biblio 30 list acq - Fondation Martin Bodmer

List of main acquisitions
Between 1989 and 1995, the Foundation purchased a number of small items from
the 16th to the 20th century. They included Alciato and Erasmus (16th century);
Brantôme, Dryden and Fénelon (17th century); Fielding, Mirabeau and
Robespierre (18th century); Bolzano, Musset, Sand, Seume, Fontane (19th century);
and Bloy, Breton, Soupault, Reverdy, Desnos, Lasker-Schüler, Genet, Robbe-Grillet,
Montale, Pasolini, Arno Schmidt (20th century).
As of 1997, more substantial funding enabled participation once again in auction
sales.
1997
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The Bible, illustrated by Marc Chagall (Paris, 1956)
Vingt poèmes de Gongora, illustrated by Picasso (Paris, 1948)
16 June 1997, Sotheby’s, Collection Beck
Lot 10, Guillaume de Conches, Dragmaticon
Lot 12, Rothschild Bible
Lot 17, Jacques de Longuyon, Les Vœux du Paon
End 1998, private sale
Liotard, Portrait de l’archiduc Joseph (pastel)
1999
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Portrait of Shakespeare’s King John by William Blake (Stefan Zweig Coll.)
19 May 1999, Christie’s, Collection Skira
Lot 1, Apollinaire, L’Enchanteur pourrissant
Lot 6, Breton, Les rêves renversés (autograph manuscript)
Lot 12, Bataille, L’anus solaire
Lot 73, Eluard, Physique de la poésie (autograph manuscript)
27 October 1999, Sotheby’s, Le Cabinet des livres de Renaud Gillet
Lot 54, Apollinaire, Calligrammes (binding Bonnet)
Lot 123, Cendrars / Delaunay, La prose du Transsibérien
8 December 1999, Sotheby’s, The Pencarrow Collection of Autographs
Lot 189, Beethoven, Allegretto in B minor for quartet (autograph)
12 April 2000, Christie’s
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Lot 107, Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a young man
Lot 122, Joyce, Finnegan’s Wake
7 June 2000, Christie’s
Lot 73, Proust, corrected proofs of Du côté de chez Swann
November 2000, private sale
Correspondance Rilke / Baladine, with first editions
First editions of poems by Michaux (90 books and 21 texts by, or about,
Michaux)
Writings by Ludwig Hohl
2000-2001
Works by Argovian painter Félix Hoffmann (1911-1975), illustrator of
children’s books (gift from the family)
C. F. Ramuz, A propos de tout. Pays, 5-page autograph (gift from Mme
Camille Perrier)
William Blank, Ebben, for orchestra. Created in 2001 (Orchestre de la
Suisse romande in Geneva), corrected autograph music score, rough draft
(gift from the composer)
Denis de Rougemont, Livre d’or de 1953 à 1984 (gift from Dr Jean-Blaise
Hemmeler)
17 April 2001, Christie’s
Lot 61, Faulkner, Sanctuary
Lot 111, Huxley, Brave New World
June 2001. Kraus New York
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
16 November 2001, Christie’s
Borges, Ficciones
November 2001, La 42e ligne. Old books
Revue de neurologie Centralblatt, 7 volumes. Belonged to Prof. La
Tourette (La Salpétrière), 1907
December 2001, William Reese, New Haven,
Henry James, The Jolly Corner (original typescript, galley proofs)
December 2001, Stargardt sale
Manuscripts by Freud, Carnap, Euler, Bierbaum, Lasker-Schüler...
12 February 2002, Sotheby’s, Collection Gwennaël Bolloré, Henri Michaux
Lot 59, Mes propriétés
Lot 65, Entre centre et absence
Lot 75, Exorcismes
Lot 95, Quelque part quelqu’un
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Lot 101, Face aux verrous
Spring 2002, Librairie Sourget
Le Code noir, Paris, 1765
June 2002, Erasmushaus
Manuscript by Frank Martin, Concerto pour violoncelle et orchestra.
