BAUDELAIRE, Charles (1821-1867)
Autograph letter signed « C.B. » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Brussels], « Monday 13th November 1865 », 4 p. in-8°
« I feel forgotten. I am sad. I’m no longer good for anything. I’m bored to death »
Autograph letter signed « C.B. » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Brussels], « Monday 13th November 1865 », 4 p. in-8°
« I feel forgotten. I am sad. I’m no longer good for anything. I’m bored to death »
A set of seventeen autograph letters signed, accompanied with an original drawing
Guernesey, Paris, Toulon and Lunel, between 1885 and 1917, 41 p. in various formats
« It was during one of those evenings, in the middle of a storm like this, that my grandfather had to write Gilliatt’s battles »
Autograph poem : « Romance » [Seule au Rendez-vous]
N.p.n.d [after 1833], 1 p. 1/2 in-8° with her initials on top left corner
« Ô menteur ! qui disait sa vie / Nouée au fuseau de mon sort »
Autograph letter (fragment ?) [to Robert le Vigan]
N.p.n.d [c. 1955], 1 p.1/2 in-4°
« Neither Jews, nor blacks, nor whites, nor Indians exist in the face of yellow miscegenation »
Autograph manuscript signed « Paul Eluard »
N.p.n.d [c. May 1943], 6 p. in-8°
« Aux rues de petites amours / Les murs finissent en nuit noire »
Autograph letter signed « Louis-Napoléon » [to Marie Trotter]
Camden Place, Chislehurst (Kent), the 25th of March, 1871, 1 p. in-8°
« Thanks be to God, the Emperor is now with us… deeply moved, as we all were, by the sympathetic reception he had received from the English nation. »
Autograph letter signed « Ton viejo bandido » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
[Prison de la Santé], 1st October 1976, 2 pp. in-4°
« They can’t make me shut my mouth… »
Autograph letter signed « de Balzac » to Charles Motte
[Paris], 8 8bre [October 1831], 2 p. in-8°
« Let me add seriously that I offer you my book »
Autograph letter (draft) to count Guy de Pourtalès
S.l, “Saturday 16 9bre [November] [19]29″, 2 p. in-8°
« The eternal return is only music »
Autograph letter signed « Barbara » to Jean [Poissonnier]
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-8°
« I am silent, struggling in dark dramas »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Reynaldo Hahn
N.p.n.d « Monday » [7th January 1907], 8 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« If you write to Montesquiou, tell him that the truth is out of his dilemma, in full improbability for those who do not know my life… »
Autograph letter signed « Max Jacob » to Pierre Lagarde
St Benoît [sur Loire], 23rd January [19]40, 1 p. in-4° with envelope
« I suffer to the point of tears and I pray very especially for you »
Autograph letter signed « Max Jacob » to Raymond Trillat
[St Benoît-sur-Loire], 12th September [1942], 2 p. in-4°
« Here daily visits to such an extent that a report was made (denunciation) to the police… »
A set of twenty-two autograph letters, of which three are signed, to Alfred de Vigny
[Paris, Reims, Versailles and Rouen], 72 p. in various formats, two autograph envelopes
« All those words in your letter are so many stabs in my heart »
Original photograph by Paul Boyer
Period albumin print (c. 1891). Carte-de-visite format
Very scarce original photograph of young Marcel Proust
Autograph (draft) letter signed « Lamartine » to Sainte-Beuve
Mâcon, [château de] St Point, 23 Nov[ember] 1836, 4 pp. in-4°
« I steal a few early hours from my nights for our sweet and strong youthful dreams »
Autograph letter to Léonce de Lavergne
Paris, 6th August 1838, 3 p. 1/2 small in-4° on bifolio
« I walked on this beach where Bonaparte took his last step »
Letter signed « Necker de Staël » to Claire de Duras
[Paris] Sunday 11th May [1817], 3 pp. in-8°
« I have, thank God, never harmed anyone with whom I have had dealings »
Autograph letter signed « Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, “14.[0]4.[19]61”, 1 p. 1/4 in-4°
« We have been here since yesterday and will be staying for a few days »
Autograph letter signed « Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, 24th June 1959, 1 p. in-8° in blue thick pencil
« You just left this morning and I’m already bothering you again »
Autograph letter signed in the third person « M. de Balzac » to Maurice Schlesinger
N.d.n.p, Sunday [1837], 1/2 p. in-8 with autograph address
“It is absolutely necessary to agree on Gambara”
Autograph letter signed « Jacques » to Claudy Carter
S.l.n.d [Paris, c. 1947], 4 pp. grand in-4°
« I didn’t want you to think I was forgetting you »
Autograph letter signed « Votre Picasso » to Max Pellequer
[Château de] Vauvenargues, « the 27.[0]4.[19]59 », 1 p. in-4°
« I’ll write to you later or tomorrow at greater length »
