Recently catalogued, letters, autographs, documents, manuscripts

Recently catalogued, letters, autographs, documents, manuscripts
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FREMIET, Emmanuel (1824-1910). French scuptor.
Autograph Letter Signed to a gentleman, 1 page 8vo with integral blank, no place, no date.

£85 / $134 / €100 [No: 25419]

BARYE, Antoine-Louis (1796-1875). French sculptor.
Brief Autograph Letter Signed ('Barye') to a gentleman (perhaps the director of a museum or gallery), 1 page 8vo with integral blank, 6 December no year.

£85 / $134 / €100 [No: 25418]

BOURDELLE, Antoine (1861-1929). French sculptor and painter.
Autograph Letter Signed to the composer Vincent D'Indy ('cher Maître'), 2 pages large 4to (some splitting at the folds), no place, no date [probably 1926].

£125 / $197 / €147 [No: 25416]

VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugène (1814-1879). French architect.
Autograph Letter Signed [to the editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts], 1 page 16mo with inegral blank, 14 July 1862.

£125 / $197 / €147 [No: 25409]

PIGALLE, Jean-Baptiste (1714-1785). French sculptor.
Autograph Letter Signed ('Pigalle') to a gentleman, 2 pages 4to (irregularly trimmed apparently without loss), no place, 'ce jeudy [10 in another hand?]'.

£125 / $197 / €147 [No: 25415]

SERVANDONI, Giovanni Niccolò (1695-1766). French architect and decorator.
Autograph receipt signed, in semi-phonetic French, 1 page 8vo (oblong), no place, 14 July 1739.

£125 / $197 / €147 [No: 25410]

CAFFIERI, Jean-Jacques (1725-1792). French sculptor.
Autograph Letter Signed ('Caffieri') to a Count, 2 pages 4to, Paris, 29 July 1785.

£135 / $213 / €159 [No: 25413]

CHALGRIN, Jean (1739-1811). French architect.
Autograph Letter (third person) to his colleague Molinot, 1 page 8vo with address-leaf ('A Monsieur/Molinot Architect/inspecteur general du departements/a Paris') 'ce 10 matin'.

£135 / $213 / €159 [No: 25414]

VIOLLET-LE-DUC, Eugène (1814-1879). French architect.
Autograph Letter Signed [to the editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts], 1 page 16mo with inegral blank, 27 July 1862.

£150 / $237 / €176 [No: 25408]

BOURDELLE, Antoine (1861-1929). French sculptor and painter.
Two Autograph Letters Signed to the art critic Armand Dayot, 6 pages 4to and 8vo with one envelope, Paris, 13 June 1912 and 12 February 1923.

£225 / $355 / €265 [No: 25417]

GOUNOD, Charles François (1818-1893). French composer.
Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent ('Mon cher ami'), 1 page 8vo with integral blank, Paris, 17 Rue LaRochefoucault, 21 November 1876.

£275 / $434 / €324 [No: 22558]

VALERY, Paul (1871-1945). French writer.
Autograph Letter Signed ('Paul Valéry'), to the German scholar Ernst Robert Curtius, 2 pages 4to (small fold splits), La Polynésie, Giens (Var), 24 August 1933.

£350 / $553 / €412 [No: 25403]

SAND, George (1804-1876). French author. Pseudonym of Amandine Aurore Dupin.
Autograph Letter Signed ('George Sand') to 'ma fille chérie', 1 page 8vo blind-stamped with her initials 'G S', integral blank, [Nohant], no date.

£385 / $608 / €454 [No: 25398]

GÉROME, Jean Léon (1824-1904). French painter.
Group of four Autograph Letters Signed, 4 pages 8vo and 16mo, two on headed paper of 65 boulevard de Clichy, Paris, two autograph envelopes, [1858]-1903 where dated

£450 / $711 / €531 [No: 25404]

VISCONTI, Ludovico (1791-1853). Architect of Napoleon's tomb at the Invalides.
Six Autograph Letters Signed (one unsigned) to a variety of correspondents, 8 pages 8vo and 4to, integral blanks, Paris and Melun, 5 October 1829 to 7 April 1853.

£650 / $1027 / €766 [No: 25402]

WEBSTER, Daniel (1782-1852). American lawyer and statesman.
Autograph Letter Signed to 'Signed Photograph Lyman Esq.', 1 page 4to on blue paper with blank leaf, 'Jan 5' [in another hand 'Washington' and '1842'].

£650 / $1027 / €766 [No: 25368]

ROSSINI, Gioacchino (1792-1868). Composer.
Autograph Letter Signed, in Italian, to Angelo Mignani in Bologna, 1 page 4to with integral address-leaf, remains of wafer seal and postal cancellations, Florence, 6 June 1853.

£850 / $1343 / €1002 [No: 25400]

ROSSINI, Gioacchino (1792-1868). Composer.
Autograph Letter Signed to Fossin, 1 page 8vo with address-leaf on headed paper of the Théâtre Royal Italien, Paris, 25 November 1833.

£850 / $1343 / €1002 [No: 21796]

[FASTOLF, Sir John (1380-1459). Soldier and landowner.]
Document mentioning Sir John Fastolf, 1 page folio (oblong, on vellum), 220 x 360 mm. (8½ x 14½ inches), Alençon, Monday 4 May 1433.

£2000 / $3160 / €2360 [No: 25406]

MILNE, Alan Alexander (1882-1956). Novelist and playwright.
Fine Autograph Letter Signed ('Alan') to his nephew Anthony Kenneth Milne, 2 pages small 4to, on paper of 13 Mallord Street, Chelsea, ['10/10/40' in another hand].

£2000 / $3160 / €2360 [No: 25407]

MENDELSSOHN, Felix (1809-1847). German composer.
Autograph Letter Signed to the Leipzig publisher Friedrich Kistner, 1 page 8vo (oblong), Leipzig, 12 January 1839 with autograph address on the verso.

£2250 / $3555 / €2655 [No: 25397]

SHAW, George Bernard (1856-1950). Playwright.
Autograph draft of a reply to Alfred Russel Wallace in connection with a dispute in the pages of The Clarion, 7 pages 4to in pencil, ca 1900.

£2500 / $3950 / €2949 [No: 24678]

EVELYN, John (1620-1706). Diarist, founder member of the Royal Society and antiquarian.
Autograph Letter Signed ('JEvelyn') to Ralph Thorseby, ½-page folio with address on the verso bearing Evelyn's signet seal a bishop mark etc., Dover Street, 27 June 1702.

£4500 / $7110 / €5310 [No: 25405]

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