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ascenders and descenders), and opens with tightly compressed, elongated calligrahic letterforms, beginning with the pope´s name, alexander, and continuing with the formal preamble. the bulla represents a privilegium (solemn privilege), the most solemn form of papal bull, for godescal, abbot of saint bertin, near saint-omer, in northern france, and confirms the independence of the abbey from the abbey of cluny and all its other privileges. at the conclusion of the body of text (ending with the declartion of affirmation amen ) appears the circular sign manual, or rota, of pope alexander iii, with a cross in his hand to the upper edge, the centre of the two concentric circles with the names of saint peter and saint paul, as well as the pope ( ´alexander pp iii´ ), and also featuring his device, or motto, ´demonstra mihi vias tuas domine´ ( ´oh lord, show me your ways´ ) written within the outer circle. this is followed by the pope´s name, ego alexander catholice eccle [sie] ep [iscopu] s , and abbreviated subscripsi , (´i, alexander, bishop of the catholic church, have  subscribed ´), the initial letter e inked in the hand of the pope (a practice begun by alexander iii). to the right of the pope´s name appears the elaborate bene valete (´ fare well ´) monogram. immediately beneath appear the countersignatures of eleven cardinals including the future lucius iii ( ´ego hubaldus....´ , as cardinal-bishop of ostia), and future gregory viii ( ´ego albertus....´ , as cardinal-priest of san lorenzo in lucina). each of the names of the cardinals, in a number of different hands, are preceded by crosses and conclude with abbreviated subscripsi . the final line of text, just above the plica, identifies the scribe as the sub-deacon and notary cardinal hermannus. the original leaden seal is no longer present, although two central holes to the plica remain, indicating where the bulla would have originally been affixed by silk cords. documents bearing the signatures of three popes of the medieval period are of the utmost rarity and very seldom appear at auction. some light age wear, particularly to the folds, and minor staining as is to be expected, although overall in a fine state of preservation considering the age of the great bulla. about vg \n godescal was the abbot of saint bertin from 1163-76. the benedictine monastic abbey was founded in the 7th century and soon became one of the most influential monasteries in northern europe. the abbey ceased to flourish after the 13th century, although it survived until its closure during the french revolution. today the abbey stands in ruins, owing to a partial demolition ordered in 1830 and later damage sustained in shelling during world war ii.  \n alexander iii became pope of the catholic church in 1159 following a contested election, with several rivals instead claiming the papacy. he was thus forced to spend much of his pontificate away from rome, enjoying the favour and protection of king louis vii by taking refuge and living at sens, in north-central france, between 1163 and 1165.  \n during alexander´s reign the holy roman emperor frederick i barbarossa, who had been crowned king of italy, and proclaimed emperor (by alexander´s predecessor, pope adrian iv) in 1155, gave his support to the antipope victor iv. on 13 th february 1160 victor iv excommunicated alexander iii and, upon receiving the news the following month, the pope retaliated by excommunicating both victor iv and frederick i barbarossa. in 1161 king geza ii of hungary recognised alexander iii as the rightful pope and his legitimacy began to gather strength, the kings of france and england also recognising his authority. in 1163 alexander iii summoned clergy and prelates from england, france, italy, and spain to the council of tours to address, among other matters, the unlawful division of ecclesiastical benefices, clerical usury, and lay possession of tithes.  \n alexander iii´s pontificate is particularly noted for his papal bull non parum animus noster , issued in 1171 or 1172 in which he gave papal sanction to the crusades against pagans in northern europe, promising remission of sin for those who fought there, and thereby legitimising the widespread use of forced conversion. the pope also humbled king henry ii of england for the murder of thomas becket in 1170, to whom he was unusually close, later canonizing becket in 1173. this was the second english saint canonized by alexander, the first being edward the confessor in 1161. through the papal bull manifestis probatum of 23 rd may 1179, alexander recognised the right of count afonso henriques to declare himself king of portugal, which represented a significant step in the process of portugal becoming a recognised independent kingdom.  \n alexander iii died in august 1181, just one week short of twenty-two years since his election, the longest papacy since adrian i in the 8th century.  \n lucius iii had enjoyed a long career as a papal diplomat before being elected as pope in 1181. his pontificate, like that of alexander iii´s, was marked by conflicts with the holy roman emperor frederick i barbarossa, and his subsequent exile from rome. in 1185 lucius iii began preparations for the third crusade in answer to the appeals of king baldwin iv of jerusalem. before they could be completed, lucius iii passed away in verona in november 1185.  \n gregory viii served as pope for just two months, from october to december 1187, after having had a long diplomatic career as apostolic chancellor. he was notable in his brief reign for reconciling the papacy with the estranged holy roman empire, and  for issuing the papal bull audita tremendi, calling for the third crusade following the battle of hattin.  \n  an exceedingly rare and especially early document; the auction and book sales archive (absa), which incorporates the records of american book prices current (abpc), lists only one other papal bull signed by alexander iii (dated 1181) as having appeared at auction in almost thirty years."},"estimateMax":15000,"lotNumber":"1421","title":{"es":"alexander iii: (c.1100/05-1181) & two future popes a truly astounding document signed by three popes of the middle ages"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137015/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":10000,"soldPrice":15000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.860Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac10,000 - \u20ac15,000","currency":"EUR","id":137015,"estimateMin":10000},{"startPrice":18000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137016/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"henry viii: (1491-1547) king of england 1509-47. a good, rare d.s., henry r , as king, at the head, one page (vellum), slim oblong 8vo (23.5 x 11 cm), given under the king's signet at windsor castle, 2nd january 1514. the manuscript warrant is addressed to sir andrew windsor (' to our trusty and welbeloved ser andrew wyndesore, knight, keper of our great wardrope' ) and commands him to deliver unto lord curson fourteen yards of crimson velvet for a gown and as much black budge as shall suffice for furring the same ( 'we wooll and commaunde you that unto the lorde kurson ye deliver xiiij yerdes of crimson velvett for a gowne and asmoche blacke boogi as schall suffice for furring of the same gowne' ). with an early ninteenth century filing annotation ( '60' ) to the upper left corner and the blank lower left corner neatly excised. some very light, minor age wear, vg \n andrew windsor (1467-1543) 1st baron windsor. english peer and politician, keeper of the great wardrobe 1504-43. windsor played a significant part in king henry viii's military expedition to france in 1513 and was present at the battle of the spurs (16th august 1513) after which he was among the first to be advanced as knights bannerets. in 1514 windsor attended mary tudor, the king's sister, on her journey to france for her marriage to king louis xii and signed the marriage and peace treaties with france in 1518. windsor attended the field of the cloth of gold summit meeting between king henry viii and king francis i in june 1520.  \n sir robert curson (c.1460-1535) lord curson. english soldier and courtier at the court of king henry viii, and also that of maximilian i, holy roman emperor.  curson was publicly proclaimed a traitor from the pulpit at paul\u2019s cross on 21st october 1501, although astonishingly escaped punishment. in 1509 his annual fee was set at £400 and it remained so until 1520, when he (or his son robert) were present at the field of cloth of gold. although he never became an english peer, his title lord curson appears to have been recognized at court from around 1513."},"estimateMax":24000,"lotNumber":"1422","title":{"es":"henry viii: (1491-1547)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137016/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":18000,"soldPrice":16000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.863Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac18,000 - \u20ac24,000","currency":"EUR","id":137016,"estimateMin":18000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137017/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"paul v: (1552-1621) pope of the catholic church and ruler of the papal states 1605-21. born camillo borghese. best remembered for ompleting st. peter's basilica and for founding the vatican secret archives. paul v supported galileo galilei´s discoveries and protected him. extremely rare l.s., ` paulus pp. a v ´, signed in his capacity as pope, one page, 4to, at the apostolic palace in rome, 25th march 1609, to his treasurer, monsignor giacomo serra, in italian. the pope wishes that the privileges previously granted by pope pius iv (1499-1565) to the community of the city of san severin may be extended for three more years, stating in part ` \u2026 per ogni cento libre del peso del macinato conforme alla concessione, prorogatione, et patenti fatteli altre volte\u2026´ (translation: \"\u2026 for every one hundred pounds of the weight of the ground product in accordance with the concession, extension, and patents made to them on previous occasions\u2026\") pope paulus v states in part ` ci contentiamo prorogare alla communità della n. [ost] ra città di san severino per tre anni prossimi la facultà altre nostre concessali, et prorogatali di riscoter la gabella dell\u2019augumento delli doi baiocchi... però ordiniamo à voi, che ne spediate gli ordini, et patenti opportune che tale è mente nostra, volendo anco, che la presente vaglia ancor che non sia ammessa, et registrata in camera nelli suoi libri. derogando alla constitutione di pio quarto nostro predecessore de registrandis...´ (translation: \" we are content to extend to the community of our city of san severino for the next three years the faculty that we have previously granted to them, and extended to collect the tax of the increase of two baiocchi... however, we order you to send the orders and appropriate patents because that is our intention, also wanting, that the present grant be valid even if it is not admitted, and registered in the chamber in its books. derogating from the constitution of pius iv our predecessor de registrandis...\") very small, minor age wear, although in very fine condition considering its age. professionally inlaid. g to vg \n monsignor giacomo serra (1570-1623) was appointed cardinal by paul v on 17th august 1611. he participated at the 1621 and 1623 conclaves when popes gregory xiv and urban viii were elected."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"1423","title":{"es":"paul v: (1552-1621) \"extremely rare letter by paul v, supporter and protector of galileo galilei´s discoveries"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137017/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":3000,"soldPrice":3000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.864Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":137017,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":7000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137018/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137018/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"louis xiv: (1638-1715) also known as louis the great or the sun king. king of france 1643-1715. son of louis xiii. his reign of more than 72 years is the longest recorded of any monarch in european history. an extremely rare autograph letter signed, ` \n louis ´, two pages, 8vo, n.p. [versailles], \n `a 10 heures´ (\" \n at 10h\"), in french. the king has received a courier from spain he was waiting for and is in hurry to check what has arrived. the full manuscript letter, boldly written in the king´s hand, in his childish way, with corrections, states in full ` \n il est arrivé d´espagne un courier que nous cherchont. j´ay pris tous nos paquets et je les ay ouvers, je n´ay fait que les parcourir, il me paraist qu´il n´y a rien de si considerable que je croiais, personne n´a vu nos lettres que moi même, et ce soir je veux me rendre compte de ce qui sera le plus considérable que je n´ay pu voir si precipitament´ (translation: \" \n a courier arrived from spain that we were looking for. i took all our packages and opened them, i only looked through them, it seemed to me that there was nothing as important as i thought, no one saw our letters except myself , and this evening i want to realize what will be the most considerable that i was not able to see so hastily\") with blank integral leaf. g to vg"},"estimateMax":9000,"lotNumber":"1424","title":{"es":"louis xiv: (1638-1715)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137018/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":7000,"soldPrice":6500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.866Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac7,000 - \u20ac9,000","currency":"EUR","id":137018,"estimateMin":7000},{"startPrice":80000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137019/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"es":"peter i: (1672-1725) peter the great. tsar of all russia 1682-1721 and emperor of russia 1721-25. a remarkable l.s., peter , in cyrillic, one page, slim 4to, st. petersburg, 11th november 1723, to count andrei ivanovich ushakov. the emperor demonstrates his autocracy and sends instructions to his correspondent (translated) ´after having heard about the case from rumyantsev, call up colonel apostol, and miloradovich as well, give them the letter (the copy is enclosed), and send them with it to st. petersburg. to not let them escape, send some officers as if on some duty, so that they would come across them on the road. if it seems impossible [to organise] arrest them to not let them go...´ . annotated at the foot of the page, possibly in the hand of ushakov, confirming receipt of the letter on 29th november 1723. an extraordinary letter by the emperor, an absolute monarch who remained the ultimate authority and oversaw a well organised police state. some light creasing and age wear, a vertical strip of dust staining to the right edge, only very slightly affecting the text and signature (which remain perfectly legible), some minimal stains to the margins and a few minor restorations to the corners, g \n count andrei ivanovich ushakov (1672-1747) russian general and politician, a companion of peter the great who served as general-in-chief and head of the secret chancellery of the russian empire 1736-51.  \n count alexander ivanovich rumyantsev (1677-1749) russian nobleman who served as an assistant to peter the great, acting as his spy chief and undertaking various diplomatic errands.  \n danylo pavlovych apostol (1654-1734) russian military leader and the hetman of the zaporizhian host from 1727-34. a prominent polkovnyk (colonel) with the myrhorod regiment, apostol participated in the russian campaigns against the ottoman empire. in the 1723-25 cossack starshyna , apostol was accused of being involved in the alleged mutiny plot of hetman pavlo polubotok.  \n mykhailo miloradovich (c.1650-1726) russian nobleman and colonel who had been recruited by peter the great to incite rebellion in herzegovina against the ottomans in 1710\u201311 during the pruth river campaign.  \n  in 1722, peter the great established the collegium of little russia, an administrative body of the russian empire in the cossack hetmanate, officially known as the zaporizhian host, which today corresponds to parts of central and southern ukraine. similar to russia\u2019s current rationalisation and goals for invading ukraine, the collegium was made up of six russian military officers in the hetmanate who functioned as a parallel government. it was assigned the responsibility of securing the rights of local cossack peasants against repression by cossack officers. peter introduced and enforced russian laws and administration, mobilized the region's material resources for his imperial needs, and structured the local judicial and financial systems to eradicate the region\u2019s autonomy.   \n  from the beginning of its history, cossacks had been fiercely independent nomads, who peter used to further his military and political objectives in the region. at the battle of poltava in 1709, cossacks supported the swedish army under ivan mazeppa who, after discovering he was to be replaced as acting hetman of the zaporizhian host, threw his loyalty and soldiers behind sweden\u2019s king charles xii. following sweden\u2019s defeat at poltava, cossack leaders who had sided with king charles xii met in 1710 and wrote the treaties and resolutions of the rights and freedoms of the zaporizhian army, considered ´the first constitution of ukraine´. i  n june 1722, mazepa\u2019s successor, ivan skoropadsky, who had supported czar peter at poltava and continued to fight for hetmanate rights and ukrainian autonomy died as his country\u2019s largest landowner.  \n one year later peter i decreed that, following skoropadsky\u2019s death, there would be no new elections for hetman. the acting ukrainian hetman, pavlo polubotok (who had also joined with peter i to fight mazepa) wrote several petitions to the tsar calling for ukrainian self-rule that led to a series of interrogations in september 1723. peter ordered his spy chief, count alexander ivanovich rumyantsev , to investigate the hetman\u2019s activities. polubotok was arrested on accusations of treason in november 1723 and imprisoned in the petropavlovsk fortress, st. petersburg\u2019s citadel, where he died a year later on 29th december 1724.  \n one of polubotok\u2019s closest collaborators and a highly respected colonel, danylo apostol,  was aware of polubotok\u2019s fruitless attempts to restore hetmanate\u2019s rights in ukraine. around october 1723, a month before the present letter, he initiated the so-called kolomak petitions while encamped above the kolomak river, in ukraine\u2019s kharkiv region, during a campaign against the tatars. the authors demanded the right to elect a new hetman of ukraine and to liquidate ´the martial law established in ukraine by peter i after his victory at the battle of poltava, the rule of the collegium of little russia, and other restrictions on ukrainian autonomy´. it was apostol\u2019s kolomak petition, supported by polubotok, that led to the latter\u2019s arrest.  \n in the little ukrainian encyclopedia (1959) the scholar yevhen onatsky wrote ´for the petition, apostol collected many signatures from the starshynas and cossacks and sent them to the general chancellery, but the collegium of little russia issued a secret order not to allow any more [ukrainian] ambassadors in st. petersburg.....then general zhurakovsky secretly from the collegium sent chancellor iv. romanovych with the kolomak petition to st. petersburg. on 10th november 1723 he presented them to the tsar when he was leaving the church of st. trinity. after reading those pages and seeing a large number of signatures, peter i, with great anger and fury, ordered general ushakov to immediately arrest and put polubotok in the peter and paul fortress,  [with apostol] and other ukrainians who allied with polubotok.....in the defense of ukrainian rights and who seemed dangerous to moscow´.  \n apostol and mykhailo miloradovich , a colonel in the hadiach regiment from 1715 until his death, who had also signed the kolomak petition, were imprisoned early in 1724, but after the emperor´s death in 1725 they were quickly released. peter ii reviewed the political course of the collegium of little russia and temporarily suspended it in 1727. apostol was elected a hetman of the zaporizhian host (known as ´left bank ukraine´) in 1727\u201334. later, during the 18th century, the cossack hetmanate gradually lost its political and economic autonomy. in 1764, by order of the russian empress catherine ii, the institution of hetmanship was abolished, and a year later the hetmanate was re-formed into the little russian province.  \n  a remarkable letter illustrating russia\u2019s early and historic intervention into ukrainian affairs, repeated nearly exactly 300 years later by vladimir putin, whose heroic inspiration he has often proclaimed to the world is peter the great."},"estimateMax":100000,"lotNumber":"1425","title":{"es":"peter i: (1672-1725) one day after receiving word of ukrainian ´ treason´ , peter the great orders the arrest of two of its leaders"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137019/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":80000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.867Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac80,000 - \u20ac100,000","currency":"EUR","id":137019,"estimateMin":80000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":false,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137020/001/001.jpg"],"available":false,"description":{"es":"catherine ii the great: (1729-1796) empress of russia 1762-96, catherine the great. an excellent and very attractive d.s., ` ekaterina ´, in cyrillic, folio, tsarkoe selo (royal village), 11th october 1762, to the administrator udalov, in cyrillic. a very early letter signed by catherine the great as the present document is signed by the empress only three months after having been crowned the manuscript document is a release of three thousand roubles given to the administrator of tsarkoe selo, udalov, for the digging of ponds, and stating that if the said revenues were not sufficient, then they will have to be taken from the main court chancery funds, and for which he can issue a receipt to be given to the chancery itself. a very clean document. paper with attractive watermark. vg to ex \n a young catherine the great approves the digging of ponds at the estate of of tsarkoe selo, not far from the center of saint petersburg, which peter the great offered to his wife catherine i, who would later and in turn give it to her daughter empress elizabeth. empress elizabeth died only two months after the present letter was signed. later, catherine the great extended the palace builing and enhanced the park with additions such as the french and the english gardens, a creaking pagoda, a column, an obelisk and a marble bridge."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"1426","title":{"es":"catherine ii the great: (1729-1796) the empress approves the digging of ponds at the estate of tsarkoe selo"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137020/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":3000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.869Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":137020,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137021/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137021/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"voltaire: (1694-1778) french enlightenment writer and philosopher. voltaire is a pseudonym, his name being françois-marie arouet. voltaire is known for his attacks on catholic church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and expression, and separation of church and state. rare l.s., ` voltaire ´, two pages, 4to, ferney, geneva, 7th february 1774, in french. the letter is in the hand of voltaire´s secretary mr. wagniere. voltaire refers to the shipments he is sending from his beloved \"small colony\" town of ferney in switzerland, where he went into exile and where he is often referred to as \"the patriarch of ferney\", thanking his correspondent and another person for the help received, stating ` monsieur d'ogny, monsieur, a la bonté de vouloir bien se charger lui-même de faire parvenir à leur destination, les envois de la petite colonie que j'ai établie à ferney. bezançon est si près que j'ai cru devoir épargner le chemin de ferney à paris, et de paris en franche comté. je me suis flatté que vous auriez pour moi la même bonté que mr d'ogny, et que vous voudriez bien faire remettre aux sr pellier et pochet dans votre ville la petite boëte que je prends la liberté de vous envoier, et qu´on demande avec le plus grand empressement, je vous serai très obligé .´ (translation: \" monsieur d'ogny, sir, has the kindness to take charge himself of sending to their destination the consignments of the small colony that i have established at ferney. bezançon is so close that i thought it necessary to save the journey from ferney to paris, and from paris to franche comté. i flattered myself that you would have the same kindness for me as mr. d'ogny, and that you would be kind enough to have the little box that i am taking the liberty of sending you delivered to mr. pellier and mr. pochet in your town, and that is being requested with the greatest eagerness, i would be very obliged to you.\") further voltaire thanks again his correspondent for the help he is supplying and for his support to a newborn society, stating `la bienveillance que vous aurez pour une société naissante dont vous serez un des bienfaiteurs, nous sera extrêmement précieuse. je voudrais bien être à portée de recevoir quelques uns de vos ordres...´ (translation: \" the goodwill you will have for a nascent society of which you will be one of the benefactors, will be extremely precious to us. i would like to be within reach of receiving some of your orders...\") paper with watermark. with blank integral leaf. overall creasing, otherwise g \n  the provenance of the present letter is the former collection chaper."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1427","title":{"es":"voltaire: (1694-1778) \"the goodwill you will have for a nascent society of which you will be one of the benefactors\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137021/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.870Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137021,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":8000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137022/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137022/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"rousseau jean-jacques: (1712-1778) french writer and philosopher. very rare autograph instructions and corrections in the hand of rousseau, relating to the first paris edition of emile or on education (1762). a cleanly written a.l., one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. [22nd november 1764], in french. an excellent autograph letter by rousseau, referring to one his masterpiece works emile or on education (1762), an educational treatise, including four paragraphs, the first entitled ` fautes nécessaires à corriger´ (\" mistakes which need to be corrected\"), stating in part ` l´auteur n´ayant pu suivre l´impression de ses feuilles, des fautes de copie dans le manuscrit, des quiproquo de l´imprimeur dans les renvois, ont rendu plusieurs endroits inintelligibles, surtout dans la quatrieme lettre...´ (translation: \" the author was unable to follow the printing of his sheets, copying errors in the manuscript, and the printer's misunderstandings in the references, which made several places unintelligible, especially in the fourth letter....\") to the second paragraph entitled by rousseau ` premiere partie´ (\" first part\"), the author lists five corrections stating in part ` p.202. la ligne 10 et les deux suivantes ne doivent point former un alinea ni être en italique, mais s´écrire à la suite de celles qui précèdent et du même caractère. p.208. l [igne] 9. ce mot dit-on doit être en italique comme le reste de la ligne.´ (translation: \" p.202. line 10 and the two following lines should not form a paragraph or be in italics, but should be written after those preceding them and in the same character. p.208. l[ ine ] 9. this word, it is said, should be in italics like the rest of the line...\") to the second paragraph entitled by rousseau ` seconde partie ´ (\" second part \"), the author lists three corrections stating in part ` p.22 - l [igne] 11. avant d´avoir assez affermi leur puissance ils voulurent usurper le droit de mettre des impôts. effacez cette phrase, et substituez-y ce qui suit. ils avaient doucement usurpé le droit de mettre les impôts: avant d´avoir assez affermi leur puissance ils voulurent abuser de ce droit...´ (translation: \" p.22 - l [ine] 11. before they had sufficiently established their power, they wanted to usurp the right to impose taxes. delete this sentence, and substitute by the following : they had quietly usurped the right to impose taxes: before they had sufficiently established their power, they wanted to abuse of this right...\") before concluding and to the fourth paragraph entitled ` avis au relieur´ (translation: \" notice to the bookbinder\") rousseau states ` il y a quatre cartons imprimés avec la feuille marquée d´une étoile. le relieur aura soin de les mettre exactement à leur place.´ (translation: \" there are four printed cartons with the sheet marked with a star. the bookbinder will take care to put them exactly in their place. \") very small age wear and toning, otherwise g to vg \n rousseau published in may 1762 his work emile, ou de l´education (\" emile, or on education\" ). rousseau considered this work the \"best and most important\" of all his writings. due to a section of the book referring to \"faith\", it was banned in paris and geneva and publicly burned in 1762. few decades later, during the french revolution, emile served as an inspiration for a new system of education."},"estimateMax":10000,"lotNumber":"1428","title":{"es":"rousseau jean-jacques: (1712-1778) autograph instructions and corrections for his first edition of emile or on education"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137022/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":8000,"soldPrice":9500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.872Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac8,000 - \u20ac10,000","currency":"EUR","id":137022,"estimateMin":8000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137023/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"diderot denis: (1713-1784) french philosopher, art critic and writer, a significant figure during the age of enlightenment. an extremely rare a.l.s., diderot , one page, small 4to, n.p., n.d., seemingly a retained draft of a letter to joseph de la porte, in french. the head of the letter is annotated by diderot 'modele de la lettre a m. l'abbe de la porte' (translation: 'sample letter to m. l'abbe de la porte' ) and his text states, in full, 'des personnes mal informees, monsieur, ayant repondu que la traduction imprimee du pere de famille de goldoni etais faite par m. de lavie et celle du veritable ami veron de foubonnais; la connaissance que j'ai eue de ces deux traductions m'oblige de declarer que celles qui paraissent sont tres differentes, et j'eu constate que ni l'un ni l'autre n'ont eu part a l'edition de ces ouvrages' (translation: 'some ill-informed people, sir, having replied that the printed translation of goldoni's pere de famille was by m. de lavie and that of the true friend veron de foubonnais; the knowledge i have had of these two translations obliges me to declare that those which appear are very different, and i have noted that neither of them had any part in the publication of these works' ). a letter with interesting associations. one very small, minor tear to the left edge. vg \n joseph de la porte (1714-1779) french priest, literary critic, poet and playwright.  \n carlo goldoni (1707-1793) italian playwright and librettist, a profuse author whose works included the comedy il padre di famiglia ('the father of the family' ).  \n francois veron duverger de forbonnais (1722-1800)  \n charles de lavie (1694-1775) president of the first chamber of inquiries of the bordeaux parliament."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1429","title":{"es":"diderot denis: (1713-1784)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137023/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4100,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.873Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137023,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137024/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137024/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"casanova giacomo: (1725-1798) italian author and adventurer. an excellent and lengthy a.l.s., ` giacomo casanova ´, with his full name, three pages, 4to, dux, 11th january 1790, to count antonio collalto ( 'your excellency, my beloved patron' ), in italian. casanova thanks his correspondent for his letter which he has just received and states in part `.. especially interesting seems to me the election of counselor to your excellency of count odoardo, your dignified son. an appointment which grants a noble and wise member to the senate.´ casanova further refers to prince ruspoli and makes an amusing comment ` \u2026considering that bacchus and mars have never been my favourite divinities..´ further again, casanova mentions a new he has received related to mirabeau, and expresses his contempt for the french author, stating ` i have received today the news that the bestial mirabeau, chief of the rebels assassins who dethroned the christian king, is dead as a result of the wounds received on a duel. this death distresses me because i had the hope of meeting him somewhere, kill him and watch him die. he is an infamous writer who has dishonoured crowned heads and famous writers, and among them our illustrious abbot boskovitch who he treats as an ignorant.´ before concluding, casanova comments on the emperor´s health stating ` i wish that his majesty the emperor and king will recover his lost health and that he will enjoy it for long without having any further troubles, surrounded by his loyal servitors, listening to the good advices he receives from the wise people who abound in his court.´ some very light overall age wear and very small stain to the third page edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise about vg \n  \n count antonio collalto - italian nobleman and military officer. patron of casanova.  \n  \n translation into french of the paragraph referring to mirabeau.  « j'ai reçu aujourd'hui la nouvelle que le bestial mirabeau, chef des rebelles assassins qui ont détrôné le roi très chrétien est mort des blessures reçues en duel. cette mort m'afflige parce que j'avais l'espoir de le rencontrer quelque part et de le voir mourir de ma main. c'est un écrivain infâme qui a déshonoré des têtes couronnées et des écrivains fameux, parmi lesquels notre illustre abbé boskovitch, qu'il traite d'ignorant »  \n  \n n.h. odoardo, son of count antonio collalto. member of the major council of venice 1789-90  \n honoré gabriel riqueti, comte de mirabeau (1749-1791) french writer and an early leader of the french revolution. president of the national constituent assembly 1791. a successful orator who became the voice of the people.  \n mirabeau did not die in january 1790 as casanova comments. the duel death announced a year earlier than his real death date was one of the many fake news that circulated during the revolution years.  \n roger joseph boscovich (1711-1787) a polymath from the republic of ragusa. an extremely interesting life the one of this jesuit priest, also physicist, astronomer, philosopher, poet, diplomat.. boscovich made multiple contributions to astronomy. he discovered the absence of atmosphere on the moon in 1753.  \n joseph ii (1741-1790) holy roman emperor 1765-90. the emperor did not recover as casanova was wishing and died only a month later."},"estimateMax":15000,"lotNumber":"1430","title":{"es":"casanova giacomo: (1725-1798) \"the bestial mirabeau, chief of the rebels assassins who dethroned the christian king, is dead\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137024/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":10000,"soldPrice":9000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:26.875Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac10,000 - \u20ac15,000","currency":"EUR","id":137024,"estimateMin":10000},{"startPrice":800,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137025/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"goethe johann wolfgang von: (1749-1832) german poet, playwright and novelist. a.n.s., goethe , one page, 12mo (approx. 8 x 8 cm), weimar, 8th may 1827, to [moritz daniel] oppenheim, in german. goethe´s note is penned on a small, stiff card and states (translated) ´herr oppenheim is courteously requested to have his painting of felsner collected´ . some light age wear and minor scuffing (only very slightly affecting one word of text, and not the signature) and with a couple of very minor traces of former mounting to the verso, g \n moritz daniel oppenheim (1800-1882) german painter. after completing his art studies between 1817-19, oppenheim travelled to paris and rome before settling in frankfurt in 1825. it was at around this time that the artist exhibited his painting david playing the harp for saul (1823) and a great number of admirers from all parts of europe subsequently visited his studio. oppenheim met goethe in weimar in 1827, and the german poet was later instrumental in obtaining the honorary title of professor for the painter, conferred upon him by charles frederick, grand duke of saxe-weimar-eisenach."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"1431","title":{"es":"goethe johann wolfgang von: (1749-1832)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137025/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":800,"soldPrice":7000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.181Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac800 - \u20ac1,200","currency":"EUR","id":137025,"estimateMin":800},{"startPrice":12000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137026/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137026/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"schiller friedrich: (1759-1805) german poet, philosopher and playwright. a rare fragment of an autograph letter, lacking the signature, one page, slim oblong 8vo (approximately 18.5 x 7.5 cm), n.p., n.d. (c.1785-90), in german. the fragment, evidently excised from a longer letter to a fellow writer, comprises eight complete lines of text to the recto, and a further eight to the verso, stating (recto) ´ meinung von mir gegeben, die mich zu der hofnung, bewertigen, dass zwischen uns eine verwandtschaft des geistes sich fine, die der lebendige umgang zur freundschaft erhofen wird. ich will also den himmel bitten, dass er die bediegung sobald moglich erfullern moge, unter welches die letztern so gut als entschieden ist. einstweilen lassen sie mich hoffen, zuweilen einen laut von ihnen zu erhalten, der mir zeigt, dass.....´ (translation: ´ i have given my opinion, which leads me to hope that there is a spiritual affinity between us that will grow into friendship through lively interaction. so i will ask heaven to fulfil the condition as soon as possible, under which the latter is as good as decided. in the meantime, let me hope to receive a sound from you from time to time that shows me that...´ ) and continuing (verso) ´ubersendte ihn......zu bitten, mein verehrtestes freund, zu den kleinem ausarbeitungen, die sie fur das publikum bestimmen, auch fernerhin den canal meiner thalia zu erwahlen. ich mochte unser neue bekanntschaft nicht gerne mit einer zudringlichkeit eroffnen, aber wie sehr sie mich und jeden leser der thalia dadurch verpflichten, wird wohl meines gestandnisses nicht erst bedfurfen´ (translation: ´please send it to... my most esteemed friend, i request that you continue to choose the channel of my thalia for the little works you intend to address to the public. i would not like to intrude in opening our new acquaintance, but how much you and every reader of the thalia thereby oblige me is something that my confession will presumably not require´ ). with a contemporary ink annotation ´schiller 46´ in the margin of the recto. very slightly irregularly trimmed to the upper and lower edges, otherwise vg \n thalia was a german magazine centred on history, theatre, culture, philosophy, literature and politics, that was founded by schiller in 1784. his poem an die freude (´ode to joy´ ) was first published in thalia in 1786."