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CAMILLE CLERC.
"Programme de Géométrie 1845-1846" : Cahier manuscrit rédigé par Camille Clerc (futur Polytechnicien et Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées).
Sans lieu Sans éditeur. 1845 - 1846 15,5x19,5cm. Cahier cousu. 42 feuillets (84 pages).
Bookseller reference : 353
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Camille CHAUTEMPS - [Paris 1885 - Washington 1963] - Homme politique français -
Carte de visite Autographe Signée à Georges Bégue - Paris le 16 Février 1925 -
Carte de visite format : 6 x 10 cm [on joint une lettre de Madame R. Chautemps du 29 janvier 1936] -
Bookseller reference : GF29684
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CAMBACERES Duc de
Homme politique, sénateur, Pair de France
L.A. non datée, ni signée, à propos de livres ..; Très bon
Bookseller reference : 9616
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Camille JULLIAN - [Marseille 1859 - Paris 1933] - Philologue et historien français
Lettre Autographe Signée au professeur Vergely -
1 page in12 - adresse au dos -
Bookseller reference : GF27289
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Camille CHAUTEMPS - [Paris 1885 - Washington 1963] - Homme politique français -
Lettre Dactylographiée Signée à Georges Bégue - Paris le 16 Février 1925 -
1 page in8 - En tête du Ministère de l'Intérieur -
Bookseller reference : GF29683
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Camille CHAUTEMPS - [Paris 1885 - Washington 1963] - Homme politique français -
Lettre Autographe Signée à Georges Bégue - Paris le 13 septembre 1929 -
2 pages in8 - En tête de la Chambre des Députés -
Bookseller reference : GF29685
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Camille CHAUTEMPS - [Paris 1885 - Washington 1963] - Homme politique français -
Lettre Autographe Signée à Georges Bégue - Paris le 20 septembre 1929 -
2 pages in8 - En tête de la Chambre des Députés -
Bookseller reference : GF29686
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Camille CHAUTEMPS - [Paris 1885 - Washington 1963] - Homme politique français -
Lettre Autographe Signée à Georges Bégue - Paris le 27 septembre 1929 -
2 pages in8 - En tête de la Chambre des Députés -
Bookseller reference : GF29687
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Camille VERGNIOL - [1863 - 1932] - Homme de lettres français
Lettre Autographe Signée au poète Auguste Gaud (1857 - 1924) - Paris le jeudi 29 mai 1913 -
1 page in8 - adresse au dos -
Bookseller reference : GF29696
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Camille VERGNIOL - [1863 - 1932] - Homme de lettres français
Lettre Autographe Signée au poète Auguste Gaud (1857 - 1924) - Paris le jeudi 30 octobre 1905 -
1 page in8 - adresse au dos -
Bookseller reference : GF29746
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Camille du GAST - [1868 - 1942] - Pilote automobile française ...etc...
Lettre Autographe Signée de Camille du Gast à Jacques Deval - Paris - le 14 juillet 1937 -
1 page in4 - bon état -
Bookseller reference : GF30781
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Camille SAINT-SAENS - [Paris 1835 - Alger 1921] - Pianiste, organiste, et compositeur français
Lettre autographe signée à "Mon cher ami" - [le poète Georges Docquois à Boulogne-sur-Mer] - Paris le 12 juillet 1914 -
3 pages in4 - enveloppe - trés bon état -
Bookseller reference : 33331
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Camille SAINT-SAENS - [Paris 1835 - Alger 1921] - Pianiste, organiste, et compositeur français
Lettre autographe signée à "Mon cher Docquois" - [le poète Georges Docquois à Boulogne-sur-Mer] - Paris le 6 octobre 1914 -
3 pages in8 - enveloppe - trés bon état -
Bookseller reference : 33333
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Camille SAINT-SAENS - [Paris 1835 - Alger 1921] - Pianiste, organiste, et compositeur français
Lettre autographe signée au poète Georges Docquois - Paris le 12 novembre 1916 -
2 pages in8 - enveloppe - trés bon état -
Bookseller reference : 33336
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Camille MAUCLAIR - [Paris 1872 - 1945] - Homme de lettres français
Lettre Autographe Signée à "Mon cher confrère" [Fernand Demeure] - Saint Leu la Forêt - sans date -
2 pages in12 - bon état - carte [format 9 x 11 cm] -
Bookseller reference : 33484
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CAMBON, Paul:
Lettre manuscrite de Paul Cambon de l'Ambassade de France à Londres à M. René de Cérenville.
Londres, 21. janv. 1902, 22,5 cm x 17,5 cm, 9 lignes, écriture mal lisible, bon état, avec enveloppe.
Bookseller reference : 79320aaf
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CAMPAN (Madame).
Lettre autographe signée. Paris 31 août 1816.
