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Pünkösdy, Auguste, Schauspielerin (1890-1967).
Albumblatt mit eigenh. U. O. O. u. D.
1 S. Qu.-8vo. Auguste Pünkösdy begann ihre schauspielerische Laufbahn 1913 an der Volksbühne in Wien und wechselte kurz darauf nach Berlin zum Ensemble des Deutschen Theaters. 1921 wurde sie als Mitglied des Burgtheaters verpflichtet. Sie trat in Stumm- und Tonfilmen stets als Nebendarstellerin u. a. in "Konfetti" (1936) und "Der liebe Augustin" (1940) sowie mehrmals in Wiener Filmen auf.
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Reimers, Emmerich, Schauspieler (1886-1956).
Albumblatt mit eigenh. U. O. O., 19. V. 1932.
½ S. Qu.-8vo. Emmerich Reimers studierte Germanistik, sein Schauspieldebüt gab er 1908 als Mortimer in "Maria Stuart" am Stadttheater Eisenach. Er spielte dann an den Stadttheatern Altona und Leipzig und kam 1918 ans Wiener Burgtheater. Er war in Liebhaber- und Charakterrollen zu sehen und mit der Schauspielerin Maria Mayen verheiratet.
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Reimers, Georg, Schauspieler (1860-1936).
Albumblatt mit eigenh. U. O. O., 10. V. 1932.
1 S. Qu.-8vo. In Bleistift. Georg Reimers, dem Stiefurgroßvater von Christoph Waltz, wurde 1935 anlässlich seiner fünfzigjährigen Zugehörigkeit zum Burgtheater das Komturkreuz des österreichischen Verdienstordens verliehen. - Mit größerem Eckausriss.
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Seebach, Marie, Schauspielerin und Opernsängerin (1829-1897).
Eigenh. Albumblatt mit U. Berlin, 24. X. 1896.
1 S. auf Doppelblatt. Qu.-8vo. Rein das Herz, / Hoch der Sinn, & Rastlos das Streben!
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Siegert, Reinhold, Schauspieler (1899-1965).
Albumblatt mit eigenh. U. O. O., 12. V. 1932.
1 S. Qu.-8vo. Siegert Reinhold spielte in Filmen wie "Das Abenteuer geht weiter" (1939), "Minderjährige" (1951) und "Wilhelm Tell" (1956).
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Ziková, Zdenka, Sängerin (1902-1990).
Albumblatt mit eigenh. U. ("Zdenka Zika"). O. O., 1932.
1 S. Qu.-8vo. Mit dreiseitigem Goldschnitt und beidseitig feiner lithogr. Bordüre. Zdenka Ziková, die mit dem Komponisten der tschechischen Nationalhymne František Škroup verwandt war, trat als Solistin vornehmlich an den Nationaltheatern in Prag und Wien auf und arbeitete nach ihrem Abschied von der Bühne als Gesangspädagogin. - Mit Spuren alter Montage und Rostspur alter Heftung.
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Curtius, Ernst, Historiker und Archäologe (1814-1896).
Eigenh. Postkarte mit U. [Berlin], 31. I. [1896].
1 S. Qu.-8vo. Mit eh. Adresse. An einen Herrn Grüttner in Berlin mit der Mitteilung, "daß das Ministerium die Auszahlung ganz Ihren Wünschen entsprechend angeordnet hat". - Stärker fleckig.
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Godin, Louis, astronomer (1704-1760).
Autograph letter signed ("Godin"). Petit-Goâve, Saint-Domingue (Haiti), 28. X. 1735.
4to. 2½ pp. A long, highly interesting letter written from Haiti, during the early months of the French Royal expedition for the measurement of the meridian arc. - In 1734 Godin had been requested to submit to the French chief minister the best means of measuring the exact figure of the Earth, and proposed sending expeditions to the Equator and the polar sea. The plan was approved, and three members of the Académie, Pierre Bouguer, Charles de La Condamine, and Godin, were sent on the mission to Peru. They sailed from La Rochelle on 16 May 1735 and remained in Haiti for six months, taking observations. They would arrive in Quito in February 1736, cross the Andes, and remain for two years. - In his letter, Godin discusses mémoires read at the Academy, in particular that of Maupertuis: "Des deux memoires lus à notre occasion dans l'Academie, celuy de M. de Maupertuis, me toucher les plus. M. Bouguer avoit fait apeuprès la mesme chose autant que j'en peux juger n'en ayant vu qu'un, des le temps que nous etions à Rochefort. Il me montra pendant les 8 premiers jours de la Traversée ce qu'il avoit trouvé la dessus et nous remismes à une plus ample lecture dans l'occasion. Nous sçavons donc quel degré de precision nous devons esperer en prenant toutes les precautions possibles. Le mémoire de M. Cassini, nous l'avions fait entre nous des Paris mesme et nous devions chercher une occasion de le pratiquer. J'avois proposé cette methode à nos Messieurs et nommé une Isle fort propre à l'execution ; mais la difference dans les Inclinaisons n'est pas à beaucoup près celle que vous marquez qu'a trouvée M. Cassini et il s'en faut qu'on tire de cette observation la precision qu'on aura d'ailleurs. Je n'ay pensé la pratiquer aussi que comme quelques autres assez peu precises mais qui doivent cependant estre examinées suivant la commodité des lieux. Il y a comme cela quelques autres desseins qu'on pourra m'enlever, ce qui me fait repentir de n'avoir pas publié ou du moins remis au Secretariat de l'Academie les differentes idées que j'ay eues à l'occasion de ce Voyage. J'ay déjà perdu quelque chose qui valloit mieux que cela [...] Toutes les observations astronomiques que nous avons pu faire pendant un sejour de trois mois se reduisent aux hauteurs meridiennes des astres et aux Eclipses des satellites de [Jupiter]. Nous n'avons pas toujours eu le temps favorable. L'Eclipse de [Lune] du 2 de ce mois ne nous a pas eté visible. Pour les autres observat. astronom. particulieres nous n'etions pas assez bien placés pour y travailler". - Very light browning in places. Old page numbers (13-16) in red ink in a different hand; very well preserved.
