Documents & Manuscripts
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Reminiscences of a Regicide
by Sergeant Marceau Edited M C M Simpson
London: Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1889. Book edited from the original manuscripts of Sergeant Marceau, member of the convention and administrator of police in the French revolution of 1789, edited by M C M Simpson. 396 pages in overall bright condition just a few occasional small foxing spots especially to first and last couple of pages.One colour plate and two B/w plates plus other smaller illustrations in the text, illustrations are not listed so I presume all are present. Small tears to paper of front...
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€57.62
Message from the President of the United States... Relative to the Atchison & Pike's Peak Railroad Company
by President Andrew Johnson
Light toning and wear. Very good. COL-760. [Railroad] President Andrew Johnson. Message from the President of the United States, in Answer to a resolution of the House of the 10th Instant, Relative to the Atchison & Pike's Peak Railroad Company (House of Representatives, 39th Congress, 2d Session, Ex. Doc. No. 13). [Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866]. Octavo. 9pp. Disbound. .
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€59.61
SALVADOR DALI INTERVIEW by Gerald Kean, 1959, photocopy as an article “The Persistence of Memory” by Gerald Kean, prefaced by photocopy of Dali inscription “Pour Gerald Kean, Homage de Dali”
by Salvador Dali, with Gerald Kean, interview
[1959 DALI INTERVIEW/ARTICLE WITH PHOTOCOPY INSCRIPTION TO GERALD KEAN, RARE] DALI INTERVIEW by Gerald Kean, 1959, photocopy as an article "The Persistence of Memory" by Gerald Kean, prefaced by photocopy of Dali inscription "Pour Gerald Kean, Homage de Dali" in a copy of the book "Dali on Modern Art: The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art" published in English translation by Dial in 1957, the "P" of "Pour" and the 1959 date missing from the reduced-size photocopy at the front of the article (see Notes...
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€366.80
Early Autograph Letter Signed Reserving a Venue for the Premiere of His "Harold en Italie"
by BERLIOZ, HECTOR
BERLIOZ, HECTOR. (1803-1869). French composer; creator of Harold in Italy, Symphonie Fantastique, and other masterpieces. ALS. ("Hector Berlioz"). 2pp. 4to. Paris, October 9, 1834. To l'intendant general de la liste civile. In French with translation.
"I am planning to give three concerts over the course of next November. The Salle des Menus Plaisirs, which you have been kind enough to make available to me several times in the past, is really the only venue in Paris that lends itself to these kinds of... Read more about this item
"I am planning to give three concerts over the course of next November. The Salle des Menus Plaisirs, which you have been kind enough to make available to me several times in the past, is really the only venue in Paris that lends itself to these kinds of... Read more about this item
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€1,834.00
![Two Cheers for Capitalism [Association Copy with Inscription and Laid-in Letter to William Safire]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/316/870/1473870316.0.b.jpg)
Two Cheers for Capitalism [Association Copy with Inscription and Laid-in Letter to William Safire]
by Kristol, Irving
New York: Basic Books, Inc, 1978. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's cloth in original dust jacket (not price-clipped); minor toning to dust jacket, with a small closed tear to rear top edge; faint bookseller price erasures. Ink inscription by Kristol on front free endpaper: "For Bill and Helene Safire, With love, Irving Kristol." Near-fine in near-fine dust jacket. Single-page letter, signed by Kristol, with mild toning to edges and neat fold across the middle, else fine.. Signed first edition of...
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€137.55
Partially Printed Pay Document
by [Connecticut]
Folded, toned, docketed to verso. Very good. JJA-758. [Connecticut] John Lawrence, treasurer. State of Connecticut: Partially Printed Pay Document. Partially printed pay document in the amount of six pounds, ten shillings. Signed by Oliver Wolcott Jun and dated September 26, 1782. Measures approx. 5.5 x 6.5 inches. .
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€137.55
Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
by LEWIS, Meriwether
New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. CLARK, William. Original Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. 1804-1806. Printed from the original manuscripts...Together with manuscript material of Lewis and Clark from other sources... Edited, with Introduction, Notes, and Index, by Reuben Gold Thwaites. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1904. First edition, first printing. Edition De Luxe, limited to 50 copies, of which this is number 34 printed on Imperial Japan Paper with all volumes marked so on the...
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€20,632.50
Holograph Note Signed
by Salter, James
(np): (np) Aprx 9x12 inch 20 lb green stock dated "August 4 Bridgehampton." "Yes, it is a nice collection. A pleasure to sign. My regards to Ms Mason." Salter has signed with his initials "J.S" Folded in half with beginning toning at extremities. Very Good condition.. Signed. Unbound. Very Good/Not Issued.
