‎Autographes‎

‎Huguette Chevallard Filippi‎

‎RENAISSANCES‎

‎Bel exemplaire enrichit d'un envoi autographe de l'auteur au poète Dominique Combette Broché 190x140. 112pp. Edition de la Revue Moderne 1954 Dominique Combette ( 1890-1958) . Poète. - Journaliste et rédacteur en chef de la revue "Le Cerf-volant". - A obtenu le prix de l'Académie française en 1956 pour Le Bol de Jade. ref/100‎

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‎Huguette Chevallard-Filippi‎

‎LA MER INTÉRIEURE Poèmes‎

‎Bel exemplaire enrichit d'un envoi autographe de l'auteur au poète Dominique Combette Broché 190x140. 31pp. Edition de la Revue Moderne 1953 Dominique Combette ( 1890-1958) . Poète. - Journaliste et rédacteur en chef de la revue "Le Cerf-volant". - A obtenu le prix de l'Académie française en 1956 pour Le Bol de Jade. ref/100‎

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‎Huguette, ex Huguette Duflos‎

‎Heures d'actrice‎

‎Bel envoi autographe en page de faux titre volume in-8, 19x15, bon état intérieur, usures de la couverture, 220pages. La nouvelle revue critique, 1929 ref/8‎

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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

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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).‎

‎Manuscrit daté de juillet 1858 consacré à l'étude de l'Histoire naturelle et rédigé dans une belle écriture XIXe, bien lisible. Il est divisé en plusieurs champs d'étude : la zoologie, la botanique, la minéralogie et la géologie. L'étudiante en question, Évelina Huillard semble être la mère de Jean-Joseph Marquet de Vasselot, un historien de l'art qui devint le directeur du Musée national du Moyen Âge ou musée de Cluny. Un intéressant témoignage de l'éducation en sciences naturelles d'une femme du milieu du XIXe siècle en France. Voir photographie(s) / See picture(s) * Membre du SLAM et de la LILA / ILAB Member. La librairie est ouverte du lundi au vendredi de 14h à 19h. Merci de nous prévenir avant de passer,certains de nos livres étant entreposés dans une réserve.‎

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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.‎

‎Peu commun, Bon état, bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur.‎

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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

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 28988

‎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.‎

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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......‎

Referentie van de boekhandelaar : 13585

‎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

‎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

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("Humboldt"). Paris, "Samedi" [1824-25].‎

‎Small 8vo. 2¾ pp. on bifolium. In French. Charming letter to a close friend, asking for "minuscule corrections" of a text. In a self-described "grand prelude" Humboldt expresses his deep attachment to the unnamed recipient: "in the past weeks you were missed by my spirit and my heart more than ever". The letter can be dated to 1824-25 due to comments about the passing of King Louis XVIII on 16 September 1824 and the beginning of the rule of Charles X: "We had talked about the strength of character that Louis XVIII has so nobly exhibited during his long and painful agony, about that worthy attitude that the people have shown, and about those wise and just measures that the new king has taken from the first days of his rule". Humboldt comments, perhaps jokingly, that "the entire world is content except for my illustrious friend from Jerusalem, who is agitated and believes that the graces are rather distant". The "illustrious friend from Jerusalem" could not be identified. The text that he originally sent with the letter was apparently "riddled with proper names and numbers". Humboldt urges the recipient to perform his corrections "with the despotism that makes life so easy for a work-shy subject". In closing, Humboldt asks the recipient to indicate a time for their next possible meeting and sends warm greetings to his family. - Two French publications by Humboldt are likely candidates for his corrections. In the summer of 1825, the fifth instalment of his important "Relation historique" appeared: this part of the monumental report of Humboldt's Spanish American expedition comprises several scientific essays and measurements that would fit the facetious description of a "sheet riddled with proper names and numbers". His 1825 geological essay "Esquisse d'un tableau géognostique de l'Amérique méridionale, au nord de la rivière des Amazones et à l'est du méridien de la Sierre Nevada de Mérida" falls in the same category. - Humboldt's most intimate friend in Paris was the astronomer François Arago. From a diary entry of the German geographer Carl Ritter we know that Humboldt was keenly interested in the events surrounding the death of Louis XVIII. The day after the King's passing, Humboldt belatedly joined a soirée of Arago's, bringing the latest news from the palace. - With small loss to paper through breaking of the seal, trace of old restauration and recipient's note in brown ink "M. de humboldt". Cf. U. Leitner, Humboldt, Cotta, Ritter. Eine Miszelle über die Arbeit an einer Edition. In: International Review for Humboldt Studies 16, 2008.‎