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Hedin, Sven, Asienforscher (1856-1952).
Eigenh. Portraitpostkarte mit zweifacher U. O. O., 29. I. 1949.
1 S. 8vo. An einen Peter Krauß mit Dank "für Ihren so liebenswürdigen Brief. Ja, es ist mir, Gott sei Dank, alles gut gegangen [...]". - Beidseitig mit kleinen Montagespuren.
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Hedin, Sven, Asienforscher (1856-1952).
Eigenh. Portraitpostkarte mit zweifacher U. O. O., 28. III. [?] 1950.
1 S. 8vo. An einen Peter Krauß mit Dank "für Ihren lieben Brief! Bitte grüssen Sie recht herzlich die liebe Schwester Martha. Herrn Dr Dipper werde ich nie vergessen können. Als Arzt war er viel grösser als alle die der P.U.M.C. [...]". - Edmund Dipper war in den 1920er Jahren Chefarzt am Deutschen Hospital in Peking, Schwester Martha wird wohl eine der Diakonissen, die als Pflegepersonal dort tätig waren. Hedin selbst hatte in den Jahren 1927 bis 1935 die internationale und interdisziplinäre Chinesisch-Schwedische Expedition geleitet, bei der die Mongolei, Xinjiang und Tibet erforscht wurden. Das Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) war über Paul H. Stevenson, der am PUMC lehrte, mit der Expedition verbunden, die er als Konsulent betreute, ohne selbst an ihr teilzunehmen. - Geringe Gebrauchsspuren.
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Hedin, Sven, Asienforscher (1856-1952).
Portraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U. verso. O. O., [um 1949/50].
½ S. 8vo. Verso mit kleinen Montagespuren.
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Dubuffet, Jean, French painter (1901-1985).
7 autograph letters signed, 4 letters signed, 13 autograph notes, one of which signed, and 5 autograph receipts. Paris, Vence, El Goléa (El Meniaa, Algeria), and no place, 1948-1960.
Various formats. Altogether ca. 23 pp. on 32 ff. Together with 2 postcards by Lili Dubuffet, 1 letter by Alexandre Vialatte, a facsimile postcard by Jean Dubuffet, the reproduction of a group photograph with Dubuffet and Sibille Boffard, a poster for a 1950 exhibition at Galerie Nina Daucet, a short text on the relationship between Dubuffet and Boffard, and other documents. In French. Correspondence with his neighbour in Paris, informal assistant, and close friend Sibille Boffard. Most letters are charming documents of the friendship, including the earliest two letters from Dubuffet's 1948 stay in El Meniaa (El Golea), Algeria. On 23 January he sends greetings to Boffard and mutual friends including the writer Alexandre Vialatte and complains about the weather: "Who expects to find heat here is terribly mistaken. One lives wrapped in the wide and heavy burnous that deprives you of the usage of the hands and the hood makes it impossible to see and to move the head". The second letter from 22 April is no less skeptical: "Travelling is like hunting marsh birds - long, tedious times, inconvenience and annoyance - occasionally rewarded with a good catch. Travelling to countries that are very uncomfortable for the body and the mind has this advantage over others that they make the return more enjoyable. We have been waiting for several days for a car that removes us from this place in the desert [...]". In a letter from 15 May 1949, Dubuffet contemplates the institution of "two kinds of marriage", one that is easily dissolved and one "for the venturers" that is inseparable, and invites Boffard for cake. In an undated letter, he thanks her enthusiastically for a party, underlining that it "has been a long time since I had been so highly amused". Two letters, one of which is dated 13 July 1955, the other undated, of a personal nature strike a darker note. In the dated letter from Vence, Dubuffet first thanks Boffard for sending him yearbooks that he uses to clean his brushes. He then mentions that she has been "severely tested" by life, wishing her well and discusses his wife's depression that renders the atmosphere in the house "often sombre". In the second letter, also to thank Boffard for yearbooks, Dubuffet writes about a severe case of lumbago that keeps him from work. - Two undated letters probably from the late 40s contain work-related instructions for Boffard. In a typed letter, Dubuffet instructs her to varnish a glass pane in his workshop, to convey two drawings of hippos from his "Collection de l'art brut" to a photographer, and to gather information concerning possibilities for the reproduction of a drawing of Slavko Kopac, the longtime curator of the Art brut collection. The second letter with instructions is truly remarkable, as Dubuffet had sent art supplies to Boffard to be distributed to the outsider artists Georges Berthomier (1897-1963) and Fernand Costa in the psychiatric hospital of Ville-Évrard. Dubuffet added a sketch of the hospital, indicating the pavilion of Juliette Élisa Bataille and enclosing a list of several patients with details concerning their interest in artistic work. He also asks Boffard to meet a Madame Sée in order to establish contact with a Swedish psychiatrist. Dubuffet's famous and groundbreaking Art brut exhibition was held in October 1949 at the Galerie René Drouin. The enclosed facsimile postcard was Boffard’s invitation to the opening. - The final three letters concern works by Dubuffet in Boffard’s possession. In an undated letter, he asks her to lend him a "small gray gouache" of his for an exhibition at the gallery of René Drouin, possibly the Art brut exhibition. This is possibly the same gouache that Dubuffet discusses in a long typed letter from 15 April 1960. There he bitterly complains to Boffard, as she "refuses to help him with the research" on the gouache that had apparently changed ownership in the meantime. Dubuffet explains to her that it is normal and beneficial for a collector to participate in the preparation of an artist's catalogue raisonné. In the final letter from 22 April 1960, Dubuffet thanks Boffard for her response, explaining that he is convinced that the new owner, a Mrs de Gavardy, will permit photographs to be taken. - Ten notes are instructions for Sibille Boffard or indicate the names of businesses, including a frame maker and a bookbinder, with which she had to deal for him. Three notes contain short aphorisms on love: "On est toujours soûlé quand on est amoureux". - Well preserved overall. Several notes and letters with instructions crossed out by Sibille Boffard. Some browning, occasional minor tears, particularly to the notes and receipts.
