‎Autographs‎

‎"NAGENS, C. R.‎

‎En kort Fremstilling af den Kongelige Sachsiske Armee. (i.e. English ""A Brief exposition of the Royal Saxon Army"") - [MANUSCRIPT ON THE ROYAL SAXON ARMY]‎

‎Helsingør, April 1857. Folio (325 x 195 mm). Manuscript in contemporary blue boards with white title-label with title in contemporary hand to top of front board. Stamp to verso of front board and first leaf. Fine and clean throughout. 32 ff.‎

‎"NEXÖ, MARTIN ANDERSEN.‎

‎Sonnentage. Reisebilder aus Andalusien. Bln., 1927.‎

‎Orig. helldrb. Frisk.‎

‎"NIELSEN, CARL‎

‎Original handwritten and signed letter addressed to 'Hr Harder'.‎

‎14 - 4 - [19]07. 1 page, 8vo. ""Kjære Hr Harder! - De skal meget snart / høre fra mig. Jeg har ikke kunnet skrive / før. Min Hustru har været meget syg / de sidste Tre Uger, er bleven opereret / flere Gange. Desuden har vi af andre / Grunde ikke kunnet faa Tid at se ordentlig / paa Deres Ting. Paa Gensyn Deres / Carl Nielsen.""‎

‎Original handwritten letter from the most prominent Danish composer, Carl Nielsen (1865-1931), addressed to his friend and colleague Knud Harder (1885-1967). Letters from Nielsen's hand are of utmost rarity.‎

Bookseller reference : 61375

‎"NODIER, CHARLES - LETTER TO ALEXANDRE DUMAS.‎

‎Autograph letter signed ""Charles Nodier"" written out to his friend Alexandre Dumas ""Mon cher ami,...""‎

‎Undated, around 1836. 1 leaf 8vo. on light-blue paper. 16 lines and signed ""Tout á vous et de coeur/ Charles Nodier"" The letter seems to deal with Alexander Dumas' novel ""Voyages de Gabriel Payot"". On verso of the letter is transscribed in Nodier's hand ""Monsieur Alexandre Dumas,/ cour d'Orleans No 3./ Paris"". Marks after folding. Faint scattered brownspots.‎

Bookseller reference : 59408

‎"NYSTRÖM, JENNY.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev med underskrift til Curt Stooependaal.‎

‎Dateret ""Stockholm d. 15/4 1932."" 2 sider 8vo. Hun klager over helbredet"" det går langsomt med at blive rask og doktoren har foretaget mange undersøgelser. ""Doktor W. är mycket sympatisk och ovanligt snäll. Kan du tänke dig att han ej tog ett öre i betalning"". Hun overvejer at male noget smukt og skænke det til lægen. Hun meddeler at hendes besøg må udsættes til hun er mere rask. Hendes radio er gået i stykker og det kostede 20 Kroner. Vedlagt kuvert med udskrift.‎

‎Jenny Nystrøm (1954-1946), svensk illustrator af børnebøger. Brevet er til hendes søn, som også var kunstner.‎

Bookseller reference : 40349

‎"OEHLENSCHLÄGER, ADAM.‎

‎Egenhændigt signeret digtmanuskript til ""Orgelets Priis"" (Hymne). - [EGENHÆNDIGT DIGTMANUSKRIPT]‎

‎(1825). 2 sider 8vo. 8 vers m. 6 linier i hvert. Mange tegnsætningsvariationer og rettelser samt flere variationer fra den trykte tekst: ""Lyst"" i stedet for ""Røst"", ""Helligt Ord"" i stedet for ""Trøstensord"", ""Hiertets Seier"" i stedet for ""Siælens Seier"".‎

‎Vedlagt originaltrykket af digtet i marmoreret omslag. Uden år og trykkested, men (9. november, 1825). På verso af det sidste blad trykt: ""Concertens Indhold"" med indholdet af de to Afdelinger og til sidst ""Musik af P. Harmann"" tilskrevet i samtidig hånd. Optaget i Oehlenschlägers Poetiske Skrifter, XXI, 1860, pp. 59-60. Liebenberg I:125.‎

