Sotheby's is to offer an autograph letter from William Henry Fox Talbot, signed, in French to Antonion Bertolini, referring to the latter's Flora Italica and discussing some specimens he has collected. The letter will be sold on 10 July 2012 in London and is estimated at £4000-6000. The full catalogue entry can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/bny4b39
UPDATED: The lot sold for £11,250 including buyers premium.
The catalogue description and text is reported here:
TALBOT, HENRY FOX.
AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, IN FRENCH, TO ANTONIO BERTOLINI
referring to the latter's Flora Italica and discussing some specimens he has collected, 2 pages, 4to, Nice, 12 November 1833, integral address leaf
[with:] two autograph letters signed and one autograph letter, to Robert Hunt, on a publication in the Athenaeum and a dispute with Dr Woods on photographic techniques, 6 pages, 8vo, Lacock Abbey, 23 December 1851 to 29 January 1852, one letter incomplete lacking second leaf; [and:] autograph appointment note making an appointment with Dr Buckland, 1 page, 8vo, Angel Hotel, 29 July; and with one later letter
[also with:] Cros, Charles. Solution Générale du Probléme de la Photographie des Couleurs. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1869; Essai de Théorie Daguerrienne et Résultats Pratiques. Paris: J.-B. Gros, 1844; A Description of the Instruments employed in the Gallery of Natural [also with:] Cros, Charles. Solution Générale du Probléme de la Photographie des Couleurs. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1869; Essai de Théorie Daguerrienne et Résultats Pratiques. Paris: J.-B. Gros, 1844; A Description of the Instruments employed in the Gallery of Natural Magic. London: G.H. Davidson, 1839, an exhibition catalogue citing the "Ingenuity of M. Daguerre and Mr. H. Fox Talbot" and with a sonnet in praise of Fox Talbot
LITERATURE
The Correspondence of Henry Fox Talbot (http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/project/project.html) includes a summary of the
letter to Bertolini and transcriptions of early drafts of the letters to Hunt, from Talbot's Letter Book.
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