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Ruskin, John, English art critic, watercolourist, and social thinker (1819-1900).
Passport, signed. London, 10. IV. 1872.
Folio. 1 page. Folded in a green leather gilt custom wallet by J. W. Adams, passport agent, of Fleet Street, with notebook (unused) and pencil, Ruskin's name lettered in gilt. Issued to Ruskin for travel on the Continent, stamped and signed by the French consulate in London. - Tongue of wallet cracked and fragile, otherwise in good condition.
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Favrat, Marc (Marquis de), painter, lover of Elisabeth of Romania (fl. 1950).
Autograph correspondence card signed. Golfe-Juan (Cannes), 9. VII. 1957.
Oblong 8vo. 1¾ pp. To a Madame with the news that Favrat has returned from Paris, where he spent a nice evening at Florence's place, and about a small request (not further discussed) by their mutual friend Pierre Besançon de Wagner, husband of the Belgian-born fashion designer Maggy Rouff (Marguerite de Wagner): "Je rentre de Paris où j'étais depuis cette charmante soirée chez Florence. J'en garde d'ailleurs une souvenir d'autant plus agréable puisque j'eu le plaisir de vous revoir aussi que Monsieur le Préfet. Je n'oserais pas vous importuner avec la petite requête si malicieusement présentée pas notre ami Pierre Besançon [...]". - Marc Favrat had met Elisabeth of Romania (1894-1956) in France, where she finally settled in Cannes some years after her expulsion from Romania in 1947, when the Romanian People's Republic had been proclaimed. The much younger aspiring artist Favrat became Elisabeth's lover, equerry (or Grand Chamberlain), and adopted son in the year of her death. - With printed monogram, on mourning paper.
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[Galician petroleum industry].
"Dem allverehrten Herrn William Henry MacGarvey in dankbarem Gedenken seiner ausserordentlichen Verdienste um die Petroleumindustrie". Album for the 60th birthday of the Canadian oil magnate William Henry McGarvey. Vienna, 1903.
Folio (47 x 36 cm). German, Polish, and English manuscript on paper. 11 ff. With calligraphed title, three watercolour vedutas, and numerous signatures and stamps of McGarvey's business partners in Galicia. Bound on cloth tabs and spine and thus stored loosely in an original dark blue full calf portfolio by F. W. Papke of Vienna, with elaborate, partly gilt brass ornaments and giltstamped borders to the upper cover (lacking two central ornaments) and protective brass beams across the lower cover. Inside covers have yellow moirée silk pastedowns within wide giltstamped floral borders. All edges gilt. Unique, luxurious testimony to the late 19th and early 20th century oil boom in Galicia and to one of its central protagonists. Three watercolours on the title-page show a view of Mariiampil (in present-day western Ukraine), where McGarvey had built his first refinery in Galicia, McGarvey’s "first home" in the region, and an oil well in the now Polish village of Wietrzno. This is followed by three pages of a laudatory address in German, Polish, and English, all with floral art-nouveau borders and initials. McGarvey is hailed as a technological innovator whom fate "across the Ocean" to his new home 19 years ago. - Since the album was commissioned by McGarvey's local business partners and competitors, emphasis is placed on his fairness and on his unfailing attention the oil industry: "you never ceased to care for the whole oil industry, and you became a friend and protector of the small, even the smallest oil producers and refiners, you were the adviser and promoter of every single workman, you became the benefactor of our country Galicia". The remainder of the album offers the signatures of more than 150 congratulators (with several business stamps) on five leaves. This is a valuable document of the Galician oil industry in general and of the significant involvement of Jewish businessmen in particular. - William Henry McGarvey (1843-1914) became probably the most successful oilman of Galicia through the introduction (in 1883) of the Canadian "pole tool" drilling system that allowed for oil exploration at previously unheard-of depths and speed. His "Galizische Karpathen-Petroleum-AG", headquartered in Vienna, was among the most lucrative companies in the Austro-Hungarian empire and made multimillionaires of McGarvey and his British partner John Simeon Bergheim. In 1908, McGarvey was knighted by Emperor Franz Joseph for his innovations that had enabled Austria-Hungary to become a net oil exporter. Retreating Russian troops who briefly had occupied Galicia in the first months of the First World War set fire to Galicia's oil wells and blew up the refineries, effectively destroying the oil industry and McGarvey’s business. - The splendid album was designed and executed by the Austrian painter and illustrator Erwin Pendl (1875-1945). Minor foxing to the title-page and the first page of signatures: occasional light stains. Well preserved with only very minor scratches and flaws to the upper cover.
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[Reparation payments of the Romanian People's Republic - Deciry, Jean / Manescu, R.].
Typed "Accord entre la République française et la République populaire roumaine concernant le règlement des problèmes financiers en suspens entre les deux pays". Bucarest, 9. II. 1959.
4to. Ca. 11 pp. on 12 ff. (one of which the title-page). Including a typed application protocol, 5 typed letter copies, and a cover letter (copy). With information on progress made in the settlement of French financial claims on Romania and compensation of French public or legal persons whose assets, rights or interests have been affected by a Romanian measure of nationalization, expropriation, requisition, and other similar measure or whose property has suffered war damage. The bank of the People's Republic of Romania must order payment to various French and Dutch banks within fifteen days after the agreement coming into effect, for example the equivalent in Francs of "1.775,243" kilograms of gold to the "Banque de France": "La Banque d'Etat de la République Populaire Roumaine, dans les quinze jours qui suivront l'entrée en vigueur de l'accord, notifiera: a) à la Banque de France [...]". - With traces of old, partly rusty, stapling. Cover letter with handwritten note.
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Camus, Albert, French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate (1913-1960).
Typed letter signed. In French. Paris, 2 Sept. [1955].
