Autograph letters and manuscripts
Tuesday 4 July 2023 at 14:00
3, rue Favart, 75002 Paris
360 lots
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249 - LITERATURE. 13 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S. Louis Anseaume (1767 to Framery fils; and ms by a copyist of his comic opera Le Médecin de l'Amour ou le Rival discret, 1758). 6 p.s. by descendants of Corneille (1776-1858). René Fauchois. H. de L'Isle. Achille Millien. Louis-Auguste Montalant-Bougleux. Eugène Veuillot. We enclose a photograph of Zola (plus 2 others: Ambroise Thomas and violinist Juliette Delépierre); and a l.a.s. from painter Maurice J. Lefebvre.
Result €115Estimate €150 - €200 -
250 - LITERATURE. 9 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S. Roger de Beauvoir (beginning of letter to Asselineau with 2 amusing pen drawings), Antoni Deschamps (2, and poem a.s. Abd-El-Kader), Jules Desnoyers (2 to bookseller Durand), Gaston (to Alex. Dumas, 1827), H. de Latouche (2, 1820 to Ambr. Tardieu, 1836 to Adolphe Dumas).
Result €486Estimate €200 - €300 -
251 - LITERATURE. 66 letters, mostly L.A.S., to Ludovic Vitet. Émile Augier, Joseph Autran (on his tragedy La Fille d'Eschyle), Prosper Ballanche (4), Charles Blanc (4), François Buloz (he defends George Sand's Elle et Lui), Champfleury, Étienne-Jean Delécluze, Joseph Droz, Jules Janin (7), Camille Jordan, Théodore Jouffroy (10, one from his son), Victor de Laprade (3), Frédéric Masson (2), Charles de Montalembert (7, and one from his wife), Charles Rémusat (5), Charles Sainte-Beuve (7),Victo
Result €1,024Estimate €500 - €600 -
252 - LITERATURE. Approximately 70 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S., mainly addressed to Charles Jourdain, and to the poet Stuart Merrill, and Gustave Kahn. Marie-Nicolas Bouillet (14 mostly to Charles Jourdain, 1835-1861), Giuseppe Maria Colosi (future Italian zoologist, 5 early letters to Stuart Merrill, 1911-1912, plus one to the poet's widow), Henry Dérieux (3 to Stuart Merrill, 1912-1915, notably on the death of Léon Dierx, one to A. Saint-Paul, on Mallarmé), Pierre Descaves (3 to Carlos Larr
Result €384Estimate €400 - €500 -
253 - LITERATURE. 49 P.A.S.; each on one large fol. page. Thoughts (and a few poems) on Peace, by writers and women of letters, intended to be reproduced in facsimile in the book Pax Mundi. Golden Book of Peace. A universal survey by the World League for Peace (Geneva, 1932). Jean Ajalbert, Jacques Bainville, Marthe Bibesco, Pierre Chaine, Sébastien Charléty, Gaston Chérau, Julia A. Daudet, Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (2 quatrains), Lucien Descaves, Roland Dorgelès ("C'est d'abord dans le cœur des hom
Result €960Estimate €800 - €1,000 -
254 - LITERATURE. Approximately 87 letters or cards, most of them L.A.S. Enclosed is the menu for the Mallarmé banquet at the Lycée de Garçons de Tournon in 1948, signed by the guests; and 3 press photos of Paul Claudel. Jean Ajalbert, Alcanter de Brahm, Jean-Jacques Ampère (2, one to Daremberg, plus letter from Charles Lenormant enclosed), René Arcos, Emmanuel Arène, Claude Aveline, Pierre-Hyacinthe Azaïs (to Villenave), Auguste Barthélemy, Tristan Bernard, Léon Berthaut (to H. Lavedan), C
Result €576Estimate €500 - €600 -
255 - LITERATURE. 21 L.A.S. Attached are a L.A.S. from Pierre-Sylvain Dumon to Louis-Philippe, and a long L.A.S. from Belgian criminal Léon Peltzer (1903). Pierre Benoit, Arthur Chuquet, Georges Courteline, Pierre Dupont (2), abbé de Fénelon (1750), Jacques de Lacretelle (2 to Gide), Raymond de La Tailhède (and poem), Roger Martin du Gard (5, concerning the journal Europe, and doc. enclosed), Catulle Mendès, Pitre-Chevalier, Paul de Saint-Victor, Marcel Schwob (2), Léon Vanier (to Fénéon). W
Result €448Estimate €400 - €500 -
256 - LITERATURE. 39 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S. Maurice Barrès (5, 1903-1909, to Louis Rouart, Jean Schiller, Maurice Talmeyr), Eugène Brieux, Francis Carco (11 to H. Fouras, 1937-1953), Francis Charmes, François Coppée (4, one to A. Theuriet on Zola's academic candidacy), Édouard Drumont (plus a visiting card), Paul Fort, André Frénaud (and poem a.s. Île de France), Paul and Victor Margueritte (6), Ephraïm Mikhaël (to R. Darzens), Georges de Porto-Riche (2), Jules Romains (4).
