AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION

[14th to 20th JULY 1789]: An excellent A.L.S., Le Paige Bar, three pages, 8vo, n.p., 20th July 1789, to Charles-Pierre Le Paige de Sarnois, in Fre...

[14th JULY 1790]: Fête de la Fédération. 1st Anniversary of the Storm of the Bastille. The first anniversary was celebrated in Paris at the Champ-...

DE BROGLIE VICTOR: (1756-1794) Prince de Broglie. French General and Politician. President of the Constituent Assembly. Guillotined at the early a...

AVED DE LOIZEROLLES JEAN SIMON: (1733-1794) King´s Counselor and Lieutenant General. Imprisoned during the Reign of Terror at St-Lazare together w...

CUGNET DE MONTARLOT CLAUDE-FRANÇOIS: (1778-1824) French Officer during revolution. Cugnet de Montarlot escaped to Spain where he attempted to take...

MARQUIS OF SURVILLE: (1755-1798) Officer of the Condé army who would later work in secret missions for future King Louis XVIII. Accused of conspir...

ROCH LEDRU DES ESSARTS FRANÇOIS: (1770-1844) French General, considered one of the most valorous Napoleon´s Generals, notably in the Moskova battl...

VENDEANS LETTERS: A good set of three A.Ls.S., `Lajonchere´, one, two and three pages respectively, 4to, sent by a Vendean during the War in the V...

THE GREAT TERROR (2): Most historians fix the Great Terror period between 1793 and 1794. An excellent set of sixty six documents, mostly decrees, ...

COWARD NOEL: (1899-1973) English Actor & Playwright, Academy Award winner. T.L.S., Noël Coward, one page, small 4to, New York, 6th February 1958, ...

LOTI PIERRE: (1850-1923) French Writer and Naval Officer. A.L.S., Pierre Loti, three pages, 8vo, 21st May, [1916], to Vicount de Reiset, in French...

AVIATION PIONEERS: An excellent selection of signed postcard photographs, and signed cards, by six pioneer Aviators, all dead in their aeroplanes ...

FRENCH GENERALS: Small selection of three excellent signed postcard photographs and one 5 x 7 photograph, by various French Generals, all of them ...

MOUNTBATTEN LOUIS: (1900-1979) British Admiral of World War II. A printed 8vo menu for the H.M.S. Kelly Reunion Association's Annual Dinner on boa...

POWELL COLIN: (1937- ) American Statesman and former four-star General in the United States Army. Powell also served as Secretary of State 2001-05...

[NIMITZ CHESTER W.] : (1885-1966) Fleet Admiral of the United States Navy. Commander in chief of the United States Pacific Fleet during WWII. An o...

GOEBBELS JOSEPH: (1897-1945) German Politician, Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany 1933-45. Rare vintage signed and inscribed sepia 11.5...

DOSS DESMOND: (1919-2006) United States Army Corporal, Combat Medic in World War II. The only conscientious objector to receive the Congressional ...

[HUNDRED YEAR´S WAR]: A good 10 x 2.5 piece, on vellum, dated 20th October 1380, the document being a receipt given by Jehan Leure, Captain Squire...

CHARLES X: (1757-1836) Last King of France 1824-30. D.S., Charles, one page, folio, Paris, 10th December 1824, in French. The partially printed do...

GOMEZ MAXIMO : (1836-1905) Cuban Generalissimo. A major military Leader during the Ten Year´s Cuban war 1868-78 and later as Cuban Commander durin...