Lot n° 88
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600 - 800
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GUIBERT Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de (1743-1790) offi - Lot 88
GUIBERT Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de (1743-1790) officier, tacticien et écrivain [AF 1785, 30e f].
SET of old copies of works by the count of Guibert, one with autograph corrections; plus a set of manuscripts and documents concerning the count of GUIBERT.
* Praise of the King of Prussia, beautiful and neat period copy (notebook in-4 of 23 p. bound with a green ribbon), on FRÉDÉRIC II: " Le Roy de Prusse a l'air rude, les yeux vifs, le son de voix agréable, parle très bien françois ". * Letter on Corsica, memorandum in the form of a letter to the duke of CHOISEUL, Corte June 24, 1769: copy with autograph corrections (12 pages in-fol.), plus another copy of time (22 p. in-4): " Voicy la Corse soumise, l'Europe est étonnée, vos ennemis se taisent "... * Letter of the abbot Raynal to the National Assembly, Marseilles December 10, 1789: copy by the nephew of Guibert, Fortuné de Pluvié-Guibert (notebook of 53 pages in-4), with a copy of the letter of Guibert to the abbot Raynal to warn him that he was going to borrow his name, December 20, 1789 (small tear); more the printed Letter of the abbot Raynal to the National Assembly, Marseilles December 10 (printed, s.l.n.d. [1789]; in-8 of 94 p., modern cardboard, and a paperback copy). * Notebook of poems, 1772-1787 (33 pages in-4, with corrections, notes and additions by Mme de Guibert) : Epitre à Glycère, Élégie sur la mort de Frédéric II, romances, impromptu addressed to Voltaire, etc. ; plus 5 leaves in-4 extracted from another notebook ; and a notebook Recueil de poésies (1760) notably by Saint-Lambert.
2 printed copies of his Discours de réception à l'Académie française on February 13, 1786 (in-4 of 42 p., one in period cardboard, the other in pamphlet); Guibert succeeded Thomas, and it was SAINT-LAMBERT who delivered the reply.
Biographical documents: inventory of his father's property, division of family property, succession, etc. military notes of his father; letters addressed to the count of Guibert by the viscount Le Veneur, Nicolas Pinel du Havre (1782), the marshal Philippe-Henri de SÉGUR (1786), an epistle in verse; copy of inscriptions for his country house, and of a letter from Julie de Lespinasse * Notes and autograph manuscripts of his widow Alexandrine-Louise de GUIBERT (1758-1826, née Boutinon des Hayes), notably the notes and warnings for the edition of Guibert's works, and the manuscript of his Letter from a military man to one of his friends on the work of Mad. Necker concerning Guibert. *Contracts of edition with the booksellers Magimel and d'Hautel for the publication of the works of Guibert; correspondence with the printer-bookshop Charles POUGENS. * Handwritten notes and praises on Guibert: by his wife (plus numerous autograph notes), by Mme de STAËL (and minutes of letters from Mme de Guibert to Mme de Staël; plus a copy of a comedy by Mme de Staël, Sophie ou les sentiments secrets, 1786), by France de la Gravière, by his brother-in-law Maré d'Azincourt, etc. * Copy abundantly corrected by Mme de Guibert of the Éloge véridique de François-Apolline de Guibert de TOULONGEON (Paris 1790, plus autograph addition and L.A.S. of Toulongeon), and a copy of the new edition in 1802 under the title Notice historique * Correspondances adressées à Mme de Guibert : family letters, or from various personalities including the Marquis d'Aguesseau; thanks for Guibert's works by General MOREAU, Louis-Philippe de SÉGUR, Joseph LAVALLÉE, Marshal LOBAU; Marshal BERTHIER for a life pension; letters from Baron EVAIN concerning the payment of Guibert's manuscripts to the Dépôt de la Guerre in 1820; letter from Viscount de Champagny concerning the distribution of the Essai général de Tactique to the students of the military schools; sending by General ROGNIAT of the inventory of Guibert's manuscripts to the Dépôt général de la Guerre. * Notes and various manuscripts: copies of verses or fragments of Guibert, among which the complete manuscript of a comedy Les bonnes gens, ou le voeu accompli with numerous corrections by Guibert and his wife; notes concerning Guibert.
Provenance : Archives of the count of GUIBERT (sale 14 October 1993, nos 71 and 72).
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