Belonged to cellist Pierre Fournier
20 June 2002, Christie’s
Lot 47, Borges, El Sur (autograph manuscript)
26 June 2002, Sotheby’s, Collection Pierre Leroy
Lot 213, Genet, Pour un funambule (autograph manuscript)
January-February 2003,
Michel Leiris, Glossaire, j’y serre mes gloses, lithographs by André
Masson
Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse, signed autograph manuscript
Spring 2003, Librairie Benoît Forgeot
Aragon, Le Fou d’Elsa, 1963, in-8, maroquin orange Maylander, 1/35
premiers, pur fil
Colette, Sido, 1929, mar. Maylander, 1/25 de tête sur pur fil
Colette, Le Blé en herbe, 1923, mar. Maylander, 1/350 sur Hollande
May 2003, Librairie Jean-Jacques Faure
Poems and autograph letters by René Char with signature (Donnerbach
Muhle , La neige le surprit devant la chaleur, Remise, Versions, La récolte
injuriée)
June 2003, Galerie Bordas, Venezia
Henri Michaux, 3 lithographs not included in Meidosems (1948)
Henri Michaux, Mouvements, Paris, Gallimard, 1951
Summer 2003, Librairie Jacques Quentin
Baudelaire Dufaÿs, Salon de 1946, in-12, original edition
Abbé Guillaume Raynal, Histoire philosophique et politique des
établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes,
Geneva, Jean-Léonard Pellet, 1780-1781 (5 vols.) (many passages written
by Diderot)
Goethe, Œuvres, traduction nouvelle par Jacques Porchat, Paris,
Hachette, 1859- 1862 (11 vols.)
September 2003
Henri Michaux, Emergences-Résurgences, Albert Skira éd., 1972 (gift
from Jean-Paul Jungo)
An exceptional set of five busts from the Georgekreis (Michael Stettler,
Steffisburg). Includes a striking bust of Stefan George and another of
Count Claus von Stauffenburg who was one of his followers and the
perpetrator of the failed coup against Hitler on 20 July 1944 (gift from Dr
Therese Bhattacharya-Stettler)
November 2003, Sotheby’s, Collection Francis Pottiée-Sperry, ‘Michel de Montaigne
et son temps’
Lot 100, Edict de Nantes, 1599 (gift from Friends of the Martin Bodmer
Foundation for the inauguration of the Museum)
Winter 2004
Original manuscript of Epître aux Martiens, the first book written by JeanMarc Lovay, November 1967. Single typewritten copy with corrections
written in ink. Assembled by the author to make it look like a real book.
Was presumed lost for many years – the only other known copy was taken
to Nepal to include corrections by Maurice Chappaz
14 April 2004
Children’s books by Wilhem Bush, Eine galantes Abenteuer und andere
Bilderhumoresten,Berlin ; Das Rabennest und andere Bilder- Geschichten,
Munich (gift from Eva Zahnd)
June 2004, Librairie Vrain
Samuel Beckett, En attendant Godot
June 2004, Collection de Jean-Paul Jungo
Numbered first editions by Michel Leiris (27 books), Francis Ponge (37
books) and Jean Genet (4 books, including the Journal d’un voleur)
Philippe Soupault, Message de l’île déserte, poem, ed. A.A.M. Stols, The
Hague, 1947. Engraving by Alexandre Alexeieff. Printed by Edmond Rigal,
copy number 436, Holland Van Gelder paper (gift from Jean-Paul Jungo)
1 August 2004
Children’s books donated by Mme Antoinette Vallotton, including works by
Rainer Maria Rilke:
Briefe an Auguste Rodin. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1928 (N°175)
Carnet de poche suivi de Poèmes dédiés aux amis français. Paris, Paul
Hartmann, 1929, first edition
Der neuen Gedichte andrer Teil. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1918. For Yvonne
von Wattenwyl; handwritten note signed and dated by the author
Die vierundzwanzig Sonette der Louïze Labé Lyoneserin, 1555. Leipzig,
Insel-Verlag (1919). For Yvonne von Wattenwyl; handwritten note signed
and dated by the author