‎Humboldt, Alexander von, German naturalist and explorer (1769-1859).‎

‎Autograph letter signed. Berlin, 22. II. 1840.‎

‎Folio. 3 pp. on bifolium. In French. Highly interesting letter to the diplomat, traveller, and historian Henri Ternaux-Compans who had succeeded Humboldt as editor of the periodical "Annales des voyages, de la géographie et de l'histoire" founded in 1819. Humboldt grants a request to "continue to place my name among the editors of the Annales des Voyages" as a courtesy to Ternaux-Compans, who had previously given him access to his collections. However, Humboldt goes to great lengths to explain this personal favour, as he did not usually permit his name to be attached to such projects, given his position. His participation as an editor between 1836 and 1839 had already been a personal favour to the publisher Théophile-Étienne Gide, who had "affectionately pressed" him. In a curious request, he asks for his name to be removed in the event that Ternaux-Compans should leave the Annales before Humboldt is "placed among the fossil corpses". - Although his personal involvement appears to have been largely symbolic, Humboldt is highly critical of the publication and offers advice for its improvement. Given the severity of his criticism, he asks Ternaux-Compans not to show the letter to his predecessor Jean-Baptiste-Benoît Eyriès, for whom he expresses great admiration as a scientist, or any "person who might tell him about it". For Humboldt, the Annales were from the start, under their first editor Conrad Malte-Brun, "of bleak mediocrity", even if he ranks the journal above the "Bulletin de la Société de géographie de Paris". He attributes this mediocrity to a lack of scientific data and other relevant information: "of astronomically determined positions, of elevation determinations, of indications for average temperatures, of catalogues of maps published abroad, of detailed insights concerning the magnetic stations, of expeditions to the South Pole". Therefore, the Annales is a publication for amateurs, and even for them it is "too jejune", providing no interest to readers who wish to know what is "discovered on the surface of the globe". By contrast, Humboldt praises several German publications, such as Heinrich Christian Schumacher's "Astronomische Nachrichten" and the "Deutsche Vierteljahresschrift", wherein Humboldt himself published. His advice to Ternaux-Compans is to collaborate with people "who possess scientific knowledge in a distinguished manner", naming, e.g., the engineer Pierre Daussy, the cartographer Louis-Isidore Duperrey, and the explorer Louis de Freycinet. He further suggests to translate and publish articles from the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, which is "admirably edited", and, finally, to consult the archaeologist Jean-Antoine Letronne. - Tears to the folds and margins, minimally affecting the text, partly repaired and reinforced with adhesive tape. With a collector's note in pencil. Some browning overall.‎

‎Humboldt, Alexander von, naturalist, geographer, ethnographer and scientific traveller (1769-1859).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("A de Humboldt"). N. p. o. d.‎

‎Oblong small 8vo. 1 p. Mounted. To a General, looking forward to a meeting in Berlin: "Je me flatte de l'espoir que nous posséderons dans quelques jours Votre Excellence à Berlin: cependant je suis bien désireux de pouvoir, ce soir même, lui renouveller l'hommage de la haute considération que je lui ai vouée. Je demande si ces lignes Vous trouveront, cher General, à Votre hôtel ! Une réponse verbale suffit. Que je serais heureux d'apprendre que l'aimable Madame de Bazaine (?) ait quitté aussi pour quelque tems Votre pays 'aux plumes d'Herodote'. Mille respects et hommages!" - Slight damage to edges.‎

‎Humboldt, Alexander von, naturalist, geographer, ethnographer and scientific traveller (1769-1859).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("AVHumboldt"). Potsdam, 30 June 1848.‎

‎Large 4to. 1½ pp. on bifolium. A letter of recommendation to an unnamed "Excellency" on behalf of Heinrich (Henry) Lange, a young geographer and painter who had once worked on A. K. Johnston's "Physical Atlas", and whom Humboldt wanted to provide with a position at the Prussian Plankammer. - Contemporary note; somewhat spotty and minor edge defects.‎

‎Humboldt, Alexander von, Naturforscher (1769-1859).‎

‎Eigenh. Brief mit U. "a Paris, ce mardi".‎

‎1 S. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An einen Staatsrat mit der Bitte, ihm seine Aufwartung machen zu dürfen: "Je demande comme une faveur particulière à Monsieur le Conseiller d'Etat de pouvoir lui offrir mes hommages a Son hôtel après demain jeudi à midi. Ce sont des occupations souvent peu littéraires qui m'ont empêché de remplir ce devoir. Mr de Dalmatie Vous aura mandé combien je regrette de ne pas avoir pu réussir jusqu' ici dans ma petite négociation qui me tient à cour. Je suis de n'en être pas moins bien reçu, en Vous priant, Monsieur le Conseiller d'Etat, d'agréer avec bonté l'expression de ma haute Considération [...]". - Stellenweise gering fleckig.‎

‎Humboldt, Alexander von, Naturforscher (1769-1859).‎

‎Eigenh. Brief mit U. O. O., 11. I. 1843.‎

‎1½ SS. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An einen nicht genannten Adressaten betreffs der Übersendung seiner 1810 erschienenen "Vues de Cordillères et monuments des peuples indigènes de l'Amérique": "Dans ces moments heureux où en Vous voyant créer, j'ai pu jouir aussi, en Vous écoutant, de tout ce que la chaleur de l'âme et l'élévation des sentiments aujourd'hui à l'intelligence, je Vous ai parlé quelquefois de la nature majestueuse des Cordillères, des premières essais de sculpture des Peuples à demi barbare: Permettez, mon cher ami, que je place parmi Vos livres le monstrueux Volume de mes 'Vues de Cordillères et Monuments des Peuples indigènes de l'Amérique' [...]".‎