8vo. 1 p. To the German-American romanist Konrad Ferdinand Bieber (1916-2006), thanking him for an article that Camus will "send to [his] editor" as they are starting a "revision of the translation", in all likelihood of the 1954 English edition of "The Rebel". Camus also expresses his regret that he failed to meet Bieber in Paris during the summer because he "quits Paris more and more often to be able to work" and asks him to announce his next visit in advance so they can arrange a meeting. In a short postscript, Camus informs Bieber that his preface to Bieber's book "has led to a brief polemic" that he will send him in order to give him an idea "of the pleasures of being a French writer". - Although Camus does not name any of the texts referenced in the letter, they are easily identified. In May 1955, Bieber published his article "The Translator - Friend or foe?" on the mixed reception of Camus's "The Rebel" in Anthony Bower's translation. Bieber's book "L'Allemagne vue par les écrivains de la Résistance française" with a preface by Camus was published in Geneva and Lille in 1954. - On stationery of Camus's publisher "Librairie Gallimard". The year "55" marked in ballpoint, probably by the recipient. Well preserved. Cf. K. F. Bieber, The Translator - Friend or foe?, in: The French Review, vol. 28, no. 6 (May, 1955), pp. 493-497.
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Fort, Paul, symbolist poet (1872-1960).
2 autograph calling cards signed. [printed address: Paris], 7 Dec. 1937 and 28 Jan. 1938.
Oblong 12mo. (1+2 =) 3 pp. on 2 ff. In French. To the engineer Marc Ferlet (1896-1971), in hopes of support, as Fort is advanced in years, suffers from poor health, lacks funds, and has six children to care for. Fort therefore recommends to Ferlet his volume of poetry, "Vol d'Oiseaux noirs": "Pour demander en toute déférence à Monsieur M. Ferlet de se montrer favorable à mon appel, lorsque je viens, sans avoir eu l'honneur de lui être présenté, sur le conseil de plusieurs amis des Lettres, l'adjurer de se joindre, s'il le peut, au petit groupe de mes amis qui [...] veulent bien s'intéresser à ce livre de chants désolés [...]" (7 Dec. 1937). - The second calling card (28 Jan. 1938) contains Fort's thanks, to be taken in stead of a full letter, as Fort's ill health kept him from writing earlier and longer: "Mon malheureux état de santé ne me permettant pas, hélas! de vous écrire en cette heure même [...]". – Fort's volume of poetry "Vol d'oiseaux noirs au temps des cerises" (Paris, A. J. Klein, 1932) was originally published merely 45 copies, numbered by hand and not available for sale.
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Gorky, Maxim, i. e. Alexei Maximovitch Peshkov, Russian writer (1868-1936).
Autograph letter signed ("M. Gorky"). [Moscow, 1905].
4to. 1 p. on bifolium. In Russian. Also bearing a translation of the letter into French in the hand of Sophia Andreyeva (1 p.). To the American bibliophile James Carleton Young, who had offered to purchase a manuscript of Gorky's: "You once proposed that I sell you one of my manuscripts for your library. Today I am offering you the manuscript of my play, 'Children of the Sun', written during my imprisonment in the Peter and Paul Fortress in St Petersburg. The money you give me for this manuscript will be employed for the work of delivering my people who are sinking under their political burden. It is not proper for me, Sir, to set the price: I ask you to do so according to your opinion, for my intention is to ask you to help me [...]" (transl.). - Gorky provides his address at 4 Vozdvizhenka Street, Moscow, where he lived in furnished rooms at the Peterhof Hotel in 1905. James Carleton Young (1856-1918) was a celebrated American collector; his collection was sold at auction by Anderson Galleries in New York, 1916. - Provenance: Heritage auction, 14 October 2010, lot 34174. Some slight damage to edges, otherwise in fine condition.
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Hesse, Hermann, Schriftsteller (1877-1962).
"Skizzenblatt". Ms. Gedicht mit eigenh. U. "Am Neuenburger See", "Ende 1946".
138:210 mm. Zusammen mit einem Lichtdruckportraits Hesses (250:188 mm) in Passepartout unter Glas. Gerahmt (565:365 mm). "Kalt knistert Herbstwind im dürren Rohr, / Das im Abend ergraut ist; / Krähen flattern vom Weidenbaume landeinwärts [...]". Das Gedicht, das mit einem eh. "Gruss von H Hesse" versehen ist, wurde erstmals in der Baseler "Nationalzeitung" am 15. XII. 1946 gedruckt. Waibler G 408.
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King, Alexander (Alexander König), Austrian-born writer (1899-1965).
Album leaf signed. No place, 1962.
8vo. 1 line. From the collection of the Viennese lawyer Max Bettelheim (1912-1971).
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Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich, Russian novelist, poet, religious thinker, and literary critic (1866-1941).
Autograph letter signed ("D. Merejkovsky"). Paris, 26. VI. 1934.
4to (267 x 205 mm). 1½ pages. In French. To Henriette Roggers-Farrère, the wife of the French novelist Claude Farrère. Merezhkovsky thanks Henriette (who is in the Basque country, recovering from an accident) and her husband "for the very touching care which you take over my poor 'Atlantis"', and he will pass on a letter of recommendation to Paul Valéry. "But, alas! I have little hope, for decidedly it appears that it is forbidden to speak of Atlantis in Europe as it is of rope in the house of a hanged man". - Merezhkovsky's "The Secret of the West: Atlantis-Europe" was published in Berlin in 1930. In it, the author writes in apocalyptic terms of the destruction of the ancient Atlantis and draws analogies to the decline and imminent collapse of Europe. The recipient of the letter, the actress Henriette Roggers, married the writer Claude Farrère in 1919. - In fine condition.
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Schnitzler, Arthur, Schriftsteller (1862-1931).
Ms. Brief mit eigenh. U. und eh. Albumblatt mit U. Wien, 26. I. 1926 bzw. Dezember 1926.
