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Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de SADE. Recueil, Autographes du marquis de Sade, de ses proches, de ses familiers et des personnages épisodiques cités dans son histoire. Collection de Gilbert Lely, 1959; 115 letters or pieces mounted on tabs on sheets of Japon paper, all bound in one volume in-fol. black morocco, framing gilt fillet and gilt Sade coat-of-arms on boards, inner frame with triple gilt fillet, slipcase (Ad. Lavaux). Precious compendium of the Sade collection by Gilbert Lely, the great publisher and biographer of the Marquis de Sade, with 15 letters or manuscripts by the Marquis, and numerous documents concerning him. The poet Gilbert Lely (1904-1985) devoted much of his life to the Marquis de Sade, publishing his Œuvres complètes in 15 volumes (Cercle du Livre précieux, 1962-1964), and a monumental biography, Vie du marquis de Sade (Gallimard, 2 vols., 1952-1957; new revised and expanded edition, Pauvert 1985, and Mercure de France 2004). At the head of the volume, the autograph title is followed by an autograph poem by Gilbert Lely, Songe double, evoking the memory of Sade. In his own hand, Lely has drawn up a table of the documents in this collection (with cross-references to the Gallimard edition of his Life), followed by an analysis and index. We have added to this table below. 1. Bond subscribed in 1599 by Gabrielle de Sade, baronne de Semblançay, vicomtesse de Tours (1529-1576), bearing her signature three times, and as collateral, that of her daughter Charlotte de Beaune, marquise de Noirmoutier. [I, 33]. 2. Seal of Jean-Baptiste de Sade, bishop of Cavaillon (1663-1707). 3. Certificate of nobility for the de Sade family, 1715. 4. Manuscript genealogy. 5. Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de Sade: P.A. (1p. in-4), declaration of identity: "I am the son of Mr le Comte de Sade ci devant lieutenant general de Bresse demeurant rue basse du rampart a Paris, and of Marie Eleonore de Maillé Comtesse de Sade allié a la cinquieme generation a la maison de Condé. I married Mademoiselle de Montreuil daughter of Mr le president de Montreuil president at the Court of Aids and Mademoiselle de Plissai dite dame de Montreuil". 6. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: autograph manuscript, fragment of portrait of Mlle de L*** (1p. oblong in-12, erasures and corrections) [I, 308]. "Amour me permets tu de lever un instant la gaze qui derobe aux yeux des mortels les charmes delicieux dont tu daignes me permettre la vue"... 6 bis. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to Gaspard Gaufridy, [October 1775]. (3p. in-4, adr.) [Correspondance (Lély), LXII]. "Vous vous etes faché bien promptement contre moi, mon cher avocat"..., concerning an altercation with the grand-maître over his presentation to the court. 7. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to an abbé, Paris [February 1777] (1p. in-4) [Correspondance (Lély), LXXIV]. "La mort de ma mere, mon cher abbé m'a fait arriver ici"... 8. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to his wife, [September 1778] (4p. in-4, filled with small, tight handwriting) [Correspondance (Lély), XCI]. Long account of his arrest on August 26. 9. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to his wife, [ca. August-September 1781] (4p. in-8, envelope). "Je defie Monsieur de Rougemont de pouvoir dire que depuis votre derniere visite j'ai ni rien dit ni rien ecrit qui puisse prouver que ma tete s'échauffe"... 9 bis. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: autograph manuscript, sheet from the lost ms of Aline et Valcour, containing on the recto an unpublished passage with corresponding note, crossed out by the author, and which would have appeared after the 8th line on p.322 of volume III, part 6 of the original edition. In an indication to the printer, Sade himself "protests" against this passage, which is an apology for nobility, and does not want it published (2p. in-4). 10. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A.S. to Gaspard Gaufridy. 7 floréal III (April 26, 1795) (3p. in-4). "Vous ne remplisses pas mes conditions, Citoyen, et par consequent je vous declare que ma bastide n'est pas vendue"... 11. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: autograph manuscript, unknown fragment of La Marquise de Telême (lower half of an in-4 sheet, 2p.) ... "devrai-je payer ce bonheur que vous ne m'avez pas fait sentir"... 12. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. (minute) to the administrators of the Théâtre-Français, [late 1813] (2p. in-4) [Correspondance (Lély), CCLXXXVII], presenting them with a "tragedy in five acts, whose subject seems to me to suit the circumstances", signed "L'auteur de Jeanne Laisné & & &". 13. Madame de Saint-Germain: L.A. to Abbé de Sade in Avignon, 18 [April 1768] (2p. and a half in-4, adr.), about the Arcueil affair, "a day forever disastrous for the house of Sade"... [I, 241]. 14. Claude de Launay, president of Montreuil: L.A.S. to Abbé de Sade at Château de Saumane, Paris April 19, 17