Bookseller reference : 34910

‎"PALUDAN, JACOB.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev m. underskrift til ""Hr. Bibliotekar Poul Holst"". Dat. 7.5.48. 1 side 4to.‎

‎Vedr. en udgivelse i Kulturbiblioteket, som P. var redaktør for. Også omhandlende Vilh.Grønbechs eventuelle optagelse i Kulturbiblioteket.‎

Bookseller reference : 13623

‎"PALUDAN, JACOB.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev m.underskrift til ""Hr.Poul Holst."" Dat.""Birkerød. Solbakken 8 Jan.1964."" 1 side 8vo.‎

‎Brevet omhandler en el.anden forestående litteratur-serie, og begynder: ""Vi har pt Södergrans Breve""...‎

Bookseller reference : 16171

‎"PALUDAN, JACOB.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev m. underskrift ""Til/ Dagens Nyheders Redaktion."" Dat. ""Birkerød, 14.1.34."" 1/2 side 8vo.‎

‎J.P.har fremsendt en kronik,"" der formentlig har/ Interesse for mange."" etc. ...‎

Bookseller reference : 22199

‎"PALUDAN, JACOB.‎

‎Egenhændig notits m.underskrift.(Dat.for neden m.blyant: ""15.5.1962."" 3 linier.‎

‎""Det skrevne er aldeles ikke mig,/ men hvad jeg kunne tænke mig maa-/ ske vilde interessere andre./ Jacob Paludan.""‎

‎"PALUDAN, JACOB.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev m. underskrift til ""Hr. Bibliotekar Poul Holst"". Dat. 7.5.48. 1 side 4to.‎

‎Vedr. en udgivelse i Kulturbiblioteket, som P. var redaktør for. Også omhandlende Vilh.Grønbechs eventuelle optagelse i Kulturbiblioteket.‎

‎"PALUDAN, JACOB.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev m.underskrift til ""Hr.Poul Holst."" Dat.""Birkerød. Solbakken 8 Jan.1964."" 1 side 8vo.‎

‎Brevet omhandler en el.anden forestående litteratur-serie, og begynder: ""Vi har pt Södergrans Breve""...‎

‎"PLOUGH, C.‎

‎Samling af 7 egenhændige breve, alle m. underskrift og til ""Kjære Borihsenius!"" Dat. ""30. Dec. 69"", 1 Marts 70"", ""13 September 1870"", ""8 Marts 1871"", ""11 Sept. 71"", ""31 October 1871"", ""16 Januar 1872"". I alt ca. 4 sider 8vo + 1 side 12mo.‎

‎Brevene omhandler arbejde, bøger, udgivelser, invitationer etc. ...‎

Bookseller reference : 28769

‎"POULSEN, OLAF.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev med underskrift til ""Kære Frue"".‎

‎Dateret 18/4 02. 1 side, lille 8vo.‎

‎Takker for trofasthed. Olaf Poulsen (1849-1923), dansk skuespiller. Sin tids førende komiker.‎

Bookseller reference : 39015

‎"POESIBOG. - OTTO GELSTED, PAUL LA COUR OG CARL JØRGENSEN.‎

‎Poesibog tilhørende Yelva Munksgaard med tre egenhændige poetiske stykker m. underskrift fra hhv. Otto Gelsted (Dat. ""Nytaarsaften 1921""), Paul La Cour (Dat. ""26/11-22"") og Carl Jørgensen (Dat. ""27-11-1922.""). 3x2 sider 8vo.‎

‎Digtet fra Otto Gelsted bærer titlen ""Den første Sne"" og blev trykt i ""Enetaler"" i 1922. Paul La Cours digt hedder ""Nuet"", og Carl Jørgensens lille fortælling, der nok snarere er et lille stykke prosa end poesi går under titlen ""Dorthe.""‎

