Autograph letters and manuscripts
Tuesday 4 July 2023 at 14:00
3, rue Favart, 75002 Paris
360 lots
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149 - Léon BLOY. Autograph manuscript, [L'Épopée byzantine et Gustave Schlumberger]; 8 ff. (14 pages) in various formats, mounted on tabs and bound in a large in-8 volume with red percaline spine. First draft manuscript, extensively crossed out and corrected, of this review of Gustave SCHLUMBERGER's L'Épopée byzantine à la fin du dixième siècle, which appeared in La Nouvelle Revue from November 1 to December 15, 1906, published the same year in volume and reprinted in 1917 under the title Con
Result €1,664Estimate €1,300 - €1,500 -
150 - Léon BLOY. [Diary, 1898-1920]; set of 8 first-edition volumes; in-8, large-margin paperbacks, in black half-chagrin folders, ribbed spines with gilt fillet frames, slipcases. A very fine set of eight volumes of Bloy's Journal on large paper. Le Mendiant ingrat (Bruxelles, Edmond Deman, 1898); one of 30 copies on Hollande (no. 38), signed by Léon Bloy and Edmond Deman; uncut. Mon Journal (Paris, Mercure de France, 1904); one of 3 first copies on Japon (no. 2). Quatre ans de captivité à Cocho
Result €5,376Estimate €2,000 - €3,000 -
151 - Léon BLOY. L'Âme de Napoléon (Paris, Mercure de France, 1912); in-12, green half-maroquin with corners, ribbed spine with gilt fillet frames, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine, slipcase (Atelier Laurenchet). First edition, one of 27 copies on hollande (no. 12).
Result €448Estimate €300 - €400 -
152 - Léon BLOY. Méditations d'un solitaire en 1916 (Paris, Mercure de France, 1917); in-12, untrimmed paperback, full margins, green half-chagrin folder, slipcase. First edition, one of 45 copies on Arches laid paper (not numbered). Handsome autograph letter to René Martineau: "To my excellent friend René Martineau, the first, after my wife, to have guessed & helped me. "He who loves greatness & who loves the abandoned, when he passes by the abandoned, will recognize greatness, if greatn
Result €704Estimate €500 - €700 -
153 - Léon BLOY. Dans les Ténèbres. Avec un portrait de l'auteur dessiné par sa femme (Paris, Mercure de France, 1918); in-12, red morocco, gilt filleting on covers and spine, gilt head, untrimmed, covers and spine (Ch. de Samblanx). First edition, one of 7 copies on China paper (no. 12). Engraved portrait. Former Daniel Sickles collection (X, no. 3852).
Result €486Estimate €300 - €400 -
154 - Jorge Luis BORGES (1899-1986). P.S. with autograph date, July 20, 1953; 1 page in-4 typewritten on The New American Library of World Literature letterhead (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 per word for a print run of 100,000 copies (or less) of the translation. The work will appe
Result €486Estimate €400 - €500 -
155 - [Jacques-Bénigne BOSSUET (1627-1704)]. Catherine Gary de DE MAULÉON, Bossuet's protégé, claimed to be Bossuet's widow with whom she had entered into a secret marriage. P.S., Paris June 1, 1693; oblong vellum in-8, tax stamp. Rare document, signed "Catherine Gary de Mauléon". Quittance de rentes de l'Hôtel de Ville de Paris.