},"estimateMax":15000,"lotNumber":"1432","title":{"es":"schiller friedrich: (1759-1805) ´ i request that you continue to choose......my thalia for the little works you intend to address to the public´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137026/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":12000,"soldPrice":11000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.183Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac12,000 - \u20ac15,000","currency":"EUR","id":137026,"estimateMin":12000},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137027/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137027/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137027/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"wedgwood josiah: (1730-1795) english potter, entrepreneur and prominent slavery abolitionist. a rare l.s., josiah wedgwood, chairman (of the general chamber of manufacturers of great britain), one page, folio, great george street (london), 6th june 1785, to james hebden. wedgwood writes, in full, ´i take the liberty of inclosing a copy of the reolutions printed so as to shew what is omitted of the original ten resolutions, and what has been added to them, & how they now stand in the house of lords. from the first days debate in the house of lords upon these resolutions we may, according to appearances, promise ourselves a more impartial hearing than we have hitherto met with; and that their l [ordshi] ps will if applied to, modify some of the resolutions, which certainly bear too hard at present upon the british manufacturer. indeed it is too evident, that whatever may be the object wished for by government in this treaty, the manufacturing interest is to be the sacrifice and price for that object. the committee will be glad to know if you wish them to continue their communications to you upon any future occasions. they will be glad to receive your instructions in this respect, as they would avoid being either troublesome or expensive where their correspondence may not be acceptable´ . accompanied by the (now detached) address leaf, incorporating a postscript to the verso by wedgwood, and signed by him in the third person, ´be so good to present this to mr. clapham with mr. wedgwood´s compliments´ , and also dated at great george street, 6th june 1785, in his hand. the address panel to the recto appears to be in the hand of william eden, 1st baron auckland, and signed ( ´free, wm. eden´ ) by him to the lower left corner of the panel. some light age wear and minor staining, most evident to the address leaf which also has a small area of paper loss caused by the original breaking of the seal. about vg \n in january 1785 thomas walker, a cotton merchant and political radical, and one of his associates were brought before the committee on trade and foreign plantations and questioned concerning irish relations, in an effort to secure from them, without their knowledge of the object of the questioning, statements which would commit them to the policy later presented to the public in the form of the irish resolutions. walker and his associate were later repeatedly confronted with quotations from their statements, and cross-examined, and treated in a manner which was characterised by a member of parliament as ´most scandalous´. by such methods the government defeated its own ends with respect to the irish resolutions as well as the cotton tax. manchester manufacturers were needlessly embittered, and were forced to associate the government´s fiscal policy at home with its commercial policy toward ireland. the irish question, ever a thorn in the side, was rendered acutely piercing in the case of william pitt´s government (1783-85). pitt, recognising ireland´s newly acquired legislative independence, was at once confronted with the problem of economic reorganisation. his policy, formulated in the so-called irish resolutions or propositions, came from the irish parliament for consideration in the english house of commons in february 1785. according to pitt´s own interpretation, his policy embraced two ´capital points´, namely, the admission of ireland to participation in england´s colonial and foreign trade (with certain restrictions) and the mutual reduction of tariffs on manufactured goods to the rate in that kingdom where existing duties were the lower. the irish resolutions, like the cotton tax, encountered the fierce hostility of the newer manufacturers. pitt himself, in his private letter of 6th january 1785, to the duke of rutland, lord lieutenant of ireland, quite frankly admitted the probability of the shifting to ireland of certain english industries in consequence of the resolutions. the most important of the various arguments urged against the irish resolutions by the manufacturers was the contrast in the tax policies of the two kingdoms. pitt himself admitted the force of the argument, first in private, and at length in consenting to the modification of the cotton tax. the vital connection between the irish resolutions and the question of taxation, particularly the excise laws, was set forth in the resolutions of manchester manufacturers on 11th april 1785. out of this situation, which gave to the manufacturers a feeling of common interest, arose the general chamber of manufacturers of great britain. this organisation was not limited to the new capitalistic manufacturers, but the initiative and the moving force were with them. the new capitalistic industries consisted in the main of three groups: wedgwood´s staffordshire potteries; the iron foundries and plants about birmingham; and the manufacturing and printing of cotton centering at manchester. the part played by josiah wedgwood seems to have been the result of his hostility to the irish resolutions. on 21st february 1785, he wrote to matthew boulton, saying that he intended to recommend the organisation of ´a committee of delegates from all the manufacturing places of england and scotland to meet and sit in london all the time the irish commercial affairs are pending´ and he was not without hope that such a body would be useful ´upon others as well as the present occasion´. results were soon manifest. on 12th march, it was reported that ´manufacturers are assembling´ at london from various parts of the kingdom. a meeting had already been held in london, at the london tavern, on 7th march. during the succeeding week, a committee was appointed, with wedgwood as chairman. on 12th march this committee met and issued a call for another general meeting for 14th march. at the meeting convened on the 14th, there was organised a definite body to be called the chamber of manufacturers of great britain, and to consist of ´each member of a commercial committee, being a manufacturer´. it was resolved unanimously that the society ´do not cease with the present business´. at the various meetings of the chamber, the chairmanship was held by different men. the chairman of the meeting of 14th march was wedgwood, who, though not a member of the aristocracy, was nevertheless invested with a respectability denied to the more ´vulgar´ and less artistic textile manufacturers. the committee recommended that the chamber promote, by means of circular letters and in other ways, the organisation of local bodies of manufacturers, whose common interests should find expression in the central body. to distinguish the local chambers from the national organisation, it was recommended that the word ´general´ be prefixed to the title of the chamber. the committee´s recommendations were unanimously adopted. it was decided, also, that the body should be a permanent organisation. as a result of the organised activities of the manufacturers in opposition to the irish resolutions and the cotton tax, a flood of more than sixty petitions deluged the house of commons - petitions usually representing large groups of manufacturers, very similar in content, and commonly denouncing the english system of taxation as well as the proposed readjustment of irish relations. the government first yielded on the excise issue. on 10th may a bill was passed repealing the more obnoxious features of the law of 1784. the cotton manufacturers continued, nevertheless, in opposition, in company with the other members of the general chamber, and pitt again yielded by introducing the resolutions in a new form, including many modifications demanded by the manufacturers. immediately thereafter the general chamber held a general meeting and resolved to notify its constituents and ask them to petition for further delay. then followed a second deluge of petitions, conforming closely to the recommendations of the general chamber. although pitt secured the adoption of the revised resolutions, the revision itself was a virtual defeat at home and the cause of the not unexpected rejection of the entire plan in ireland. thus ended in defeat, at the hands of the general chamber of manufacturers, a policy which had engaged the utmost power of the minister, and which had been regarded by him as vital to himself and to the empire. (extracts from the rise of the great manufacturers in england 1760-1790 by witt bowden, 1919).  \n william eden (1745-1814) 1st baron auckland. british diplomat and politician who served as chief secretary for ireland 1780-82 and also served as an envoy to france from 1785-87 (on a mission dealing with commerce).  \n  provenance: formerly part of the collection of ray rawlins, author of  the guinness book of world autographs  (1977) and bearing his small circular collection label neatly affixed to the lower corner of the address leaf. indeed, the signature on the present letter was used as a facsimile in  the guinness book of world autographs. the letter was also offered by sotheby´s in their sale of the rawlins collection on 2nd, 3rd & 4th june 1980 (lot 873)."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"1433","title":{"es":"wedgwood josiah: (1730-1795) wedgwood fights against the irish resolutions ´ which certainly bear too hard at present upon the british manufacturer´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137027/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1500,"soldPrice":1400,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.185Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":137027,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137028/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137028/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137028/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137028/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"haydn joseph: (1732-1809) austrian composer of the classical period. a fine and rare printed musical score signed by haydn, being the first british edition of ariana a naxos, cantata a voce sola, accompagnata col clavicembalo forte-piano, published by john bland, london, n.d. (june 1791), the oblong folio score of eighteen pages ´printed for the author & sold by him at no. 18 great pulteney street, & at j. blands music warehouse, 45 holborn´ . signed ( ´haydn´ , with paraph manu propria) by the composer at the foot of the title page, which also bears the ownership signature of a mrs. rigby in the blank left margin. handsomely and professionally bound in dark green cloth and quarter-morocco and with a gilt stamped title and four raised bands to the spine. some very minor, light staining throughout, generally vg \n haydn´s arianna a naxos (hoboken catalogue xxvib:2), a composition for soprano and keyboard, was first performed in london by the mezzo-soprano castrato gaspare pacchierotti (1740-1821) in 1791 to the composer´s own piano accompaniment.  \n the london engraver, printer, music seller and publisher john bland first met joseph haydn during a visit to vienna in november 1789 whilst in search of new works for publication. legend has it that bland, whilst in the company of haydn during his grooming routine, overheard the composer complaining about his razors, haydn declaring ´i would give my best quartet for a good razor!´ bland subsequently hurried back to his quarters, quickly retrieved his new razors, made of fine english steel, and presented them to haydn. the composer kept his word and in exchange presented bland with the manuscript of his quartet no. 46 in f minor (op. 55, no. 2; hoboken catalogue iii:61) which is still known today as the ´razor´ quartet.  \n this first encounter between haydn and bland led to what would become a long friendship as well as a profitable business relationship. bland was instrumental in bringing haydn to london and the composer stayed with his friend at bland´s home on his first night in the city in january 1791, marking the beginning of what would prove to be a triumphant trip for haydn. audiences flocked to his concerts and as a result haydn augmented his fame and became financially secure. indeed, haydn considered his two visits to london, in 1791-92 and 1794-95, as being the happiest days of his life.  \n haydn was a friend and mentor to wolfgang amadeus mozart, who he met around 1784. the two composers performed in string quartets together and haydn, impressed with mozart´s work, praised him unreservedly. for his part, mozart returned the esteem and dedicated a set of six quartets to him, the ´haydn´ quartets (1785)."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1434","title":{"es":"haydn joseph: (1732-1809)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137028/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_booksmagazinespaper","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4100,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.187Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137028,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":800,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137029/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137029/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"[mozart wolfgang amadeus]: (1756-1791) austrian composer of the classical period. [ firmian karl joseph von]: (1716-1782) austrian nobleman who served as plenipotentiary minister of lombardy to the habsburg monarchy from 1756. firmian was an avid promoter of the arts and sciences and was one of mozart´s most important aristocratic patrons, and a key figure in his early career as a composer of italian opera. maria theresa: (1717-1780) empress consort of the holy roman empire 1745-65. mother of marie antoinette. a fine l.s., with subscription, majestatis vostra benevola soror et cosanguinea, maria theresia , one page, folio, vienna, 17th october 1758, to charles iii, in latin. the empress writes to inform the king of sicily that she has appointed count firmian to be her minister plenipotentiary, in part, ´quandoquidem mihi constitutum est, meo apud majestatem vostram commoranti ministro plenipotentiario illustri et magnifico, carlo comiti firmian, consiliario imperiali aulico et camerario meo actuali, ob singularem prudentiam aeque ac in rebus gerendis dexteritatem, in primis autem ob illam, qua majestati vestrae sese probavit, bene compositam agendi rationem, in meis italiae principatibus munus ministri mei plenipotentiarii conferre.....et quum in posterum non minus intersit, ut mutua, qua mihi cum majestate vostra intercedit, amicitia constans ac perennis quam diutissime duret, in locum discedentis ministri mei plenipotentiarii virum illustrem ac magnificum, comitem a neipperg, consiliarium imperialem aulicum et camerarium meum....´ (translation: ´ since it has been appointed for me, my illustrious and magnificent minister plenipotentiary residing with your majesty, carlo comte firmian, the adviser of the imperial court and my actual chamberlain, for his singular prudence as well as his dexterity in conducting affairs, and above all for that by which he proved himself to your majesty, to contribute a well-composed plan of action to the office of my minister plenipotentiary in my principalities of italy......and whereas in the future it is no less important that the mutual friendship between me and your majesty should last as long as possible, in the place of the outgoing minister plenipotentiary, the illustrious and magnificent gentleman, the count of neipperg, the imperial councilor of the court and my chamberlain´ ). with integral address leaf bearing the remnants of a red wax seal. a few small, neat slits to the margins, and some light age wear, vg \n charles iii (1716-1788) king of spain 1759-88, a proponent of enlightened absolutism and regalism who was also duke of parma and piacenza as charles i (1731-35), king of naples as charles vii, and king of sicily as charles iii (1735-59).  \n count leopold von neipperg (1728-1792) austrian diplomat, father of adam albert, count von neipperg (1775-1829) austrian general and statesman whose second wife was empress marie louise, the widow of napoleon."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"1435","title":{"es":"[mozart wolfgang amadeus]: (1756-1791) [firmian karl joseph von]: (1716-1782) maria theresa: (1717-1780)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137029/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":800,"soldPrice":850,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.188Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac800 - \u20ac1,000","currency":"EUR","id":137029,"estimateMin":800},{"startPrice":300,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137030/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"[mozart wolfgang amadeus]: (1756-1791) austrian composer of the classical period. firmian karl joseph von: (1716-1782) austrian nobleman who served as plenipotentiary minister of lombardy to the habsburg monarchy from 1756. firmian was an avid promoter of the arts and sciences and was one of mozart´s most important aristocratic patrons, and a key figure in his early career as a composer of italian opera. l.s., carlo c di firmian , with holograph subscription ( ´devmo. umilmo. serv [itor] e´ ), one page, folio, mantua, 30th may 1769, to a viscount in casalmaggiore, in italian. firmian informs his correspondent that maria theresa, archduchess of austria, will depart from mantua the following friday and, after spending a few hours at bozzolo, will perhaps go to the coast to spend the evening, further instructing ´sara per tanto di lei cura il far allestire alcune stanze per la m. i. proprie bensi, ma senza gran apparato, ed alcune altre per le persone del suo seguito. esiccome arriveranno prima i cuochi di s. m. e qualche altra persona del suo servigio, cosi non manchera v.s. illma di far loro dare tutta quella assistenza che abbisognera´ (translation: ´it will therefore be your care to arrange for some rooms to be prepared for her majesty herself, but without much pomp and circumstance, and some others for the people in her retinue. and as her majesty's cooks and some other persons in her service will arrive first, your excellency will not fail to provide them with all the assistance they may require´ ). with blank integral leaf. a few small, minor creases and tears to the edges and with some light damp staining to the head of the page, only very slightly affecting the salutation. about vg \n maria theresa (1717-1780) empress consort of the holy roman empire 1745-65. mother of marie antoinette.  \n the young wolfgang amadeus mozart and his father, leopold, left salzburg for their first tour of italy in december 1769, the same year as the present letter. after staying in verona, they arrived in mantua on 10th january 1770 and remained in the city until 19th january. the mozarts arrived in milan on 23rd january and, after a short delay owing to an illness firmian was suffering from, they finally met with the count and dined together on 7th february. firmian welcomed the young composer and his father with generous hospitality and friendship, the minister also hosting a series of concerts attended by many of the city´s notables, including archduke ferdinand (the third surviving son of maria theresa) who it was hoped would be a future patron of wolfgang amadeus mozart.  \n on 15th october 1771 the lavish wedding of archduke ferdinand to maria beatrice d´este took place in milan. festivities arranged for this occasion included a performance of mozart´s opera ascanio in alba (k.111) which had been commissioned by maria theresa, although the empress is known to have left the responsibility of selecting the author and composer of the wedding serenata firmly at the feet of firmian. in a letter of february 1771, firmian was to write of his choice of composer, ´ for the music i would think completely suitable the young maestro di cappella mozart of salzburg, already known to the court, who wrote the music here for the first opera of this carnival, which pleased very much\u2026\u2026his music has been examined by the best masters, both of this city and abroad, and all have praised him most highly\u2026\u2026i am convinced that he will employ all his talent to do himself honour on this occasion´"},"estimateMax":400,"lotNumber":"1436","title":{"es":"[mozart wolfgang amadeus]: (1756-1791) firmian karl joseph von: (1716-1782)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137030/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":300,"soldPrice":300,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.190Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac300 - \u20ac400","currency":"EUR","id":137030,"estimateMin":300},{"startPrice":100000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137031/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137031/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137031/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"mozart wolfgang amadeus: (1756-1791) composer from the electorate of salzburg, a child prodigy, widely considered the greatest classical music composer of all time. mozart died at the early age of 35 years, leaving his legacy for posterity, including masterpieces in all musical genre. an exceptionally rare and important a.l.s., wolfgang  amadé mozart , one page (with a postscript occupying the upper half of the second page of the bifolium), 4to, vienna, 26 th april 1783, to [jean-georges] sieber ( ´monsieur!´ ), in german. mozart writes to the music publisher sieber to offer him some compositions, and also confirms that he is currently at work on six quartets, ´es sind nun bereits 2 jahre daß ich in wien bin; - sie werden vermuthlich wissen von meinen sonaten auf piano forte mit begleitung einer violin, welche ich hier bey artaria und compagnie habe stechen lassen; - da ich aber mit dem hiesigen stiche nicht allzusehr zufrieden bin, und wenn ich es auch wäre, meinem landsmanne in paris auch einmal wieder möchte etwas zukommen lassen ´ (translation: ´  it has now been two years since i came to vienna; you probably know about my sonatas for pianoforte with the accompaniment of a violin, which i had published here by artaria and company; however, since i am not very satisfied with the local engraving, and even if i were, i would also like to send something to my compatriot in paris again´ ), continuing ´  wieder möchte etwas zukommen lassen, so mache ihnen hiemit zu wissen daß ich 3 clavier-concerte fertig habe, welche mit ganzem orchester als mit oboen und horn \u2013 wie auch nur à quatro , können producirt werden´ (translation: ´so i hereby inform you that i have three piano concertos that can be performed with a full orchestra, with oboes and horns, or just à quatro ;´ ), explaining that artaria would again like to engrave them, but instead offering sieber the privilege, ´  ich will ihnen also, um alle weitläufigkeit zu vermeiden, den geringsten preis sagen; - die geben mir 30 lousid\u2019or dafür, und damit ist unser handel gemacht´ (translation: ´so, to avoid any further discussion, i will give them to you for the lowest price; \u2013 you give me 30 louis d'or for them, and that is the end of our business´ ). mozart then proceeds to inform sieber that he is presently engaged on another musical project, which the composer evidently regards as being highly important, and would become the famous ´haydn´ quartets, which he also offers to the publisher, ´schreibe ich nun a 6 quartetten auf 2 violin, viola und baßo \u2013 wenn sie diese auch stechen wollen so gieb ich sie ihnen auch. \u2013 mit diesen bin ich aber nicht so wohlfeil \u2013 diese 6 quarten kann ich unter 50 louis d\u2018or nicht geben´ (translation: ´  i am now writing a set of 6 quartets for two violins, viola and bass \u2013 if you also want to engrave these, i will give them to you as well \u2013 however, i cannot let these go as cheaply \u2013 i cannot let you have these 6 quartets for under 50 louis d'or´ ). the composer asks sieber to send a reply if he is prepared to accept the offer and undertake the printing, adding that he will be able to provide an address in paris where the music could be collected in exchange for sieber´s payment. in his postscript mozart requests that sieber, ´belieben sie nur über ihren brief eine  adresse  couvert zu machen mit folgender adresse: a: monsieur monsieur le baron raymund de wetzlar a vienne auf der hohen brücke im kleinen harbonsteinschen haue´ (translation: ´  please put your letter in an envelope with the following address: a: monsieur monsieur le baron raymund de wetzlar a vienne on the high bridge in the small harbonstein house´ ). with integral address leaf ( ´monsieur sieber, editeur de musique, rue st: honoré, à l´hotel d´aliger, paris´ ) bearing two postal cancellations and lacking the original seal (circular area of paper loss and a lengthy, neat split to the central horizontal fold). a letter of salient content in which mozart not only makes reference to his sonatas for violin and piano, and his pianoforte concertos, but also writes of having commenced composing what would become to be known as the ´haydn´ quartets. some very light, minor staining to the centre right area of the letter and with a few small, minor tears and light creasing to the edges, none of which majorly detract from the overall appearance of the letter, the text of which remains bold. about vg \n jean-georges sieber (1738-1822) german-born french musician and music publisher. following his marriage in 1770 to marie-julie regnault, who was trained in music engraving, sieber began his publishing activities, initially publishing works by composers of german origin. these included over fifty symphonies and numerous chamber works by joseph haydn, as well as mozart´s symphony no. 31 in d major (k.297/300a), better known as the ´paris symphony´. it may have been the first of mozart´s symphonies to be published when sieber released their edition in 1779.  \n baron raimund wetzlar von plankenstern (1752-1810) provided mozart with free accommodation in vienna from december 1782 to february 1783 and also became the composer´s patron, providing financial assistance including the removal costs and rent for mozart´s next residence. wetzlar von plankenstern was godfather to mozart´s first son, raimund leopold. it was in the home of wetzlar von plankenstern in spring 1783, at the time of the present letter, that mozart first met the opera librettist lorenzo da ponte (1749-1838) who wrote the libretti for three of mozart´s most celebrated operas: the marriage of figaro (1786), don giovanni (1787) and cosi fan tutte (1790).  \n artaria & co. was founded in vienna in 1770 and became one of the most important music publishing firms of the late 18 th and 19 th century, associated with many leading names of the classical era. the company´s most important early collaboration was with joseph haydn, the composer publishing more than 300 works through artaria. this important relationship helped artaria to secure the rights to the works of other significant composers, most notably mozart. during his lifetime artaria was mozart´s principal publisher (despite the disparaging remarks mozart makes in the present letter).  \n the sonatas which mozart first refers to in his letter represent the initial work of his ´mature sonatas´, in particular violin sonata no. 17 in c major (k.296) which had been composed in march 1778 and was first published in 1781 as part of the composer´s opus 2 collection. in 1783 an anonymous reviewer for the hamburg magazin der musik observed that ´these sonatas are the only ones of their kind\u2026.  they are rich in new ideas, showing traces of the great musical genius of their author.... moreover, the violin accompaniment is so ingeniously combined with the piano part that both instruments are continuously employed; and thus these sonatas demand a violinist as accomplished as the pianist´.  \n the three piano concertos mozart next makes reference to are piano concerto no. 11 in f major (k.413), piano concerto no. 12 in a major (k.414), and piano concerto no. 13 in c major (k.415). the three works were composed in vienna from 1782-83 for subscription concerts that mozart gave in the city.  \n most importantly, mozart then writes of having begun work on a set of six string quartets \u2013 the ´haydn´ quartets \u2013 the present letter understood to be the earliest reference to the compositions which would come to be regarded as being amongst mozart´s most famous works, considered the ´established keystones´ of the chamber music repertoire. dedicated to the composer joseph haydn, the ´father of the string quartet´ first heard the music across two gatherings at mozart´s home on 15 th january and 12 th february 1785. upon hearing them all, haydn remarked to mozart´s father, leopold, ´  before god, and as an honest man, i tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me either in person or by name. he has taste, and, what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition´.  \n at the time of the present letter mozart had in fact only completed one of the six quartets, string quartet no. 14 in g major (k.387). composed at the end of december 1782, and also known as the ´spring´ quartet, the work was also possibly edited in 1783. the following five quartets would be completed from june 1783 to january 1785. as it was reported on other occasions, mozart had the exceptional capacity of maturing a work in his mind, both as a whole and in its small details at the same time. he often said having finished a work and when people asked for the score he said that it was finished but in his mind and that it was just a matter of transcribing it to the score, but had no time to do so. he could retain in his mind an immense amount of musical works with full detail and for each instrument. therefore the remaining quartets would have been very much advanced and composed in mozart´s mind at the time of writing the present letter.  \n although sieber´s reply to mozart´s letter is lost, it would appear that he rejected the composer´s offer. artaria & co. announced the publication of all six quartets on 17 th september 1785, apparently having paid the composer 100 ducats for the publishing rights. whilst this has a touch of irony to it, and the familiar tone of mozart´s letter suggests that he felt confident in sieber accepting his offer, perhaps the composer in fact knew all along that, should he be turned down by sieber, artaria would be ready and waiting in the wings to publish the works.  \n the content of the present letter has been published in numerous books, one of the earliest occasions being in july 1921 when it appeared in the bulletin français de la société internationale de musique. at the time the letter was only known by a facsimile copy, the original assumed to have been lost, and is now being offered at auction for the first time, having been located in the archives of a distinguished french family.  \n  one of the most important autograph letters of mozart to have appeared at auction in recent years.  \n  only twenty-five autograph letters by mozart (several of them incomplete, and most written to his father or other relatives) are recorded in the auction and book sales archive (absa), which incorporates the records of american book prices current (abpc), as having been sold at auction in the last fifty years."},"estimateMax":150000,"lotNumber":"1437","title":{"es":"mozart wolfgang amadeus: (1756-1791) in a previously ´ lost´ letter mozart makes the first known reference to his masterpiece, the ´ haydn´ quartets"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137031/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":100000,"soldPrice":440000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.192Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac100,000 - \u20ac150,000","currency":"EUR","id":137031,"estimateMin":100000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137032/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137032/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137032/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137032/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137032/005/005.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"napoleon i: (1769-1821) emperor of france 1804-14, 1815. an excellent and very clean l.s., ` bonaparte ´, five pages, over two bifolium 4to, paris, 29th april 1802, to the minister of war, berthier, in french. the letter bears an attractive republican vignette to the heading, stating `au nom du peuple français - bonaparte consul de la république\u201d. napoleon sends a very lengthy and interesting letter, showing once more the control he had in full detail of his troops, his working methods, and scolding his correspondent and minister, requests a better and more precise work, stating in part ` j´ai parcouru avec attention, citoyen ministre, les quatre états relatifs à la conscription dans les différents départements.  1º tous les départements n´y sont pas, d´abord les qutre départements du rhin, ensuite les départements de l´ouest; de sorte qu´au lieu de 102 départements il n´y en a que 86.  2º le piémont est porté pour recruter les corps en garnison; il vaut mieux, pour cette année, porter au complet les demi-brigades et les régiments qui ont été tirés de ce pays.  3º les départements de la corse sont portés pour recruter la 23º demi-brigade, qui y est en garnison; il faut au contraire que la 23º se recrute dans le var, ou mieux encore dans les alpes-maritimes, et faire recruter une  demi-brigade qui se trouve à nice ou en provence par les conscrits de la corse; bien entendu qu´il faut leur assigner une demi-brigade d´infanterie légère.  4º on ne s´est pas assez attaché, dans ce tableau, à affecter les pays montagneux à l´infanterie légère, et les pays de plaine à l´infanterie de ligne; par exemple la 6º est affectée à l´allier qui est un pays tout de plaine. il est essentiel de choisir les trente localités les plus montagneuses pour les affecter au recrutement des trente demi-brigades d´infanterie légère.  le travail ne parait pas avoir été fait avec méthode...´ (translation: \" i have carefully read, citizen minister, the four statements relating to conscription in the different departments. - 1º. all the departments are not included, first the four departments of the rhine, then the departments of the west; so that instead of 102 departments there are only 86. - 2º. piedmont is listed to recruit the corps in garrison; it is better, for this year, to list in full the demi-brigades and regiments that have been drawn from this country. - 3º. the departments of corsica are listed to recruit the 23rd demi-brigade, which is in garrison there; on the contrary, the 23rd must be recruited in the var, or better still in the alpes-maritimes, and a demi-brigade located in nice or provence must be recruited by the conscripts from corsica; of course, they must be assigned to a demi-brigade of light infantry. - 4º. in this table, not enough attention has been paid to assigning mountainous regions to light infantry and plain regions to line infantry; for example, the 6th is assigned to allier, which is an entirely plain region. it is essential to choose the thirty most mountainous localities to assign them to recruiting the thirty demi-brigades of light infantry. the work does not appear to have been done methodically....\") further, napoleon continues pointing out the multiple mistakes and inconsistencies he has observed in the military report received from berthier, and orders to work to be fully redone, stating in part ` l´état nº 2, de trois colonnes, ne me parait point exact... la 45º demi-brigade diffère bien davantage encore....elle n´a donc besoin pour se compléter, que de 72 hommes, et vous portez dans votre état 394 hommes, elle n´a donc besoin que du sixième de ce que vous portez... ainsi, par le simple aspect des revues que vous m´avez remises hier, comparées à votre travail, il résulte que l´état que vous m´avez présenté a été fait sur des bases fausses; il faut donc le faire refaire sur des bases réelles...´ (translation: \" the situation report no. 2, of three columns, does not seem exact to me... the 45th demi-brigade differs even more....it only needs 72 men to complete itself, and you carry 394 men in your state, it therefore only needs a sixth of what you carry... thus, by the simple appearance of the reviews that you gave me yesterday, compared to your work, it results that the situation that you presented to me was made on false bases; it must therefore be redone on real bases ...\") an extremely interesting military content letter. paper with watermark. very small overall minor age wear, otherwise vg \n  \n louis alexandre berthier (1753-1815), marshal of france, prince of neuchatel. chief of staff under napoleon. at the time of the present letter berthier was general and minister of war 1800-07. he will be appointed marshal two years later in 1804."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1438","title":{"es":"napoleon i: (1769-1821) an excellent content letter signed \"bonaparte\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137032/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.194Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137032,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137033/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137033/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"girodet de roussy-trioson anne-louis: (1767-1824) french painter who participated in the early romantic movement and is remembered for his precise and clear style and for his paintings of members of the napoleonic family. a fine original pencil drawing executed and signed by girodet, one page, 8vo (approximately 15.5 x 21.5 cm), n.p., n.d. (1815). the artist has drawn an accomplished and amusing caricature of napoleon in a full-length pose, wearing military regalia including his familiar bicorne, descending the steps of a dais and with his throne visible in the background. the emperor has his head turned in profile towards a phrygian cap which rests atop a long pole in napoleon´s grip, and in his other hand, cunningly concealed behind his back, the emperor holds the imperial crown. signed ( ´girodet´ ) in pencil to the lower right at the base of the drawing. to the verso appears a second drawing by girodet , also executed in pencil, the preparatory drawing, already reasonably well-developed, also depicting napoleon, although this time in a head and shoulders study, his face turned to the left, and with more realistic features with no intention of caricature, his features outlined, his gaze weary, and his head bare. numbered 144 in ink to the upper left corner of the verso. with the small circular stamp of the coutan-hauguet-schubert-milliet collection (lugt 464) to the lower left corner of the recto. some light foxing, largely evident to the edges of the paper, and with some minor traces of former mounting (including a small strip of tape) to the edges and corners of the verso. g \n girodet was one of napoleon´s official painters, before bcoming one of his fiercest caricaturists. thus, the famous full-length painting of napoleon i in his coronation robes, created by girodet in around 1812, contrasts with his drawn caricatures, which were the delight of english newspapers. the present drawing is evidently in the latter vein, demonstrating napoleon´s duplicity in swapping the imperial crown for the revolutionary bonnet for propaganda purposes. the present drawing was engraved in etching by pierre-marc bassompierre gaston in august 1815 with the caption et l´on revient toujours/a ses premiers amours (translation: ´and you always come back to your first love´).  \n girodet´s drawing was originally acquired by the french fabric merchant and art collector louis joseph auguste coutan (1779-1830), and thence by inheritance to his wife, lucienne hauguet (1788-1838), and thence her brother, ferdinand hauguet (d. 1860), and thence by descent to his son maurice-jacques-albert hauguet (1819-1883) then his wife, née m.t. schubert and his sister-in-law, mme g. milliet.  \n it is understood that the present drawing will be included in the artist's catalogue raisonné currently being prepared by madame sidonie lemeux-fraitot."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"1439","title":{"es":"girodet de roussy-trioson anne-louis: (1767-1824) a wonderful original caricature of napoleon by girodet"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137033/view","tags":["esart_drawings","escollectibles_autographs","esart","escollectibles_all","esart_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.195Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac5,000","currency":"EUR","id":137033,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137034/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"napoleon i: (1769-1821) emperor of the french 1804-14, 1815. an excellent content and very fine letter signed ` nap ´, one page, 4to, gilt edges, paris, 7th february 1812, to prince eugene beauharnais, in french. the present letter was dictated by napoleon bonaparte to baron fain. napoleon is making all the preparations and military moves preceeding his russian military invasion, and writes to his adopted son eugene beauharnais, viceroy of italy and one of his more talented military commanders, about the corps he needs to add to the guard troops, referring above all to the special corps they will need to cross the rivers on their way to moscow, and states ` mon fils, je reçois votre lettre du 29 janvier.  je vois que vous avez une bonne compagnie de matelots qui suivra la garde. il est nécessaire de vous faire suivre aussi par 200 ouvriers de l´arsenal, charpentiers, calfats et charrons. ils auront un caisson rempli des outils nécessaires pour leur service. ces deux corps marcheront ensemble et réunis à l´équipage de pont, aux sapeurs et à la compagnie du génie italienne dont j´ai ordonné la formation´ (translation: \u201c my son, i received your letter dated january 29th. i see that you have a good company of sailors who will follow the guard. it is necessary to have you also followed by 200 workers from the arsenal, carpenters, caulkers and wheelwrights. they will have a caisson filled with all the necessary tools for their service. these two corps will march together and will be joined by the deck crew, the sappers and the italian engineering company whose formation i have ordered\u201c) further and before concluding, napoleon makes a comment which will prove to be nine months after one of his biggest military mistakes, a miscalculation probably due to the delay in reaching moscow and to the terrible and unexpected winter weather conditions, which ended with the disaster of the battle of berezina, 26th to 29th november 1812, a chaos retreat which costed heavy losses when trying to cross the river. as the present letter shows, napoleon was expecting that the rivers crossing would not be a problem and even less with the corps he is taking with him, and states ` les rivières ne seront plus qu´un faible obstacle: on pourra les passer en peu d´instants´ (translation: \u201c the rivers will only be a small obstacle: we will be able to cross them in a few moments\u201c) it has been estimated that sixty thousand men died in the battle of berezina, half of them being non-combatants. very small stain to the upperleft corner, although not affecting the text, otherwise vg \n  \n eugene de beauharnais (1781-1824) french prince, son of josephine de beauharnais, viceroy of italy 1805-14 and grand duke of frankfurt.  \n  \n agathon jean françois fain (1778-1837) french historian. in 1806 he was appointed secretary and archivist to the cabinet particulier of the emperor, whom he attended on his campaigns and journeys. created a baron of the empire in 1809, on the fall of napoleon he was first secretary of the emperor´s cabinet and his confidential secretary."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"1440","title":{"es":"napoleon i: (1769-1821) napoleon plans the invasion of russia \"the rivers will only be a small obstacle we will be able to cross them in a few moments\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137034/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":3000,"soldPrice":3200,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:30.197Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":137034,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":3500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137035/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137035/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"stendhal: (1783-1842) marie-henri beyle. french writer considered one of the early and foremost practitioners of realism, whose works include le rouge et le noir (1830). an excellent content letter with good association, referring to lord byron. a.l.s., ` h. beyle ´, one page, large 4to, n.p., 19th february 1930, to madame o´reilly, in french. stendhal feels wrecked after having being consumming opium, and states ` je suis rempli de reconnaissance, madame. on m´a donné tant d´opium que j´en suis anéanti´ (translation: \" i am full of gratitude to you, madam. i was given so much opium that i was devastated \") further stendhal refers to lord byron´s work he was reading the night before, saying ` je n´avais pas de livre amusant. j´ai passé la nuit à lire ce pauvre byron. le moore n´a aucun talent dans ce livre, il a même l´air un peu coquin´ (translation: \" i didn't have any funny book. i spent the night reading this poor byron. moore has no talent in this book, he even seems a little naughty\") further again stendhal mentions having met byron and comments that he pities him, stating ` j´ai connu lord byron. quel chagrin d´être livré après sa mort à un vil hypocrite comme ce moore!...´ (translation: \" i knew lord byron. what a sadness it is to be delivered after his death to a vile hypocrite like this moore...\") before concluding stendhal refers to his works, and announces to his correspondent that ` demain je renverrai un ou deux volumes´ (translation: \" tomorrow i will send again one or two volumes\") with address leaf in stendhal´s hand, bearing an attractive and curious red wax seal alongside a postmark to the verso. g to vg \n  \n lord byron (1788-1824) english poet, one of the leading figures of the romantic movement, and widely regarded as one of the greatest english poets. byron died at the early age of 36.  \n  \n thomas moore (1779-1852) irish writer, poet, and lyricist celebrated for his irish melodies. today moore is remembered either for his irish melodies \"the minstrel boy\" or \" the last rose of summer\" or, less generously, for the role he is thought to have played in the loss of the memoirs of his friend lord byron"},"estimateMax":4500,"lotNumber":"1441","title":{"es":"stendhal: (1783-1842) \"i was given so much opium that i was devastated.. i spent the night reading this poor byron.\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137035/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":3500,"soldPrice":3200,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.835Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,500 - \u20ac4,500","currency":"EUR","id":137035,"estimateMin":3500},{"startPrice":8000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137036/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137036/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"balzac honoré de: (1799-1850) french novelist and playwright. best known for his masterwork novel la comedie humaine , a multi-novel collection of novels written over twenty years. a very interesting document, being a contract between honoré de balzac and emile de girardin for the publication of balzac´s serial works in the jounal la presse in paris. the manuscript contract is signed by girardin and balzac confirms the agreement with a sentence in his hand beneath the editor´s signature, stating ` les frais de correction resteront comme par le passé à la charge de la presse´ (translation: \" the corrections costs will remain, as done in the past, the responsibility of la presse.