Scott Alexander,
Scottish fl.1858-1925-

Change and thank you;

watercolour heig…

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Scott Alexander, Scottish fl.1858-1925- Change and thank you; watercolour heightened with white on board, signed and dated 'Scott Alexander / 1858.' (lower left), signed and inscribed 'change of a shilling pipe given away. / "Change and thank you" / original Water Colour by / Scott Alexander / of / Dumfries Scotland' verso, 22 x 25.5 cm. Provenance: The estate of the late Dodi Heath (1934-2019).

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Estim. 800 - 1 000 GBP

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS and miscellaneous. -Approximately 60 letters and documents, preserved in a burgundy morocco portfolio bearing the arms of the Counts of Antioch, and about 160 photographs. -Adenauer (Konrad). Signed letter, in German, to Baron Bruno de Leusse. Bürgenstock, August 4, 1952. "Von meinem Sohn Georg höre ich von der guten Aufnahme, die er bei ihrer Gattin und Ihnen gefunden hat. Ich danke Ihnen vielmals dafür. ich hoffe sehr, dass er Ihnen nicht zur Last fallen wird. Wenn ich eine Bitte äussern darf, dann ist es die folgende. Sorgen Sie bitte dafür, dass er abends um 10Uhr spätestens zu Bett geht. Er braucht viel Schlaf, denn er hat einen schweren Winter vor sich..." Translation: "My son Georg tells me of the warm welcome he received from you and your wife. I would like to thank you for this. I do hope that his presence will not be a burden to you. If I can express one wish, it is this. Please see to it that he goes to bed no later than 10 o'clock in the evening. He needs plenty of sleep, for he has a hard winter ahead of him..." -Bismarck (Otto von). 4 autograph letters signed, in French, [to Baron Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord]. Berlin, 1862-1864 and n.d. "I would be very grateful to you, my dear Baron, if you would do me the pleasure of dropping by my house tomorrow at noon. I have a Council meeting at my house at one o'clock, and in the morning my advisors won't allow me to go out, lest the reel should stop in my absence. So please excuse me, if I disturb you on time at lunchtime..." Etc. -Eugenie (Empress). 2 autograph letters signed to Baron Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord. Arenenberg [in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, 1884], to congratulate him on the marriage of his daughter Marie-Marguerite to Count Adhémar de Brotty d'Antioche, and Farnborough [in Hampshire, 1886 or 1890], to express her condolences on the death of one of his daughters. -Order of the Visitation]. -Fusina (Marie-Emmanuel). Signed as Mother Superior of the Visitation monastery in Annecy, countersigned by four other sisters from the same monastery. Annecy, 1922. "...We declare that we have received... from Baron Chaulin, the missionary cross of Saint François de Sales, our Father and Founder, which he himself passed around the neck of Maurice de Brotty d'Antioche at the time of his conversion [the latter had until then been a Protestant]..." -Paley (Olga Valerianovna Karnovitch, Princess). Autograph letter signed. Tsarskoye Selo [imperial residence near St. Petersburg], August 30, 1915. "...I have received the title of Princess Paley (o i: ) which is the name of the Cossack hetman under Peter the Great and sung by Pushkin in "Poltava". She is one of my maternal ancestors, and her name died out with my grandmother. We are very happy to leave the German name of Hohenfelsen, given to us by the Regent of Bavaria. Everything German is hated, abhorred and despised in Russia, and they deserve it! We won't make peace here for anything in the world until we've brought them down completely..." Born Olga Karnovitch, daughter of the tsar's chamberlain, divorced, she morganatically married Grand Duke Paul Romanov (son of tsar Alexander II): she was then titled first Countess of Hohenfelsen, then, in 1915, Princess Paley. -Paris (Henri d'Orléans, comte de)]. Photographic portrait, cliché Pierre Ligey in Paris, with autograph signed letter (1934, ink faded), and signed letter (Rabat, 1942), both addressed to Baron Robert Chaulin. -Édouard de Cazenove de Pradines (as secretary to the Comte de Chambord, to Comte Adhémar de Brotty d'Antioche, 1882), Robert d'Orléans, Duc de Chartres (to Comte Adhémar de Brotty d'Antioche, 1901), Dorothée de Courlande, duchesse de Dino (2lettres au général Simon Bernard, 1837), Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (to comte Alphonse de Brotty d'Antioche, 1864), Gaston Alexandre Auguste de Galliffet (8lettres, 1890-1901 et s.d., on famous people, Charles Haas, Madame Standish, the Duchesse d'Uzès, etc.), Alexandre Mikhaïlovitch Gortchakov (9lettres in his capacity as Russian Foreign Minister to Baron Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord, s.d.), Isabella II of Spain (1882, twelve years after her abdication), Victor Bonaparte, Prince Napoleon (1914, concerning the birth of his son Louis Bonaparte), Sophie de Wurtemberg, Queen of Holland (to Rose-Amour de Roisin, Baroness Falck, 1846), Marie Clémentine Anne de Rochechouart-Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzès (3letters, s.d.), Henriette de Belgique, duchesse de Vendôme (1911), Victoria d'Angleterre, impératrice douairière d'Allemagne (to Marie-Marguerite de Talleyrand-Périgord, comtesse d'Antioche, 1896), and more. -Approx. 160 photographs, mostly portraits, preserved.