Zusammen (1+1 =) 2 SS. auf 2 Bll. Kl.-4to und 8vo. An den Schriftsteller und Verleger Maurice Delamain über eine französische Ausgabe seiner Novelle "Fräulein Else": "Unter Bezugnahme auf Ihre Unterredung mit Frau Hofrätin Bertha Zuckerkandl erlaube ich mir Ihnen heute ein Exemplar meiner Novelle 'Fräulein Else' zuzusenden. Wenn Sie eine Veröffentlichung in französischer Sprache ins Auge fassen, so kann es sich vorläufig nur um die Publikation dieser Novelle allein in einem Band handeln, da sie sich nicht dazu eignet mit kleineren Novellen zugleich zu erscheinen. Die Novelle ist schon in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt und überall ohne Beigabe anderer Novellen erschienen [...]". Schnitzlers Wunsch entsprechend erschien die Novelle auch als Einzeltitel im Verlag der Librairie Stock in Paris. - Das Albumblatt ist "Madame Delamain" als "hommage de l'auteur" gewidmet. - Der Brief auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf und Eingangsstempel; die U. in Bleistift, im Mittelfalz etwas eingerissen. Beide Blätter mit kleinen Stecknadeldurchstichen am linken oberen Rand.
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Simenon, Georges, Belgian writer (1903-1989).
3 typed letters signed. In English. Epalinges, 25 July 1968, 20 Feb. 1969, and 13 March 1969.
4to. Altogether 3 pp. Correspondence with his editor Robert K. Spencer at Appleton-Century-Crofts concerning several projects. In the earliest letter, Simenon thanks Spencer "for the good news about the successful career of 'Trois Nouvelles de Georges Simenon' [...] and of 'Tournants Dangereux'". The latter title was published as early as 1953, whereas the three novels appeared in 1966, both in French and for an American audience. He expresses his hope that Spencer "will find some suitable material in 'La Rue aux Trois Poussins'" for another anthology but concedes that he has not written any novels in twenty years. - In February 1969, Simenon asks for an author's fee of "10% of the volumes sales price" for "various short stories" appearing in a textbook. Simenon also informs Spencer that he cannot extend his "field of action to all English speaking countries of the world", referring specifically to "the British Empire" and Canada, which shall remain "an open market". - The third letter was sent with a contract "reflecting our recent correspondence", asking Spencer to return it signed. Simenon hopes that "the new anthology will have the success of the previous textbooks". - The two letters from 1969 with recipient's notes in ballpoint pen and pencil; the letter from 20 February 1969 with a minor tear to the upper margin. Well preserved.
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Massenet, Jules, French composer (1842-1912).
Autograph lettercard signed ("Massenet"). [Paris, 29. XII. 1911 (postmark)].
12mo. 1 p. With autograph address. Poetic New Year's wishes for the French soprano Fidès Adler-Devriès (1851-1941): "1912. Comment ma première pensée ne serait-elle pas sur cous, au début de chaque année?! - Votre souvenir / reste pour moi / une gloire unique!". - Born in New Orléans to the Dutch soprano Rosa de Vries-van Os, Fidès Adler-Devriès studied under Gilbert Duprez and made her debut in Fromental Halévy's "Le val d'Andorre" at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris in October 1868 and joined the Paris Opéra in 1871. For Jules Massenet she created the female lead Chimène in the premiere of "Le Cid" at the Paris Opéra on 30 November 1885. Her final major appearance was as Elsa in the French premiere of Lohengrin on 3 May 1887, before retiring from the stage in 1889. Jules Massenet held the soprano in high esteem, of which this letter gives charming evidence. - Well preserved with marks in crayon and some stains to the address side.
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Fleming, Alexander, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist (1881-1955).
Photograph signed. No place, ca. 1950.
Vintage gelatin silver print. 200 x 160 mm. Matted (ca. 310 x 260 mm), framed (350 x 306 mm) and glazed with metal plaque caption for the 1945 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology or Medicine mounted beneath the photograph. An appealing signed half-length portrait vintage photograph, circa 1950, showing Fleming seated and smoking a cigarette while signing a book on his knee. Signed "Alexander Fleming" in dark fountain pen ink across a white area of the image between his hands.
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Bertall [i. e. Charles Albert d'Arnoux], French illustrator, engraver, caricaturist and photographer (1820-1882).
Autograph letter signed. No place or date.
8vo. 1 page on bifolium. In French. To a friend about a "passe" for his friend Berlot, likely the writer Louis Berlot-Chappuit, which he was promised but has not yet received, announcing that Berlot will come to collect it himself: "Je n'ai pas reçu la passe que tu m'avais promise. Mon ami M. Berlot le qui elle est destinée vient de ma part te la demander. Tu lui feras grand plaisir à lui, et grand plaisir à moi [...]". - Bertall illustrated Berlot-Chapuit's 1858 work "Fables-Proverbes". - Small tears to lower right edge and upper margin. Slightly toned. Small spot of ink near lower left margin.
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Bisson, Edouard, French painter (1856-1939).
Autograph letter signed. No place, [27 April 1898].
8vo. 1 page. In French. To his lawyers or business partners, announcing that he will sign some agreements the next day: "Je viendrai demain Jeudi 28 avril 1898 à 2 heures après midi signer les mémorables conventions de ce matin mercredi 27 avril 1898 [...]". - A few small marginal flaws.
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Breton, Jules, French painter (1827-1906).
Autograph correspondence card signed. Courrières, 17. III. 1898.
Oblong 12mo. 2 pp. In French. To the Paris art gallery Tedesco Frères on having received their telegram, about his plans to travel to Paris and Montgeron the following Monday, expecting a Tedesco packer to arrive on Saturday. Breton mentions his having to change trains three times and promises to enclose the timetable and itinerary: "Votre dépeche vient de m'arriver. Nous avons cherché les trains les plus commodes, vous voyez qu'on n'arrive pas ici sans changer trois fois de trains. Ci joint l'intinéraire et les heures. Nous attendrons donc votre emballeur Samedi, car nous pensons partir pour Paris et Montgeron Lundi prochain [...]".
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Cabanel, Alexandre, French painter (1823-1889).
Autograph letter signed. 8 rue de Vigny / Parc Monceau [Paris], 9. III. 1875.
