PIERRE BERGE - Jean Patou couturier, bibliophile et collectionneur : Manuscrits : Lafayette et l’Amérique. VENDREDI 22 MAI 2015, 15h30. Drouot-Richelieu - Salle 2, Paris.

Vendredi 22 mai 2015

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Lot n° 179
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[Imprimé]. Plan of arrangements for the Ball in Honour of General Lafayette [Baltimore], [10 octobre 1824] 4 pp. in-8

Estimation : 400 / 600
Adjudication : Invendu
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LE CÉRÉMONIAL DE COUR POUR UN BAL À BALTIMORE. TRÈS RARE PUBLICATION OCCASIONNELLE MANQUANT À LA LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. EXEMPLAIRE DE LAFAYETTE p. 4 : “the Military Band in the Theatre playing Lafayette’s March, by Meinecke" BROCHÉ “The ball given by the city was every thing that was perfect of the kind ; it was prepared in the theatre and disposed with inimitable taste (...) we were introduced from the stage (...) At the moment the general appeared, he was announced by an invisible music, which played Lafayette’s march" (Levasseur, Lafayette in America, t. I, p. 166)
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