Original drawing, inscribed to Reynaldo Hahn : « R.H. (Bininuls) »
N.p.n.d [c. 1909 ?], 1 p. in-8° in black ink on laid paper
Precious drawing by the writer, dedicated to his « Bininuls »
Autograph letter signed « M » to André Malraux
[Paris, 6th February 1928], 1 p. petit in-8°
« Grasset doesn’t like your novel, and Paulhan admires it very much »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Verlaine » to Léon Deschamps
Paris, 19th October 1890, 1 p. in-8°
« I had accompanied, very young and all obscure as I was, the coffin of Baudelaire »
Autograph letter signed « LF » to Jean-Gabriel Daragnès
N.p, [Danemark], « le Dimanche » [25th June 1950], 4 p. in-folio
« I think we’re going to get back on a lease with life »
Autograph letter signed « Jules Renard » à Georges Moreau
[Paris], 22nd May 1896, 1 p. in-8° on laid paper
« Would it be nice for you to reproduce… the two drawings form the cover of Vallotton? »
Two autograph letters signed « Jean Cocteau » to Henri Duvernois
N.p.n.d, c. 1912, 2 p. in-4°
« Not an article about “Dance”. It’s funny! »
Two autograph letters signed « Jacqueline » to Angelika de Kostrowitsky
[Paris, 4th and 6th January 1918], 2 p. in-8°
« The local major sent him to the hospital where he was trepanned »
Autograph letter signed « Fély » to Octave Uzanne
[Paris, c. 1890], 1 p. in-12
« My old anti-Semitic blood goes six rounds. We should put on these thieves the yellow collar »
Autograph letter signed « Louis-Napoléon » to Édouard Frémy
Camden Place, 16th March 1872, 1 p. 1/2 petit in-8°
« I will reread these pages, which, as you say so well, are made to console us, and to give us hope for a better future »
Autograph letter signed « Robert Louis Stevenson » to Hubert Smith-Stainer
Edinburgh, [Pitlochry, 6th June 1881], 3 pp. in-8°
« Two or three nights under the stars… »
Autograph letter signed « EL VIEJO » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
Fresnes prison, « QHS » 3rd March 1977, 2 pp. in-4°
« I wrote a letter to Badinter to put him in his place! because I accept criticism… but not from a guy like him »
Autograph letter signed « Victor Hugo » [to Edgar Quinet ?]
H.H., 7th July, 1 p. in-8° on blue laid paper
« I see it in England, alas, narrow and intolerant, and profoundly hostile to progress »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Valéry » to Maurice Noël
N.p.n.d « Wednesday » [6th May 1942 ?], 2 p. in-8°
« I chatted with Gide (in Marseilles) who gave me full powers, before embarking for Tunis »
Autographe card signed « Laure de Maupassant » [to Robert Pinchon]
[Nice, c. 1890 – 1891], 2 pp. in-24°
« It was a happy time, when comedy was played in the house of Etretat… »
Autograph letter signed « Charles » to his mother, Madame Aupick
[Paris], 1st July 1853, 3 p. in-8°
« What is quite certain is that I no longer want to give anything to chance in my life, and that I claim that the will occupies the full extent of it »
Autograph letter signed « Charles Baudelaire » to Alphonse de Calonne
[Paris], 23rd February [18]64, 1 p. in-8° on blue paper
« A heavy work, I assure you, but of which I am quite happy »
Unpublished autograph manuscript, signed « Emile Zola »
[Grosvenor Hotel, London, 19 July 1898], 5 pages in-4 on ligned paper
“Of all my open letter to the president, a few lines had been skilfully extracted… to prevent the truth to shine on the Dreyfus affair”
Letter signed « Louis-Napoléon » to a gentleman
[Camden Place] Chrislehurst, 22nd March 1872, 1 p. small in-8°
« My only ambition is to be able, with God’s help, to justify the hopes of the young French people of my generation who have not forgotten me »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Hortense Cornu
[Camden Place, Chislehurst] 13th January [1875], 8 pp. in-8°, mourning paper
« What a singular destiny which makes it so that the most French hearts, the Napoleons, must all to this day be laid in a foreign coffin »
Autograph poem signed « Alex Dumas »
N.p.n.d [after 1836], 1 p. in-folio
« Virgin, to whom the chalice of bitter liquor… »
Autograph letter signed « Votre vieux Gve Flaubert » to Emile Zola
Croisset, Sunday [15 février 1880], 3 p. in-8°
« Nana turns into myth, without ceasing to be real »
Autograph letter signed « P.V » [à Maurice Noël]
N.p.n.d, « Saturday », 1 p. in-8°
« If Le Figaro finds it too abstract, send it back to me »
Autograph letter signed « François Mauriac » to Jacques Boulanger
[Paris] 89 rue de la Pompe, 31 Oct[ober] 1920, 1 p. in-12°
« Friends are telling me today about a very kind review you gave of my novel »
Autograph letter signed « LFC » and cosigned « Lucette » [to Dr Gentil]
Copenhagen, 31st August [1947], 3 p. in-folio