Les Roses. Bussum, The Halcyon Press, 1927 (not available in
bookshops)
Die Sonette an Orpheus. Geschrieben als ein Grab-Mal für Wera
Ouckama Knoop. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1923. (Numeriertes
Vorzugsexemplar XXIII). For Yvonne von Wattenwyl; handwritten note
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signed and dated by the author
Requiem. Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, 1919. For Yvonne von Wattenwyl;
handwritten note signed and dated by the author
Die Duineser Elegien. Wiedergabe der Handschrift des Dichters aus dem
Besitz der Fürstin Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe. Zürich, 1948, N°
13
Photocopies: Abschriften für Yvonne von Wattenwyl aus : Die Grosse
Nacht und Drei Stücke aus der Duineser Elegien. 13 p. (Does not include
the two last Elegien)
La dernière amitié de Rainer Maria Rilke. Unpublished letters to Madame
Eloui Bey and a study by Edmond Jaloux. Paris, Laffont, 1949
Lettres à Yvonne von Wattenwyl. (1919-1925). Éditions Verdier, 1994.
Includes other works on Rainer Maria Rilke
Barkenings, Hans-Joachim : Nicht Ziel und nicht Zufall. Rainer Maria Rilke
in Soglio
Chur, Calanda Verlag, 1994
Stettler, Michael : Rainer Maria Rilke im historischen Museum Bern.
Sonderdruck. Autograph for Yvonne Vallotton, December 1959
Photo album of Ignacy Jan Paderewski, with an autograph for Yvonne de
Freudenreich and photographs and documents concerning Colonel
Guisan, E. Schultess, Président of the Swiss Confédération, and Henry
Vallotton (gift from Antoinette Valotton)
April 2005
Boris Pasternak, Docteur Jivago. Typewritten with handwritten notes by
the author and comments and proposals for modifications made by the
editor of the magazine Novy Mir before presenting the text to the censors.
No date mentioned (1956), 2 volumes. From Irina Emelianova, the
daughter of Olga Ivinskaya (Lara, in the book)
March 2006
Minotaurus by Friedrich Dürenmatt, (gift from Charlotte Kaerr)
23 May 2006, Christie’s, Bibliothèque Bogousslavsky
Paul Eluard, La Barre d’appui. Illustrated by Picasso; copy n° 39 of the 40
on Japon ancient paper. Gift for Marcel Duchamp with a handwritten note
by Picasso and Eluard (gift from Pierre Darier)
June 2006, éditions Take 5
Mat Collishow (photographs) and Ornela Vorpsi (texts), Vetri Rosa, case
by Philippe Cramer
Tony Oursler, Monsters
July 2007
Daniil Harms, autograph manuscript, 1 sheet
19 November 2007
Six 18th-century manuscripts on the economic history of Geneva that
belonged to the family of Florence Henry (gift from Florence Henry)
November 2007
Jacob Böhme, Aurora, first edition of 1634; Gerhardt Hauptmann,
Tisserands, French translation of 1893; and a drawing by Fouad Bellamine
(thanks to a donation from the Coromandel Foundation)
Book of photographs on Egypt by Boissonnas (gift from Gad Borel)
17 January 2009
First editions of Situationist writings: Guy Debord et Asger Jorn, Structures
portantes; Debord, La société du spectacle; and 12 copies of the
magazine Internationale situationniste, Paris, Librairie Drouot, rue de
Tournon (gift from Serge de Pahlen)
10 February 2009
Théophile Bonnet, 18th-century medical book on anatomical pathology,
Geneva (gift from Dr Sven Widgren)
7 March 2009
Jorge Luis Borges, Dos semblanzas de Coleridge, (autograph
manuscripts) and William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (gift from the Swiss
Confédération, presented by Pascal Couchepin)
Jorge Luis Borges, Tlön, Uqbar, orbis Tertius, (holograph manuscript),
Buenos Aires, 1940
Jorge Luis Borges, 3 manuscripts: El Ulises (1914-1921) de Joyce, 1945?;
Finnegans Wake (1922-1939), 1945?; Das Glasperlenspiel, 1945?