Result €358Estimate €300 - €400 -
257 - LITERATURE. Approximately 57 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S. and addressed to Georges Lecomte or Edmond Cousturier, editors of the periodical La Cravache, circa 1880-1890; numerous envelopes. Paul Adam (9, and cards), André Antoine (2), Paul Alexis, Victor Barrucand, Émile Bergerat, Gustave Coquiot, Lucien Descaves, Félix Fénéon (on l.s. by Paul Valéry, press clippings enclosed), Robert de Flers (3), Paul Ginisty, Georges Goyau (2), Charles Henry, Gustave Kahn (5), Ernest Laumann (6, 2 o
Result €640Estimate €400 - €500 -
258 - LITERATURE. Approx. 60 letters or manuscripts, mostly L.A.S., addressed to Jacques Brenner or Jean Freustié (some defects). We enclose various documents concerning Jacques Brenner; a mimeographed scenario by Jacques Prévert, Hécatombe; a facsimile of Baudelaire; a pen-and-ink drawing signed "Philippe Jullian p.c.c. Conrad Jansen". Marcel Arland, Michel Aubin (8, 1941-1944), Michel Bataille (3), Jacques Berne, Henri Borgeaud, Gérard Boutelleau, José Cabanis, Jacques Chardonne (to B. Frank)
Estimate €400 - €500 -
259 - LITERATURE. 5 signed autograph manuscripts (except one), and one corrected typescript; in-4 (some minor defects). Articles for the weekly Arts, circa 1955-1960. Arthur Adamov (Ma "Métamorphose", for France Observateur, [no. April 25, 1963], 3 p., end missing). Jean-Louis Curtis (Secret professionnel. Genres romanesques défunts, 3 p., unsigned). Bernard Frank (Reflections on literary prizes, 5 p., and on literary weeklies, 6 p.). Morvan Lebesque (Behind the scenes of the Jeunes Compagnies comp
Result €102Estimate €150 - €200 -
260 - LITERATURE. 12 drawings by BILL for the periodical Opéra, signed; Indian ink; approx. 27 x 21 cm each. Enclosed a letter of greetings illustrated by Nora and Georges Auric (1951), and 2 texts by Cocteau in copy, including one on F. Reichenbach. Caricatures of writers and artists: Gaston Bachelard (2), Isidore Isou, Jacques Laurent (2), André Lhote, Pierre Mac Orlan, Henri Mondor (2), Auguste Perret (2); and a theater scene. We enclose a letter of greetings illustrated by Nora and Georges Aur
Result €358Estimate €100 - €150 -
261 - LITERATURE and MISCELLANEOUS. 18 letters or pieces, mostly L.A.S. Edmond About (3), Laure d'Abrantès, Juliette Adam, Jules Brasseur, comte du Couëdic, Félix Faure, Émile de Girardin, Gabriel Hanotaux (about a portrait of Richelieu), Nicolas Lacordaire (1783), Hippolyte Rolle (7, letters and poems from youth, to his uncle Cousturier)... Plus copy of 2 letters from Mme de Pompadour, and qqs doc. enclosed.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
262 - Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW (1807-1882). L.A.S., Cambridge [Massachusetts] July 7, 1857; 2 1/2 pages in-8 (traces of glue on spine); in English. He sends a portrait of his correspondent on a visit, for six weeks, the length of the College vacation which is just beginning: "I send you, on a visit only, and have given it permission to pass six weeks with you, that being the length of the College vacation which is just beginning". He leaves in a few days for Nahant, where he will receive his corres
Estimate €400 - €500 -
263 - Pierre LOTI (1850-1923). L.S. to his friend Commandant " François; 1 page in-4 on yellow paper with his motto Mon mal m'enchante (portrait enclosed). Attached is a L.A.S. from his secretary Gaston Mauberger to the same (1 p. in-8). He wants to send some documents to be forwarded to Constantinople by a reliable friend: "I would be happier if you took them yourself, but I know that, as a Turkophile, the government did not want you to go back there. So I wrote to the Minister of War about you qu
Result €102Estimate €80 - €100 -
