Letters & Autograph Manuscripts - Lots 245 to 453
Tuesday 14 March 2023 at 14:00
3, rue Favart, 75002 Paris
209 lots
-
395 - NOBLESSE. Manuscript, Mémoire des présidents a mortier contre les ducs et pairs à Mgr le duc d'Orléans Regent, April 1716; 10 1/2 pages in-fol. Memorandum addressed to the Regent duke of Orleans against certain peers and dukes, who claim a place in the Parliament in the arcanes of power thanks to a genealogy that is often false, or at least embellished: "there are a great number of houses in the Parliament that are very much above most of the peers, so we do not believe we have to add faith
Result €192Estimate €250 - €300 -
396 - NORMANDY. Manuscript register, 1743-1798; 35 leaves of a folio register, 100 ff. rated and initialed (some blank), bound in vellum, label of the papermaker A la Teste noire, blue ribbons attached. Register of the Forceville Lease of the Tobacco Farm, held by Jean Autin, born in Ricarville in 1717, and established in Caen: details of his property and rents (notably with the vinegar makers of Caen), interests in ships in Le Havre, farms and land, his bond Another register of accounts and reason bo
Result €256Estimate €400 - €500 -
397 - NEWS BY HAND. Collection of 73 manuscripts, 1774 mainly; about 300 pages in-4, in a half-vellum volume, title-piece on the back. Interesting set of handwritten news about the end of the reign of Louis XV and the beginning of that of Louis XVI. Weekly or biweekly news from January 2 to July 29, 1774. At the end, 14 undated or of various dates (1744-1788). Some bear the address of the addressee; two are signed (Gillet, Mouret Saint-Sennin). We follow the illness and death of Louis XV, the advent o
Result €2,048Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
398 - NEWS BY HAND. Collection of 72 manuscripts, April-December 1778 mainly; about 300 pages in-4, in a half-vellum volume, title-piece on spine. Interesting set of handwritten short stories. Weekly or biweekly news from April 2 to December 31, 1778. There is a lot of talk about the American War of Independence, Benjamin Franklin, Queen Marie-Antoinette's pregnancy, etc. Voltaire occupies a great place, with his Parisian triumph, his reception at the Masonic lodge of the Nine Sisters, and his death;
Result €11,520Estimate €1,000 - €1,500 -
399 - Gabriel-Julien OUVRARD (1770-1846) financier, munitionary of the armies under the Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration. Manuscript with corrections for a supplement to his Mémoires; 409 pages in-fol. Important manuscript of an unpublished supplement to the Memoirs, prepared for printing, in which one can distinguish several hands, with numerous partly autograph corrections and additions, and crossed-out and deleted passages. It is unfortunately incomplete, and paginated 27 to 138, and 152
Result €512Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
400 - Gabriel-Julien OUVRARD (1770-1846) financier, munitionary of the armies under the Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration. L.A.S., Conciergerie May 24, 1826, to the Duke of Orleans, the future Louis-Philippe (with autograph apostille of the latter); 1 page folio. Ouvrard, in prison for debts, sends to H.R.H. the Duke of Orleans "a copy of the first part of my memoirs, She will see me all there; at all times, my life was only a fight with the power"... Louis-Philippe noted at the top of the pa
Result €102Estimate €250 - €300 -
401 - PARCHMENTS. 4 manuscript parchments, XVth century. Large deed of 1422, (65 x 58 cm, Latin), purchases from Jehan Xodier; in Aubanel, in Prinhagues, in Mal Cardon, in la Torre. 3 parchments originally sewn end to end in a roll (75 x 26.5 cm each): recognitions and confessions rendered by various tenants to Guillaume Taschard, merchant in Béziers (1467; in Latin, hand seals).
