Théophile Dondey dit Philotée O'NEDDY.

Posthumous poetry. Paris, Georges Charpentier, 1877. Attached from the same : OEuvres en prose. Novels and tales. Theatrical criticism. Letters. Paris, Georges Charpentier, 1878. 2 volumes in-12 of (2) ff, 496 pp., (1) f. ; 1 portrait, (4) ff, 354 pp. Half red morocco in the Bradel style, smooth spines, not trimmed, covers and spine preserved (F. Champs). First collective editions. One of the ten copies on China paper (n° 4 for the first one, not justified for the other one). Perfect copies. An autograph letter signed "Th. Dondey de Santenay", dated Wednesday, August 23, 1843, is bound at the head. About a place, probably for the theater. He worries about the health of his correspondent who has just been operated on by M. Jobert de Lamballe and cries out, his interlocutor having qualified him as a young man and a happy man: "I have ceased to deserve the first of these two so enviable titles: I am 32 years old; I date from 1811! I have never deserved the second one; I am part of the innumerable crowd of pitiful creatures who spend their lives grumbling against fate [...]". Enclosed: Unpublished letter from Philotée O'Neddy author of : Feu et Flamme, on the romantic literary group called the Bousingos. Paris, R. Rouquette, 1875. Booklet in-8, red half-calf with corners of the time. First edition of this famous letter of Philotée O'Neddy addressed to Charles Asselineau on September 23, 1862. Limited edition of 110 copies : One of the ten first copies on Chine.