\"). d.s., two pages, 4to, paris, 16th april 1839, in french. the contract establishes that balzac gets engaged very precisely to supply as follows ` mr. de balzac s´engage à fournir  au journal la presse d´ici au trente et un décembre prochain, et successivement à commencer du 1er juin, le nombre de cinquante feuilletons formant au moins huit nouvelles dont la dernière pourra au choix de m. emile de girardin être insérée partie en décembre et partie en janvier suivant. chaque feuilleton pourra aussi, quant à l´insertion dans le journal, être plus ou moins long, mais il sera compté à m. de balzac à raison de six colonnes de 40 lignes chacune, et lui sera sur ce nombre, payé à raison de cent francs le feuilleton. une somme de deux mille francs lui sera payée le trente mai prochain à titre d´avances sur le présent engagement pris par lui...´ (translation: \" mr. de balzac undertakes to provide the newspaper la presse by the thirty-first of next december, and successively starting from the first of june, with the number of fifty serials forming at least eight short stories, the last of which may be inserted, at the choice of mr. emile de girardin, partly in december and partly in the following january. each serial may also, as regards insertion in the newspaper, be more or less long, but it will be counted to mr. de balzac at the rate of six columns of 40 lines each, and he will be paid, on this number, at the rate of one hundred francs per serial. a sum of two thousand francs will be paid to him on the thirtyth of next month of may as an advance on the present commitment made by him...\") before concluding, balzac imposes two conditions which are the last two clauses, stating ` mr. de girardin s´oblige à mettre en tête de chaque nouvelle un avis indiquant que la reproduction en est interdite. - mr. de balzac se réserve le droit de rentrer dans la propriété de ses nouvelles quinze jours après l´insertion dans le journal du dernier feuilleton de chacune.´ (translation: \" mr. de girardin undertakes to put at the head of each story a notice indicating that reproduction is prohibited. - mr. de balzac reserves his right to take ownership of his stories fifteen days after the insertion in the newspaper of the last serial of each story\") balzac had already published in this way in la presse his work la vieille fille (1836), and after the present contract he supplied and published les secrets de la princesse de cadigan and also le curé de village. to be noted that the contract did not specify any title, balzac could write what he wanted and the editor would publish it. and the sentence added by balzac in his hand, referring to corrections, was really important as balzac was known for his multiple and last minute corrections, and this meant additional expenses which he did not want to be responsible of. with blank integral leaf. a tear to the centre fold of the front page, right edge, not affecting the text, otherwise g to about vg \n emile de girardin (1802-1881) french journalist, publisher and politician. he was the most successful and flamboyant french journalist of the era. his magazines reached over a hundred thousand subscribers, and his inexpensive daily newspaper la presse undersold the competition by half, thanks to its cheaper production and heavier advertising.  \n la presse was a french journal founded in june 1836 by emile de girardin. while contemporary newspapers depended heavily on subscription and tight party affiliation,  la presse was sold by street vendors. the initial subscription to la presse was only 40 francs a year while other newspapers charged around 80 francs.  \n from july 1836 la presse serialised the countess of salisbury, the first novel of alexandre dumas père  which was such a success that it followed it up with honoré de balzac´s la vieille fille."},"estimateMax":10000,"lotNumber":"1442","title":{"es":"balzac honoré de: (1799-1850) balzac gets engaged to produce and supply a work in short term."},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137036/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":8000,"soldPrice":7000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.837Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac8,000 - \u20ac10,000","currency":"EUR","id":137036,"estimateMin":8000},{"startPrice":12000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137037/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137037/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137037/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137037/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"byron george gordon: (1788-1824) lord byron. british poet, one of the major figures of the romantic movement. a very fine pair of ls.s., noel byron, pair d´angleterre , each one page, 4to, genoa, 7th & 9th july 1823, to giorgio vitali, in italian. the text of both letters is in the hand of count pietro gamba, the brother of byron´s lover, teresa, contessa guiccioli, and in the first byron informs vitali of his travel plans,  ´al 12 del corrente io partiro da genova, e si il vento non mi fara contrario giungere in due o tre di a livorno, dove mi raggiungerete, e proseguiremo subito il nostro viaggio. ho ricevuto lettere da blaquerie (sic) e da guriotti (sic),  ne ve quali sono invitato ad affretarmi, e percio non voglio per colpa mia perdere un momento´ (translation: ´on the 12th of this month, i will leave genoa, and if the wind does not blow me away, i will reach livorno in two or three days, where you will join me, and we will continue our journey straight away. i have received letters from blaquerie (sic) and guriotti (sic),  in which i am requested to hurry, and therefore i do not want to lose a moment through my own fault´ ) and continues to explain that the urgency of his voyage will prevent an introduction to metropolitan (bishop) ignatios of hungary and wallachia, the spiritual leader of the greek orthodox exiles living in italy, ´per questa sola ragione non posso godere la fortuna di presentare e miei ossequi al venerabile vostro arcivescovo se non si trovasse in livorno. sono obligatissimo per le lettere che mi ha spedito, e volontieri acetteró qualunque altra comissione gli piacesse di incaricarmi. capisco che il momento del forte conflitto e giunto, e percio non potrei mai perdonare a me\u2026 la mínima tardanza´ (translation: ´for this reason alone, i cannot enjoy the good fortune of presenting my greetings to your venerable archbishop if he is not in livorno. i am most obliged for the letters that he has sent me, and i will gladly accept any other mission that he may like to entrust to me. i understand that the moment of the strong conflict has arrived, and therefore i could never forgive myself... the slightest tardiness´ ). in byron´s second letter he updates vitali on his schedule, ´per non perder alcun momento del mio tempo, ho risoluto di non arrevarmi punto in livorno, ma solamente approdare per prendere a bordo voi insieme con un altro signore inglese [james hamilton browne] a cui ho dato passaggio, e che mi attende\u2026 faqte dunque di trovavvi pronto. se il vento non ce l´impedice noi partiremo assolutamente sabbato 12 corrente´ (translation: ´so as not to waste any moment of my time, i have decided not to set sail for livorno, but only to land to take you aboard together with another englishman [james hamilton browne] to whom i have given passage, and who is waiting for me... so be ready. if the wind does not prevent us from doing so, we shall set sail on saturday, the 12th of this month´ ), further instructing vitali to ´significate ai vostri compatriotti, e principalmente al venerabile ignasio che tenghino preparati tutte le comissioni, e lettere che vorranno consegnarmi´ (translation: ´tell your compatriots, and principally the venerable ignasio, to keep all the letters and commissions that they wish to deliver to me in readiness´ ). both letters with integral address leaves and each with their good red wax seals intact (small areas of paper loss caused by the original opening of the letters). a truly wonderful and evocative pair of letters in which byron makes his final preparations for his voyage to greece, where he would die nine months later whilst actively engaged in the greek war of independence. some very light, extremely minor age wear, and a few insignificant traces of former mounting to the edges of the address leaves, vg, 2 \n giorgio vitali (1776-1854) greel patriot from an ancient venetian family and the commander of the brig hercules , which byron chartered to take him to greece. giorgio vitali and his brother, scipio, were to play a significant part in the struggle for greek independence, siding with the francophile party who wished to establish a french prince on the greek throne. after the accession of otto of bavaria as king of greece in 1832, they retired to france, giorgio dying in paris.  \n count pietro gamba (1801-1827) italian nobleman,  brother of countess teresa guiccioli, and the (exasperating) right-hand man and friend of lord byron. he travelled to greece with byron to fight in the war for greek independence, and his  narrative of lord byron's last journey to greece  (1825) was published shortly after byron's death.  \n  teresa, contessa guiccioli (1800-1873) italian noblewoman and the married lover of lord byron. when teresa bid farewell to byron on the 13th july, just a few days after the present letters were written, it caused ´passionate grief´ and his mistress broke down in tears as byron sailed away. in fact, byron´s initial departure aboard the  hercules from genoa to greece was hampered by weather conditions and the brig was forced to return to shore, by which time teresa had already left genoa. byron finally successfully set sail again on the 16th july.   \n edward blaquiere (1779-1832) british officer with the royal navy, a pioneer philhellene and one of the founding members (along with byron and others) of the philhellenic committee of london in february 1823.  \n andreas louriotis (1789-1854) british citizen of the ionian islands who served as deputy of the greek legislative body.  \n  in march 1823, blaquiere travelled to greece for the first time as a representative of the philhellenic committee of london. on this trip he accompanied andreas louriotis, a representative of the first greek government, which needed foreign borrowing to continue the independence struggle.  their first stop was genoa, italy. louriotis had received a letter of recommendation from john cam hobhouse, a philhellene, member of the philhellenic committee of london and personal friend of lord byron. using this letter and the help of blaquiere, louriotis met lord byron, his aim  to encourage byron to take active action in greece.  \n  james hamilton browne (fl. 1834) scottish philhellene who joined lord byron as he sailed for greece from italy in the summer of 1823. browne claimed to have been discharged from the british service for his sympathy to the greeks in their war for independence from the ottoman empire. in september 1823, it was decided that browne would go ahead of byron to assess the situation on the mainland of greece.   \n  this pair of letters are not published in leslie a. marchand´s  byron's letters and journals  (1973-1994)"},"estimateMax":18000,"lotNumber":"1443","title":{"es":"byron george gordon: (1788-1824) byron makes final preparations to travel to greece to assist in the war of independence - ´ i understand that the moment of the strong conflict has arrived´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137037/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":12000,"soldPrice":12000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.838Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac12,000 - 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wandering. i have a passion for such expeditions, although, partly the capriciousness of my health & partly the want of the incitement of a companion, keep me at home. i see the mountains, the sky & the trees from my windows & recollect, as an old man does the mistresses of his youth, the raptures of a more familiar intercourse; but without his regrets, for their forms are yet living in my mind´ , adding that he hopes his cousin will not pass by tuscany without paying a visit ( ´mrs. shelley unites with me in assuring......that whatever else may be found deficient, a sincere welcome is at least in waiting for you´ ). shelley proceeds to write at length regarding two of his verse dramas, ´i am delighted with your approbation of my \u2018cenci\u2019, & am encouraged to wish to present you with my \u2018prometheus unbound\u2019, a drama also, but a composition of a totally different character. i do not know if it be wise to affect variety in compositions or whether the attempt to excel in many ways does not deter from excellence in one particular kind. \u2018prometheus unbound\u2019 is in the merest spirit of ideal poetry & not, as the name would indicate, a mere imitation of the greek drama, or indeed, if i have been successful, is it an imitation of anything. but you will judge - i hear it is just printed & i probably shall receive copies from england before i see you. your objection to the \u2018cenci\u2019 as to the introduction of the name of god is good, in as much as the play is addressed to a protestant people; but we catholics speak eternally & familiarly of the 1st person of the trinity; and amongst us religion is more interwoven with, and is less extraneous to, the system of ordinary life. as to cenci´s curse, i know not whether i can defend it or no. i wish i may be able, since, as it often happens respecting the worst point of an author´s work, it is a particular favourite with me. i prided myself as since your approbation i hope that i had just cause to do upon the two concluding lines of the play. i confess i cannot approve of the squeamishness which excludes the exhibition of such subjects from the scene´ (at this point of the letter two-and-a-half lines of text have been struck through, seemingly by shelley himself). the poet asks ´what think you of my boldness?´ and reflects on a future project, a drama which would remain unfinished at his death, ´i mean to write a play, in the spirit of human nature, without prejudice or passion, entitled \u2018charles the 1st\u2019. so vanity intoxicates people; but let those few who praise my verses & in whose approbation i take so much delight, answer for this sin´ further making reference to contemporary events involving the british monarchy, ´ i  wonder what in the world the queen has done. i should not wonder, after the whispers i have heard, to find that the green bag contained evidence that she had imitated pasiphae, & that the committee should recommend to parliament a bill to exclude all minotaurs from the succession. what silly stuff is this to employ a great nation about. i wish the king & the queen, like punch & his wife, would fight out their disputes in person´ , before closing his letter with the lines ´this warm weather agrees excellently with me; i only wish it would last all the year. many things both to say & to hear, be referred until we meet´ . with integral address panel in shelley´s hand (a couple of thin, neat strips of the remains of the guard to the edges and centre). autograph letters of shelley are extremely rare as a result of his tragic death at the young age of 29, and the present example is particularly rich in its literary content. some very light, extremely minor age wear, vg \n thomas medwin (1788-1869) english writer, poet and translator, remembered for his biography of shelley and for published recollections of his friend, lord byron.  \n the cenci. a tragedy, in five acts (1820) was written by shelley in the summer of 1819, and inspired by the house of cenci, a real roman family. the play was not considered stageable in its day owing to the themes of incest and parricide, as well as the negative depiction of the roman catholic church (all subjects shelley reflects on in the present letter), and was not performed in public in england until over a century later, in 1922.  \n prometheus unbound (1820) is a four-act lyrical drama which is concerned with the torments of the greek mythological figure prometheus, who defies the gods and gives fire to humanity, for which he is subjected to eternal punishment and suffering at the hands of zeus. the play is a closet drama, not intended for stage production. in the tradition of romantic poetry, shelley wrote for the imagination, intending his play's stage to reside in the imaginations of his readers. filled with suspense, mystery, and other dramatic effects, w. b. yeats famously described the work as being ´among the sacred books of the world´.  \n the deleted passage of the present letter, according to the published version in volume iv of the prose works of percy bysshe shelley ,  originally read ´a squeamishness the produce, as i firmly believe, of a lower tone of the public mind, and foreign to the majestic and confident wisdom of the golden age of our country´.  \n one of the final parts of shelley´s letter makes reference to the events of 1820 whereby king george iv, who had recently succeeded to the throne, attempted to divorce his long-estranged wife. caroline of brunswick. in order to secure his divorce, the king had a special bill moved in the house of lords and the evidence of the queen´s adultery was presented to parliament in two green bags. ultimately the measure was withdrawn by the government and caroline remained married to the king until her death a year later."},"estimateMax":45000,"lotNumber":"1444","title":{"es":"shelley percy bysshe: (1792-1822) ´ so vanity intoxicates people; but let those few who praise my verses & in whose 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extremely rare a.l.s., mary shelley , three pages, 8vo, somerset street, portman square (london), n.d. (17th june 1829), to [cyrus redding]. shelley commences her letter stating ´i am sorry to have it only in my power to reply that the portrait of mr. shelley to which you allude is by no means a good  one ´, and explains ´i t is the size of life, in oils - but unfortunately very unfinished. there are however several very striking points of resemblance, and i indulge a hope that when i can afford it, a first  rate engraver might succeed in making a good print from it´ , further remarking ´i do not know anything so disagreeable or unjust as the too frequent custom of prefixing prints unworthy of the person meant to be represented - and in this case, there would be great danger, that even mr. heath could not succeed ´ and also adding ´i should be averse therefore to having it done unless by him, & unless it were in my power to cancel it altogether if i did not approve of it. if it had been otherwise, if the picture had been one which would only have needed fidelity and care, i should have been very happy to have furnished you with the opportunity of making an engraving´ . shelley concludes by stating that it was not necessary for redding to have apologised for his application on the subject, and briefly refers to two mutual acquaintances, including leigh hunt. a letter of fine content in which mary shelley serves to protect the image of her husband, who had not achieved fame in his lifetime, but whose recognition steadily grew following his death in 1822. some very light, extremely minimal age wear and with one small, neat split at the base of the vertical fold in the bifolium, vg \n cyrus redding (1785-1870) british journalist who effectively edited the new monthly magazine from 1821-30 and published shipwrecks and disasters at sea (1833) amongst other titles, including a history of wine.  \n charles heath (1785-1848) british engraver, book publisher and illustrator.  \n leigh hunt (1784-1859) english critic, essayist and poet, a close friend of percy bysshe shelley."},"estimateMax":22000,"lotNumber":"1445","title":{"es":"shelley mary: (1797-1851) mary shelley acts to protect the image of her husband"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137039/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":18000,"soldPrice":18000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.842Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac18,000 - \u20ac22,000","currency":"EUR","id":137039,"estimateMin":18000},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137040/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"humboldt alexander von: (1769-1859) german natural scientist, geographer & explorer. a very fine, rare manuscript line chart signed, a v humboldt , one page, oblong 8vo, n.p. (spain), 1799, in french. in his typically small, neat hand humboldt has recorded a profile of peninsular spain from the southeast to the northwest, from the coast of valencia to that of gelice, recording several major towns and cities including medina del campo, el escorial, madrid and aranjuez and their height above sea level, also recording some of the latitudes and noting that the scale of distance is 1:100. signed and annotated by humboldt beneath the chart, also noting a comparison with the height above sea level of several other european cities and landmarks including munich, brocken, schneekoppe (snezka) and mount vesuvius. rare in this form. some very light, extremely minor age wear and two very small areas of paper loss to two corners, not affecting the chart, text or signature. about vg \n  \n in the first half of 1799, at the time of preparing the present chart, humboldt (accompanied by the botanist and physician aime bonpland) found himself in madrid where he sought authorisation to travel to spain's realms in the americas. receiving a positive response to his proposal, humboldt was presented to king charles iv and subsequently granted access to crown officials and written documentation on spain's empire. armed with authorisation from the king, humboldt and bonpland set sail on 5 th june 1799 on their spanish american expedition which would last until 1804.  \n  \n humboldt's historic expedition is now regarded as having laid the foundation of the sciences of physical geography, plant geography and meteorology. on a personal level, the geographer's decades' long endeavour to publish the results of the expedition resulted not only in multiple volumes, but also drew him to the attention of the reading public with popular densely illustrated, condensed versions of his work in multiple languages. importantly it also secured humboldt's international reputation in scientific circles."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"1446","title":{"es":"humboldt alexander von"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137040/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.843Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - 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then put it aside in the hope of attending to what was said the first time i had leisure. unfortunately i never saw it again & have no idea how it was lost. it however remained on my mind that i had not treated him as i ought to have done and to get rid of that feeling i wrote stating some difficulties that seem to stand in the way of the adoption of peace principles. you appear to have answered them very fairly and i thank you and mrs. sturge for the trouble you have taken´ . the missionary continues to write of his views on war, ´i pray that the almighty may so guide my steps as that it shall never be forced upon me to fight with either black or white, but i cannot but believe that war in some cases is both necessary and just. at best it is a monstrous evil, and never to be resorted to except under the gravest necessity. in african forays we have the worst evils of war and i think that christians ought to exert themselves to establish lawful intercourse with the degraded heathen. it seems certain that intercourse will be established and the good ought to forestall the advances of the bad. some of the friends ought to put their principles to the test of practice and appear among us the harbingers of peace´ . livingstone concludes his letter by sending news of his recent activities in africa, ´i lately marched 600 miles up this river on foot - people all friendly except those near the portuguese. i carried a stick only until passing through a tangled forest alone a rhinoceros made a charge & stopped short when within 3 yards of me. ever after i carried a revolover.´ a letter of very fine content written during the second zambezi expedition of 1858-64. some light age wear and minor overall water staining, only very slightly affecting the text which nevertheless remains bold and entirely legible. g \n joseph sturges (1793-1859) english philanthropist, quaker pacifist, and political reformer who was most important as a leader of the anti-slavery movement.  \n the second zambezi expedition (1858-64) was organised by the royal geographical society of great britain in order to explore southeast africa for mineral deposits and other natural resources. livingstone was plaved in command of the expedition, which led to the establishment of the central africa mission."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"1447","title":{"es":"livingstone david: (1813-1873) livingstone on peace and war - ´ i pray that the almighty may so guide my steps as that it shall never be forced upon me to fight with either black or white´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137041/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":3600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.844Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac5,000","currency":"EUR","id":137041,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137042/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"darwin charles: (1809-1882) english naturalist, famous for his theory of evolution published in on the origin of species (1859). a good a.l.s., ch. darwin , one page, 8vo, down, beckenham, kent, 16th september n.y. (c.1870) to a gentleman, evidently a librarian. darwin writes, in full, 'i want to consult soon two books of which i give titles below. will you tell me on enclosed card, whether they are in library, & how soon you could send them. i fear, however, you have them not´ . the two books that darwin lists at the foot of the letter are ´lafitau´s moeurs des [sauvages] americains´ and ´james narrative of tanner´s 30 years, captivity among the n. american indians´ . with blank integral leaf. about ex \n  joseph-françois lafitau´s  moeurs des sauvages américains  was first published in paris in 1724. the french jesuit missionary worked in canada in the early part of the 18th century and during this time lafitau lived with mohawk (kanien\u2019keha:ka) at sault saint louis (kahnawake) on the southern shore of the st lawrence river. while doing so he made notes on his observations of their customs, most notably recognising the importance of women in iroquois society. moeurs des sauvages américains provided an overview of iroquois life, from religion and politics to occupations, games and medicine, with illustrations to aid european readers.  \n  john tanner´s a narrative of the captivity and advantures of john tanner....during thirty years residence among the indians in the interior of north america was published in 1830. the autobiographical work provides an account of tanner´s experiences as a captive among native american tribes in north america during the early 19th century and remains an important historical record that offers a unique perspective on the complex and often tragic history of native american-european interactions in north america.  \n it seems very likely that darwin wished to consult the two books whilst conducting research for the descent of man, and selection in relation to sex , which was published in 1871. in the work darwin makes reference to the north american indians. john tanner, the child kidnapped by indians, and his book on the subject, is referred to by john lubbock in a letter to darwin of 27th february 1870 (see darwin correspondence project, letter no. 7118, accessed on 4 october 2024,  https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docid=letters/dcp-lett-7118.xml)"},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"1448","title":{"es":"darwin charles: (1809-1882)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137042/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.846Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":137042,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137043/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137043/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137043/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"pasteur louis: (1822-1895) french chemist and microbiologist, renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination and pasteurisation. a significant a.l.s., l. pasteur , three pages, 8vo, paris, 19th july 1888, to [charles bouchard] ( ´mon cher confrere´ ), in french. pasteur commences his letter stating ´ mardi prochain, m.  proust fera le rapport sur les candidats étrangers au titre de correspondant de l\u2019académie de médecine.  permettez-moi de vous informer de tous les vœux que je fais en faveur du professeur  cantani de naples , non seulement pour sa valeur personnelle et ses titres scientifiques, mais parce qu\u2019il a été et est encore en butte à toutes sortes d\u2019oppositions et d\u2019avanies de  semmola et autres qui sont irrités de l\u2019initiative qu\u2019il a prise dès le début de l\u2019application de ma méthode de prophylaxie de la rage après morsure´ (translation: ´ next tuesday, mr  proust will report on the foreign candidates for the title of correspondent to the académie de médecine.  allow me to inform you of all the good wishes i have for professor  cantani of naples , not only because of his personal merit and scientific qualifications, but also because he has been and still is subject to all sorts of opposition and abuse from  semmola and others who are irritated by the initiative he has taken since the beginning of the application of my method of rabies prophylaxis after bites´ ) and explains ´ cantani avait institué à ses frais le laboratoire antirabique  que dirigeait un de ses élèves le docteur  di vestea. cela ne pouvait durer, dans ces conditions.  il y a donc eu cessation de service de la rage jusqu\u2019à ce que l\u2019état et la municipalité se fussent décidé à des subsides à cantani. plusieurs cas de rage humaines s\u2019étant produits pendant l\u2019interruption du service, une allocation de 9.000 fr a été enfin accordée et les dr vestea et  zagari s\u2019occupent présentement de refaire la série des lapins trépanés et des moules´ (translation: ´ cantani had set up, at his own expense, an anti-rabies laboratory  run by one of his students, dr  di vestea.  under the circumstances, this could not continue.  the rabies service was therefore discontinued until the state and the municipality decided to provide cantani with subsidies.  as several cases of human rabies had occurred during the interruption of the service, an allocation of 9,000 fr was finally granted and dr vestea and  zagari are now busy redoing the series of trepanned rabbits and moulds´ ), further writing ´ en ce moment on répand le bruit que cantani et anti français, très favorable à l\u2019école allemande etc etc. vous pourrez en être informé par m.  charcot qui, à milan, a eu de piquants entretiens avec semmola lequel a desservi cantani comme il a pu. j\u2019en sais long sur ce semmola et je suis persuadé que m. charcot n\u2019a pas tardé à le juger. j\u2019ai de semmola plusieurs lettres, auxquelles je n\u2019ai pas répondu, et par lesquelles il voulait m\u2019obliger à une discussion publique avec lui pendant que j\u2019étais à bordighera. ces lettres n\u2019ont fait que me confirmer dans l\u2019opinion que m\u2019ont suggéré à son sujet plusieurs médecins et savants de l\u2019italie´ (translation: ´ at the moment there are rumours that cantani is anti-french and very favourable to the german school etc etc.  you can find out about this from mr  charcot who, in milan, had some lively discussions with semmola, who did cantani all he could.  i know a lot about this semmola and i am convinced that mr charcot was quick to judge him.  i have several letters from semmola, to which i did not reply, and by which he wanted to force me into a public discussion with him while i was in bordighera.  these letters only confirmed the opinion that several italian doctors and scholars had suggested to me about him´ ). pasteur concludes his letter stating ´ bref, je vous le répète, je forme les vœux les plus légitimes en faveur de m. cantani. l\u2019académie de médecine lui doit en quelques sortes une réparation. à la sollicitation de ses ennemis de naples,  peter  a déposé, le 23 fév [rier] 1887 sur le bureau de l\u2019académie de paris, un document reconnu apocryphe, signé faussement du président de l\u2019académie de médecine de naples et dirigé contre cantani, qui à la nouvelle de cette infamie, donna immédiatement sa démission de membre de cette académie.  8 jours après excuses et hommages à cantani par le président  tommasi et refus d\u2019acceptation de cette démission etc. etc.´ (translation: ´ in short, i repeat, i have the most legitimate wishes for mr cantani.  the académie de médecine owes him a reparation of sorts.  at the request of his enemies in naples,  peter  deposited, on 23 feb [ruary] 1887 on the desk of the paris academy, a document acknowledged to be apocryphal, falsely signed by the president of the naples academy of medicine and directed against cantani, who on hearing of this infamy immediately resigned as a member of the academy.  8 days later the president  tommasi apologised to cantani and refused to accept his resignation etc. etc.´ ). in a lengthy postscript pasteur refers to the specifica case of a dog and the method (inspired by roux's experiments) of inoculating increasingly virulent rabies marrow by trepanning, in order to make the dog resistant to the rabies virus, ´ je passe quelques jours chaque semaine à villeneuve-l\u2018etang où je trouve votre chien. dans cette inaction du chenil de villeneuve il a pris un embonpoint inquiétant. je vous engage beaucoup à le reprendre. vous savez qu\u2019après sa vaccination on a éprouvé son immunité par inoculation à la surface du cerveau et qu\u2019il y a résisté parfaitement´ (translation: ´ i spend a few days each week in villeneuve-l'etang where i find your dog.  in this inactivity at the villeneuve kennels he has become worryingly overweight.  i urge you to take him back.  you know that after his vaccination his immunity was tested by inoculation on the surface of the brain and that he resisted perfectly´ ). a letter of important content demonstrating the high level of tension within the franco-italian scientific community and also illustrating pasteur´s exasperation at the means used by his detractors to hinder the work of his colleagues on rabies prophylaxis. vg \n charles bouchard (1837-1915) french physician, anatomopathologist, prolific biologist and renowned clinician. he is known, among other things, for the concept of auto-intoxication and medical antisepsis.  \n adrien proust (1834-1903) french doctor, the father of marcel and robert proust. he was elected a full member of the académie nationale de médecine in 1879, where he served as annual secretary from 1883-88, and inaugurated the pasteur monument in chartres shortly before his death in 1903.  \n arnaldo cantani (1837-1893) italian doctor and politician. his research led to significant advances in the pathogenesis of infectious diseases. as the present letter demonstrates, cantani, a fervent supporter of pasteur's work, set up a microbiology laboratory in naples, recognised as the first italian institute for rabies therapy. in italy, cantani and his pupils were pioneers in the treatment of certain infectious diseases with germs less pathogenic than those responsible for rabies. in 1887, pasteur reported that the development of pathogenic micro-organisms could be inhibited by the presence of other non-pathogenic germs in the culture.  \n mariano semmola (1831-1896) italian physician, philosopher and politician. the scientific differences between cantani and semmola were already very pronounced at the time of the cholera epidemic that swept through the naples region in 1884.  \n michel peter (1824-1893) french physician, elected to the académie nationale de médecine in 1878. known as one of pasteur's main critics, he attacked pasteur's theories and experiments, particularly the rabies vaccine, both in france and abroad. the long controversy between the two men led to the conclusion that it was not always enough for an infectious germ to enter an organism for an infectious disease to develop (the healthy carrier theory).  \n jean-martin charcot (1825-1893) french neurologist and professor of pathological anatomy, responsible for the discovery of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (the neurodegenerative disease to which he gave his name). he became a member of the académie de médecine in 1873. bouchard and charcot devoted themselves to neuropathology, and more specifically to spinal cord sclerosis lesions. together they discovered the origin of intracerebral haematomas, the rupture of small milliary aneurysms on the wall of cerebral arterioles, which would later be called \u2018charcot and bouchard micro-aneurysms\u2019.  \n pasteur´s discovery of the rabies vaccine in 1885 earned the scientist worldwide acclaim. subsequently, the académie des sciences proposed that he set up an establishment to treat rabies: the institut pasteur opened its doors in 1888, the same year as the present letter."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"1449","title":{"es":"pasteur louis: (1822-1895)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137043/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":3800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.847Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - 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(1867-1934)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137044/view","tags":["esart_photography","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":3000,"soldPrice":3000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:28.848Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":137044,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":3000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137045/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"curie pierre: (1859-1906) french physicist. nobel prize winner for physics, with his wife marie and henri becquerel, 1903. a pioneer in radioactivity. an excellent a.l.s., ` p. curie ´, to one side of a printed small oblong 8vo correspondence card from the faculté des sciences de paris, 12 rue cuvier, paris, 9th august 1904, to a gentleman, in french. an interesting scientific content letter related to curie´s investigations on radioactivity. pierre curie thanks his correspondent for the samples received, stating ` monsieur, j´ai reçu en très bon état la caisse de bouteilles d´eaux de diverses sources que vous avez bien voulu m´envoyer.. .´ (translation: \" sir, i received in very good condition the case of bottles of water from various sources that you were kind enough to send me...\") some light water staining (perhaps caused by the water from the bottles referred to), only very slightly affecting the conclusion of the signature, and with a few minor creases, about g \n from 1904, pierre curie and albert laborde, his collaborator in the laboratory of the rue cuvier, were interested in thermal waters. indeed, their therapeutic properties, some of which have been known since ancient times, continued to intrigue. the radioactivity rate of many of them turned out to be higher than normal. from there to deducting that their therapeutic qualities came from radioactivity, there was only a step which thermal spas and companies of spring water did not hesitate to cross: the radioactivity became a selling point for convincing their customers and attracting new spa guests."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"1451","title":{"es":"curie pierre: (1859-1906) curie receives bottles of water from different sources to make tests for radioactivity"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137045/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":3000,"soldPrice":3000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.851Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - \u20ac4,000","currency":"EUR","id":137045,"estimateMin":3000},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137046/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137046/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"becquerel henri: (1852-1908) french physicist, the first person to discover evidence of radioactivity. nobel prize winner for physics, 1903. a good set of manuscript notes, scientific calculations and diagrams prepared by becquerel, unsigned, two pages, oblong 4to, n.p., n.d., in french. the notes, presumably prepared by the physicist for a lecture, are headed \n radioactivity , and form an extensive list of prompts, in part, \n ' \n historical. 1st observation 1896. 1st proof. medal. discharge of electrified bodies. experiment on phosphorescent sulphides. general for uranium salts. atomic property. role of the air. laws of loss. exp. by kelvin, beattie and de smolan, 1897. rutherford 1899. ionization. saturation current, 1898. thorium. m. schmidt and m. curie. work of m. and mme. curie. polonium. radium. debierne. actinium. radium spectrum. magnetic deviation experiences. giesel, meyer and schveider. h. b. cliches. concentration. deviable and non-deviable rays' . to the foot of the first page appear various scientific calculations and in the left 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(c.1895), to his brother robert, in swedish. nobel explains that he was not able to go to stockholm or geta, suggests that he ought to have left from sanremo in italy despite his illness, expresses frustration at having lost a lawsuit in london (brought by his explosives company against frederick abel and james dwar for infringement of the company´s patent on the explosive ´cordite´), further explains that the purchase of bofors was necessary to continue the development of his industry, promising to return to sweden in the spring and, in a postscript, inquiring about the date of a wedding and apologising for not having written on a larger sheet of paper, in part, \n ´we lost the vile lawsuit in london, as you know: the company will not be giving up the ghost as a consequence, but it will have lost a large part of its spirit, and since it lives on blast (explosive blast) the matter is serious enough......as you know, a long time ago i almost bought bofors. i have long wanted to have a cannon workshop because it is absolutely necessary for the development of things in my industry. but the purchase of bofors´s shares with the associated agreements has forced me to go on a winter trip for several nights´ . a couple of neat splits to the left and right central edges, otherwise vg"},"estimateMax":9000,"lotNumber":"1453","title":{"es":"nobel alfred: (1833-1896)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137047/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":7000,"soldPrice":7000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.855Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac7,000 - \u20ac9,000","currency":"EUR","id":137047,"estimateMin":7000},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137048/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"dunant henry: (1828-1910) swiss humanitarian, social activist and 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norwegian government, it is surely the count de sellon, of blessed and regretted memory´ ). a charming and humble letter. vg \n valentine de sellon (1823-1904) was the daughter of jean-jacques de sellon (1782-1839) swiss writer, philanthropist, pacifist and art collector who served as a chamberlain under napoleon and who founded the société de la paix at geneva in 1820. sellon was also one of the champions of the abolition of the death penalty.  \n the ´small volume´, un souvenir de solférino (´a memory of solferino´), which dunant refers to in the present letter was published in 1862 and is the humanitarian´s account of the suffering of thousands of wounded soldiers which he witnessed in 1859 at the battle of solferino. the book led to the establishment of the international committee of the red cross and the geneva conventions. it is still considered today to be one of the most important humanitarian writings ever printed."