Paris, , 1816. Manuscrit in-12 oblong (21 x 14 cm) de (1) p. (37) pp., maroquin rouge à grains longs, dos lisse orné, filets et frises dorés d’encadrement sur les plats, initiales "F.R." sur le premier plat et “SOUVENIR” sur le second (reliure de l’époque).
Bookseller reference : 42254
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Camille Huysmans
Originele brief van Camille Huysmans Burgemeester van Antwerpen
, , 2 vellen, getypt, met briefhoofd en gesigneerd, gedateerd; 27 juli 1967.
Bookseller reference : 51676
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CAMUS Albert
Pièce autographe signée d'Albert Camus "J'en suis bien content du moins"
s.d. [1944], 21x26,7cm, une feuille.
Bookseller reference : 64002
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CAMPANNA - Armée d'Italie
Rapport sur l'etat du Piemont pour l'etat- major français; 17 juillet 1794, manuscrit
1794 in4 broché,manuscrit; 28 pages manuscrites,fortes mouillures, sous chemise kraft avec inscriptions posterieures,à destination de Massena ?-
Bookseller reference : 27635
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CAMBIS Comte de
Vœu de Louis XIII
Lettre signé du comte de Cambis, datée d'Avignon le 14 août 1815 adressée au marquis de L'Espine en vue de la procession qui aura lieu le lendemain pour le vœu de Louis XIII. Très bon Avignon 1815 1 feuillet in-4°
Bookseller reference : 9131
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Cambiasi, Pompeo
Teatro alla Scala 1778-1881. Commissioni Teatrali - Cenni storici e descrittivi - Pianta del Fabbricato - Serie delle Opere in Musica [...] Serie dei Balli [...] Maestri Concertatori - Orchestra - Maestri dei Cori - Scenografi - Impresari [... ] Terza edizione notevolmente aumentata e corretta.
o.J. Milano etc., Ricordi, 1881, Gr.-8°. With folded plate. XIII pages, 1 leaf, 137 pages 1 leaf. Contemporary blue half calf (spine a little bit worn).
Bookseller reference : 54148
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Camerarius, Joachim d. Ä.,, Universalgelehrter und Dichter (1500-1574)
Porträt. Radierung von Balthasar Jenichen, monogr. "B-I".
o.J. Ohne Ort, um 1570, Blattgr. 11,5 x 8,7 cm. Plattengr.: 8,7 x 7,1 cm.
Bookseller reference : 39830
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Cameron, Averil & Conrad, Lawrence I. [Eds.] / Whitby, M.; Haldon, John; Reinink, G.J.; Drijwers, Han J.W.; al-Qadi, Wadad; Leder, Stefan
The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East - I: Problems in the Literary Source Material [Materials] (Papers of the First Workshop on Late Antiquity and Early Islam). [SERIES]: Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam, 1.
RARE collection of eight cross-disciplinary papers on "Problems in the Literary Source Material", from the First Workshop of the Late Antiquity and Early Islam, convened in London on 20-21 October 1989. [CONTENTS]: 1. Michael Whitby - Greek Historical Writing after Procopius: Variety and Vitality; 2. Averil Cameron - New Themes and Styles in Greek Literature: 7th-8th Centuries; 3. John Haldon - The Works of Anastasius of Sinai: A Key Source for the History of 7th-Century East Mediterranean Society and Belief; 4. G.J. Reinink - Ps.-Methodius: A Concept of History in Response to the Rise of Islam; 5. Han J.W. Drijvers - The Gospel of the Twelve Apostles: A Syriac Apocalypse from the Early Islamic Period; 6. Wadad al-Qadi - Early Islamic State Letters: The Question of Authenticity; 7. Stefan Leder - The Literary Use of the Khabar: A Basic Form of Historical Writing; 8. Lawrence I. Conrad - The Conquest of Arwad: A Source-Critical Study in the Historiography of the Early Medieval Near East. Includes an index. 240x160mm. XIV+428 pages. Dark-blue cloth Hardcover with transparent plastic dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on spine. Embossed front cover. Dedication written in pen on title-page upper corner - the dedicatee is an eminent Israeli archaeologist Yoram Tsafrir (1938-2015). Spine edges bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book, of immense interest to students of early Islam, Byzantium and Near East in Late Antiquity, is otherwise in very good condition.