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€87.12
Vita di Benvenuto Cellini..
by CELLINI, Benvenuto
Naples, 1728. da lui medesimo scritta, nella quale molte curiose particolarità si toccano appartenenti alle arti ed all'istoria del suo tempo, tratta da un'ottimo manoscritto, e dedicato all'eccellenza di mylord Riccardo Boyle...In Colonia [i.e., Naples]: Per Pietro Martello, [1728]. First edition of Cellini's autobiography, a classic of Italian Renaissance literature. Quarto (10J x 7G inches; 256 x 186 mm.). [16], 318 pp. Title-page printed in red and black, with vignette. Ornamental initials....
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€4,126.50
Legenda aurea
by VORAGINE, Jacobus de
Italy (Venice?), 1300. Italy (Venice?): 1300. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Small quarto (8 x 5 9/16 inches; 203 x 142 mm.). 281 leaves, plus one blank leaf at front and two blank leaves at end (fols. 279 and 281 apparently conjoint with two blank vellum leaves, fol. 280 on a stub between the foliated leaves). Apparently complete. Two columns of thirty-four lines. Written by two Italian scribes in black ink in gothic bookhands between four verticals and thirty-five horizontals ruled in faint brown,...
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€114,625.00
Recollections of the Jersey Prison-Ship; Taken, and Prepared for Publication, from the Original Manuscript of the Late Captain Thomas Dring, of Providence, R.I., One of the Prisoners
by DRING, Thomas
Providence: H. H. Brown, 1829. Minor foxing and browning throughout, front board detached, else a very good copy. 12mo. 167 pages. Folding frontis. Cloth over boards with gilt-stamped leather spine and tips. Name autographed on fly. FIRST EDITION. Folding frontispiece with a view of the ship's exterior and accompanying diagrams of two decks. This former ship-of-the-line was converted into a warehouse and finally a prison-ship anchored on the East River. Dring was captured and held for several months of...
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€412.65
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allan Poe
A VERY RARE AND GENUINE DATE-STAMPED 1875 EDITION BY THE PUBLISHER, 149 YEARS OLD AND IN BEAUTIFUL CONDITION. THIS IS THE ONLY KNOWN 1875 PRINTING OF THIS EDITION CURRENTLY OFFERED BY ANY INSTITUTION. "THE ONLY COMPLETE ONE THAT HAS EVER BEEN MADE OF HIS POEMS AND CONTAINS ALL THAT HAS BEEN PUBLISHED" FROM THE ORIGINAL 1875 ADVERTISEMENT THIS PRINTING CONTAINS ART I HAVE NEVER SEEN IN ANY OTHER POE BOOKPRINTED AND BOUND IN SURREY, ENGLAND BY BILLINGS AND SONS EST. 1873THIS EDITION INCLUDES POE'S...
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€1,279.22
A REMARKABLE FIND: UNPUBLISHED ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT ABOUT FROGER'S TRIP TO AMERICA AND AFRICA, WITH 23 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS OF PLANTS NEVER PUBLISHED BEFORE | IDEAL FOR RESEARCH AND FURTHER INVESTIGATION
by [Illustrated manuscript/boulay/froger (François)]
"État de ce que Mr de Gennes a trouvé de plus remarquable dans son voyage fait en 1695, 1696 et 1697 aux côtes d'Affrique, détroit de Magellan et isles Antilles, Brésil & Cayenne, commandant une escadre des vaisseaux du Roy.24 juin 1813. "
1 vol. in-12° (160 x 105 mm.): 62 pp.; 33 manuscript plates of plants (2 of them folded), drawn in brown ink, some of which enhanced with green; contemporary full calf. Provenance: "Boulay" (signature on front endpaper).
Unique, original, unpublished manuscript... Read more about this item
1 vol. in-12° (160 x 105 mm.): 62 pp.; 33 manuscript plates of plants (2 of them folded), drawn in brown ink, some of which enhanced with green; contemporary full calf. Provenance: "Boulay" (signature on front endpaper).
Unique, original, unpublished manuscript... Read more about this item
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€20,174.00
Michael Howe. The Last and Worst of the Bushrangers of Van Dieman's Land.
by WELLS, T. E
Australia; Angus and Robertson; 1926. . First Limited Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 40; frontispiece facsimile of the final page of the original manuscript, bound in original quarter blue cloth, brown papered boards, title label laid down on upper board, G. & N. Ingleton bookplate on front endpaper, very good copy. Numbered limited edition initialled by the publisher. Limited to 100 copies. This copy being numbered 44.
