AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AUCTION

[VOLTAIRE]: (1694-1778) Francois-Marie Arouet. French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher. MIGNOT MARIE LOUISE (1712-1790) Madame Deni...

‘I have made my will and I leave you my Pucelle manuscript, more complete than the printed version’ VOLTAIRE: (1694-1778) Francois-Marie Arouet. ...

VOLTAIRE: (1694-1778) French Enlightenment Writer and Philosopher. Voltaire is a pseudonym, his name being François-Marie Arouet. Voltaire is know...

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscript, two pages, 4to, n.p., [Paris], n.d. (c.1745...

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscript, two pages, 4to, n.p., [Paris], n.d. (c.1745...

SAINT-SIMON HENRI DE: (1760-1825) French political, economic and socialist theorist, creator of the ideology known as Saint-Simonianism. A.L.S., S...

SISMONDI JEAN CHARLES LEONARD DE: (1773-1842) Swiss historian and political economist. A.L.S., J. C. L. de Sismondi, two pages, 8vo, n.p. (Turin),...

VALERY PAUL: (1871-1945) French poet, essayist and philosopher. A good vintage signed and inscribed sepia postcard photograph of the writer standi...

BATAILLE GEORGES: (1897-1962) French philosopher and intellectual. A.L.S., Georges Bataille, one page, 8vo, Orleans, 19th April 1956, to a gentlem...

CHATEAUBRIAND FRANCOIS-RENE DE: (1768-1848) French writer, politician, diplomat and historian. D.S., Chateaubriand, one page, folio, London, 5th J...

RACINE JEAN: (1639-1669) French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th century France. An extremely rare ownership signature ('Raci...

From prison `In that case, let me be given a servant; I am made to be served and I want to be…´ SADE MARQUIS DE: (1740-1814) Donatien Alphonse Fr...

STENDHAL: (1783-1842) Marie-Henri Beyle. French writer considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism, whose works include Le R...

`I am neither a man, nor an angel, nor a devil. I am a kind of literary mechanic…´ BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) French Novelist and Playwright. B...

`..do not be surprised either by the brevity or by the rarity of my letters,  because my time belongs to immense interests… I work day and night.....

HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885) French Poet and Novelist. A good A.L.S., Victor Hugo, one page, 8vo, 8th May, n.y.,bearing to the upper left corner a Bat...

HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885) French Poet and Novelist. A good A.L.S., `Victor Hugo´, one page, 8vo, n.p., 26th February [1847], to Ernest Alby et Lire...

HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885) French novelist, poet and dramatist. An excellent, significant and attractive D.S., Vtr. Hugo, one page, large folio (33 ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Père (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A curious A.L.S., A. Dumas, one page, 12mo, n.p., n.d., ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Pere (1802-1870) French novelist and playwright whose works include The Three Musketeers (1844). Manuscript D.S., A Dumas, one pa...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Pere (1802-1870) French novelist and playwright whose works include The Three Musketeers (1844). A.L.S., A Dumas, one page, 8vo, ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A.L.S., `Alex Dumas´, two pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Mr....

SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876) French novelist, memoirist and journalist. A.L.S., George, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Monsieur Duteil, on Sand's blind...

SAND GEORGE: (1804-1876) French novelist, memoirist and journalist. A.L.S., George Sand, one page, 8vo, Nohant, 4th January 1855, to [Henri Rouy],...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. A good A.L.S., A. Dumas, three pages, 8vo, Paris, 28th January 1890, to Count Josep...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. A very fine A.L.S., A. Dumas, four pages, 8vo, n.p., n.d. [circa 1886], to Adolphe ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. An exceptional and lengthy A.L.S., A Dumas, four pages, 8vo, grid paper, Naples, 5t...

FLAUBERT GUSTAVE: (1821-1880) French novelist A.L.S., with his initials G F, two pages (written to the first and third sides of the bifolium), 8vo...

VERNE JULES: (1828-1905) French Novelist. Best known for his science-fiction and adventures novels. A.L.S., Jules Verne, one page, 12mo, n.p., Feb...

ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist, journalist and playwright. A.L.S., Emile Zola, one page, 8vo, Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, 3rd Novembe...

‘je refuse’ ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist, journalist and playwright. A.L.S., Emile Zola, two pages (written to the first and third side...