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Camille Huysmans
Originele brief van Camille Huysmans Burgemeester van Antwerpen
2 vellen, getypt, met briefhoofd en gesigneerd, gedateerd; 27 juli 1967. Brief i.v.m. benoeming tot grootofficier in de kroonorde ( De Heer Leo Maiersdorf. )
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CAMPBELL, MARTIN & BOSWELL
Manuscript - Solicitors' Letter Book - 170 Draft Documents Pertaining to Dalquharran Castle and Kennedy Estate, Foreign Investments in Australia and a Fascinating Link to Poet Robert Burns
Edinburgh, 1893. Letter Book Archive of draft documents made by the law firm Campbell, Martin & Boswell, for private estates and business agreements, neatly preserved in a custom binding, featuring little known details relating to the Dalquharran Castle and Kennedy estate, Scottish investments and links to Australia, and a fascinating connection to the renowned poet Robert Burns by way of a lease made with his descendent for a mansion estate which he, too, had personally visited. 8vo. Approximately 170 documents, most in manuscript and some in typescript, 1166 pages combined, with a scant few integral blanks, plus unpaginated manuscript index listed alphabetically by document type. Very large volume measuring 23 x 35 x 9 cm (WxHxD) and weighing 10 pounds. Quarter calf over brown cloth boards labelled in gilt to spine, original marbled endpapers. Bookbinder's label to front pastedown (Caldwell Brothers of Edinburgh). Very good condition, an excellent depository volume of legal and historical interest. The firm Campbell, Martin & Boswell, consisted of three solicitors, each with the title and privileges of "Writers to the Signet", John Douglas Boswell, W.S.; Patrick William Campbell, W.S.; and Francis John Martin, W.S., the latter of whom became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1892. Their office was at 1 North Charlotte Street in Edinburgh, which was the same address as the Royal Bank of Scotland, and situated very near to Charlotte Square. Scots law and legal proceedings of the late nineteenth century, much of which differ today, are well illustrated in this archive of original working documents executed by accomplished patrician lawyers representing some discriminating and aristocratic clients. Many of the documents deal with property conveyance and estate matters, and represent traditions no longer observed, including the obsolete " Trust Disposition and Settlement" procedure for claiming an inheritance. Other documents include assignations, land conveyances, bond and disposition in security, deeds of assumption and discharges, estate inventories, a search for deeds with the Register of Sasines, leases, loan proposals for purchasing commercial space in Edinburgh, records of monetary investments in Highland Railway (HR), Jamaican plantations, property to let in Scotland, Australian banks, and so forth. So exclusive and intertwined were the upper class and wealthy, perhaps not large in number, but surely powerful in society, some interesting genealogical and business connections can be made from examining these papers. Many clients are also relations to the solicitors who often acted as trustees. In one case, we find a multi-generational connection between the Campbell and Burns families, beginning with the Jamaica sugar plantation owner Patrick Douglas and Scotland's celebrated national poet Robert Burns (1759-1796). In addition, these documents shed light on the leasing history of the Dalquharran Castle in South Ayrshire, which included hunting rights for at least one resident, as well as the Kennedy family's monetary investments in Australia. Interesting to note, one of the lawyers from this firm, Mr. Campbell, is related through marriage to the castle's then most recent owner, Mr. Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy (died in 1892). Some items of special interest: • A twenty page lease agreement was issued to a Glasgow coalmaster named Robert Burns (1844-1896), who was the great-great-grandson and namesake of the famous poet and lyricist Robert Burns (1759-1796) - who had visited the very same Mansion House of Garrallan in his day, being a friend of its proprietor at the time, Dr. Patrick Douglas. A fascinating and detailed document, the lessors were concerned with mining royalties, minerals specifically deemed as belonging to the Marquis of Bute, and minerals raised at the mansion house. [Garrallan was owned by the Campbell family until 1676. The Douglas family followed but it became extinct in the male line. Dr. Patrick Douglas, who died 1819, also owned property in Jamaica and in 1786 he offered Robert Burns a position as a bookkeeper in Port Antonio, but the poet declined. Burns was a visitor at Garrallan. Jane Douglas married Hamilton Boswell and this family retained it until 1914 when it was sold to the Stevenson family of Changue, who still own the property.] • Another fascinating document is headed "Notes on Titles of Charlotte Square," now a World Heritage Site situated in Edinburgh. In this we find reference to feudal tenancy and particulars of construction. Excerpts from the document: "Charter by the Magistrates & Town Council of Edinburgh in favour of Alexander Stevens dated 1st June 1803... no buildings are to be erected... on the foresaid back ground... that the area of the square within the line of the street ways was to become a common property for the accommodation pleasure health or other convenience of the several feuars round said square... For the lot of ground in Charlotte Square X the sum of £6. 18/4 3/12 and further paying the sum of £14. 