Result €51Estimate €100 - €150 -
156 - Louis-Léon-Félicité Brancas, Duc de Lauraguais, known as BRANCAS-LAURAGUAIS (1733-1824) chemist, philosopher and playwright. L.A.S. "B.L.", [January 1767], to his friend Dupré; 2 pages and a quarter in-4, addressed with red wax seal. Beautiful letter about his passion for Sophie Arnould. ... "Mon pere a voulu me deshonorer, me faire interdire. My wife crushed my head like a snake's, my father Mr de St Florentin buried me, and here I am in France. The city of Strasbourg is my prison, and bec
Result €128Estimate €150 - €200 -
157 - André BRETON (1896-1966). Autograph manuscript, Suite des prodiges, [1924]; 1 page in-4 on orange paper. Beautiful Surrealist prose poem, excerpted, as a final mention by Breton indicates, from his Introduction to the Discourse on the Little Reality (published in the Winter 1924 issue of Commerce, then by Gallimard in 1927). "The prodigy, Madame, but first I must describe the shipwreck. Our ship carried everything you could conceive of that was most ours, most precious. There was a plaster Vir
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
158 - André BRETON. L.A.S., Saint-Cirq-Lapopie (Lot) June 14, 1952, to Claire-Lise Charbonnier; half-page in-4, envelope. Attached are 9 L.A.S. to Claire-Lise Charbonnier from Abdallah Benanteur (2), Jacques Bens (3), André Malartre, Bernard Noël, Jean Rousselot. "If I'm not in a good position at the moment to hold your poems in my hand, perhaps you could send me a typed copy here. I like what you tell me about them, and will welcome them with sympathy. Please allow me to tell you quite frankly w
Result €256Estimate €200 - €250 -
159 - André BRETON. Autograph manuscript, [1957]; 1 oblong page in-8 with erasures and corrections. Draft of a paragraph from Deux enquêtes surréalistes, a text that appeared in No. 2 of the quarterly magazine Le Surréalisme, même (Spring 1957), announcing investigations of a painting by Gabriel Max and an anonymous painting. "Fortunately, the current vogue for so-called "non-figurative" painting does not obviate the need to scrutinize even the "extra-pictorial" intentions that may have animate
Result €2,816Estimate €300 - €400 -
160 - Anthelme BRILLAT-SAVARIN (1755-1826) magistrate and gastronome. L.A.S. "BS", Paris February 3 [1816?], to his niece Élisabeth Brillat des Terreaux, Belley (Ain); 3 pages in-8, addressed (small tear from broken seal, old mounting on blue paper). He was delighted to receive news of her from Lyon, "because when you have bitches and nieces on the road, you can't worry too much about such lucky merchandise"... He recounts an adventure involving his dog Ida: "The other day, as I was passing in the r
Result €384Estimate €300 - €400 -
161 - Francis CARCO (1886-1958). L.A.S., Villefranche July 1, 1911, to Robert de La Vaissière, at the "Banque de l'Afrique Occidentale"; 7 pages in-8 on Chambre des Députés letterhead, envelope. 2 L.A.S. enclosed: April 25, 1938 Lovely, long, friendly, literary letter from the young Carco to his former classmate and friend at the Lycée d'Agen... Carco fears he has "made a blunder" by leaving Paris too soon: "My friends are closing several salons to me with their perfidious praise. The scoundrels
Result €358Estimate €300 - €400 -
162 - Frédéric-Auguste CAZALS (1865-1941) painter and friend of Verlaine. 5 L.A.S. and 2 autograph manuscripts signed, Paris 1888-1889, to Georges Lecomte and Edmond Cousturier, editors of La Cravache; 10 pages in-8 and in-16, 2 envelopes illustrated with Japanese drawings. About Verlaine and the magazine's publications. October 8, 1888: asks to insert a letter from Verlaine, following publication of a note on Rimbaud, and sends a sketch of Mademoiselle Rachilde. - January 17, 1889: "Enclosed is a
Estimate €500 - €700 -
163 - Henry CÉARD (1851-1924). Autograph poem signed, May 1873; 2 1/2 pages in-4. Youthful poem of 48 lines on the end of a love affair: "Her memory in me had quickly faded. Perhaps I had waltzed with her one evening"...
Result €192Estimate €200 - €300 -
164 - Henry CÉARD. L.A.S., Paris November 4, 1907, to a colleague; 1 page in-4. Thanks for an article. Without the active will of old friends, "I wouldn't have been among the candidates for the Académie Goncourt. These friends have been kind enough to remember that I think as I can, that I write as best I can [...] I have never been worked up by the idea of 'succeeding', in the material and commercial sense of the word"...
