183 / 239
182
303
BEACH
, H. C.
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette ; et une autre lettre (2)
New York, 28 avril 1828
1 p. in-8
DEUX LETTRES ADRESSÉES À GEORGES WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE EN 1828
“I have had the pleasure of seeing my friend Mr Bloodgood”, il joint un exemplaire de “The internal
Navigation of the U. S.”
2. L.a.s. de John Stuart Skinner, “Capt Macy will have the enjoyable pleasure of handling you
this”,
2 pp. in-4
, New York city hotel, 1er août 1828
200 / 300
€
304
LEHMANOWSKY
, colonel John Jacob
Lettre autographe signée au marquis de Lafayette ; et une autre lettre du même à
Georges Washington Lafayette (2)
Philadelphie, 1
er
juillet 1828
4 pp. in-4, encre brune
LE COLONEL LEHMANOWSKY, HÉROS DES GUERRES DE L’EMPIRE AYANT
ÉCHAPPÉ AU PELOTON D’EXÉCUTION, SE PLAINT À LAFAYETTE
En français, “Après un silence de presque deux ans”...
2. L.a.s. du même à Georges Washington Lafayette, en français, “En ce moment avant le départ de
poste au lettre”... et se terminant par “Adieu bon voyage”,
3 pp. in-4
, Lancaster, 5 septembre 1825
Born to an educated Jewish family in Warsaw, converted to Christianity while at
university, he fought with Napoleon’s army from 1793 to 1815, rising to rank of Colonel
of the 9
th
Polish Lancers Regiment. he was aid to Marshall Ney. After Waterloo, he
was captured along with the Marshal Ney and sentenced to death. He escaped from
the Bastille and fled to America. In 1832 he published a military history of Napoleon.
200 / 300
€
305
IRELAND
, William Henry
Lettre autographe signée à Georges Washington Lafayette
New York, 30 avril 1828
1 p. in-8
LETTRE DU FAMEUX FAUSSAIRE DE SHAKESPEARE QUI FUT AUSSI L’AUTEUR
D’UNE VIE DE NAPOLÉON
“Mr Peugnet has kindly offered to be the bearer of this scrawl with which inform you” (...) “as you
so often hear from this country and (as I learn)
have such a constant stream of my country man
visiting Lagrange, I presume I can say nothing to you of America”
William Henry Ireland (1775-1835) is the famous forger of Shakespeare. He knew
France where he spent more than a year (1814) and published a
Life of Napoleon
in
1828. We did not find evidence of his presence in America and neither of a trace of
link with Lafayette. For an illustrated sample of his writing (see
Schimmel collection
,
Bonhams, 23 May 2012, lot 44).
400 / 600
€
William Henry Ireland
by Silvester Harding stipple engraving, 1798