AUTOGRAPH LETTERS, MANUSCRIPTS & HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AUCTION

GROTIUS HUGO: (1583-1645) Dutch Humanist, Diplomat, Lawyer, Theologian, Jurist, Poet & Playwright. A rare A.L.S., H Grotius, one page, folio, n.p....

MONTESQUIEU: (1689-1755) Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brede et de Montesquieu. French Judge, Historian and political Philosopher. Montes...

VOLTAIRE: (1694-1778) French Enlightenment Writer and Philosopher. Voltaire is a pseudonym, his name being François-Marie Arouet. Voltaire is know...

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. An interesting autograph manuscript, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. [1745-48], in Fre...

ROUSSEAU JEAN-JACQUES: (1712-1778) French Writer and Philosopher. A very fine and interesting autograph manuscript, one page, 4to, n.p., n.d. [174...

CONSTANT BENJAMIN: (1767-1830) Swiss-French Writer, Political Thinker and Activist. A fervent classical Liberal. He was a protégé and collaborator...

‘I attach great importance in written examinations’ TOCQUEVILLE ALEXIS DE: (1805-1859) French aristocrat, diplomat, political scientist, political...

BENTHAM JEREMY: (1748-1832) English philosopher, jurist and social reformer, regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Autograph Manuscrip...

CARLYLE THOMAS: (1795-1881) Scottish historian, philosopher, essayist & mathematician. D.S., T. Carlyle, one page, oblong 12mo, n.p., 27th April n...

BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) French Novelist and Playwright. Best known for his masterwork novel La Comedie Humaine, a multi-novel collection of ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A.L.S., `Alex Dumas´, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d., to Mons...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Père (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A.L.S., `Alex. Dumas´, one page, 5.5 X 4.5, n.p., n.d. [...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE Pere: (1802-1870) French Writer whose works include The Three Musketeers. A.L.S., `Alex Dumas´, a large bold black ink signature, ...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE Fils: (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. A.L.S., `A. Dumas´, two pages, to a 4.5 x 3.5 grey oblong card, n.p., n.d., to an u...

DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) French Author and Dramatist. A.L.S., A Dumas, one page, 8vo, n.p., n.d. [June 1861], to Madame Porcher, in Frenc...

FLAUBERT GUSTAVE: (1821-1880) French novelist. A significant autograph manuscript, unsigned, three pages, folio, n.p., n.d. (c.1857), in French. F...

PUVIS DE CHAVANNES PIERRE: (1824-1898) French Painter. Best known for his works on mural painting. Zola described his work as `An Art made of Reas...

PUVIS DE CHAVANNES PIERRE: (1824-1898) French Painter. Best known for his works on mural painting. Zola described his work as `An Art made of Reas...

ROSTAND EDMOND: (1868-1918) French Poet. Best known for his play Cyrano de Bergerac. A fine A.L.S. `Edmond Rostand´, two pages, written to the fir...

APOLLINAIRE GUILLAUME: (1880-1918) French Poet, Playwright and Novelist. One of the forefathers of Surrealism, Apollinaire is credited with coinin...

ELUARD PAUL: (1895-1952) French Poet, widely considered one of the founders of the surrealist movement. A.L.S., `Paul Eluard´, a large and good bo...

COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963) French Writer, Playwright, Artist, Designer & Filmmaker. A printed 8vo programme for a performance of Igor Stravinsky's ...

SAINT-EXUPERY ANTOINE DE: (1900-1944) French writer, poet, aristocrat, journalist and pioneering aviator, remembered for his novella The Little Pr...

MALRAUX ANDRE: (1901-1976) French novelist. Signed 5 x 7 photograph, the image depicting Malraux seated in a three-quarter length pose reading wha...

BARJAVEL RENÉ: (1911-1985) French science fiction Author. A bold black ink Autograph Statement signed `R. Barjavel´, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., 6...

IONESCO EUGENE: (1909-1994) Romanian-French Playwright & Dramatist. A printed 4to handbill announcing a performance of Virginia Woolf's play Fresh...

IONESCO EUGENE: (1909-1994) Romanian-French Playwright, a foremost figure of the French Avant-Garde Theatre. A good content T.L.S., `Eugene Ionesc...

SCHILLER FRIEDRICH: (1759-1805) German Poet, Philosopher and Playwright. An extremely rare annotation in Schiller´s hand to a clipped 4 x 2 piece,...

SCHILLER FRIEDRICH: (1759-1805) German Poet, Philosopher and Playwright. An extremely rare fragment of an autograph manuscript, unsigned, two page...

GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON: (1749-1832) German Writer and Philosopher. His poetry and dramatic works provided source material for Beethoven, Schub...