Result €320Estimate €200 - €250 -
402 - PARCHMENTS. 5 charters from the 15th and 16th centuries; parchments of various sizes. Judgment (1445, oblong in-fol.). Deed of Jacques Gaillart, guard of the provostry of Orleans, concerning Jehan de Montespedon, lord of Beaupreau and La Brosse, valet de chambre of the king and bailli of Rouen (1465, 60 x 47 cm). Judgment of the court for the purchase of a land in Verlinghem near Armentières (1475, 30 x 51 cm). Deed in the name of Estienne Bazelade, bailli de Gien, signed De Longueville (1525,
Estimate €300 - €400 -
403 - PARIS. More than 150 documents, including a few prints, 17th-18th centuries. Numerous extracts of baptisms, marriages, deaths, and burials from the parish registers of Saint-Jacques de la Boucherie and Saint-Sulpice; death certificates from the Hôtel-Dieu and Hospice de la Charité, received from the Royal Abbey of Saint-Germain des Prés; certificate of reception, at the Maison de la Pitié, of a destitute "daughter of service to Jesus"; address to Louis XVI by the parish priest of Passy; pate
Result €896Estimate €700 - €800 -
404 - PARIS. P.S. by Jean-Baptiste BERTHIER (1721-1804), engineer geographer: engraved map Auteuil-La Muette, with signed note, Versailles June 1, 1770; 51 x 60 cm. At the bottom of this engraved map, a handwritten note, signed by Berthier, indicates: "Prior to the general verification of the topographical states of the country which compare the sheet n° 4 of the surroundings of Paris, which I must do in relation to the survey of the new hunting map of the King, of which it has more to His Majesty to
Result €576Estimate €400 - €500 -
405 - PARIS. Plan, 16th Arrondt de Passy; printed broadsheet, canvas-backed and folded (70 x 106 cm). Plate 12 from the Administrative Atlas of the City of Paris (Direction des Travaux), Préfecture de la Seine - (Service du Plan de Paris), scale 1 /5000; engraved at Wuhrer's, rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée... From the Porte Maillot to the Étoile, skirting the Bois de Boulogne on the left, up to the Porte de Saint-Cloud, and on the right, the Champ de Mars and the Porte de Sèvres, in the 15th district..
Estimate €50 - €60 -
406 - PEDAGOGY. Eighteenth century manuscript, Abrégé de grammaire, d'Arithmétique, d'histoire de France, d'histoire poétique, de géographie, et du blazon, approx. 370 pages small in-4, bound in speckled tan basane, titled on the back Essai d'éducation (worn binding). Carefully written manuscript, by a tutor or a student, divided into 6 chapters: Grammar (Pronunciation, verbs, declensions, conjugations, irregular verbs); Arithmetic (writing numbers, value of digits, the 4 operations); History o
Estimate €200 - €300 -
407 - Émile PEREIRE (1800-1875) banker and businessman. P.S., Rueil June 21, 1836; 4 pages in-fol. partly printed. Railway from Paris to Saint-Germain. Contract of transfer of a land in Rueil of 1,71 are, by farmers, for the sum of 31 F, to the Société anonyme du chemin de fer de Paris-Saint-Germain, of which M Péreire is the director. The contract is also signed by the banker Auguste Thurneyssen.
Result €204Estimate €120 - €150 -
408 - PHILIPPE LE BEAU (1478-1506) last duke of Burgundy, king of Castile, father of Charles V and Ferdinand I. P.S., Brussels January 12, 1503; oblong vellum in-4, address on the back "Pour monsgr le Chancellier de Pleine (small ink stamp of the coll. Colbert de Beaulieu). Rare mement addressed to the chancellor of Burgundy Thomas de Plaine, lord of Maigny (†1506). "Philippe by God's grace Archduke of Austria Prince of Castile of Aragon" orders his chancellor the lord of Maigny, in spite of his rem
Result €4,608Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
409 - Barnabas Chiaramonti, PIE VII (1742-1823) Pope (1800). L.S. with autograph compliment as cardinal, Imola 29 December 1792, to Bishop Brancadoro, in Liège; 1 small page in-fol.; in Italian. He thanks him for his wishes on the occasion of Christmas...