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1454","title":{"es":"dunant 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mrs. enid layard, caught in cameron´s typical soft focus and depicting layard in a profile head and shoulders pose with a white cloth draped around her, held in place with her gently raised right hand. signed by cameron to the lower mount immediately beneath the image, ´from life. registered photograph. copyright julia margaret cameron, march 1869´ . a wonderful, appealing image by cameron, arguably created when at the height of her career. some light age wear to the mount and some chipping and areas of loss to three corners, not affecting cameron´s text or signature. the print with some very light, minimal age wear and a few very small, minor spots. g \n julia margaret cameron did not copyright all of her work, however the present portrait is one of 508 photographs to which she did apply her copyright over an eleven year period from 1864-75. see the complete photographs , cox & ford (catalogue number 343).  \n enid layard (1843-1912) was the wife of the english archaeologist, politican and diplomat sir austen henry layard (1817-1894). lady layard was a regular visitor to freshwater, the location of cameron´s home and salon on the isle of wight. layard recorded her visits to cameron in her journals, including the visit of 31st march 1869, when the present image was captured, noting that the two ladies enjoyed lunch together and that ´it was a very dull day for photography´."},"estimateMax":20000,"lotNumber":"1455","title":{"es":"cameron julia margaret: (1815-1879)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137049/view","tags":["esart_photography","escollectibles_autographs","esart","escollectibles_all","esart_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":15000,"soldPrice":14000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.858Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac15,000 - 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(1820-1910) gaspard-felix tournachon. french photographer, caricaturist and balloonist, the first person to take aerial photographs (1858). the personal album amicorum belonging to nadar, and later presented to his son, containing over sixty signatures by a wide variety of famous individuals, some of whom sat for the photographer, many of the entries accompanied by sentiments of appreciation for nadar, and some with original drawings, paintings, or musical and literary quotations. the large oblong folio album commences with an entry signed by \n nadar , gifting the album to his son, paul, \n ´en accord plus que parfait, a tous points de vues avec mon adoree sainte, et en toute reconnaissance emue, je legue cet album a l´admirable enfant, qui de nous deux, nous donna toujours tout sans jamais rien recevoir, nadar´ (translation: \n ´in more than perfect agreement, from every point of view, with my beloved saint, and with deep gratitude, i bequeath this album to the admirable child who, between the two of us, always gave us everything without ever receiving anything, nadar´ ), further adding the words \n ´a la connaissance et reconnaissance de tous ceux qui nous ont approches´ (translation: \n ´to the knowledge and gratitude of all those who have approached us´ ) beneath his signature. the album continues with entries by various luminaries including (in order of their appearance within the album) \n anatole france (1844-1924) french poet and novelist, nobel prize winner for literature, 1921, a warm appreciation, \n ´nadar est le meilleur des hommes, le plus inventif et le plus courageux, le plus tendre, le plus fier, et le plus charmant. si nous avions garde la puissance de creer des personnages mythiques. nadar serait en france ce que didale [daedalus] \n fut chez les grecs antiques´ (translation: \n ´nadar is the best of men, the most inventive and courageous, the most tender, proud and charming. if only we had kept the power to create mythical characters. nadar would be to france what didale [daedalus] \n was to the ancient greeks´ ), dated at paris, 14th december 1903; \n elie metchnikoff (1845-1916) russian zoologist and immunologist, nobel prize winner for physiology or medicine in 1908, \n ´hommage bien devouee a monsieur nadar a qui je souhaite une bonne et heureuse nouvelle annee´ (translation: \n ´a well-deserved tribute to monsieur nadar, to whom i wish a happy new year´ ) dated 31st december 1909; \n jules arsene arnaud claretie (1840-1913) french journalist, drama critic and director of the théâtre-français, \n ´a nadar la bonte, vieille affection devouee, on parle tant des \"professeurs d´energie\" nadar, mon ami de toujours, ne professa pas, il prouva et il agit-il agirait encore´ (translation: \n ´to nadar the good, old devoted affection, we talk so much about \"professors of energy\" nadar, my lifelong friend, did not profess, he proved and he acted - he would act again´ ); his son \n georges claretie (1875-1936) french lawyer and man of letters, \n ´a monsieur nadar, que j´ai aime depuis que mon pere m´a parle de sa bonte, de son courage, de son energie, c´est a dire depuis toujours, et que j´aime encore plus depuis que je le connais davantage ´  (translation: \n ´to monsieur nadar, whom i have loved ever since my father told me about his kindness, courage and energy, in other words since i can remember, and whom i love even more now that i know him better´ ); \n angelo mariani (1838-1914) french chemist and entrepreneur, the inventor of vin mariani, the first coca wine, which has been described as the ancestor of coca-cola, \n ´je pensais que les gens d´esprit manquaient de bonte depuis que je te connais nadar je constate qu´on peut etre bon et avoir de l´esprit. aussi je ne sauvais dire combien je t´aime et combien je t´admire mon vieux professeur de bonte ´  (translation: \n ´i used to think that witty people lacked goodness. since i've known you, nadar, i've realised that you can be good and witty at the same time. so i can't say how much i love you and how much i admire you, my old teacher of goodness´ ); \n paul rolier (1844-1918) french engineer and aeronaut, pilot of the balloon \n la ville d´orleans which inadvertently made the first flight across the north sea from france to norway on 24th november 1870 during the siege of paris, \n ´souvenir reconnaissant d´un aeronaute du siege a son illustre collegue, le fondateur des ballons de paris....´ (translation: \n ´a grateful souvenir from a siege aeronaut to his illustrious colleague, the founder of the ballons de paris....´ ); and his fellow aeronaut \n henri bergeron , \n ´deux mots d´admiration a mon maitre, nadar! qui est pour moi l´eternel ideal que je ne saurai jamais attiendre´ (translation: \n ´two words of admiration for my master, nadar! who is for me the eternal ideal that i will never be able to attain´ ); \n armand barbes (1809-1870) french republican revolutionary, \n ´il faut que j´ai bien envie de faire plaisir a mon ami nadar, qui est venu me voir a la haye pour ecrire ce mot car que le diable emporte les albums!´ (translation: \n ´i have to please my friend nadar, who came to see me in the hague to write this note, because may the devil take the albums!´ ); \n victor schoelcher (1804-1893) french abolitionist, writer, politician and journalist who played a leading role in the abolition of slavery in france in 1848, \n ´je suis de l´avis de notre cher et regrette ami barbes seulement je ne l´expresserai de meme parce que je ne crois pas plue au diable qu´a dieu. je les regarde comme des hypotheses inutiles´ (translation: \n ´i agree with our dear, late friend barbes, only i won't say the same thing because i don't believe in the devil any more than i believe in god. i regard them as useless hypotheses´ ); \n mehmed fuad pasha (1814-1869) grand vizier of the ottoman empire, remembered for his leadership during the 1860 mount lebanon civil war in syria, ink signature and inscription in arabic; \n victor hugo (1802-1885) french novelist, poet and dramatist, \n ´et s´il n´en reste qu´un, je serai celui-la´ (translation: \n ´and if there's only one left, i'll be the one´ ); \n louis blanc  \n (1811-1882) french socialist politician and historian, ´il y a la grande et la petite intelligence: la grande intelligence, c´est l´hommetete´ (translation: ´there is great intelligence and little intelligence: great intelligence is man's intelligence´ ), dated at brussels, 18th september 1862; celestin nanteuil (1813-1873) french painter, engraver and illustrator closely associated with the romantic movement in france, a very fine original pencil and charcoal drawing on a loosely inserted oblong 4to sheet of paper (approximately 34 x 21.5 cm), the image depicting a young couple seated in a moonlit forest alongside a lake, signed and inscribed by the artist to the lower right, ´a son cher nadar, celestin nanteuil´ , and dated 1873 in his hand (with a further incomplete watercolour study of rocks to the verso, and traces of former mounting to each corner), together with a second original reddish brown pencil drawing by nanteuil entitled la marchand de plaisir , depicting a partially clothed young lady carrying two baskets as she offers her wares, signed and inscribed by the artist to the lower right, ´a son cher nadar, celestin nanteuil´ and dated 1873 in his hand (slight traces of former mounting to the four corners of the verso); gustave charpentier (1860-1956) french composer, a fine a.m.q.s.,  gustave charpentier , being five bars of music which he identifies as being from the third act of his most famous opera, louise , with lyrics beneath, ´tout etre a le droit d'être li - bre!´ , signed, inscribed and dated beneath the quotation, ´a monsieur nadar avec ma respectueuse sympathie´ , march 1902; milan i (1854-1901) king of serbia 1882-89, ink signature ( ´m. m. obrenovitsch´ ) as prince of serbia; prince napoleon-jerome bonaparte (1822-1891) prince of montfort, the disputed head of the house of bonaparte and son of jerome, king of westphalia, small ink signature ( ´napoleon (jerome)´ ) which appears overwhelmed by the size of the page; edouard detaille (1848-1912) french painter and military artist, a very fine original pen and ink drawing of a french cavalryman, wearing his uniform and kepi, on horseback, signed and inscribed at the base, ´a nadar!!, edouard detaille´ , and dated 20th november 1876 in his hand; desire van monckhoven (1834-1882) belgian chemist, physicist, inventor and photographic researcher, ´ni en sciences, ni en arts, ni en morale, il n´y a du formule ´  (translation: ´neither in the sciences, nor in the arts, nor in morals, is there formula´ ), 19th february 1874; hector malot (1830-1907) french writer, ´nadar est un homme a qui l´on ne refuse rien - pas meme d´ecrire sur un album ´  (translation: ´nadar was a man to whom nothing was too much trouble - not even writing on an album´ ); emile littre (1801-1881) french lexicographer and philosopher, ´photographier un viellard de soixante-quinze ans n´est pas avantageux pour le photographe; pourtant il faut le hater sinon....´ (translation: ´photographing a seventy-five-year-old old man is not advantageous for the photographer, but you have to hate him if you don't....´ ); emile acollas (1826-1891) french professor of jurisprudence, one of the founders of the league of peace and freedom in 1867, ´ si l´on me voit-sur mon portrait l´air plus souviant que d´ordinaire, c´est que pendant que je posais, j´entendais une causerie charmante et que j´ai trouvee toute cordiale ´  (translation: ´if i look more reminiscent than usual in my portrait, it's because while i was posing, i overheard a charming conversation that i found very cordial´ ); emmanuel felix de wimpffen (1811-1884) french general who distinguished himself during the crimean war and other conflicts; touchatout (1835-1911) leon-charles bienvenu, french journalist; charles garnier (1825-1898) french architect of the opera de monte carlo, the palais garnier in paris, and other buildings, three amusing passages of text signed by garnier, adding a simple ink drawing of a house and trees beneath his signature, 27th august 1877; jean mounet-sully (1841-1916) french actor; midhat pasha (1822-1883) grand vizier of the ottoman empire and author of the constitution of the ottoman empire, ink inscription in arabic, also signed in english, 30th august 1877; henri martin (1810-1883) french historian; emmanuel arago (1812-1896) french politician; armand duportal (1814-1887) french politician and journalist; simon deutsch (c.1822-1877) austrian jewish bibliographer and revolutionary, a veteran of the paris commune, ´1855-1875 photographiez ce qui etait entre ces deux dates avec votre genie vous y arriverez facilement et vos amis vous seront reconnaissants  ´  (translation: ´1855-1875 photograph everything between these two dates with your genius - it'll be easy and your friends will be grateful´ ); jean charles davillier (1823-1883) french writer and art collector; francois coppee (1842-1908) french poet and novelist, fair copy of his three stanza poem lied ; louis leouzon le duc (1815-1889) french journalist; aime laussedat (1819-1907) french scientist, astronomer and photographer, ´j´ai connu, au cours de ma longue existence beaucoup de braves gars. je n´en ai connu nide meilleur nide plus charmante que mon vieil ami nadar´ (translation: ´i've known a lot of good guys in my long life. i have known none better or more charming than my old friend nadar´ ), the same page also featuring an entry by nadar himself, signed with his initial n , being a  rime batelée  , and at the foot writing 'je transcris de memoire, par a peu pres, cet exercice prosodique en souvenir de son auteur, notre bon et modeste eug. [ernest] prarond, poete abbevillois.....´ (translation: ´  \n i am transcribing this prosodic exercise from memory, more or less, in memory of its author, our good and modest eug. [ernest] \n prarond, poet from abbevillois.....´ ) \n ; louis leroy (1812-1885) french painter, printmaker and playwright, ´on n´a par d´idee avec un paletot...de viens de retirer le mien et je n´en ai pas davantage  ´  (translation: ´you can't get ideas from a coat... i've just taken mine off and i haven't got any more. ´ ); charles wheatstone (1802-1875) english scientist & inventor of many victorian items including the concertina and stereoscope , ´what cannot art and industry achieve when science guides the spirit of their toil´ , 25th october 1873; louis clement francois breguet (1804-1883) french physicist and watchmaker; infante carlos (1848-1909) duke of madrid, the carlist claimant to the throne of spain as carlos vii, and the holder of the legitimist claim to the throne of france under the name charles xi, bold ink signature ( ´carlos´ ), dated at paris, 26th september 1876; elisee reclus (1830-1905) french geographer, writer and anarchist, ´nous fonderons la cite du soleil et nous serons dignes d´y entrer ´  (translation: ´we will found the city of the sun and be worthy of entering it´ ), 20th january 1891; peter kropotkin (1842-1921) russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, historian & philosopher, ´oui, elle viendra, belle, rayonnante et alors seulement l´individu atteindre son complet developpement pour l´evolution d´ensemble de tous  ´  (translation: ´yes, it will come, beautiful and radiant, and only then will the individual reach his or her full potential for the evolution of all´ ), paris, 15th january 1907; giuseppe de felice giuffrida (1859-1920) italian socialist politician and journalist; ranavalona i (1778-1861) queen of madagascar 1828-61; etienne-jules marey (1830-1904) french scientist, a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema , ´  le plus on fera de ballons dirigeable, plus on hatera......du plus lourd que l´air´ (translation:  ´  \n the more dirigible balloons we make, the more we will have......heavier than air´ ) \n ; theophile steinlen (1859-1923) swiss-born french art nouveau painter and printmaker, a wonderful original pencil drawing of a happy, content black cat, lying in profile, signed by steinlen in pencil and further inscribed ´a mon cher grand et bon nadar, beaux - indifferents - egoistes et tranquilles il y a des jours on l´on se prend a desirer - presque - d´etre comme eux´ (translation; ´to my dear great and good nadar, beautiful - indifferent - egotistical and quiet, there are days when you find yourself wishing - almost - that you were like them´ ); jean aicard (1848-1921) french poet, dramatist and novelist, a boldly penned fair copy of one of his poems, commencing ´que chaque homme console un homme/ fasse un bien, donne une pitié/ ne t'occupe pas de la somme:/ ce pain sera multiplié´ , inscribed ´grande affection a notre nadar´ and dated at marseille, 19th may 1902; gaston serpette (1846-1904) french composer, best known for his operettas, a.m.q.s. of five bars with lyrics beneath; robert de montesquiou (1855-1921) french aesthete, symbolist poet, art collector and dandy, a bold and attractively penned fair copy of his poem les belles roses , may 1909; georges renard (1847-1930) french poet, political activist and historian; varlam cherkezishvili (1846-1925) georgian aristocrat, journalist and anarchist, ´solidarite! crie le peuple georgien en se soulevant contre l´oppression. cette solidarite revolutionnaire nous avons appris chez les revolutionnaires francais´ (translation: ´solidarity! cries the georgian people as they rise up against oppression. we learned this revolutionary solidarity from the french revolutionaries´ ), and his wife freda  rupertus , ´de cette solidarite francaise revolutionnaire vous etes la meilleuse expression´ (translation; ´you are the best expression of this revolutionary french solidarity´ ), and others. a remarkable album containing an impressive selection of signatures by a fascinating range of individuals, all of whom held nadar in high esteem. all of the signatures are to the rectos of the pages (which measure approximately 50 x 36 cm each, and are paginated 1-44, 46-51, and 53-65, including some blank pages and an incomplete table of contents) and a number of pages bear multiple entries. the album is attractively bound in half-red shagreen with nadar´s decorative gilt stamped initial n to the front board and spine, the latter of which is also gilt stamped album.,  also featuring silk moire endpapers (some dampstaining to the edges) and all edges gilt. contained in the attractive original dark red decorative slipcase. a few minor tears to the edges of some of the pages and with light overall age wear, generally about vg"},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"1456","title":{"es":"nadar: (1820-1910) an appreciation of the genius of nadar from those who sat for him - from aeronauts and anarchists to royalty and revolutionaries"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137050/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_booksmagazinespaper","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":6000,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.860Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac6,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":137050,"estimateMin":6000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137051/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137051/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137051/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"rossini gioacchino: (1792-1868) italian composer. a prolific composer, known as 'the italian mozart', who until his retirement in 1829 had been the most popular opera composer in history. an excellent autograph musical score signed ` \n g. rossini ´, two pages, written to the front pages only, folio, 10 x 13 (25 x 33cm), passy, 1863, inscribed to madame bouland. rossini has cleanly penned thirty-eight bars of music on two staves, in bold black ink. the italian composer annotates to the heading and before the first bar of music ` \n piano´, and above the musical tempo ` \n andantino mosso´. the musical work is a piano composition taken from \n péchés de vieillesse , \n (\"sins of old age\"), 11 double musical staves, and contains multiple annotations in rossini´s hand. at the conclusion to the base of the second page, rossini annotates ` \n un rien offert à madame bouland, par son ami et admirateur g. rossini´ (translation: \" \n a little something offered to madame bouland, from his friend and admirer, g. rossini\"), also dated beneath in his hand. bearing a statement to the verso of the second page by camille (?) stating ` \n naguère, à pesaro, contemplant la statue, je me disais: les arts ont aussi leur autel; et rossini, du haut de ce bronze immortel, voit la postérité qui passe et qui salue´ (translation: \" \n not long ago, in pesaro, contemplating the statue, i said to myself: the arts also have their altar; and rossini, from the height of this immortal bronze, sees posterity passing and saluting\") small age toning to the edges, with a very small tear to the lower edge of the front page, not affecting the musical quote, otherwise vg"},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1457","title":{"es":"rossini gioacchino: (1792-1868) an excellent autograph musical score"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137051/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.862Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137051,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137052/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137052/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"mendelssohn felix: (1809-1847) german composer, pianist and conductor of the early romantic period. a.l.s., felix mendelssohn bartholdy , two pages, 8vo, berlin, 8 th october 1843, to [hinrich lichtenstein], in german. mendelssohn informs his correspondent that all of his mornings are taken up with rehearsals of a midsummer night's dream and therefore he will not be able to accompany the souchay family from manchester to the museum, and he must return two days later to potsdam and stay there until the performance, further requesting four entrance tickets for one of the official opening days. some overall uniform age toning and a small area of paper loss to the right edge, and with an archival stamp to the upper left corner. g \n hinrich lichtenstein (1780-1857) german physician, explorer, botanist and zoologist who was responsible for the creation of berlin's zoological gardens in 1841.  \n  \n at two separate times felix mendelssohn composed music for william shakespeare's play a midsummer night's dream , firstly in 1826, near the start of his career, with the composition of a concert overture (op. 21). later, in 1842, only a few years before his death, he wrote incidental music (op. 61) for a production of the play, into which he incorporated the existing overture. the incidental music, which was commissioned by king frederick william iv of prussia and performed in potsdam on 14 th october 1843, includes the famous wedding march."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1458","title":{"es":"mendelssohn felix: (1809-1847)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137052/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.863Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137052,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137053/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"berlioz hector: (1803-1869) french composer and conductor of the romantic era. a good, large vintage signed and inscribed sepia 10.5 x 13 photograph, the image depicting berlioz standing in a three-quarter length pose. signed by the composer (with a particularly large and fine example of his signature) to the lower photographer´s mount, with an inscription in french,  ´a mon ami theodore ritter, hector berlioz´ , and dated 18th january 1866 in his hand. framed and glazed in the original decorative antique frame to an overall size of 15.5 x 18. signed photographs of berlioz are extremely rare, and the present handsome example has an interesting association. a few minor, light stains to the image and mount, one only very minimally affecting the conclusion of berlioz´s signature. about vg \n theodore ritter (1840-1886) french composer and pianist, a student of berlioz and later franz liszt. ritter composed piano versions of berlioz´s works l´enfance du christ and romeo et juliette."},"estimateMax":7000,"lotNumber":"1459","title":{"es":"berlioz hector: (1803-1869) berlioz inscribes a large portrait for one of his students"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137053/view","tags":["esart_photography","escollectibles_autographs","esart","escollectibles_all","esart_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.865Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac7,000","currency":"EUR","id":137053,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137054/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137054/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137054/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137054/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"berlioz hector: (1803-1869) french composer and conductor of the romantic era. an excellent content and unusual a.l.s., ` h. b ´, four pages, 4to, n.p., saturday 23rd february [1833], to his father, in french. berlioz writes with passion and anger to his beloved father, both of them with strong characters, underlining many words and sentences, and tries to convince him to get his aproval for his marriage. berlioz starts his letter with huge dispair after having read his father´s letter, and states in part ` oh mon père, mon père, c´est affreux!! vous allez jusqu´à calomnier mon avenir. moi joueur! bon dieu, pourquoi; n´ai-je pas passé par toutes les épreuves qui pouvaient me donner la tentation de le devenir. quand j´ai été sans ressources, ai-je joué? non, j´ai mieux aimé descendre jusqu´à l´humiliation d´être choriste de vaudeville. j´ai vécu avec cinquante francs par mois mais je n´ai pas joué...´ (translation: \" oh my father, my father, it is awful!! you go so far as to slander my future. me, a gambler! good god, why; have i not gone through all the trials that could tempt me to become one. when i was without resources, did i gamble? no, i preferred to descend to the humiliation of being a vaudeville chorister. i lived on fifty francs a month but i did not gamble...\") immediately after berlioz starts his arguments regarding his beloved henriette and responds to his father, reporting lengthly about his feelings and his two relationships, and explains how all really happened, saying ` vous me parlez de mon amour pour henriette comme s´il datait d´hier; mais mon dieu je vous l´ai pourtant raconté. il a commencé le 6 septembre 1827 et a torturé ma vie pendant cinq ans entiers. l´épisode passioné dont vous tirez parti contre moi a été occasionné par cet amour. c´est le bruit que faisait dans le monde ma maladie morale, ma désolante constance pour madame smithson qui attira sur moi l´attention et le caprice de m.elle moke. elle m´écrivit, me demanda un rendez-vous, me fit une déclaration verbale, vint me trouver dans ma chambre, se fit enlever par moi, etc... et finit par m´inspirer une passion des sens violente, à laquelle je m´attachai avec d´autant plus d´ardeur que je ne voyais que ce moyen de me guérir de l´autre. vous savez l´infâme conduite de cette jeune folle et de sa mère. toutefois cette horrible tempête n´a pas suffi pour déraciner l´amour que j´avais encore au fond du coeur pour henriette...´ (translation: \" you speak to me about my love for henriette as if it started yesterday; but my god, i have told you about it. it began on september 6, 1827, and tortured my life for five full years. the passionate episode that you are using against me was occasioned by this love. it was the noise that my moral illness made in the world, my distressing constancy for mrs. smithson that attracted the attention and the whim of miss moke. she wrote to me, asked me for an appointment, made a verbal declaration to me, came to find me in my room, accepted to be taken by me, etc... and ended by inspiring in me a violent passion of the senses, to which i attached myself with all the more ardor since i saw only this way of curing myself of the other. you know the infamous conduct of this young madwoman and her mother. however, this horrible storm was not enough to uproot the love that i still had deep in my heart for henriette...\") further berlioz explains to his father that they are ready to get married, that they love each other, and that he needs his approval, for his own peace of mind but also because it is legally requested, stating ` aujourd´hui elle m´aime, cette constance l´a vaincue; je lui ai avoué toute l´histoire de camille, j´ai eu toute la franchise possible... vous avez cru pouvoir consentir à mon union avec camille qui est une coquette dévergondée (comme je le sais aujourd´hui) et vous me refusez votre assentiment pour henriette qui est l´amour de toute ma vie d´artiste, qui a toujours conservé à mon égard une dignité qui m´a rendu bien malheureux, qui m´a mis un pied dans la tombe, mais qui n´en est pas moins honorable pour ses sentiments. mon père vous vous abusez complètement, cela est désespérant, mais cela est. puisque rien ne peut vous tirer d´erreur il me reste une dernière prière à vous faire. c´est de ne pas détruire dans mon coeur mon affection pour vous. je vous aime mon père, avec tout l´amour dont les soins dont vous avez environné mon enfance étaient faits pour inspirer, ne me l´ôtez pas, ne faites pas de moi un fils dénaturé...´ (translation: \" today she loves me, this constancy has conquered her; i confessed to her the whole story of camille, i was as frank as possible... you believed you could consent to my union with camille who is a shameless coquette (as i know today) and you refuse me your assent for henriette who is the love of my whole life as an artist, who has always preserved towards me a dignity that has made me very unhappy, that has put one foot in my grave, but who is no less honorable for her feelings. my father, you are completely mistaken, it is desperate, but so it is. since nothing can save you from your error, i have one last prayer to make to you. and that is not to destroy in my heart my affection for you. i love you, my father, with all the love that the care you surrounded my childhood with was made to inspire, do not take it away from me, do not make me an unnatural son...\") before concluding berlioz makes clear that he will not cede, and that if his father will keep on refusing giving his approval he will still go ahead with the wedding and will stop any future contact with him, stating ` voyez, soyez sûr, à tort ou à raison tout est inutile pour me séparer d´henriette; quand je dis je ferai tout pour l´obtenir, c´est dans doute l´acception de ce mot... si vous devex encore m´écrire que je ferai le malheur de melle smithson en l´épousant, que je l´abandonnerai pour une autre, je dois vous avouer mon père que pour conserver mon affection pour vous, je n´ouvrirai plus de lettres venant de la côte et qu´il est inutile de m´en adresser. j´ai envoyé à edouard une procuration pour qu´il puisse, aidé d´un notaire, vous présenter ma première soumission. je n´ai rien à ajouter, si vous ne comprenez pas tout sera inutile.´ (translation: \" you know , be sure, rightly or wrongly, that everything will be useless to separate me from henriette; when i say i will do everything to obtain her, it is doubtless the meaning of this word... if you should write to me again that i will make miss smithson unhappy by marrying her, that i will abandon her for another, i must confess to you my father that to preserve my affection for you, i will no longer open letters coming from the coast and that it is useless to address them to me. i have sent edward a power of attorney so that he can, with the help of a notary, present my first submission to you. i have nothing to add, if you do not understand everything will be useless .\") berlioz did marry henriette smithson and stopped for many years the contact with his father, although the last was right and the marriage soon became unhappy until berlioz left her in 1842. a letter of excellent content. very small overall minor age wear, otherwise g to vg \n louis berlioz (1776-1848) father of hector berlioz, was a respected physician credited as the first european to practise and write about acupuncture. he had planned a medical career for his son hector. louis and his wife marie-antoinette joséphine had six children, three of whom died in infancy, the eldest being hector, and his two surviving daughters nanci and adele remained close to hector throughout their lives.  \n at the time of the present letter berlioz was 30 and henriette was 33, and although both were legally adults, and could marry without parental consent, this could not happen immediately. they were obliged, in the absence of their parents' agreement, to notify them of their marriage plans by a notarial act called a `acte respectueux´ (\"respectful deed\"). in the event of refusal by the parents, the request had to be renewed twice, every month, before the marriage could take place. hector berlioz sent 3 \"respectful deeds\" to his father but never got his consent.  \n harriet constance smithson (1800-1854) anglo-irish shakespearean actress of the 19th century. first wife and muse of hector berlioz.  \n marie \"camille\" moke (1811-1875) was a nineteen years old belgian pianist that berlioz met in the spring of 1830. he falled in love with her and planned to marry her. getting, although reticent, his father´s approval. but while he was in italy he received a letter from camille´s mother announcing him the wedding of her daughter with camille pleyel, the piano manufacturer. berlioz wrote that on his return from italy he was fully determined to go, find her, and kill her, and later comit suicide."},"estimateMax":12000,"lotNumber":"1460","title":{"es":"berlioz hector: (1803-1869) \"..this horrible storm was not enough to uproot the love that i still had deep in my heart for henriette\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137054/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":10000,"soldPrice":12000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.866Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac10,000 - \u20ac12,000","currency":"EUR","id":137054,"estimateMin":10000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137055/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"liszt franz: (1811-1886) hungarian composer and pianist of the romantic period. a good, large vintage signed and inscribed sepia 14.5 x 13 photograph (including card mount) of liszt seated in a full-length pose at his desk within his study at weimar, surrounded by various tables and chairs and with a piano visible to the left of the image. photograph by louis held of weimar (1884) and bearing his blindstamp to the lower right corner of the image. signed and inscribed by liszt in fountain pen ink to the lower photographer´s mount, in german, ´meinem liebster \"badedecker\" (frau carrie lachmund) herzlich ergebend, f liszt´ (translation; ´sincerely yielding to my dearest \u2018badedecker\u2019 (mrs carrie lachmund), f liszt ´ ) and dated at weimar, july 1884, in his hand. matted in cream with a decorative gold edge and framed and glazed to an overall size of 21.5 x 19.5. signed photographs of liszt of this size are scarce, and the present example has a good association. the signature is a touch light, although remains legible. some light staining and minor age wear, about vg \n louis held (1851-1927) german photographer and a pioneer of photojournalism. held opened his first studio in liegnitz in 1876 and six years later located himself in weimar where he became a protege of liszt and was appointed court photographer to carl alexander, grand duke of saxe-weimar-eisenach in 1888.  \n caroline ´carrie´ lachmund (1854-1889) was a harpist and the first wife of carl lachmund (1853-1928) american pianist who studied under liszt at weimar from 1882-84."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"1461","title":{"es":"liszt franz: (1811-1886)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137055/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","esart_photography","esart","escollectibles_all","esart_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2000,"soldPrice":2100,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.622Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac3,000","currency":"EUR","id":137055,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137056/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137056/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"verdi giuseppe: (1813-1901) italian composer. a rare and excellent a.m.q.s., ` g. verdi ´, a bold ink signature, with small ink stain beneath, one page, oblong 8vo, paris, 12th april 189?, in italian. verdi has penned a three bars quote of music which he identifies from his opera falstaff (1893) to the upper left corner. verdi also adds beneath the musical quote the lyrics, `quand'ero paggio del duca di norfolk´ ('' when i was a page to the duke of norfolk ''), in his hand, from the opera falstaff, a well-known aria of the second act. a very desirable signed quotation. bearing to the third page of the 8vo bifolium, removed from an autograph album, a statement by camille (?), dedicated to dully prudhomme. veri small age tone, with left edge showing traces of former binding to the autograph album. g to vg \n falstaff is a comic opera in three acts by giuseppe verdi. the libretto was adapted by arrigo boito from shakespeare´s the merry wives of windsor and scenes from henry iv. premiered in february 1893 at la scala of milan. falstaff was verdi´s last opera."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"1462","title":{"es":"verdi giuseppe: (1813-1901) rare autograph musica quotation signed by verdi from falstaff\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137056/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2000,"soldPrice":2800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.624Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac3,000","currency":"EUR","id":137056,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137057/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137057/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137057/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"dvorak antonin: (1841-1904) czech composer. a good a.l.s., a dvorak , four pages, 8vo, prague, 4 th august 1886, to 'my dear friend' (possibly the music publisher henry littleton), in english. dvorak informs his correspondent that he has just returned to prague and received their letter, continuing to remark 'it is difficult for me to give you any promises in regards to the arranged courtesy in scotland. i have much to do in prague\u2026..and i really do not know if i shall be abel (sic) to remain in london as long as you wish. i imagine i must be here in prague till the end of october to conduct the ludmila in our national theatre and after having enjoied (sic) a little rest, i would be compeled (sic) to undertake such a larg (sic) journey to england agin!! (sic). if it would be only another time (march or april) i would certainly come, but in december when the days are getting very short and cold it is much les (sic) agreebel (sic) and tiresome to travel. this is the only reason which prevents me making use of your friendly invitation' , and further adding that his wife would be glad to come to london so that she could see the two performances in st. james's hall and crystal palace, and that he himself longs to see the beautiful scotland of robert burns and asking if the trip could be postponed to the following spring, concluding by asking his correspondent to send him a copy of the newly printed score for saint ludmila as soon as possible. a letter of fine content, not least for its references to saint ludmila . rare. one neat split to the lower half of the central vertical fold, otherwise vg \n  \n saint ludmila was dvorak's third oratorio and was composed for soloists, choir and orchestra between september 1885 and may 1886. the work was commissioned by the publisher littleton during dvorak's first visit to england and was intended for the leeds music festival, where dvorak conducted the first performance on 15 th october 1886. it had considerable success with the audience 'in raptures\u2026..the critics praised the music in the warmest terms'.  \n  \n dvorak made nine invited visits to england during his career, often conducting performances of his own works."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1463","title":{"es":"dvorak antonin: (1841-1904)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137057/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.625Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137057,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":7000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137058/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137058/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137058/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137058/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"dickens charles: (1812-1870) english novelist. an interesting, early a.l.s., charles dickens (a good example with paraph), four pages, 8vo, doughty street (king´s cross, london), n.d., ( ´wednesday morning´ , 1838), to william john bellew archer ( ´sir´ ). dickens states that he has read his correspondent´s paper with great attention ´and have been very much pleased and greatly struck by it´ , and returns it to archer with a few suggestions that he hopes archer will not object to complying with ( ´if so, i shall be happy to receive it again at your convenience´ ). dickens continues to offer his advice, ´i would condense - greatly condense - the opening scene with the priest, so that the reader might come to the story. i would materially shorten the commencement of the story itself, and i would describe a little more forcibly the hero´s boldness when he sees the shade and rushes after it, and his fear when he finds it gone - it is a very natural idea, and would bear a few lines more´ , further remarking ´i reserve my final suggestion for a fresh paragraph, because it is a sweeping one. i beg you to understand that i leave it entirely to yourself, and if you prefer the paper in its present shape, do not make the alteration an indispensable condition of its appearance in the magazine. but to my mind you would make the tale a much better one if you wholly omitted the visit of the priest.....to the castle.....adding a few words to the effect that our spirits commonly hold intercourse with those of the beloved dead in waking thoughts and dreams in which we see them (knowing them to be no longer of this world) without fear or pain, and that if there be any case in which strong and blameless sympathy could be supposed to bring the dead and living together, it would be such a case as you describe´ . dickens concludes his letter stating ´i have thrown out these crude remarks very hastily, and trust you will not consider them hypercritical or impertinent´ . a letter of fine content for the literary advice dickens offers to his correspondent, as well as his thoughts on communicating with the dead. some light signs of age toning and former mounting to some edges of the pages, evidently a result of previous framing, otherwise about vg \n william john bellew archer (1806-1872) english clergyman, perpetual curate of churchill, somerset 1840-69, british chaplain at worms 1851-59, and vicar of churchill 1870-72. the story which archer had written was evidently submitted for consideration as a contribution to the literary magazine bentley´s miscellany of which dickens was the first editor (1836-39).  \n charles dickens lived with his wife, catherine, at 48 doughty street (today the charles dickens museum) from march 1837 until december 1839. they were joined there by catherine´s sister, mary scott hogarth, who assisted with household chores. mary died suddenly, at the young age of 17, in may 1837 and her death had a deep effect on dickens. the novelist considered mary ´a close friend, an exceptional sister, a companion at home´ and greatly valued her input and feedback.  \n written in the year following mary´s death, the present letter is of particular interest for the remarks dickens makes on communicating with the dead. the novelist dreamt of his sister-in-law every night for months after her death and, in a letter of 1843, confided that mary appeared to him day and night, \u2018sometimes like a ghost, sometimes in the flesh, without bitterness, without regret, and always with the same air of quiet happiness´ - his words echoing those in the present letter, written some years earlier."