Lot 1441
STENDHAL: (1783-1842) "I was given so much opium that I was devastated.. I spent the night reading this poor Byron."

Lot 1442
BALZAC HONORÉ DE: (1799-1850) Balzac gets engaged to produce and supply a work in short term.

Lot 1443
BYRON GEORGE GORDON: (1788-1824) Byron makes final preparations to travel to Greece to assist in the War of Independence - ´ I understand that the moment of the strong conflict has arrived´

Lot 1444
SHELLEY PERCY BYSSHE: (1792-1822) ´ So vanity intoxicates people; but let those few who praise my verses & in whose approbation I take so much delight, answer for this sin´

Lot 1445
SHELLEY MARY: (1797-1851) Mary Shelley acts to protect the image of her husband

Lot 1446
HUMBOLDT ALEXANDER VON

Lot 1447
LIVINGSTONE DAVID: (1813-1873) Livingstone on peace and war - ´ I pray that the Almighty may so guide my steps as that it shall never be forced upon me to fight with either black or white´

Lot 1448
DARWIN CHARLES: (1809-1882)

Lot 1449
PASTEUR LOUIS: (1822-1895)

Lot 1450
[CURIE MARIE] (1867-1934)

Lot 1451
CURIE PIERRE: (1859-1906) Curie receives bottles of water from different sources to make tests for radioactivity

Lot 1452
BECQUEREL HENRI

Lot 1453
NOBEL ALFRED: (1833-1896)

Lot 1454
DUNANT HENRY: (1828-1910) ´ If anyone deserved to be the recipient of the first Peace Prize.....it is surely the Count de Sellon´

Lot 1455
CAMERON JULIA MARGARET: (1815-1879)

Lot 1456
NADAR: (1820-1910) An appreciation of the genius of Nadar from those who sat for him - from aeronauts and anarchists to royalty and revolutionaries

Lot 1457
ROSSINI GIOACCHINO: (1792-1868) An excellent Autograph Musical score

Lot 1458
MENDELSSOHN FELIX: (1809-1847)

Lot 1459
BERLIOZ HECTOR: (1803-1869) Berlioz inscribes a large portrait for one of his students

Lot 1460
BERLIOZ HECTOR: (1803-1869) "..this horrible storm was not enough to uproot the love that I still had deep in my heart for Henriette"

Lot 1461
LISZT FRANZ: (1811-1886)

Lot 1462
VERDI GIUSEPPE: (1813-1901) Rare Autograph Musical Quotation Signed by Verdi from Falstaff

Lot 1463
DVORAK ANTONIN: (1841-1904)

Lot 1464
DICKENS CHARLES: (1812-1870) The young Dickens offers literary advice, and writes of communicating with the dead

Lot 1465
TOLSTOY LEO: (1828-1910)

Lot 1466
HUGO VICTOR: (1802-1885)

Lot 1467
DUMAS ALEXANDRE: Fils (1824-1895) A rare twenty-four verse autograph poem

Lot 1468
TWAIN MARK: (1835-1910) Twain reacts to having a piece rejected - ´ ´Look here, Alden, you didn´ t read it´´

Lot 1469
BARYE ANTOINE-LOUIS: (1795-1875) "I accept the order consisting of a clock which will represent Apollo on a chariot drawn by four horses"

Lot 1470
BARTHOLDI FREDERIC AUGUSTE: (1834-1904)

Lot 1471
COURBET GUSTAVE An impressive large signed and inscribed photograph

Lot 1472
RENOIR PIERRE-AUGUSTE An exceptional ledger book containing, in Renoir´´s hand, the recording of the sales of his paintings,

Lot 1473
MONET CLAUDE: (1840-1926) ´ I find London more beautiful to paint every day´´

Lot 1474
ESCOFFIER AUGUSTE: (1846-1935) Escoffier prepares menus for private dinners at the Carlton Hotel

Lot 1475
EDISON THOMAS: (1847-1931)

Lot 1476
MARCONI GUGLIELMO: (1874-1937)

Lot 1477
FREUD SIGMUND: (1856-1939)

Lot 1478
FREUD SIGMUND: (1856-1939) Freud on homosexuality

Lot 1479
CARTER HOWARD: (1874-1939) 'It was a thrilling moment........on the threshold of what might prove to be a magnificent discovery'

Lot 1480
DOYLE ARTHUR CONAN: (1859-1930)

Lot 1481
LAWRENCE D.H.: (1885-1930) On Lady Chatterley´s Lover - ´ We have lived too long to be shocked by words any more´

Lot 1482
MAYAKOVSKY VLADIMIR: (1893-1930) Rare autograph statement "The brotherhood of workers and no other!´"

Lot 1483
GARCIA LORCA FEDERICO: (1898-1936) An extremely rare autograph poem by Lorca

Lot 1484
PUCCINI GIACOMO: (1858-1924) Puccini´ s first thought on Turandot "I have an idea to do a project work related to China".

