Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros

Date:
1928
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/64
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 506: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUTOGRAPHS—continued. 854 LOUIS DAUPHIN (1781-1789). Eldest son of the ill-fated Louis XVI. King of France. Autograph Writing Exercise Signed “ Louis Dauphin.” I page, 4to. Dated 7th July, 1788. £10 10s Exceedingly rare; he dying at the age of seven years just at the outbreak of the Revolution. His younger brother the unfortunate Louis Charles (Louis XVII.) becoming Dauphin in his stead. The Exercise reads ‘‘ Hors la vertu rien de beau’’; this is repeated five times on the sheet of paper. 855 LOUYS (rrerre, 1870-1925). French Novelist and Poet. Autograph Notes by Pierre Louys on the Poets of the Eighteenth Century. 118 pp., 12mo, 8vo and 4to. : £42 Manuscript Notes by Pierre Louys, on the Poets of the eighteenth century, divided under the following headings :— Poétes. Dix-huitiéme siécle. Romans. Dix-huitiéme siécle. Romans. 1789-1815. Recueil des Plaisantes et facétieuses Nouvelles. Anvers 1555. Dictionnaire de Leroux. Le Livre de la Toute Belle sans pair qui est la Vierge Marie (1516). Les Escraignes Dijonnoises, 1588. Pierre de |’Estoile bibliophile. L’ Auteur du ‘‘ Moyen de Parvenir.’’ 1610? Choiseul—Meuse. Chronique scandaleuse de Roanne en 1808. Journal de la Mise de Valori, 1841-1842. P. E. de Lafont, chevalier des Roussettes. Nic Borbonii Nugae, 1533-1538. Prosateurs. Seiziéme siécle. Niphus de Pulchro et de Amore, 1529, Conteurs. Seiziéme siécle. Poétes. Seiziéme siécle. Histoire Macaronique de Merlin Coccaie, 1606. Synode des Tribades, 1608. Parthénios. Scalion de Virbluneau. Blason des Basquines et Vertugalles. Etc., ete.
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