},"estimateMax":9000,"lotNumber":"1464","title":{"es":"dickens charles: (1812-1870) the young dickens offers literary advice, and writes of communicating with the dead"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137058/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":7000,"soldPrice":6800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.627Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac7,000 - \u20ac9,000","currency":"EUR","id":137058,"estimateMin":7000},{"startPrice":9000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137059/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137059/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"tolstoy leo: (1828-1910) russian writer, regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. a.l.s., l tolstoy , in cyrillic, three pages, 8vo, n.p. (moscow?), 12 th february 1896, to liubov gurevich, in cyrillic. tolstoy writes following an incident in which a man visiting his correspondent had behaved inappropriately, stating, in part, 'you say you are frightened by boasting on his part, and defamation, and i deeply regret that this matter cannot be leaked and made public as it should be. people will only have sorrow for him, this poor, young vagabond, who, having acted with the lowest baseness, was sure to act nobly (i use the past tense because i am certain that even before leaving your apartment, his conscious had begun to torment him). this matter cannot be made public only because you don't want it and because it would be auto-sufficient and harmful to the dignity of your actions, the basis of which is humility' and continuing to refer to the differences in perception of such an event by the public depending on whether one is a woman or a man, 'because of the absurdity always inherent in our mores' , further adding that he has shown his letter to pavel biruykov and concluding 'just keep thinking and acting the same way and the joy in your soul will grow. i am very, very happy for you. may god help us to do his will' . a letter of good, intriguing content and with fine association. vg \n liubov gurevich (1866-1940) russian editor, translator, author and critic who has been described as 'russia's most important woman literary journalist'."},"estimateMax":12000,"lotNumber":"1465","title":{"es":"tolstoy leo: (1828-1910)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137059/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":9000,"soldPrice":8500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.628Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac9,000 - \u20ac12,000","currency":"EUR","id":137059,"estimateMin":9000},{"startPrice":1800,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137060/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"hugo victor: (1802-1885) french novelist, poet and dramatist. a fine and exceptionally large vintage signed and inscribed sepia 18.5 x 24 photograph by hugo, the engaging image depicting the writer seated in a three-quarter length pose on an ornately carved wooden chair, resting the side of his head on one raised hand. the edge of a carved wooden bookcase can be seen to the right of the image. photograph by walery of paris and bearing their imprint to the lower border, c.1879. signed and inscribed by hugo in fountain pen ink to the lower photographer´s mount, ´a ma bonne virginie noel, victor hugo´ . signed photographs of hugo of this size and quality are extremely rare and highly desirable. some light overall age wear, a few chips to the edges and with a few tears to the upper edge of the mount, neatly repaired to a good standard. about vg \n virginie noel was a maid in the service of hugo and juliette drouet between 1877-79."},"estimateMax":2200,"lotNumber":"1466","title":{"es":"hugo victor: (1802-1885)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137060/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","esart_photography","esart","escollectibles_all","esart_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1800,"soldPrice":1700,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.629Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,800 - \u20ac2,200","currency":"EUR","id":137060,"estimateMin":1800},{"startPrice":500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137061/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"dumas alexandre: fils (1824-1895) french author and dramatist. rare autograph poem in the hand of dumas, a.l.s., ` a. dumas fils´, one page, 8vo, nohant, 2nd august 1861, to madame gressin, in french. dumas cleanly pens a 24 verses poem in alexandrines, with an octosyllable one on the second verse of each strophe. the theme is the figure of the inaccessible poet, like the gazelle, like the tree on a mountain, or \" the aged heart where no flower can bloom\". dumas writes his poem without title, although few years later he published it for the first time under the title \"vers écrits sur un album\" (\"verses written on an album\"). the poem states in part `... je calcine les monts et j´aveugle et je tue - et je dépasse tout; je suis lancé par dieu! - eh bien, je te trompais, je suis l´arbre élevé - sur une si haute montagne - qu´hélas la solitude est ma seule compagne - et que jamais à moi, l´oiseau n´est arrivé - que m´importe! je vais où ne va pas l´oiseau... je suis la triste nuit qui n´aura point d´aurore - et je n´attends plus rien de l´avenir pali - aussi je ne viens pas vers toi de l´avenir - je suis cette douce pensée - que le coeur le plus dur n´a jamais repoussée - ouvre moi donc tes bras - je suis le souvenir´. the poem is incribed by dumas to the lower left corner, stating ` autographe donné à mme gressin à nohant, on august 2nd 1861´. with blank integal leaf. vg \n the present poem was first published in 1866, five years later than the poem was written on the present document, on the journal le moniteur de la mode, and it was published under the title \" vers écrits sur un album\" (\"verses written on an album\"). much later, in 1893, it was published again, in the magazine la lecture, but this time under the title le souvenir (\"the souvenir\")"},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"1467","title":{"es":"dumas alexandre: fils (1824-1895) a rare 24 verses autograph poem"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137061/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":500,"soldPrice":550,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.631Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac500 - \u20ac600","currency":"EUR","id":137061,"estimateMin":500},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137062/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137062/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"twain mark: (1835-1910) samuel langhorne clemens. american writer and humourist. an excellent a.l.s., s l clemens , two pages, 8vo, florence, 24th november (1892), to [henry mills] alden. twain commences his letter proclaiming ´i know i never, never shall get over the astonishment of it!´ and continues to gently chastise alden, in twain´s quintessential style, writing ´i sent you the most delicious thing that has been offered to any magazine in 30 years in the way [of] innocent, unconscious & absolutely killing humor - offered it to you on your own terms, too - & you declined it because i didn´t write it. why, dang it, the reason for declining it is really worse than the crime itself; for gold is gold, & varying the mint-mark can´t alter its value - & if that wasn´t gold, standard gold, sterling gold, golden humor, then i don´t know that metal when i see it, i who claim to be an expert´,  further adding ´and you think you would have taken that mere paper-issue, a million pound note, in preference. paste, and diamonds! - that´s what the two are. i wasn´t sending a gem to gilder - he hadn´t asked for one, he merely wanted a screed of some kind - but i knew i was shipping kimberley to you´ and concluding ´look here, alden, you didn´t read it. you saw it was mainly reprint, & jumped to an over-hasty conclusion. but if you had read it - & read it aloud to people, as i have done - then you´d have seen effects such as you have never seen in your life up to now. ah, if i had only been there! i´d have read it to you, & opened your eyes!´ . a letter of fabulous and entertaining content. annotated in ink in another hand to the head of the first page. some very light, minor age wear, with a slight scuff affecting one word of text and a very small, neat split to the centre of the lower edge, otherwise vg \n henry mills alden (1836-1919) american author, the editor of harper´s magazine from 1869-1919."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1468","title":{"es":"twain mark: (1835-1910) twain reacts to having a piece rejected - ´ ´look here, alden, you didn´ t read it´´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137062/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":9000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.633Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137062,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137063/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137063/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"barye antoine-louis: (1795-1875) french sculptor of the romantic period, most famous for his work as an animalier , a sculptor of animals. widely considered together with rodin and carpeaux as the three great french sculptors of the xixth century. although fame did not come until late in life, examples of his larger work include various lions and tigers in the gardens of the tuileries and the lion assis (\"setaed lion\") exhibited at the louvre museum in paris. a rare autograph letter with excellent content, a.l.s., ` barye´, one page, 4to, paris, 20th may 1858, to mr. séchan, in french. barye in a clean writing accepts an order request that he received four months earlier for a sculpture which he values and describes in full detail, stating ` j´accepte la commande que vous me faites à la date du 29 janvier 1858, consistant en une: pendule se portant sur une cheminée, cette pendule représentera apollon sur un char attelé de quatre chevaux, modèle de cette pendule et son épreuve unique; mme pérère restant propriétaire. compris marbre et dorure, moins le mouvement. prix convenu à forfait - 14000 fr. plus: candélabres se plaçant de chaque côté de la pendule, pour le modèle et les deux épreuves uniques, mme pérère restant également propriétaire du modèle, compris marbre et dorure. prix convenu à forfait - 6000 fr. il est bien entendu qu´il ne restera des modèles que les fragments des plâtres plus ou moins endommagés qui auront servi à la fonte des épreuves uniques.´ (translation: \" i accept the order that you made to me on january 29th, 1858, consisting of a: clock which will represent apollo on a chariot drawn by four horses, model of this clock and its unique proof; mrs. pérère remaining the owner. including marble and gilding, less the machinery. agreed fixed price - 14,000 fr. plus: candelabra to be placed on each side of the clock, for the model and the two unique proofs, mrs. pérère also remaining the owner of the model, including marble and gilding. agreed fixed price - 6,000 fr. it is understood that only the fragments of the more or less damaged plasters that will have been used to cast the unique proofs will remain.\") with address leaf, postmarked and stamped. very small minor creasing, otherwise vg \n the sculpture detailed and valued by barye in the present letter is a bronze with a height of 80cm, it is considered one of the summits of the artist's work.  \n the critic paul manz described the present work this way `apollon, conduisant son char, se présente de face; des deux côtés s´avancent les heures, figures légères qui tiennent la bride des cheveaux. les types sont empruntés à ce que l´antiquité nous a laissé de plus pur et de plus charmant; les cheveaux d´apollon sont admirables dans leur allure savamment rythmée... nous ne connaissons, parmi les productions de l´art industriel moderne, aucun oeuvre qui puisse lui être comparée, et versailles, au temps de ses splendeurs, n´a rien eu de plus beau dans son mobilier royal´ (translation: \" apollo, driving his chariot, is presented front face; on both sides advanced the hours, light figures holding the bridle of the horses. the types are borrowed from what antiquity has left us of the purest and most charming; apollo's horses are admirable in their skillfully rhythmic allure... we do not know, among the productions of modern industrial art, any work that can be compared to it, and versailles, at the time of its splendors, had nothing more beautiful in its royal furniture\")  \n we learn with this letter that the original model was the property of \"madame pérère\", who was the wife of the banker isaac pérère, who placed the order with barye for his hotel in the faubourg saint-honoré.  \n the work is at today´s date exhibited at the musée d´orsay in paris."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"1469","title":{"es":"barye antoine-louis: (1795-1875) \"i accept the order consisting of a clock which will represent apollo on a chariot drawn by four horses\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137063/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.634Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":137063,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137064/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137064/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"bartholdi frederic auguste: (1834-1904) french sculptor, best known for designing the statue of liberty ( \u2018liberty enlightening the world\u2019 ). a wonderful illustrated a.l.s., bartholdi , two pages, 8vo, paris, 6th january 1885, to [edouard millaud] ( ´cher et excellent ami´ ), on bartholdi´s red monogrammed stationery, in french. bartholdi states ´je vous remercie bien de tout l´interet que vous avez pris a l´affaire de gayet; necessairement la lecture du journal n´a pas pu arreter la longueur des nez; mais m. gayet a appris de cotes et d´autres combien vous vous etes interesse a lui et il y a ete tres sensible, je dois meme dire que cela lui a adouci considerablement ses impressions. il viendra probablement vous en remercier car cela lui a fait grand plaisir´ (translation: ´i thank you very much for all the interest you have taken in gayet's case; necessarily reading the newspaper has not been able to stop the length of noses; but m. gayet has learned from one side or another how much you are interested in him and he has been very sensitive to this, i must even say that it has softened his impressions considerably. he will probably come to thank you for it, as it gave him great pleasure´ ) and further remarks ´je pense du reste que la situation n´est pas mauvaise pour lui, peut-etre au moment du depart de la statue a la fin d´avril le comite pourrait faire une nouvelle lettre. j´ai deja vu de ces nominations faites dans le courant de l´annee et les minstres sont alors moins traques qu´aux echeances fatales de juillet ou jabvier. vous me direz votre avis quand il y aura lieu, n´est pas?´ (translation: ´i think that the situation is not bad for him, perhaps when the statue leaves at the end of april the committee could write another letter. i have already seen these appointments made in the course of the year and the ministers are then less hounded than at the fatal expiries of july or january. you'll let me know what you think when the time comes, won't you?´ ). to the centre left of the first page bartholdi has added an amusing pen and ink sketch, possibly a self-caricature, depicting a gentleman reading a newspaper, and with a long, thin nose that is so sharp it pierces the centre of the newspaper. with blank integral leaf. a letter of good association and content, not least due to its references to gayet and the statue of liberty. vg \n edouard millaud (1834-1912) french politician and lawyer who served as minister of public works 1886-87.  \n the statue of liberty had been completed in 1884, however it was to remain in paris, at the gayet foundry, until sufficient work had been carried out in america on its pedestal. by january 1885 this had occurred and the statue was disassembled and crated for its ocean voyage. on 17th june 1885 the french steamer isere arrived in new york with its precious cargo, although it was not until october 1886 that the statue of liberty was finally unveiled."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"1470","title":{"es":"bartholdi frederic auguste: (1834-1904)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137064/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":3800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:35.636Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac5,000","currency":"EUR","id":137064,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137065/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137065/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"courbet gustave: (1819-1877) french painter. an innovator who rejected academic convention and leaded the french realist movement. courbet was active in politics and was imprisoned in 1871 for his involvement with the paris commune, having to live in exile in switzerland until his death. rare and large signed and inscribed large 16.5 x 20.5 photograph, the sepia impressive image depicting courbet seated, holding his pipe, in a three-quarter length pose. signed and inscribed in bold dark ink ` \n souvenir d´exil´ (\"exile souvenir\"), `gustave courbet´, also dated in his hand geneva 1877, the year of his death. inscribed to his friend and art dealer paul pia. the photograph with inscription to a darker background is 10.5 x 13.5. very small age tone, otherwise g to vg"},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1471","title":{"es":"courbet gustave an impressive large signed and inscribed photograph"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137065/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.301Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac3,500","currency":"EUR","id":137065,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":14000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137066/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137066/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137066/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137066/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"renoir pierre-auguste: (1841-1919) french impressionist artist. exceptional hardcover 4.5 x 6.5 ledger book, 116 pages, containing 14 pages filled out in renoir´s hand, recording the sales of his paintings, listing those in deposit, where they are, etc.. written to the front cover ` tableaux ´ (\" paintings \"). the opening page bears a red pencil annotation, ` durand ruel ´, and the next 14 pages are dated from 1882 to 1885, recording various financial transactions. several of these entries record amounts received from the sales of his works, and in several instances he writes names or descriptions of the works, such as \" portrait de mme. c dans un jardin \", \" femme nue \", \" jeune kabyle\", \"vues venise \", \" saltimbanque\", \"naples et alger\", \" jardin coquelicot \", \" jardin montmartre\", \" samary (pastel) \", and many more. few other pages with multiple payments records, painting prices, financial transactions, amounts received on account, dates, etc.. in two instances, in 1883, renoir writes the name ` manet ´ presumably referring to his friend and fellow edouard manet. these entries provide valuable insight into renoir's life and work, and as such this ledger represents an important piece for renoir research. very small minor age wear, otherwise vg \n  \n paul durand-ruel (1831-1922) french art dealer. probably the most important commercial advocate of impressionists, providing monetary support to his painters and solo-exhibitions. he counted 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\u20ac18,000","currency":"EUR","id":137066,"estimateMin":14000},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137067/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137067/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137067/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137067/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"monet claude: (1840-1926) french impressionist painter. a fine a.l.s., ton vieux monet , four pages, 8vo, embankment gardens, london, 11th march 1900, to blanche hoschede monet, on the printed bifolium stationery of the savoy hotel, in french. monet writes and affectionate letter to his stepdaughter (and daughter-in-law) and also sends news regarding the progress of his painting in london, commencing by stating ´c´est a toi, ma bonne petite blanche que j´ecris qujourd´hui d´abord parce que je te dois une lettre et pour que ta mere ne soit pas sans nouvelles au cas ou elle resterait demain pres de vous, parce que, a tout hasard, je lui ecris aussi a giverny´ (translation: ´i am writing to you today, my dear little blanche, firstly because i owe you a letter and secondly so that your mother will not be without news in case she stays near you tomorrow, because i am also writing to her in giverny´ ) and continuing ´il y a un instant j´ai commence ma cinquantieme toile, c´est te dire que je reste peu souvent sans peindre, que c´est a devenir fou tant ça change; tu peux lui dire que je me porte absolument bien, que je dors comme un sabot et que je trouve londres chaque jour plus beau a peindre´ (translation: ´a moment ago i started on my fiftieth canvas, which tells you that i don't often go without painting, that it's driving me mad, so much it changes; you can tell her that i am doing absolutely well, that i sleep like a clog and that i find london more beautiful to paint every day´ ) before tenderly concluding ´je vous embrasse bien tendrement tous les deux comme je vous aime mes chers enfants, te priant de bien embrasser pour moi ta mere et germaine si elles sont encore pres de vous....je t´embrasse comme je t´aime´ (translation: ´i kiss you both very tenderly as i love you my dear children, asking you to give my love to your mother and germaine if they are still near you.... i kiss you as i love you´ ). a letter of wonderful content. vg \n blanche hoschede monet (1865-1947) french painter, both the stepdaughter and daughter-in-law of claude monet. blanche enjoyed a fond relationship with her father-in-law who trained and encouraged her as an artist.  \n monet visited london on several occasions throughout his life, the first time being in 1870 when he spent time with his friend camille pissarro, as well as the american painter james abbott mcneill whistler, and also befriended his first and primary art dealer, paul durand-ruel, in what would prove to be a decisive encounter for monet´s career. in 1900 monet stayed at the savoy hotel in london, from where the present letter was written. he converted his room into a temporary studio from where he overlooked the thames river and the buildings and bridges of westminster. captivated by the fog, the factory smoke, and the changing light effects, monet painted many impressionist oil paintings during this time, including the famous series consisting of views of the palace of westninster, home of the british parliament.  \n  in 1904, monet exhibited thirty-seven views of the thames with durand-ruel. in his preface to the catalogue, octave mirbeau described the prodigiousness of these achievements: \"it's a miracle, almost a paradox, that one can, with paste on canvas, create impalpable matter, imprison sunlight, polarize it or diffuse it, infinitely reflected in what a city like london contains of thick breaths, fouled soot, and with these heavy breaths, these impenetrable soot, all these coal emanations, bring forth from this empyreumatic atmosphere such splendid enchantments of light\"."},"estimateMax":15000,"lotNumber":"1473","title":{"es":"monet claude: (1840-1926) ´ i find london more beautiful to paint every day´´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137067/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":10000,"soldPrice":14000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.304Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac10,000 - 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restaurateur who popularised and updated traditional french cooking methods. a.l.s., a. escoffier , four pages, 8vo, pall mall, london, 2nd june 1903, to ´mon cher charles´ , on the printed bifolium stationery of the carlton hotel, in french. escoffier commences his letter by expressing his sympathy on receiving news of the illness of a monsieur clerin, remarking ´j´ai l´espoir qui pourra se remettre bientôt, je le désire bien sincèrement car c´est un charmant homme´ (translation: ´i hope that he will be able to recover soon, i sincerely hope so for he is a charming man´ ) and continues to write of a former assistant from the savoy hotel, ´ voila 7 ans que l´huillery (?) était au savoy hotel avec moi il était jeune encore je suppose que depuis lors il a du se fortifier, il était déjà assez débrouillard, tout dernierement il m´a demandé un certificat de son séjour au savoy. je lui ai fait remettre le certificat comme chef mais en réalité il n´était pas chef garde-manger mais ceci n´est pas une raison pour ne pas remplir aujourd´hui une place de chef. vous devez être en possession de ses divers certificats et des places qu´il a occupé depuis son départ du savoy hotel, car je l´ai tout à fait perdu de vue et j´ignore ce qu´il a fait depuis qu´il m´a quitté. sauf cette dernière saison où il était à monte carlo au café riche´ (translation: ´it has been 7 years since huillery (?) was at the savoy hotel with me, he was still young, i suppose that since then he must have grown stronger, he was already quite resourceful, most recently he asked me for a certificate of his stay at the savoy. i gave him the certificate as chef but in reality he wasn't the head of the larder but that's no reason not to fill a position as chef. you must be in possession of his various certificates and the positions he has occupied since his departure from the savoy hotel, because i have quite lost sight of him and i do not know what he has done since he left me. except for this last season when he was in monte carlo at the café riche´ ). in a postscript escoffier states that he has sent some pickles and chutney to the director of the hotel nassau. together with four autograph drafts of menus prepared by escoffier for private dinners, each on 8vo sheets of notepaper, listing various dishes including consomme rossini, saumon royale, baron d´agneau de pauillac, poularde poelee, salade d´orange, souffle au parmesan, fraises melba etc., two of them annotated and dated (1907 & 1908) in blue indelible pencil in another hand, giving details of the name of the host etc., and several with details of the cost (12s 6d) per cover etc. also including two further autograph menus in an unidentified hand, although evidently prepared under escoffier´s guidance, each on 4to sheets of printed stationery from the carlton hotel, the first for a dinner for eighteen guests hosted by w. c. palmer esq. on 3rd february 1908 and including timbale de filets de sole carlton, pate de foie gras de strasbourg, peches melba etc., and the second for a dinner for nineteen guests hosted by colonel leishman on 5th february 1908 and including hors d´oeuvre russe, baron d´agneau de lait bordelaise, becasses chasseur, souffle aux poires la bohemienne etc. a rare and interesting group of menus displaying escoffier´s culinary mastery. some light age wear and a few minor rust stains, generally vg, 7 \n escoffier was employed at london´s savoy hotel from 1890-98, during which time he created many famous dishes. in 1899 escoffier found himself establishing the kitchens and recruiting chefs for the new carlton hotel in london. the chef would continue to be associated with the carlton hotel until his retirement in 1920."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"1474","title":{"es":"escoffier auguste: (1846-1935) escoffier prepares menus for private dinners at the carlton hotel"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137068/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":5000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.305Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":137068,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":600,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137069/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137069/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"edison thomas: (1847-1931) american inventor of the phonograph and light bulb among many other items. a.l.s., edison (a slightly hurried example), two pages (separate leaves), small 8vo, n.p., n.d., to fagan. edison writes in bold pencil and sends some instructions following an experimental laboratory exercise, in full, ´call patterson´s attention to the fact that if 90 grams of lithia is right for say an a4 it is not right for any other size as we have found out at lab. there is an unknown relation between the lithia, the amount of solution & capacity of the cell - a single tube cell gives best results with 2 grms lithia but this would be 240 grms to an a4 & this is fatal altho ok for a single tube´ . very slightly irregularly torn to the upper edges of each page, a small paperclip rust stain to the upper left corner, and with some light areas of discolouration, g \n thomas edison died in 1931 with a tin of lithia (better known as lithium oxide) on his desk. one of the final projects in the great inventor\u2019s life was experimenting with new chemistries in what he called \u201cstorage batteries.\u201d the perfect battery \u2014 one that was cheap, rechargeable and packed with power \u2014 was an elusive quarry."},"estimateMax":900,"lotNumber":"1475","title":{"es":"edison thomas: (1847-1931)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137069/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":600,"soldPrice":1100,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.307Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac600 - \u20ac900","currency":"EUR","id":137069,"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":600,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137070/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137070/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137070/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"marconi guglielmo: (1874-1937) italian inventor & electrical engineer, nobel prize winner for physics, 1909. marconi is credited as being the inventor of the radio. d.s., \n mr. marconi , in the third person, three pages (separate leaves), 8vo, n.p., n.d. the printed document is a galley proof of an english newspaper article entitled \n a day of my life - mr. marconi of \"wireless\" celebrity, with several ink corrections in marconi´s hand, including altering the title of \n signor guglielmo marconi to \n commendatore guglielmo marconi . the article, seemingly published in \n household words , discusses marconi´s daily work, particularly in connection with wireless telegraphy, and also includes an anecdote relating to autographs, explaining that when he was employed as the italian ´electrical attache´ to london he was paid by cheque at the rate of three shillings a day, the journalist enquiring what happened to the cheques, and marconi elucidating \n ´i had the total amount transferred to the credit of the italian benevolent society in london, and used the cheques as convenient autograph souvenirs (when they were duly endorsed) for distribution among my friends´ . signed by marconi in the third person to the upper left margin of the first page, \n ´proof returned with mr. marconi´s compliments´ . some light overall age wear and a few minor tears to the edges, g"},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"1476","title":{"es":"marconi guglielmo: (1874-1937)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137070/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":600,"soldPrice":600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.308Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac600 - \u20ac800","currency":"EUR","id":137070,"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137071/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"freud sigmund: (1856-1939) austrian neurologist, the founder of psychoanalysis. a very fine vintage signed sepia 9 x 12 photograph of freud, the engaging image showing the psychoanalyst in a pensive semi-profile head and shoulders pose, wearing his spectacles. signed ( ´sigm. freud´ ) in dark fountain pen ink to the lower photographer´s mount, immediately beneath the image, and dated 1936 in his hand. attractively and professionally matted in two pale shades of brown, complementing the sepia tone of freud´s image and framed and glazed in a dark brown wooden frame to an overall size of 15.5 x 18. a striking and highly desirable signed portrait. some very light, extremely minor foxing to the mount, vg \n provenance: the present photograph was gifted by anna freud (1895-1982), the sixth and youngest child of sigmund freud, to the american psychiatrist joseph j. michaels (1902-1966). michaels served as president of the boston psychoanalytic society and institute, inc. from 1958-61, as an instructor in psychiatry at harvard medical school, and as a visiting psychiatrist at the beth israel hospital in boston, massachusetts. his specialist and extensive research centred on the causes of delinquency and impulse character disorders. from 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22nd january 1937, to doctor benjamin mendelsohn, in german. freud writes in response to an enquiry from mendelsohn in which he had sought freud´s advice regarding the case of a hunchbacked teacher accused of homosexual acts against two of his pupils, freud explaining that he will answer ´as well as this is possible from a distance´ and continuing to offer his thoughts in five numbered paragraphs (translated) ´i) curvature of the spine: a) significant for sexual abstinence in so far as the deformity will deter his courage to woo and will minimise his chances with women. b) as for homosexuality: no direct effect except, possibly, where a disposition to disease is present. ii) even though it is obvious that the psychological disorder is a direct result of a neglected structural defect of a person, it is questionable how much suffering could have been prevented by an early treatment. iii) ascending alcoholism - no proven effect as far as homosexuality is concerned. iv) the tender bonding between mother and child is a regularly-found and characteristic trait in the most common types of homosexuality. v) it is entirely possible that young people with sufficient talent and strong character development can achieve normal social behaviour and adequate accomplishments despite adverse conditions and functional defects, as manifested in this case. a well-known example is the philosopher of the 18th century, moses mendelsohn (sic) whose name is also yours´ . accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by freud. together with a t.l.s., prof l lattes , by the italian scientist leon lattes, one page, large 4to, pavia, 25th january 1937, also to benjamin mendelsohn, on the printed stationery of the institute of forensic medicine at the university of pavia, in french. latte responds to the same questions mendelsohn had posed to freud, also answering in five numbered paragraphs, in part, (translated) ´i. it is evident that a serious deformity of the spinal column may, in the case of individuals of timid temperament, cause a condition of apprehensive fear with regard to sexual relations, consequently inhibiting all attempts at amorous advances, even toward a prostitute. ii. the sexual life having been thus warped at the time of puberty, there may result a psycho-sexual deviation toward platonic homosexuality. but i could not, from the strictly medical-legal point of view, attribute this as being caused by the spinal deformity; since the constitutional predisposition and the psychogenic development influenced by stimulations of the environment predominate in such a rigid manner, it is not legally justifiable to consider the deformity as other than an occasional condition that may be favourable to, but not causative of the psychopathic deviation......iii. the question of the influence of a background of alcoholism is one that is very much discussed from the scientific point of view. it is generally admitted that it may figure among the causes of psycho-pathological predispositions, when considered in general, but certainly not in any specific manner a cause of sexual inversion. iv. i do not have a thorough grounding in psycho-analysis; it seems to me however, that the well known oedipus complex of freud, which forms a part of the normal hetrosexual psychology, is in perfect conformity with a pronounced attachment to the mother; in other words, i do not see here any indication of homosexual tendencies. v. as for your last request, i find it quite vague. everyone has known individuals who have succeeded, under difficult circumstances, in repressing their bad tendencies, especially if they have found support and effective assistance; others, on the contrary, with a naturally weak will, who have not had the corrective influence of a good and steadying education, become the victims of their passions, even if they are highly abnormal. but alas! many men have been able to resist their temptations, yet on a given occasion, as a result of momentary weakness or an unusual convergence of circumstances, they have yielded, in contradiction to their past behaviours of honour and rectitude. it must be said, as did jesus : let him who is without sin cast the first stone´ . a remarkable pair of letters for their discussion of homosexuality in relation to human deformity, freud´s letter particularly desirable and not least for his reference to his classical psychoanalytic theory, the oedipus complex, first introduced in 1910. each of the letters with two file holes to the left edges and some light age wear, minor creasing and a few small tears to the edges, the latter more noticeable in the letter of lattes. both letters, and freud´s envelope, are lightly hinged at the left edges and professionally bound together within a handsome hardcover presentation folder with grey cloth boards, a gilt stamped leather panel to the front, and a frontispiece illustration of freud. contained within a handsome clamshell box of quarter leather and attractive marbled boards and also with a gilt stamped leather panel to the lid. g to about vg, 2 \n benjamin mendelsohn (1900-1998) romanian-born israeli criminologist, considered one of the two fathers of the study of victimology in criminal law.  \n leone lattes (1887-1954) italian scientist and physicist with an interest in criminal anthropology. lattes invented the idea of forensic paternity (the identification of a corpse based on blood from relatives).  \n moses mendelssohn (1729-1786) german-jewish philosopher and theologian who developed curvature of the spine in his boyhood."},"estimateMax":80000,"lotNumber":"1478","title":{"es":"freud sigmund: (1856-1939) freud on 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howard: (1874-1939) english archaeologist and egyptologist, discovered the tomb of tutankhamun in 1923. an excellent group of three typescript manuscripts, unsigned, by howard carter, with many annotations, additions and corrections in his hand, being the text for three lectures (two on the discovery of tutankhamun's tomb and a third on the subject of colour), forty-eight pages (total), small 4to, n.p. (london?), n.d. (c.1924, 1930 & 1934). the first typescript manuscript commences ' we had almost given up in dispair (sic), and would have done, were it not for the fact that in nearing the tomb of ramses vi (sic) we found a very intriguing buried heap of flint boulders which suggested the proximity of a tomb. why had they been placed there?......they were of a kind usually selected by the ancient egyptians for filling in the entrance of a tomb, but there was nothing of the kind underneath them......in october, 1922, i returned to luxor to make this final effort.....i set my egyptian staff to work, about 120 men and boys in all.....when in four days we made the discovery which surpassed our wildest hopes. how well i remember that fourth day. i arrived early in the morning on the scene of the action......the work of clearing continued feverishly throughout the rest of the day......then, with ill-suppressed excitement, i watched the descending steps, one by one, as they were revealed, our work progressed, and at the level of the twelfth step there was disclosed the upper part of a doorway, blocked, plastered and sealed. it was a thrilling moment for an excavator, alone, save for his native workmen, after years of unproductive labour, on the threshold of what might prove to be a magnificent discovery. amything, literally anything, might lie beyond that sealed door and it needed all my self control to keep from breaking down the blocking of that doorway, and investigating then and there......i sent a runner into luxor with a cable telling lord carnarvon, then in london, the good news. little knowing that had i gone a few centimetres deeper in that excavation, the name of tut.ankh.amen upon the seals of that doorway would have told me the secret - that almost ephemeral king, tut.ankh.amen......had made his grave in the valley of the tombs of the kings' and continues 'the decisive moment had arrived. with almost trembling hands i made a tiny breech in the upper left hand corner.....a lighted candle was then applied, the ever necessary test and precaution against possible foul gasses, and then, widening the hole a little, i inserted the candle and peered in.......gradually ones eyes became accustomed to the dim light, details of the room within emerged slowly, strange animals, statues and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. for the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to others standing by - i was amazed, when lord carnarvon, unable to stand the suspense any longer, inquired anxiously, \"can you see anything?\" it was [all] i could do to answer, \"yes, wonderful things\"' . the second typescript manuscript is entitled the royal burial and innermost treasury and dated may 1930, and states, in part, ' our work in the antechamber was finished.....we were ready at last to penetrate the mystery of the sealed door.....when a hole sufficiently large was made to see in, an astonishing sight was revealed, for there, within a metre of the doorway, stretching as far as one could see, and blocking the entrance of the chamber, stood what to all appearances was a wall of gold. we were at the entrance of the actual burial chamber of the king, and that which barred our way was the side of an immense gilt shrine, built to cover and protect the sarcophagus......before us, was one of the great golden shrines beneath which kings of egypt were laid.......a surprise awaited us, for an open door, leading eastwards from the burial chamber, led to yet another chamber......this proved to be the innermost treasury. from where we stood, a glance sufficed to tell us that there within this small chamber lay perhaps the greatest treasures of the tomb' . interspersed between the text of both manuscripts are a number of pages detailing the slides which carter used to illustrate his lectures, including images of the valley of the tombs of the kings, the excavations, the discovery of the tomb, the more important objects found in the antechamber (including a painting of a hunting scene, carter noting in his own hand that 'such scenes are naturally the works of a court painter - doing homage to the young monarch. for such a slender youth, un-armed, save for the bow and arrow, to attack a group of fierce lions & lionesses, is hardly tenable' ), the coffins, the raising of the lid of the sarcophagus, and much more. the final, third typescript manuscript is for a lecture entitled colour which carter delivered at the victoria and albert museum on 17th october 1934 and commences 'the normal visual apparatus of the eye enables us to distinguish not only differences of form of objects looked upon, but difference in character of the light received from them, which we name colour. form is intellectual; colour emotional. colour is the property of form, that is to say, only decorative. colour does not define an object, but it instils a sensation and a feeling. thus, in art and ornamental design, form is perhaps more important than colour, but excellence in both is the most important' and continues with a fascinating discussion of colour from artistic and scientific perspectives, also making a reference to the valley of the kings, and quoting sir joshua reynolds. the manuscripts are contained together within a limp bound ring leaf binder and a few of the pages are loose. a wonderful series of manuscript lectures, particularly for their first-hand accounts of the most famous discovery in the history of egyptology. some light staining and minor age wear, otherwise generally vg \n in 1924 howard carter made a tour of great britain, france, spain and the united states of america, delivering a series of illustrated lectures on the excavation of tutankhamun's tomb. in new york and other american cities carter's meetings were attended by large and enthusiastic audiences, sparking american egyptomania, and president calvin coolidge requested a private lecture."