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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Autograph letter signed ("Victor-M. Hugo"). N. p. o. d.
12mo. 2 pp. on bifolium. With autograph address. Charming letter to the royalist lawyer and publisher Charles-Pierre Ducancel (1766-1835), correcting the title of a poem that Hugo was supposed to recite at a meeting of Ducancel's "Société des bonnes lettres": "J'ai l'honneur de saluer Monsieur Ducancel et de le prier de rectifier s'il en est encore temps, une erreur qui m'est échappée dans mon griffonnage de ce matin. La pièce que je me propose de lire à la société n'est point sur le désastre de Quiberon; mais c'est tout simplement une ode intitulée Quiberon. Cette inexactitude constitue une nuance bien légère à la vérité ; mais je désirerais que Monsieur Ducancel pût et voulût bien la faire disparaître. Je tremble de promettre plus que je ne tiendrais [...]". - Written in 1821, Victor Hugo's ode "Quiberon" commemorates the royalist victims of the 1795 Battle of Quiberon, which ended a brief counter-revolutionary invasion by French royalists and the British Navy. The poem was published as part of the collection "Odes et Ballades" in 1828. A passionate royalist in the first decades of his life, Hugo's political convictions shifted towards republicanism in the 1840s. - With a tear from breaking the seal. Some browning.
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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Autograph letter signed ("Victor-M. Hugo"). N. p., 21. V. 1824.
4to. 2 pp. on a bifolium. With autograph address and traces of seal. Passionate and elegant letter by the young Hugo to the oppositional publisher Joseph-Dominique Magalon (1794-1867) on the occasion of his release from prison. Hugo expresses his relief and joy about Magalon's release and explains that he had previously lost contact with Charles Alfred Frédéric Fayot, a co-publisher of Magalon's "L'Album", who had served as an intermediary for the two men and thus did not know exactly when Magalon would be set free. Mentioning his own part in the effort to release Magalon, Hugo emphasizes that what little he did was only his duty: "I have not done anything for you that was not part of what I consider the rigorous line of my obligations [...]". If anyone needs to thank somebody, Hugo writes, it is he himself "for the pleasure that your noble sentiments afforded me". Although impeded by "numerous occupations and an eye complaint that torments me", Hugo expresses his hope to meet Magalon soon. - The letter was written in reaction to a note that Magalon had added to his 1823 publication "Souvenirs Poétiques de Deux Prisonniers", thanking Victor Hugo, Chateaubriand, and others for their support. Magalon had been imprisoned in Poissy under harsh conditions and fell ill before being transferred to Paris, where he completed his 13-month sentence. In the note, Magalon apologizes for unfavourable criticism of Hugo's first major publication "Odes et poésies nouvelles" (1822) that he had written for "L'Album" before his imprisonment: "On the occasion of my transfer to Poissy M. Hugo took vengeance in a way worthy of his noble character, be it by petitioning ministers for me, or by making me the object of urgent recommendations that eased the horror of my situation" (Magalon, pp. 107f.). Despite his early fame founded by the "Odes et poésies nouvelles", which earned him a royal pension, Victor Hugo's influence at the time was largely due to his father, the highly decorated General Joseph-Léopold Hugo. Although Victor Hugo was a committed royalist in his early years, the earnest support for the republican Magalon illustrates his integrity and magnanimity in his lifelong fight for justice that forced him into exile 1851. - Some insignificant foxing and minor tears. Modern mounting on stiff paper. V. Hugo, Correspondance. Tome IV (Paris 1952), pp. 116 f. J.-D. Magalon, A. Barginet, Souvenirs Poétiques de Deux Prisonniers (Paris 1823). Cf. F. Letessier, "Les misères d'un journaliste sous la Restauration: J. D. Magalon, Chateaubriand et Victor Hugo", in: Bulletin de l'Association Guillaume Budé : Lettres d'humanité, n°18, décembre 1959.
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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Autograph letter signed. Hauteville House (Guernsey), 3 Jan. 1865.
Large 8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. With autogr. address. To Louis Labarre, Brussels, praising him as a poet-prophet: "J'ai lu, mon cher frère, votre [illegible] et j'y ai retrouvé votre ami. Vous avez mis là toutes les hautes aspirations et votre espoir. […] Vos quatre beaux vers d'envoi m'ont vivement touché. Je Vous accorde [?] mon applaudissement ému, et ma cordialité profonde". - Louis Labarre (1810-92) was a Belgian author, journalist, editor of "La Nation", publishing French political dissenters. - Paper professionally repaired, a few words blurred by ink bleed.
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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Autograph letter signed. Hauteville House, 25 January [1859].
8vo. 1 p. In French, to Jules Noirit: "In my solitude, I often receive some verse. I am not saying so out of pride, since I am nothing but a quiet soldier of duty, but as a tribute to the cause for which I have been exiled as well as to all the poets in my country. Well, sir, your stanzas are among the most beautiful verses I have received in seven years. Your poems have the innate nobleness of the ideal; they come from a deep, generous heart, which gives them wings. I thank you very much, and I congratulate you even more warmly. Your soul sings in you. I shake your hand, poet". - By 1859 Hugo had adopted a new lifestyle, prompted by ill health, in which he spent the summers away from his island home on Guernsey. Although he avoided France, he would have been able to return home and end his now voluntary exile. - With integral address leaf attached; browning with some water staining.