Result €320Estimate €250 - €300 -
410 - Raymond POINCARÉ (1860-1934) politician, President of the Republic. 14 L.A.S., Paris and Sampigny 1907-1933, to Édouard Herriot; 21 pages in-8, mostly on the letterhead of the Presidency of the Republic, Presidency of the Council or Senate, one envelope. Interesting political correspondence. June 7, 1907, thanking Herriot for his confidence...April 24, 1914, about the delicate problem of having his wife accompany him on his provincial tours: April 22, 1922, explanations on the clarification th
Result €512Estimate €500 - €600 -
411 - POLITICS and MISCELLANEOUS. 40 letters or pieces, most of them L.A.S Charles Beslay, Louis Blanc, Count of Bondy, Ernest Boulanger, Gal Canrobert, Sadi Carnot (4), Cipriano Castro (president of Venezuela), Michel Chevalier, Lord Dawson, Th. Delcassé, H. Denis (3), Paul Deschanel, F. Dupanloup, Charles Dupin, F. Guizot, R.B. Haldane, Henri V count of Chambord, Paul Janson, E. de Keratry, F. Labori, A. de La Guéronnière, H. Le Chatelier, E. von Leyden, L. Liard, prince de Ligne (1842), A. Naque
Result €512Estimate €200 - €300 -
412 - École POLYTECHNIQUE. Gabriel-Étienne LE CAMUS (1746-1827) politician, director of the École Polytechnique (1795-1796). L.S., Paris 18 pluviôse IV (February 3, 1796), to citizen Guinaud jeune; 1 page and a quarter small in-4 on the letterhead Le Directeur de l'École Polytechnique, address with postmarks (slight crack to the fold). The Minister having decided that "All the Students and Agents of the School who refused the oath or who modified it, or who even made their withdrawal and who wer
Estimate €200 - €250 -
413 - POST. 2 P.S. with letterhead and vignette, and a poster, 1792-1795. Poster, Loi relative à l'indemnitée accordée aux Maîtres de Postes, en remplacement des privilèges, 30 août 1792. - 9 nivôse III (29 déc. 1794), L.S by the conventional Louis-Alexandre Vardon, of the Committee of the Petitions, correspondences and dispatches of the National Convention, to the Commissioners of the Posts, Relays and Messageries: to give the order to the factors of the post office, to bring all the letters
Estimate €200 - €300 -
414 - PRUSSIA. Elisabeth of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern (1715-1797) wife of Frederick II, king of Prussia. L.A.S. "Elisabeth," to Princess Sophie Galitzine; half-page in-8, on rose-framed embossed paper, addressed with red wax seal (a bit creased with slight marginal splits); in French. "If what you asked me had depended on me you would not have been delayed for a single moment, but it took the permission of the Empress who granted it to me". She wishes him a good trip and hopes that his aunt is no
Result €256Estimate €200 - €250 -
415 - Auguste de PRUSSE (1790-1843) prince of Prussia, nephew of Frederick II; taken prisoner in 1806, brought to France, he became in love with Mme Récamier; in 1815, he commanded the Prussian army. L.S. "Auguste Prince of Prussia," Berlin October 2, 1816, to M. Ravrio in Paris; 1 page in-4 in French. He asks him for an answer about the drawings of the trimmings for table tops... of table...
Result €128Estimate €100 - €150 -
416 - QUERCY. Manuscript signed by Labugarde, 1566; notebook of 44 pages in-fol. Manuscript inventory of papers and acts for "Noble Anthoine de La Burgada, Seigneur de lalbenca" (Lalbenque); it was endorsed in 1594.
Result €320Estimate €100 - €120 -
417 - QUIÉTISME. About 30 manuscripts, letters or handwritten pieces, most of them in period copies; circa 1700. Dialogue sur le quiétisme par Fléchier, évêque de Nîmes; Madrigal " sur les livres de Mr l'archevesque de Cambray " [Fénelon]; Traduction des vers latins adressés a Monsieur de Cambray un peu avant la Bulle...; Epitre de Monsieur le duc de Nevers aux RR PP Jesuites; Epistre de Mr lec de Nevers sur le quiétisme; autres poèmes et épigrammes... Copies of letters from the bishop of N
Result €2,176Estimate €250 - €300 -
418 - RECUEIL. Collection of manuscripts in prose or verse, 17th century; about 245 pages in-fol. in brown basane, spine decorated (binding damaged). L'ambassadeur chimérique de son Eminentissme par dessus les mortelz... Instructions fantaisistes pour une mission autour du monde auprès de tous les Princes et de toutes les Républiques, pour un Louis XIV dit éminentissime... Prosopopoeia of the Piramide erected in front of the great door of the palace, followed by the judgment of the Court of Parlia
Result €486Estimate €200 - €300 -
419 - COLLECTION. Manuscript collection, 17th century; one volume in-fol. of 402 ff. handwritten by several hands, and of 4 pieces printed, repackaged in an old soft vellum binding. Interesting collection compiled in Toulouse, concerning Gallicanism, Jansenism, peace and various affairs of the time. Pierre de Marca (1594-1662), Memoires de Monseigneur de Marca Archevesque de Tholose (on a thesis defended at the Collège de Clermont against the infallibility of the pope, with copies of an exchange of l