March 2009, éditions Take 5
Wajdi Mouawad, Beyrouth, photographs by Gabriele Basilico
December 2009
The entire archives of the psychoanalyst René Laforgue. Includes Marie
Bonaparte’s prolific correspondence with Laforgue (109 handwritten
letters), 30 handwritten or typewritten letters signed by Freud, and five
binders of the unpublished diaries Laforgue kept between 1954 and 1959,
including corrections in the author’s hand. There are also 70 bound and
stitched volumes containing notes and autographs. Belonged to Laforgue’s
daughter, the wife of sculptor Charles de Montaigu
Thyde Monnier, Nans le Berger, first edition, autographed by the author on
29 August 1942
Thyde Monnier, two booklets of poems: Or Moi, Bateau Perdu, Paris,
1936; Cette vieille Romance, 1923, Saint-Raphaël
Bronze bust of René Laforgue displayed in the Foundation’s History Room
(gift from Charles Montaigu)
Alexandre Block, Douze (first edition), published by Neva, Berlin, 1922;
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (gift from
George Nivat)
11 February 2010
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André Gide, Voyage au Congo, signed by the author for Roger Martin du
Gard
April 2010
Manuscripts by Charles Juliet (gift from the author)
May 2010
Lot of 5 Shui manuscripts
June 2010, Sotheby’s, Trésors du coffre Vollard
Maupassant, La Maison Tellier, illustrated by Degas (1933)
Rouault, Souvenirs intimes, includes a lithograph by Baudelaire by the
artist (second edition, 1927)
September 2010
Letter by Henry Miller to Mr and Mrs Trifler (gift from Mr and Mrs Trifler).
Welcoming speech by Marguerite Yourcenar at the Académie française
and response by Jean d’Ormesson, NrF Gallimard 1981, copy n°131 on
Lafuma-Navarre vellum paper
Essai sur la théorie des nombres, by A. M. Legendre, member of the
Institut, 2nd edition, Paris 1808, 480 p. with 10 tables and a 62-page
supplément of the 2nd edition, 1816 (gift from Mr et Mrs Bijan Vahabzadeh)
First edition of La Grande Chirurgie de Guy de Chauliac by Edouard
Nicaise (surgeon at the Hôpital Laënnec), Paris, 1890, Félix Alcan, copy
n°4. Japanese paper. For Prof. Bouchard of the Institut, autographed by
the author. 747p. (donated during the exhibition on Early Medecine)
November 2010
The seven volumes of Opera omnia physico-medica by de Frédéric
Hoffmann, 2nd edition, Geneva, Frères de Tournes, 1791 (gift from
Philippe Neeser)
23 November 2010
Original version of Francis Huster’s ‘Swiss speech’, Albert Camus, Un
combat pour la gloire, delivered by on this date at the Théâtre du Léman,
as a tribute to Camus, the 1957 laureate of the Nobel Prize for literature.
