‎Autographes‎

‎Massenet (Jules).‎

‎Une belle photographie d'époque ainsi qu'un billet autographe signé.‎

‎Paris, vers 1900. Une photographie en sépia de 12,7x9,4 cm contrecollée sur carton; ainsi qu'un billet "à porter" sur papier bleu, adressé à Auguste Dorchain et son épouse Bel état. "...quel homme de théâtre vous êtes et quel poète vous restez…". Photo sur demande.‎

‎Manuscrits et Autographes; Ancien Régime, Révolution, Empire... Ensemble de six catalogues de vente aux enchères .‎

‎Paris et Lille, 1996-2000. Ensemble de six catalogues de format grands in 8°; environ 350 pp.; nombreuses illustrations. Bel état. Détail: 1 cat. "Lettres et Manuscrits autographes, Documents Historiques" par T. Bodin; 1 cat. "Succession de M. Et Mme Robert Perreau", par Mme Vidal-Mégret, H. Prouté; 1 cat. "Livres-Autographes, Souvenirs de Familles Royales", par A. Nicolas; 1 cat. "Lettres et Documents Historiques", par J.E. Raux; 1 cat. "Autographes et Documents; Révolution-Empire", par B. Testart; 1 cat. "La Révolution et le Premier Empire"par F. Giard (Lille). Environ 2300 numéros décrits.‎

‎Autographes, Documents Historiques, Manuscrits... Ensemble de trois catalogues de vente aux enchères à Paris et d'un catalogue de vente de libraire de St. Germain en Laye, .‎

‎Paris, 1997-2000. Ensemble de 4 catalogues de format in 8° ou in 4°; environ 300 pp.; quelques reproductions. Bel état. Détail: 1 cat. De la librairie "Collections du Passé", St. Germain en Laye; s.d.; 1 cat. "Lettres et Manuscrits Autographes...succession Eugène Rossignol", par T. Bodin, mai 1997; 1 cat. "Bibliothèque d'un ancien Député", par J. Benelli, mai 2000; 1 cat. "Autographes et Documents Historiques", par T. Bodin, mai 2000. Environ 3400 numéros décrits.‎

‎Autographes, Editions Originales, Grands Papiers, livres... Ensemble de six catalogues de vente au enchères à Paris ainsi que de deux catalogues de vente de libraires..‎

‎Paris, Drouot, 1988-2002. Ensemble de 8 catalogues de formats in 8° ou in 4°; environ 450 pp.; nombreuses reproductions. Comme neufs. Détail: 2 cat. "Librairie Castéean, Toulouse; Lettres et autographes, E.O.; 1 cat. "Bibliothèque Maurice Saillet", par B Lolliée, mars 1998; 1 cat. "Bibliothèque du Colonel Siklès", Quatorzième partie, par J. Vidal-Mégret, T. Bodin, juillet 1993; 1 cat. "Lettres et Manuscrits Autographes..." par T. Bodin, mai 2002; 1 cat. "Livres et Autographes" par D. Gomez, avril 2000; 1 cat." Ancienne Bibliothèque de Marcel Prévost", par Bodin, Lhermitte, Dey, juillet 1999; 1 cat. "Autographues, livres anciens et modernes", par A. Nicolas, mai 2001. Environ 2000 numéros décrits.‎

‎Favier (Jean et Lucie).‎

‎Archives Nationales. Quinze siècles d'histoire.‎

‎Paris, Nathan, 1988. Un volume de format in 4° carré de 238 PP.; entièrement imprimé sur beau papier glacé. Très nombreuses reproductions, pour la plupart en couleurs, de documents anciens. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine toile noire, titres en blanc. Jaquette illustrée en couleurs. Marque de pli sur les deux premières pages; sinon parfait état. Poids: 1,8kg.‎

‎La Mésangère (Pierre Antoine Leboux de); Boutet (Henri).‎

‎Les Petits Mémoires de Paris. Volume I seul. "Les Coulisses de l'Amour".‎

‎Un volume de format très petit in 4° (14x10cm); de 128 pp.; illustré de 4 eaux-fortes originales par Henri Boutet. Reliure de l'époque en demi veau tabac , marbré; dos à 5 nerfs; tête marbrée; décor et titres dorés au dos; date en pied. Couverture conservée (H. Mériot). Rares et discrètes rousseurs dans le texte. Exemplaire désirable. Peu fréquent. Long et intime envoi autographe signé, daté du 7 octobre 1908, de Boutet à Henry Mériot , alors relieur d'art réputé sis à Rochefort sur Mer; à ses heures poète de la Charente. Ex-libris d'Henry Mériot. Voir les photos.‎

‎Arima (Imko).‎

‎Un carton d'entrée aux Conférences d'Enseignement Supérieur de Cannes de 1960 au nom de Mme. Baudier et signée au dos par Imko Arima en Japonais puis en Français.‎