18/4 3/12 upon the entry of each heir and singular successor or disponee to said Lot Houses or Tenements built thereon... For the foresaid piece of ground on Young Street the sum... Disposition of Sir George Hope to Margaret Kyle of Binghill dated 2nd April 1818. Disposition & assignation of the said Rev'd Dr. James Kyle in favour of Alexander Russell dated 8th January 1868. Disposition Settlement by the said George Bruce [Factor and Law Agent, W.S.] dated 10th July 1891 & recorded in the Books of Council Session 27th July 1892." • At least 8-10 documents pertain to Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy (1842-1892) and the Dalquharran Castle which he inherited in 1879 and immediately expanded. The castle, which was built for his grandfather and featured a round bastion tower with a drawing room, piano nobile, and a library above, and an exquisite top-lit spiral central staircase, was extended from 1880-81 by Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy, to accommodate his wife and bedrooms for their nine children. The work was completed at great expense, leaving the Kennedy family almost bankrupt. The family is known to have left Dalquharran for alternative lodgings, and by 1890 they had leased the castle and its lands as a hunting and fishing estate, as seen in this volume. Examples of the papers found herein include: An Agreement of Lease of the Dalquharran Castle as a furnished residence, "excepting the Strong Room retained by the proprietor", to James Paterson of Milton Lockhart, and includes surrounding lands with permission for shooting small game in accordance with the Ground Game Act of 1880. On 24 July 1893, the Scottish Union & National Insurance Company confirming notice of an "assignation" which transfers the estate of Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy, to his second son "John Campbell Kennedy of the Royal Navy." A two page document which itemizes and places monetary value on the "Additional Inventory of the Personal Estate... of the late Mr. Kennedy", including the surrender value of a life insurance of sorts, from which are deducted debts and funeral expenses. A list of debentures, borrowed from institutions in Australia, Canada, and Oregon, also documents relating to his investments with the British and Australasian Trust and Loan Company. Matters concerning his executrix and widow Eliza Barbara Colina (née Campbell) Kennedy. • An agreement permitting a John Ernest Orr to manufacture and sell a certain steam trap which was patented in 1892 by a millwright named John Mackie. As members of the elite society of Scottish solicitors, the Writers to the Signet, and thus holding special signing authorities and privileges, the firm of three attracted some notable clients, some of which were long-standing clients from generations past. A cursory gander through the volume finds these examples: • William Jardine Herries Maxwell (1852-1933), a Liberal Unionist politician in Scotland. Maxwell was elected at the 1892 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire in 1895, but lost it very narrowly when his Liberal Party opponent had a majority of only 13 votes. He regained his seat in 1900, but stood down at the 1906 general election. • William Caven Lockhart-Mure of Livingston in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Lieutenant in the 4th Bombay Cavalry (Poona Horse), Indian Army, who later rose to the rank of Major, and died in died in 1913. [With a lease herein the lieutenant agreed to a term of five years, letting and maintaining the Livingstone House, gamekeeper's house, garden and orchard in Kirkcudbright. It was owned by Colonel John Stewart (died 1726), a Scottish professional soldier who served in the Scottish Army and, after the Union with England, in the British Army, who also held a seat in the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1715, and who had inherited the property from his father. • James Oswald (1779-1853), an influential merchant and Member of Parliament (MP) for Glasgow from 1832 to 1837 , who inherited the estate of his cousin Richard Alexander Oswald (1771-1841), a Scottish Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1832 to 1835. [Again a family connection, his son, also named Richard, married Lady Mary Kennedy.] • Alexander Oswald (1811-1868), a Conservative Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Ayrshire from 1843 to 1852, as well as his father Richard Alexander Oswald, a Glasgow merchant. • Robert Haldane Scott, a Scottish attorney in Jamaica who filed returns for slaves by plantation owners in Trelawny, and his daughter Eliza Scott who married Reverend Edward Holland of New South Wales and died intestate June 1890. [A detailed document assigns a woman named Margaret Jane Wakeford, resident of Falmouth, Jamaica, as Power of Attorney for the estate of the late Eliza Scott.] • William Hume, technical chemist and innovative instrument maker, who was very active in the 1880s and 1890s designing and manufacturing magic lanterns, glass lantern slides, oxy-hydrogen lime-light apparatuses, a cantilever enlarging apparatus, a half-plate camera, rapid rectilinear lenses, and other photographic equipment, from his shop at 1 Lothian Street in Edinburgh. [A loan proposal herein indicates that he also purchased the property of 31 Lothian Street.] • Annabella Alexandrina Campbell Boswell (1826-1914), gentlewoman, born at Yarrows, Bathurst Plains, New South Wales, having a maternal lineage linked to the Campbells. She was a prolific diarist, horsewoman, skilled watercolourist and pianist. In 1849 Annabella met Patrick Charles Douglas Boswell, a free settler from Ayrshire, Scotland, accountant for the Bank of New South Wales (later becoming manager), who was related to James Boswell the biographer, and presumably also Mr. Boswell of this firm. Together Annabella and Patrick returned to Scotland in 1865, where Patrick had inherited the family estate in Ayrshire. • The only actual "will" recorded here is that of Bengal Army Major General Robert