Signed and autographed by the author. Includes many handwritten
corrections by F. Huster (gift from Francis Huster)
28 January 2011, lot belonging to Pascal Mercier
23 deluxe copies of the Nouvelle Revue française of 1908 and1914
6 volumes of the Nouvelle Revue française, January 1939-June 1940, with
original binding, and 3 volumes of Auguste Anglès, André Gide et le
premier groupe de la NrF, ed. Gallimard, Paris, 1978-1986, 1st volume
signed for the ‘aspirant Pascal’
Magnificent pages of the correspondence between André Gide and Jean
Schlumberger presented in a case
15 items on the Nouvelle Revue française, Jean Schlumberger and
Auguste Anglès, as well as 8 original photographs and photocopied
documents (gift from Pascal Mercier)
2011, éditions Take 5
Tom Mac Carthy (photographs) and Ernesto Neto (case), Book of Chastity
May 2011
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Odin den Ivana Denissovitcha (One Day in the
Life of Ivan Denisovich) Moscow, Sovetzki Pissatel, 1963, first edition (gift
from Natalia Dimitrievna Solzhenitsyn, 13 May 2011)
July 2011
Albert-Guillaume Démarest, Portrait d’André Gide, c.1888-1889, oil on
canvas
2004-2011, Les Amis du livre contemporain
André Vetter, Corps d’Extase, original lithographs and etchings by Ernest
Pignon-Ernest, copy n°1, signed by the authors, 2004
François Cheng, Que nos instants soient d’accueil, original lithograph by
Francis Herth, copy n°47, signed by the author, 2005
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Walpurgisnachtstraum, original illustrations
by Gérard Garouste, copy n°47, 2010
Documentation
See descriptions in the catalogues of Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Also:
Trois acquisitions de la Bibliotheca Bodmeriana presented by Charles Méla,
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Martin Bodmer Foundation, in collaboration
with Yves Christe. Geneva, Friends of Martin Bodmer Foundation, 1998. 24 p.
Charles Méla, « Proust retrouvé : corrected proofs of Du côté de chez Swann », in
Corona nova, Série 1, vol. 1, 2001, pp.241-270 and 4 facsimilies.
Stephen Roe, Allegretto in B minor for String Quartet by Ludwig van Beethoven, ibid.
pp. 231-239.
“Que le livre est beau!” Baladine Klossowska and Rainer Maria Rilke, a short
anthology. Gift to Charles Méla from the Bibliotheca Bodmeriana and Friends of the
Martin Bodmer Foundation on 16 February 2002, the day of his birthday. 300 copies
printed.
Joachim W. Storck, ‘Rilke und “Merline”. Bemerkungen zum Nachlass von Baladine
Klossowska, in Corona nova , Série 1, vol. 2, 2003, pp. 153-172.
Martin Bircher, ‘Rainer Maria Rilke in der Bibliotheca Bodmeriana’, ibid. pp.173-198.
Marcel Roethlisberger, ‘Le portrait de Joseph, archiduc d’Autriche, par Liotard’, ibid.
pp. 199-217.
Notes
Acquisition of the autograph on Coleridge
The autograph includes an original drawing by the author on Coleridge’s Sphinx.
An entire display cabinet in the permanent exhibition is now dedicated to Borges.
Thus, Martin Bodmer’s grand design to collect masterpieces continues with the
acquisition of works by Borges, a major writer of the 20th century hailing from South
America, a continent that had not been represented in the Collection. Borges is now
the sixth pillar of the Collection.
Acquisition of Pasternak: letter from Georges Nivat to Charles Méla :
‘The item belongs to Irina Emelianova, Olga Ivinskaya’s daughter.
She was also Boris Leonidovich’s favourite adopted daughter. He looked after
her the first time Olga Vsevolodovna was detained. I was her fiancé until I was
sent away by force on 6 August 1960. But I have remained very close to Irina,
who is also a good friend of Lucile. Irina met her husband, the poet Vadim
Kozovoï, at the detention camp and they remained very close until he died
suddenly three years ago.
Irina will be staying with us for three days. She will address my group of
Russian friends in Russian. She has written a very clever, truthful and
perceptive book called Legendy Potapovskogo pereulka (the address of her
grandmother and mother, and also mine during the winter of 1959-1960…). This
book was a great success in Russia and I had it translated into French and
published by Fayard. There are marvellous passages on her mother, Pasternak,
Tsvetaeva’s daughter, Chalamov, and her beloved English teacher. I am also
mentioned, as I was there the last year of Pasternak’s life as well as the two
previous years – although not as Irina’s fiancé.
I am sure you realize that this book is very much part of my own biography.’