Lot 1485
MODIGLIANI AMEDEO: (1884-1920) A rare original drawing signed by Modigliani and gifted to his mistress

Lot 1486
MONDRIAN PIET: (1872-1944)

Lot 1487
MATISSE HENRI: (1869-1954) "The people who seek to see the Chapel and see nothing have made me feel sorry for them"

Lot 1488
TAGORE RABINDRANATH: (1861-1941)

Lot 1489
[GANDHI MAHATMA]: (1869-1948) ROLLAND ROMAIN (1866-1944) On Gandhi - ´ that extraordinary man.......this new Christ´

Lot 1490
[GANDHI MAHATMA]: (1869-1948)

Lot 1491
GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) A wonderful signed photograph of Gandhi, captured on his birthday in 1944

Lot 1492
GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) ´ We are soldiers but are all lovers of Indian freedom´

Lot 1493
GANDHI MAHATMA: (1869-1948) A wonderfully emblematic pair of Gandhi´ s chappals, with excellent provenance

Lot 1494
FLEMING ALEXANDER: (1881-1955)

Lot 1495
EINSTEIN ALBERT

Lot 1496
CHURCHILL WINSTON S.: (1874-1965) Churchill objects to a cartoon depicting the Eighth Army as ´ a squirming little ferret´

Lot 1497
WALLENBERG RAOUL: (1912-1945)

Lot 1498
LE CORBUSIER: (1887-1965) 'I place as the cornerstone of all modern urban development the sacred respect for individual freedom'

Lot 1499
RIVERA DIEGO: (1886-1957)

Lot 1500
DUCHAMP MARCEL: (1887-1968)

Lot 1501
COCTEAU JEAN: (1889-1963)

Lot 1502
PICASSO PABLO: (1881-1973) Picasso signed exhibition catalogue with an original drawing of a fish in profile

Lot 1503
PICASSO & HIS CIRCLE Illustrated with 'self-portraits' by Picasso & Dora Maar

Lot 1504
BRETON, ELUARD & THE CZECH SURREALISTS

Lot 1505
ELUARD PAUL: (1895-1952) A rare autograph poem related to assassinated authors

Lot 1506
DALI GALA: (1894-1982) ´ Les amities de Dali´

Lot 1507
DALI SALVADOR: (1904-1989)

Lot 1508
MIRO JOAN: (1893-1983) An extremely rare example of one of Miro´ s most iconic designs

Lot 1509
GIACOMETTI ALBERTO: (1901-1966) ´ It gives me great pleasure that these two marbles should enter your collection´

Lot 1510
ORWELL GEORGE: (1903-1950) Orwell finds himself critically ill in hospital during the writing of Nineteen Eighty-Four - ´ I´ d done about half my novel & shan´t touch it again till I´m well´´

Lot 1511
THOMAS DYLAN: (1914-1953) Thomas writes in support of a fellow Welsh poet

Lot 1512
HEMINGWAY ERNEST: (1899-1961) On Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Carole Landis and more....

Lot 1513
CHAPLIN CHARLES: (1889-1977) Incorporating a self-caricature as the Little Tramp

Lot 1514
DEAN JAMES: (1931-1955) ´ I haven´ t written because I have fallen in love. It had to happen sooner or later´

Lot 1515
STRAVINSKY IGOR: (1882-1971) ``"We stage The Song of the Nightingale, conducted by Ansermet, whom Diaghilev had brought especially for this occasion."

Lot 1516
GAGARIN YURI: (1934-1968) Signed by Gagarin on the day that he met Queen Elizabeth II

Lot 1517
KENNEDY JOHN F.: (1917-1963)

Lot 1518
GIONO JEAN: (1895-1970) A poignant autograph love letter by Giono

Lot 1519
SIMENON GEORGES: (1903-1989) "..for twenty years I have not received a gift. Except this morning, to mark with a pink stone.."

Lot 1520
LENNON JOHN: (1940-1980) Lennon to Clapton - ´ you could make the kind of sound that could bring back the Balls in rock n roll´