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 GBP

CHATEAUBRIAND (François René, vicomte de). Set of 2 beautiful L.A., both literary and intimate, addressed to his friend the Duchess de DURAS (whom he called his "sister") written while he was completing the Itinéraire de Paris à Jérusalem : - sl, "Thursday 8" [November 1810], 3 pp. small in-4: "You will have no reason to be jealous. I'm not going to Paris until December 1, and maybe even later. I see no one. I don't come out of retirement. I work from morning to night because I want to finish in order to give all my time to my sister this winter and to arrange my future. This is a great and true farewell to the muse and perhaps to my homeland. But let us not grieve in advance, and above all let us hope. Don't I talk in my letters? That's all I do. I'm a scary chatterbox. My sister doesn't have a good memory. I've already told her that the short story [Les Aventures du dernier Abencérage] won't be in the Itinéraire. There will only be reasonable things in this one, and no great follies. You'll do very well to come to Paris. You can't live when you're afraid of everything. And is it really certain that the people who are committing you to retirement have no other motives than your dangers? I've become ridiculously distrustful and I always think they're trying to deceive me. It's now midnight. I'm overwhelmed with work and my hand is so tired I can barely hold my pen. I hear the wind moaning in my little solitude where I keep vigil alone with the memory of my sister. I wish her every happiness and lay my tender, respectful friendship at her feet. [...]" - Vallée, "this Monday" [November 26, 1810], 2 pp. small in-4 (+ address on 4th page): "I can only say one word to my sister. I am in the last moments of my work. I will have finished everything next Saturday. Then my head is spinning with these [decennial] prizes that are being talked about again. I don't know what will become of it." He worries about the uncertainty of the Duchess's return to Paris. "I only guessed at your friends' ideas because that's the way men are made. One must be good and a dupe in the world, but one must know that one is being deceived, otherwise it is pure foolishness. I like people a lot, but I don't think much of anyone. I'm sorry, dear sister, but you'll say again that I don't talk. But you must have pity on me, I'm overwhelmed with work. Thank God it's going to end, and I hope for life. From now on, I won't print anything in my lifetime unless I change [...]". Claire de Duras, née de Coëtnempren de Kersaint (1777-1828) emigrated to the United States, then to London, where in 1797 she married Amédée-Bretagne-Malo de Durfort, the future Duke of Duras. She returned to France in 1800, the mother of two children, and met Chateaubriand in the salon of Nathalie de Noailles, the writer's mistress at the time. Deeply and sincerely attached to the man she admired, the Duchesse de Duras became one of his most loyal correspondents and a devoted friend (if not lover), using her influence to further his political and diplomatic career. She was one of those "Madames", as Mme de Chateaubriand called them, with whom her husband liked to surround himself. Dividing her time between her château in Ussé and her Parisian hotel on rue de Varenne, she entertained the greatest literary and political figures, while publishing her own sentimental novels, the precursors of feminist issues.

