DEGAS, Edgar: Rare and antiquarian books, inscribed books and letters, and manuscripts

An opera painting travels to London; Degas greets his close friend James Tissot
An opera painting travels to London; Degas greets his close friend James Tissot
Edgar DEGAS
Lettre autographe signée d'Edgar Degas adressée à Charles Deschamps
Paris s. d. [années 1870]|10.80 x 17.10 cm|trois pages sur un feuillet double
Autograph letter dated and signed by Edgar Degas, addressed to the dealer Charles Deschamps, director of Durand-Ruel’s London branch. Three pages in ink on a bifolium.
Minor marginal tears not affecting the text, folds from mailing.
Recently returned from New Orleans, Degas writes to his London dealer to announce the imminent arrival of a delicate composition of dancers, Le Foyer de la danse à l’Opéra de la rue Le Peletier, now held at the Musée d’Orsay: "In the meantime you will receive the little picture you saw in progress and which you had the idea of selling to Mr. Huth - May you succeed! [...] As for the price, it seems to me that £15
€4,000
Edgar DEGAS
Lettre autographe inédite signéeUnpublished autograph letter signed
Dieppe 1er septembre 1885|22.40 x 17.70 cm|4 pages sur un double feuillet
Unpublished autograph letter signed

Dieppe | 1 September 1885 | 22.4 x 17.7 cm | one folded sheet under custom slipcase

Unpublished signed autograph letter from Edgar Degas to an unknown correspondent. 4 pages in black ink on one folded sheet. Central fold inherent to the way the letter was folded.his letter is presented in a chemise and case with paper boards decorated with abstract motifs, the spine of the chemise in green morocco, pastedowns and endpapers of green suede, slipcase signed by Thomas Boichot.
A handsome unpublished letter, testimony to Degas' other great passion after dance: song.he Parisian premiere of Ernest Rayer's Wagne
€6,000
Edgar DEGAS, Georges William THORNLEY
15 lithographies d'après Degas
Boussod, Valadon & Cie|Paris s. d. [1889]|41 x 59 cm|en feuilles sous portefeuille de l'éditeur
15 lithographies d'après Degas [15 lithographs after Degas]
Boussod, Valadon & C^ie| Paris [1889] | folio (41 x 59 cm) | loose leaves under the publisher's portfolio

First and only edition published of this remarkable set of 15 original lithographs from the post-impressionist painter George William Thornley, only 100 copies printed.
Publisher's portfolio bound in boards very skilfully restored.
14 of the 15 lithographs are printed in colour (black, blue, green, mauve and different browns) on broadside China paper laid on pale blue thick paper, one is directly printed on thick paper.
All except the last, bear the stamp of Tho
€20,000
Paul CÉZANNE, Edgar DEGAS
L'eau. - Catalogue de l'exposition consacrée à l'eau à la galerie Georges Bernheim jeune du 26 Juin au 13 Juillet 1911"L'Eau" - Catalogue of the exhibition devoted to water at the Georges Bernheim jeune gallery from 26 June to 13 July 1911
Galerie Georges Bernheim jeune & Cie|Paris 1911|12.50 x 16.50 cm|agrafé
“L'Eau” – Catalogue of the exhibition devoted to water at the Georges Bernheim jeune gallery from 26 June to 13 July 1911
Galerie Georges Bernheim jeune &Cie

| Paris 1911 | 12.5 x 16.5 cm | stapled

First edition of this exhibition catalogue showing 63 works to do with water at the Georges Bernheim jeune gallery from 26 June to 13 July 1911.
A good and rare copy despite a faint marginal dampstain to upper cover.

Among the exhibiting artists were: Pierre Bonnard, Eugène Boudin, Paul Cézanne,
Camille Corot, Gustave Courbet, Henri-Edmond Cross, Honoré Daumier, Edgar Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Maurice Denis, Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh,
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Edgar DEGAS
Lettres de Degas
Grasset|Paris 1931|12 x 19 cm|broché
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Edgar DEGAS
Lettres de Degas
Grasset|Paris 1931|12 x 19 cm|broché
First edition, one of the copies on alfa.
Preface by Daniel Halévy, a very good copy.
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