Estimate €400 - €500 -
420 - REGIMENT DE LA CALOTTE. Manuscript, [Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la Calotte], ca. 1750; 461 pages in-4 (pag. 41 to 495) [and 6 p. of tables], contemporary brown basane binding (worn). Amusing collection (of which the beginning is missing) of about 90 pieces of satirical verse and prose, malicious patents, letters patent, rulings, petitions and humorous acts, fanciful catalogs of libraries, pinning down a quantity of personalities, the Regent, Louis XIV, and often Voltaire... Following
Result €153Estimate €200 - €300 -
421 - RELIGION. Manuscript, Conferences ou Examens avec des avis sur les plus grandes obligations des Ecclesiastiques, 1684; small in-4 of [5 ff.]-118 pages numbered, contemporary boards. Two tables at the head summarize the subjects treated: the divine office, the holy mass, the obligation to instruct, the zeal for the salvation of souls, the care of the sick, the administration of the sacraments, the rules for penance, the refusal of absolution, what a priest should avoid, what he should practice, h
Result €160Estimate €150 - €200 -
422 - RELIGION. Manuscript, Conduitte pour une ame que Dieu apelle a l'oraison..., 17th century; in-12 of 347 numbered pages, plus 16 ff., contemporary binding in black morocco, gilt fillets and fleurons on the boards, spine decorated, remains of clasp, gilt edges, slipcase (one cap damaged). The complete title, inscribed in gilt capital letters in a green frame, with laurel wreath ornament, is : Conduitte pour une ame que Dieu apelle a l'oraison de simplicité affin de luy aider dans sa voye a estre
Result €896Estimate €200 - €300 -
423 - RELIGION. 5 manuscripts, 17th-18th centuries; volumes in-12 or in-8 in contemporary bindings (a little worn). - Book of prayers, (378 p.), followed by a Traicté des Scrupulles, et des remedes contre iceux (124 p.), and a Petit Office imprimé; with table (in-12 black calf, fillets and cold fleurons). - Recueil mystique, with engraved portraits of Marie Herinx and of the deacon Paris, and 2 other engravings : Pensées de Monsr Pascal ; extraits de l'Imitation de Jésus...(in-8 of 147 p., worn br
Result €448Estimate €300 - €400 -
424 - RESTORATION. Figurative copy of a brevet de chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and letters of nobility, 1822-1830; broadside (under glass). Copy of the brevet de chevalier de la Légion d'honneur awarded by Louis XVIII (March 30, 1822) and letters of nobility issued by Charles x (June 30, 1830) to Josué Alexis AUGÉ (1787-1850), known as Augé de Fleury, notary in Paris, and mayor of Passy (1815-1830). The watercolor coat of arms of Augé is attached.
Result €128Estimate €80 - €100 -
425 - REVOLUTION. 11 P.S., years III-X; mostly oblong in-fol., several engraved vignettes or decorative frames, and red wax seals (some splits). Military leaves or certificates, signed by boards of regiments, and by generals (some future marshals): Macdonald and Jardon (Tirailleurs de l'Armée du Nord), Pérignon (Catalogne), Sérurier and Hulin (Livourne), Valhubert (au Quesnoy), Oudinot (Coutances), Laroche (Landau), Richepance (Goeppingen), Canclaux (Châlons sur Saône)... We join 3 L.S. concernin
Result €896Estimate €400 - €500 -
426 - REVOLUTION. About 95 letters or pieces, mostly L.S. or P.S.; numerous headers and vignettes (some defects). Military leaves signed by Generals Meynier and SChauenburg; leaves of the Parisian National Guard; certificates; tickets of guard; patent of national reward signed by Bouchotte and Destournelles; action of the Lafarge tontine, obligation on the national goods... Letters or documents by F.M. d'Aboville, L.A. d'Albignac, F. Andreossy, T. Berlier, Boissy d'Anglas, Bouchotte, Bruix le Sourd, C
Result €4,864Estimate €500 - €700 -
427 - Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal de RICHELIEU (1585-1642). L.S. "Armand Eves de Luson" (bishop of Luçon), Angers October 20, 1619, to the duke of Luynes, peer of France; the letter is written by his secretary Denis Charpentier; 1 page in-fol., address with small red wax seals with arms on purple silk lakes (a few small wormholes without affecting the text). Interesting testimony of the fragile reconciliation of Louis XIII and his mother Marie de Medicis, four days after the solemn entry of the
Result €1,792Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
428 - KINGS OF FRANCE. 7 pieces, including 5 P.S. (secretary) and 2 with autograph "bon"; various sizes. Louis XIII: Paris February 25, 1611, countersigned by Potier, order of payment to the duke of Mayenne (vellum). - Louis XV: 2 l. partly printed, 1724-1729, and piece with autographed "voucher". - Louis XVI: 2 letters patent printed on parchment, March-July 1790, on the redemption of feudal rights and the abolition of the gabelle; piece with autogr. "Bon", May 1791.
