Letters & Autograph Manuscripts - Lots 245 to 453

Tuesday 14 March 2023 at 14:00

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Lots (209) Information

209 lots

445 - Charles-Maurice de TALLEYRAND. L.S. "Le pce de Benevent", Paris 18 June 1814, to M. Ferrand, director general of the Post Office; 1 page in-4 About Mr. Brochant's request to obtain a consulate; he will put this request under the eyes of the King, and undertakes to assert his titles... Attached is a L.A.S. from his secretary Colmache, Bourbon l'Archambault June 26, 1830, to M. Dupertuis in Valençay; a printed pamphlet of the Discours de M. l'évêque de Clermont (contre le serment à la constitu

Result €384

Estimate €300 - €400
446 - Jean-Lambert TALLIEN (1767-1820) conventionnel, Montagnard, one of the artisans of the Neuf-Thermidor. L.A.S., Paris 26 ventôse V, to Joseph Turot, owner of the Gazette nationale de France; 1 page in-4, address, postal mark of the Conseil des Cinq-Cens. There is a misunderstanding: "Every Monday evening at 8 o'clock we gather some people to have tea. If you want to come one day to eat the soup of the household, warn us the day before every time that you will want to come there you will make us

Estimate €300 - €400
447 - Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame TALLIEN (1773-1835) muse of the Thermidorians and the Directory. L.A.S., "CPcesse de Chimay," to M. Brillantais; 1 page in-8, addressed with red wax seal of arms (traces of pencil notes). She absolutely needs 10,000 fr "for the first of October, not only for Mrs. Corbin who will not grant a year even by paying 6 ½ %, which I have been doing for a year, but also to pay my quarters and semesters of interest. It seemed to me that you had been kind enough to offer me bill

Result €192

Estimate €300 - €400
448 - [Catherine THÉOT (1716-1794) mystic and prophetess of the Revolution, known as the "Mother of God"]. Manuscript, Predictions and letters of Mother Théot; 42-page paperback. Rare document on this strange prophetess, a figure of revolutionary mysticism. This manuscript was carefully copied on the back of the Empire's postal rates. It includes: "Note de Predictions faites en 1790, par Catherine Théot, dite la Mère de Dieu" (7 p.), "Du Règne de Dieu", as well as 5 mystical letters, 1790-1793, o

Result €102

Estimate €400 - €500
449 - TOUR DU MONDE. Tapuscript, Le Tour du Monde by Marthe MERLE, 1899; one vol. in-4 of 181 p., bound in half brown basane with corners. Interesting account of a world tour, since the departure from Marseille on board the Tonkin, April 18, 1899, via Port-Saïd, Colombo, Anuradhapura, Singapore, Java, Shanghai, Peking, Japan, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and return on November 25, via Le Havre. Sending on the title page: "To Raymond Pernet in honor of his red ribbon I offer this account of one o

Result €102

Estimate €400 - €500
450 - TREATY. P.S. by Jacques Le Cadre & C°, Nantes, October 1, 1792; 1 1/2 pages in-4, tax stamp. Jacques Le Cadre, shipowner from Nantes, "arms our ship l'Utile for Angole" (Angola) and hires Charles Guillet de Cauron for "the place of second surgeon on our said ship and let us allocate him fifty pounds of fees per month & three pounds ten sols (of Saint Domingue silver) for each head of blacks introduced in the colonies which will be sold above three hundred pounds. [...] Guillet will give

Estimate €800 - €1,000
451 - Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, viscount of TURENNE (1611-1675) marshal of France. P.S., at the camp of Detweiler November 6, 1674; 1 page in-4, red wax seal with arms. Pass for Pierre du Bois "old cavalryman who having served more than forty years in the troops of the King had his absolute leave and permission to withdraw where he will like"...

Result €448

Estimate €300 - €350
452 - Anne-Robert-Jacques TURGOT (1727-1781) economist, controller general of Finances. L.S., Versailles July 20, 1774; 1 page folio. The King has appointed him Secretary of State for the Department of the Navy; this change "should not bring any change to the service you are in charge of, the attention I intend to give to the different objects that are related to it, makes me hope that I will find in your zeal and your diligence all that must contribute to it on your part with entire satisfaction on m

Result €448

Estimate €300 - €350
453 - WILLIAM III (1650-1702) Prince of Orange-Nassau, Stathouder of Holland, then King of England. L.A.S. "William R", at the camp in front of Namur July 5, 1695; 2 1/4 pages in-4; in French (engraved portrait enclosed). War of the Spanish Succession. He is "persuaded that the movement that the Ml. de Villeroy made was only in intention to make you also march, you have taken your measures very well, which I approve very much. And I make sure that you will continue to do the same, and if he moves to f

Result €2,432

Estimate €1,500 - €2,000

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