‎Bon état. Voir les photos.‎

‎Kérillis (Henri de).‎

‎Autographes d'Henri de Kérillis Directeur du "Centre de Propagande des Républicains Nationaux. Pour La Lutte Contre le Socialisme et Le Communisme".‎

‎Ensemble de trois pièces: Une lettre dactylographiée de demande de participation financière; avec les signatures autographes du Vice-Amiral Amet et d'Henri de Kérillis; deux cartes de visite de "L'Echo de Paris" avec quelques lignes d'Henri de Kérillis. Bel état. Considéré comme de "Droite Modéré" le "centre" avait pour objectifs la recherche de sources de financement et de propagande pour la droite de l'époque. Voir les photos.‎

‎Bedel (Maurice).‎

‎Géographie de Mille Hectares. Service de Presse.‎

‎Un volume broché de format petit in 8° de 144 pp.; couverture illustrée, rempliée. Quelques rousseurs sur les gardes; sinon bel état; bel envoi autographe signé de l'auteur. Voir les photos.‎

‎Maupassant (Guy de).‎

‎Le Rosier de Madame Husson. Edition Originale.‎

‎Un volume de format petit in 4° de 1 f. bl.; 1 f. (faux-titre et justification); frontispice de Jules Després gravé par Abot; 1 f. titre; 4à pp.; texte illustré en encadrement par Habert Dys. Reliure de l'époque en demi maroquin à coins violine; dos mosaïqué à 5 nerfs richement orné; date en pied. Couverture entièrement conservée.. Tête dorée. Envoi autographe de Guy de Maupassant à un certain Monsieur Yrondy (le photographe?). Exemplaire N° 943/1000 sur vélin du Marais après 40+10 Japon. Tirage total à 1050 exemplaire. Infimes défauts à la reliure. Très pâles traces de rousseurs sur la couverture. Exemplaire désirable.‎

‎D'Agraives (jean).‎

‎Les Portes du Monde.‎

‎Un volume broché de format in 8° carré de 248 pp.; couverture en couleurs conservé. Reliure de l'éditeur en pleine toile brune, titre doré au dos. Bon état. Papier de Guerre. Très bel envoi autographe signé à un haut responsable français en Egypte. Voir les photos. Pâles rousseurs sur les gardes. Peu fréquent.‎

‎Mutafian.‎

‎Mutafian. Affiche éditée à l'occasion de l'exposition à la Galerie Yvette Morin du 9 au 29 mars 1966.‎

‎Une seule affiche de dimensions 46,5 x 63 cm; lithographie de Jacques Gourdon. Signature autographe de l'artiste. Très bel état de fraîcheur. Voir photo.‎

‎Genevoix (Maurice).‎

‎Le Jardin dans L'île. Roman.‎

‎Un volume broché de format in 8° de 284 pp.; envoi autographe signé de l'auteur. Bel état. Voir les photos.‎

‎Collectif.‎

‎Bibliothèque du Professeur Millot; Livres et Autographes du Dix-Septième. Vente à l4Hôtel Drouot en 1975.‎

‎Un volume broché de format grand in 8° de 100 pp. environ sur papier glacé; 412 numéros décrits Bel état. Voir photos. Certains résultats de la vente sont notés.‎

‎Nichols, J. L. (Editor).‎

‎THE FARMERS' MANUAL AND COMPLETE ACCOUNTANT; NEW METHODS OF PENMANSHIP; LAW WITHOUT A LAWYER. How To Breed, How To Train, And How To Doctor Horses. Cattle, Hogs, Sheep and Poultry.‎

‎pp. 388, (2) [Index], (2) [Useful Tables and Advertisements]. Profusely illustrated. Includes blank forms for weather notes, accounts, etc. some filled out for meals and bed for Mr. Jewett Pozer, hired help of Miss Faulkinghains, Miss Moors. Title page torn without loss and soiled. Lacks end papers. 4to. Original publisher's cloth binding, worn and soiled. AG BX 1‎

‎Clauder, Henry T.‎

‎BIRTHDAY AND AUTOGRAPH ALBUM.‎

‎No pagination. All edges gold. Slight age stain. 8vo. Original full gold decorated leather binding. Lavender fly leaves. The binding is very well made and preserved. The spaces for the autographs are not filled out, but this is a wonderful artifact of the early era of the mania for autograph collecting . Letter from Henry Clauder sending this album and thanking the great historian Benson J. Lossing for his autograph when Lossing was last in Bethlehem, PA. An ususual and handsome piece. RARE. Bindings. NW53‎

‎Adelman, Seymour.‎

‎NAME AND NATURE OF A. E. HOUSMAN. From the Collection of Seymour Adelman.‎

‎54p. Tall 8vo. Illustrated. Original printed wraps. "Designed by Freeman Keith and Printed and Bound by Meriden-Stinehour Press." **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF4‎