« I’m waiting for you with your answer to stun these idiots, to confound them, to humiliate them to death! »
Autograph notes
N.p.n.d [c. 1985-86], 1 p. in-4°
« Navy Blue Leather Glove… »
Letter signed « Lamartine » to M. Meyer
Paris, 21st May [1842], 1 p. small in-8°
« I have not received the comments on Montesquieu’s Persian letters of which you were kind enough to mention to me »
Autograph letter signed « EL VIEJO » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
Fleury-Mérogis prison, 20th January 1977, 2 pp. in-4°
« I like the new title of my book… it punches ! »
Autograph notes on press clipping
[Copenhagen, 28th October 1945], 1 p. large in-4°
« It’s like the good old days of the Gestapo! »
Autograph letter signed « Ton pirate » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
Fresnes prison, « QHS », 2nd March 1977, 2 pp. in-4°
« What a mess did my new book create »
Autograph letter signed « ton viejo » to his mistress Jeanne Schneider
Fleury-Mérogis prison, 27th September 1976, 2 pp. in-4°
« I have to die before I’m 40. Death must hurry »
Autograph letter signed twice « P Verlaine » and « P.V » to Émile Bally
Paris [1st June 1894], 3 p. 1/2 in-8° with autograph envelope
« I am there, along with Rimbaud, Valade, d’Hervilly and three or four others »
Autograph letter signed « Théophile Gautier » to Louis Fourcaud
[Paris], 17th Jan[uary] 1886, 1 p. in-8°
« Saint-Saëns and Massenet will be nothing more than fading shadows »
Period albumen print
[Liège, c. July 1893], cabinet format
Precious unpublished portrait of the artist
Autograph letter signed « Dubois » to his sister Pauline Périer-Lagrange
[Brunswick], « 29 8bre [October] 1808 » 5 p. in-4°
« I liked music as an expression of love. It seems to me that none of the women I’ve had have given me such a sweet moment… »
Autograph manuscript signed « Émile Bernard »
N.p.n.d, 10 p. in-4°
« David’s nefarious work being accomplished, Gros had died for art »
Autograph letter signed « E. Delacroix » to Félix Guillemardet
[Souillac], 30 8bre [October] 1820, 3 p. 1/2 large in-4°
« Goodbye sketches and studies. I miss you very much »
Autograph letter signed « George Sand » to Eugène Delacroix
[Nohant], 1st December [18]52, 2 p. in-8°
« No one understands you better than I do »
Autograph letter signed « Henri Bergson » to Jean Becquerel
Paris, 24 Sept[ember] 1922, 16 pages in-8°
« From the point of view of the theory of Relativity, there is no longer absolute motion or absolute immobility »
Autograph letter signed « L. Pasteur » to Professor Charles Bouchard
Paris, 19 July 1888, 3 pages in-8°
« We have tested his immunity by inoculation on the brain’s surface »
Period albumen portrait by Vezenberg & Co
Saint Petersburg [1879], cdv format
Very scarce portrait of the author of Crime and Punishment
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 1st February 1915 (post mark), 4 p. in-8° in black in on laid paper
« In the meantime, I can’t stop thinking about you… »
Autograph letter signed « Alphonse Daudet » [to Timoléon Ambroy]
[Paris, c. 23rd August 1870], 4 pp. in-12°
« It is a new instinct that is being pushed into me: the patriotic instinct »
Autograph letter signed « G Caillebotte » to Claude Monet
N.p.n.d, Friday [Petit-Gennevilliers, after 1887 ?], 3 pp. in-8°
« I have covered a lot of canvases and wasted a lot of colour »
Autograph letter signed « Pupuce » to Yves Montand
Metz, 5th April 1946, 2 pp. in-4° on the Hôtel de Metz’s letterhead
« When I get on stage, people are screaming and I haven’t sung yet, you can see that my reputation goes a long way… »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel » to Maurice [Escande]
Paris, 6th June 1967, 1 p. in-4°
« I often can’t animate myself! »
Original drawing titled « Poesia »
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-8° on double folio
Touching drawing of the poet soberly titled « Poesia »
Autograph document signed « Édit Piaf »
[Paris], 23rd May 1956, 1 p. in-8°
Professional qualification : « SINGER »
Autograph letter signed « G.S. » to Eugène Delacroix
[Paris] Postal mark [23rd December 1841], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« I saw your femmes d’Alger »
Autograph manuscript (fragment) for his novel Nord
S.l.n.d [Meudon, entre 1957 et 1859], 1 p. in-4°
« Et vlang ! referme la lourde ! malades ?.. je crois pas… mais au moins nous voici fixés ! »
Autograph letter signed “LFCéline” to his friends Descaves
Copenhagen, 7th July [1947], (c/o Mikkelsen), 2 pages in-folio
“France does not deserve its writers”
Autograph letter signed « Votre Colette » to the Guillermet
S.l, [15th April 1946], 2 p. in-8°
« If at least my book (L’étoile Vesper) had come out in time, you would have had it for your birthday »