8vo. 1 page on bifolium. In French. To the composer and pianist Émile Paladilhe (1844-1926) with a dinner invitation, mentioning that the painter Jules-Élie Delaunay (1828-91) will be among the guests: "Si vous êtes libre mardi prochain faites-moi le plaisir de venir diner chez-moi à 7 heures, vous vous trouverez avec Delaunay et quelque autres amis. Pour ma part je serai très charmé de passer un bon moment avec vous ce qui ne m'arrive pas assez souvent, répondez moi oui vous serez bien aimable [...]". - Slightly spotty.
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Carrier-Belleuse, Pierre, French painter (1851-1932).
Autograph calling card signed. 31, Boulevard Berthier [Paris], 20. VIII. 1900.
Calling card format. 1 page. In French. To "Georges", his new superior, with congratulations on his promotion: "Bon heureux, mon cher Georges de te féliciter de ton succès et très fier de faire partie, à la suite, de ta promotion - Mon supérieur je vous salue. Affectueux souvenir à tous, je t'embrasse cordialement [...]". - With a faint crease near the upper margin.
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Delaunay, Jules-Élie, French painter (1828-1891).
Autograph letter signed. No place, 18. III. 1875.
8vo. 1 page on bifolium. In French. To a friend, accepting her invitation for Sunday, hoping to achieve what she promised and concluding with kind regards to her parents: "Certainement j'en vendrai à la charmante invitation que vous me transmettez pour dimanche, et j'espère enfin entrer en poursuivre de ce que vous m'avez promi. Croyez [...] en mes meilleurs sentiments auprès de vos [...] parents [...]". - Slightly creased.
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[Gästebuch].
Gästebuch des Restaurants Hôtel de l'Aigle Noir. Fontainebleau, 1964-1975.
Ca. 150 Einträge. Zusammen ca. 43 SS. auf 24 Bll. Roter Maroquin-Lederband mit goldgepr. Lilien und Fileten, Ringbindung. Folio (ca. 290 x 240 mm). Berühmtheiten und illustre Gäste des Hotels und Restaurants "L’Aigle Noir" aus Film, Musik, Kunst, Literatur, Sport, Politik, Militär, der Medien- und Unternehmensbranche verewigten sich mit meist einfachen Namenseinträge, teilweise mit ausführlicheren Bemerkungen zum Aufenthalt und versahen diese gelegentlich mit kleinen Zeichnungen. Meist in französischer, einzelne Beiträge auch in deutscher oder englischer Sprache verfasst. - Besonders erwähnenswert ist ein ganzseitiger Eintrag mit Zeichnung von Salvador Dalí auf dem zehnten Blatt (datiert 1965), sowie die Autographen der Pianisten Artur Rubinstein und Swjatoslaw Richter (mit Notenschlüssel), des Gitarristen Andrés Segovia, der Komponistin Nadia Boulanger, des Chansonniers Gilbert Bécaud, des Filmproduzenten Jack L. Warner, des Regisseurs Jean Renoir, der Schauspieler Jean Marais und Claude Brasseur, des Bühnenbildners Georges Wakhévitch (mit schöner Schloss-Zeichnung), der Schriftstellerin Violette Leduc (mit Zeichnung), der Tennislegende Henri Cochet oder des deutschen Raketeningenieurs Arthur Rudolph (1969), der vor und während des Zweiten Weltkriegs an der Entwicklung und Produktion der V2-Raketen beteiligt gewesen war, sowie zahlreiche weitere Einträge prominenter Gäste. Die beiden Einträge der Schauspieler Philippe Avron und Nina Kompaneitzeff (Companeez) beziehen sich auf den Filmdreh zu "Bye, bye, Barbara" von 1968, für den einige Schlussszenen vor dem Hotel gedreht wurden. Aus der Zeit der Hotelbesitzer Charles Lezier und Paulette Lamotte. - Kanten und Ecken etwas berieben und bestoßen, Einrisse am Rücken, innen stellenweise leicht braunfleckig.
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Guillaumet, Gustave Achille, French artist (1840-1887).
Autograph letter signed. No place or date.
12mo. 1 page on bifolium. In French. To "Henriette", likely the orientalist painter Henriette Browne (1829-1901), about a card he is about to send her: "Je suis en passe de vous envoyer la carte que vous désirez [...]". - Guillaumet is best known for his paintings of North Africa, and many of his works depict the life of the people of the desert in Southern Algeria. In contrast to Orientalism with its deliberately idealised depiction of North Africa, Guillaumet's work showed the harshness of the terrain and challenging conditions of life in desert regions. - With an old horizontal fold.
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Lefebvre, Jules Joseph, French painter, educator and theorist (1836-1911).
Autograph calling card signed (paraph). 5, Rue Labruyère [Paris], no date.
Calling card format. 2 pp. In French. To an acquaintance, regretting his not having known about Tangy's desire to work for him, pointing out that the painter Eugène Berthelon (1829-1916), a student of Eugène Lavieille (1820-89), was entrusted with the task, but promising to suggest Tangy to the Commission of Fine Arts for the next vacant position: "Jules LeFebvre. [printed] regrette vivement de n'avoir pas été prévenu plustôt du désir de M. Tangy, car c'est Lundi dernier que le travail qui avait été commandé à Laricille a été attribué à Berthelon, son Elève, si une nouvelle vacance se produisait je serai très heureux de faire une proposition en faveur de M. Tangy, et heureux surtout de la voir acceuillée par la commission des beaux arts de la ville [...]". - Traces of former mounting; slightly toned; small crease at upper margin.
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Lévy-Dhurmer, Lucien, French painter, sculptor and ceramicist (1865-1953).
Autograph calling card signed. Paris, 3 rue La Bruyère, no date.
Calling card format. 1 page. To a friend expressing his thanks: "Mes sincères remerciements [...]". - Slightly spotty.
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Pelez, Fernand, French painter (1843-1913).
Autograph letter signed. No place or date.
