Autographs, Documents & Manuscripts / Autographs & Letters

[AUTOGRAPH]. ROUSSIN, Admiral Albin Reine. [Autograph letter, signed, to Louis-Marie Bajot].
Rochefort, 31 August 1818. Double-leaf (31.3 x 20 cm). In French. 2 pp. text. 2 pp. text. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. RUGENDAS, Johann Moritz. [Autograph letter signed ("Mor. Rugendas") to an unnamed recipient].
Munich, 21 December 1852. 8vo (22 x 14 cm). In German.
With: (2) [AUTOGRAPH]. REGNET, Carl Albert. [Manuscript note about Rugendas, signed ("Regnet")].
Munich, 13 January 1869. In German. [4]; [2], [2 blank] pp. Full description

SPEIJK, Jan Carel Josephus van. [Autograph letter to Johan Arnould Zoutman jr].
On board his gunboat "Z.M. kanonneerboot no. 2" off the coast level with 't Wiel, near Antwerp, 13 October 1830. 4to (25 x 22.5 cm). Folded. [1] leaf. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. STANLEY, Henry Morton. [Autograph letter, signed].
[London]. 1900 8vo. Signed autograph letter from the African explorer Henry Morton Stanley to the governor of Natal and Zululand Sir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson, written on paper with an embossed address. 1, [1 blank] pp. Full description

SWART, Henri Nicolas Alfred. Two autograph letters to Horace Gybland Oosterhoff.
Brussels, 3 October and 7 October 1936. Folio. Folded. [1] and [2] ll. Full description

TOUSSAINT, Franz. Le jardin des caresses.
May and June 1936. 11.5 x 12 cm. Manuscript in French written by the author in blank ink a neat 20th-century hand in one column. Chapter divisions are made in the form of a calligraphic leaf, drawn in the same black ink as the text. Bound in contemporary richly gold-tooled arabesque beige morocco with a flap at the front-edge, covered with gold-tooled green morocco on the inside, purple and white head and end bands, gold and light blue endpapers. Stored in a professionally made beige morocco box (ca. 15 x 15 cm) with a gold-tooled three-line fillet frame on the boards, on the inside covered with light pink silk, title in gold on the spine. [3 blank], [141], [13 blank] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. TROYER, Antony. Letter to the French orientalist Joseph Toussaint Reinaud.
Paris (Rue de la Pépinière), 18 October 1848. Small 4to. Autograph letter, signed, written in ink on paper. Folded. [1], [2 blank], [1] pp. Full description

[AUTOGRAPH]. TRUGUET, Comte Laurent Jean François. [Autograph letters, signed, to several recipients, mostly military colleagues and government officials].
Paris, 1815-1839. 8vo (mostly ca. 19 x 13 cm). 10 signed autograph letters in French, plus a draft for another, written in ink on laid and wove paper, 3 with their red wax seals or parts of seals (2 more with traces of former seals), and 6 with recipients' addresses. [24] ll. incl. 2 blanks. Full description

VERSTER VAN WULVERHORST, Abraham Hendrik van. Two signed autograph letters to Hermann Schlegel.
Noordwijk, 10 March and 9 October 1834. Folio (23 x 38.5 cm & 26 x 44 cm). 2 autograph letters, each written on a single leaf and folded for posting with the address and remnants of a seal. [2] ll. Full description

[LETTER]. VOYSIN, Daniel. [Signed letter to Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, duc du Maine].
Versailles, 27 April 1710. Half sheet (32 x 21 cm). French letter in dark brown ink on laid paper in a legible hand, written on both sides, with a small part of the letter ending on the back, followed by the address and the Voysin's signature; the latter in black ink. [2] pp. Full description