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€91.53
FALCKNER'S CURIEUSE NACHRICHT VON PENNSYLVANIA. THE BOOK THAT STIMULATED THE GREAT GERMAN EMIGRATION TO PENNSYLVANIA IN THE EARLY YEARS OF THE XVIII CENTURY
by Sachse, Julius Friedrich
Philadelphia: Printed for the Author. Very Good+. 1905. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, one of 250 copies. A reprint of the Edition of 1702, amplified with the text of the Original Manuscript in the Halle Archives. With an Introduction and English translation of the complete work. Clean maroon cloth has paper spine label; bright gilt title on front cover with a design. Top edge gilt with deckle page edges. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with chapter head vignettes; drawings; plates...
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€229.25
Picasso - 1937
by Jamie Sabartes
Sabartes, Jamie: Picasso - 1937. Milan: All'Insegna del Pesce D;Oro, 1937. 32 pages numbered 185 from a total of 250 copies. Paper wrappers, loose from wrappers but interior holding. 9.5 x 7.5 cm. Test in Italian about Picasso.
Jamie Sabartes was Pablo Picasso's secretary until his death. The were good personal friends and Picasso painted him in his 'blue' phase in 1901.
Jamie Sabartes was Pablo Picasso's secretary until his death. The were good personal friends and Picasso painted him in his 'blue' phase in 1901.
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€77.95
La Fiorita d’Italia; in Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment
by Guido da Pisa
BOOK DESCRIPTION: FIFTEENTH-CENTURY COPY OF GUIDO DA PISA'S HISTORY OF ROME, IN ITALIAN. In Italian, decorated manuscript on parchment, Italy, Tuscany, Florence(?), c. 1440-1460. Dimensions 260 x 182 mm., 83 folios, lacking nine leaves, horizontal catchwords, written in brown ink by two different scribes in Italian cursive mercantesca script in single column on 38 lines, penwork initials. BINDING: ORIGINAL dark brown calf over wooden boards blind-tooled with fillets, twisted rope and x-form motifs,...
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€47,684.00
1883-1890 GROUP OF THREE (3) HANDWRITTEN RECEIPTS TO COL. C.R. MUDGE, POST 114, G.A.R., MERRIMAC, MASSACHUSETTS
by Mudge, C.R
Merrimac, MA, 1883. Original manuscripts. Very Good. Three receipts: (1) Heath Bros., Carpenters-Contractors-Builders, January 12, 1883, for a walnut shelf and brackets. (2) Bailey Sargent, written on the GAR Post's own decorative letterhead, Sept. 7th, 1883, for expenses of William Fry Concert Co. (3) Alex Smart, Dec. 19, 1890, for Littles Express, care of Horse, Story & Waterhouse bill, &c. Approx. 6" x 8" Merrimac, Massachusetts, was incorporated in 1876. The Colonel C. R. Mudge Post 114, of the...
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€27.51
Autograph letter signed "Bellini" to Count Rodolphe Apponyi
by BELLINI, Vincenzo 1801-1835
2 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated Monday morning. Postmarked [?]January 12, 1835. With "Weynen Superfin" blindstamped to upper portions of leaves. Integral address panel with the recipient's name and the address of the Austrian Embassy in Paris to final page. With fully intact red wax seal. In Italian and French (with translation). Bellini tries to secure the Count a place at the première of his latest opera and invites the Count's wife to one of its dress rehearsals. "... I met your cousin at...
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€4,007.29
![[Facsimile] Original Manuscript of "Christmas Night in the Quarters" by Irwin Russell](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/036/606/1447606036.0.b.jpg)
[Facsimile] Original Manuscript of "Christmas Night in the Quarters" by Irwin Russell
by RUSSELL, Irwin
(Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Historical Society, 1970. Softcover. Near Fine. Facsimile reprint. Small quarto. [12] pages. Stapled glossy printed wrappers (reproducing in facsimile the original marbled paper notebook wrapper). The poem, in holograph facsimile, begins: "When merry Christmas-day is done... What causes all the stir below, At Uncle Johnny Booker's ball, the darkeys hold high carnival...". As noted in the editor's introduction: "... this volume is in the nature of a memorial to the...
