WHISTLER, James McNeill: Rare and antiquarian books, inscribed books and letters, and manuscripts

Stéphane MALLARMÉ (to Alidor DELZANT)
"j'ai honte d'avoir fui dans ma verdure au moment même où Whistler parlait de mon portrait à faire"Signed autograph letter card and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant
Valvins 23 juin 1898|8.90 x 11.50 cm|une carte recto verso - enveloppe jointe
Autograph letter-card signed by Stéphane Mallarmé addressed to Alidor Delzant, written in black ink on both sides. With the original envelope.
Enclosed with this letter is a quatrain in Mallarmé’s hand: "Tout en les éternisant / Bracquemond ici fait vivre / Les traits d'Alidor Delzant / A nous ouvert comme un livre."
Alidor Delzant was a lawyer, collector, and bibliophile. A friend of the Goncourt brothers, he devoted a book to them and served as Edmond’s secretary and testamentary executor.
A delightful card in which the “poëte ordinaire” refers to the making of his portrait by his friend, the painter Whistler: "j'ai
€4,000
Very rare complete set of the celebrated original lithograph by Le Douanier Rousseau: "La Guerre".
Very rare complete set of the celebrated original lithograph by Le Douanier Rousseau: "La Guerre".
Alfred JARRY, LE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU
L'YmagierComplete collection, from No. 1 to No. 8
L'Ymagier|Paris [Paris] Octobre 1894- Décembre 1896|21.50 x 27 cm ; 23.40 x 29.50 cm |8 fascicules brochés sous chemises et étuis
First edition, one of 515 copies.

The set of 8 issues is housed under two half-oasis black folders, flat spines, gilt dates at foot, decorative paper boards, lined in green paper, set signed by Atelier Laurenchet. Minor lacks of paper and tears to some spines and boards, some spines with slight r
€18,000
Théodore DURET, James WHISTLER
Histoire de J.Mc N. Whistler
Henri Floury|Paris 1904|20 x 26 cm|relié
Henri Floury, Paris 1904, 20x26cm, bound.

First edition, one of 50 numbered copies on Japon, the only deluxe issue, complete with the double set of full-page engravings.
Illustrated with 19 full-page engravings after Whistler par H. de J. W., Prunaire, Henry Wolf, H. Guérard, T. Beltrand, Thomas R. Way, Clot and numerous drawings within the text.
Half red morocco with binding, smooth spine, gilt date at foot, red marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns, very discreet scratch to the second board, original soft covers preserved, gilt top edge, contemporary binding signed Pouillet.
A fine, perfectly bound copy.
Copy signed and inscribed by Théodore Duret to
€1,200
Alfred JARRY, Remy de GOURMONT
L'Ymagier. Collection complète du N°1 au N°8
L'Ymagier|Paris Octobre 1894- Décembre 1896|21.50 x 27 cm|broché
First edition, one of 515 copies.

First editions of texts by Alfred Jarry and Rémy de Gourmont. Illustrated with c. 300 engravings, reproductions of 15th and 16th century woodcuts, large colored images, pages from old books, miniatures, lithographs, woodcuts, original drawings and prints by Rémy de Gourmont, Alfred Jarry (under the pseudonym Alain Jans), Henri Le Douanier Rousseau, James Whistler, Paul Gauguin, Eric Forbes-Robertson, L. Roy, Jossot, A. Seguin, O'Connor, Charles Filiger, Georges d'Espagnat, Emile Bernard and so on.

- N°1 : 68 numbered pages comprising a leaf bearing a title and a miniature by Filiger printed in mauve, a Head of a Martyr by R.G. (Rémy de
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James McNeill WHISTLER

"j'ai honte d'avoir fui dans ma verdure au moment même où Whistler parlait de mon portrait à faire"Signed autograph letter card and signed autograph quatrain addressed to Alidor Delzant

L'YmagierComplete collection, from No. 1 to No. 8

Histoire de J.Mc N. Whistler

L'Ymagier. Collection complète du N°1 au N°8