Result €512Estimate €400 - €500 -
429 - KINGS OF FRANCE. 2 P.S. (secretaries), 1614-1711; 2 oblong vellum in-4. Louis XIII (October 12, 1614, concerning the office of gruyer of the woods dependent on the abbey of Saint-Denis). Louis XIV (July 25, 1711, authorization to Mrs. Benoite Claudine de Cannesson des Mortiers to be received among the young ladies of Saint-Cyr), A L.A.S. from the chancellor d'Aguesseau to the architect Beausire about his land is attached.
Result €76Estimate €120 - €150 -
430 - Manon Phlipon, Madame ROLAND (1754-1793) the muse of the Girondins, she was guillotined. L.A., Amiens January 14, 1783, to her husband Roland de la Platière; 4 pages in-8. Beautiful and intimate letter to her husband, while she is in a period of withdrawal. The weather is awful... " I am full of milk. I am overflowing with milk that I do not know what to do with, but except for the painful sensitivity it causes in the udders, I find myself quite well." She then recalls their daughter [Eudora, f
Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
431 - ROSE-CROIX. Patent signed by 13 dignitaries, Bref Attributif de Réception au Grade de Rose-Croix, Paris 24 August 1839; vellum in-plano (40 x 33 cm), 2 engraved vignettes, two seals under metal cases held by red and black ribbons. Patent issued to André Pierre [name deleted], member of the R.L. of Mars and the Arts, "received, admitted, constituted now and forever Knight Perfect Mason Free of Heredon, issued at our Orient on the 26th day of the 6th month of the year 5839...
Estimate €150 - €200 -
432 - François-Étienne de ROSILY-MESROS (1748-1832) admiral. L.A.S., Rochefort, May 13, 1793, to citizen du Moutier, commander of the Pomone; 1 page in-4. Order to "go as well as the citizen Martin to Quiberon to take the orders of this command. It is to be wished that you have put promptly in the port these boats destined for Bayonne, in order to have joined the squadron soon. He knows that he has had very bad weather and wishes him better weather. Attached is a copy of a letter from Le Tellier, Ma
Estimate €300 - €400 -
433 - RUSSIA. DEMOUSTIER. Autograph manuscript signed, Philosophie pratique ou Considérations sociales, St. Petersburg, 1821-[1854]; 2 vol. in-8 of 423 and 445 pages, bound in half calf with corners (contemporary binding, a bit worn). Unpublished manuscript of a tutor of the Russian imperial family. Curious manuscript, apparently unpublished, written by a Frenchman established in St. Petersburg during the first half of the nineteenth century, with erasures, corrections, additions on blocks, and passa
Estimate €2,000 - €2,500 -
434 - SALPÊTRIERE. Manuscript, Reglement pour les Sœurs Officieres de la Maison de St Louis de la Salpêtriere pour l'année 1718; one small volume in-4 of 201 pages, red edges, bound in brown calf (worn, hinges split). Interesting document on the functioning of the Salpêtrière hospital. The regulation of 1718 in 39 articles is followed by the "Reglement general de ce qui doit être observé chaque jour dans la Maison de Saint Louis de la Salpetriere in 44 articles. This is followed by the "Exerci
Result €896Estimate €200 - €250 -
435 - Louis-Victor de SAVOIE-CARIGNAN (1721-1778) prince of Carignan, father of the duchess of Lamballe. P.S. "Luigi di Savoie", Turin September 15, 1770; 1 fol. page on his calligraphic letterhead, green silk cord with decorated iron box (without his seal); in Italian. Appointment of the lawyer Nicolas Benedetto Bricca of Montanaro...