Estimate €150 - €200 -
165 - Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE (1894-1961). L.A.S. "F Destouches", [December 1937?], to John Marks; 1 1/2 pages in-4. To his English translator, on Death on Credit and Bagatelles for a Massacre. "My old man, All this is distressing! Your England is impossible under its so liberal aspects! It is doomed to babble. It's a cloister of Jews and old maids. [...] How is Death on Credit, you don't tell me. If you can't finish it (and I don't blame you!) why don't you pass it on to a translator boyfriend or gi
Result €960Estimate €700 - €800 -
166 - Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE. L.A.S. "LFC", Dimanche [Denmark ca. 1947, to Jean-Gabriel Daragnès]; 2 pages in-fol. Asks for the address "of our swindler in Geneva" and awaits news from his publisher Charles Frémanger: "I wrote to him categorically. Monnier has started telling me stories of poor sales, crisis, etc., all the nonsense that precedes the trick, the sickening spiel of thieves. Keep the money well if you touch it, don't entrust it to anyone, bugger. All bandits, to honey, or to the surin
Result €640Estimate €400 - €500 -
167 - Sébastien Roch Nicolas CHAMFORT (1740-1794). 2 autograph manuscripts; 1 page and a half and half-page oblong in-16. Anecdotes. "The regent made an edict against those who kept silver crockery and promised half the sum to the delator. A magistrate went to see him and said Mgr. I'm asking you for half the crockery of a man I'm about to denounce to you, who has a hundred thousand francs' worth. I'll give it to you," said the Regent scornfully, "and who is this man? It's me," said the other, who s
Result €358Estimate €200 - €300 -
168 - René CHAR (1907-1988). Black and color engraving (12.5 x 8.5 cm; 32.5 x 25.5 cm), with autograph caption and dedication in pencil. Etching intended for the head copies of En trente-trois morceaux (G.LM., 1956), here captioned and dedicated: "Épreuve d'artiste. Demon disguised as a reed R. Char. For my friends René and Marcelle Ménard. Paris, July 22, 1956".
Result €410Estimate €400 - €500 -
169 - René CHAR. L.A.S., [L'Isle-sur-Sorgue] March 3, 1981, to M. Chaudezon, in Pernes (Vaucluse); 2 pages oblong in-8, envelope. Enclosed is the exhibition catalog René Char: manuscrits enluminés par des peintres du XXe siècle (Bibliothèque Nationale, 1980). He apologizes for his silence: "Twice I had the annoyance of putting off until later the words I wished to say to you. First and foremost, there were difficulties with my health [...]. Then difficulties of another kind in obtaining the pos
Result €154Estimate €150 - €200 -
170 - Jacques CHARDONNE (1884-1968). Autograph manuscript, Francis Jammes. - Les Feuilles dans le vent, [1914?]; 2 pages in-4 (printer's marks), with erasures and corrections; the end is missing (slight wetness). Literary chronicle, dealing with Les Feuilles dans le vent by Francis Jammes (1913). "Les Feuilles dans le vent is a collection of small miscellaneous works. It contains Jammes' best pages and his worst. L'Auberge sur la route is a sunny country day from a beggar-poet of astonishing familiar
Result €26Estimate €40 - €50 -
171 - Jacques CHARDONNE. L.A.S., La Frette November 5, 1943, to Jacques Boulenger; 2 pages in-4. Beautiful letter on man and woman. Chardonne thanks Boulenger for his article, and indulges in an astonishing parallel between man and woman: "If I say that man and woman are the same (except for sex and certain forms of sensitivity - which constitute an enormous difference), this implies knowing the immense literature that opposes them, Keyserling's thousand pages, in particular, on this subject. And I j
Result €166Estimate €200 - €300 -
172 - Charles-Julien de CHÊNEDOLLÉ (1769-1833). L.A.S., Vire July 10, 1821, to M. Dumas, principal of Collège Charlemagne; 2 pages in-8, addressed. He thanks him for his "beautiful poem on the devotion of Malesherbes", in which he found "beautiful sentiments expressed in beautiful verse, strength, elegance, and a harmony that is becoming rarer by the day"...