Original photography of Victor Hugo by Alexandre Quinet
[Veules-les-Roses, c. 1882], 11,8 x 16,4 cm
Victor Hugo’s only period print at Veules-les-Roses, at his friend’s Paul Meurice
Autograph letter signed « Édit Piaf » to a friend
Paris, 6th June 1946, 1/2 p. in-4° on her letterhead
« I wish you in life to be as happy as I am right now, even with a man who doesn’t love me! »
Contract signed « Édit Piaf » and « Bruno Coquatrix »
Paris, 29th February 1956, 1 p. 1/2 in-4°
« Mrs. EDITH PIAF will do the entire second part of the show »
Autograph letter signed « Colette de Jouvenel » to Charles Sylvestre
[Paris, 21st March 1922], 1 p. in-4° with envelope
« Apart from my relatives, no one notices that Colette was a saint! »
Autograph letter signed « Colette de Jouvenel » to her « dear Sacha »
[Paris, 1923], 2 pp. in-4°
« Ripening Seed will soon be published »
Autograph manuscript signed « Jean Jaurès »
[Paris], c. 1st April 1905, 12 p. in-4°
« Several Republican groups are concerned about how to ensure the swift passage of the law on the separation of church and state »
Autograph letter signed “Antonin Artaud” to his sister Marie-Ange Malausséna
Espalion, 11th April 1946, 4 pages in-8
“High-dose heroin does not cause addiction when it is of good quality”
Autograph letter signed « P. Cl. » [to Joseph Desclausais]
W[ashington], 15th March 1933, 3 p. 1/4 large in-8°
« I thought you were theological, and I see that you know less than a 12-year-old »
Autograph letter to Jacques Pierre Brissot de Warville
N.p.n.d [Paris, soon after the 24nd of March 1792], 1 p. 1/2 small in-4°
« Here are 2 little things that seem to me likely to destroy the effect of the King’s letter… »
Autograph manuscript on his vision of poetry
N.p.n.d [50s], 6 pp. in-4°
« However, Arthur Rimbaud… »
Autograph subscription signed for the attention of Emmanuel Signoret
N.p.n.d [1892], 1 p. in-8°
« Please send me 3 newsletters for 3 subscribers »
Autograph letter signed « Gérard de Nerval » to Arsène Houssaye
[N.p], March 1850, 1/2 p. in-8 on bi-folio, autograph address on verso
« Ladies’ stalls or small lodges »
Autograph letter signed « Gérard de Nerval » to actor Pierre Bocage
[Paris], « ce mardi » [19 October 1852], 1 p. in-8°
« It seems to me that the cause is not lost »
Autograph manuscript for Le Diable et le Bon Dieu
N.p.n.d [c. 1950], 2 p. in-4° in blue ink
« It’s a hard scream in there… »
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Pauline Sandeau
Croisset près Rouen, Sunday [26th August 1860], 1 p. in-8°
« I want to see your pretty eyes, your pretty mouth & and I kiss both of your hands »
Autograph letter signed « Rimbaud » to his family
Aden, 10th September 1884, 4 pp. in-8° on laid paper
« And since every man is a slave in this miserable fatality »
Autograph letter to his sister, Pauline Périer-Lagrange
N.p, « Sunday », [13rd May 1810], 3 p. 1/4 in-4°
« My days here are filled by a woman, whom I am not in love with, but whom I constantly think about »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to Fernand Desmoulin
Médan, 8th August 1895, 2 pp. in-8°
« I ended up despising the weather, going out in the downpours, which means that I come back soaked, covered in mud »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 9th January 1915, 4 p. in-8° with envelope
« And now I know. I know that you, the being of all whom I would like to blossom in the noblest joy, that this being is heartbroken »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Camden Place, Chislehurst, 10 10bre [October 1873], 4 p. in-8°, mourning paper
« When you want an unhealthy share of popularity, you don’t know how to absolve or condemn »
Autograph letter signed « Sempé » to Gérard Leman
Paris, 15th January [19]68, 1 p. in-4° with autograph envelope
« I work so slowly… »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » [to Albert Lacroix]
Paris, 13 Sept[ember] 1867, 2 pp. in-8°
« I’m counting on a horror success »
Autograph letter signed « Louis-Napoléon » to Charles de Morny
Paris, 10th March 1865, 2 pp. in-8°
« In the future I will show you as much friendship as the Emperor showed to your father »
Autograph postcard signed « Jean Giono » to Anna Robin
Manosque, [31st August 1941], 1 p. in-8°
« I owe a great deal of my happiness to you »
[Second notice on] Pierre Dupont – Corrected proof
[Paris] 6th June 1861 [stamped], 11 p. in-8vo bradel
“The public was so tired of Victor Hugo’s tireless faculties, his indestructible beauties”
Autograph letter signed twice, « Louis Pasteur » and « LP », to Comtesse Greffulhe
Paris, 20th February 1892, 2 pages squared in-8 on double sheet, Institut Pasteur letterhead.
“Think of the unnameable number of dogs which there would be to vaccinate in Paris !”