Result €76Estimate €100 - €120 -
436 - Charles Auguste de SAXE-WEIMAR (1757-1830). 3 L.A.S., 1795-1796; 1 page in-4 each. Wilhelmsthal August 29, 1795, to Mmes de Castries: the castle of Eisenach is ready to receive them, firewood will allow to provide immediately a fire for the poor sick person... Weimar November 5, 1795, to the duke of Castries: letter of condolences after the death of the duchess of Castries, hoping "that a happy change in your fatherland can with time soften and make you forget the deep pain without which you are
Result €320Estimate €300 - €400 -
437 - Charles Auguste de SAXE-WEIMAR. L.A.S., Weimar June 22, 1796, to Marshal de Castries; 1 page in-4. Military operations in Prussia. ... "You are the master [...] to grant to such emigrant as you please to choose, an azile in your society; I will be charmed to see Mrs. the countess of Saint-Maurice in Eisenach". He learned the day before about the Austrian victories: "the affair near Wetzlar was decided by the Saxon troops, my hunters distinguished themselves there according to what one says [...]
Result €102Estimate €300 - €400 -
438 - François de Rohan, prince of SOUBISE (1631-1712) lieutenant general, governor of Berry, then of Champagne, father of cardinal de Rohan. L.S., Paris July 7, 1696, to Mlle de Scudéry; 2 pages small in-4, address with red wax seal of arms. "Allow me to tell you Mademoisele, that I am among the heirs of the late Mlle de Clisson only in idea, and that if I had the least credit in the execution of her will, your name alone would have obliged me to bring all the possible facilities to accelerate the
Result €102Estimate €300 - €400 -
439 - SPORT. 80 postcards, France, 1905-1930 Cards representing sports teams and events and amateur sportsmen: mainly winter sports, but also soccer, gymnastics, fencing, tennis, etc.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
440 - SWEDEN. Charles, count de MORNAY (1803-1878) diplomat. Manuscript, Fragments de la correspondance du Comte Ch. de Mornay, ministre de France, près la Cour de Suède et de Norwège, 1835-1845; in-fol. of about 570 pages, bound in black chagrin, cold-stamped fillets on the boards, gilt edges. Interesting diplomatic correspondence. The count de Mornay was appointed in 1835, after his mission in Morocco where Delacroix accompanied him, ambassador in Stockholm. The letters are copied with great care
Result €960Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
441 - SWITZERLAND. 7 printed matter, [1707]-1856; various sizes, bound (some defects). Disputes concerning sovereignty over the county of Neuchâtel and Valangin, [1707]: - Reply of Madame la duchesse douairière de Lesdiguières... - Reply of Monsieur le Comte de Matignon... - Collection of various pieces which appeared in Neuchâtel... - Acts and titles concerning the Right of His Majesty the King of Prussia over the County of Neuf-Châtel & Valengin. - Memorandum serving to detail the rights of
Result €614Estimate €200 - €300 -
442 - SWITZERLAND. Manuscript, Ehegerichts-Tazungen der Stadt und Landschaft Zürich, Revidiert und Ratificier im Decembri 1719; one volume in-8 of 310 pages, calf binding, gilt filleting on the boards, spine ornate, red edges; in German. A collection of jurisprudence of marital trials in the 17th and early 18th centuries, in the city and province of Zurich, but also in a large part of Switzerland: Thurgau, Winterthur, St. Gallen, Appenzell, etc.
Result €102Estimate €300 - €400 -
443 - SWITZERLAND. Manuscript by Gustave GARNIER, Souvenirs du 12 Août 1861, 1861-1862; one volume in-4 of 163 ff. written on the front only, bound in black chagrin with cold-stamped fillets, with the number F.G. on the upper cover, red edges with semis of golden crosses. Illustrated account of a trip to Switzerland and memorial of the missing wife. Gustave Garnier and his wife left Paris on August 3, 1861; account of the trip: Basel, Zurich, Lake Constance, the castle of Queen Hortense in Arenenberg
Result €256Estimate €400 - €500 -
444 - Charles-Maurice de TALLEYRAND (1754-1838). L.S., 14 frimaire VIII (5 December 1799), to citizen Goussard, commissioner of the National Accountancy, 1 page with small vignette and header The Minister of Foreign Relations. He thanks him for the sending of his book "Sur la trésorerie et la comptabilité nationales considérées dans l'ordre constitutionnel"...
Result €448Estimate €100 - €120
About the sale
Expert :
Thierry BODIN
French Union of Experts
Professionals in Works of Art
The Autographs
45, rue de l'Abbé Grégoire
75006 Paris
lesautographes@wanadoo.fr
Phone : 01 45 48 25 31
Fax : 01 45 48 92 67
Sales manager :
Marc GUYOT
Assisted by Clémentine DUBOIS
marc.guyot@ader-paris.fr
Phone : 01 78 91 10 11
Phone during the exhibition :
01 53 40 77 10