Farquhar Webster's widow, Janetta Annan Webster (née Dewar), which bequeaths the estate to her son, and permits the trustee to invest funds and heritable securities into in stocks of Great Britain, any British Colony or Dependency, until such time as he reaches the age of maturity. [Her husband was educated at the Edinburgh Academy before joining the British Army in India in 1843. He retired in 1878 as a Major General in the Bengal Staff Corps.] • Major Archibald Hume of Auchendolly and Spitalside, born 27 Dec 1843, and recognized by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland for having presented the museum with a bronze enamelled harness ornament of British Celtic origin. • William Fullarton of Fullarton (1754-1808), a Scottish soldier in the Bengal Staff Corps who participated in the Second Anglo-Mysore War, a statesman, agriculturalist, author, and son of a wealthy Ayrshire gentleman for whom he was named - William Fullarton of Fullarton. • Reverend Samuel Smith, attached to the church and parish of Borgue in the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright. • Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Maitland (176-1824), a British soldier who served in St. Domingue, and colonial Governor of British Ceylon. Historical Scottish minutiae through and through, with over 170 documents to explore, the opportunity of finding little-known information or unravelling early questions of lineage and heritable rights is indeed great! Dalquharran Castle: In the spring of 1819 Thomas Francis Kennedy (1788-1879) of Dalquharran Castle and Dunure, Ayr, (Whig aristocrat and commissioner of woods, forests, land revenues, works and buildings), succeeded his estranged father to the encumbered Ayrshire estates. The principal properties were the Dalquharran Castle near Dailly, and the coastal estate of Dunure, situated between Dalquharran and Ayr. He died at Dalquharran in 1879 and was succeeded by his only child, Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy (1842-1892). At great expense Francis Thomas Romilly Kennedy made expansions to the mansion, leaving the Kennedy family almost bankrupt. Recent studies suggest that external construction work was finally finished in the summer of 1890, relating this to a note made by Kennedy on documents bearing this date, and existing records regarding the exterior paving and roofing work being completed. The family is known to have left Dalquharran for alternative lodgings, and by 1890 they had leased the castle and its lands as a hunting and fishing estate. The castle had several tenants over the next 45 years, whilst staying in the hands of the Kennedy family. Eventually, the castle and the estate were put up for auction. It was bought by a Timber Merchant from Troon, who set about stripping the timber from the estate and who leased the castle to the Scottish Youth Hostel Association. Dalquharran remained a youth hostel until the Second World War, when the Langside School for the Deaf, evacuated from Glasgow, moved in. During the war, the Castle and lands were sold to one John Stewart, a produce merchant from Girvan, who later moved into Dalquharran with his family, and farmed the estate. The Stewart family co-habited the house with friends, but still the house proved too large and expensive to maintain, and was abandoned. The castle was inhabited as recently as 1967, but was unroofed to allow the then owners to avoid payment of high tax rates. It is now a ruin, with only the masonry shell remaining intact. The Society of Writers to Her Majesty’s Signet is a private society of Scottish solicitors, dating back to 1594 and part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted, but these have since disappeared and the Society is now an independent, non-regulatory association of solicitors. The Society maintains the Category A listed Signet Library, part of the Parliament House complex in Edinburgh, and members of the Society are entitled to the postnominal letters, WS. Wills/Testaments and Inheritance (Scotland): Heritable property, also known as immoveable or 'heritage' property and real estate, included land and buildings. Up to 1868 real estate was automatically inherited by the eldest son (the law of primogeniture) or daughter if there was no son unless there had been a specific disposition or bequest. The law of primogeniture applied to heritage until 1964. This meant that an eldest son might not appear named in the will. Likewise, a wife, who would automatically get the widow's part, may not be mentioned. The right to inherit was established by Retours of Services of Heirs or by a Trust Disposition and Settlement ('deed of settlement'). The actual register of the transfer or other change in ownership was recorded in Sasines. Manuscript
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Campbell, Thomas E.
Typed Letter signed to John L. MacVicar, thanking him for the copy of Arthur Nash's "The Golden Rule in Business"
1 p. Very good condition
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Camphausen, Wilhelm, Maler und Zeichner (1818-1885)
Eigenh. Albumblatt mit U.
o.J. Düsseldorf, 14. VII. 1875, Kl.-8°. 2 1/2 Seiten.
Bookseller reference : 39891
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CAMPOS Y FERNANDEZ DE SEVILLA, F. Javier.
CATALOGO DEL FONDO MANUSCRITO AMERICANO DE LA REAL BIBLIOTECA DEL ESCORIAL.
24x17. 586p. DEDICADO. Fotogr.
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CAMUS Albert
Actuelles. Chroniques 1944-1948
- Gallimard, Paris 1950, 12x19cm, broché sous chemise et étui. - First edition, falsely stated the second edition. Autograph inscription signed by Albert Camus to Bernard Gaux. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Edition originale, fausse mention de deuxième édition. Envoi autographe signé d'Albert Camus à Bernard Gaux.