Result €154Estimate €150 - €200 -
173 - CHINA. Stanislas JULIEN (1799-1873) Orientalist. 3 L.A.S., [1850 ?]-1857; 6 1/2 pages in-8, the last on Collège impérial de France letterhead. We enclose 2 handwritten dedications to Benjamin Duprat on the masthead of a work on mulberry trees and silkworms, and on the cover of Blanche et bleue (1834). Plus one in-4 handwritten page of Chinese calligraphy (small ink corrosions). Nice set. Author of numerous works on China, Stanislas Julien held the chair of Chinese and Tartar-Manchu language
Estimate €700 - €800 -
174 - CHINA. Élie MARCUSE (1898-1979) journalist. Autograph manuscript signed, Trente-deux mois de Chine (1948-1951); 81 pages small in-4. 6 L.A.S. from Marcuse (February 2 to March 9, 1953) are enclosed. Reportage in China during Mao Zedong's seizure of power. The manuscript, in blue ink on the front of the sheets, in very legible handwriting, shows a few erasures and corrections. These articles, sent to the periodical Nice-Matin by journalist Élie Marcuse, covering the victory of the Maoist revo
Result €1,216Estimate €600 - €800 -
175 - Paul CLAUDEL (1868-1955). Dedication a.s. on a program; in-12. Program for the performance of Phèdre (March 12, 1949) signed by Marie BELL, plus 2 photographs signed by the actress, in Le Soulier de Satin and in Phèdre. Program for the March 28, 1945 performance of Le Soulier de Satin with dedication "A M. Henri Colas P. Claudel Paris 22-4-49". Program for the performance of Phèdre (March 12, 1949) signed by Marie BELL, plus 2 photographs signed by the actress, in Le Soulier de Satin and P
Result €77Estimate €50 - €60 -
176 - Paul CLAUDEL. Autograph manuscript of 12 poems for Visages radieux, [1946?]; 8 pages in-8 (at his crossed-out address of 4, Avenue Hoche) and 3 pages small in-4. Beautiful set of 12 short poems collected for the 2nd edition of Visages radieux. [The first edition of Visages radieux was published in January 1945 by Walter Egloff (L.U.F.) and ran to 45 pages; the second edition, enlarged to 141 pages, appeared in March 1947 with the same publisher]. This manuscript must have been sent to Egloff; i
Result €1,664Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
177 - Maurice CLAVEL (1920-1979). Autograph manuscript signed, Jeanne et ses auteurs, [1956]; 9 pages in-4 (qqs leaves cut out for typesetting, printer's marks). On Joan of Arc. Article for the weekly Arts, by the author of La Grande Pitié du Royaume de France (1956). Clavel discusses Anouilh's L'Alouette, Péguy's Jeanne d'Arc, modern criticism, Anatole France's Vie, Thierry Maulnier's Jeanne d'Arc et ses juges, and more. He wonders about her sanctity, which he links to her martyrdom, about her pur
Result €115Estimate €100 - €150 -
178 - Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963). Autograph poem, Port; 1 page in-4. Poem of 2 quatrains, collected in Poésies (1917-1920): "Lightly, scaly, a comb of masts held back the wavy, oily ocean"...
Result €282Estimate €200 - €300 -
179 - Jean COCTEAU. L.A.S. "Jean", Roquebrune September 1929, to Max Jacob; 1 page in-4. Beautiful letter to Max Jacob. "Max chéri, I am happy about your friendship with Kit [painter Christopher Wood]. He is pure. He's a child and nothing bad ever visits him. He loves few people and doesn't care about the rest. How brave you are! I was saying to Jeanjean that at the point of friendship where we are, there is a sort of immaterial body blend - that, for example, you inhabit me and that I never stay a
Result €1,152Estimate €500 - €700 -
180 - Jean COCTEAU. Typescript with autograph dispatch and autograph date, Lettre aux Américains, 1949; 48 pages in-4. Typescript of Lettre aux Américains, written during Cocteau's return trip from New York, where he had presented L'Aigle à deux têtes. The typescript is dedicated to Aymée Grasset, the wife of his publisher Bernard Grasset: "à la chère femme de Bernard qui a réinventé cette lettre en la lecture et en l'écoutant la lecture lui. With all my heart Jean Cocteau". At the end, Coc
Estimate €250 - €300 -
181 - Jean COCTEAU. L.A.S. "Jean", October 12, 1951, to Mary Hoeck; 1 page small in-4. To his English translator. "My hand barometer announced rain. I am waiting for a remedy from America (unless America, which buys everything, including China, buys my hands to put them in the Museum of Modern Art)". What she says about his white horse reminds him of a chapter in Swift... "A translation is a work of art.A translation is a work of art. One never imagines that there will be contact and that this hypnos