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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Autograph letter signed. N. p. o. d.
8vo. 1 p. To an unidentified "Monsieur et cher poëte" whom he informs that he has recommended him for a government funding programme for young writers: "Monsieur et cher poëte, je vous lis, c'est dire que je vous aime. Hier M. Mérimé, chargé de répartir le fonds de secours littéraire du ministère de l'instruction publique, m'a demandé si je connaissais des hommes du talent qui fussent pauvres. Je leur ai donné votre nom, je leur ai dit que vous étiez un talent de premier ordre, et que l'aide venant de l'état ne pouvait aller à un meilleur que vous. Il m'a promis, et je vous écris la chose en vous serrant les deux mains [...]". - Mild toning and slight damage to left edge.
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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Autograph manuscript signed, with two autogr. sketches. N. p., c. 1830.
1 p. 8vo. Framed. First verse of the eighth session of the poem "La Prière pour tous" ("The prayer for all of us") without the third and last verses: "Quand elle prie un ange est debut [...] / [...] caressant ses cheveux des plumes de son aile [...] / venu pour l'ectouer sans / que l'enfant l'appelle / esprit qui tient le livre / où l'innocente épèle [...]". Includes two small sketches with the name of the artist Camille Roqueplan. - Formerly folded; uniformly browned, linenbacked, tiny holes from the acidic ink.
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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Autograph sketch signed. N. p., c. 1830.
1 p. 8vo. Fine draft designed for an illustrated edition of "Feuilles d'Automne" ("Autumn Leaves") for which no record exists, entitled "La prière de la jeune fille" (The prayer of the young girl), signed "Victor Hugo prière pour tous" and the name of the artist Elise Boulanger.
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Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).
Cabinet photograph. N. p. o. d.
145 x 103 mm. An uncommon image of Victor Hugo, taken by the French photographer Isidore Alphonse Chalot (1846-93), famous for his portraits of women, some of which were considered risqué by American standards.
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Huguier, Francoise (1942-) - Tourdjman, Georges (1935-2016) - Bricage, Claude (1939-1992)
Maquette pour un livre de photographies encore inédit à propos des travaux du Grand Louvre : Photos prises de janvier à août 1985.
1985. Photo. Très bon. Couverture rigide. Signé par l'auteur. Maquette. 1 album de format 33 x 28 cm contenant après un titre composé au letraset 76 photographies originales 12 en couleurs en tirage argentique d'époque au format 18 x 24 cm environ contrecollées dont : François Huguier : 48 tirages dont 5 en couleurs ; Georges Tourdjman : 24 tirages dont 7 en couleurs ; Claude Bricage : 4 tirages. La plupart des photographies portent au dos le cachet de l'artiste parfois sa signature. La première est signée par Françoise Huguier sous le tirage les autres tirages de Françoise Huguier portent son monogramme. Les photographies de Georges Tourdjman sont monogrammées datées et parfois légendées de sa main sauf pour 7 d'entre elles monogrammées de la main de Françoise Huguier. Françoise Huguier a écrit en toutes lettres le nom de Claude Bricage sous les tirages de celui-ci. On joint dans une pochette à part un ensemble de photographies à caractère documentaire sur le même sujet 11 en couleurs par le studio Patrice Astier 5 par Georges Tourdjman dont une en double et deux vues artistiques deux vues d'avion en couleurs. Projet de livre inabouti de la part des trois photographes. On y voit notamment la simulation de la pyramide avec des câbles dans la cour Napoléon les tirages de Claude Bricage d'impressionnantes excavations des échafaudages improbables une sculpture équestre prenant les airs des ouvriers travaillant à la restauration des fouilles archéologiques dans le jardin des Tuileries et la vie tentant de suivre son cours dans la partie du musée épargnée par les travaux. Important ensemble documentaire. La plupart des photographies semblent inédites et non exploitées par les photographes. Quelques menus accidents à quelques tirages. Hardcover
Bookseller reference : 4709
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Huhn, Charlotte, Sängerin (1865-1925).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. Dresden, 14. IV. 1899.
1 S. 8vo. Auf Trägerkarton. An einen namentlich nicht genannten Adressaten: "Mit Vergnügen erfülle ich hiermit Ihren Wunsch, erscheinen mir doch Ihre Zeilen wie eine freundliche Vorbedeutung für mein baldiges Gastspiel in Wien […]". - Huhn debütierte 1889 an der Berliner Kroll-Oper und ging danach an die Metropolitan Opera New York und gastierte in Chicago und Boston. 1891 nach Europa zurückgekehrt, sang Huhn zunächst an der Kölner Oper, dann an der Dresdner, Wiener und Münchner Hofoper. Zuletzt wirkte sie als Gesangspädagogin in Hamburg.
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HUILLARD (Évelina)
Éléments d'Histoire Naturelle : manuscrit
S.l., juillet 1858. In-12, 245 pp., veau fauve de L. Lesort, filets à froid cantonnés d'arabesques en encadrement sur les plats, les initiales E. H. au centre du premier plat, dos à nerfs orné de caissons et fleurons à froid, tranches rouges (épidermures, quelques petites taches).
Bookseller reference : 17404
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Hulin (Pierre).
Les Rentrées d'octobre.
1967 Paris, Gallimard, 1967. Un volume broché de format in 8° de 258 pp., couverture repliée.
Bookseller reference : 7215
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Hulin (Pierre).
Les Rentrées d'octobre.