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CAMUS Albert
L'envers et l'endroit
- Gallimard, Paris 1958, 11,5x18cm, reliure de l'éditeur. - Later edition of 550 numbered copies on vélin labeur paper. Publisher's paper boards with an original design by Paul Bonet. Precious and beautiful inscription from Albert Camus to René Char : " à vous cher René, ces confidences, et une amitié du même cur, fraternellement. / Albert Camus. / Juin 59" Very nice copy of exceptional provenance. The friendship between Albert Camus and René Char is among the most touching and most fruitful in French literature. There was nothing obvious to bring together the Algerian journalist and author and the Provencal poet, much less to suggest a mutual affinity. Camus had not come across Char's poetry and Char had no taste for novels, apart from those of Maurice Blanchot. Nonetheless, it is through their respective works that the two artists found out about each other and developed a mutual respect. So - before Camus and Char actually met - they had met through Caligula and Hypnos - both illustrating the poet's responsibility in the face of the violent world. "So in our darkness Beauty has no given space. All that space is for Beauty" (Char, Feuillets d'Hypnos). It is this mutual need for Beauty as a political response to the outrageousness of ideologies that united the two artists at the end of the war. Catalyst to their friendship, this first "acknowledgment" inaugurated a twelve-year correspondence, during the course of which their mutual affection grew and revealed an artistic convergence: "I believe that our brotherhood - on all levels - goes even deeper than we think and feel" (Char to Camus, 3 November 1951). "What a great and profound thing it is to detach oneself bit by bit from all that and all those who are worth nothing and to find little by little over the years and across borders a community of spirit. Like with many of us, who all at once feel ourselves finally becoming of 'the few'" (Camus to Char, 26 February 1950). These 'few' are a reference to a quotation from Gide: "I believe in the virtue of small numbers; the world will be saved by a few," whom Char and Camus tried to bring together in establishing the Empédocle review: "It is perhaps time that 'the few' Gide talked about came together," as Camus wrote to Guilloux in January 1949. They published writing by Gracq, Melville, Grenier, Guilloux, Blanchot, Ponge, Rilke, Kafka, and so on. However, internal dissension soon engulfed the review and they abandoned the project together. Their friendship, however, remained unblemished. The two men met regularly in Provence, where Char was from and - thanks to him - Camus' adopted home. They showed each other their manuscripts and confided in each other with their doubts: "The more I produce the less sure I become. Night falls ever thicker on the artist's path, his way. Eventually, he dies completely blind. My only hope is that there is still light inside, somewhere, and though he cannot see it, it continues to shine nonetheless. But how can one be sure? That is why one must rely on a friend, one who knows and understands, one who is walking that same path." They inscribed works to each other (the reprints of Feuillets d'Hypnos and Actuelles) and in each new copy wrote inscriptions in which they both reinforced their comradeship in arms and in spirit. "to René Char who helps me live, awaiting our kingdom, his friend and brother in hope," (manuscript of The Plague). "For Albert Camus, one of the very rare men I admire and love and whose work is the honor of our times. René Char," (Fureur et mystère) "[to RENÉ CHAR], fellow traveler, this guidebook to a mutual voyage into the time of men, waiting for noon. Affectionately, Albert Camus," (Actuelles I) "For Albert Camus, whose friendship and work form a Presence that illuminates and fortifies the eyes," (Art bref). "Oh if only poets would agree to become again what they were before: seers who speak to us of all that is possible...If they only gave us a foretaste o
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CAMUS Albert
L'été
- Gallimard, Paris 1954, 12x18,5cm, broché. - Edition de l'année de l'originale. Petites restaurations sur le dos. Bel envoi autographe signé d'Albert Camus à Irma Antonetto : "... pour lui rappeler nos promenades d'hiver et la fidèle pensée d'Albert Camus..." [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
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CAMUS Albert
Pièce autographe signée d'Albert Camus "J'en suis bien content du moins"
