonne," which are held up until the end of October. He thanks his friend for sending him his brochure and Bourquelot's book, "which does not seem to me to be very usefu
Estimate €150 - €2,000 -
176 - Henry MILLER (1891-1980). Autograph manuscript, Love and Sex; 10 pages in-4 in black marker; in English (typescript attached). Manuscript of a short story. Miller tells of the meeting and Viennese love affair of a young American woman, Nelly, with a swindler named Albert, an affair cut short because of Albert's pending trial and Nelly's romantic expectations, aware that her lover is only interested in her for sex... The story was intended for the magazine Stroker, directed by his friend,
Result €2,816Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
177 - Frédéric MISTRAL (1830-1914). Photograph with P.A.S.; photo by Paul Boyer mounted on card with the photographer's mark 16.5 x 10.5 cm. Beautiful photograph in bust of the poet with this quotation from Mireille : " Canto uno chato de Prouvènço (Mirèio, cant II) F. Mistral ". 2 LA.S. by the Secretary General of the City of Dijon to Clément-Janin, September 29, 1876 (4 p. oblong in-12 and 1 p. in-8 on letterhead) are attached. Notes on Mistral's wedding, and the evening given by the f�
Result €256Estimate €200 - €250 -
178 - Charles de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de MONTESQUIEU (1689-1755). P.S. with 3 autograph lines, castle of La Brède June 13, 1717; vellum 4 pages in-4, tax stamp of the generality of Bordeaux. Following the expedition of a contract made in Castres in May 1712, Montesquieu has written on the last page: "Jai reçu les sols et rentes du present contrat et ai quitté le tiers. Done this June 13, 1717 at the castle of Labrede Montesquieu".
Result €3,328Estimate €700 - €800 -
179 - Gérard de NERVAL (1808-1885). L.A.S. "G. Labrunie", Cairo February 14 [1843, to his father, M. Labrunie; 3 pages in-8, address with postmarks (disinfection cracks; small missing at one corner). Beautiful letter to his father, about his trip to Egypt and his stay in Cairo. ... "We visited Alexandria and the surrounding area, then hired a boat to go up the Nile. It took us five days to get to Cairo. The city is immense and we hardly know any of it. We started by staying at the French hotel, bu
Result €7,040Estimate €4,000 - €5,000 -
180 - Gérard de NERVAL. L.A.S. " L. Gérard de Nerval ", Passy 23 September 1854, to M. Godefroy, agent of the Société des Auteurs; 4 pages in-4. Important letter, astonishingly lucid and determined, about his work and his health. Nerval had reported to Godefroy on the steps he had taken in Germany, during the mission entrusted to him by the Minister of Public Instruction, "in the interest of my colleagues, mainly in Leipsick and Weimar, to obtain the realization and the execution of the inter
Result €9,984Estimate €3,000 - €4,000 -
181 - Gérard de NERVAL. L.A.S. "Gérard de Nerval", Paris November 7, 1854, to Doctor Émile Blanche, "Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur", in Passy; 3 pages large in-8 in blue ink, address with stamp and postmarks (small split). Very nice letter to Doctor Blanche. [On the return from the trip to Germany, Nerval was interned at Doctor Blanche's on August 8; on the intervention of the Société des Gens de lettres and in spite of the doctor's advice, he was released on October 19; this was the beg
Result €14,720Estimate €2,500 - €3,000 -
182 - [Gérard de NERVAL]. Maurice TOURNEUX (1849-1917). Manuscript signed in part autograph, Gérard de Nerval, [1887]; 14 pages in-4 Manuscript used for the printing of the 3rd issue of L'Age du Romantisme*, collection directed by Philippe Burty. We quote the conclusion: "The already distant disappearance of the rue de Vieille Lanterne has delivered the shadow of the poet from the odious pilgrimage of which it would have provided the pretext; but, it must be confessed, without this rather banal "m
Result €230Estimate €200 - €250 -
183 - Marcel PAGNOL (1895-1974). 3 L.A.S., [19547-1966, to Jérôme Carcopino]; 7 and a half pages in-4. Cagnes July 11, 1957. About his "translation in verse of the Bucolics"; in his preface, he names Carcopino "Prince of Latinists". He asks him about two verses that put him in "great anxiety [...] I am working under Virgil's olive trees, next to a very small spring called Fontaine des Palombes"... Saturday [1959]. He is resting before a small operation on his jaw. He is sorry not to be able to c
Result €1,280Estimate €800 - €900 -
184 - Silvio PELLICO (1789-1854). L.A.S. Villanova Solaro, July 10, 1831, to Piero Maroncelli; 1 page in-4, addressed to "Mademoiselle Joséphine Renardy, Abbaye aux Bois" (tear due to broken seal, edge a little frayed); in Italian. He sent his portrait to the lawyer Nari, at the Sardinian legation. Carlotta Gabri writes to him about him and his brother with great friendship. He hopes that his health will improve; with care he can live, but he cannot get better and become younger. He is in a villa, n