264 - Pierre LOUŸS (1870-1925) L.A.S. "Pierre", [May 18, 1891], to Jean de Tinan; 4 pages in-4 in blue ink, envelope. Beautiful letter to Tinan, about their mistresses. The letter is preceded by a Warning: "This letter must be read in the most affectionate tone." "It is perfectly true that I do not have a fatal passion for Thérèse. I spoke to her, a little at random, in Bullier, when you had just told me: I've fallen out with her. And you offered her to me, at that moment, instead of Suzanne, who
Result €768Estimate €500 - €600 -
265 - André MALRAUX (1901-1976). L.A.S., Boulogne s/Seine Thursday [1952] to Félix Garas; 2 pages in-8 addressed to him. Corrected proofs with note a.s. enclosed. On the publication of the first volume of Musée Imaginaire on sculpture. "When returning the good sheets to me, please do not fail to point out the photos that you retain". He indicated in the margin those directly related to the text, and asked that he be sent "the title (not the morasse, the project) [...] I think the simplest thing w
Result €320Estimate €300 - €400 -
266 - [André MALRAUX]. 17 press photographs; in-8 format. Beautiful set, showing Malraux admiring works of art; in the company of Bob Kennedy, Michèle Morgan, Charles Munch, Louise de Vilmorin; at ceremonies, etc.
Estimate €150 - €200 -
267 - John manifold (1915-1985) Australian poet and musicologist. Autograph poem signed, The Sirens, Paris November 11, 1944; 1 page in-4 in blue ink on yellow paper; in English. Sonnet edited with a correction: "Ulysses heard the Sirens; they were singing / Music by Wolff and Weinberger and Morley"...
Estimate €30 - €50 -
268 - MANUSCRITS. 14 autograph manuscripts, most signed. Paul Adam (article La paix de Hollande, La Haye 1899), Henry Bataille (Les bulles d'eau, prose poem), Émile Bergerat ("Ce que les bêtes pensent de la littérature"), Boyer d'Agen (on a sonnet attributed to Molière, plus 2 l.a.s. to Léon Deffoux), Pierre Daninos (typescript with autogr. corrections), François Erval (review of Alexander Werth's De Gaulle).), François Erval (review of Alexander Werth's De Gaulle), Louis Fuzelier (2 poems: La
Estimate €400 - €500 -
269 - René MARAN (1887-1960). 3 L.A.S., Koumia and Paris, 1922-1935, to Edmond Cousturier; 3 1/2 pages in-4, 2 envelopes. Koumia May 25, 1922. He returns from twenty days in the bush and sends the sum Cousturier advanced him. He does not intend to return to France before July 1923, as the Ministry of Colonies will not dismiss him: "It would make me a martyr - a martyr well armed for the struggle. [...] I won't hear myself saying, as I did the last time I was here, that I'm a dirty negro. The natives
Result €448Estimate €200 - €300 -
270 - Guy de MAUPASSANT (1850-1893). L.A.S., [1883?], to a friend; half-page in-8 with his cipher and Yacht Bel-Ami letterhead. "Please send a copy of Une Vie to satisfy the enclosed letter. I shall be in Paris on Friday." ....
Result €576Estimate €200 - €300 -
271 - 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 never withdrew my friendship from you. I only warned you that it was being established on a different plane - because you wanted it that way". He feels no remorse, "but I know the habit of 'spirituals' of turning everything into a 'cross' that others impose on them"; he can't have the same attitude with one of his son
Estimate €150 - €200 -
272 - François MAURIAC. L.A.S. "Fr. M.", Paris Pentecost 1941, to his friend Jacques Laval; 3 pages in-8. Beautiful letter, returning from Pentecost mass. "Dear Jacques. Only love can save love. I hope you feel it today more than any other day, as you read the first gospel". He writes to her after mass, "with such a deep, strange feeling of the obvious. That I, this novelist, this playwright, this sick person, the being I am and that you know, should have received this host with confidence, abandon,
Result €704Estimate €300 - €400 -
273 - Charles MAURRAS (1868-1952). Original graphite drawing, signed with an initials; 9 x 13 cm (framed). Bust-length self-portrait in profile.