Paris, Gallimard, 1967. Un volume broché de format in 8° de 258 pp., couverture repliée. Peu commun, Bon état, bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur.
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HULKI AKTUNÇ, (Contemporary Turkish author), (1949-2011).
Autograph letter signed 'Hulki' and typed short story signed Aysel Özakin.
Very Good Turkish Original autograph letter including a cruel criticism on a short story which was sent to be published to a Turkish literary periodical. Together and attached with this typed short story signed by Aysel Özakin, (1942-) who is a modern Turkish female author. Aktunç's letter size: 65x8 cm. Folded. Includes 50+ lines, in full. Some drawings on paper. Story 6 pp. Typescript, also signature. Slightly chipped on margins. Hulki Aktunç was a contemporary Turkish author and poet.
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HULLIHEN, Walter (1875-1944)
Signature
This education pioneer was a classicist who reorganized Delaware's Women's College and Delaware College into the University of Delaware first accredited in 1921 with him as president a position he filled until 1944. Large bold signature and "President University of Delaware" in black fountain pen on a typed postal card tan heavy stock 5½" X 3¼" n.p. Newark DE n.y. 1934 December 20 postal cancellation. Near fine. ARNOLD F. GATES 1914-93 was a noted Lincoln and Civil War scholar but in 1934 was a 20-year-old admirer of the famed educator and typed him this brief "Would you please send me your autograph" note resulting in this choice signature example. Unusual. unknown
Bookseller reference : 28988
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Hultén, Pontus, Kunsthistoriker und Museumsdirektor (1924-2006)
Masch. Brief mit eigenh. U.
o.J. Stockholm, 11. VII. 1963, Fol. 1 Seite. Briefkopf "Moderna Museet".
Bookseller reference : 52756
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HUMBERT, Jean
[ Lot de 7 ouvrages dont 6 dédicacés, avec 7 lettres autographes signées ] A la guerre comme à la guerre [ Avec une carte autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] L'étincelle volée [ Avec 2 cartes autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] Comme un qui s'est perdu [ Avec une lettre autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] Où sont tous les Soleils [ Avec 2 lettres autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] La poussière et la Cendre. Poésie 1982-1997 [ Avec : ] J'ai promené mon coeur. Poésies [ Avec : ] Portraits de famille. Charente-Maritime [ Avec une carte autographe signée : ]
7 vol. in-8 br., A la guerre comme à la guerre, Quartier Latin, 2007 [ Avec une carte autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] L'étincelle volée, Librairie Quartier Latin, La Rochelle, 1982 [ Avec 2 cartes autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] Comme un qui s'est perdu, Librairie Quartier Latin, La Rochelle, 1986 [ Avec une lettre autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] Où sont tous les Soleils, Quartier Latin, 1995 [ Avec 2 lettres autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] La poussière et la Cendre. Poésie 1982-1997, Les Amis du Vieux Cusset, 2014 [ Avec : ] J'ai promené mon coeur. Poésies, Les Amis du Vieux Cusset, 2017 [ Avec : ] Portraits de famille. Charente-Maritime, Editions Verso, 1997 [ Avec une carte autographe signée ]
Bookseller reference : 56357
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HUMEAU (Edmond) -
Avec le pouce -
1934 Jarnac : La Tour de Feu, 1950 - in-8 broché, 20 pages - édition originale tirée à 100 exemplaires - envoi autographe signé d'Edmond Humeau : " à son ami Henri de Lescoët en hommage d'un Septembre qui se souvient, même avec le pouce qu'il y eut non loin de Vence une gorge d'un autre septembre où ces poèmes ont vu le jour et pour le plaisir. Edmond Humeau " - bon état -
Bookseller reference : 34962
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HUMBERT, Docteur Claude
Etiologie et pathogénie de la maladie du Col de la Vessie [ Livre dédicacé par l'auteur ]
Travail de la clinique urologique de Lyon, 1 vol. in-8 br., Imprimerie des Facultés, Lyon, 1942, 95 pp.
Bookseller reference : 47594
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
L'âge noir.
Annemasse Edition des Voirons 1979 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, couverture illustrée, 304 pp. Edition collective formant le deuxième tome (1937-1956) de l'oeuvre poétique de l'auteur, avec un bel envoi à Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : 91171
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
L'âge noir.
Annemasse Edition des Voirons 1979 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, couverture illustrée, 304 pp. Edition collective formant le deuxième tome (1937-1956) de l'oeuvre poétique de l'auteur, avec un bel envoi à Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : 91171
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HUMEAU (Edmond) -
L'épreuve au soleil -
Paris : Pierre Seghers (Collection "P.S."), 1951 - un volume in-12 (108x180mm) agrafé sous couverture imprimée en couleurs et rempliée, 30 pages - bon état - édition originale sur papier courant enrichie d'un envoi autographe signé adressé à Henri de Lescoët -
Bookseller reference : 38945
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Le Médium en jeu.
Jarnac Editions de la Tour de Feu, coll. "Les Poètes de la Tour" 1984 1 vol. broché plaquette in-12, brochée, couverture rempliée, non coupé, 25 pp. Edition en partie originale. Exemplaire enrichi d'un bel envoi de l'auteur à Luc Estang. Couverture un peu poussiéreuse. Sinon bon état.
Bookseller reference : 30242
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Le Médium en jeu.