‎"PRONY, (GASPARD CLAIR FRANCOIS RICHE de).‎

‎Mécanique Philosophique, ou Analyse Raisonnée des diverses parties de la Science de l'Équilibre et du Mouvement. - [FROM NAPOLEON'S LIBRARY]‎

‎Paris, Imprimerie de la République, an VIII [i.e. 1800]. 4to. Bound in a lovely full mottled calf binding with fine, gilt ornamental borders to boards, double gilt line-borders to all edges of boards and a richly gilt spine. Spine with gilt red leather title-label and with the gilt monogram of Joséphine and Napoléon - ""JB"" - to lower spine. Neatly rebacked. With a handwritten inscription for Napoleon to title-page ""Au Citoyen Bonaparte/ premier Consul de la République francaise/ De la part du Conseil [de]/ L'Ecole Polythechnique"", with a signature underneath and the stamp of the Ecole Polytechnique. The inscription is slighly cropped at the outer margin. A bit of brownspotting here and there. (4), VII, (1), 477, (3) pp.‎

‎First edition, original offprint from Journal Polytechnique, Tome III, Cahiers 7 & 8, of Prony's magnum opus ""Mécanique phlilosophique"". The three parts here are all that appeared, as the planned two parts announced on the verso of the extra title-page never appeared. A truly splendid copy from Napoleon's library, with the gilt monogram of him and Joséphine from the library at Malmaison and with a presentation-inscription for Napoléon, which is rare. Books from the library at Malmaison do occasionally appear on the market, although they are rare. They are usually taken to be mainly Joséphine's, as she spent more time there. This, however, is a rare exception. First, we know that Napoléon actually did spend time at Malmaison at the time that he was given the present volume, around 1800, second, it bears an inscription for him, which is rare, determining for a fact that this was one of his books, not Joséphine's. Together with the Tuileries, Malmaison was the French government's headquarters from 1800 to 1802, exactly the time that Napoleon will have been given the present book and incorporated it in his library. Many of the books at the Malmaison library were books on things like gardening that Joséphine cared a great deal about. These were clearly her books. And some of the books, like the present, were clearly those of Napoleon himself. Napoleon was a voracious reader and he spent much time in his library studying his books. He had a personal librarian, always travelled with books, and took pride in constructing portable libraries as well as the rooms for his own actual library. On 9 July 1800, he gave the commission for a study to be built in place of the three small rooms situated on the south corner pavilion of Malmaison. Fontaine removed the partition walls and commissioned the Jacob brothers to make the teak woodwork. On 18 September, Fontaine wrote: “Everything is now in place, and even though the First Consul found that the room looked like a church sacristy, he was nevertheless forced to admit that it would have been difficult to do better in such an unsuitable space”. The paintings of the great ancient and classical authors which surround Apollo and Minerva on the ceiling were probably executed by Lafitte. Napoleon had been an avid reader since he was quite young, and when he began studying at the École Militaire in Paris, he continued to read classics, literature, and philosophy, as he would throughout his life, but he also read more scientifically and strategically aimed books. “His appetite for reading books continued as he rose in power. In 1798, about to depart on the Egyptian campaign, he gave Bourrienne a list of books he wanted in his camp library. These included works in Sciences and Arts (e.g., Treatise on Fortifications), Geography and Travels (e.g., Cook’s Voyages), History (e.g., Thucydides, Frederick II), Poetry (e.g., Ossian, Tasso, Ariosto), Novels (e.g., Voltaire, Héloïse, Werther and 40 volumes of “English novels”), and Politics and