Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros

Date:
1932
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/115
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 570: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    142 143 144 DUMAS (ALEXANDRE, 1802-1870). Celebrated French Novelist and Dramatist. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED, ENTITLED ‘‘LA CRIS iG 3 pages, folio. £3 10s Autograph Manuscript on the Revolution in Italy. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPS ENTITLED Qual DANE OQ,’ 1} pp., folio. £1 10s AUTOGRAPH: SLE TERE RST Nps: 4-page, 8vo. .N.D. ) 7s 6d . ~ Wrote “ Trilby.”’ FOUR AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEMS SIGNED, TWO BEING ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH. Together, 6 pp., 8vo. £3 10s The Poems comprise: | ‘‘ La Chute des Feuilles.’’ (From the French of Maillersye.) ‘‘ Ah! si vous saviez. . .’’? (From the French of Sully-Prudhomme.) ‘¢ La Chanson du Vent.’’ Two copies of this poem, one bearing the following note by du Maurier: ‘‘'Was published two or three years ago in T. M. Gazette, with cut repre- senting a broken down old French refugee in an English garret. It is much easier to render French into English than vice versa. French is a ‘ langue ingrate’ for verse, don’t you think soP’’ Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1792. Intrigued with the Austrians and Imigrants. Fled to England. | AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED TO GENERAL DE LIGNIVILLE. 2 pp., 4to. Sedan, 30th August, 1792. £5 5s Entirely on military matters. ([rans.): ‘*. . . I shall await large reinforcements which are coming up from all directions and which will enable me to help you. ‘I do not ask you to make a vigorous defense. Your brave garrison knows that the eyes of the whole of France are upon them and that they have the happiness of being able to avenge the honour of France stained by the cowardice
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