ZOLA EMILE: (1840-1902) French novelist, a major figure in the exoneration of the falsely accused and convicted Alfred Dreyfus, summarised in Zola...

LAFARGUE PAUL: (1842-1911) Cuban-born French revolutionary Marxist socialist, political writer, economist and literary critic, the son-in-law of K...

DURKHEIM EMILE: (1858-1917) French sociologist, one of the principal architects of modern social science along with both Karl Marx and Max Weber. ...

MIRBEAU OCTAVE: (1848-1917) French Novelist, travel Writer and Playwright. His work has been translated into 30 languages. A very fine autograph l...

MAUPASSANT GUY DE: (1850-1893) French Writer. A good A.L.S., Guy de Maupassant, two pages, 12mo, Paris, n.d., on his personal printed stationery c...

PROUST MARCEL: (1871-1922) French Novelist and Essayist. Best known for his major novel A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (`In search of Lost Time´). ...

COLETTE: (1873-1954) French author, best known for her novella Gigi (1944). Autograph Manuscript signed, Colette, three pages (separate leaves), 4...

`I work constantly with Breton. This morning and this afternoon we wrote “The feeling of nature” ‘ ELUARD PAUL: (1895-1952) French Poet, widely c...

BEAUVOIR SIMONE DE: (1908-1986) French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist and feminist activist. A.L.S., S de Beauvoir, one page,...

GENET JEAN: (1910-1986) French Novelist, Playwright, and political Activist. A.L.S., `Jean´, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. [1975], to Edmonde Charles-...

GENET JEAN: (1910-1986) French Novelist, Playwright, and political Activist. A curious A.L.S., `Jean Genet´, one page, 8vo, Brighton, n.d. [1975],...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A brief A.L.S., Jean Cocteau, with a star beneath his s...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A.L.S., Cocteau, one page, oblong 4to, n.p., n.d. (June...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. A good, illustrated autograph letter, unsigned, two pag...

COCTEAU & PIAF: COCTEAU JEAN (1889-1963) French poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic & PIAF EDITH (1915-1963) French singer. A...

FRENCH WRITERS: A good selection of nine A.L.S., and one sketch, by various French Writers, most of one page and few of two pages, with four 8vo, ...

ZWEIG STEFAN: (1881-1942) Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer, himself a passionate collector of autograph manuscripts. T.L.S...

KUNDERA MILAN: (1929- ) Czech-French Writer. Best known for his work The Unbearable Lightness of Being. The communist regime in Czechoslovakia ban...

KOESTLER ARTHUR: (1905-1983) Hungarian-born British author and journalist. A correspondence collection of ten T.Ls.S., A. Koestler, each one page,...

MANKELL HENNING: (1948-2015) Swedish crime writer, children's author and dramatist, the creator of Inspector Kurt Wallander. Collection of four id...

KOTZEBUE AUGUST VON: (1761-1819) German Writer. Assassinated. A Dramatist who graduated and practiced as a lawyer in Weimar and also worked as Con...

HASENCLEVER WALTER: (1890-1940) German Expressionist poet and playwright. A rare A.L.S., Walter Hasenclever, one page, oblong 8vo, Clamart, 14th D...

ZWEIG ARNOLD: (1887-1968) German writer and pacifist whose correspondence with the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud was published in 1970. Signed 3.5 x...

MARINETTI FILIPPO TOMMASO: (1876-1944) Italian poet and art theorist, founder of the Futurist movement, best known as the author of the first Futu...

MORAVIA ALBERTO: (1907-1990) Italian novelist and journalist. T.L.S., Alberto Moravia, one page, 4to, Rome, n.d., to the editor of Playboy, in Ita...

CONSTANT BENJAMIN: (1767-1830) Franco-Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion. A.L.S., B Constant, one page,...

MEYER CONRAD FERDINAND: (1825-1898) Swiss poet and historical novelist, a master of literary realism who is remembered for his stirring narrative ...

DURRENMATT FRIEDRICH: (1921-1990) Swiss author and dramatist. Signed 3.5 x 5.5 photograph of the writer in a close-up head and shoulders pose. Sig...

DURRENMATT FRIEDRICH: (1921-1990) Swiss author and dramatist. Signed 3.5 x 5 photograph of Durrenmatt in a close-up head and shoulders pose with o...