Jarnac Editions de la Tour de Feu, coll. "Les Poètes de la Tour" 1984 1 vol. broché plaquette in-12, brochée, couverture rempliée, non coupé, 25 pp. Edition en partie originale. Exemplaire enrichi d'un bel envoi de l'auteur à Luc Estang. Couverture un peu poussiéreuse. Sinon bon état.
Bookseller reference : 30242
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Le Tambourinaire des sources. Avant-propos de Guy Chambelland.
Bagnols-sur-Cèze Poésie-Club 1970 1 vol. Broché in-12, broché, non coupé, 113 pp. Edition originale de ce recueil poétique. Un des 40 exemplaires de tête numérotés sur chiffon de Mandeure, les seuls à comporter une lithographie originale justifiée et signée par Hélion. Bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur au poète Jean Rousselot. En excellent état.
Bookseller reference : 34084
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Le Tambourinaire des sources. Avant-propos de Guy Chambelland.
Bagnols-sur-Cèze Poésie-Club 1970 1 vol. Broché in-12, broché, non coupé, 113 pp. Edition originale de ce recueil poétique. Un des 40 exemplaires de tête numérotés sur chiffon de Mandeure, les seuls à comporter une lithographie originale justifiée et signée par Hélion. Bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur au poète Jean Rousselot. En excellent état.
Bookseller reference : 34084
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Le coeur net.
Paris G.P. (Gaston Puel) 19 1 vol. broché in-16, broché, couv. à rabats, (40) p. Edition originale. Un des 250 exemplaires numérotés sur offset licorne enrichi d'un bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur à Maurice Nadeau "qui ne me lit guère mais dont je crois qu'il peut faire entendre la voix d'un homme un peu perdue quand les amis s'en vont". Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 110914
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Le coeur net.
Paris G.P. (Gaston Puel) 19 1 vol. broché in-16, broché, couv. à rabats, (40) p. Edition originale. Un des 250 exemplaires numérotés sur offset licorne enrichi d'un bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur à Maurice Nadeau "qui ne me lit guère mais dont je crois qu'il peut faire entendre la voix d'un homme un peu perdue quand les amis s'en vont". Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 110914
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HUMEAU Edmond.
Le coeur net.
Veilhes : Gaston Puel, 1966. Un volume 12,6x16,4cm broché sous couverture à rabats, (20) pages. Edition originale tirée à 290 exemplaires : 1/250 sur papier offset avec un bel envoi autographe signé de l’auteur. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : 41265
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HUMBOURG Pierre - Ecrivain et aventurier français -
Lettre autographe signée "Pierre" à Pierre Béarn - le 25 juillet 1958 -
1 page in4 - bon état -
Bookseller reference : GF25191
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Humbert Droz Jules
Mon évolution du tolstoïsme au communisme (1891-1921).
1969 Neuchâtel, Baconnière, 1969. Gr. in-8°, 439p. Broché. Premier volume des mémoires du Jules Humbert-Droz. Avec quelques illustrations hors texte. En parfaite condition., exemplaire enrichi d'un envoi de l'auteur a "en souvenir d'une période mouvementée de la ville de La Chaux de Fonds......
Bookseller reference : 13585
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Seul autrement dit.
Paris Chambelland 1974 1 vol. broché in-12, broché, non coupé, 75 pp. Edition originale avec un bel envoi de l'auteur à Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : 91169
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HUMEAU (Edmond).
Seul autrement dit.
Paris Chambelland 1974 1 vol. broché in-12, broché, non coupé, 75 pp. Edition originale avec un bel envoi de l'auteur à Georges-Emmanuel Clancier. Bon état.
Bookseller reference : 91169
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HUMBERT (Jean).
Sur l'échiquer de cet été.
Paris Caractères 1976 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, 53 pp. Edition originale. Envoi de l'auteur à G.-E. Clancier. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 84999
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HUMBERT (Jean).
Sur l'échiquer de cet été.
Paris Caractères 1976 1 vol. broché in-8, broché, 53 pp. Edition originale. Envoi de l'auteur à G.-E. Clancier. Très bon état.
Bookseller reference : 84999
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Humbert Jean-Dominique, Raynaud Casimir (encres):
Vernicourt.
Pierre-Alain Pingoud (PAP), 1992. Petit in-8 broché, couverture décorée à rabats. Non coupé.