Result €192Estimate €120 - €150 -
182 - Jean COCTEAU. L.A.S. "Jean", Santo-Sospir November 10. 1958, to a friend; 1 page in-4, addressed Santo-Sospir. About collaborating on a newspaper. "I'm getting ready to enter the ogre's mouth". He is exhibiting pottery at the Galerie Weill, and "overwhelmed with work and disorder", could hardly travel... Write to him "what kind of lines this journal 'Voir l'Édition' would like to see coming out of my poor sick pen. I wonder if Bonalumi doesn't have any pages that are as yet unpublished, or if
Result €102Estimate €100 - €150 -
183 - Jean COCTEAU. L.A.S., November 3, 1953, to Jean Rousselot; 1 page in-4. Beautiful letter about Jean Desbordes and Raymond Radiguet. "I have been lucky enough to see almost all my friends receive their palme. However, a great injustice grows in the shadow of Jean Desbordes. J'adore and Les Tragédiens were never to dissolve. Moreover, Jean Desbordes died for the Resistance, tortured on rue de la Pompe. Many titles of glory were due to him. Radiguet was another matter. His appearance and disappea
Result €179Estimate €150 - €200 -
184 - Jean COCTEAU. P.A.S., 1962; on 1 page in-4 (framed). Tribute to Ghelderode. "I am delighted that the Théâtre du Tertre, with Sortie de l'acteur, is paying tribute to the singular genius of Michel de Ghelderode. Ghelderode is the diamond that closes the necklace of poets that Belgium wears around its neck. This black diamond casts cruel and noble fires. They hurt only small souls. They dazzle others.
Result €166Estimate €150 - €200 -
185 - Jean COCTEAU. Autograph manuscript signed, Excentricités; 5 1/2 in-fol. pages, on tracing paper torn from a spiral notebook. On fashion and its audacities, with erasures and corrections "True eccentricities [...] almost always arise from an infirmity that hides itself or a weakness that accuses itself". He gives examples: the pregnant Empress Eugenie "invents the crinoline", Empress Elizabeth throws in the fan to hide a messy set of teeth, "leggy sleeves give the lie to bony shoulders [...] By
Estimate €500 - €600 -
186 - [COLETTE (1873-1954)]. Jacques NAM (1881-1974). Original grease pencil drawing; 11 x 12 cm, monogram stamped lower left. Portrait of Colette. Jacques Nam, pseudonym of Jacques Lehmann, was appreciated by Colette for his drawings of cats, notably in his album Chats (1935), for which Colette wrote the texts.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
187 - [COLETTE]. 3 L.A.S. and 4 L.S. addressed to André Parinaud, 1964. Enclosed are duplicates of the letters from Parinaud, and the typed synopsis of the program; 4 photographs of Colette in her apartment and with Prince Pierre of Monaco; copies of texts by Colette; an issue of the journal Arts on women (July 24, 1952). Plus a few invitation cards. Responses and testimonials for a proposed television program on Colette: Roland Dorgelès, André Dunoyer de Segonzac (evoking Treille Muscate), Pierr
Result €282Estimate €200 - €300 -
188 - William COMBE (1742-1823). The Tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the Picturesque. A Poem. Eighth Edition with new plates [London, R. Ackermann, 1819]; in-8, black half-chagrin with corners (worn binding). 29 color plates, drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson, several plates bearing the date of publication (1816 or 1819) and the publisher's name: R. Ackermann's Respository of Arts.
Result €77Estimate €100 - €150 -
189 - Romain COOLUS (1868-1952). Autograph manuscript signed, Notes dramatiques, [December 1896]; 17 pages in-8 on coated paper (edges a little frayed). Theatrical chronicle on the premiere of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, December 10, 1896, at the Nouveau Théâtre, for the 4th season of the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, directed by Lugné-Poe. Romain Coolus's article appeared in La Revue Blanche on January 1, 1897, which also published Jarry's response to the critics under the title Questions de Théâtre. "Ah!
Estimate €400 - €600 -
190 - Georges COURTELINE (1858-1929). Autograph poem, Qu'un instant de félicité peut causer de calamité!..., [1922]; 1 page and a half in-4 on a two-sheet squared schoolbook, envelope to M. Steinlen. Realistic song composed of six sizains, of which we quote the 1st and last: "Papa was a cobbler, Highly esteemed in the neighborhood. Mama was a laundress, And I was a ravaudeuse, Earning up to six sous a day! For a hobby, a little love"...