Estim. 1 000 - 2 000 GBP

Apple Computer Wall Street Journal Parody Advertisement - "Fuck you, Chiat/Day. Seriously." Extremely rare parody full-page Wall Street Journal newspaper advertisement printed by the Creative Services department of Apple Computer, with the bold uncensored headline, “Fuck you, Chiat/Day. Seriously.,” an in-house spoof printed as an acerbic alternative to Steve Jobs’s gracious full-page ‘thank you’ letter to the New York City advertising agency following Apple’s dismissal of the company on May 27, 1986. Jobs, then no longer with Apple, had his letter printed in The Wall Street Journal on the same day. It featured the famous headline: “Congratulations, Chiat/Day. Seriously.” The realistic full-page ad, 15 x 23, reads, in full: “Congratulations. You think you're so smart. You really do. You think you won some big ones. You didn't. You were wrong all along. Apple doesn't stand for blondes with big hooters and a hammer. Apple stands for middle managers. The kind you push off cliffs. You said we could sell 128K Macs to business. Then you screwed up Test Drive. You said you needed an Apple III that worked to shoot an ad. Did you have to take our only one? You're washed up. Even Nike thinks so. And what about your big ideas? What about double page ads in The Wall Street Journal? If that was so smart, how come you guys run single page ads for yourselves in The Mercury News? No wonder we were losing money last year. We won't even mention how you guys named and priced Lisa, then changed your mind after the Macintosh intro. changed Listen. You're fired. And remember. We were real guys about it. We did the agency review dance. Thank God we didn't blow a million bucks on Super Bowl '86. And finally, just get one thing very straight: We don't need your kind of creative lunatics around here no more. Seriously. P.S. We want our hammer back.” The reverse of the page, which contains actual articles printed in the May 28, 1986 issue of The Wall Street Journal, bears an affixed photocopy of an Advertising Age article from June 30, 1986, which covers the spoof article’s leak and bears the headline, “‘Ad’ flips Chiat the bird - is it a cheap shot?” In fine condition. The consignor notes that several of these full-page ads were surreptitiously printed and placed into Wall Street Journal newspapers for Apple employees to discover. A fascinating piece of Apple Computer history that reveals the internal frustrations of the company’s creative department with Chiat/Day, the agency responsible for some of Apple’s most memorable advertising campaigns, including the legendary ‘1984’ Super Bowl commercial, which introduced the Macintosh computer. When Apple parted ways with the agency in 1986, the decision was made under the leadership of then-CEO John Sculley, who opted to switch to the agency BBDO1. Steve Jobs, who had left Apple the previous year and collaborated closely with Lee Clow, the creative director at Chiat/Day, publicly criticized this move, suggesting it indicated a shift away from Apple’s innovative spirit. As such, his “Congratulations” letter to the agency was also an unsubtle parting shot at Apple.

Starting price 80 EUR

Cinema - French Actors & Actresses - Line RENAUD (1928): 5 thank-you letters addressed to Gérard Leman and 3 various cards dedicated to Gérard Leman. - Michel PICCOLI (1925-2020): two letters to Gérard Leman ""I don't really know what turns an actor into an authentic artist. Acting is such a strange profession". - Jean ROCHEFORT (1930-2017): a postcard dedicated to Gérard Leman - Michel BOUQUET (1925-2022): theater program for the play "les Justes", cover dedicated to Gérard Leman, 9 portrait and theater photos dedicated and 3 cards dedicated to Gérard Leman. - Yves MONTAND (1921-1991): a postcard dedicated to Gérard Leman - Simone SIGNORET (1921-1985): a letterhead dedicated to Gérard Leman.

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