Result €640Estimate €300 - €400 -
185 - Gabriel POMERAND (1925-1972). Autograph manuscript, and photocopy of corrected typescript with autograph title signed, Le procès d'un cynique ou les sourires de Diogène, December 1950; 8 pages in-fol. on fine paper, and 68 pages in-fol. in brown paper folder with autograph title. The text of the play, which seems to be unpublished, is preceded by the manuscript of an autograph prologue in verses: "I am the man without secrets, and, contrary to all the poets, who were electoral orators of al
Estimate €400 - €500 -
186 - Gabriel POMERAND. Typescript with autograph corrections and additions, Les deux tyrans, [1966]; 98-page in-4 booklet, with title and 4 autograph pages. This mimeographed copy of this "parody in four acts," which appears to be unpublished [Letaillieur p. 97-98], is, as it is inscribed on the cover, a "working copy on the 4th version"; it bears numerous autograph corrections, with some passages crossed out, and others marked in green pencil. At the top, 3 autograph sheets, including song lyri
Estimate €300 - €400 -
187 - Gabriel POMERAND. Tapuscript with autograph corrections and additions, Meditations in bulk; 156 leaves in-4 including 8 autographs under titled cover, plastic spine. Highly corrected typescript that appears to be unpublished. [In 1949, Pomerand published Les Méditations d'un bâtard ou les divertissements d'un archange]. The cover, along with the title, bears the notation: "(to be sorted and corrected)". This file gathers series of texts of various types. - Meditations 1 to 4 pasted on the
Estimate €600 - €800 -
188 - Gabriel POMERAND. 2 typescripts with autograph corrections, Le Percevant; about 258 pages in-4 under cloth folder, and 288 pages in-4 under 3 cardboard folders. Important working file of successive versions of this unpublished book, both autobiographical novel and philosophical essay. A. Cloth folder, marked "first working copy". It contains several series of typewritten texts, most of them pasted on sheets of graph paper, which testify to important reworkings. B. Corrected typescript u
Estimate €700 - €800 -
189 - Gabriel POMERAND. Autograph manuscripts of 4 songs. "He never loved me my beloved / It is to my money that he wanted"... (2 p. oblong in-8 pasted), 30 verses. - "I don't like men they look too female"... (1 p. obl. in-4 laminated on graph paper); 18 verses. On the back, another song: "I don't like work / I like being happy"... (1 p. in-4, 26 verses). - "La bourse ou la vie / C'est ainsi que je cririe. / Pour être riche aujourd'hui / Il faut être bandit"... 10 verses follow this refrain (2 p.
Estimate €400 - €500 -
190 - PORT-ROYAL. Antoine LE MAISTRE (1608-1658), Jansenist and man of letters, first solitary of Port-Royal des Champs, brother of Lemaistre de Sacy. L.A., December 8, 1657, [to Antoine Singlin (1607-1664), Jansenist, spiritual director of Port-Royal and Blaise Pascal]; 3 1/2 pages in-4 filled with a small handwriting with some corrections. Rare and very beautiful letter from this Port-Royal recluse. "My dearest father, finally it has pleased God to bless the reproaches which you made to me in
Estimate €2,000 - €2,500 -
191 - Marcel PROUST (1871-1922). L.A.S. "Binibuls", [March 4, 1911], to Reynaldo Hahn, "Mon vieux Bugnibuls"; 11 pages in-8. Superb letter about music, Wagner and Debussy, in a style full of fantasy. Reynaldo Hahn is in Russia: his reception by Diaghilev has been announced, but Proust wants other echoes for the "Figarso" column. Then he comes to Wagner... "Your dazzling article on the Maîtres Chanteurs [article by R. Hahn in Le Journal, February 21, 1911] highlights with prodigious delicacy th
Result €10,496Estimate €5,000 - €6,000 -
192 - Marcel PROUST. L.A.S. "Marcel", [June 1919], to Jean COCTEAU; 7 pages in-8 (slight yellowing on the first page). Very beautiful literary and musical letter. . "I read, I reread the Coq et l'Arlequin with wonder. There is not a thought that is not profound, nor an expression of an incredible happiness ". He quotes and comments on several sentences of Cocteau... "That we think the same all the time about the art of the period, if you have really read Swann and only what you have read of À l'Om
Result €16,640Estimate €5,000 - €6,000 -
193 - Raymond QUENEAU (1903-1976). L.A.S., 22.2.1954, to his dear Vierne; 1 page in-8 on the letterhead of the nrf. Queneau asks Vierne to tell him "when and on which channels Peter Ibbetson was broadcast"; Vierne has noted the dates on the letter. Queneau translated George du Maurier's novel in 1946. A small press shot of Queneau at the table is attached, 6 x 6 cm.