Result €230Estimate €100 - €150 -
274 - Prosper MÉRIMÉE (1803-1870). L.A.S., Friday evening [September 23, 1859]; 1 page in-8. Leaving on Monday for Madrid, he invites his friend to come and have "a bad lunch on Sunday at my place". He will have to pass through Alicante and Marseille, "as I can't find room in the trunk and in the two stagecoaches from Bayonne", which will be held up until the end of October. He thanks his friend for sending him his brochure and Bourquelot's book, "which I don't think is very good, but useful". He g
Result €90Estimate €100 - €120 -
275 - Joseph-François MICHAUD (1767-1839). L.A.S., [Mansourah] "week of April 8" [1831], to Jean-François Mimaut consul general of France in Cairo; 2 1/2 fol. pages, addressed. Attached is a L.A.S. to Mme Berryer Interesting letter from the historian of the Crusades towards the end of his trip to the Orient undertaken in May 1830. He reached the end of his journey to Mansourah and Damiette: "I am sadly going to take the road to Alexandria again, crossing the delta; [...] a league from Cairo, we sa
Result €64Estimate €60 - €80 -
276 - Jules MICHELET (1798-1874). 3 L.A.S. (signed at the top, in the 3rd person), 1852 and 1863, to M. Pingard; 3 pages in-8, one address. Concerning payment of his indemnities as a member of the Institut...
Result €90Estimate €100 - €150 -
277 - Pierre MILLE (1864-1941). Autograph manuscript signed, En passant. Le buste; 12 1/2 pages in-4 (on the back of the last page, stamped Collection F.H. Monge). An interesting L.A.S. to Louis Deffoux in L'Œuvre, January 10, 1926, is enclosed. Amusing chronicle of the visit to the Salon des Indépendants, on the 1st floor of the Grand Palais, above the Salon du caoutchouc: "the painters were not happy with this neighborhood [...]. I can't understand their bad mood. I'm a man of letters, and unde
Result €192Estimate €100 - €150 -
278 - Francis de MIOMANDRE (1880-1959). 2 signed autograph poems; 5 pages in-8. Belle, prose poem: "Tu es belle comme le fruit de l'ostensoir mûri sur l'arbre de l'autel"... Rose du soir, June 6, 1927, 30 lines: "Le soir tombe sur le jour / Comme une rose sur des roses" ....
Result €90Estimate €100 - €120 -
279 - Robert de MONTESQUIOU (1855-1921). Autograph manuscript signed, La Délectation Morose, 1921; lined notebook of [2]-17 pages small in-4, bradel binding on marbled paper boards, slipcase. Amusing evocation of a worldly concert. Chapter XII, complete, of the collection of "fantasies", Les Délices de Capharnaüm (Émile-Paul frères,1921), dedicated to Mme Émile Straus (née Geneviève Halévy, and widow Bizet), Marcel Proust's great friend. The manuscript is preceded by a dedication to Paul-Lou
Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
280 - Henry de MONTHERLANT (1896-1972). L.A.S., Paris June 14, 1943, to an actress [Suzanne Dantès ?]; 2 pages in-4. Attached is a l.a.s. from Maurice Baring, Rottingham June 4, 1924 He would be delighted "to see her contribute your immense talent and sensitivity to the role of 'Marie' in Fils de personne". He sends her the manuscript, but will "spend a fortnight or so improving the play, and in particular 'nourishing' the role of Marie, which I would like to be more profound (adding, among other t
Estimate €150 - €200 -
281 - Henry de MONTHERLANT (1896-1972). Autograph manuscript, [1950?]; 3 1/2 pages in-4, on the back of letters addressed to him or typed fragments. Curious critical article written about himself. "Right from the start of Montherlant's work, there is a contradiction in him": Le Songe "is based on this refusal of love: it is the novel of unnaturalness"... However, this aberration of Alban's seems "without significance in Montherlant's work", "an isolated case", because for thirty years "Montherlantian
Estimate €250 - €300 -
282 - Henry de MONTHERLANT. Original pen drawing, studio stamp lower left; 13 x 17.5 cm (foxing; framed). Bullfight scene, captioned lower right (in an unidentified hand): "La larga cambiada de rodillas".