Bookseller reference : 10560
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HUMBOURG PIERRE
VIEUX COMME LE MONDE
PARIS NRF 1927 Un volume in-8 broché de 85 pages , 1 des 120 ex. hors-commerce ( N° CXX et dernier ) , ENVOI , infimes défauts , bon exemplaire . Bon Couverture souple
Bookseller reference : 012380
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HUMBERT, Docteur Claude
Etiologie et pathogénie de la maladie du Col de la Vessie [ Livre dédicacé par l'auteur ]
Travail de la clinique urologique de Lyon, 1 vol. in-8 br., Imprimerie des Facultés, Lyon, 1942, 95 pp. Envoi de l'auteur. Bon état. Français
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HUMBERT, Jean
[ Lot de 7 ouvrages dont 6 dédicacés, avec 7 lettres autographes signées ] A la guerre comme à la guerre [ Avec une carte autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] L'étincelle volée [ Avec 2 cartes autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] Comme un qui s'est perdu [ Avec une lettre autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] Où sont tous les Soleils [ Avec 2 lettres autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] La poussière et la Cendre. Poésie 1982-1997 [ Avec : ] J'ai promené mon coeur. Poésies [ Avec : ] Portraits de famille. Charente-Maritime [ Avec une carte autographe signée : ]
7 vol. in-8 br., A la guerre comme à la guerre, Quartier Latin, 2007 [ Avec une carte autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] L'étincelle volée, Librairie Quartier Latin, La Rochelle, 1982 [ Avec 2 cartes autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] Comme un qui s'est perdu, Librairie Quartier Latin, La Rochelle, 1986 [ Avec une lettre autographe signée : ] [ Avec : ] Où sont tous les Soleils, Quartier Latin, 1995 [ Avec 2 lettres autographes signées : ] [ Avec : ] La poussière et la Cendre. Poésie 1982-1997, Les Amis du Vieux Cusset, 2014 [ Avec : ] J'ai promené mon coeur. Poésies, Les Amis du Vieux Cusset, 2017 [ Avec : ] Portraits de famille. Charente-Maritime, Editions Verso, 1997 [ Avec une carte autographe signée ] Bel ensemble réunissant 7 ouvrages (dont 6 dédicacés) de l'écrivain charentais Michel Suffran, auquel on joint 7 lettres et cartes autographes signées de Jean Humbert, souvent très belles (notamment l'une évoquant le "Pilate" de Michel Suffran). Enseignant à La Rochelle, mais toujours attaché à son Bourbonnais, Jean Humbert (1933-2016) fut notamment couronné en 1974 par l'Académie Française. Français
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Humbert, Thérèse, French salonnière and fraudster (born 1856).
Autograph letter signed. Fulda, 13 May 1885.
8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. Includes 8 letters, also addressed to the "Moniteur", by H. and J. Humbert (Strasbourg and Paris, 17 April 1885 to 31 Jan. 1889). Altogether 15½ pp. Various formats. To the editors of the Viennese lottery journal "Moniteur de la Chance Universelle", requesting information about current lottery draws as well as a trial subscription, as she happened to come across the periodical while travelling: "Dans un voyage que je viens de faire j'ai lu par hasard votre journal. Auriez-vous la bonté de m'en envoyer un exemplaire ou deux à titre d'essai? [...] En même temps je désirerais savoir par retour du courrier avec quelle prime sont sorties les 2 obligations suivantes: Wiener Credit-Los (tirage du 1 Mai) Série 2451 No. 28; Ville de Bukarest (tirage de 1 Mai) Série 5113 No. 046. Je vous serais bien obligé de me communiquer le renseignement ci-dessous sans retard en m'indiquant le coût que je vous remettrais déjà d'avance en timbres poste si j'avais des timbres d'Autriche [...]" (13 May 1885). - The remainder of the present correspondence is likewise addressed to the "Moniteur de la Chance Universelle" by members of the Humbert family. Spanning nearly four years, it similarly concerns inquiries about lottery draws, but also requests for financial information regarding several of the great investments of the 1880s (such as the "Chemins Ottomans" or the Panama Society, soon to implode in a scandal that would rock France), as well as complaints about supposedly irredeemable coupons: "J'ai à vous soumettre une grave réclamation que vous apprécierez. J'en suis certain, à sa valeur, malgré le temps qui s'est écoulé depuis la réception de votre dernière lettre du 28 Janvier 1888. Vous m'avez envoyé à cette époque une Promesse Emprunt d'Autriche 1860 (1/5). Or, vérification faite, j'ai constaté que cette Promesse que vous m'avez comptée f. 10,- n'a absolument aucune valeur et ne pouvait pas sortir matériellement au tirage. Sans entrer dans des détails permettez-moi de vous dire, Monsieur, que la dite promesse a été signée C.a.d. émise par une personne complètement inconnue. L'irrégularité est palpable, attendu que la personne signatrice a négligé de remplir ce qui est essentiel de remplir et ce qui constitue la validité de la promesse, soit 'Wohnort' - (manque) 'Beschäftigung' (manque). Le premier venu certainement pourrait signer des promesses dans ces conditions [...]" (24 Feb. 1888). - Thérèse Humbert was born as Thérèse Daurignac in the Languedoc region of France in 1856. Soon after her wedding to Frédéric Humbert, the son of the mayor of Toulouse, she began to pose as a wealthy heiress, her mysterious inheritance supposedly left to her by an American millionaire, one Robert Crawford. Using the promised inheritance as collateral, the family took out enormous loans which enabled the Humberts to live in Paris for two decades in splendour and extravagance; in her salon Thérèse entertained the elegant Parisian society. Only in 1901 was a court able to expose the entire story as a fraud. When the bubble burst, the scandal rocked the French financial world, and thousands of investors and creditors were ruined - among them the parents-in-law of the painter Henri Matisse. The Humberts flew, but were arrested in Madrid the following year. Thérèse was sentenced to five years' hard labour; after her release from prison, she disappeared from history.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
5 autograph letters signed. Paris, Potsdam, Berlin, and no place, ca. 1817 to 1848.