Result €102Estimate €100 - €120 -
194 - Lucien REBATET (1903-1972). L.A.S. "LR", Thursday, May 15 [1952 ?]; 1 page and a quarter in-4. Before his next release from prison. Now that he has "a future again, the publication of my elephant [Les Deux Étendards?] has returned to the forefront of my concerns. But he wants "to make some more corrections in detail to various parts of the book. I had designated two of my friends, including Marcel Aymé, to take on this task, in case of posthumous publication. Being still alive, he wants to
Result €640Estimate €400 - €500 -
195 - [Ernest RENAN (1823-1892)]. Joseph-Hippolyte GUIBERT (1802-1886) prelate, archbishop of Tours then of Paris. L.S., Tours November 12, 1857, to Jean-Baptiste Vaillant, acting Minister of Public Instruction; 2 pages and a quarter in-fol. Very interesting "personal" letter against Ernest Renan. Having learned that Renan was proposed for the chair of Hebrew language at the Collège de France, he reread his writings and denounced therein "doctrines subversive of all religion, and all the more da
Result €76Estimate €80 - €100 -
196 - Nicolas-Edme RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE (1734-1806). L.A.S. "Restif de LB", July 16, 1767, to Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret; 2 pages in-4, address. Beautiful letter from his early days, during a stay in his native village of Sacy. [Rétif has just given up his job as a typographer to devote himself to literature, after the publication of his first novel, La Famille vertueuse. He had recently made friends with the writer Pierre-Jean-Baptiste Nougaret (1742-1823), who would soon become his rival].
Result €4,096Estimate €3,000 - €3,500 -
197 - Nicolas-Edme RÉTIF DE LA BRETONNE. L.A.S. "Restif La Bretone", 2 thermidor X (21 July 1802), [to Louis de Fontanes]; 2 pages in-4. Long and very beautiful letter about his Posthumous, and the lawsuits against the work, which caused his ruin. "Les Lettres posthumes, ou Lettres du Tombeau, are the work that causes my pain. He reminds that it is the same work of which "a lady [Fanny de Beauharnais] spoke to you, [...] a few years ago, where it was question of a duke Mutipliandre". He summar
Result €5,120Estimate €4,000 - €5,000 -
198 - André de RICHAUD (1907-1968). L.A.S., [1953], to Pierre Brasseur; 2 pages in-8 in pencil on letterhead from Café Biard. Congratulations on Sartre's Kean, in which Brasseur (whose real name was Espinasse) played the title role. "My little great Pierre, I saw you yesterday and I will see you again tonight. You are admirable. The pity, as they say in our country, is that you are not Kean at all. You are Espinasse, and I embrace you all the better like a cuckoo clock.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
199 - Arthur RIMBAUD (1854-1891). L.A.S., Aden September 28, 1885, to his family; 3 pages small in-8. Rare letter from the hell of Aden to his family. "My dear friends, I received your letter of the end of August. I did not write because I did not know if I was going to stay here. That will be decided at the end of this month, as you can see from the attached contract, three months before the expiration of which I must give notice. I am sending you this contract so that you can present it in ca
Result €53,760Estimate €30,000 - €40,000 -
200 - Isabelle RIMBAUD (1860-1917). L.A.S. "Isabelle", Marseille October 28, 1891, to her mother Vitalie Rimbaud; 3 pages and a half in-4 (28 x 21,5 cm) of a bifeuillet, in a volume of slate paper with ivory parchment edges, title in gilded letters on the upper cover (P.-L Martin). Extraordinary testimony on Rimbaud's last moments by his sister Isabelle. [Rimbaud will die on November 10 at the Conception hospital in Marseille, after a long agony, watched by his sister Isabelle, who evokes here th
Result €97,280Estimate €20,000 - €25,000
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Toute reproduction ou diffusion nécessite une autorisation écrite de la Maison de Vente.
Frais de vente et paiement :
L’adjudicataire devra acquitter, en sus du montant de l’enchère, par lot, les frais et taxes suivants :
- 28 % TTC (20 % de TVA) sauf pour le vin et les livres 25 % TTC (5,5 % de TVA sur les livres).
- 1,8 % TTC (20 % de TVA) du prix d’adjudication pour des enchères via Drouot Live ; 3,60 % TTC (20 % de TVA) du prix d’adjudication pour les enchères via Interenchères ; 3 % TTC (20 % de TVA) du prix d’adjudication pour les enchères via Invaluable.
- 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.
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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.