Manuscrits & Autographes

Claude Debussy, Manuscrit musical autographe, signé "A.Cl. Debussy", pour Hymnis. Comédie lyrique de Théodore de Banville, musique de Achille-Claude Debussy, partition pour piano et chant, adressé à "Mme. [Marie] Vasnier". [Circa 1882]. Estimation : €120,000-180,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.  Paris – Le 29 mai prochain, Christie’s proposera une vente de « Livres rares et manuscrits » avec une sélection d’une centaine de lots. Dans le cadre du centenaire de l’anniversaire de la mort... [Lire la suite]

Lot 151. Marcel Proust, DU CÔTÉ DE CHEZ SWANN. PARIS, BERNARD GRASSET, 1913. Estimation 400,000 — 600,000 €. Lot vendu 535,500 €. Photo: Sotheby's. PARIS - Avec un total de 1.7 million €, la vente de livres et manuscrits organisée par Sotheby’s à Paris remporte un franc succès : en atteste le pourcentage des lots vendus qui s’élève à 80% en nombre de lots et 87% en valeur, taux record pour le marché des livres en France que Sotheby’s maintient dans un marché ultra compétitif. Les cinq événements... [Lire la suite]

Opening night of Gonoud's Faust in 1953. Photo by Sedge LeBlang/ Metropolitan Opera Archives. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announces The Metropolitan Opera Guild Collection, a dedicated auction of rare musical manuscripts and memorabilia, to take place in New York on June 15, 2017, with two exquisite pieces of jewelry to be sold in the Magnificent Jewels auction on June 20, 2017. Funds from the sale will benefit the Opera Guild and the Metropolitan Opera. Highlights will be previewed during a global tour with... [Lire la suite]

Dragon from Clavis Artis, an alchemy manuscript created in Germany in the late 17th or early 18th century, attributed to the Persian Zoroaster (Zarathustra). Clavis Artis is the title of an alchemy manuscript created in Germany in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century, attributed to the Persian Zoroaster (Zarathustra). The work is in three volumes of medium format, two of which are illustrated here. The text is in German Gothic script cursive and is accompanied by numerous... [Lire la suite]

« Tout autre chose… que les lettres et la philosophie, est pour moi du temps perdu ». Marcel Proust. Paris, mai 2016 – Il est exceptionnel de voir surgir sur le marché les archives d’un grand écrivain. Après la Bibliothèque de Stéphane Mallarmé*, la vente, le 31 mai prochain chez Sotheby’s à Paris, de la collection de l’arrière-petite-nièce de Marcel Proust, Patricia Mante- Proust, représente donc un véritable événement littéraire. Cette collection émouvante invite amateurs et bibliophiles à pénétrer... [Lire la suite]

Lot 12, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Autograph Manuscript Signed ("Conan Doyle"), entitled "The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", 34 pp, 4to, South Norwood, London, c.1893, in sepia ink on ruled paper removed from a composition book, with revisions in ink and pencil, publisher's page count in blue crayon, pp 22 & 33 versos with pencil scribbling by a child, tears and creases along edges with some slight loss not affecting text, some light spotting throughout. Housed in a custom-made red cloth portfolio with... [Lire la suite]

  Nova Legenda Anglie, first edition, London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1516. Estimate $8,000 to $12,000. NEW YORK, NY.- On Tuesday, April 12, Swann Galleries will hold an auction of Early Printed, Medical, Scientific & Travel Books, featuring early English books and travel texts focusing on the exploration of Central Asia. Standouts among the travel books include a first edition of John Biddulph’s Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh, Calcutta, 1880, previously owned by the anthropologist Sir James Frazer, writer of The... [Lire la suite]

Published in 1623, the present copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio is one of the most desirable examples remaining in private hands. Photo: Christie's Images Ltd 2016. LONDON.- Christie’s commemorates 400 years since the death of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) with a landmark sale of the first four folios, the first four editions of his collected works. The Folios will be offered in a four-lot auction celebrating the Shakespeare anniversary in London on Wednesday 25 May 2016. The sale is led by an unrecorded copy of the... [Lire la suite]

Georg and Franz Hagenberg Braun, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Cologne, circa 1572-1575. Coat-of-arms of Philipp Eduard Fugger (1546-1618) to binding
; Inscription of Paul Graf Fugger-Kirchberg-Weißenhorn (1637-1701) to upper pastedown
; (?) Dr. Werther Munich blind stamp to upper flyleaf; Otto Schäfer Stiftung, Schweinfurt, Germany. Crouch Rare Books at TEFAF 2016 © TEFAF Maastricht, 2015 Literature: Mark Häberlein, The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursing Wealth and Honour in Renaissance Germany, Virginia,... [Lire la suite]

T'oros Roslin (Armenian, active 1256-1268), Canon Table Page, 1256, Tempera and gold paint on parchment. Leaf: 26.5 x 19 cm (10 7/16 x 7 1/2 in.) The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Ms. 59, fol. 8. LOS ANGELES, CA.- The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America today announced that they have resolved their dispute over the ownership of eight illustrated pages—called Canon Tables —from the Zeyt’un Gospels, by T’oros Roslin (Armenian, active 1256 - 1268), which have been in... [Lire la suite]