Various formats. Altogether 3¾ pp. on 9 ff. Some with autogr. address. Fine collection of letters to various recipients, concerning Arnold Mendelssohn and the so-called "Casket Affair" (I), an appointment (II and III), etc. - I: N. p., [presumably ca. 1830]. Written during the European revolutions of 1848 to an unnamed minister about Arnold Mendelssohn (1817-54), a cousin of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: "Darf ich es wagen, theuerste Excellenz, mitten unter den zunehmenden unheimlichen Bewegungen der Hauptstadt Sie an Ihr Wohlwollen für mich, an die Bittschrift zu erinnern, die Sie die Gewogenheit haben wollten, in meinem Namen (in Angelegenheit der hoch betrübten Mendelssohnschen Familie) dem König zu überreichen. Die Sache liegt mir schmerzhaft am Herzen! [...]". Somewhat wrinkled; the reverse of fol. 2 slightly spotty. In 1846, Arnold Mendelssohn had become involved in the so-called "Casket Affair", which ruined his life: for the theft of a casket, the content of which was thought to be vital to Ferdinand Lassalle's court case, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and lost the privilege to practise as physician. His accomplices, Alexander Oppenheim and Lassalle, were acquitted. Alexander von Humboldt interceded on his behalf, and Mendelssohn was pardoned in 1849, but was banished from Germany. - II: N. p., 19 Nov. (n. y.). To "Herr Boguslawski", i. e. the meteorologist Georg von Boguslawski (1827-84), about an appointment. Folded for mailing, torn where unsealed, a bit marked, pencil notations by a previous owner on one blank portion, and with some denting. - III: Paris, [ca. 1817]. To an unidentified recipient: "[...] Les travaux de Mr le Chevalier Millin [!] meriteroient des encouragemens bien plus grands et par la profondeur des recherches et par le noble desinteressement de l'auteur [...]". - IV: "Berlin Sonntag Abend". Somewhat spotty. To Prince Adalbert of Prussia, with thanks for granting him something he had asked for. - V: "En dimanche", n. p. To the wife of the composer Gasparo Spontini, Catherine Marie Céleste, born Erard: "Mr de Humboldt [...] profitera à Paris de la permission d'admirer les beaux tableaux de Mr. Erard, l'homme célèbre dont la génie est admiré dans l'Europe entière [...]". Slightly browned due to paper and somewhat spotty; right edge strongly creased; clipped section on f. 2 due to broken seal (not touching text). - V: Paris, 1821. In French, to a Paris bookseller, ordering several volumes. Folded, with remnants of a wax seal and corresponding abrasion where unsealed; few marks.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
8 autograph letters signed. Paris, [ca. 1835-1842].
8vo. Together 10 pp. With 1 autograph envelope with traces of seal. In French. Highly interesting and substantial correspondence with his Parisian banker and friend Auguste Léo (1793-1859), a business associate of Mendelssohn & Co. In his letters, Humboldt shifts seamlessly from financial matters, mostly payment orders, to private conversations, both of which illuminate important aspects of his life during this period. - The familiarity between Humboldt and Léo, as well as Humboldt's generosity, is on display in the earliest dateable letter of the collection from 1835. The letter was delivered by a Swiss engineer named Loba who was seeking a Prussian patent "under the supervision of our tyrant Beuth", referring to the Prussian administrator and reformer Peter Beuth, for a measuring instrument. Humboldt asks Léo "to sacrifice a few moments to Mr. Loba and give him some advice", assuming that he knows the Prussian "forms of patent legislation." In closing, he praises the famous portraitist Henri Lehmann: "I am still under the spell of the beautiful and solid talent of Mr. Lehmann. His person can increase this charm". Lehmann's portrait of Humboldt, now on display at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, was commissioned by Auguste Léo and his wife in 1835. - A letter from 3 October 1838 is a perfect example for the charming combination of business and private correspondence: "I returned safe and sound from Cherbourg, I dined with M. [Mathieu] Molé who feels quite relieved about the resolution of the Swiss affairs, in the evening I was also at the Tuileries, where they are also content and I am again taking up the course of my boring impressions. [...] Might I ask you that day for the sum of 1000 francs on my account. I certainly will give you a receipt of 2000 F due to the reimbursement in Berlin". - On 26 November 1838, Humboldt asks to disburse a sum to his servant and later heir Johann Seifert, who "will also present Mr. Ernst, engineer of physical instruments, with a small note from my hand for 150 francs". After summing up his liabilities, Humboldt mentions Mathieu Molé again, as well as Benjamin Delessert, to whom he had apparently talked on Léo's behalf: "I expect that you ask from our friend M. Mendelssohn amounting to what I am importuning you here. I transferred 9100 Fr to him. It almost looks like I am getting my finances in order. I talked to M. Delessert and M. Molé for help from the Chambers. I found them most inclined towards you, especially the former in a more explicit way [...]". - In a letter dated "Ce samedi" that was written in the "distress and tumults" of Humboldt's upcoming departure for Berlin, he asks Léo to settle some payments, including one to the cartographer and printmaker Pierre Antoine Tardieu, and talks humorously about a previous cold: "My enormous cold has much improved. However, something from the renaissance mixed with it because I had to look at the freezing apartments of Mad. the Baroness Salomon, where some Leo X is grafted onto Charlemagne". - The most exceptional letter in the collection, dated "this Monday", was written ahead of a visit to the French Minister of the Interior and is worth quoting extensively, for its wit, humor, and sharp political analysis: "I am completely guilty, my dear and excellent friend, not only of having left your brilliant and agreeable company so early yesterday but also of having been fooled by my memory. After having consulted my gastronomical archives, I discovered that since 8 J[anuary] I am expected on Thursday 2 Febr. at the Minister of the Interior. Dare I ask you to consult my benefactor, Madame Léo, and to