Autograph letter signed « Françoise Sagan » to « Henri »
Paris, 167 blvd Malesherbes [c. 1950s], 3 pp. in-4°
« I’ll be happy to fail with you »
Autograph letter signed « N » to Empress Eugénie
[Camden Place, Chislehurst], 2nd August [1872], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« Your absence leaves a great void and although we live under the same roof we see little of each other, it is always very sweet to feel close to those we love »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to an unknown recipient
[Camden Place, Chislehurst], 4 February [18]73, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« Sensitive to your sympathy and the regrets you express to me for the one we mourn »
Period albumen print
[Paris, between late 1861 and early 1862]. Wet stamp « Et. Carjat »
Étienne Carjat’s masterpiece, the only known period print
Autograph letter signed « Antonin Artaud » to Adrienne Monnier
Psychiatric Hospital of Ville-Evrard, 4th March 1939, 2 p. in-4° with enveloppe
« This story of look-alikes is as old as centuries, and all the great characters throughout history have found real doubles »
Autograph letter signed « A Derain » to a gentleman
Lisieux, 31st May 1915, 1 p. in-4°
« I have been very abandoned from painting circles, I even wonder if I will ever do some again »
Autograph letter signed « G Braque » to a « dear friend »
Paris, 4th June 1943, 2 pp. in-8°
« Nature does not give us the taste for perfection, we can not conceive it better or worse »
Autograph letter signed « Maria » to Louis Viardot
[Brussels, 18th March 1832], 1 p. 1/4 in-4°
« Next Saturday Mrs. Malibran and Mr. de Bériot will be heard in a Concert given by them at the Grand Théâtre »
Autograph letter signed « Claude Bernard » to Mr Worms
N.p.n.d, 1 p. 1/2 in-12 on laid paper with his embossed initials
« If you can come one of these mornings… bring me your experimental information on cholera »
Autograph letter signed « P. Verlaine » to Armand Gouzien
Paris-Montmartre, [September-October 1871], 2 p. in-8°
« My wife, who is pregnant, was horribly unwell last night and I was on my feet and on my teeth »
Autograph letter signed « Flaubert » to Charles Vacquerie
Rouen le 12 Xbre [December] 1838, 1 p. 1/2 in-4° in black ink
« I think at this moment that a bloodletting of the arms is useful to you »
Letter signed « Duc de Bassano » to the Comte de la Chapelle, Alfred de Morton
[Camden Place, Chislehurst] July 1879, 1 p. in-8° on mourning paper
« I have been instructed by Her Majesty the Empress to convey to you her many thanks for the sentiments you have expressed to her in her immense misfortune »
Autograph manuscript
N.p.n.d [c. 1980s], 1/2 p. in-4°
« Jus de truffe… »
Autograph letter signed « Beaumarchais » to comedian Préville
Paris, 31st March 1784, 2 pp. on bi-folio in-8°
« My play isn’t a big thing ; but seeing it in the theater is the result of four years of fighting »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Farnborough Hill, Hants, 4th November 1908, 4 p. in-8°
« The 15th of November has long ceased to be a feast for me, and the ranks of those who once celebrated it are thinning every day, for death is mowing down all around us »
Autograph letter signed « JM » to Constance de Gressy
Brussels, 24 Nov[ember] [18]81, 3 pp. in-8°
« I have never written a more solid work – not a lapse in the effects – it comes out the way I wanted – I am even stunned! »
Autograph manuscript signed « Al Dumas »
S.l [Naples], 18 9bre [November] 1862, 4 pp. in-folio
« To the letter that we have put before our readers’ eyes… »
Autograph letter signed « René Char » [to Marianne Oswald]
L’Isle-sur-Sorgue, 15th Oct[ober] [19]49, 1 p. in-4°
« I’m always ill, having no envy for my books done or to be done. Life is constantly oscillating between fire and dung. »
Autograph carte-de-visite signed « GL » to Michel Alexandre Gaston Tournier
N.p.n.d, 1 p. in-24°
« Nature is… what it is »
Autograph letter signed “Ernest Delahaye” à Marcel Coulon
Maisons-Laffitte, 8th June 1929, 2 p. in-12, autograph envelope attached
“I will wait « gluttinously », as the man of A Season in Hell would say”
Autograph name card signe « AR » to M. Drefuns
N.p.n.d [Paris, after 1880], 1 p. in-24°
Charming autograph name card signed by the master
Autograph dispatch signed « Napoléon » to Charles Duperré
[Wilhlmeshoehe castle, 6-8 September 1870], 1/2 p. in-8°
« Where is the Empress »
Portrait of the Prince Impérial by Gösta Florman, period albumen print
[Stockholm, 1878], carte-de-visite format
Supere portrait of the Prince Impérial by Gösta Florman