‎Humboldt, Alexander von, Naturforscher und Geograph (1769-1859)‎

‎Eigenh. beschriftete, gestoch. Visitenkarte.‎

‎o.J. , Ohne Ort und Jahr [Berlin, um 1848], 4,5 x 8 cm. 1 Seite. Auf ein beschriftetes Quartblatt montiert.‎

‎Gestochener Name "Alexandre de Humboldt" auf weißem Glanzpapier mit eigenh. Beschriftung: "hommage respectueux de devouement et d'affection pour Mr le Cte Egon de Fürstenberg-Stammheim." - Humboldt und der Politiker Franz Egon Graf von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (1797-1859) trafen sich am preußischen Hof im Potsdamer Stadtschloß am 2. April 1848 um 20 Uhr zu Tee und Souper. Dem vorausgegangen war eine Audienz am 20. Januar 1848. - Humboldts Visitenkarte bildet sozusagen die Galionsfigur zu einem Visitenkartenalbum der höfischen und zivilen Gesellschaft um 1850 in Berlin und im Rheinland: "Visitenkarten Album H" (goldgepr. Deckeltitel). Klebealbum mit 170 weiteren mont. Visitenkarten auf 37 Blättern. Braunes Ldr. d. Zt. mit Glanzpapiervorsätzen, dreiseit. Goldschnitt und 1 Schließe von 2 (etw. bestoßen und beschabt). - Karten aus den Familien Hohenlohe, Hohenzollern, Holstein, Hatzfeld, Hompesch, Heckel von Donnersmarck, Hardenberg, Hoym, Hiller von Gärtringen, von der Heydt u. v. a., sowie H[einrich] Heimsoeth (1811-1887), A. Hesselberg, Alb. Heising, Hermes, Chr[istian] Fr[iedrich] Harless (1773-1853), W. Hensel, [Karl Wilhelm Ludwig] Heyse (1797-1855), Dr. Hasenclever, Humann, Hagemann, Julius Hübner (1806-1882), dazu zahlreiche Damenkarten. - Einige Karten sind gelocht (sie wurden nach Erledigung aufgespießt) oder wurden an den Ecken geknickt, eine übliche Kennzeichnung von persönlichen Besuchern: links oben bedeutete Besuch bei Abwesenheit, links unten Glückwünsche, rechts oben Abschiedsgruß, rechts unten Kondolenz. - Die hier gesammelten Karten meist in Stahlstich und Lithographie auf weißem Glanzpapier. Visitenkarten wurden gesammelt und bilden in ihrer Gesamtheit ein Netzwerk gesellschaftlicher Verbindungen ab. - Möglicherweise aus dem Besitz von Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim, der sowohl im Rheinland als auch in Berlin politisch wirksam war.‎

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‎Humboldt, Alexander von, Naturforscher und Geograph (1769-1859)‎

‎Eigenh. Brief mit U. "A v Humboldt".‎

‎o.J. Ohne Ort und Jahr, "Dienstag Nacht" [Berlin, 1850], Gr.-8° (21,5 x 13,5 cm). 1 Seite. Doppelblatt.‎

‎"Ich bin noch ganz gerührt, theuerste Excellenz, von der Zartheit, mit der Sie meine Bitte für Dr. Schlesier so großsinnig zu erfüllen streben. Die 'nächste Zukunft des Bundesstaats' ist sicher ganz auch die meinige geworden. Es ist die Schrift eines ebenso talentvollen als staatsmännisch erfahrenen Politikers. Der Verfasser - er hat für mich eine befreundete Stimme und S. 22-29 beweisen, daß er der vaterländischen Sprache auf das anmutigste mächtig ist. Als das Fragment des Cicero de republica gefunden ward sagte [Abel Francois] Villemain in der Vorrede der Ausgabe [1823]: Si l'ouvrage n'est pas de Ciceron même, il est d'un homme qui en est inspiré de ces idées profondes et généreuses [...] Gegen S. 33 (die Identität des Volkshauses mit der zweiten Preuß. Kammer) - rebelliere ich im Stillen [...]" - Der jungdeutsche Schriftsteller Gustav Schlesier (1810-1881) lebte 1850 in Stuttgart, kam aber 1852 nach Berlin, wo er 1854 durch Empfehlung von Alexander von Humboldt eine Beamtenstelle erhielt. - Die anonym erschienene 44-seitige Flugschrift "Die nächste Zukunft des deutschen Bundesstaats und die Aufgaben des ersten Erfurter Reichstags" war 1850 bei Reimer in Berlin erschienen, dem Jahr, in welchem das Erfurter Unionsparlament tagte. Als Verfasser wird Ludwig Emil Mathis vermutet.‎

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