‎Mach, Rudolf and Ormsby, Eric L.‎

‎HANDLIST OF ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS. (New Series) In The Princeton University Library.‎

‎pp. xiv, 402. 8vo. Original black cloth binding. Concise description of 1,626 Arabic works in the Princeton University Library's collection of Arabic Manuscripts known as the New Series. Originally Published at $ 99.00 **PRICE JUST REDUCED REF6‎

‎Osley, A. S.‎

‎SCRIBES & SOURCES. Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century. With an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe.‎

‎291p. Illustrated. Tall 8vo. Original red cloth binding. Original dust jacket. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! REF4‎

‎Darley, John Richard, Bishop. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh.‎

‎THE GRECIAN DRAMA. A Treatise on the Dramatic Literature of the Greeks.‎

‎pp. xix, 549, (1)[Errata], (1)[Publisher's advertisement]. 8vo. 22 cm. Partially unopened. Original full cloth binding embossed in blind; rear joint repaired. Manuscript ownership of Richard Mansfield (1857-1907), who was considered the greatest actor of his era. Printed bookplate of J. Mortimer Lichtenauer (b. 1876), a famous art collector and painter of mural decorations in a Grecian style. The text includes "Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry" (Twining's translation); "Excerpta Critica" (Canons of Criticism from Various Sources); "Examination Papers"; Etc. This Irish classic in the history and criticism of Greek drama is quite scarce in the marketplace. John Richard Darley (1799-1884) was born in Fairfield, County Monaghan, Ireland, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin. He was appointed headmaster of Dundalk Grammar School in 1826, and of the Royal School Dungannon in 1831. In 1874 he was consecrated Bishop of Kilmore. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W121‎

‎Sydney (Sidney), Algernon; Hollis, Thomas; Civil War Era Manuscript Political Commentary.W/‎

‎THE WORKS OF ALGERNON SYDNEY. A New Edition. [Edited by Thomas Hollis].‎

‎pp. (8), 540, (2), 22, 56, 57, 65 , 32, 33 + A handsome bust portrait engraved by Basire, after Cipriani. Portrait offset on to the unusual title page. Some old foxing. Large 4to. 295 mm. x 240 mm. Modern plain full leather binding. Hardbound. Very good. ** WITH AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA (1863) MANUSCRIPT NOTES AND ANNOTATIONS. Edited by the great 'Republican' Thomas Hollis, with additions and corrections by Joseph Robertson, this edition includes: Memoirs of the Life of Algernon Sydney; Discourses Concerning Government; Letters of Algernon Sydney, taken from Thurloe's State Papers; The Protector's Advice to Algernon Sydney; Letters of Algernon Sydney, taken from the Sydney papers; Letters of A. Sydney to Henry Savile, Ambassador in France; The Trial of A. Sydney; The Apology of A. Sydney in the Day of his Death; and A General view of Government in Europe. This is an important book in the history of the ideas that founded the American republic, but what is perhaps most interesting about this copy are the manuscript notes and annotations written, in a careful small hand, in America, during the Civil War (1863). A few of these struck our eye, and we're glad to reproduce a few selections here: "I have lately undertaking to read Algernon Sydney on government. There is great difference in reading a book at four and twenty and at eighty eight. As often as I have read it and fumbled it over, it now excites fresh admiration that this work has excited so little interest in the literary world. As splendid an edition of it as the art of printing can produce, as well as for the intrinsic merits of the work, as for the proof it brings of the bitter sufferings of the advocates of liberty from that time to this, and to show the slow progress of moral, philosophical, political illumination in the world, ought to now be published in America" - John Adams to Thomas Jefferson 17 September, 1823. ".the danger in America. arises from (1) the indifference of the people to the character of their deputies; (2) the disinclination of good men to go as deputies; (3) and the inclination of bad men to go as such. The rottenness of our law making bodies has reached such a point that if it shall not soon be cured it can not longer endure." - 1863. "Among the causes, which have brought the USA to their present unhappy condition, may be reckoned, as a leading one, the predominance in their councils of mere municipal lawyers. The low morals and the crass ignorance (of these) are not equal to the work of government, filched by them from a blindly confiding people. A profession proverbially selfish and dishonest can not produce statesmen, however fecund it may be of politicians. The conduct of government is the work of statesmen - of unselfish, honest, high-hearted, great-minded men = that class has disappeared and has given way to small country lawyers whose minds exercise only upon petty squabbles of the neighborhood, incapable of grasping the vast concerns of a nation. Bad as this is, there is something worse. and that is that the profession of the law is every year sinking lower in ignorance and in contempt, while at the same time it is rising in power." - 1863. These manuscript annotations make this copy UNIQUE, and very worthy of further study. W150. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!‎