Autograph letter signed « H. Bergson » to Raphaël Cor
Paris, 22nd March 1935, 2 p. in-8°
« I find interesting the relationship you establish between immoralism and the sexual question… »
Typed letter signed « Le Corbusier » to Charles Hary
Paris, 18th April 1854, 2 p. in-4°
« I thus conceived and produced the “POÈME de l’ANGLE DROIT”. Five years were devoted to this work, in which I wished to include an order of thoughts.. »
Autograph letter signed « Joan » to Maria [San Lazzaro]
Folgarolas 9, Barcelona, 23rd December 1955, 1 p. in-4°
« I was awfully busy preparing my next exhibition »
Autograph letter signed « Jacques Offenbach » to Hortense Schneider
S.l.n.d, « Sunday », 1 p. in-16°
« So tomorrow at 6 h 1/2 Café Riche »
Autograph letter signed « J. Massenet » to Antonin Proust
Bruxelles, Tuesday 13th Xbre [December] 1881
« The first performance of Hérodiade is set for Monday, December 19 »
Autograph letter signed « J Masse » to Constance de Gressy
Brussels, “Friday 5 pm” [25th November 1881], 3 p. in-8°
« I put so much care into the orchestration – I worked on it so much! »
Autograph letter signed « J. Massenet » to a friend
Paris, 18th June [18]79, 1 p. in-8°
« I’m expected in London and I’ll be back in Paris next Friday 27th for the composition competition»
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to a colleague
Paris, 12th November [18]93, 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
“When I have finished a book and given it to the public, it no longer exists for me. All my passion collapses”
Autograph letter signed « Bourdelle » to M. Thiebaut-Sissou
Paris, 9th March 1920, 1 p. in-8°
« I won’t be exhibiting at the show, or very little. I am at great work and that alone binds me »
Autograph post-card signed « Votre P. Verlaine » to Jules Rais
[Paris, 16, rue Saint-Victor], 15th March 1895, 1 p. in-8°
« I’m bedridden and can’t move from the bed »
Autograph manuscript signed « Léon Daudet »
N.p.n.d [Paris, June 1932], 4 pp. large in-4°
« Manet is the beauty of colour, the celebration of the decomposition of light through the prism »
Autograph letter signed « H. Bergson » to Michel Georges-Michel
Saint-Cergue, 1st August 1926, 3 pp. in-8°
« There is an uninterrupted current of humour that flows through these pages and is not, it must be admitted, the characteristic of my work »
Autograph letter signed « Petain » [to Jean-Louis Forain ?]
N.p, 10th August 1918, 1 p. in-8° on his letterhead
« A few corpses descend the Marne along the water… »
Autograph letter signed « Bourdelle » to a friend
Paris, 12th April 1920, 2 pp. in-8°
« My technique, learned and supplemented by Rodin, is even inscribed in portraiture »
Autograph letter signed twice « Sacha Guitry » to a gentleman
N.p.n.d «3 in the morning », 1 p. in-4°
« 3 o’clock in the morning – really! »
Autograph letter signed twice to the Salacrou couple
N.p.n.d [4th july 1925], 2 p. in-8°
« Oh! Satie! Nightmare! »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
[Paris], 16th April 1918, 1 p. in-8°
« I will arrange to see you very soon »
First edition of the Little Red Book
[Beijing, May 1964], 250 p. in-16° (13,8 x 10 cm)
« Politics is was without blood, while war is politics with blood »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Gauguin » to a collector
N.p.n.d [Paris, 1st or 2nd November 1893], 1 p. 1/2 in-8°
« The exhibition will be launched on the 9th »
Two autograph letters signed « Gve Flaubert » to Émile Zola
[Croisset, 2th May and 3rd June 1874], 5 pp. in-8°
« Father Faujas is sinister and great – a true director! How well he manipulates the woman, how skillfully he seizes her, taking her by charity, then brutalizing her! »
Autograph manuscript
N.p.n.d [1841], 1 p. in-8°
« Love is wont not to lodge in the hand of stinginess »
Autograph card signed « PAPA » to his daughter Geneviève Mallarmé
[Valvins, 12th July 1891], 1 p. in-8°
« The little cookies… »
Portrait of Napoléon III by Disdéri
N.p.n.d, c. 1868, cdv format
Famous and elegant full-length portrait of Emperor Napoleon III
Autograph letter signed « Georges Ghika » to Liane de Pougy, princesse Ghika
N.p, 8th june 1923, 1 p. in-8°, blue ink on beige paper
« Encore… »
Autograph letter signed « Georges Ghika » to Liane de Pougy, princesse Ghika
Le Clos-Marie, Roscoff, 2nd July 1924, 2 p. in-4°
« It seems that your pearly body, slightly amber from distant sailings... »
Autograph letter signed « de Voltaire » to George-Conrad Walther
Château de Lunéville, 6th April 1748, 3 p. in-8°