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€45.85
Autograph letter signed ("H. Berlioz") regarding his article on Dmitri Bortnyansky
by BERLIOZ, Hector 1803-1869
2 pp. of a bifolium. Octavo. Dated "31 Juillet," no year. To an unidentified male correspondent. On lined paper. In French (with translation). Berlioz apologizes for not being able to edit his article on Bortnyansky, with which he hopes his correspondent will be satisfied. "The fragment of musical criticism which I wanted to add to the item on Bortnianski is in the hands of Mr. M. Levy's printer who is at present bringing out a book which contains this article. It is impossible for me - since the...
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€2,636.38
1794 ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LETTER DETAILING A LOUISIANA PLANTER'S CONCERNS FOR HIS TENANT'S PLANS AND AMBITIONS
by WILLIAM WICKOFF
OPELOUSAS LOUISIANA, 1794. On offer is a superb, original late 18th Century manuscript relic of a Louisiana planter's dealings and concerns regarding his tenant farmer's plans for accumulating stock and building a 'cabbin'. Dated Oct. 6 1794 Opelousas, Louisiana William Wickoff writes to New Orleans businessman Hamilton Pollock. We observe that despite the spelling of 'cabin' William appears an educated man and one of the non-Acadians listed in early census of the Attakapas....
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€1,885.34
Oberon. Autograph musical manuscript working score of the complete chorus and ballet, number 21 from the third act of the opera. Ca.1826
by WEBER, Carl Maria von 1786-1826
Oblong folio (236 x 322 mm.). 2 pp. 206 measures of music notated on 20 hand-ruled staves in dark brown ink on both sides of a single leaf. Mostly on 3-stave braces, but also on 2- and 4-stave braces. With numerous corrections, deletions, and corrections; 2 entire measures canceled. Browned, but on good quality laid paper and in very good condition overall. Attached at corners to thin window mat, at the foot of which is an inscription in an unknown 19th century hand in German identifying the...
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€40,072.90
The Ogdens of South Jersey. The Descendants of John Ogden of Fairfield, Conn., and New Fairfield, N.J., Born 1673, Died 1745 / Inscriptions on the Tomb Stones and Monuments in the Grave Yards at Whippany and Hanover, Morris County, N.J., 1894 / Church Members, Marriages & Baptisms, at Hanover, Morris Co., N.J. During the Pastorate of Rev. Jacob Green, and to the Settlement of Rev. Aaron Condit., 1746-1796 / Descendants of Rebecca Ogden, 1729-1806, and Caleb Halsted, 1721-1784 / Descendants of Robert Ogden, 2d, 1716-1787 / The Descendants of Stephen Pierson of Suffolk County, England, and New Haven and Derby, Conn., 1645-1739 / The Descendants of James Skiff of London, England, and Sandwich, Mass., Who Died After 1688 / Autobiography of Col. Aaron Ogden, of Elizabethtown / The Battle of Groton Heights: A Story of the Storming of Fort Griswold, and the Burning of New London, on the Sixth of September, 1781 Containing Also the Narrative of Rufus Avery, From the Original Manuscript / History and Dedication of the
by WHEELER, William Ogden, Edmund Drake Halsey, Frederick Lockwood Pierson, Col. Aaron Ogden, and Rev. N.H. Burnham
(Morristown, New Jersey / Amenia, New York / Paterson, New Jersey / New London, Connecticut): (Walsh & Griffin, Printers / The Press Printing and Publishing Co. / E.E. Darrow, Printer and Book Binder / Charles Walsh Steam Printer), 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. First editions. Octavo. Ten pamphlets with original front wrappers bound into a single volume. Illustrated with black-and-white plates, and from photographs in three of the ten volumes. Three quarter leather with pebbled cloth boards, gilt ruling,...
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€596.05
MASSIVE ARCHIVE OF THOUSANDS OF ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS AND PHOTOGRAPHIC SLIDES, ALONG WITH NUMEROUS AUDIO RECORDINGS, COMPILED BY JACOB HARRIS, AN AMERICAN WHO SERVED AS A SENIOR POLICE ADVISOR IN VIETNAM AND THAILAND DURING THE VIETNAM WAR
by HARRIS, JACOB
Vietnam, Thailand, and elsewhere in Asia as well as the United States, Europe, and the Middle East ca. 1964-1974: Compiled by Jacob Harris, an American who served as a Senior Police Advisor in Vietnam and Thailand during the Vietnam War, 1964 - 1974., 1964 - 1974. First edition. A large and remarkable archive of images from Vietnam and Thailand, covering the decade from the Gulf of Tonkin incident and the beginning of the buildup of American forces in Vietnam to a year before the evacuation of the...
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€13,755.00