Morals (the Bible, the Koran, the Vedas, etc.)” (Shannon Selin: Bonaparte the Book Worm), giving us a great insight into his preferences at the time. Prony, with his great Mechanical Philosophy, will have fallen perfectly amongst these great writers, when Napoleon returned to Malmaison, combining politics, science, and philosophy. It is not difficult to see how Napoleon will have been intrigued by mechanical philosophy, which is a form of natural philosophy that compares the universe to a large-scale mechanism. Mechanical philosophy is associated with the scientific revolution of Early Modern Europe, and one of the first expositions of universal mechanism is found in the opening passages of Hobbes’s Leviathan. Prony, in the present work, argues that mechanical principles in the practical arts themselves call for philosophical analysis. Baron Gaspard de Prony (1755-1839) was a French mathematician and engineer. He was educated at the Benedictine College at Toissei in Doubs. From there, he entered the École des Ponts et Chaussés in 1776, where he studied engineering until graduating in 1779. “In 1780 he became an engineer with the École des Ponts et Chaussés and after three years in a number of different regions of France he returned to the École des Ponts et Chaussés in Paris 1783. This was the same year he published his first major work in the Académie des Sciences on the forces on arches. Monge was impressed with this paper and realised that de Prony was someone of great potential. In 1785 de Prony visited England on a project to obtain an accurate measurement of the relative positions of the Greenwich Observatory and the Paris Observatory. Two years later he was promoted to inspector at the École des Ponts et Chaussés. Around this time he was involved with the work on the Louis XVI Bridge in Paris which is now called the Pont de la Concorde. Further promotion in 1790 was followed the next year by his being appointed Engineer-in-Chief of the École des Ponts et Chaussés. This promotion was as a result of the opening of the Louis XVI Bridge. Also around 1791 de Prony was working on geometry with Pierre Girard. Then in 1792, de Prony began a major task of producing logarithmic and trigonometric tables, the Cadastre. With the assistance of Legendre, Carnot and other mathematicians, and between 70 to 80 assistants, the work was undertaken over a period of years, being completed in 1801. […] In 1794 the École Centrale des Travaux Publics was founded by and was directed by Carnot and Monge. It was renamed the École Polytechnique in 1795 and de Prony was certainly one of the main lectures by this time. He is listed among the first teachers at the university […] In 1798 de Prony refused Napoleon's request that he join his army of invasion to Egypt. Fourier, Monge and Malus had agreed to be part of the expeditionary force and Napoleon was angry that de Prony would not come. It did mean that de Prony was to fail to receive the honours he deserved from Napoleon but de Prony's wife was a close friend of Joséphine and this probably saved de Prony from anything worse. In 1798 de Prony achieved his ambition of being appointed director of the École des Ponts et Chaussés. His desire for this post was almost certainly a main reason for his refusing to join Napoleon. As director he began producing a number of important texts on mathematical physics.” (From University of St. Andrews scientific biographies). The present book and its presentation to Napoleon comes from this time, linking the two even closer. After Napoleon was defeated, the reorganization in France included a reorganization of the École Polytechnique, which was closed during 1816. De Prony lost his position as professor there and was not part of the reorganization committee. However, as soon as the school reopened, de Prony was asked to be an examiner so he continued his connection yet only had to work one month per year.‎