Turgenev to Zola, referring to his forbidden work Nana in Russia TURGENEV IVAN: (1818-1883) Russian Novelist and Playwright. Very rare A.L.S., `I....

‘Your ideas……on the odious ownership of land, on the horror of patriotism, of wars and of the armed peace it engenders, are very dear to me’ TOLST...

[GORKY MAXIM]: (1868-1936) Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, Russian Writer and political socialist Activist. A fine set of three original photographs, u...

KOUPRIN ALEXANDER: (1870-1938) Russian Writer, Pilot, Explorer and Adventurer. Best known for his story The Duel. A.L.S., `A. Kuprin´, in Cyrillic...

TOMASI DI LAMPEDUSA GIUSEPPE: (1896-1957) Italian Writer, the last Prince of Lampedusa. Rare signed and inscribed book by Lampedusa, being a 4to p...

HERZL THEODOR: (1860-1904) Austro-Hungarian Jewish journalist, playwright and writer who was the father of modern political Zionism. A.L.S., Th. H...

ASCH SHALOM: (1880-1957) Polish-Jewish novelist and dramatist in the Yiddish language. T.L.S., Shalom, one page, 4to, Nice, 7th December 1936, to ...

VELIKOVSKY IMMANUEL: (1895-1979) Russian-born Israeli American scholar, author of Worlds in Collision (1950) and a leading figure in the formation...

REINHARDT MAX & WERFEL FRANZ: Three signed clipped 12mo pieces, one inscribed, and carefully affixed to an 8.5 x 10.5 page (21,5 x 27 cm) removed ...

MOLNAR FERENC: (1878-1952) Hungarian-born American author, dramatist and poet. Vintage signed sepia postcard photograph of Molnar in a head and sh...

CONSCIENCE HENDRIK: (1812-1883) Belgian Author. He fought as Belgian revolutionary and was popular for his romantic nationalist novels, considered...

HOWARD ROBERT: (1626-1698) English playwright and politician who fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Manuscript D.S., Ro: Howa...

ADDISON JOSEPH: (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. D.S., J. Addison, one page, 4to, Whitehall, 29th January 1717/8. Th...

RICHARDSON SAMUEL: (1689-1761) English writer and printer, author of Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748). D.S., S. Richardson, one pag...

FIELDING HENRY: (1707-1754) English novelist of the comic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749). Alongside Samuel Richardson, Fieldin...

DE QUINCEY THOMAS: (1785-1859) English writer, essayist and literary critic, remembered for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Auto...

THACKERAY WILLIAM MAKEPEACE: (1811-1863) British novelist, author and illustrator. An interesting series of original pen and ink sketches by Thack...

DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) English novelist. Autograph envelope (front panel only) signed, addressed by Dickens to Mrs. [Elizabeth] Gaskell at P...

JAMES M. R. (1862-1936) English author, remembered for his ghost stories. Ink signature ('M R James') and five additional lines of text in his han...

JOYCE JAMES: (1882-1941) Irish Novelist. Regarded as one of the more influential writers of the 20th century, he is best known for his work Ulysse...

MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET: (1874-1965) English playwright and novelist. Brief T.L.S., W. S. Maugham, one page, 8vo, Villa Mauresque, St. Jean-Cap Ferrat...

MAUGHAM W. SOMERSET: (1874-1965) English playwright & novelist. Signed and inscribed 4.5 x 6.5 photograph, an engaging image of Maugham seated in ...

GARNETT DAVID: (1892-1981) British writer, a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group. T.L.S., David, one page, 4to (folding air mail stationery),...

‘Do you correspond with a great number of strangers in this way?’  WAUGH EVELYN: (1903-1966) English novelist and book reviewer. A.L.S., Evelyn Wa...

GREENE GRAHAM: (1904-1991) English Novelist. T.L.S., Graham Greene, one page, 8vo, Antibes, 9th September 1975, to Michael Rubinstein. Greene writ...

JOHNS W.E.: (1893-1968) English writer of adventure stories, creator of the fictional air pilot and adventurer Biggles. A.L.S., William E Johns, o...

BRAINE JOHN: (1922-1986) English novelist of Room at the Top (1957), one of the English writers known as the 'angry young men'. A.L.S., John Brain...

RUSHDIE SALMAN: (1947-     ) British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent, author of the controversial novel The Satanic Verses (1988)...

ANDERSEN HANS CHRISTIAN: (1805-1875) Danish Author and Poet, famous for his fairy tales. A charming autograph poem, unsigned, one page, 8vo, Rolig...

RANSOME ARTHUR: (1884-1967) English author and journalist, best known for writing and illustrating the Swallows and Amazons series of children's b...