ask her for chairs [...] Voilà, in Prussia many antiliberal things [are happening] that disquiet me. This is the cursed dualistic system, the fear that affects the governments immediately after a bit of courage. That's 1788 and 1789". - A particularly charming letter can be dated to 1841 due to its comments on Felix Mendelssohn's incidental music for Ludwig Tieck's staging of "Antigone" that had been commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia: "The astronomer Wilhelm Beer-Mädler already writes me full of bitterness and mockery on behalf of Felix [Mendelssohn], whom the King has forced to compose the chorus for a Greek tragedy (Sophocles' Antigone) which the Monarch has had the whim to have translated by Tieg [Tieck] and which is to be performed and sung at Court. The astronomer suggests that since Antigone is not Lutheran, or at least not very Lutheran, Felix will be soporific. Understand that the letter is not from Meyerbeer, an Italian abbot who is much more reserved". - The final two letters in the collection tell a story of Humboldt's magnanimity being sorely tested. In the earlier letter, dated 30 November, Humboldt asks Léo to disburse 50 écus to Karl von Gagern, an otherwise unknown son of the Prussian lieutenant Gustav von Gagern. Humboldt did not know Karl personally but "his parents who are in Potsdam". On a Wednesday soon thereafter, Humboldt writes again to Léo, first asking him to make a final payment to Achille Valenciennes for his contribution to the final instalment of Humboldt's "Receuil d'observations de zoologie", before returning to Karl von Gagern, now in a very different tone: "I do not regret having thrown away 50 écus on a M. Charles de Gagern because he is the son of a respectable lady from Potsdam, brother-in-law of M. de Siebold, the famous traveller to Japan, but I consider it impolite that he did not send me a thank-you note nor responded to the reproaches that I addressed to him in writing a few days ago. Since my hunter [Johann Seifert] is no strong linguist, I dare to ask you, out of pure curiosity, to inquire [...] whether he still resides in Paris. I do not want his money but less rude proceedings". In a postscript, Humboldt relates that he received a letter from Helmina von Chézy in Heidelberg, informing him that she has received 133 écus. - Traces of folds; occasional stains and minor browning. The letter with references to Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy somewhat creased and with tear from breaking the seal.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed "Humboldt". [Paris], "vendredi" [1823-26].
Small 8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. With autograph address and traces of seal. To the German oriental scholar and archaeologist Friedrich Eduard Schulz (1799-1829), requesting a meeting. Apparently, Schulz had attempted to visit Humboldt the previous day, but the two men had missed each other by a few minutes. In his charming letter, Humboldt announces a return visit in order to apologize for "the imprudent pedantry of my new doorman" and to embrace Schulz before his departure: "Un malheureux hazard [!] a voulu que je suis rentré hier quelques minutes après Vous, mon cher et excellent ami, et que par l'imprudente pédanterie de mon nouveau Portier Vous n'avez pu entrer chez moi. Permettez que je me présente demain matin (Samedi) à dix heures chez Vous, pour Vous faire mes excuses et pour Vous embrasser avant Votre départ [...]". - After studies in Göttingen and Gießen, Schulz relocated to Paris in 1823 to deepen his knowledge of oriental languages. In Paris he was in contact with important scholars such as Alexander von Humboldt and Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy. The letter at hand was probably written ahead of Schulz' departure, in 1826, on a scientific expedition of several years to Asia Minor and Persia. The rediscovery of the Kingdom of Urartu and its language are largely due to this expedition. The expedition ended in tragedy when Schulz and his companions were assassinated in the Kurdish town Baskale. Some of his important records, including copies of 42 inscriptions from the Van Fortress, were later recovered and published. - With a minor tear from breaking the seal.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed "Humboldt". Paris, 3 July 1826.
Oblong 8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. With autograph address. In French. To a secretary or confidant of Denis-Luc Frayssinous (1765-1841), bishop of Hermopolis in partibus and French minister of public instruction, asking for an audience. The reason for Humboldt's unusual request was the search for the child of a Seigneur Guénot "whom we desire to see placed in Paris". The letterhead is capotioned "Bourges", followed by an illegible address and the information: "The child is thought to be in Bourges". Humboldt reminds the recipient of an earlier request to the bishop and asks for "a few moments' audience" with him: "Je ne sais varier les tours de mes supplications importunes et presque périodiques. Vous avez daigné me permettre avec une bienveillance extrême de Vous rapeller [!], Monsieur, au milieu de l'été la prière que j'avez osé adresser à S. E. le digne Évêque de Hermopolis relativement à l'enfant du Sr Guénot que nous voudrions voir placé à Paris. J'ose Vous supplier d'accorder quelques instants d'audience à cet excellent homme et d'agréer l'hommage de la considération et du dévouement affectueux avec lequel j'ai l'honneur d'être [...]". - No further links between Alexander von Humboldt and Denis-Luc Frayssinous are documented. Although the circumstances of the letter and the identity of Seigneur Guénot remain obscure, the text bears testimony to Humboldt's generosity and helpfulness, especially since he alludes to several earlier, "almost regular" supplications to the recipient. A few months after the letter was written, Humboldt had to return to Berlin on the personal orders of King Frederick William III of Prussia, having spent close to twenty years in Paris. - With traces of folds, two large tears, touching the date and text without loss, and one restored tear. One large brownstain from the faulty restoration of one of the tears and minimal foxing.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed ("A Humboldt"). [Paris], n. d.