},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1479","title":{"es":"carter howard: (1874-1939) 'it was a thrilling moment........on the threshold of what might prove to be a magnificent discovery'"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137073/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.312Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac3,500","currency":"EUR","id":137073,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":600,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137074/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"doyle arthur conan: (1859-1930) scottish author, creator of sherlock holmes. an interesting a.l.s., arthur conan dayle , one page, 8vo, windlesham, crowborough. sussex, 22nd december n.y. (1925), to the editor of the daily express ( ´sir ´). doyle´s letter is headed spirit messages and he writes, in full, ´every experienced spiritualist agrees with colonel peacocke in what he writes on this subject. no message should be accepted unless it satisfies the judgement and reason of the recipient. this is what saint paul meant when he said that the spiritual gifts of the prophets should be subject to the prophets. as death causes no change in the individual it stands to reason that the average spirit is very little more lofty than the average human. it is only when we are privileged to get in contact with those who are the older souls that we get high teaching and inspiration´ . a letter of good content demonstrating doyle´s strong interest in spiritualism. some very light, minor age wear, vg \n the present letter was published in full in the daily express of 24th december 1925.  \n colonel peacocke is known to have given a lecture entitled the fundamentals of the universe to the british college of psychic science in 1924, at which time peacocke was described as ´a careful thinker, and a clear teacher´.  \n doyle´s longstanding interest in spiriualism, mythical subjects and the idea of paranormal phenomena is well documented, and in 1926 his two-volume work the history of spiritualism was published."},"estimateMax":800,"lotNumber":"1480","title":{"es":"doyle arthur conan: (1859-1930)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137074/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":600,"soldPrice":2600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.314Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac600 - \u20ac800","currency":"EUR","id":137074,"estimateMin":600},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137075/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137075/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137075/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"lawrence d.h.: (1885-1930) english writer. an excellent a.l.s., d. h. lawrence , two pages, 8vo, hotel beau rivage, bandol, france, 29th december 1928, to g. r. g. conway. lawrence commences his letter stating ´i am most distressed to learn that your copies of lady chatterley´s lover have not turned up´, explaining that they were sent by registered post a longtime ago ( ´and surely the mexican govt. would not confiscate them, as the u.s.a. customs do! ) and adding that conway must obtain others, if any remain, ´orioli has very few, i know - they may all be ordered. but one at least i´ll rescue for you. but we must find out what became of the others. the book is selling at $50 in u.s.a. - and anything over £5 here in europe - so you see it is quite a loss´  . lawrence continues his letter by thanking conway for their christmas card ( ´how pretty it is!´ ) and a book, and also writes of future travel plans and his health, ´we have given up the villa miranda, and are at a bit of a loose end, wondering where to go & where to live next. i think in about a fortnight we shall go to spain, and try that. but we might go to new mexico for the summer, so if ever you are passing, make sure first if we are there and do stop & see us if we are- i was ill last year but am much better now & getting to be myself again´ . lawrence returns to the subject of his book, ´some people were much scandalised by lady c , but many took it in the right spirit, and remain staunch to me. i do hope you´ll get your copies, & will read it & not be shocked. mrs. conway too. we have lived too long to be shocked by words any more´ . lawrence concludes by asking how conway and his wife are, remarking ´i think of you often, and quake sometimes for you, seeing the mexican news. but you´ll go on for ever, i feel, running those trams & deciphering spanis ms´ . accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by lawrence. autograph letters by lawrence referring to one of his most famous, and controversial, works,  lady chatterley's lover , are rare and desirable . one extremely minor, light paperclip rust stain to the upper left corner, vg  \n  giuseppe 'pino' orioli (1884-1942) florentine bookseller, best known for privately publishing the unexpurgated first edition of  lady chatterley's lover  , of which around 1000 copies were released in july 1928.  \n george robert graham conway and his wife, anne elizabeth, were among d.h. lawrence's english friends. they met the writer in new mexico in 1925. conway, an engineer specialising in the rail transport industry, was a great collector of documents relating to spanish colonisation in america."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1481","title":{"es":"lawrence d.h.: (1885-1930) on lady chatterley´´´ s lover - ´ we have lived too long to be shocked by words any more´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137075/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":4600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.071Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137075,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137076/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137076/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137076/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"mayakovsky vladimir: (1893-1930) russian poet, playwright and artist. during the pre-revolution period mayakovsky became renowned as a prominent figure of the russian futurist movement. though mayakovsky's work demonstrated ideological support for the bolsheviks and a strong admiration of lenin, his relationship with the soviet state was often tumultuous, finding himself engaged in confrontation with the increasing involvement of the soviet state in cultural censorship. mayakovsky commited suicide at the early age of 36, his funeral was attended by around 150,000 persons, the third largest event of public mourning in soviet history, surpassed only by those of lenin and stalin. rare autograph statement signed ` vl. mayakovsky´, one page, 4to, prague, 21st april 1927, in cyrillic. mayakovsky states ` i do not waste words on the slavic brotherhood - the brotherhood of workers and no other! ´. vg \n provenance: from an album which was previously part of a private autograph collection formed by an antiquarian bookseller in prague during the 1960s."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"1482","title":{"es":"mayakovsky vladimir: (1893-1930) rare autograph statement \"the brotherhood of workers and no other!´\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137076/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1000,"soldPrice":2800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.073Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac1,500","currency":"EUR","id":137076,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":6000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137077/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137077/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"garcia lorca federico: (1898-1936) spanish poet & dramatist. an iconic figure of the spanish literature. an extremely rare and excellent autograph poem signed ` federico garcia lorca ´, one page, 4to, madrid, n.d., 1933, to julio casal, in spanish. garcia lorca pens a 15 verses poem which he entitles la raiz amarga (\"the bitter root\"), stating in part ` hay una raiz amarga - y un mundo de mil ventanas - ni la mano mas pequeña - quiebra la puerta del agua... duele en la planta del pie - el interior de la cara - y duele en el tronco fresco - de noche recien cortada - amor! enemigo mio - muerde tu raiz amarga!´ with pencil annotations to the verso. few small repairs to the verso. overall age wear and heavy creasing. f -  \n the present poem was published under the title gacela de la raiz amarga, (1936),  adding a word to the title written on the present manuscript poem. there is also one word changed to the second verse compared with the final version published, saying \"ventanas\" instead of \"terrazas\". \n  \n autographs of the spanish poet are extremely rare in any form following his murder, at the age of 38, by fascist forces during the spanish civil war. his remains have never been found."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"1483","title":{"es":"garcia lorca federico: (1898-1936) an extremely rare autograph poem by lorca"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137077/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":6000,"soldPrice":6000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.075Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac6,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":137077,"estimateMin":6000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137078/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137078/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"puccini giacomo: (1858-1924) italian composer. a very interesting content a.l.s., ` g. puccini ´, two pages, 4to, on his personal printed stationery, bearing the printed heading ''torre del lago - toscana'', 28th november 1919, to sybyl seligman, in italian. a boldly black ink autograph letter by puccini, referring to automobiles first and further expressing his feelings, and announcing his new opera project, related to china, the one that would be his last and unfinished opera turandot. puccini starts explaining that he was absent, hunting, and that he has only now received her telegramme, stating in part ` cara sybil, fui assento.. a caccia - qui trovo vostro telegr. non posso consigliarvi l´automobile come il mio perché la carrozzeria e una vera porcheria - internamente e bella ma la vernice di fuori si staca tutta - in somma non e consigliabile. ...´ (translation: \" dear sybyl, i was away... i was hunting - i find here your telegramme. i cannot recommend to you a car like mine because the bodywork is a real piece of junk - inside it is beautiful but the paint on the outside is all peeling off - in short, it is not advisable...\") puccini further refers to the horrible weather, saying `e il tempo? qui orribile da piu d´un mese salvo qualche oasi di sole ma raramente´ (translation: '' and the weather? it's been horrible here for over a month except for a few oases of sunshine but rarely... '') further again, puccini refers to his new idea about an opera based in china and seeks for his correspondent´s opinion, stating `ho idea di fare un progetto chinese. che me dite? datemi notizie della mia bella londra!.. il mio miglior periodo del dopo guerra...´ (translation: '' i have an idea to do a project work related to china. what do you say? tell me about my beautiful london!.. my best post-war period...\u2026 '') before concluding puccini refers to the huge increase of prices and wonders what will happen in future, concluding with a statement `che mondo cambiato!´ (translation: \" the world has changed!\") after having premiered il trittico almost a year earlier, in december 1918, puccini started his longest empty composing period until his posthumous and unfinished opera turandot which would be premiered after his death and which first seeds appear in this letter as an idea, a future project. g to vg \n sybyl seligman (1868-1936) a close friend to puccini with whom he began a romance that became a friendship for the rest of his life."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"1484","title":{"es":"puccini giacomo: (1858-1924) puccini´ s first thought on turandot \"i have an idea to do a project work related to china\"."},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137078/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1000,"soldPrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.076Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac1,500","currency":"EUR","id":137078,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":18000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137079/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137079/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"modigliani amedeo: (1884-1920) italian painter and sculptor. a fine original graphite drawing signed by modigliani, one page, oblong folio (approximately 42.5 x 26.5 cm), n.p. (paris), n.d (c.1913). the attractive drawing is executed on a page which appears to have been neatly removed from a sktechbook and depicts a human figure, either a woman or child, sleeping peacefully and with their head turned towards the observer. signed ( ´modigliani´ ) by the artist in pencil to the lower right corner and inscribed in his hand to the verso, ´a madame hastings´ . a rare original signed drawing with an excellent association. glazed to both sides. vg \n the present drawing is an enchanting example of one of modigliani´s sketches from his cariatide series and illustrates the complex working process that lay behind each of the artist\u2019s three-dimensional projects in stone. creating countless drawings and sketches before ever taking his hammer to a block, studies such as the present example offered modigliani a forum in which to experiment and visualise his ideas before translating them into sculptural form. in its fusion of these two strands, sculpture and drawing, the cariatide series represents an intriguing crossover work, straddling the intersection between modigliani\u2019s two principal creative impulses.  \n from 1910 to 1913, he dedicated himself to sculpture, of which only twenty-five examples have survived. with the high cost of limestone, the material was precious and thus drawing became integral to his process, with the walls of his studio punctuated with the architectural studies of heads. modigliani\u2019s unreliable income also required him to move frequently from one studio to another and each time the drawings would be rehung. as a draughtsman, modigliani focused on a narrow range of themes including idol-like heads and his intense preoccupation with sculptural form was the dominant force in his work. he became obsessed with the caryatid both as a sensual figure and as a functional architectural element.  \n during his early years in paris, modigliani worked at a furious pace. he was constantly sketching, making as many as a hundred drawings a day. however, many of his works were lost\u2014destroyed by him as inferior, left behind in his frequent changes of address, or given to girlfriends who did not keep them.  \n provenance: the present drawing was gifted by the artist to his lover beatrice hastings (1879-1943) english writer, literary critic, poet and theosophist. the two shared an apartment in montparnasse and hastings modelled for fourteen of modigliani´s paintings including seated nude (1916).  hastings was also the friend and lover of both katherine mansfield and wyndham lewis.  \n the drawing was later sold as part of the collection of monsieur f. (auction at hotel drouot, 22nd november 1922, lot 14) and subsequently formed part of the collection of monsieur coste."},"estimateMax":22000,"lotNumber":"1485","title":{"es":"modigliani amedeo: (1884-1920) a rare original drawing signed by modigliani and gifted to his mistress"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137079/view","tags":["esart_drawings","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":18000,"soldPrice":17000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.078Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac18,000 - \u20ac22,000","currency":"EUR","id":137079,"estimateMin":18000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137080/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137080/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"mondrian piet: (1872-1944) dutch painter, a pioneer of 20 th century abstract art. a rare a.l.s., p. mondrian , two pages, 8vo, n.p., 2 nd march 1926, to [felix] del marle, in french. mondrian thanks his correspondent for their letter which he had received that morning, continuing 'j'avais hier fini mon article que j'ai fais apres votre depart, inspire par ce que nous avions cause et surtout par ce que vous et madame m'avaient dit a propos de mon atelier' (translation: 'yesterday i had finished my article which i wrote after your departure, inspired by what we had discussed and especially by what you and madame had told me about my studio' ), asking for his french to be corrected if necessary ( 'ce n'est pas necessaire que ce soit beau francais (au contraire!) mais il faut que ce soit correct' ; translation: 'it doesn't have to be beautiful french (on the contrary!) but it has to be correct' ), forwarding two photographs (no longer present), explaining that one has not been previously published and commenting 'il me semble ce que ce sera tres bien si vous pouriez faire un cliche sur linoleum ou bois; j'ai vu que vous les faites. un pareil grand cliche sur zinc de deviendra egalement trop cher et moins beau' (translation: 'it seems to me that it will be very good if you could make a plate on linoleum or wood; i have seen you do them. such a large plate on zinc will also become too expensive and less beautiful' ) before concluding 'il m'interesserai ce que vous dites de mon article; je crois il peut etre utile au mouvement' (translation: 'i'll be interested in what you say about my article; i believe it can be useful for the movement' ). a letter of good association. vg \n felix del marle (1889-1952) french futurist painter and artistic director of the avant-garde magazine vouloir."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"1486","title":{"es":"mondrian piet: (1872-1944)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137080/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2000,"soldPrice":2300,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.079Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac3,000","currency":"EUR","id":137080,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137081/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137081/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137081/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137081/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"matisse henri: (1869-1954) french artist and renowned painter. a very fine signed twice a.l.s., ` \n h. matisse ´, a large signature, also signed to the envelope, two pages, 4to, lined paper, nice, ` \n monday´, n.d. [30th august 1949], to ` \n monsieur jean darquet \u2013 vence´, in french. matisse, in bold and large writing, states in part ` \n j´ai été deux fois à vence sans vous voir. la première fois vous étiez à la montagne, veinards! et la seconde j´étais si pressé que je n´ai même pas pu\u2026´ (translation \u201d \n i have been to vence twice without seeing you. the first time you were in the mountains, lucky you! and the second time i was in such a hurry that i couldn't even...\") further matisse refers to his works at the chapel of vence, saying ` \n je dois vous apprendre qu´à partir de lundi, dans une semaine il y aura au foyer cordain une petite exposition relative à la chapelle composée de la partie de vitrail que vous avez vue ici, la moquette exécutée par le frère rayssiguier ainsi que 20 dessins relatifs aux graphiques. les personnes qui cherchent à voir la chapelle et ne voient rien m´on fait pitié.´ (translation: \" \n i must inform you that from monday, in a week, there will be at the foyer cordain a small exhibition relating to the chapel composed of the part of the stained glass window that you saw here, the carpet executed by friar rayssiguier as well as 20 drawings relating to the graphics. the people who seek to see the chapel and see nothing have made me feel sorry for them\") before concluding, matisse states ` \n quelle vie qu´on vit!´ (\"what a life we live!\"). with two additional postscriptums. accompanied by the original envelope, addressed in matisse´s hand, signed to the verso as sender with his own address. postmarked and stamped. with a very small tear to the upper edge, to the fold, not affecting the text orsignature, otherwise about vg"},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1487","title":{"es":"matisse henri: (1869-1954) \"the people who seek to see the chapel and see nothing have made me feel sorry for them\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137081/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2300,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.080Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac3,500","currency":"EUR","id":137081,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137082/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137082/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"tagore rabindranath: (1861-1941) bengali poet, nobel prize winner for literature, 1913. a good vintage signed 6 x 8.25 photograph of tagore seated in a three-quarter length pose wearing his familiar jubbah. signed in bengali in bold fountain pen ink to the base of the image and dated 11th october 1926 in his hand. lightly hinged at the upper edge of the verso to an oblong folio page removed from an album. some very light, extremely minimal silvering to the edges of the image, otherwise vg \n provenance: from an album which was previously part of a private autograph collection formed by an antiquarian bookseller in prague during the 1960s."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"1488","title":{"es":"tagore rabindranath: (1861-1941)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137082/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1000,"soldPrice":1100,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.082Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac1,500","currency":"EUR","id":137082,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137083/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137083/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137083/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137083/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"[gandhi mahatma]: (1869-1948) indian political and spiritual leader during the indian independence movement. rolland romain (1866-1944) french dramatist & novelist, nobel prize winner for literature, 1915, and an admirer of both mahatma gandhi and fellow nobel laureate rabindranath tagore. a good a.l.s., romain rolland , three pages, 8vo, n.p. (villeneuve, vaud, switzerland), 30th january 1924, to professor luigi chazai, in french. rolland thanks his correspondent for having sent him some lovely flowers and continues to apologise for not having replied about an article in libera stampa , explaining ´ ou je ne l\u2019ai pas reçu, ou il s\u2019est perdu dans l\u2019amas de papiers que je reçois. je suis parti, fin juillet, pour salzburg, où j\u2019ai passé quelques semaines ; et quand je suis revenu, j\u2019ai été incapable de débrouiller le chaos d\u2019imprimés et d\u2019écritures qui couvraient ma table´ (translation: ´ either i didn't receive it, or it got lost in the pile of papers i receive.  at the end of july i left for salzburg, where i spent a few weeks, and when i came back i was unable to sort out the chaos of printed matter and writing that covered my table´ ), further apologising for not having been as cordial as he should have been on chazai´s last visit, and declaring ´ j\u2019ai livré bien des luttes, dans ma vie. la plus constante a été contre la maladie. heureusement, elle n\u2019a jamais réussi à entraver le travail de mon esprit. mais elle a toujours été l\u2019hôtesse assise à ma table et couchée dans mon lit´ (translation: ´ i have fought many battles in my life.  the most constant has been against illness.  fortunately, it has never managed to hinder the work of my mind.  but it has always been the hostess sitting at my table and lying in my bed´ ). rolland also states that he is sending chazai ´ mon plus récent livre sur mahatma gandhi , cet homme extraordinaire qui soulève la nouvelle asie, \u2013 ce nouveau christ . cet ouvrage pourra vous servir pour les conférences, que je vous remercie de me consacrer. \u2013 il fait rapidement son chemin dans le monde . il est déjà traduit dans l\u2019inde, en plusieurs langues indigènes ; et gorki l\u2019a fait traduire en russe´ (translation: ´ my latest book on mahatma gandhi , that extraordinary man who is raising up the new asia, - this new christ .  this book will be useful to you for the conferences, which i thank you for devoting to me. - it is rapidly making its way around the world .  it has already been translated into indian and several indigenous languages, and gorki has had it translated into russian´ ). accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by rolland and signed (´romain  rolland ´) by him in the return address to the verso. a letter of fine content relating to mahatma gandhi. vg \n rolland´s biography of gandhi, still relevant today, was published in 1924 and contributed to the indian leader´s reputation. the two men would meet some years later, in 1931."},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"1489","title":{"es":"[gandhi mahatma]: (1869-1948) rolland romain (1866-1944) on gandhi - ´ that extraordinary man.......this new christ´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137083/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1000,"soldPrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.083Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac1,200","currency":"EUR","id":137083,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137084/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"[gandhi mahatma]: (1869-1948) indian political and spiritual leader during the indian independence movement. a very fine vintage unsigned 7.75 x 10.75 photograph of gandhi, the original silver gelatin print (image size 6.5 x 8.25\", approximately 16.5 x 21 cm, with crenellated edges) depicting gandhi seated in a full-length pose, wearing his circular spectacles and white loin-cloth, at birla house in new delhi (where gandhi would later spend the final 144 days of his life) in august 1942. gandhi, with his head slightly lowered, appears both concentrated and serene, as he writes, using a fountain pen, on the paper which rests before him on his knees. photograph by kanu gandhi and bearing his small printed label, in hindi, to the lower right of the mount. an exceptional and highly iconic image of gandhi. a couple of light, minor creases to the left corner of the photographer´s mount, vg \n kanu gandhi (1917-1986) indian photographer, a grandnephew of mahatma gandhi who lived with him in several of his ashrams and was a member of his personal staff. gandhi allowed kanu to photograph him on three conditions: that he use no flash, that he never be asked to pose, and that his photography would not be funded by the ashram.  \n kanu gandhi's photographs remained only for private use in very limited editions until they were acquired by peter ruhe, who created the gandhi information centre, wrote his biography and organised several very important exhibitions.  \n the present photograph of gandhi, a highly symbolic image of the pacifist, was captured at birla house, where gandhi was a frequent guest of the owner, g. d. birla. during his final stay, gandhi was at birla house from 9th september 1947 until his assassination in the grounds of the mansion on 30th january 1948."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"1490","title":{"es":"[gandhi mahatma]: (1869-1948)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137084/view","tags":["esart_photography","esart","esart_all"],"directSalePrice":1500,"soldPrice":1300,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:39.084Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":137084,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":4000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137085/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137085/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137085/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"gandhi mahatma: (1869-1948) indian political and spiritual leader during the indian independence movement. an excellent vintage signed 4.75 x 5.75 photograph of gandhi in a head and shoulders pose outdoors, with his familiar white robe draped over his shoulders, looking slightly downwards as he signs autographs on the occasion of his birthday at pune on 2nd october 1944. photograph by kanu gandhi and signed by him in black ink to the verso, also adding copy right in his hand. signed twice by gandhi in blue fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image, firstly in gujarati and a second time ( ´m. k. gandhi´ ) in roman script. lightly hinged at the upper edge of the verso to an oblong folio page removed from an album. an exceptionally fine signed image. vg \n kanu gandhi (1917-1986) indian photographer, a grandnephew of mahatma gandhi who lived with him in several of his ashrams and was a member of his personal staff. gandhi allowed kanu to photograph him on three conditions: that he use no flash, that he never be asked to pose, and that his photography would not be funded by the ashram.  \n a slightly larger example of the same image exists in which three other individuals can be seen, two of them identified as rajkumari amrit kaur and sohoraben (an ashramite).  \n provenance: from an album which was previously part of a private autograph collection formed by an antiquarian bookseller in prague during the 1960s."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1491","title":{"es":"gandhi mahatma: (1869-1948) a wonderful signed photograph of gandhi, captured on his birthday in 1944"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137085/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":7000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.427Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - \u20ac6,000","currency":"EUR","id":137085,"estimateMin":4000},{"startPrice":8000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137086/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137086/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"gandhi mahatma: (1869-1948) indian political and spiritual leader during the indian independence movement. autograph manuscript, unsigned, one page, 8vo, n.p., 24th march 1946. gandhi writes, in full, \n ´going to manselin (about 20). we are soldiers but are all lovers of indian freedom. [b] i am glad to hear that. for so far you have been instrumental in the suppression of that freedom. what did they do in jallianwala bagh? do you know the meaning? have you been there? [s] oh, yes, but those days are past. those people were water frozen in the well. we have seen the world. our eyes are opened. [g] i know this. that is how it should be. [s] what would be our future when we fear indian freedom?´ . gandhi writes his manuscript notes, possibly a transcript of a conversation or preparatory thoughts for a letter, to the verso of a t.l.s. addressed to him ( \n ´dear bapuji´ ) by srinivasan, dated at new delhi on 13th march 1946, regarding the temple for gandhiji and concluding by asking \n ´will you please spare a few minutes to save our hinduism?´ . a manuscript of interesting content relative to india. some very light, minor age wear and with a couple of small pinholes to the upper left corner, otherwise vg"},"estimateMax":12000,"lotNumber":"1492","title":{"es":"gandhi mahatma: (1869-1948) ´ we are soldiers but are all lovers of indian freedom´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137086/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":8000,"soldPrice":7500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.428Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac8,000 - 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spiritual leader during the indian independence movement. a pair of wooden chappals previously belonging to, made and worn by, mahatma gandhi, the sandals of a simple design, measuring approximately 26 cm in length and 10 cm in width (at the longest and widest points) and featuring rounded toe pegs, approximately 4 cm in height, and with wooden re-inforcements to the outsole and heel of the sole. the chappals show signs of wear and retain the distinct impression of gandhi´s toes, heels and the balls of his feet. together with a small piece of white cotton thread originating from a garment gandhi was in the process of creating, contained in the original contemporary folded paper wrapper annotated in the hand of gandhi´s disciple and assistant, franziska standenath, in german, ´ein fadenabfall......den mahatma gandhi im nov 1929 in meinem beisein in seinem ashram gesponnen hat´ (translation: ´a piece of thread......that mahatma gandhi spun in my presence in his ashram in november 1929´ ). further including indira gandhi (1917-1984) indian politician and stateswoman who served as prime minister of india 1966-77, 1980-84. assassinated. t.l.s., indira gandhi , one page, 8vo, new delhi, 9th march 1966, to franziska standenath, on the printed stationery of the prime minister´s house. gandhi writes, in full, ´i am happy to hear from such a devoted friend of my country. thank you for your kind felicitation and good wishes which i value. i myself love bach´s music so was especially interested to learn of the prayer meeting in sabarmati ashram where you played bach for bapuji´ . accompanied by the original envelope bearing the remnants of a wax seal to the verso. a highly unusual grouping of items including the mahatma´s simply designed footwear, emblematic of gandhi, a paragon of ethical living and pacifism. the chappals with some light age wear as is to be expected with items of this nature and with a little splintering and a small area of loss to the heel of the left chappal, otherwise generally vg, 3 \n provenance: the chappals were gifted by gandhi to franziska standenath (1883-1971). standenath, or ´savitri´ as she was named by gandhi, was a scholar of indian politics and history, and the author of indiens freiheitskampf: vier monate gast mahatma gandhis (1931; ´ india's fight for freedom: four months as a guest of mahatma gandhi´ ). the work is an important account of the four months she spent travelling throughout india with gandhi as his personal assistant. gandhi and savitri remained life-long friends and, in her last will and testament standenath recounted the occasion when gandhi removed his chappals and gave them to her as a parting gift (´.....die für mich als abschiedsgeschenk von seinen fuß gestreiften sandalen mahatma gandhis...´).  \n this extraordinary pair of chappals are believed to have been personally made by gandhi, famously a man of few possessions, having learnt woodworking skills from his friend hermann kallenbach in the 1910s. along with his circular spectacles, homespun loin-cloth, and walking staff, gandhi´s sandals have become one of the most powerful and emblematic symbols of his life and vastly influential legacy.  \n not only a utilitarian accessory, the chappals are also the symbol of gandhi´s long marches as a sign of non-violent political protest, including the 24-day salt march of 12th march to 6th april 1930 in which gandhi led over seventy trusted volunteers across more than 380 kilometres in a campaign against the british salt monopoly. also, on 2nd january 1947 (at the age of seventy-seven), gandhi began his march for peace in east bengal on his way to the state of bihar, stopping in every village in an attempt to reconcile hindus and muslims. it would be one of his last significant protests before his assassination the following year."},"estimateMax":80000,"lotNumber":"1493","title":{"es":"gandhi mahatma: (1869-1948) a wonderfully emblematic pair of gandhi´ s chappals, with excellent provenance"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137087/view","tags":["esfashion_shoes","esfashion_all","esfashion"],"directSalePrice":60000,"soldPrice":50000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.430Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac60,000 - \u20ac80,000","currency":"EUR","id":137087,"estimateMin":60000},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137088/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"fleming alexander: (1881-1955) scottish biologist, nobel prize winner for physiology or medicine, 1945. an excellent vintage signed and inscribed 8 x 6.5 photograph of fleming seated in a half-length pose within his laboratory at st. mary´s hospital in paddington, london, surrounded by numerous specimen bottles, petri dishes, a bunsen burner and other microbiology equipment. a calendar hanging on the wall in the backgound dates the photograph to september 1943. signed by fleming in fountain pen ink to a light area at the base of the image, \n ´to my good friend johnson abraham, with kindest regards, alexander fleming´ . a rare and desirable signed image whose discovery of penicillin (which began on a mouldy petri dish in 1928) marked the start of modern antibiotics. a few very light, extremely minor surface and corner creases, vg"},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1494","title":{"es":"fleming alexander: (1881-1955)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137088/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2400,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.431Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac3,500","currency":"EUR","id":137088,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":50000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137089/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137089/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"einstein albert: (1879-1955) german-born theoretical physicist, nobel prize winner for physics, 1921. a very fine, rare autograph manuscript signed, albert einstein , one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. the working manuscript, penned in bold, dark fountain pen ink, features over ten lines of scientific equations and calculations in his hand, with just one line of german text. signed by einstein with his full signature at the foot of the page, adding a line of text in his hand, in german, immediately beneath, 'aus dem friedhofe begrabener hoffnungen' (translation: 'from the graveyard of buried hopes' ). together with elsa einstein (1876-1936) cousin and the second wife of albert einstein, married from 1919-36. t.l.s., elsa einstein , one page, 8vo, bayard lane, princeton, 20 th october 1933, to a lady ( 'chere madame' ), most probably juliette adant, wife of professor arthur de groodt, on the printed stationery of the peacock inn, in french. einstein writes 'c'est avec beaucoup de plaisir que je vous retourne les petits feuilles signes.  mon mari vous remercie pour les aimables lignes que vous lui avez ecris' (translation: 'it is with great pleasure that i return the small, signed sheets to you. my husband thanks you for the kind lines you wrote to him' ) and adds that they have only been in america for a few days, observing 'princeton est une petite universite d'une grande charme en style anglais, une vraie copie d'oxford.  nous sommes encore dans un hotel, mais en peu de temps nous demenageons dans une maison, qui est situee excessivement belle au milieu des grands jardins avec une vue splendide. nous avons loues cette maison pour une demie annee. nous voulons mener ici une vie surtout calme et tres loin de chaque publicite. le professeur ne veut rien que faire son travail scientifique' (translation: 'princeton is a charming little university in the english style, a true copy of oxford.  we are still in a hotel, but in a short time we will move into a house, which is exceedingly beautifully located in the middle of large gardens and with a splendid view. we have rented this house for half a year. we want to lead a mostly calm life here and very far from publicity. the professor wants nothing but to do his scientific work' ), further thanking her correspondent for all of their kindness, and also for offering to keep a trunk and small suitcase in their home until they return next year, 'je vous remercie de tout mon coeur pour cette faveur. la malle contient des choses, qui sont de grande importance pour moi' (translation: 'i thank you with all of my heart for this favour. the trunk contains things which are of great importance to me' ). whilst einstein clearly created many such pages of scientific formulae during his career, they remain highly sought after by collectors, and signed examples are of exceptional rarity. furthermore, the present example is greatly enhanced by both einstein's handwritten observation (reflecting on the possibility of what he wished to have achieved with his calculations) and the fine accompanying letter of provenance from elsa einstein. some very light, minor creasing to the page of calculations and a couple of very small, neat tears to the edges, one only very slightly affecting one small part of an equation. vg, 2 \n juliette de groodt-adant (1892-1964) belgian writer, wife of the flemish doctor arthur de groodt (1883-1952).  \n  \n in march 1933 albert and elsa einstein returned to europe from america and learned that hitler had seized power and that the gestapo had raided their berlin apartment, confiscating many possessions. landing in antwerp, belgium, albert einstein immediately visited the german consulate and surrendered his passport, formally renouncing his german citizenship. at the invitation of arthur de groodt and his wife (who counted rabindranath tagore amongst their friends) albert and elsa einstein stayed for a few days at cantecroy castle before juliette de groodt-adant suggested that they hire two cottages in de haan, the villa savoyarde for the einsteins and the maisonette for themselves. the einstein's stayed in the west flanders municipality for six months before departing for london in september 1933.  \n  \n on 3 rd october 1933, einstein delivered a speech on the importance of academic freedom before a packed audience at the royal albert hall in london. four days later he returned to america with his wife and took up a position at the institute for advanced study, noted for having become a refuge for scientists fleeing nazi germany. einstein's association with the institute at princeton university would last until his death in 1955."},"estimateMax":60000,"lotNumber":"1495","title":{"es":"einstein albert"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137089/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":50000,"soldPrice":40000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.433Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac50,000 - \u20ac60,000","currency":"EUR","id":137089,"estimateMin":50000},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137090/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"churchill winston s.: (1874-1965) british prime minister 1940-45, 1951-55. nobel prize winner for literature, 1953. a remarkable world war ii date t.l.s., winston s. churchill , with holograph salutation and subscription, one page, 4to, 10 downing street, whitehall, 17th april 1943, to a. p. herbert ( ´my dear a. p.´ ), on the printed stationery of the prime minister. churchill writes in a forthright manner to defend general montgomery, in full, ´i must say that i think \"punch\", in the cartoon this week, pays the eighth army a very back-handed compliment by representing it as a squirming little ferret. considering that the intention was to do them honour, the shot was a very poor one. nor is the proportion of montgomery and his army that between a man and a ferret, and he would be the first to resent it. as a constant reader of \"punch\" over so many years, i think i must tell you that this is the biggest flop since the cartoon of john bull waking from his wartime nightmare on the very day the germans marched on prague. i am sure your colleagues will welcome criticism from their readers´ . a letter of extraordinary content. some very light, extremely minor age wear, vg \n a. p. herbert (1890-1971) english humorist, novelist, playwright and politician who was a regular contributor to punch from 1910 and, from 1924, a member of the editorial staff.  \n punch magazine was well known for its satirical cartoons. the caricature churchill refers to in the present letter was entitled the desert ferret and can be viewed on the british magazine´s website. drawn by the english illustrator bernard partridge, the image shows british general bernard law montgomery, commander of the eighth army in the north africa campaign, placing a ferret labeled \"8th army\" over a hole he has just dug in the ground.  \n one of the most decisive battles of world war ii, the second battle at el alamein, was fought between the british eighth army and the german afrika korps in the hot egyptian desert from october to november of 1942. though the casualties numbered in the tens of thousands, the battle served as a turning point of the war in north africa. montgomery was lauded for his leadership and, in 1950, churchill wrote in his memoirs ´it may almost be said, before alamein we never had a victory. after alamein we never had a defeat´ 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latter stages of world war ii. a rare world war ii date d.s., with his initial r , as was his custom, one page, folio (unfolded), budapest, 30th august 1944. the partially printed document (in the blue and yellow of sweden´s national colours) is completed in typescript and is a schutz-pass (a protective pass which also served, despite not being legal, as a swedish passport) numbered 49/83 and issued to aurel fold, providing details of his date of birth (6th october 1877), eye and hair colour, and height, and with his affixed identification photograph bearing the oval ink stamp of the royal swedish legation and signed beneath by fold. the printed text of the document is in both german and hungarian and states, in part, (translated) ´the royal swedish legation in budapest confirms that the above-named person will travel to sweden as part of the repatriation authorised by the royal swedish ministry of foreign affairs. the person concerned is also included in a collective passport. until departure, the above-named person and his apartment are under the protection of the royal swedish legation in budapest´ and also confirming the the pass is valid until fourteen days after the subject´s entry into sweden. countersigned at the foot by the swedish diplomat and ambassador carl ivan danielsson (1880-1963) in his capacity as head of the royal swedish legation and alongside a second oval ink stamp. a highly emotive document, of incalculable value to the jewish bearer who, without this protrective pass, would have otherwise been destined to an unimaginable fate; the nazi´s at this time were dispatching more than 10,000 hungarian jews to auschwitz on a daily basis. some light overall age wear and minor staining to the edges and, as is the usual case with such documents, there is some light wear to the original central vertical and horizontal folds which have been neatly and professionally strengthened to the verso. g \n wallenberg arrived in hungary in july 1944 when only 230,000 jews remained in the country. the diplomat quickly set about distributing the schutz-passes which he had devised, signing them quickly and by the dozen. although not legal, the ´protective passports´ looked official and, identifying the subjects as swedish subjects awaiting repatriation, they were readily accepted by the german and hungarian authorities. significantly, and for the holder´s added security, wallenberg and the swedish legation in budapest also succeeded in negotiating with the german authorities so that the bearers would be exempt from having to wear the yellow star required for jews. despite wallenberg issuing many such passes, very few survive today."},"estimateMax":5000,"lotNumber":"1497","title":{"es":"wallenberg raoul: 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corbusier:   (1887-1965) charles-edouard jeanneret. swiss-french architect, designer and urban planner, a pioneer of modern architecture. an exceptional typescript ms, le corbusier , ten pages (separate leaves, typed to the rectos only), 4to, paris, 1st march 1938 (although the place and date struck through in ink by le corbusier), in french. the working manuscript, with many holograph corrections, is titled un homme chez lui ( 'a man at home' ) and states, in part, 'c'est ici que la notion de liberte prend toute sa force. au sein de cette organisation saine de la vie des hommes reunis en societe: \"la ville radieuse\", commandee par une discipline acceptee avec joie, la cellule d'habitation s'ouvre derriere une porte de logis. et ici, la clef tournee, un homme est chez lui. il est entre. que fera-t-il? ce qu'il voudra! ce qu'il pourra.......et il sera maitre de son destin, un un sens limite, bien entendu: celui de la libre expression de son imagination. et nous trouverons alors, au pied du mur , ce terrible \"francais individualiste\" dont les mechantes langues et les decides-a-rien-faire levent les fantomes innombrables a chacune de nos propisitions. j'avais mis en exergue a mon rapport sur l'urbanisation de la ville de moscou, en 1930, ceci: je place comme pierre angulaire de toute urbanisation moderne le respect sacrede la liberte individuelle . on m'en avait voulu. mais qu'importe!.......cette gageure qui fut proposee dans \"urbanisme\" en 1924 elle a ete meme: \"la ville radieuse\". il existe desormais une doctrine d'equipement des villes dont la clef de voute est: soleil, espace, verdure , en chaque logis. en chaque logis! voici donc ce que la societe moderne peut apporter a chacun de ses membres, par l'enterprise des grands travaux de readaptation des villes aux besoins d'une conscience nouvelle.......une telle transformation dans la coupe du logis est une veritable revolution architecturale. le logis devient une petite maison. et que m'importe que ces petites maisons soient a dix, rangees les unes au-dessus des autres et qu'elles s'alignent innombrablement au long d'une \"rue interienne\": l'homme est entre chez lui, il a ferme la porte. il a recu le choc de set amenagement architectural: grand et puis intime, et tout ce soleil, cet espace et ces verdures que cette reforme a precisement permis de capter. je dis que cet homme desormais n'est plus jamais le chien battu qui hante les \"boites locatives\" de nos villes......cet homme chez lui a perdu le souvenir des lourdes tribulations que lui et sa famille ont vecu depuis toujours. riche ou miserable, c'etait l'absence pour tous des \"joies essentielles\". les \"joies essentielles\" sont apportees a la societe moderne par les techniques modernes, l'invitation urbanistique et la poesie de l'architecture. ceci n'est pas d'utopie. depuis 20 ans, des travaux limites ont ete accomplis, fixant les etapes constructives. chez nous et ailleurs, par nous et par d'autres. il existe deja des fragments - des jalons, des preuves - de \"ville radieuse\"......' (translation: '     this is where the notion of freedom comes into its own. within this healthy organisation of the life of men gathered in society: \"la ville radieuse\" (the radiant city) , governed by a discipline accepted with joy, the living cell opens behind a door of dwelling. and here, with the key turned, a man is at home. he has entered. what will he do? whatever he wants ! whatever he can.......and he will be master of his destiny, in a limited sense, of course: that of the free expression of his imagination. and then we'll have that terrible 'individualistic frenchman' at our heels , whose nasty tongues and decide to do nothing raise countless ghosts at every one of our proprieties. in my report on the urbanisation of the city of moscow in 1930, i wrote the following: i place as the cornerstone of all modern urban development the sacred respect for individual freedom . people were angry with me. but never mind!.......this challenge, which was proposed in \"urbanisme\" in 1924, was even called \"la ville radieuse\" . there is now a doctrine for equipping towns and cities, the key to which is sun, space and greenery in every home. in every home! here, then, is what modern society can bring to each and every one of its members, by undertaking the great work of readapting cities to the needs of a new consciousness......such a transformation in the cross-section of the dwelling is a real architectural revolution. the dwelling becomes a small house. and it doesn't matter to me that there are ten of these little houses, arranged one above the other and lined up innumerably along an \"internal street\": the man has entered his home, he has closed the door. he received the shock of the architectural layout: large and then intimate, and all the sun, space and greenery that this reform made it possible to capture. i'm saying that this man will never again be the beaten dog that haunts the 'rental boxes' of our cities.......this man at home has lost all memory of the heavy tribulations that he and his family have always endured. rich or miserable, it was the absence for all of the \"essential joys\". these \"essential joys\" are brought to modern society by modern technology, inviting urban planning and poetic architecture. this is not utopia. over the last 20 years, a great deal of work has been done to define the constructive stages. here and elsewhere, by us and by others. there are already fragments - milestones, proof - of the \"la ville radieuse\"......' ). a rare manuscript of excellent content. a few minor tears and light creasing to the edges of some pages and the final page with a small area of paper loss to the lower left corner. g  \n ville radieuse (the radiant city) was an unrealised urban design project designed by le corbusier in 1930. it constitutes one of the most influential and controversial urban design doctrines of european modernism.  \n  le corbusier's essay  un homme chez lui was published in les plans de paris 1956-1922 in 1956."},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1498","title":{"es":"le corbusier: (1887-1965) 'i place as the cornerstone of all modern urban development the sacred respect for individual freedom'"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137092/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.437Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac3,500","currency":"EUR","id":137092,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":5000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/005/005.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/006/006.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/007/007.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/008/008.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/009/009.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/010/010.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/011/011.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/012/012.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137093/013/013.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"rivera diego: (1886-1957) mexican painter. a significant autograph manuscript signed, diego rivera , thirteen pages (separate leaves, written to the rectos only), 4to, n.p., n.d. (annotated april 1933 in pencil in another hand at the head of the first page), in french. the untitled manuscript relates to one of the artist´s most famous works, the detroit industry murals (1932-33) and states, in part, ´comme programme pour la decoration du jardin couvert cour centrale du musee de l´instiut d´art de detroit, j´ai choisie comme theme l´expression plastique du mouvement oudulant qui se trouve dans les courants d´eau, les ordes electriques les stratifications des differentes couches du sol de la terre et en general dans le developement continuel de la vie.......le musee d´art d´une ville, et specialement dans le cas de l´institut d´art de la ville de detroit est on doit etre, la cellule centrale pour le developpement de la culture esthetique de la communaute, pour cela, dans le developement de mon travail je fus ammene a preciser de plus en plus la centralisation de l´ensemble des fresques dans l´expression du germe, peinte sur le mur central face a la porte principale d´acces a la cour. le germe, un enfant, non un embryon contenu dans l´interieur de l´oignon qui s´enracine dans la terre vegetale acumulee dans la conque d´un ancien lac. sur des lits de sable couches d´eau et sel et gisements de fer, charbon et pierre de chaux. realite geologique du sol de michigan et raison primondiale de l´existance de la vie de detroit......en dessous de ce panneau et des deux cotes de la porte d´entree, est peinte la representation du generateur de vapeur et son ouvrier mecanicien, et du generateur d´electricite et son ingenieur, la force ouviere et la force creatrice de l´imagination et la connaissance. combustion, expansion, energie positive et negative, mort pour creer de la vie, vie qui amene la mort, mouvement rithmique en onder continues. tout en haut, l´aviation, a gauche les contructeurs d´aeroplanes usant de la rondage autogine electrique correspondant a ca un petit panneau du frise montre les tourne-soleils analogues en forme aux moteurs d´avion.......l´effort createur merveilleux des ouviers de toutes les races du monde qu´integrent la population industrielle de detroit, et qui son expression du caracter international et universel du continent americain, et des etats unis aussi, circonstance qui est la plus grande force de l´amerique dans la profondeur de l´avenir historique.......la pierre de chaux est analogisee avec la race blanche et le sable a la jaune par des semblables raisons que le fer a l´indienne et le charbon a la noire.......la \"predella\" en grisaille contient une serie de petits panneaux qui montrent des operations fabriles complementaires au long d´une journee de travail a gauche les travailleur entrant a l´usine au matin marquant le temps a droite ils sortent du travail, a cette angle a l´extreme de la grande composition ont ete peints les portraits du docteur william valentiner que par sa volonte pleine de sympathie et bonte pour l´auteur des peintures etant directeur du musee, fit possible la commande et de monsieur edsel b. ford qui par la liberalite de son criterium, par son donatif, et des grandes facilites qu´il donnat pour le travail fit possible l´execution des fresques, dont il fit don a la ville de detroit´ . (translation: ´as a programme for the decoration of the covered garden in the central courtyard of the detroit art institute museum, i have chosen as my theme the plastic expression of the undulating movement found in the currents of water, the electrical orders, the stratifications of the different layers of the earth's soil and, in general, in the continuous development of life.......a city's art museum, and especially in the case of the detroit art institute, is, or should be, the central unit for the development of the community's aesthetic culture. for this reason, in the development of my work, i was led to specify more and more the centralisation of all the frescoes in the expression of the seed, painted on the central wall opposite the main door leading to the courtyard. the seed, a child, not an embryo contained within the interior of the onion which takes root in the vegetable earth accumulated in the conch of an ancient lake. on beds of sand, layers of water and salt and deposits of iron, coal and limestone. the geological reality of michigan's soil and the primordial reason for detroit's existence......below this panel, on both sides of the entrance door, is painted a representation of the steam generator and its mechanic, and the electricity generator and its engineer, the working and creative forces of imagination and knowledge. combustion, expansion, positive and negative energy, death to create life, life that brings death, rhythmic movement in continuous waves. at the very top, aviation, on the left the aeroplane builders using the electric auto generator corresponding to this a small panel of the frieze shows the sun turners analogous in shape to the aeroplane engines.......the marvellous creative effort of the workers of all the races of the world who make up the industrial population of detroit, and which is an expression of the international and universal character of the american continent, and of the united states too, a circumstance which is america's greatest strength in the depths of the historical future....... limestone is analogous to the white race and sand to the yellow for similar reasons as iron to the indian and coal to the black.......the \u2018predella\u2019 in greyness contains a series of small panels which show complementary manufacturing operations throughout a working day: on the left, the workers enter the factory in the morning marking the time; on the right, they leave work. at this corner, at the extreme of the large composition, are painted the portraits of dr william valentiner, who, by his willingness, full of sympathy and kindness for the author of the paintings and director of the museum, made the commission possible, and of mr edsel b. ford, who, by the liberality of his criterium, his donation, and the great facilities he gave for the work, made possible the execution of the frescoes, which he donated to the city of detroit´ ). an important manuscript of fine content. some very light, extremely minimal age wear and with small staple holes to the upper left corner of each page. vg \n in 1932 wilhelm valentiner, director of the detroit instiute of arts, and the american business executive edsel ford, commissioned rivera to create the detroit industry murals , a series of frescoes consisting of twenty-seven panels depicting industry at the ford motor company and in detroit. together they surround the interior rivera court in the detroit institute of arts. painted between 1932 and 1933, they were considered by rivera to be his most successful work."},"estimateMax":8000,"lotNumber":"1499","title":{"es":"rivera diego: (1886-1957)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137093/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":5000,"soldPrice":6000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.438Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac5,000 - \u20ac8,000","currency":"EUR","id":137093,"estimateMin":5000},{"startPrice":1500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137094/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137094/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137094/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137094/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"duchamp marcel: (1887-1968) french painter and sculptor. a.l.s., marcel duchamp , two pages, 8vo, new york, 30 th january 1964, to georges veron, in french. duchamp states that arman had provided veron\u2019s address and suggested that he write to him \u2018pour vous demander si vous pourez faire une transparence ekta on kodakchrome en couleur de 35mm d'un tableau a l'huile de leger qui se trouve chez dr. robert jullien\u2019 (translation: \u2018to ask if you can make a 35mm colour ekta on kodakchrome transparency of an oil painting by leger which is at dr. robert jullien\u2019s home\u2019 ), further remarking \u2018j'ai demande a maurice lefebvre-foinet\u2026..de vous faire la meme demande et de se charger de vous mettre en rapport avec dr. jullien ainsi que de vous regler le prix et tous les frais de deplacement\u2019 (translation: \u2018i asked maurice lefebvre-foinet\u2026..to make the same request to you and to take charge of putting you in contact with dr. jullien as well as paying you the price and all travel expenses\u2019 ) and concluding by adding that lefebvre-foinet will send the finished transparency to new york via air mail. accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by duchamp and signed ( \u2018duchamp\u2019 ; one tear slightly affecting the signature) by him in the return address to the verso. one small stain to the lower edge of the letter, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise vg \n  \n arman (1928-2005) french-born american artist who first met duchamp in new york in the early 1960s.  \n  \n fernand leger (1881-1955) french painter, sculptor and filmmaker.  \n  \n maurice lefebvre-foinet \u2013 french art collector and manager of a renowned family-owned shop in paris which supplied brushes, canvasses and hand-ground oil paints to artists over several generations."},"estimateMax":2000,"lotNumber":"1500","title":{"es":"duchamp marcel: (1887-1968)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137094/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1500,"soldPrice":1400,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:40.440Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,500 - \u20ac2,000","currency":"EUR","id":137094,"estimateMin":1500},{"startPrice":800,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137095/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"cocteau jean: (1889-1963) french poet, playwright, novelist, artist, filmmaker and critic. a good illustrated a.l.s., jean , one page, 4to, santo-sospir, saint-jean-cap-ferrat, 29th september 1957, to andre [fraigneau], in french. cocteau writes, in full, ´ceci, pour andre, pour t´embrasser avant de prendre le train vers toi. j´arriverai le 8 et le 9 j´aimerais dejeuner ensemble. ce matin villefranche m´a dicerene le titre de citoyen d´honneur. c´etait beaucoup, en face de cet hotel welcome ou j´ecrivais les poemes d´opera´ (translation: ´this is for andre, to kiss you before i get on the train to you. i'll be arriving on the 8th and on the 9th i'd like to have lunch together. this morning villefranche awarded me the title of honorary citizen. it was a great honour, in front of the welcome hotel where i wrote the poems of opera´ ). to the left of the page cocteau has drawn one of his familiar profiles of a head, attractively executed in blue and red crayons. some very light, extremely minor age wear, vg \n andre fraigneau (1905-1991) french writer, editor and publisher who collaborated with cocteau on the publication jean marais - a discussion about cinematography (1951).  \n cocteau stayed at the hotel welcome in villefranche-sur-mer from 1924 to 1935, during which time his  collection of poems opéra (1927) was published."},"estimateMax":1000,"lotNumber":"1501","title":{"es":"cocteau jean: (1889-1963)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137095/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":800,"soldPrice":800,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:48.382Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac800 - \u20ac1,000","currency":"EUR","id":137095,"estimateMin":800},{"startPrice":14000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137096/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137096/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"picasso pablo: (1881-1973) spanish painter, a co-founder of the cubist movement. a small 8vo printed exhibition catalogue for pablo picasso 1950-1953 at the curt valentin gallery in new york, 24th november - 19th december 1953, the exhibition comprising sixty-five oil paintings, sculptures, ceramics, lithographs and aquatints by picasso, a number of them illustrated in monchrome within the catalogue, which also features a brief passage of text by stephane mallarme (on manet, 1874) and an essay entitled picasso good master of liberty by paul eluard (translated from the french by roland penrose). across the recto of the front free endpaper and title page picasso has drawn a wonderful image of a colourful fish, executed in orange, green, blue, yellow and black crayons and signed ( ´picasso´ ) by the artist in blue crayon to the base of the title page, also adding the date, 2nd march 1954, in his hand alongside his signature. bound in the original yellow and black printed paper wrappers. a superb and highly attractive original drawing signed by picasso. some very light, extremely minor age wear, vg \n picasso´s drawing of the fish is very reminiscent of a ceramic design he created in 1951 entitled poisson de profil (´fish in profile´ )."},"estimateMax":18000,"lotNumber":"1502","title":{"es":"picasso pablo: (1881-1973) picasso signed exhibition catalogue with an original drawing of a fish in 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movement. an extraordinary collective illustrated a.l.s. by picasso and his circle of friends, four pages, 8vo, cafe de flore, paris, 15th january 1936, to paul and nusch eluard, in a mixture of french, spanish and catalan. the scene for this meeting of great artistic talent is set at the head of the first page in the hand of yvonne zervos , 'l'heure de la soupe a l'oignon, mercredi, 15 janvier 1936, cafe flore' (translation: ' time for onion soup.....' ) beneath which picasso writes 'recuerdos a la blanquita, picasso' (translation: 'regards to the white girl, picasso' ), and over the four pages follows a wonderful series of autograph sentiments and messages to paul and nush eluard, beginning on the first page with luis fernandez  'viva tu madre chiquita!! ole, ole, caramba!!......baxant de la font del gat una noia, una noie, baxant de la font del gat una noia y eluard si pregunta com se diu marieta, marieta, si pregunta com se diu marieta del ull vin! com vos deia fontanellas lo rei esta molt fotut! lo qui gui a ens ha sigut es un manso sense equellas.....fernandez' (written in multiple passages to the first and fourth sides of the bifolium in catalan, roughly translated as 'long live your little mother!! ole, ole, dammit!!......a girl coming down from the cat's fountain, a girl, a girl coming down from the cat's fountain and eluard if you ask what marieta's name is, marieta, if you ask what marieta's name is from the eye wine! as fontanellas told you, the king is very fucked up! the one who guides us has been a meek man without them', and signed twice), roberta gonzalez ' yo tambien, roberta gonzalez' (translation: 'me too' ), esther fernandez  her signature followed by the sentence  'ne pas oublier la tarjeta postal con una vaca espanola' (translation, from a mixture of french and spanish, 'don't forget the postcard with a spanish cow' ), julio gonzalez  'ballen la gardana, j. gonzalez' (translation from catalan 'they dance the gardana' ), and also signed a second time with his name alone to the first page, yvonne zervos  'los abrazo a los dos, yvonne, cafe creme' (translation: 'hugs to you both....' ), jaime sabartes  'mas recuerdos, j sabartes' (translation: 'more memories....' ), christian zervos  'un gros baiser a (?) malgre le rouge. christian' (translation: 'a big kiss to the (?) despite the red.....' ) and also with two further messages across other pages, 'on aimerait quand meme que vous soyiez avec.....de flore chez graff avec un arriere petit de gratinee zervos, man ray attendez-moi!.......  j'espere que vous reverrez la seine et la reste' (translation: 'we'd still like you to be with .....de flore at graff with a little gratinee zervos, man ray wait for me!......  i hope you'll see the seine and the rest of it again' ) and '......prononcez bien vendredi les oveilles amies vous enconteront et moi je penserai aux bons moments passes a vicozere, chris. zervos' (translation: '.......get the pronunciation right friday, the friendly ears will greet you and i'll be thinking about the good times at vicozere' ), to the second page yvonne zerbos writes a further message, \u2018 nous pensons toujours a vous vous etes, toujours avec nous. man est tres triste!!!!! nous aussi yvonne. vendredi criez tres fort........cafe crème. monte la dessus et tu verras montmartre et le cafe flore\u2019 (translation: \u2018we are always thinking of you, you are always with us. man is very sad!!!!! us too yvonne. friday shout out loud........cafe crème. go up there and you'll see montmartre and the cafe flore\u2019 ), as does luis fernandez once more in catalan \u2018vina ros! puja aqui dalt!.....bona nit tinguem!! estiguem bonets!!.....\u2019 (translation: \u2018come ros! get up here!.....have a good night!! let's be nice!!.....\u2019 ), alongside which dora maar has drawn an exquisite pen and ink image of an eye with two teardrops falling from the corner, adding the words \u2018devinez de qui?\u2019 (translation: \u2018guess who? ), which is followed by a second greeting signed by jaime sabartes \u2018  saluda a los del centro excursionista de catalunya a la lliga regionalista......y todos los que encuentre por la ramblas\u2019  (translation from catalan: \u2018say hello to those at the hiking centre from catalonia to the regionalist league\u2026..and everyone you find on the ramblas\u2019 ), the third page features entries by  leonor fini  \u2018vous aimez toujours et les gros porcs tendres\u2026\u2026..? vous en avez vu des noirs en espagne? leonor\u2019 (translation: \u2018do you still like big, tender pigs\u2026\u2026..? have you seen any black ones in spain?\u2019 ) and also signed by fini with her first name only to the right margin of the first page, man ray  \u2018c'etait triste de rentrer tout seul lundi soir de v- beziers! je vous embrasse tous les deux, et j'espere vous trouverez des bons amis et amies! affectueusement, man\u2019 (translation: \u2018it was sad to come back alone on monday evening from v- beziers! love to you both, and i hope you find some good friends! affectionately\u2026.\u2019 ), and at the foot of the page pablo picasso has drawn and signed a pen and ink image of a winged love heart, also incorporating the horns of a bull, and with a cupid\u2019s arrow piercing through the centre from right to left, signing his name ( \u2018picasso\u2019 ) in bold black ink beneath. a series of ink hatched lines also appear beneath the drawing, partially obscuring the signature of dora maar. the page concludes with a series of ten question marks in the hand of roberta gonzalez , and with her signature beneath. the letter ends with a final message signed by yvonne zervos at the foot of the fourth page, \u2018cora et elfe vous embrasse chaque jour je forme au voeux pour que vous soyiez tous les deux tres heureux la-pas!!! yvonne. pikina aux vins de france fabrique par picon et cie \u2019 (translation: \u2018cora and elfe kiss you every day and i hope you're both very happy! yvonne. pikina with french wines made by picon and company\u2019 ). accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by christian zervos to the eluards in care of the home of josep maria sert in barcelona, and further annotated and signed by man ray with his initials to the verso, \u2018avec la salive de c.z. (m.r.)\u2019 (translation: \u2018with the saliva of c.z\u2026..\u2019 ). a truly exceptional and magnificent autograph letter, beautifully enhanced by the drawings (which could indeed be interpreted as \u2018self-portraits\u2019) in the hands of pablo picasso and his lover, dora maar. some very light, extremely minor age toning, vg \n paul eluard (1895-1952) french poet, one of the founders of the founders of the surrealist movement and a close friend of picasso.  \n nusch eluard (1906-1946) french performer, model and surrealist artist, the wife of paul eluard from 1934. nusch eluard, with whom picasso conducted a torrid affair, was the subject of some of the spanish artist\u2019s cubist portraits in the late 1930s. she was also photographed by man ray, notably for the illustrations to paul eluard\u2019s collection of poetry, facile , published in 1935.  \n josep maria sert (1874-1945) spanish muralist, a friend of salvador dali.  \n yvonne zervos (1905-1970) french editor gallery owner and exhibition curator, wife of christian zervos, and an expert on the works of picasso.  \n luis fernandez (1900-1973) spanish painter and friend of picasso. fernandez was one of the few artists with whom picasso collaborated, and who had a great influence on his work.  \n esther fernandez (d.1954) the first wife of luis fernandez.  \n roberta gonzalez (1908-1976) french painter, the daughter of julio gonzalez. roberta married the german-french painter hans hartung in 1939.  \n julio gonzalez (1876-1942) spanish sculptor and painter, an early and close friend of picasso.  \n jaime sabartes (1881-1968) spanish artist, poet and writer, a close friend of pablo picasso who would later become his secretary and administrator.  \n christian zervos  (1889-1970) greek-french art historian, critic, collector, writer & publisher who founded the magazine cahiers d'art and also published a catalogue raisonne on the work of picasso . \n dora maar (1907-1997) french photographer, painter and poet, a romantic partner of pablo picasso (from 1935-43) and the subject of several of his portraits.  \n leonor fini (1907-1996) argentine-born italian surrealist painter, designer and illustrator.  \n man ray (1890-1976) american visual artist, a significant contributor to the dada and surrealist movements and a renowned pioneering fashion and portrait photographer.  \n the present letter conjures up an extraordinary sense of the social gathering which took place at the café de flore, the text and signatures incorporating codes, little secrets and nicknames between the contributors and the recipients; \u2018onion soup\u2019 being the nickname that picasso bestowed upon nusch eluard, and \u2018café crème\u2019 apparently being claimed by yvonne zervos. it is also no mistake that dora maar draws an image of a tearful eye, having become known as picasso\u2019s \u2018weeping woman\u2019 (most famously depicted in the series of four oil paintings titled the weeping woman created between september and october 1937). the \u2018self-portrait\u2019 drawings by maar and picasso, which face each other on the central pages, provide interesting imagery as a reflection of their relationship, maar the tortured mistress, and picasso, with his spanish bull-themed heart, pierced by love.  \n the café de flore, which still exists today, is situated in the saint-germain-des-pres arrondissement area of paris, and is one of the city\u2019s oldest coffee houses. the establishment is celebrated for its famous clientele which have included writers, philosophers and artists \u2013 not least picasso and his circle."},"estimateMax":24000,"lotNumber":"1503","title":{"es":"picasso & his circle illustrated with 'self-portraits' by picasso & dora maar"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137097/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":18000,"soldPrice":18000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:48.385Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac18,000 - \u20ac24,000","currency":"EUR","id":137097,"estimateMin":18000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137098/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137098/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"breton andre: (1896-1966) french writer and poet, the co-founder, leader and principal theorist of surrealism. a.n.s., andre breton , to the verso of a picture postcard featuring an image of the vltava river with the charles bridge tower and the church of saint francis of assisi visible in the background, n.p. (prague), n.d. (april 1935), in french. breton writes, in full, ´de prague les surrealistes vous adressent l´hommage de leurs sentiments fraternels´ (translation: ´from prague the surrealists send you their fraternal greetings´ ). beneath breton´s friendly greeting appear the signatures of paul eluard (1895-1952) french poet, one of the founders of the surrealist movement, as well as ten further individuals associated with the surrealism movement in czechoslovakia including josef sima (1891-1971) czechoslovak modernist painter, toyen (1902-1980) marie cerminova, czechoslovak painter and illustrator, bohuslav brouk (1912-1978) czechoslovak psychoanalyst, writer, poet & philosopher, karel teige (1900-1951) czechoslovak modernist avant-garde artist and writer, viteslav nezval (1900-1958) czechoslovak poet and writer, a co-founder of the surrealist movement in czechoslovakia, vincenc makovsky (1900-1966) czechoslovak avant-garde sculptor, jindrich styrsky (1899-1942) czechoslovak surrealist painter, poet, photographer and graphic artist, jindrich honzl (1894-1953) czechoslovak theatre theorist, film and theatre director, konstantin biebl (1898-1951) czechoslovak poet and writer, and one other. breton has addressed the postcard in his hand to marko ristic (which breton francizes to ristitch ) in belgrade. a rare and impressive group of signatures relating to the surrealist movement and with good association. a couple of small, insignificant, light water stains to two signatures at the base, vg \n marco ristic (1902-1984) serbian surrealist poet and writer, the founder of the serbian surrealist movement.  \n breton and eluard arrived in prague at the end of march 1935, where the czech surrealist group had been founded a year earlier (and a decade after breton had published his surrealist manifesto ). whilst in prague breton delivered two speeches, one entitled surrealist situation of the object , and the other political position of today´s art. the two surrealists were presented as ´two poets, the greatest of contemporary france´ and eluard, in a letter to gala dali, wrote ´i believe that prague is for us the gateway to moscow. but according to the opinion here we must wait a year´. their stay in the city would last until 10th april."},"estimateMax":1500,"lotNumber":"1504","title":{"es":"breton, eluard & the czech surrealists"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137098/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1000,"soldPrice":1000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:48.387Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - 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jusqu´aux paupières transparentes - saint-pol roux a été mis à mort - sa fille a été suppliciée... dans un jeu qui n´en finit pas - pierres fanées murs sans écho - je vous évite d´un sourire - decour a été mis à mort´. eluard suggests that evoking happiness is not anymore possible with such horrors. paper with two binding holes to the left border, not affecting the text or signature. vg \n the present poem in the hand of eluard shows only one verse changed comparing it with the final version published. it is on the first verse. in this autograph poem eluard states `le feu fait danser la forêt´, while the final publication states ` le feu réveille la forêt´. \n the present poem critique de la poésie was first published in july 1943. and would later constitutes in 1944 the final poem of the collection le lit et la table (\"the bed and the table\") \n federico garcia lorca (1898-1936) spanish poet & dramatist. an iconic figure of the spanish literature. lorca was shot near granada in august 1936 by militias supporting franco. garcia lorca was assassinated at the early age of 38.  \n saint-pol-roux (1861-1940) french symbolist poet. in june 1940 a  drunken german soldier invaded saint-pol-roux´s house . he killed the family's faithful governess rose with several gun shots and wounded saint-pol-roux's daughter divine with a bullet. it is often said that the soldier also raped her. saint-pol-roux was wounded, but managed to survive the tragedy. german military authorities arrested the culprit, tried by the german court martial and sentenced to death and executed.  saint-pol-roux was deeply affected by the death of rose, the injuries of his daughter and the blows he had received. while being in hospital in brest he learned that the mansion had been visited again and looted. manuscripts of several works on which saint-pol-roux had been working for several years had been torn or burned. when he saw the disaster, he understood that it would be impossible for him to reconstruct his work and felt an immense despair. saint-pol-roux suffered an uremic crisis and was transported to the hospital where he died few days after.  \n jacques decour (1910-1942) french writer, essayist and translator. decour was a resistant fighter who was executed by the nazis. decour died at the very early age of 32."},"estimateMax":4000,"lotNumber":"1505","title":{"es":"eluard paul: (1895-1952) a rare autograph poem related to assassinated authors"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137099/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":3000,"soldPrice":3000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:48.389Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac3,000 - 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(paris), n.d. (14th november 1930), to valentine hugo ( ´chere madame´ ), in french. gala states that they very much regretted hugo´s indisposition and her cancellation of wednesday´s meeting, further remarking ´voulez-vous me prevenir par un mot quel soir pourez vous venir diner chez moi (7 rue becquerel) a partir du lundi prochain´ (translation: ´please let me know in writing which evening you can come to dinner at my house (7 rue becquerel) from next monday´ ) and concludes by sending ´les amities de dali´ (translation: ´best regards from dali´ ). accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by gala. a wonderful letter of good association which also links gala with the two most important men in her life, eluard and dali. some very light, extremely minor age wear, vg \n valentine hugo (1887-1968) french artist and writer associated with the french surrealists. valentine was the wife of french artist jean-victor hugo (1894-1984), the great-grandson of novelist victor hugo.  \n gala´s letter is written at a very significant time in her life. gala and the french poet paul eluard (1895-1952) had first met and fallen in love at the age of seventeen and were married a few years later in 1917. with eluard, gala became involved in the surrealist movement and was an inspiration for many artists. in august 1929 gala and eluard travelled to spain to meet the emerging surrealist artist salvador dali. an affair quickly developed between gala and dali which soon led to the break-up of gala´s marriage with eluard (although the two would remain close). gala married dali in 1934, having lived together since 1929. the present letter, signed gala eluard, was written just over a year after gala first met dali, for whom she sends regards to hugo."},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1506","title":{"es":"dali gala: (1894-1982) ´ les amities de dali´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137100/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2200,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:48.390Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - 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1 october 1956) and, as the present letter demonstrates, he was working to \u2018come up with something new\u2019. giacometti was thus plunging into what would later be called the \u2018yanaihara crisis\u2019, a very important artistic phase in his life. isaku yanaihara, a professor of french philosophy at osaka university, met giacometti in 1956. giacometti was fascinated by yanaihara's face and began a long series of paintings and sculptures of his likeness. he first produced an oil painting in october 1956 and numerous other drawings, paintings and sculptures followed. yanaihara posed for the artist every summer in 1957, 1959, 1960 and 1961."},"estimateMax":6000,"lotNumber":"1509","title":{"es":"giacometti alberto: (1901-1966) ´ it gives me great pleasure that these two marbles should enter your collection´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137103/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":4000,"soldPrice":4000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:48.395Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac4,000 - 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´ i´ d done about half my novel & shan´t touch it again till i´m well´´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137104/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":8000,"soldPrice":8000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:48.397Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac8,000 - \u20ac10,000","currency":"EUR","id":137104,"estimateMin":8000},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137105/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"thomas dylan: (1914-1953) welsh poet. a.l.s., dylan thomas , one page, 8vo, the boat house, laugharne, carmarthenshire, 8th may 1949, to ´dear sir´ (annotated in ink at the foot of the page as being e. j. evans, secretary of the port talbot forum). thomas seeks his correspondent´s forgiveness for not having replied to their letter earlier, explaining ´i have just come back to wales to live, & letters have been misforwarded´ , continuing ´i shall be most grateful if you will include my name in the list of those who are supporting the appeal to the prime minister for a civil list pension to be awarded to huw menai. i have the greatest admiration for him - though i do not know him personally - & for his work, & i think the port talbot forum is to be congratulated on its sponsoring of the appeal - which i do most sincerely hope will succeed´ . a letter of good content in which thomas expresses his reverence for a fellow poet and countryman. some very light, extremely minimal age wear, vg \n huw menai (1886-1961) huw owen williams. welsh poet. often facing financial hardship, menai was indeed successful in receiving a civil list pension from 1949, largely thanks to the intervention of the port talbot forum.  \n dylan thomas, along with his wife caitlin and their children, had moved to the boat house in laugharne in may 1949, in the same month as the present letter. it would be the poet´s final home for the last four years of his life."},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1511","title":{"es":"thomas dylan: (1914-1953) thomas writes in support of a fellow welsh poet"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137105/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2600,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.297Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - 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(february 1941 ; ´night before we get to hawaii´ ), to george [brown], on the printed stationery of the matson line. hemingway writes (in bold pencil) a social letter full of wonderful anecdotes relating to his recent activities, beginning by reporting on a trip to los angeles where he had enjoyed the hospitality of gary cooper, ´stayed with coopers who met us with the big new cadillac double funeral hearse he bought his wife for xmas and they had a dinner that night with one swell broad (carole landis) that all the marrieds or uglies jumped all over because she got a little drunko´ , adding ´but she was only 22 and i said to them they should have seen what guys like me or cooper were like when we were drunk at 22´ , continuing to refer to a mixed doubles tennis match, ´coopers wife (rocky) and i beat cooper and marty 5 sets of tennis to win 11 dollars in two days. but no money changes hands......i think marty and i could beat them but mrs c. likes to win very much......she has very extensive taught ground strokes but she has a high bouncing serve that i could set myself and murder so it is better for her happiness that we are partners´ , remarking that martha was ´much prettier´ than the other ladies in hollywood and ´looked like a human being instead of a kennell (sic) entry but i shudder to think what would pass with the colonel faced by them blondes altho lots of them were 22-23 years old which is aged in the colonel´s book´ , also reporting on a visit to san francisco, ´we ate very well and saw mike ward, an old pal, and his wife and selznick shipped up ingrid bergman to look her over for maria for the picture. she is perfect. really swell. not like those hollywooders´ . hemingway also comments on his experiences on the boat that they are travelling on, ´it has been rough as a bastard all the time. the gym guy wouldn´t box. he rubs too and he says he is afraid it would hurt his hands altho he says he teaches boxing (he comes from hollywood too where i guess hands hurt easy. probably his thumbs swell up). it was a shame because i was going to left hook him in the profile.....but i worked on the big bag instead but couldn´t rouse no really dirty feeling against it on such short acquaintance and when you get close to it the fucking thing seems sort of dead and helpless and not like ones fellow man. i practiced hitting it in the balls a little´ , and further writing ´tomorrow we get into honolulu. it sounds more like a 1/2 jig coney island or polynesian miami beach all the time´ , before concluding ´marty sends her love. we got a bang out of the wire. i miss you and the reading colonel and working out and all the fun we have, but will be back soon with a lot of new lies and stories´ . a truly wonderful and characteristic hemingway letter, written with energy, humour and a touch of rudeness, giving an exact idea of what conversations between the writer and his friends might have been like. the stories that delighted his friends are preserved here in an autograph letter, so that we may now share in the delight too. vg \n george brown, who owned a gymnasium in new york, was a friend of hemingway´s for more than a quarter of a century and coached the writer in the sport of boxing. it was brown who drove hemingway home to idaho from the mayo clinic in 1961 shortly before the nobel prize winner committed suicide. brown was also one of the pallbearers at hemingway´s funeral.  \n hemingway mentions another friend in his letter, taylor williams (´the colonel´), who would be a regular hunting and shooting partner of the writer.  \n furthermore, hemingway writes of his time with his good friend gary cooper and of meeting ingrid bergman, the two actors who would go on to star together in the film adaptation of for whom the bell tolls in 1943. hemingway also writes of the attractive young actress carole landis who, despite her relatively short lifetime (landis also committed suicide, at the age of 29), was married four times.  \n in addition hemingway writes affectionately of his third wife, the writer and war correspondent martha ´marty´ gellhorn (1908-1998), whom he had married in 1940."},"estimateMax":12000,"lotNumber":"1512","title":{"es":"hemingway ernest: (1899-1961) on gary cooper, ingrid bergman, carole landis and more...."},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137106/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":9000,"soldPrice":8500,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.298Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac9,000 - \u20ac12,000","currency":"EUR","id":137106,"estimateMin":9000},{"startPrice":1000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137107/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"chaplin charles: (1889-1977) english film comedian, academy award winner. a good, large vintage signed and inscribed sepia 8 x 13.5 photograph, the image depicting the young, dapper chaplin standing in a three-quarter length pose with his hands in his trouser pockets. photograph by pach brothers of new york and bearing their pencil credit to the lower right corner. signed by chaplin in bold, dark fountain pen ink to the base of the image, \n ´to jules from charlie´ . the comedian has further added an original small pen and ink self-caricature in his hand to the lower right corner, depicting himself in a head and shoulders pose in his \n little tramp costume. to the side of the sketch appears the greeting \n helleu in chaplin´s hand, and with an arrow pointing in the direction of the self-caricature. a rare and impressive signed image. two small areas of loss to the upper right and lower left corners and with a few minor traces of former mounting to the verso, g"},"estimateMax":1200,"lotNumber":"1513","title":{"es":"chaplin charles: (1889-1977) incorporating a self-caricature as the little tramp"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137107/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","esmemorabilia_moviestvmusicmemorabilia","esmemorabilia","escollectibles_all","esmemorabilia_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":1000,"soldPrice":1100,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.300Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac1,000 - \u20ac1,200","currency":"EUR","id":137107,"estimateMin":1000},{"startPrice":12000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137108/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137108/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137108/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137108/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"dean james: (1931-1955) american actor, an academy award nominee (the only actor to have been nominated posthumously twice). an excellent a.l.s., jim (twice), two pages, slim 4to, n.p. (burbank, california), n.d. (19th may 1954), to his girlfriend miss. barbara glenn ( ´darling´ ). dean commences his letter with potentially heart-breaking lines, ´i haven´t written because i have fallen in love. it had to happen sooner or later´ , although immediately reveals the subject of his affection, ´it´s not a very good picture of him, but that´s \"cisco the kid\", the new member of the family´ and explains ´he gives me confidence. he makes my hands and my heart strong. he´s a very spirited horse but well trained. that´s my trainer in the picture. throughbred (sic) palomino (black main (sic) and tail)......he shakes hands and everything. may use him in the movie´, dean continues to write in a more personal vein, ´i´m very lonely. your card smelled so good, please don´t do that (dirty tricks, i´m still a calif-virgen. i hate this place. [elia] kazan  and everybody but cisco can go fuck themselves. don´t call because i haven´t got a place of my own yet. just keep writting (sic) honey those are the nicest, sweetest letters in the world. oh, the terrible doubts an artist is given to!´ and also reveals ´i miss the souls of good men and bad men´ , before concluding by inviting glenn to come and see him sometime and remarking ´there´s not much we can say on the phone´ . in a signed postscript dean asks to have the photograph returned, adding ´by that time i will have had some good ones taken´ . accompanied by the original envelope hand addressed by dean. together with the original 3 x 5 photograph of cisco the kid referred to by dean in his letter, the image depicting the handsome horse standing in a field with his trainer crouched alongside. a wonderful, personal love letter from dean to his girlfriend, displaying a number of the actor´s personality traits and emotions from his tongue in cheek sense of humour to his tenderness and loneliness, although also demonstrating his youthful, rebellious nature, particularly towards the director elia kazan. autograph letters of dean are of the utmost rarity and the present example is written at a particularly significant moment in the actor's brief career. a few very light, extremely minor creases to the letter and the photograph with a couple of vertical surface creases and some minor staining to the white borders. g to vg, 2 \n dean´s letter is written just over a month after the actor left new york city for california, having been cast by elia kazan in his lead film debut as cal trask in east of eden ,  an adaptation of john steinbeck´s novel of the same title. east of eden was the only film starring dean released in his lifetime and the actor was nominated posthumously for the 1956 academy awards as best actor in a leading role of 1955, the first official posthumous acting nomination in academy awards history.  \n it is understood that barbara glenn was first introduced to dean in new york by their mutual friend the actor martin landau in late 1940s/early 1950s. dean and glenn's romantic relationship was believed to be an intense one involving multiple break-ups and reconciliations, and represented glenn's first serious, mature relationship."},"estimateMax":18000,"lotNumber":"1514","title":{"es":"dean james: (1931-1955) ´ i haven´ t written because i have fallen in love. it had to happen sooner or later´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137108/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","esmemorabilia_moviestvmusicmemorabilia","esmemorabilia","escollectibles_all","esmemorabilia_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":12000,"soldPrice":12000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.301Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac12,000 - \u20ac18,000","currency":"EUR","id":137108,"estimateMin":12000},{"startPrice":10000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137109/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137109/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137109/003/003.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"stravinsky igor: (1882-1971) russian composer and conductor. a lengthy and extremely interesting content early autograph letter by stravinsky, with good association, a.l., three pages, large 4to, morges, switzerland, 23rd march 1920, to vassili kibalchich, in cyrillic. stravinsky writes to kibalchich, director of russian choir, who had directed the premiere a year earlier of starvinsky´s work quatre chants paysans russes (\"four russian peasant songs\"), and asks for news from his swiss exile about musical events, asking for his copy of the score of his work ` les noces´ (\"the wedding\"), stating in part ` j´ai un besoin urgent de cet exemplaire. je vous le renvoie en automne si nécessaire. j´en ai besoin pour arranger le piano-chant pour le spectacle. comment allez-vous me le faire parvenir? par la poste ordinaire c´est risqué, on peut le perdre...´ (translation: \" i urgently need this copy. i will send it back to you in the fall if necessary. i need it to arrange the piano-vocals for the show. how will you send it to me? by regular mail it is risky, we can lose it...\") further stravinsky refers to the staging of his works, to diaghilev and to his day by day work and projects, saying ` nous avons une saison très importante en mai à l´opéra de paris. diaghilev monte  le soldat mais sans le chant - choréographiquement. je termine pulchinella que je compose sur la musique de pergolese. c´est une grande oeuvre, nous avons beaucoup de travail´ (translation: \" we have a very important season in may at the paris opera. diaghilev is staging le soldat but without the singing - choreographically. i am finishing pulchinella which i am composing to the music of pergolese. it is a great work, we have a lot of work\") further again, stravinsky mentions his personal situation in switzerland, complaining about the cost of life and considering moving to italy, and also comments on the recent performances, stating in part ` le franc suisse bat un record et la vie ici en suisse est deux fois plus chère... racontez-moi vos projets avec l´opéra? et pensez-vous avoir un choeur, c´est important pour moi de le savoir... on montait [`a paris] le chant du rossignol, dirigé par ansermet que diaghilev a fait venir spécialement pour cette occasion. la musique a eu un grand succès qui sera immense en fin de saison...´ (translation: \" the swiss franc is at a record high and life here in switzerland is twice as expensive... tell me about your plans with the opera? and do you plan to have a choir, it is important for me to know... the song of the nightingale was being staged [in paris],  conducted by ansermet, whom diaghilev had brought especially for this occasion. the music was a great success, which would be immense at the end of the season... \") very small minor age wear, mostly to edges, and very few extremely small ink holes to the third page only, otherwise g to vg \n sergei diaghilev (1872-1929) russian ballet impresario, founder of the ballets russes.  \n ernest ansermet (1883-1969) swiss conductor and musicologist. a close friend and collaborator of stravinsky. ansermet introduced charles-ferdinad ramuz to stravinsky, and their long time fruitful collaboration gave birth to what most critics consider his masterpieces, the wedding and l´histoire du soldat which was premiered in lausanne in 1918 and conducted by ansermet.  \n the wedding is a russian-language ballet-cantata by stravinsky scored unusually for four vocal soloists, chorus, percussion and four pianos. dedicating the work to impresario sergei diaghilev, the composer described it in french as \"choreographed russian scenes with singing and music\" and it remains known by its french name of les noces despite being russian. the wedding was completed in 1917 but was then subjected to a series of changes of heart by stravinsky regarding its scoring; he settled on the above forces only in 1923, in time for the premiere in paris on 13th june that year under conductor ernest ansermet and danced by the ballets russes.  \n histoire du soldat , or tale of the soldier is a 1918 theatrical work to be \"read, played and danced\" by three actors, one or more dancers, and a septet of instruments. the music is by stravinsky and the libretto, in french, by swiss writer charles ferdinand ramuz.  \n pulcinella is a ballet by stravinsky with arias for soprano, tenor and bass vocal soloists, and two sung trios. the work premiered at the paris opera on 15th may 1920, only two months after the present letter was written, under again the baton of ernest ansermet. pablo picasso designed the costumes and sets and the ballet was commissioned by sergei diaghilev"},"estimateMax":12000,"lotNumber":"1515","title":{"es":"stravinsky igor: (1882-1971) ``\"we stage the song of the nightingale, conducted by ansermet, whom diaghilev had brought especially for this occasion.\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137109/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":10000,"soldPrice":10000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.302Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac10,000 - \u20ac12,000","currency":"EUR","id":137109,"estimateMin":10000},{"startPrice":400,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137110/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137110/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"gagarin yuri: (1934-1968) soviet cosmonaut, the first human to journey into outer space, travelling on vostok 1, 12 th april 1961. a rare book signed and inscribed, being a hardback edition of doroga v kosmos - zapiski letika-kosmonavta sssr ( ´road to space - notes of a ussr´s pilot-cosmonaut´ ), first edition published in russian text by izdatel stvo ´pravda´ , moscow, 1961. the volume features numerous images and illustrations as well as a foreword by nikolai kamanin, manager of the soviet space programme with the responsibility of selecting gagarin for the flight on vostok 1, and recounts the story of the modest young man from humble beginnings, and his path from a war-torn russia, through his work as a mechanic and later an aviator, to his epoch making journey into space. signed by gagarin in bold, dark fountain pen ink to the front free endpaper with an inscription in russian to vladimir petrovich konobeev and dated at london, 14th july 1961 in gagarin´s hand. bound in the publisher´s original cloth and accompanied by the dust jacket. a rare signed presentation copy of gagarin´s memoir, dated just a few months after his historic spaceflight, and with an interesting association. some light age wear, largely to the edges of the dust jacket, ond one bump to the upper right corner of the front board. about vg \n yuri gagarin visited the united kingdom three months after his vostok 1 mission as part of a world tour. on 14th july 1961 (the same day that the present book was signed) queen elizabeth ii and prince philip hosted gagarin and a soviet delegation to breakfast at buckingham palace. a total of sixteen people attended the reception, including nikolai kaminin, the soviet ambassador to london alexander soldatov, and his deputy, soviet assistant air attache vladimir petrovich konobeev, to whom gagarin inscribed the present book."},"estimateMax":600,"lotNumber":"1516","title":{"es":"gagarin yuri: (1934-1968) signed by gagarin on the day that he met queen elizabeth ii"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137110/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_booksmagazinespaper","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":400,"soldPrice":750,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.303Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac400 - \u20ac600","currency":"EUR","id":137110,"estimateMin":400},{"startPrice":2000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137111/001/001.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"kennedy john f.: (1917-1963) american president 1961-63. a.l.s., john kennedy , two pages, 4to, washington d.c., n.d., to john, on the printed stationery of the congress of the united states, house of representatives. kennedy thanks his correspondent for their good wishes and continues to state ´i think that the campaign will be very interesting and i believe successful´ , further adding ´i don´t expect to be back in boston until after the easter recess, but i have written mark dalton who is handling the direction of the campaign and have asked him to get in touch with you´ , concluding by remarking ´i´ll see you, i hope, later in the month. i appreciate your offer of help and shall certainly take advantage of it´ . neatly cornermounted within an attractive black, blue, gold and cream matt alongside a slim 8vo printed senatorial campaign brochure featuring an image of kennedy and with the printed caption massachusetts needs a man like this for u.s. senator! beneath. professionally framed and glazed (with a window to the verso for viewing the second page of the letter) to an overall size of 20.5 x 15.5. one very light, minor stain only very slightly affects two words of text, and not the signature, otherwise vg \n mark j. dalton (d.2004) american attorney, a close political aide of john f. kennedy and campaign manager for kennedy´s first run for the united states house of representatives in 1946."},"estimateMax":3000,"lotNumber":"1517","title":{"es":"kennedy john f.: (1917-1963)"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137111/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2000,"soldPrice":1900,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.304Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,000 - \u20ac3,000","currency":"EUR","id":137111,"estimateMin":2000},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137112/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137112/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137112/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137112/004/004.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"giono jean: (1895-1970) french writer whose works of fiction were largely set in the provence region of france. an extremely rare autograph love letter by giono, a.l.s., ` ton jean´ (\" your jean\"), four pages, 4to, lined paper, manosque, saturday, [7th february 1942], to blanche meyer, in french. an exceptionally interesting love letter by giono to his secret lover blanche meyer, a relationship which marked giono´s life and work since 1940, a letter which giono calls ` ceci est la lettre nº 1´ (\" this is the letter nº 1\"), indicating that it could be considered the first of their epistolary relationship. this superbely written lengthy moving letter by giono shows the whole range of forms that passion, suffering, tenderness, jealousy, lyricism can take, revealing an unknown giono. a document of prime importance in the study of giono's work, stating in part ` ceci est la letter nº 1 mon coeur. je ne t´ai pas écrit tout de suite en rentrant de la gare. le coup a été abominablement plus dur que je ne pensais. je suis rentré sans m´en apercevoir. j´écoutais ton train haleter en t´emportant. te voir à la portière de ton wagon m´a été extrêmement pénible. jusqu´à midi je n´ai, au pied de la lettre, pas existé. je n´existe guère maintenant. il neige très fort. j´ai fait un gros feu. j´ai bu de la fine: trois grands verres. fumé des pipes. couché sur mon divan. j´essaye de lire mais j´ai ta lettre sur ma table et de temps en temps je me dresse et je viens t´écrire. de terribles jours commencent pour moi. je suis de toute évidence déchiré en premier lieu, de ton départ, de ton absence. ce qui est le plus cruel c´est que tu n´es pas là. je savais que cela me serait insupportable. je sens que ce sera insurmontable. j´ai regardé déjà plus de cent fois du côté de ta maison: je vois les arbres, j´imagine ton appartement vide. je ne regarderai plus de ce côté. je suis complètement perdu. je le savais, mais maintenant je le sens. c´est un peu différent et tous les beaux raisonnements n´y feront rien. pour le surplus, je m´efforce de ne pas penser, de ne pas imaginer, de \"vivre sans moi\". mais je ne t´ennuierai pas avec ces obscurs débats, ne t´inquiète pas, mon coeur. je voudrais surtout que tu n´y voies aucun manque de tendresse. l´amour, bien sûr, tu le vois à ces moments même où je souffre terriblement de la peur de te perdre, ou plutôt de la peur de ne pas t´avoir, mais ce qu´il faut que tu sentes aussi aux mêmes moments où semble-t-il je doute de toi, c´est aussi ma tendresse. elle est la même. elle sera toujours la même, quoi que tu fasses et quoi qu´il arrive. je n´en aurais pas hônte même s´il ne me restait qu´elle. je t´aime mon doux coeur et je t´aimerai toujours mais toujours aussi j´aurais autant de tendresse pour toi que ce que j´en ai maintenant en train de t´écrire...´ (translation: \" this is letter number 1, my love. i didn't write to you right away when i got back from the station. the blow was abominably harder than i thought. i came back without realizing it. i listened to your train gasping as it carried you away. seeing you at the door of your carriage was extremely painful for me. until noon i literally didn't exist. i hardly exist now. it's snowing very hard. i made a big fire. i drank some fine wine: three large glasses. smoked pipes. lay on my couch. i try to read but i have your letter on my table and from time to time i get up and come and write to you. terrible days are beginning for me. i am obviously torn apart, first of all, by your departure, by your absence. the cruelest thing is that you are not here. i knew that it would be unbearable for me. i feel that it will be insurmountable. i have already looked over a hundred times towards your house: i see the trees, i imagine your empty apartment. i will not look that way again. i am completely lost. i knew it, but now i feel it. it is a little different and all the beautiful reasoning will not do anything. for the rest, i try not to think, not to imagine, to \"live without me\". but i will not bore you with these obscure debates, do not worry, my heart. above all, i would like you not to see any lack of tenderness in it. love, of course, you see it at those very moments when i suffer terribly from the fear of losing you, or rather from the fear of not having you, but what you must also feel at the same moments when it seems i doubt you, is also my tenderness. it is the same. it will always be the same, whatever you do and whatever happens. i would not be ashamed of it even if it was all i had left. i love you my sweet heart and i will always love you but i will always have as much tenderness for you as i have now as i write to you...\") further, giono mentions his recent past years fears and also the future he wishes, stating in part ` c´est surtout maintenant qu´il ne faut pas mentir ou se cacher. car le moment est venu de construire le bonheur et rien ne peut se construire en dehors de la vérité. il me faut des assises solides. ce sentiment de l´inconstance qui est entré en moi il y a un an, au début de 1941 (s´ajoutant à ces quelques frissons de doute qui m´avaient pris en 40) ne permet pas de construire solide. tu es celle que j´ai aimée, comme touché par la plongée d´un oiseau, ce septembre 1939 marqué dans la bague (as-tu pris ta bague?) je t´ai donné à ce moment-là ma confiance totale. ce que tu me dis je le crois. c´est trop facile de me tromper...´ (translation: \" it is especially now that we must not lie or hide. because the time has come to build happiness and nothing can be built outside the truth. i need solid foundations. this feeling of inconstancy that entered me a year ago, at the beginning of 1941 (added to these few shivers of doubt that had taken hold of me in 1940) does not allow for solid construction. you are the one i have loved, as if touched by the dive of a bird, that september 1939 marked in the ring (did you take your ring?) i gave you my total trust at that time. what you tell me i believe. it is too easy to deceive me...\") to the conclusion of this lengthy love letter, giono sends deep words of love in his incomparable style, saying ` je t´aime. je me souviens avec une très grande joie triste de tous tes mots, de tous tes regards, de tous tes gestes, de toute ta tendresse à toi qui trouves si facilement le chemin de mon coeur. je me souviens de ton visage d´hier et de celui d´il y a un an et de celui d´avant et de tous tes visages quand tu marches à côté de moi dans une ville ou dans un chemin, quand tu te renverses dans mon bras ou quand il est celui dont je m´approche dans la demi obscurité de la chambre. je me souviens de toutes les joies que ton coeur me donne (et il m´en donne beaucoup; il me donne tout ce que j´ai) et j´aime ce que tu es et il faudrait que tu ne sois pas celle que tu es pour qu´il me soit possible de ne plus t´aimer (et encore!). je t´aime mon coeur bien aimé, mon oiseau, ma joie...´ (translation: \" i love you. i remember with great sad joy all your words, all your looks, all your gestures, all your tenderness, you who find so easily the way to my heart. i remember your face of yesterday and the one of a year ago and the one before that and all your faces when you walk next to me in a city or on a path, when you lean into my arm or when it is the one i approach in the half-darkness of the room. i remember all the joys that your heart gives me (and it gives me a lot; it gives me everything i have) and i love what you are and you would have to not be who you are for it to be possible for me to no longer love you (and even then!). i love you my beloved heart, my bird, my joy...\") with an extremely small paper loss to the left edge, not affecting the text or signature, otherwise vg \n giono's love for blanche meyer was for a long time one of the best kept secrets of french literature of the time. blanche was the wife of a notary at manosque.  their affair would last thirty years until the writer's death.  the meeting with blanche was decisive in the novelist's work, precipitating what has been called his \"deuxième manière\" (\"second manner\"). in fact we find her behind pauline in \" hussard sur le toit \" (\" the hussar on the roof\" ) and even more in the character of adeline white in \"pour saluer melville\" (\" to greet melville\")  \n it was only in 2004 that the secret relationship was publicly revealed after the publication of the thesis of an american university student, patricia page, who published \"space of passion: the love letters of jean giono to blanche meyer\". patricia page got permission to have access to and read the more than a thousand letters of giono to blanche meyer which were donated by blanche to the yale university. at today´s date the reproduction of the letters are still forbidden. in one of these letters giono stated ` si plus tard, quelqu´un a la curiosité de me connaitre tel que je suis, c´est dans les lettres que je t´écris qu´il me trouvera´ (\"if later, someone is curious to know me as i am, it is in the letters that i write to you that he will find me.\") \n the giono letters to blanche meyer existing in private hands are of the utmost rarity. the present letter, if it is the first written by the novelist after becoming lovers, makes it especially unique and valuable."},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1518","title":{"es":"giono jean: (1895-1970) a poignant autograph love letter by giono"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137112/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2400,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.305Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac3,500","currency":"EUR","id":137112,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":2500,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137113/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137113/002/002.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"simenon georges: (1903-1989) belgian writer. best known as the creator of the fictional detective jules maigret. an excellent autograph letter with very interesting content, a.l.s., ` simenon´, two pages, 4to, n.p. [paris], n.d. [may 1935], to andré thérive, on the printed stationery of the george v hotel in paris, in french. this early letter is an exceptional testimony which explains simenon´s own reaction after the publication of the first article, written by his correspondent, recognizing him as an authentic writer. simenon embarked at the end of 1934 to make a world tour, and after 7 months and having visited new york, panama, galapagos, australia, bombay, etc... he returned to paris where he finds on his arrival the article he will refer to in this letter, stating in part ` mon cher confrère et magicien, car vous venez de conjurer un sort. lorsque j´avais douze ans et que je faisais ma première communion, j´attendais avec fièvre mon premier cadeau dans la vie: la montre en or que ma bonne fée de marraine me donnerait selon la coutume. ma marraine a remis dix-huit francs à ma mère pour acheter la montre en or. ma mère n´a pas acheté la montre. et depuis vingt ans je n´ai pas reçu de cadeau. sauf ce matin, samedi, à marquer d´une pierre rose puisque, après un voyage de sept mois sans courrier, sans journaux, sans même savoir si mes livres paraitraient, ma première heure parisienne me fait tomber - si l´on peut dire - sur un ami qui le dit: `avez vous lu...´. je viens de lire, les larmes aux yeux. je suis confus, bouleversé.... n´empêche que maintenant, je le sens, ma mauvaise fée de marraine est écrasée et que je recevrai des cadeaux. aurai-je le plaisir d´en parler avec vous la semaine prochaine? oui si vous ne vous êtes pas volatilisé comme un lutin. en tout cas je vous dis merci du fond du coeur, car vous m´avez fait digérer pas mal de passé saumâtre.´ (translation: \" my dear colleague and magician, because you have just conjured a spell. when i was twelve years old and i was making my first communion, i was feverishly awaiting my first gift in life: the gold watch that my good fairy godmother would give me according to custom. my godmother gave my mother eighteen francs to buy the gold watch. my mother did not buy the watch. and for twenty years i have not received a gift. except this morning, saturday, to mark with a pink stone since after a seven-month trip without mail, without newspapers, without even knowing if my books would be published, and my first hour in paris makes me fall - so to speak - on a friend who says: `have you read...'. i have just read, with tears in my eyes. i am confused, shaken.... nevertheless, now, i feel it, my bad fairy godmother is crushed and i will receive gifts. will i have the pleasure of speaking to you about it next week? yes, if you haven't vanished like an elf. in any case, i thank you from deep in my heart, because you have helped me to digest a lot of the bitter past.\") vg \n andré thérive (1891-1967) french journalist. collaborator of the revue critique des idées et des livres, and from 1929 to 1942 as literary critic of temps."},"estimateMax":3500,"lotNumber":"1519","title":{"es":"simenon georges: (1903-1989) \"..for twenty years i have not received a gift. except this morning, to mark with a pink stone..\""},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137113/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","escollectibles_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":2500,"soldPrice":2200,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.307Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac2,500 - \u20ac3,500","currency":"EUR","id":137113,"estimateMin":2500},{"startPrice":100000,"sold":true,"images":["https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/001/001.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/002/002.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/003/003.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/004/004.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/005/005.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/006/006.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/007/007.jpg","https://bidspirit-images.global.ssl.fastly.net/iaa/cloned-images/137114/008/008.jpg"],"soldDate":"2024-12-05","available":false,"description":{"es":"lennon john: (1940-1980) english singer, songwriter and musician, founder of the beatles. a remarkable and lengthy a.l.s., john & yoko (also signing on behalf of yoko ono), eight pages (separate leaves), 4to, n.p. (new york), n.d. (29th september 1971), to eric [clapton] (´dear eric  and ´) . the letter is a draft copy, with a number of deletions, retained by lennon (the contents of the final version sent to clapton are unknown). the former beatle begins his letter by stating that he has been meaning to contact clapton for several weeks, and continues to invite the guitarist to join a band, for which lennon also outlines his vision and ´revolutionary´ plans, ´you must know by now that yoko and i rate your music and yourself very highly , always have. you also know the kind of music we´ve been making and hope to make. anyway the point is, after missing the bangla-desh concert, we began to feel more and more like going on the road, but not the way i used to with the beatles - night after night of torture. we mean to enjoy ourselves, take it easy, and maybe even see some of the places we go to! we have many ´revolutionary´ ideas for presenting shows that completely involve the audience - not just us ´superstars´ up there - blessing the people - but that´s another letter really. i´ll get more to the point- we´ve asked klaus [voormann], jim keltner, nicky hopkins - phil spector even! to form a ´nucleus´ group (plastic ono band) - and between us all would decide what - if any - augmentation to the group we´d like - eg saxs, vocal group whatever we like they all seem to  [have] agreed so far - and of course we had you !!! in mind as soon as we decided. in the past when nicky was working around (stones etc.) bringing your girl/woman/wife was frowned on - with us its the opposite , nicky´s missus - will also come with us - on stage if she wants (yoko has ideas for her!) - or backstage. our uppermost concern is to have a happy group in body & mind . nobody will be asked to do anything that they don´t want to , no-one will be held to any contract of any sort (unless they wanted to of course!). back to music. i´ve/we´ve long admired your music - and always kept an eye open to see what your (sic) up to  of late  [corrected to lately in another hand, possibly that of yoko ono] i really feel that i/we can bring out the best in you - (some kind of security financial or otherwise will help) but the main thing is the music. i consider klaus, jim, nicky, phil, yoko, you could make the kind of sound that could bring back the balls in rock ´n´ roll. both of us have been thru the same kind of shit/pain that i know you´ve had - and i know we could help each other in that area - but mainly eric - i know i can bring out something great - in fact greater in you that has been so far evident in your music, i hope to bring out the same kind of greatness in all of us - which i know will happen if/when we get together. i´m not trying to pressure you in anyway and would quite understand if you decide against joining us, we would still love and respect you. we´re not asking for your ´name´, i´m sure you know this - it´s your mind we want! yoko and i are not interested in earning bread from public appearances, but neither do we expect the rest of the band (who mostly have familys (sic) ) to work for free - they/you must all be happy money wise as well - otherwise what´s the use for them to join us. we don´t ask you/them to ratify everything we believe politically - but we´re certainly interested in ´revolutionising´ the world thru music. we´d love to ´do´ russia, china, hungary, poland etc. a friend of ours just got back from moscow, and the kids over there are really hip - they have all the latest sounds on tape from giant radios they have. \"don´t come without your guitar\" was the message they sent us, there are millions of people in the east - who need to be exposed to our kind of freedom/music. we can change the world - and have a ball at the same time. we don´t want to work under such pressure that we feel dead on stage or have to pep ourselves up to live, maybe we could do 2 shows a week even, it would be entirely up to us . one idea that i had which we´ve discussed tentively (sic) (nothing definite) goes like this. i know we have to rehearse sometime or other, i´m sick of going on and jamming every live session, i´ve always wanted to go across the pacific from the u.s. thru all those beautiful islands . across to australia, new zealand, japan - wherever, you know - tahiti - tonga - etc., so i came up with this . how about a kind of \"easy rider\" at sea. i mean we get emi or a sane film co, to finance a big ship with 30 people aboard (including crew) - we take 8 track recording equipment with us (mine probably) movie equipment - and we rehearse on the way over - record if we want, play anywhere we fancy. say we film from l.a. to tahiti, we stop there if we want - maybe have the film developed there - stay a week or as long as we want - collect the film, (of course we´ll might  probably film wherever we stop (if we want) and edit it on board etc. (having just finished a movie we made around our albums \"imagine\" \"fly\" - it´s a beautiful surreal film, very  surreal , all music , only about two words spoken in the whole thing! we know we are ready to make a major movie). anyway it´s just a thought, we´d always stay as near to land as possible, and of course we´d take doctors etc, in case of any kind of bother. we´d always be able to get to a place where someone could fly off if they´ve had enough- the whole trip could take 3-4-5-6 months, depending how we all felt - all familys (sic) children whatever are welcome etc. please don´t think you have to go along with the boat trip, to be in the band. i just wanted to let you know everything we´ve been talking about. (i thought we´d really be ready to hit the road after such a healthy  restful rehearsal ). anyway there it is, if you want to talk more please call us, or even come over here to n. york. we´re at the st. regis here til nov 30 at least (753-4500 ext/room 1701) all expenses paid of course! or write. at least think about it , please don´t be frightened, i understand paranoia, only too well, i think it could only do good for you, and would bring to work with people who love and respect you, and that´s from all of us´ . a highly desirable autograph letter with superb musical content, further enhanced by the remarkable association. ex \n eric clapton (1945- ) english rock and blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music.  \n the present letter was written to clapton at a significant time in his troubled personal life, which lennon gently and sympathetically alludes to in his letter. from 1969-70 clapton was briefly in a relationship with the british actress paula boyd, the younger sister of pattie boyd. at the time, pattie was married to george harrison, clapton´s close friend and collaborator. it was, however, pattie boyd and not her sister whom clapton was infatuated with and the love affair, one of rock´s greatest soap operas, became painful for everyone concerned. it is therefore interesting that lennon addresses the letter to ´dear eric and´, although does not specify the name of clapton´s partner.  \n clapton´s as yet unrequited love affair with pattie boyd, his strong emotions for her, and at the same time feeling torn by his friendship with harrison, resulted in clapton withdrawing from recording and touring to live in isolation in surrey. at the time clapton was also nursing a heroin addiction which led to a lengthy career hiatus interrupted only by performing at harrison´s concert for bangladesh benefit shows (referred to by lennon in the present letter) in new york in august 1971. during the concert clapton passed out on stage, was revived, and managed to finish his performance. lennon shows that he was acutely aware of clapton´s situation (´we don´t want to work under such pressure that we feel dead on stage or have to pep ourselves up to live´), also explaining in the letter that doctors will travel with the proposed new band ´in case of any kind of bother´. perhaps more significantly lennon attempts to lure clapton from his hiatus and drug problems, ´both of us have been thru the same kind of shit/pain that i know you´ve had - and i know we could help each other in that area - but mainly eric - i know i can bring out something great - in fact greater in you that has been so far evident in your music´."},"estimateMax":150000,"lotNumber":"1520","title":{"es":"lennon john: (1940-1980) lennon to clapton - ´ you could make the kind of sound that could bring back the balls in rock n roll´"},"url":"https://es.bidspirit.com/ui/lotPage/iaa/source/catalog/auction/52663/lot/137114/view","tags":["escollectibles_autographs","esmemorabilia_moviestvmusicmemorabilia","esmemorabilia","escollectibles_all","esmemorabilia_all","escollectibles"],"directSalePrice":100000,"soldPrice":100000,"lastUpdate":"2026-07-01T05:45:51.308Z","textCase":"lower","estimate":"\u20ac100,000 - \u20ac150,000","currency":"EUR","id":137114,"estimateMin":100000}],"schema":"bidspirit-bots-feed/1","catalog":{"date":"2024-12-05","timedAuction":false,"part":"4","liveAuctionDisabled":false,"type":"auction","catalogOnly":false,"buyersPremiumPercent":28,"lotsCount":100,"currency":"EUR","state":"ENDED","contentType":"ART","key":52663,"feedUrl":"https://tools-bots.bidspirit.com/services/bots/catalogs/iaa/52663","address":{"ru":"Urbanizacion El Real del Campanario. 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