MANUSCRIPTS AND AUTOGRAPHS - 10am and 2:30pm
SALE IN TWO SESSIONS
from 10 am: lots 1 to 202
from 2:30 pm: lots 203 and following
Autographs - Manuscripts - Archives
from the 13th to the 20th century
Sciences: Brongniart, Buffon, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Bernard de Jussieu, Lamarck, Noisette, Raffles, etc.
Music: musical collection of the Marquis de Chambray, archives of Henri Martelli (180 musical manuscripts), letters of Berlioz, Boulez, Hahn, Honegger (musical ms), etc.
Fine arts: Chagall, Louis de Châtillon (important correspondence), Delacroix, Antoine Etex, Lebourg, Magritte, Man Ray, Henri Martin, Rouault, Sempé, etc.
Regionalism: very numerous manuscripts on all the French departments
Autographs: Barbey d'Aurevilly, Bernanos, Céline, Chateaubriand, Crevel, Dumont d'Urville, de Gaulle, Gide, Jaurès, Louis XIV (to Honoré II of Monaco), Mirabeau, Nerval, Blaise Pascal, Reverdy, Roosevelt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sade, Sand, Schweitzer, etc., as well as many other lots.
Dedicated books: James Baldwin, Eiffel, Prévert, Sartre (to Gide), etc.
Collector's papers: assignats, bills of lading, engravings (including Rembrandt), illustrated letters, postmarks, stamps on letters, revolutionary vignettes, etc.
History, travels, Varia: posters, Black Africa, America, Brazil, Papal bull, Catholicism (very important archive of Jean-Marie Paupert), China, Hundred Years' War, Madagascar, Malta, Martinique, Port-Royal, Resistance (collection of letters from the companions of the Liberation), Revolution (important collection on 1789), etc.