« Forgive a man who is a friend of peace this warmth he puts into preserving it, and this fear he has of seeing his work destroyed »
Autograph postcard signed « Albert » to his daughter Florise
Bruges [14 December (1922 ?)], 1 p. in-8°
« Will be in Paris tomorrow »
Autograph manuscript signed “Louise de Vilmorin”
N.p, [Hôpital Américain, Neuilly-sur-Seine], 14th June 1952, 2 p. 1/2 in-4
“The sad and wonderful stories of Gérard de Nerval are the work of an explorer of sorrow”
Autograph manuscript signed « F Dugué »
N.p.n.d [1870], 2 p. in-8°
« D’Artagnan conquered death!… »
Autograph-card letter signed « Jules Renard » [to Georges Moreau]
[Paris], 14th June 1895, 1 p. 1/2 in-12°
« The unpublished chapter of Poil de Carotte… »
Autograph letter signed « Paul Gauguin » to Daniel de Monfreid
[Tahiti], November 1895, 3 p. 1/4 p. in-4°
« Every night frenzied girls invade my bed; yesterday I had three to function »
Autograph letter signed « Maurice Ravel » to Maurice Emmanuel
[Montfort-l’Amaury], « 14/10/[19]22 », 4 p. in-8°
« An upward progression of sound »
Autograph manuscript signed « André Citroën »
S.l, 3rd April 1926, 1/2 p. in-8°
« It is by intensifying production and subsequently exporting that the country will be revived »
Autograph letter to Laure de Cottens
Paris, 24th March 1835, 4 p. large in-8°
« I still want to go and die out of France »
Autograph manuscript (copeau)
N.p.n.d [Hauteville-House], 2 p. in-8°
« He comes, and we see the dawn through his pink fingers »
Autograph letter signed « V.H. » to pastor Nathanaël Martin-Dupont
Hauteville House, 3 7bre [September 1868], 1 p. in-12° on mourning paper
« The great soul in this great clarity sees that I am crying, and knows that I’m hoping »
Autograph letter signed « Alberto Giacometti » to David Thompson
Paris, 2th August 1956, 3 p. in-8°
« Because of sculpture I am forced to neglect painting »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
N.p, 17th April 1917, 4 pp. large in-8°
« I came back with nostalgia for Lost Time… »
Autograph letter signed « Marcel Proust » to Marie Scheikévitch
Cabourg, [5th September 1912], 3 p. 1/2 in-8°
« Fortunately, I have no memory and I forget extremely quickly the people I liked »
Autograph letter signed « Emile Zola » to the journal L’Avenir national
Paris, 12th June 1865, 2 p. 1/2 in-8, Librairie Hachette & Cie letterhead
« You have kindly promised me your support, and I commend myself to you »
Portrait of Victor Hugo, period albumen print on thick cardboard
[Paris, 12th April 1885], cabinet format
Rare original print of the last portrait of Victor Hugo alive, five weeks before his death
Autograph poem signed « Paul Verlaine »
London, 1873, 1 p. in-8°, on laid paper
« O le feu du ciel sur cette ville de la Bible ! »
Autograph manuscript signed « G Sand » for her novel Consuelo [fragments]
[Nohant and Paris, between late 1842 and early 1843] 27 p. in-8°
« End of Consuelo »
Autograph letter signed « Chateaubriand » to Laure de Cottens
Geneva, 12th July 1831, 3 p. in-8°
« It will only take me two hours to get to you »
Autograph letter signed « P. Choderlos Laclos » to Condorcet
Paris, 16th June 1793, 2e [an 2] de la République, 1 p 1/4 in-4°
« The long habit of being slandered »
Autograph letter signed “Renoir” to Paul Bérard
Naples, Saturday 26th [November 1881], 3 pages in-12
“I have tried it all, painting with gasoline, wax, siccative…”
Original drawings and autograph poem
N.p.n.d [c. 1935], 1 p. in-8° (16 x 20,5 cm)
« I empty my evil »
Autograph poem, in honor of Gabriel Péri
N.p.n.d [after 1945], 1 p. in-folio (30,9 x 20,9 cm)
« Péri est mort pour ce qui nous fait vivre / Tutoyons-le sa poitrine est trouée »
Autograph letter signed « Jean Potocki » to Firmin Didot
Tulczyn, 1st December [1810], 1 1/4 p. in-4°
« I realize every day that it is difficult to see clearly in science when you are so far from the home of the enlightenment »
Autograph letter signed « Georges Ghika » to Liane de Pougy, princess Ghika
N.p, 2nd July 1923, 1. in-4°
« I boast of a privilege »
Autograph letter signed « Eugénie » to Marie-Thérèse Bartholoni
Camden Place, Chislehurst [January 1873], 8 p. in-8°, mourning paper
« The Emperor’s rapid death has, so to speak, awakened the public conscience. »
Autograph letter signed « René Char » to Marianne Oswald
[Paris] 7th May 1960, 1 p. 1/2 large in-4°
« It is not out of pride that I refuse to appear, to say, to speak »
Autograph poem signed « Paul Eluard »
N.p.n.d, 2 p. in-folio on thin green paper
« The eyelid of the sun lowers on your face »
Autograph letter signed « Votre Soutine » to Émile Lejeune
Paris, 30th November [19]31, 2 p. in-4°
