AUTOGRAPHS, LETTERS & MANUSCRIPTS AUCTION

CHARLES EUGENE OF LORRAINE: (1751-1825) Prince of Lambesc. Last member of the House of Guise. French Marshal and Proprietor of the Royal Allemand-...

JAUGE THEODORE: (1747-1794) French Banker. First Aide-de-camp to Lafayette of the French National Guard since 1789. Jauge was guillotined, wearing...

VIROT DE SOMBREUIL CHARLES DE: (1725-1794) French Lieutenant General and Governor of Les Invalides during revolution. Heroe of the Rocourt battle....

LOUIS XVIII & CHARLES X: Louis XVIII (1755-1824) King of France 1814-1824, with a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815, and Charles ...

[ASSIGNATS]: Type of a monetary instrument used during the time of the French Revolution and further. Three attractive sets of assignats printed b...

HERAULT DE SECHELLES MARIE JEAN: (1759-1794) Convention Deputy. Guillotined at the early age of 34. D.S., `Hearult´, two pages, folio, Paris, 8th ...

MONTMORIN ARMAND MARC DE: (1745-1792) Count de Montmorin Saint-Hérem. French Minister under Louis XVI. Murdered in the Abbaye prison during the Se...

[PARISIAN SECTIONS DURING REVOLUTION]: A good selection of thirty seven documents related to the sections created during the revolution in Paris, ...

METTOT DOMINIQUE: (1749-1794) French Secretary of the Commune, executed together with Robespierre´s accomplices. D.S., Mettot, two pages, large fo...

BUONARROTI PHILIPPE: (1761-1837) Italian-born French Revolutionary and Writer. Mostly active in Corsica. His `History of Babeuf's Conspiracy of Eq...

MOLLEVAUT ETIENNE: (1744-1816): HUBERT JEAN-MICHEL (1744-1827) and PEYRE LOUIS FRANÇOIS (1760-1828), all of them French members of the National Co...

FAURE LOUIS-JOSEPH: (1760-1837) French Deputy Prosecutor of the Revolutionary Tribunal. He was replaced by Fouquier-Tinville. Faure was one of the...

COLLOT D´HERBOIS & BILLAUD-VARENNE : Jean Marie Collot d´Herbois (1749-1796) French Actor, Dramatist and Revolutionary. President of the National ...

VIGNES FRANÇOIS FELIX: (1769-1799) French General. Killed at the Legnago battle at the very early age of 29. Very rare D.S., Vignes, one page, obl...

COLLIN JEAN CHRISTOPHE: (1757-1806) Also known as Verdiere. French General killed as a result of the wounds received during the Iena battle. D.S.,...

[ELEPHANTS IN PARIS, 1798]: A very interesting A.L.S., `Letourneux´, by François Letourneux (1752-1814) French Minister of the Interior under the ...

DEBELLE JEAN-FRANÇOIS: (1767-1802) French General. Artillery Commandant in chief on the St. Domingue expedition where he died at the very early ag...

RUFFIN FRANÇOIS: (1771-1811) French General. Ruffin died on his way to Portsmouth, after being captured in the battle of Chiclana, Spain. Unusual ...

THE GREAT TERROR (1): Most historians fix the Great Terror period between 1793 and 1794. An excellent set of thirty two documents, dated from 10th...

FRENCH CARIBBEAN - SLAVERY 1789: L.S., Chacin Junior, one page, 4to, Le Cap, 5th September 1789, in French. The letter being, a private sale of a ...

FRENCH CARIBBEAN - SLAVERY 1791: L.S., J. Hombart, Legris & Co, one page, oblong 8vo, Le Cap, 54h February 1791, in French. The letter, being a pu...

SLAVERY - MEDICAL VISIT: An unusual L.S., `Lacombe´, one page, 4to, n.p., 18th February 1804, in French. Doctor Lacombe signs a receipt for the pa...

TURTLE ISLAND: A well-known island which used to be a pirate hideaway during the seventeenth century. L.S., `Bourdron´ three times, and `Dupuy´ tw...

TURTLE ISLAND - MISSION: A well-known island which used to be a pirate hideaway during the seventeenth century. L.S., Forget, one page, oblong sma...

TURTLE ISLAND - PASSPORT: A well-known island which used to be a pirate hideaway during the seventeenth century. D.S., one page, oblong 4to, Turtl...

LACROIX FRANÇOIS DE: (1774-1841) French General, Commandant of the Turtle island. A good A.L.S., `Lacroix´, one page, folio, Toulon, 5th June 1803...

MAYNAUD DE LAVAUX ETIENNE: (1751-1828) French General and Governor of Saint Domingue. A.L.S., `Laveaux´, three pages, 4to, Tours, 16th March 1806,...

FRENCH CARIBBEAN - SOUTH WAR: An excellent L.S., `Rasond´, three pages, folio, Léogâne, Saint Domingue, 4th September 1799, to Desbordes, in Frenc...

[TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE FRANÇOIS]: Rare printed document, four pages, 4to, issued at Le Cap, Saint Domingue, 15th May 1800, in French. The document...

ENGLAND NATIONAL TEAM 1950: Multiple signed 8 x 13 page, the partially printed document bearing at the heading a Golden Crown above the printed te...