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Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de SADE. Recueil, Autographes du marquis de Sade, de ses proches, de ses familiers et des personnages épisodiques cités dans son histoire. Collection de Gilbert Lely, 1959; 115 letters or pieces mounted on tabs on sheets of Japon paper, all bound in one volume in-fol. black morocco, framing gilt fillet and gilt Sade coat-of-arms on boards, inner frame with triple gilt fillet, slipcase (Ad. Lavaux). Precious compendium of the Sade collection by Gilbert Lely, the great publisher and biographer of the Marquis de Sade, with 15 letters or manuscripts by the Marquis, and numerous documents concerning him. The poet Gilbert Lely (1904-1985) devoted much of his life to the Marquis de Sade, publishing his Œuvres complètes in 15 volumes (Cercle du Livre précieux, 1962-1964), and a monumental biography, Vie du marquis de Sade (Gallimard, 2 vols., 1952-1957; new revised and expanded edition, Pauvert 1985, and Mercure de France 2004). At the head of the volume, the autograph title is followed by an autograph poem by Gilbert Lely, Songe double, evoking the memory of Sade. In his own hand, Lely has drawn up a table of the documents in this collection (with cross-references to the Gallimard edition of his Life), followed by an analysis and index. We have added to this table below. 1. Bond subscribed in 1599 by Gabrielle de Sade, baronne de Semblançay, vicomtesse de Tours (1529-1576), bearing her signature three times, and as collateral, that of her daughter Charlotte de Beaune, marquise de Noirmoutier. [I, 33]. 2. Seal of Jean-Baptiste de Sade, bishop of Cavaillon (1663-1707). 3. Certificate of nobility for the de Sade family, 1715. 4. Manuscript genealogy. 5. Donatien-Alphonse-François, marquis de Sade: P.A. (1p. in-4), declaration of identity: "I am the son of Mr le Comte de Sade ci devant lieutenant general de Bresse demeurant rue basse du rampart a Paris, and of Marie Eleonore de Maillé Comtesse de Sade allié a la cinquieme generation a la maison de Condé. I married Mademoiselle de Montreuil daughter of Mr le president de Montreuil president at the Court of Aids and Mademoiselle de Plissai dite dame de Montreuil". 6. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: autograph manuscript, fragment of portrait of Mlle de L*** (1p. oblong in-12, erasures and corrections) [I, 308]. "Amour me permets tu de lever un instant la gaze qui derobe aux yeux des mortels les charmes delicieux dont tu daignes me permettre la vue"... 6 bis. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to Gaspard Gaufridy, [October 1775]. (3p. in-4, adr.) [Correspondance (Lély), LXII]. "Vous vous etes faché bien promptement contre moi, mon cher avocat"..., concerning an altercation with the grand-maître over his presentation to the court. 7. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to an abbé, Paris [February 1777] (1p. in-4) [Correspondance (Lély), LXXIV]. "La mort de ma mere, mon cher abbé m'a fait arriver ici"... 8. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to his wife, [September 1778] (4p. in-4, filled with small, tight handwriting) [Correspondance (Lély), XCI]. Long account of his arrest on August 26. 9. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. to his wife, [ca. August-September 1781] (4p. in-8, envelope). "Je defie Monsieur de Rougemont de pouvoir dire que depuis votre derniere visite j'ai ni rien dit ni rien ecrit qui puisse prouver que ma tete s'échauffe"... 9 bis. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: autograph manuscript, sheet from the lost ms of Aline et Valcour, containing on the recto an unpublished passage with corresponding note, crossed out by the author, and which would have appeared after the 8th line on p.322 of volume III, part 6 of the original edition. In an indication to the printer, Sade himself "protests" against this passage, which is an apology for nobility, and does not want it published (2p. in-4). 10. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A.S. to Gaspard Gaufridy. 7 floréal III (April 26, 1795) (3p. in-4). "Vous ne remplisses pas mes conditions, Citoyen, et par consequent je vous declare que ma bastide n'est pas vendue"... 11. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: autograph manuscript, unknown fragment of La Marquise de Telême (lower half of an in-4 sheet, 2p.) ... "devrai-je payer ce bonheur que vous ne m'avez pas fait sentir"... 12. D.A.F., Marquis de Sade: L.A. (minute) to the administrators of the Théâtre-Français, [late 1813] (2p. in-4) [Correspondance (Lély), CCLXXXVII], presenting them with a "tragedy in five acts, whose subject seems to me to suit the circumstances", signed "L'auteur de Jeanne Laisné & & &". 13. Madame de Saint-Germain: L.A. to Abbé de Sade in Avignon, 18 [April 1768] (2p. and a half in-4, adr.), about the Arcueil affair, "a day forever disastrous for the house of Sade"... [I, 241]. 14. Claude de Launay, president of Montreuil: L.A.S. to Abbé de Sade at Château de Saumane, Paris April 19, 17
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