8vo. ½ page on bifolium. In French. To a friend, presumably the painter Édouard Dantan (1848-97), about receiving a painting he had recommended: "Le Tableau que vous m'avez recommandé a été reçu et suis heureux de vous annoncer ce resultat [...]". - With an autograph letter signed by "Guillaumet" on the verso, presumably the painter Gustave Achille Guillaumet (1840-87), written to Henriette, the artist of the aforementioned painting, mentioning Pelez' letter and congratulating her on the sale: "Ci contre la lettre de Pelez auquel Edouard avait recommandé ton tableau. Comme tu vois qu'on s'est occupé de toi. Je suis heureux pour toi du resultat [...]". - Somewhat creased; small marginal flaws; pierced in the centre.
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Floquet, Charles Thomas, French politician (1828-1896).
Autograph calling card signed. 3, rue du Cirque [Paris], no date.
Large calling card format. 1 page. In French. Sending condolences: "Charles Floquet. [printed] avec mes vifs sentiments de condoléance [...]".
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Girardin, Alexandre François Louis de, French politician and landscape artist (1767-1848).
Autograph letter signed. Paris, 3. V. 1843.
4to. 1 page on bifolium. In French to Louis Philippe I (1773-1850), King of the French, regretting that he does not hold a title distinguished enough to allow him to see the King in person, and about his shattered hopes for a promotion: "N'ayant aucun des titres qui pouvaient m'autoriser à me presenter chez Votre Majesté dans les instans où differentes circonstances m'en faisaient un devoir, j'ai dû m'en abstenir quelque peine que j'en eprouvasse. Le premier de l'année et au jour de la Sainte Philippe, j'avais esperé d'être plus heureux, mais forcé de renoncer encore à cette esperance. Votre Majesté voudra bien m'excuser d'un manque d'Egards bien involontaires de ma part et me permettre de lui en temoigner l'expression de mes vifs regrets au moment à m'absenter de paris [!] et n'ayant pas un occasion de lui renouveller l'assurance de mon sincère attachement et du profond respect avec lequel j'ai l'honneur d'être [...]". - Blue crayon note by a former collector about rediscovering the letter in the Tuilleries five years after it was written: "trouvé le 24 Fevr. 1848 au jardin des Tuilleries". - Small tear above first line, not affecting text. Small piercing near left margin; somewhat soiled and spotty.
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Lesseps, Edmond-Prosper de, French diplomat in Peru and Bolivia (1815-1868).
Autograph calling card signed. "Reception, à 2 heures".
Calling card format. 1 page. In French. To an acquaintance about a diplomatic affair that is about to be brought to a successful conclusion with the help of the Emperor, his administrative council, and the orders given to the Minister of the Exterior, pointing out that he had an excellent day, and asking for instructions: "Par l'Empereur de Ferdinand et de son Conseil d'adm[inistrati]on assurances d'appui et d'ordres donnés au M[inis]tre des aff[aires] Etr[angèr]es pour mener l'entreprise à bonne fin. La journée a donc été excellente - j'ai voulu que comme à moi vous en fassiez des 1ers instruits [...]". - Slightly soiled and faded.
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Loyson, Charles Jean Marie (known as Père Hyacinthe), French preacher and theologian (1827-1912).
Autograph letter signed. Neuilly, 20. I. 1886.
8vo. 4 pp. on bifolium. In French. To a friend about his eight-month stay in the United States, where he travelled from New York to San Francisco studying the reform of the Catholic church and trying to establish a rapprochement among the various religious communities, mentioning that his lectures were well attended with the exception of July, when all major cities were deserted by anyone interested in talks given in a foreign language, and concluding with his bewilderment by the American way of secularism as well as the nature of presidential power: "J'ai été en Amérique pour y faire connaître l'oeuvre de réforme que je poursuis au sein de l'Eglise Catholique, en même temps que celle de rapprochement entre les diverses communautés chrétiennes et même les hommes religieux de toute école. C'est d'ordinaire dans les églises que je me suis fait entendre, et dans ce grand pays, où l'on ne sépare point la république du Christianisme, mes auditoires étaient le plus souvent fort nombreuse[s] [...] Une quête était faite après mon discours. Ce sont ces doux volontaires qui m'ont permi de voyager pendant huit mois dans toute l'étendue des Etats-Unis, de New-York à San Francisco [...] Le mois de juillet ne me paraîtrait pas très bien choisi, parce qu'il fait alors très chaud et que les villes sont abandonnées par la plus part des personnes qui s'intéresseraient à des conférences données dans une langue étrangère [...] Parmi les choses qui m'ont frappé, il en est deux surtout que je me permets de signaler à vos études: 1. la séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat y est toute autre chose, en elle-même et dans ses résultats, que ce que rêvent la plupart de nos aveugles radieaux français, 2. le caractère personnel et autoritaire du pouvoir présidentiel constitue l'une des forces de cette puissante et libre république [...]". - Top right corner somewhat creased, traces of mounting; slightly spotty.
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Mac Mahon, Élisabeth de, wife of the President of France Patrice de Mac Mahon (1834-1900).
Autograph letter signed. No place, "ce lundi".
8vo. 1 page on bifolium. In French. To a relative named Champeaux, with an invitation to dinner: "Voulez Vous venir diner avec nous jeudi à 7 heures tout à fait entre nous Nous serions très heureux de vous voir [...]". - On armorial stationery.
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Achard, Amédée, French novelist (1814-1875).
Autograph letter signed (fragment). [No place], 4. VII. 1874.
Ca. 70 x 102 mm. 11 lines on bifolium. In French. To a friend with congratulations on a duel from which he emerged victoriously: "Mon cher ami, c'est ce matin seulement que la nouvelle de votre duel et du résultalt [...] félicite d'en être sorti tout à votre avantage et vous envoie une bonne poignée de main [...]". - Margins slightly creased.
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Belot, Adolphe, French playwright and novelist (1829-1890).
Autograph inscription signed. [Paris, 1879].
