Autographs.

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 GBP

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Description

Album of postcards signed and inscribed by writers, artists, travellers and statesmen

including by maeterlinck (four-line quotation from La Sagesse et la destinée), Verne (seven-line inscription to the collector Paul Wauwermans), D'Annunzio, Eleonora Duse (portrait signed), Sarah Bernhardt (quotation from Hamlet), Henry Stanley (portrait signed), Coppée, Alma Tadema, Emmanuel Frémiet, Frédéric Mistral, Bouguereau, Paul Deschanel, Leon Frederic, Henri Boutel, Henry Houssaye and many other mainly Belgian figures

....L'homme le plus heureux est celui dans lequel la plus grande idée vit avec la plus grande ardeur (Sagesse et Destinée). M. Maeterlinck...

68 items in all, oblong 8vo, loosely inserted into an album, cloth boards, Brussels, Antwerp and elsewhere, 1898-1905 (where dated)