- s.d. [1944], 21x26,7cm, une feuille. - Autograph document signed by Albert Camus: "J'en suis bien content, du moins" N. d. [1944], 21 x 26,7 cm, loose leaf An autograph document signed by Albert Camus, one leaf in black ink. Albert Camus, questioned on his work by Henri Corbière, writes three answers that are as concise as they are intriguing, revealing his sharp quick-wittedness. Suspicious of attempts to intrude into his life, whether it be private or literary, Camus points out ironies to cause a detour and avoid answering questions, one of the author's stylistic traits: "Vos débuts littéraires furent-ils heureux ou difficiles ? J'en suis bien content, du moins," "Were your literary beginnings happy or difficult? I am, at least, satisfied with it." Beneath the brief responses, the inextricable link that unites journalism and literature within Camus' writing stands out, contesting the validity of the distinction established by his interlocutor. "Des moyens d'existence [...] vous permirent-ils de vous faire un nom dans les lettres ou ne vécûtes-vous que de votre plume ? Je suis journaliste de métier," "Did the livelihoods [...] allow you to make a name for yourself in the letters or did you only make a living from your pen? I am a journalist by trade." Already the author of two literary masterpieces, L'étranger and Le Mythe de Sisyphe, Camus remains cautious when it comes to his posterity "J'ai publié trop peu de livres pour répondre à cette question," "I have published too few books to answer that question." Protecting the background of his work, Camus remains faithful to his own formula: "Il n'est pas de vraie création sans secret," "There is no true creation without a secret" (Le Mythe de Sisyphe). [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Pièce autographe signée d'Albert Camus, une feuille à l'encre noire. Albert Camus, interrogé sur son uvre par Henri Corbière, laisse ici trois réponses aussi concises qu'intrigantes, révélatrices de son sens aigu de la répartie. Méfiant des tentatives d'intrusion dans sa vie, qu'elle soit privée ou littéraire, Camus élude les questions par des détours où pointe l'ironie, l'un des piliers stylistiques de l'auteur : « Vos débuts littéraires furent-ils heureux ou difficiles ? J'en suis bien content, du moins. » Sous le laconisme des réponses se distingue le lien inextricable qui unit le journalisme et la littérature au sein de l'écriture de Camus, contestant le bien-fondé de la distinction qu'établit son interlocuteur : « Des moyens d'existence [...] vous permirent-ils de vous faire un nom dans les lettres ou ne vécûtes-vous que de votre plume ? Je suis journaliste de métier ». Déjà auteur de deux monuments littéraires, L'Etranger et le Mythe de Sisyphe, Camus reste prudent quant à sa postérité « J'ai publié trop peu de livres pour répondre à cette question ». Dérobant aux regards les coulisses de son uvre, Camus demeure fidèle à sa propre formule : « Il n'est pas de vraie création sans secret » (Le Mythe de Sisyphe)
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CAMUS Marie-Hélène
Lune de miel chez Fidel Castro
- Fayard, Paris 1960, 14,5x20cm, broché. - Edition originale pour laquelle il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers, un des exemplaires du service de presse. Précieux envoi autographe signé de Marie-Hélène Camus à Maurice Blanchot. Photographies de Daniel Camus. Agréable exemplaire. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
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Canclaux (Jean-Baptiste-Camille), comte :
2 pièces signées,
in-folio.1- Le Général divisionnaire Conclaux, inspecteur général des troupes de l’Armée des Grisons [...], du 24 nivose an 9 (accompagné de 2 reçus)2- Le Général sénateur Conclaux commandant des grenadiers et chasseurs du département de la Seine Inférieure (nomination d’un officier).
Bookseller reference : 10040
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CANTALAUSA
Aux racines de notre langue : les langues populaires des Gaules de 480 à 1080.
Culture d'Oc Culture d'Oc, Saint-Pierre, Rodez, 1989, 607 p., cartonnage éditeur, environ 31x21cm, bon état.
Bookseller reference : 97145
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CANTAGREL (Gilles),MASSIP ( Catherine ),REIBEL ( Emmanuel ),MOZART ( W.A.)
Don Giovanni le manuscrit
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France / Textuel, 2005, 25 cm x 34,7 cm, 216 pp, cartonnage d'éditeur avec jaquette illustrée,sous plastique, jamais ouvert, neuf
Bookseller reference : 66931
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CANNY Xavier
KYRNOS poèmes alpestres.
Paris Bibliothèque Générale d'Edition 1907. In-12 159pp. Demi basane acajou, dos lisse orné de filets dorés, plats de la couverture conservés, reliure de l'époque. Edition originale dont il n'existe pas de grands papiers. Exemplaire en bon état et complet, reliure sobre de bonne qualité. Bel envoi de l'Auteur à un "cher compatriote". Fiori II page 322. Belle évocation poétique de la Corse. (4477)
Bookseller reference : GITh016
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CANTAGREL (Gilles).
Les plus Beaux Manuscrits de la Musique Classique.
P., editions La Martinière, France Musique, 2003, 1 vol. in-4 (318 x 260) cartonné sous jaquette illustrée, de 215 pp. Etat neuf sous son blister d'origine.
Bookseller reference : 8151
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CANTINELLI, M.R. - DACIER, Emile (sous la direction de).
Les Trésors de la Bibliothèque de France. Manuscrits - Incunables - Livres rares - Dessins - Estampes - Objets d'Art Curiosités bibliographiques (5 volumes).