« It won’t be long before I get back to work »
Autograph statement signed « Frida Kahlo »
Mexico, 2nd August 1947, 1/2 p. in-4°, with autograph envelope
A few drawings for a friend…
Autograph letter signed « Ant Bourdelle » [to André Fontainas]
Paris, November 1928 [in reality 25th December], 4 pp. in-4°
« The two Beethoven »
Autograph letter signed « Karen Blixen » to Negley Farson
Rungstedlund, Rungsted Kyst, 20.12.1957, 3 pp. in-8°
« The greatest passion of my life has been my love for the Africans! »
Autograph letter signed « Al. de Lamartine » to Stéphanie de Virieu
Paris, 14th April 1841, 3 p. 1/2 in-8° on laid paper
« Was he not also my brother, and more than many brothers? »
Autograph draft of a poem fragment
N.p.n.d, [Guernesey, c. 1854], 1 p. in-12° on thin blue paper
« Ils ouvrent cette nuit que nul rayon ne perce / Ils y font brusquement tomber à la renverse / Les pâles cadavres béants ! »
Autograph letter signed « Edmond de Goncourt » to a lady
N.p, 5 7bre [September] [18]93, 2 p. in-8°
« Jules’ coffin has remained intact, and so there is now, without new digging, a place for Edmond de Goncourt »
Autograph letter signed « C. Pissarro » to Théo Van Rysselberghe
[Bruges, Hôtel du] Singe d’Or, 3rd July [18]94, 2 p. in-8°
« I still have in my ear the sound of the waves and the color of the sea in my eye, you must have had beautiful effects last night »
Autograph letter signed « Joseph Vacher » to doctor Lacassagne
[Prison of] Belley, le 30 Xbre [December] 1897, 4 p. in-8°
Letter of a serial killer
Autograph letter signed « A Dumas » to the « Patriarch of Jerusalem »
S.l, 15 April [18]47, 2 p. 1/2 in-8°, with autograph envelope
« It’s only by working 18 hours a day that I can not cope with everyone, but support myself »
Autograph letter signed « G Sand » to Charles Duvernet
[Nohant], 11th June [18]61, 1 p. in-8°
« I have a lot to tell you about my travels and encounters »
Les Hommes d’Aujourd’hui
Original edition, n°318, 4 pp. in-4°
Proof copy with autograph corrections by Verlaine
Autograph letter signed « Gve Flaubert » to Pauline Sandeau
[Croisset], Saturday [16th November 1867], 3 p. in-8° on blue laid paper
« After that one, good evening! I will say goodbye to the bourgeois for the rest of my life »
Autograph letter signed « Aragon » (draft), to René Char
[Paris, 10th August 1946], 1 p. 1/2 in-4°
« I do not accept to be lectured, I admit even less that it is claimed to be given to Esla. And the Olympian tone of your letter proves to me that if there are some who get lost, it is only in the image of kicking the ass »
Autograph letter signed twice « Paul Verlaine » to Léon Deschamps
Paris, 23rd August 1892, 3 p. in-12° on bi-folio
« Baudelaire was my dearest fanaticism and is, that is to say, will remain one of my greatest admiration »
First draft manuscript for the poem “Le Voyageur”, from the poem collection Alcools
N.p.n.d [c. 1909-1910], 2 p. in-4to, black ink, multiple corrections
« Deux matelots qui ne s’étaient jamais quittés »
Autograph manuscript
N.p.n.d, 6 p. in-folio
« Jean de la Fontaine: Very handsome boy, very whore »
Typed letter signed twice « Jack » and « Jack Kerouac » to Granville H. Jones
[Northport, New York, 22 November 1960] 2 p. in-4°, with envelope
« It is the only thing too that has made me happy in three years, since the publication of On the Road and the subsequent sickeningness of ‘being famous’ »
Autograph letter signed « Modigliani » to art dealer Léopold Zborowski
[Nice, New year’s eve 31th December 1918], 2 pp. in-8°
« I sold all the paintings. Send the money quickly. Champagne flows »
Autograph letter signed “DH Lawrence” to George Conway
Hôtel Beau Rivage, Bandol, 29th December 1928, 2 p. in-8°, with envelope
« We have lived too long to be shocked by words any more »
Autograph letter signed « Max Jacob » to a friend
St Benoît-sur-Loire, Loiret, 23 Feb[ruary] 1926, 2 p. in-8°
« Valadon is a great artist who feels deeply and has a great science. She doesn’t have the place she deserves »
Autograph manuscript signed « Paul Claudel »
N.p, 4th January 1951, 2 p. in-4°
« Joan is tied to her pole which represents faith. She is rooted in an immutable certainty »
Autograph manuscript signed twice « Rimbaud », to Armand Savouré
Harar, 30 March 1890, 1/2 p. in-4°
Unpublished receipt from Harar intended to Armand Savouré, the last before Rimbaud ceased all activity with him
Autograph letter signed “Votre Milosz” [to Hugues Fouras
[14th March 1938], 2 pages in-8°
“I am at ease to be able to attach to this fold a final copy of the XVII Poems”