‎Furlong, Charles Wellington.‎

‎LET 'ER BUCK. A Story Of The Passing Of The Old West. With Fifty Illustrations Taken From Life By The Author And Others.‎

‎pp. xxxviii, 242 + Frontis and 35 monochrome photo plates. Illustrated vignette of a saddle within an embossed frame on title page. Text drawings. Autographed manuscript presentation from the Author: "To my friend Charles H. Thurber: In appreciation of the great work he has done in the advancement of education in the United States as a publisher and also as a token of a long and valued friendship. Charles W. Furlong, Boston / Mar. 20, 1922." Small 8vo. Original full blue cloth binding, slightly rubbed. Front board decorated with a pasted on photograph of a bucking bronco by W. S. Bowman. First edition; second impression. Adams. Rampaging Herd #866. Hardbound. Very good. Unique. Furlong (1874-1967) was an American explorer, writer, artist and photographer from Massachusetts. His world travels led to a decline in his overall health, in order to get better he traveled to the American West as Theodore Roosevelt had done earlier. American cowboy/rodeo classic. W6‎

‎Aeschines and Demosthenes.‎

‎AISXINOU O KTA KTHSIFWNTOS KAI DHMOSQENOYS O PERI STEFANOY LOGOS. [ORATIONS]. Interpretione Latinam P. Foulkes & J. Freind. Editio Secunda.‎

‎pp. (14), 182, (18). The very thin paper used to cancel a4 and b4 has deteriorated - completely on a4. Text in Greek with Latin notes. Three engraved portraits have apparently been removed. ** Extensive manuscript translations into English. 8vo. (in 4). [18 5 x 113 mm.] Contemporary full calf binding. Boards tooled in blind with several frames. Cracked at joints. Early ownerships, including: Jacob Nash, Oxford and E.G. Davis, 1847. Dibdin I:487. Aeschine s (Ca. 390?314 B.C.), Athenian orator and polititian, was a great rival of Demosthenes (384??322 B.C.). He rose from humble circumstances and became powerful in politics because of his oratorical gift s. At first he opposed Philip II of Macedon, then later changed sides, arguing that resistance to Macedonian power was useless. Both he and Demosthenes were members of the embassy to Philip in 348 B.C ., and afterward Demosthenes bitterly and baselessly accused Aeschines of accepting Macedonian bribes. He was to have been joined in his action by Timarchus, but Aeschines prevented this by his oratio n Against Timarchus (345 B.C.). Aeschines defended himself well in his oration On the False Legation (342 B.C.)?a title also used by Demosthenes in his accusatory oration. The trouble between the orat ors grew and culminated in a dispute over a gold crown that the orator Ctesiphon proposed should be given Demosthenes in 330 B.C. Aeschines brought suit with Against Ctesiphon. Demosthenes replied wit h his sturdy defense On the Crown. Aeschines lost and was fined, and retired to Asia Minor where, according to Plutarch, he lived as a professional Sophist. This is offered as much for its manuscript interest as for it being an early printing. W120‎

‎Cruise, William (d. 1824).‎

‎A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, RESPECTING REAL PROPERTY. First American Edition, Carefully Corrected From The London. The whole of Vol. I. and part of Vol. II of the English Edition.‎

‎Two volumes in one. pp. xxxi, 558; 255. Misbound with some signatures repeated. Maybe missing one or two leaves of text in title 10. Mixed signatures and pagination. Signed twice with the manuscript autograph of the original owner, Garret Dorset Wall (1783-1850). Wall was an attorney who commanded a New Jersey regiment in the War of 1812. In 1829 he was elected Governor of New Jersey, but declined to serve. He was U.S. Senator for New Jersey form 1835-1841. Foxed. Damp stain. 240 mm. Original worn full polished roan binding with scroll on edges of boards. Original leather spine label. Spine very worn with loss. Extremely important text on the law of Real-Estate issued for an American audience. This edition (two volumes in one) seems to be quite scarce and much rarer than the (five volume?) edition issued in the same year by Alsop, Brannan and Alsop. S&S/AI 14804; Cohen 9459. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 7‎

‎New York State Freedom Train Commission.‎

‎OFFICIAL DOCUMENT BOOK NEW YORK STATE FREEDOM TRAIN.‎

‎pp. 72. Highly illustrated. Useful photographic reproductions of the rare and/or unique original documents. Original blue full cloth binding. Mildly XLib. From the introduction: The objective of the New York State Freedom Train was to provide a 'university on wheels' which as it tours the State will give every student, and adult person, the opportunity see and study firsthand the original documents of his heritage. This official book is designed as a "primer" to aid this study; it reproduces faithfully the documents - some yellowed with age; others scarred by fire - as they as shown on the train, and identifies them with a few salient facts and dates. No effort has been made to editorialize or to give opinion. This right is reserved for the reader. OVERSIZE 6 / YORK HS. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!‎