8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. With autograph address and traces of seal. To the sculptor Pierre-Jean David, known as David d'Angers (1788-1856), ahead of a visit to his workshop. Humboldt assumes that an earlier letter had not reached David and kindly asks for an appointment, as he is eager to visit his atélier and personally to express his admiration for the artist: "Je commence à croire, mon illustre et respectable confrère, que Vous n'avez pas reçu mon petit billet jetté [!] il y a 3 jours à la Petite Porte sous l'adresse R. Vaugirard n 20. J'ose Vous réitérer le vif désir que j'ai de pouvoir Vous offrir dans Votre atelier l'hommage de ma constante admiration et je Vous supplie de me fixer, par deux lignes, le jour et le lieu et l'heure que Vous désirerez, je pourrai tous les jours depuis mercredi de 11h à 3h [...]". - The letter was probably written during Humboldt's Paris years (1807-26). However, David sculpted a bronze medal with the profile of the great naturalist dated 1831, five years after Humboldt's return to Berlin. A small bronze bust followed in 1844. A copy of the medal is held in the Numismatic collection of the Berlin State Museums. - With traces of folds and small loss to paper through breaking of the seal. Minimal browning and foxing.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed ("A Humboldt"). N. p., November 19, n. y.
1 p. on bifolium, approx. 130 x 200 mm. Addressed on another side in Humboldt's hand with his wax seal and post cancel-stamp. To "Herr Boguslawski", i. e. the meteorologist Georg von Boguslawski (1827-1884), on an appointment. - Folded for mailing, torn where unsealed, a bit marked, pencil notations by a previous owner on one blank portion, and with some denting.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed ("A Humboldt"). Paris, 1821.
2 pp. on bifolium, approx. 100 x 115 mm. Addressed by Humboldt on another side, and with "M. de Humboldt". In French, to a Paris bookseller, ordering several volumes. - Folded, with remnants of a wax seal and corresponding abrasion where unsealed; few marks.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed ("AVHumboldt"). "Berlin, Sonntag Abend".
Large 8vo. ¾ p. on bifolium. To Prince Adalbert of Prussia, thanking for fulfilling him something he had asked for. - Somewhat spotty.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed ("AVHumboldt"). Potsdam, 11 June 1848.
Large 8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. Written during the European Revolutions of 1848 to an unnamed minister about Arnold Mendelssohn (1817-1854), a cousin of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: "Darf ich es wagen, theuerste Excellenz, mitten unter den zunehmenden unheimlichen Bewegungen der Hauptstadt Sie an Ihr Wohlwollen für mich, an die Bittschrift zu erinnern, die Sie die Gewogenheit haben wollten, in meinem Namen (in Angelegenheit der hoch betrübten Mendelsohnschen Familie) dem König zu überreichen. Die Sache liegt mir schmerzhaft am Herzen! [...]". - In 1846, Arnold Mendelssohn had become involved in the so-called "Casket Affair", which ruined his life: for the theft of a casket, the content of which was thought to be vital to Ferdinand Lassalle's court case, he was sentenced to five years imprisonment and lost the privilege to practise as physician. His accomplices, Alexander Oppenheim and Lassalle, were acquitted. Alexander von Humboldt interceded on his behalf, and Mendelssohn was pardoned in 1849, but was banished from Germany. - Somewhat wrinkled; the reverse of fol. 2 slightly spotty.
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Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).
Autograph letter signed ("Humboldt"). N. p. o. d.
Small 8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. In French. Highly interesting letter to an unidentified recipient who appears to have served as an intermediary in a sale or an auction with which Humboldt was concerned. The sale might have been in connection with the death of Humboldt's former publisher John Hurford Stone (1763-1818). As early in 1812 Stone had to file for bankruptcy due to the enormous costs of the publication of Humboldt's monumental "Relation historique", the travelogue and scientific report of his Spanish American expedition. Stone's name is mentioned in a short postscript to the letter: "Everything from before the time of the contract with Vendryès is from M. Stone". - In the letter, Humboldt talks about the potential date of the sale and some objects that are in London: "Concerning the sale, Lannoy thinks that it could take place in the end of July and that the customs information will be sufficient to know what is in London. Since my intervention is only due to my personal interests and since only Mr. Lannoy needs to recognize what is necessary for the good of the creditors, I can only hope that the sale will be effected as quickly as possible. Please send me two lines as soon as your work is entirely finished so that we can meet at M. Lannoy's and arrive at a definite decision about the time of the sale and make the necessary announcements". - John Hurford Stone moved to France in 1792 and saw success as an industrialist. He had to leave France temporarily during the Reign of Terror in 1793/94; upon his return he started a successful publishing house. Following Stone's bankruptcy, the Parisian publisher R. Vendryès, mentioned twice in the letter, briefly took over Humboldt's great project. Vendryès only published the "Atlas gégraphique et historique" as part of to the "Relation historique". The first sentence of the letter probably refers to this publication: "My request with M. Maze was futile; he does not remember the posters published by Vendries [!] but he [Vendryès] could easily inform you about them". Nicolas Maze was the most successful publisher of the "Relation historique": between 1814 and 1826 he published several volumes of Humboldt's ultimately unfinished travelogue. - With collector's note in pencil. Well preserved.
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