G. Vanoest, Editeur, 1926, 5 volumes regroupant les fascicules de 1 à 20, reliure signée : H. Jacquet, demi chagrin rouge à coins, dos à 5 nerfs ornés de titres et tomaisons dorées, tranches de tête dorées, gardes de couleurs. Feuillets non rognés. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : 77546
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Canaday, John, Schriftsteller und Kunsthistoriker (1907-1985)
Masch. Brief mit eigenh. U.
o.J. New York, 7. XI. 1970, Qu.-4°. 1 Seite. Briefkopf "The New York Times".
Bookseller reference : 45411
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Canal, Gilbert von, Maler (1849-1927)
Eigenh. Briefkarte mit U.
o.J. München, 30. II. 1912, Qu.-Kl.-8°. 2 Seiten. Mit Umschlag.
Bookseller reference : 39137
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Canzler, Friedrich Gottlieb, Nationalökonom, Historiker und Geograph (1764-1811)
Eigenh. Albumblatt mit U.
o.J. Göttingen, 3. X. 1783, Qu.-8°. 1 Seite.
Bookseller reference : 54123
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Capitaine Joulain
"""Compte du Brick Glaneuse"", Livre de comptes marins, manuscrit du Capitaine Joulain (commandant du St Esprit et de la Glaneuse): années 1823 à 1841"
Livre de comptes relié 1823 "Rare manuscrit relié de 179 pages manuscrites et 9 feuillets blancs, mention manuscrite ""Compte du Brick Glaneuse"" sur la première de couverture, livre de comptes du Capitaine Joulain entre Mars 1823 et Novembre 1841 pour les navires (brick) la ""Glaneuse"" et le ""St-Esprit"", armés par M. Magon et M. Magon fils négociant à Saint-Malo. Il couvre un peu plus de 50 voyages dont la majeure partie sont des cabotages, principalement vers des ports français, et une petite partie sont des trajets plus longs notamment vers New-York et Rio de Janeiro (à partir de 1835). L'ensemble se présente de manière claire et concise en comptant de 2 à 4 pages par voyage ; quelques petits défauts mais bel état général pour ce document qui a beaucoup caboté. Livraison a domicile (La Poste) ou en Mondial Relay sur simple demande."
Bookseller reference : bn1851
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CAPUS Alfred - (Aix-en-provence 1857 - Neuilly 1922) - Ecrivain français
Carte Autographe Signée à Lucien Descaves - Paris - sans date -
1 page in12 - En-tête du "Figaro" - bon état -
Bookseller reference : GF21568
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Capitaine Fabre
Cours de topographie - Année 1883-1884 - Ecole Militaire d'Infanterie
Chez l'auteur. 1883. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 183 pages augmentées de quelques schémas en noir et blanc,dans le texte. Quelques soulignements au crayon. Pliures sur quelques pages. Nombreuses rousseurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 91-Manuscrits
Bookseller reference : R200106761
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Capitaine Fabre
Cours de Fortification - Ecole Militaire d'Infanterie - Année 1883 - 1884 ;
Chez l'auteur. 1883. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 261 + 110 pages augmentées de quelques schémas en noir et blanc,dans le texte. Quelques soulignements au crayon. Pliures sur de nombreuses pages. Nombreuses rousseurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 91-Manuscrits
Bookseller reference : R200106762
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Capitaine Magnin
Cours Manuscrit - Cours de législation +Cours d'administration + Supplément (Extrait du Réglement de 1883 sur le service de la solde) + Conférences (cours de législation et d'administration - Ecole Militaire d'Infanterie - Année 1883-1884
Chez l'auteur. 1883. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos abîmé, Papier jauni. 193 + 144 + 32 + 136 + 143 pages augmentées de quelques schémas en noir et blanc,dans le texte. Quelques tableaux en noir et blanc, hors texte. Quelques soulignements au crayon. Nombreuses rousseurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 91-Manuscrits
Bookseller reference : R200106763
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Capitaine Toucas
Cours de Tir - Ecole Militaire d'Infanterie - Année 1883 - 1884 - Manuscrit
Chez l'auteur. 1883. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 133 pages augmentées de quelques schémas en noir et blanc,dans le texte. Quelques soulignements au crayon.Nombreuses rousseurs.. . . . Classification Dewey : 91-Manuscrits
Bookseller reference : R200106764
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Capitaine Toucas
Cours d'Artillerie - Ecole Militaire d'Infanterie - Année 1883 - 1884 - Manuscrit
Chez l'auteur. 1883. In-4. Relié. Etat d'usage, Livré sans Couverture, Dos satisfaisant, Papier jauni. 80 pages augmentées de quelques tableaux en noir et blanc,dans le texte. Quelques soulignements au crayon.. . . . Classification Dewey : 91-Manuscrits
Bookseller reference : R200106765
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