FEDERER ROGER : (1981- ) Swiss tennis Player. Federer has won 19 Grand Slam singles titles, the most in history for a male tennis player. He has h...

LUMIERE LOUIS: (1864-1948) French Pioneer Filmmaker, along with his brother Auguste. T.L.S., Louis Lumiere, two pages, Bandol, 12th June 1943, on ...

CLAIR RENE : (1898-1981) French Film Director. A.L.S., René, one page, 8vo, Neuilly sur Seine, 18th October 1977, to Rosamond Bernier Russell, on ...

GIOVANNI JOSE: (1923-2004) his real name being Joseph Damiani, French-Corsican writer and film-maker. Damiani was a former collaborationist and cr...

HEMINGWAY MARGAUX: (1954-1996) American Actress & fashion Model. Granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. A renowned model who signed a million dollar c...

GUITRY SACHA & FAMILY: (1885-1957) French Actor, Film Director and Screenwriter. An excellent set of documents and photographs signed by Guitry, h...

MITCHUM FAMILY : A good set of two signed photographs and one signed page by Robert Mitchum and his sons, comprising Robert Mitchum (1917-1997) Am...

DUTEIL YVES: (1949- ) French Singer & Songwriter. The original manuscript of his song Dreyfus, three pages, folio, n.p., n.d., on his personal pri...

CHERUBINI LUIGI: (1760-1842) Italian Composer. A.L.S., L. Cherubini, one page, 4to, Paris, 29th April 1826, to Vicount of Rochefoucauld, in French...

MEYERBEER GIACOMO: (1791-1864) German Composer. A.L.S., Meyerbeer, two pages, 8vo, Paris, 11th January 1826, to Frederic Dupetit-Méré, Direcor of ...

LEHAR FRANZ: (1870-1948) Austro-Hungarian Composer of operettas.A.L.S., Lehar, a bold good example signature, one page, oblong 8vo card, Vienna, 8...

BERLIOZ HECTOR: (1803-1869) French Composer. A.L.S., H. Berlioz, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Alexis Garaudé, in French. Berlioz requests some ti...

DEBUSSY CLAUDE: (1862-1918) French Composer. A.L.S., Claude Debussy, one page, on blue-grey 5.5 x 3.5 card, n.p., 16th March 1910, in French. Debu...

POULENC FRANCIS: (1899-1963) French Composer, a member of Les Six. A.L.S., Francis Poulenc, one page, 8vo, Evian, 3rd July [n.y.], on the Splendid...

COPLAND AARON : (1900-1990) American Composer and Conductor. D.S., Aaron Copland, one page, folio, Interlochen, Michigan, 12th July 1970. The type...

MUGNONE LEOPOLDO: (1858-1941) Italian Conductor who performed at the premieres of Cavalleria Rusticana and Tosca. A.M.Q.S., Leopoldo Mugnone, one ...

MENUHIN YEHUDI: (1916-1999) American-born British Violinist. A good A.L.S., Yehudi Menuhin, three pages, on three separate sheets, small 4to, Lond...

LEHMANN LILLI: (1848-1929) German operatic Soprano and voice Teacher. Among his pupils was Geraldine Farrar. Lehmann sang in the first Bayreuth Fe...

HUMBOLDT ALEXANDER VON: (1769-1859) Prussian Geographer, Naturalist and Explorer. A.L.S., A. Humboldt, one page, 8vo, n.p., Saturday, n.d., to Fre...

PASTEUR LOUIS: (1822-1895) French Chemist & Microbiologist, remembered for his remarkable breakthroughs in the causes and preventions of diseases....

GRIMOD DE LA REYNIÈRE ALEXANDRE-BALTHAZAR: (1758-1837) French Lawyer and Writer who acquired fame for his public gastronomic lifestyle. An interes...

CODY W. F.: (1846-1917) American Showman. A.L.S., W F Cody, on one side of a correspondence card, Birmingham, 4th November 1887, to a gentleman. C...

DESVALLIERES GEORGE : (1861-1950) French Painter. A.L.S., G. Desvallières, two pages, written to the first and third page, mourning 8vo, Paris, n....

KOKOSCHKA OSKAR: (1886-1980) Austrian Expressionistic Artist and Poet. A bold blue ink signature `Oskar Kokoschka´, on a 6 x 6 page. VG £80-100

VASARELY VICTOR : (1906-1997) Hungarian-French Artist, widely considered a founding father of the pop art movement. T.L.S., Vasarely, one page, 4t...

MATHIEU GEORGES: (1921-2012) French Painter. Considered one of the founders of the Lyric Abstraction. A.L.S., Georges, one page, folio, 4to, Paris...

ALECHINSKY PIERRE: (1927- ) Belgian abstract Artist. An attractive F.D.C., signed and inscribed by Alechinsky, one page, oblong folio card, Paris...

BOTERO FERNANDO: (1932- ) Colombian Artist, best known for his exaggerated volume sculptures he is the most recognized and quoted living artist f...

HERGÉ: (1907-1983) Georges Prosper Remi. Belgian Cartoonist. Best known for creating the series of comics The Adventures of Tintin. T.L.S., Hergé,...

PEYNET RAYMOND: (1908-1999) French Cartoonist. Creator of the well-known Couple of Lovers in 1942. An original ink 8 x 6 drawing to the left insid...