Estimate €150 - €200 -
191 - Fernand CROMMELYNCK (1885-1970). Autograph manuscript signed "F.C" and sending L.A.S., Herblay May 26, 1951, [to Maurice Rostand]; 3 1/2 pages in-8. "May these few lines please you. I would have liked more and better; I ran out of time. My admiration for the play and my deep affection for you are poorly expressed in this stammer. - Draft of a text on Maurice Rostand's play L'Homme que j'ai tué [from which Ernst Lubitsch made a film]: "Talking about it here, I feel the same emotion I felt when
Estimate €100 - €150 -
192 - [René DESCARTES (1596-1650)]. File. L.A.S. from anthropologist Raoul HARTWEG (1914-1993), September 12, 1958, to Jean-Edmond Weelen; 4 pages in-4 on Musée de l'Homme letterhead. Long letter on the subject of Descartes' skull, whose history he recounts in detail from Descartes' death in 1650 to its arrival at the Muséum in 1821 and later at the Musée de l'Homme. - Jean-Edmond WEELEN (1903-1975). Autograph manuscript (incomplete) of his study on "René Descartes, René Frédé et l'édition f
Result €26Estimate €80 - €100 -
193 - Régine DEFORGES (1935-2014). Original painting, monogrammed lower left; oil on canvas; 24 x 19 cm. Earthworm with star. Estate of Régine Deforges (Pierre Bergé & Associés sale, February 10, 2015, no. 36).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
194 - Bakary DIALLO (1892-1978) Fulani shepherd, Senegalese rifleman and writer. 2 L.A.S., Paris August 17 and 26, 1926, to Edmond Cousturier; 4 pages in-8, 2 envelopes. Very rare letters. He sends his book Force Bonté and expresses his gratitude to Cousturier and his wife Lucie, a painter and anti-colonialist activist (died June 1925). "I am not unaware that I owe the production of my book to the efforts of Madame Lucie Cousturier, nor am I unaware that she has never been dissuaded by you in my reg
Result €358Estimate €300 - €400 -
195 - Pierre DIDOT (1761-1853). L.S. "PDidot l'aîné" with 4 autographed lines, 14 frimaire XII [6 décembre 1803], to Messieurs Giguet, Michaud et Compie; 2 pages in-4, addressed. Interesting letter from the famous printer to the booksellers N. Giguet and Louis-Gabriel Michaud (1773-1858), concerning the sale of the 23 engravings by Gérard and Girodet, illustrating the in-folio Virgil, part of the Louvre Collection, and published in 1798 in only 250 copies, using the new typefaces cast by his brot
Result €1,024Estimate €200 - €250 -
196 - MISCELLANEOUS. 8 letters or cards a.s. Théodore de Banville, Julia Bartet (2), Louis Bertrand, Hubert Lyautey (2), Albert Sorel, Henriette duchesse de Vendôme.
Estimate €200 - €250 -
197 - Édouard DUBUS (1864-1895). 3 autograph poems signed; 1 page in-8 each. Rare poems by this poet, who died at the age of thirty, published in La Cravache. They were collected in Quand les violons sont partis (1892). Dedication, "for E.P. de L.", 6 tercets: "Si le Temps et l'Oubli, vieux conquérants brutaux"... (entitled In memoriam in the 1892 collection, which it concludes). Quatorzain "pour le portrait de M. D.": "Droite en son vêtement d'impassibilité"... (untitled and dedicated to Remy de
Result €358Estimate €300 - €400 -
198 - Maxime DU CAMP (1822-1894). 12 L.A.S., mostly to Arthur Kratz, and one autograph manuscript, 1878-1892 and n.d.; 26 pages in-8. Enclosed is a file of letters and documents from the Kratz archives, concerning Du Camp's death and funeral, and the publication of his Mémoires. The correspondence with Kratz concerns in particular the preparation of his book Les Convulsions de Paris sur la Commune (1878). The manuscript (paginated 244 A to D) concerns the conduct of Louis Guillemois at the Ministry
Result €1,664Estimate €150 - €200
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- par paiement « 3D Secure » sur le site www.ader-paris.fr
- par virement bancaire en euros à l’ordre de ADER.
Caisse des dépôts et consignations - 56, rue de Lille 75356 PARIS Cedex 07 SP
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 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.