4to. 3 lines on the title-page of the "Musée Africain" catalogue. Mounted on backing paper. Inscribed to "Mosenthal", probably a relative of the late dramatist and poet Salomon Hermann Mosenthal (1821-77): "A mon. de Mosenthal / Avec mes plus vifs remercimens [...]". - Belot's play "La Venus Noire" premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in 1879. The present catalogue refers to an "African museum" installed in the theatre lobby, to be explored before and after the show. It featured kitchen utensils, toys, weapons, fetishes, fabrics, masks, maps and stuffed birds from "black Africa". The theatre gave out programmes and auctioned off the artifacts after the last show. - As a pencil note on the reverse suggests, the narrowliy trimmed backing paper appears to be have been previously used to hold an autograph of Sir James W. from a journey to South Africa. - The catalogue title-page shows several marginal tears, one touching two words of the inscription.
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Burnett, Francis Eliza Hodgson, British-American novelist (1849-1924).
Autograph letter signed. Sands Point (Long Island), 9. XI. 1907.
12mo. 1 p. on bifolium. With autograph envelope. To a Mrs. Sherman in Newtonville, Massachusetts, thanking her for a letter: "Thank you indeed! Your kind letter expressed not only generous praise but generous understanding. All workers care for that very much - very much". - A beautiful autograph by the creator of "The Secret Garden" and "Little Lord Fauntleroy", written soon after her permanent return to the United States. In 1908 her house in Plandome Manor about 3.5 miles south of Sands Point was completed. - Traces of folds. On stationery with printed letterhead: "Elm Heights / Port Washington / Long Island", with "Elm Heights" stricken out and corrected to "Sands Point".
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Claretie, Jules, French writer and theatre director (1840-1913).
Autograph calling card signed ("J. C."). 10, rue de Douai [Paris], no date.
Calling card format. 1 page. In French. To a friend with best wishes for a speedy recovery: "Jules Claretie [printed] avec tous les voeux de prompte guérison et des amitiés [...]".
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Delpit, Albert, French-American writer, playwright and poet (1849-1893).
Autograph letter signed. Benfeld (Alsace), 10. XI. 1876.
8vo. 2 pp. In French. To a friend about the premiere of his play in two or three months, difficulties with the proper interpretation delaying the production, mentioning that he would love to have him among his first critics, and concluding with his recent move to Paris and his new address: "Ma pièce ne sera pas jouée avant 2 ou 3 mois. Elle devait en effet passer vers cette époque, mais j'ai eu des difficultés d'interprétation qui m'ont retardé. Comptez bien que je ne vous oublierai pas. Vous êtes certainement l'un de ceux que je désire le plus avoir parmi mes juges de la première heure [...] Je suis en ce moment en Alsace, mais notez sur votre livre d'adresser que j'ai déménagé. Je demeure à présent 8 Avenue Percier". - Although Delpit had moved to Paris, he continued to visit Benfeld in Alsace, where he penned the play "Mademoiselle de Bressier" in 1885. - A few small brown spots; slightly creased.
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Deseilligny, Alfred, French industrial and politician (1828-1875).
Autograph letter signed. Paris, "Dimanche 3h".
8vo. 1 page. In French. To a friend about a rumour concerning the politician Gaston d'Audiffret-Pasquier (1823-1905), who supposedly lacks the support of the Elysée Palace, and announcing to maintain his objection against Pasquier even if the rumour proves false: "On dit que la Combinaison Pasquier n'est past sérieusement soutenue à l'Elysée. Si vos renseignemen[t]s sont conformes, inutile de continuer à la bêcher. Si elle est sérieuse nous pouvons et devons maintenir nos objections [...]". - On stationery with blindstamped initials "FD", likely those of his wife Félicie. Tiny marginal tear in upper margin; slightly spotted and creased.
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Flament, Albert, French journalist, novelist and critic (1877-1956).
Autograph letter signed. "Beauregard", Saint-Méloir-des-Ondes, no date.
8vo. 2 pp. In French. To an English friend about an accident his sister Marcelle suffered upon her arrival to London with her family - a fall down the staircase which resulted in an operation from which she is currently recovering: "Marcelle est en ce moment à Londres avec son mari et ses enfants [...] à peine arrivée à Londres, dans la maison qu'ils avaient louée, ma soeur est tombée dans l'escalier. Il a fallu la transporter dans une maison de santé et lui faire une opération. Elle est maintenant à peu près rétablie, mais faible". - He mentions that he has so far received from Marcelle a single letter, written in bed and in pencil. He says that he does not recall her home address in Wembley, but provides the address of the Westminster Gazette where his brother-in-law, Hiram Pattinson Knight, is employed: "Elle n'a pu m'écrire encore qu'une fois et au crayon, dans son lit. Je n'ai malheureusement pas la dernière lettre de ma soeur ici. Ils sont à Wembley, mais je ne me rappelle plus l'adresse! Mais mon beau frère a été demandé au Westminster Gazette et, en ce moment, je sais qu'il y va tous les jours. Je lui ai écrit là plusieurs fois [...]". - Flament adds that Marcelle and her husband frequently speak of her and her kindness towards them, fondly remembering their visit to England and the walk they took near Bognor, and concludes with his wish to see her before she leaves Paris: "Marcelle et lui m'ont souvent parlé de vous, de vos gentillesses pour eux. Je n'ai pas oublié la visite que nous vous avons faite, ni l'agréable promenade aux environs de Bognor. Je rentrerai à Paris vers le 10 Juin. Je n'ose espérer que vous soyez encore à Paris. En tout cas, je serai très hereux de vous faire les honneurs de mon rez-de-chaussée! [...]". - On stationery with stamped address. Slightly creased. Pencil note of a former collector near the upper margin, ascribing the letter to Flament.
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Goncourt, Edmond de, French writer (1822-1896).
Autograph calling card. 53, boulevard Montmorency (Auteuil), no date.
Calling card format. 1 page. To a friend with thanks and congratulations: "Edmond de Goncourt [printed] avec ses remerciements et ses felici[tations] à vous".
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