AUTOGRAPH LETTER AND RARE 1ST EDITION OF HIS BOOK ‘HASHISH’
DE MONFREID
(Henry, 1879-1974, French Adventurer and Explorer)
Autograph Letter Signed in French with translation to an unnamed correspondent
saying that he takes “ the liberty of abusing your kindness to ask you to kindly deliver this urgent note to Mr Picentini in Harrar. You may find him on the way. I hope to go up to Araoué on Sunday and bring you some current books...”, 1 side 8vo., 22nd May 1936, together with a photocopy of a letter from the Commandant’s Office of Suez City Police to D. J. Mill-Irving a Vice-Consul at Port-Tewfik and the list of information about De Monfreid’s movements and activities and two photos of him on a boat and on a beach annotated as ‘the Red Sea near Port Sudan’, and a first edition in this translation of his book ‘Hashish’, 8vo., in original black cloth, Methuen,
Item Date:
1935
Stock No:
43033
£575
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DOLLFUS
(Charles, 1893-1981, Balloonist, the first Frenchman to cross the Atlantic both ways)
Autograph Letter Signed, 'Charles Dollfus aéronaute', in French with translation,
to 'My dear friend', thanking him for "your books", the first confirms that "Charles Dollfus was on friendly terms with George Sand. He was actually my great-uncle ... and a close friend of Renan. I have not had this work of his and will derive all the more pleasure from it", he has not come across "the other little volume - with the balloon ... It is a curious document on the state of ultra-patriotic fervour at the time of Boulangism, and the author, to read him, was not easy to get on with, unless he was simply a placid bourgeois in a state of mental excitement", he was just telephoning Gallimard's "to reserve the Restif for you, when they told me you were in the building", saying that when he gets back he will "be delighted to see your collection" and to show him "some boxes and shelves of books at my place", and asking if he knows "this splendid writing paper", fine large pictorial heading of a 19th c. balloon with the balloonist and five passengers, one holding the French flag, 2 sides folio, Paris 16e., 30th March
Item Date:
1931
Stock No:
52781
£375
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DU CHAILLU
(Paul Belloni, 1831-1903, French Explorer in Africa)
Signature and end of an Autograph Letter Signed
with some text “regard. Believe me dear Sir Roderick, yours very sincerely... my address care of G. M. Belder Esq, Carmel, Putnam County, New York State...”, 5” x 2”, no place, no date
Item Date:
0
Stock No:
42941
£125
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DUKE
(Charles Moss, b. 1935, Explored the Moon's surface in Apollo 16)
Fine official photograph in full colour, incorporating facsimile signature,
showing him half length in astronaut's clothes, full face, his hands on a large lunar globe, 1 side 10" x 8", no place, c.
Item Date:
1972
Stock No:
51733
£75
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[DUKE
(Charles Moss, b. 1935, Explored the Moon's surface in Apollo 16)]
Official photograph in black & white, with facsimile signature 'Charlie Duke',
showing him full length walking on the Moon's surface towards the viewer and saluting with the module in the background, 4¾" x 3¼", the facsimile signature in a separate window on mount 10" x 6¼", the Moon,
very light scuff in grey top margin of mount
Item Date:
1972
Stock No:
54026
£125
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