Result €115Estimate €120 - €150 -
283 - Paul MORAND (1888-1976). L.A.S. with drawing, and autograph poem signed, Hendaye July 24 and 29, 1921, to Valentine HUGO; 1 page small in-8 (postcard) and 1 page oblong in-8, envelopes (small pinholes with traces of rust). On the back of a postcard showing him in a bathing suit on the beach: "Dear Val, why don't you give other signs than death? Are you on earth? You will proclaim this incredible photo very Borlin. I was caught just as I was watching the sun in its efforts to break through the c
Result €2,176Estimate €400 - €500 -
284 - Charles PÉGUY (1873-1914). P.A.S.; 1 page in-8 (framed). Attached are a L.S. from Georges Duhamel (1961) and a L.S. from François Mauriac (1948). Under the title Attentats dans l'Yonne, written in black ink, Péguy wrote this note in blue pencil for the typographers of Cahiers de la Quinzaine: "ici le grand article les sous-titres en fortes italiques". We enclose a L.S. from Georges Duhamel (1961) and a L.S. from François Mauriac (1948).
Estimate €400 - €500 -
288 - Raoul PONCHON (1848-1937). 6 autograph manuscripts signed, Gazette rimée; 4 to 6 pages each in-8 or in-4. Attached is a fragment a.s. (end of another Gazette rimée) and a business card. Plus 2 L.A.S., [1897 and n.d.], to Catulle and Jane Mendès. Beautiful set of six rhyming Gazettes. À la campagne, sur les désagréments de la campagne (14 sizains): "Ne pouvant admettre / Que le thermomètre / Ait perdu l'esprit"... Impôt sur le revenu, on the proposed income tax; dedicated to Hugues Delo
Estimate €1,000 - €1,200 -
289 - Alexander POPE (1688-1744). Essay on Man. Der Mensch ein philosophisches Gedichte. Deutsche Uebersetzung. Mit der engländischen Urschrift nach der lezten vermehrten Ausgabe (Altenburg, in der Richterischen Buchhandlung, 1759); in-4, bound in antique ivory vellum, marbled edges. Bilingual English-German edition, opening with a printed dedication to Louise Dorothee Herzogin zu Sachsen, by translator Heinrich Christian Kretsch, followed by an 8 p. poem in German illustrated with 2 engravings. Eng
Estimate €200 - €250 -
290 - Pierre-Charles-François PORQUET (1723-1796) poet and abbot, tutor to Boufflers and chaplain to King Stanislas in Lunéville. 4 L.A., [1770, and one s.d.], to his friend François-Antoine Devaux; 4 pages in-4 and 6 pages oblong in-8 (traces of mounting). Attached is an interesting autograph letter from Léopold Desmarest (1708-1747) to Devaux, March 12, 1736; literary news (Voltaire's Alzire, Destouches' comedies, Marivaux's novels, l'abbé de La Mare chez Voltaire...). Beautiful letters with
Result €704Estimate €500 - €600 -
291 - 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 small handwriting with a few corrections. Rare and beautiful letter from this Port-Royal recluse. "Mon tres cher pere, Enfin il a pleu à Dieu de bénir les reproches que vous me fistes dans votre penult
Result €2,048Estimate €1,200 - €1,500 -
292 - Henri POURRAT (1887-1959). Autograph manuscript signed; 1 page and a quarter large in-8 (typographical marks). Response to a survey on symbolism. For him, "Symbolism has come to an end. It seems that the word symbol meant: sign of recognition in the custom of hospitality. [...] Symbolism has always been present, everywhere. Better still, without symbolism, there is no poetry. Symbolism was a return to pure poetry, but "here's the trouble: symbolism is legend: soon it's opposed to life. It als
Estimate €300 - €400 -
293 - Guy de POURTALÈS (1881-1941). 4 L.A.S., 1 L.S., 1931-1932, to Robert Aron; 4 pages in-4 and 3 pages in-8. Enclosed is the contract signed by Gaston Gallimard for the Czech translation of Louis II de Bavière; and the draft of a letter from Robert Aron to Pourtalès. About his books published by Gallimard: plans for a Czech translation of Liszt and Chopin, then of Louis II; the success of the German translation of La Pêche miraculeuse; his volumes of "Romantic Europe"... Enclosed are the cont
Result €256Estimate €150 - €200 -
