Pierre Berge and Associes: Jean Patou fashion, bibliophile and collector: Manuscripts Lafayette and America, 23563, Paris

Auction Details

Auction Date
May 22, 2015 - May 22, 2015
Page Size: 377 items in 16 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
76 CHATEAUBRIAND (Francois-Rene de). 1768-1848. Writer

L.A. to his beloved Herman

S.l. 2025-01-01 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
77 CHATEAUBRIAND Francois-Rene de (1768-1848). Writer, Peer of France, diplomat (ambassador to Berlin in 1821, London in 1822, Rome in 1828-29), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1823-1824)

L.A. to the Duchesse de Duras

s.l. n.d. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
78

[CHIMAY]. 4 parchment documents with coat-of-arms seals

-1622 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
79 CLEVES (Philippe de). 1459-1528. Lord of Lamarck and Winendaele, admiral of the Netherlands, advisor to Maximilian of Habsburg, then in the service of the kings of France

P.S.

"Phpe" October 24, 1488 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
80 COCTEAU (Jean). 1889-1963. Writer-poet

L.A.S.

(Paris) n.d. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
81 COCTEAU (Jean). 1889-1963. Writer-poet

Poem aut.

S.l. n.d. (circa 1910) EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
82 Jean COCTEAU. 1889-1963. Writer, poet, artist

2 L.A.S. to Jean Dauven

Milly December 15-23, 1955 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
83 Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette dite COLETTE. 1873-1954. Woman of letters

L.A.S.

Paris s.d. (circa 1920) EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
84 COLETTE (Sidonie-Gabrielle dite). 1874-1954. Woman of letters

L.A.S. "Colette Willy" (to Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen)

25 Rue Torricelli s.d. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
85 CORVISART (Jean-Nicolas). 1755-1821. Personal physician to Emperor Napoleon

L.A.S. (to his daughters)

S.l. May 4, 1816 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
86 COULANGES (Philippe-Emmanuel de) (1633-1716). French magistrate and man of letters, he was the cousin and intimate of Madame de Sevigne

L.A.S. [to Chretien-Francois I de Lamoignon]

Rome January 30, 1691 EUR 450.00 - 500.00 Unknown
87 DAUPHINE. SCHNEYDER (Pierre). 1733-1814. Scholar, archaeologist

Manuscript: "Memoire du Sieur SCHNEYDER, peintre (...), sur un monument antique qui parait dans la plaine a quelques distances de la porte d'Avignon a Vienne en Dauphine, et vulgairement appelle le Plan de l'Eguille"

S.l. n.d. EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
88 DE FER (Nicolas)

Manuscript "Abrege de Geographie pour l'usage de Monseigneur le Prince Charles de LORRAINE"

s.d. EUR 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
89 DOLOMIEU (Deodat Gratet de). 1750-1801. Naturalist, geologist and mineralogist, discovered anthracite and dolomites

L.A.S. "frere Deodat hermite aupres la cascade de grotta Serrata" to Milady (Cornelia Knight)

S.l. n.d. EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
90 DROUET (Juliette). 1806-1883. Actress, lover of Victor Hugo

L.A.S. to Victor Hugo

(Paris) July 9 (1847) EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
91 Juliette DROUET. 1806-1883. Actress, letter writer, mistress of Victor Hugo

L.A.S. to Victor Hugo

S.l. April 17, Wednesday morning 8:1/2 a.m. EUR 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
92 EMIGRATION. DAMAS-CRUX (Louis-Etienne-Francois de). 1735-1814. Aide-de-camp to the Duc de Berry, chevalier d'Honneur to the Duchesse d'Angouleme

Autograph manuscripts and minutes

1804-1805 EUR 800.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
93 EMPIRE. SUCHET (Louis-Gabriel). 1770-1826. Marshal of the Empire, Duke of Albufera

L.A.S. to citoyen Belleville, French consul, to pass on to Suchet le jeune, military agent in Massa (Livorno)

Milan 3 Brumaire an 5 (October 24, 1797) EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
94 EMPIRE. CLERMONT-TONNERRE (Gaspard de). 1779-1865. Aide-de-camp to King Joseph under the Empire, Peer of France, minister

2 L.A.S.

Madrid August 23, 1810 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
95 EMPIRE. MURAT (Joachim). 1867-1815. Marshal of the Empire, King of Naples

P.S.

Naples August 10, 1810 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
96 EMPIRE. BERTHIER (Alexandre). 1753-1815. Marshal of the Empire, Prince of Wagram

L.S. to M. Bignon at the Provisional Government of Lithuania

Ghlouboskoe July 22, 1812 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
97 EMPIRE. BERTHIER (Alexandre). 1753-1815. Marshal of the Empire, Prince of Wagram

L.S.

In Dresden August 30, 1815 EUR 100.00 - 150.00 Unknown
98 EMPIRE. BERTHIER (Alexandre). 1753-1815. Marshal of the Empire, Prince of Wagram

P.S. To Toulon H.Q.

30 Floreal year 6 (May 18, 1798) EUR 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
99 EMPIRE. CAMBACERES (Jean-Jacques Regis de). 1753-1824. Archchancellor of the Empire, Duke of Parma

P.S.

Paris August 31, 1810 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
100 EMPIRE. PORTALIS (Jean-Etienne-Marie). 1746-1806. Jurist, editor of the Napoleonic Code, Minister of Religious Affairs

2 L.S. to the Bishop of Coutance

Paris April 1806 EUR 200.00 - 300.00 Unknown
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