294 - Jacques PRÉVERT (1900-1977). Original drawing with autograph notes, signed lower right, Monday, April 9, 1962; felt-tip pens and grease pencils; 38 x 25 cm (framed). Ephemeris decorated with a flower in colored markers and grease pencil. ["From the 1950s onwards, living in Cité Véron, Jacques Prévert got into the habit of writing down his schedule and appointments on large sheets of paper, using only the day of the week for each date, distinguished by a different, ever-changing flower desig
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
295 - Marcel PROUST (1871-1922). Original pen drawing, Le Prophète Amos, [circa 1904-1905]; 1 page in-8 (mourning paper, 15.5 x 11 cm). Drawing of the statue of Prophet Amos in Le Mans Cathedral, with this caption: "Le Prophète Amos (Le Mans). Shaved. In reality looks like Aublet putting himself at the right distance from his canvas to show it off. [Allusion to the painter Albert Aublet (1851-1938)]. On the back, beginning of an autograph letter (minute?) to a "Dear Sir" to whose invitation he was
Result €6,400Estimate €3,000 - €4,000 -
296 - RECUEIL. Manuscrit, Recueil de Poësies et Anecdotes en prose & en vers, 1794; one vol. in-8 of 122 leaves written recto-verso, contemporary brown glazed calf, gilded fillets and palmettes on covers, smooth spine decorated, gilded edges. Attractive collection with ornate titles. The title page has a decorative border. The texts are beautifully calligraphed, with ornate watercolored titles. The collection must have been compiled by an émigré, with some poems in German. Some pieces allude t
Result €256Estimate €200 - €300 -
297 - Henri de RÉGNIER (1864-1936). 3 autograph manuscripts signed, [ca. 1890]; 5 pages small in-4, and 1 page folio (split at folds and repaired), in violet ink. Attached is a L.A.S., [28.II.1888], to Edmond Cousturier, thanking him for "the beautiful drawing by Seurat" he had given him. "If you see Maximilien Luce, would you also like to thank him for having thought of including me among his friend's admirers"... Plus 5 autographed visiting cards to Cousturier or Georges Lecomte. Verse and prose
Result €1,024Estimate €400 - €500 -
298 - Ernest RENAN (1823-1892). Autograph manuscript; 1 page and a quarter in-8. Attached is a L.A.S., March 27, 1884 (1 p. in-8). Famous text on the idea of nation. Heavily crossed-out and corrected draft, with additions on the facing page of a speech. He insisted almost as much "on what philology does not teach us as on what it does teach us". But he denounced the misuse of this science, through a false application "to the affairs of the present time. Language and race appear to some politicians t
Result €1,280Estimate €400 - €500 -
299 - Jules RENARD (1864-1910). 2 L.A.S., 1895 and n.d., to Steinlen; 2 pages in-12 addressed to him and 1 page in-8 with his vignette. Attached is a L.A.S. from Maurice QUILLOT to Steinlen. Paris January 6, 1895: "You are no longer a wretch, but a good comrade. [...] I'll come and see you after Poil de Carotte appears and congratulate you, if you deserve it"... - Chaumot [1886?]. He thanks him for sending "the beautiful and impressive drawing that I immediately pasted on the wall in front of my eye
Result €192Estimate €200 - €250 -
300 - Pierre REVERDY (1889-1960). Autograph notes; on 4 small leaves in-16. Brief notes: "Summer has taken everything with its flame"; "The branches caress the window and you can hear the wind against the wall"; "In the distance behind the cypress trees, the day rises"... And accounts.
Estimate €100 - €120 -
301 - Antoine RIBEAUCOURT (circa 1835-1905 ?) translator and printer. Autograph manuscript signed "A.R.", Note du Traducteur, [1883?]; 2 pages in-4 in pencil. Preliminary text for his extremely rare translation of Pietro Aretino's Ragionamenti, printed by him on a hand press in only 15 copies. A rare manuscript by this forgotten maverick of French underground erotica. Guillaume Apollinaire praised him, and Pierre Louÿs owned manuscripts by Ribeaucourt. [See David Chambers, "Antoine Ribeaucourt: tran
Result €64Estimate €150 - €200
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- 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.
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.