Bookseller reference : 60104

‎"RAFN, CARL CHRISTIAN.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev signeret ""C. C. Rafn.""‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, den 25de April 1863. 1 side 8vo. ""Kjøbenhavn, den 25de April 1863 / Betræffende Bogladeprisen / og ligeledes Subskriptionsprisen / paa Oldnordiske Ordbog kunde / der tages nærmere Bestemmelse, / efterat Bestyrelsens Betænkning / er indhentet. Vi maatte / jo see til at faae Bogen / udbredt. / Paa Tirsdag Eftermiddag kan / Bestemmelsen være truffen og for- / inden kunne Bøgerne ikke vel / afsendes. De ere vel heller ikke / alle heftede endnu. / Med megen Agtelse. / C. C. Rafn. / Gyldendalske Boghandling.""‎

‎Nydeligt håndskrevet og signeret brev fra den danske oldforsker C. C. Rafn.‎

Bookseller reference : 59970

‎"RAFN, CARL CHRISTIAN.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev signeret ""C. C. Rafn.""‎

‎Kjøbenhavn, den 25de April 1863. 1 side 8vo. ""Kjøbenhavn, den 25de April 1863 / Betræffende Bogladeprisen / og ligeledes Subskriptionsprisen / paa Oldnordiske Ordbog kunde / der tages nærmere Bestemmelse, / efterat Bestyrelsens Betænkning / er indhentet. Vi maatte / jo see til at faae Bogen / udbredt. / Paa Tirsdag Eftermiddag kan / Bestemmelsen være truffen og for- / inden kunne Bøgerne ikke vel / afsendes. De ere vel heller ikke / alle heftede endnu. / Med megen Agtelse. / C. C. Rafn. / Gyldendalske Boghandling.""‎

‎"RECKE, ERNST VON DER.‎

‎Egenhændigt bonmot på 3 linier:‎

‎Udateret. Teksten lyder: ""Jeg hader Blæk, Papir og Penne, tvinger Mig ei en Guddom eller Djævel til det, Saa rører jeg dem aldrig med en Finger."" Ernst v.d. R. 1 side, lille 8vo.‎

‎Ernst von der Recke, 1848-1933, dansk forfatter og filolog.‎

Bookseller reference : 39013

‎"RECKE, ERNST VON DER.‎

‎Egenhændigt bonmot på 3 linier:‎

‎Udateret. Teksten lyder: ""Jeg hader Blæk, Papir og Penne, tvinger Mig ei en Guddom eller Djævel til det, Saa rører jeg dem aldrig med en Finger."" Ernst v.d. R. 1 side, lille 8vo.‎

‎"RESQUEMORES" [Ramón García Rodrigo Nocedal].‎

‎Anales Taurinos. Toros. Toreros. Empresas. Ganaderos. Aficionados. Año Primero, 1900.‎

‎Madrid, Avrial, Impresor, 1900. 4to. mayor; 528 pp. Retratos fotográficos y dibujados entre el texto, y anuncios publicitarios. Ejemplar con envío autógrafo del autor. Encuadernación de época en media tela.‎

‎"RICHEPIN, JEAN.‎

‎Orig. handwritten and signed manuscript for ""Chanson Illustrée."" 6 pages narrow 4to., 25-30 lines to each page.‎

‎Nice hcalf. Boards with marbled cover paper. Leather title label on front board. Compositor marks in text.‎

‎Complete autographed manuscript by Jean Richepin (1849-1930) who was imprisoned for the boldness in his writings (Chanson des Gueux, 1876). This story is complete in itself, and is, as far as seen, not published by itself. As it is not a poem, it is not to be found in R.'s poetical works, but the compositor marks do point to printing.‎

Bookseller reference : 21828

‎"ROUSSEAU, JEAN-JACQUES.‎

‎Original handwritten manuscript-leaf in Rousseau's hand constituting in a series of notes on marriage from the ""Rituel de Chartres"" (printed in Paris in 1531). - [HANDWRITTEN NOTES BY ROUSSEAU ON MARRIAGE RITUALS]‎

‎(Unsigned, and no date, but penned between 1746 and 1751). 1 leaf 4to (25,5 x 19 cm), off-white paper in fine condition. Fully penned on both recto (24 lines) and verso (5 lines).‎

‎This magnificent manuscript leaf in Rousseau's hand constitutes notes on marriage rituals taken from ""Rituel des Chartres"", which was printed in Paris in 1531. This manuscript leaf is part of a grandiose project that Rousseau was working on with his employer Madame Dupin during his years as her secretary. The project was that of writing the history of womankind. With its focus on gender equality, the work is nothing less than pioneering and would no doubt have been a work of seminal importance in the history of feminism and women's rights, had it ever been published. The manuscript ended up comprising more than 2.000 pages, but was never printed. Louise Marie Madeline Fontaine Dupin (1706-1799) was one of the most famous salonnieres of the 18th century, renowned for the beauty as well as her intelligence. Rousseu met her in 1743 and took an instant liking to her. In 1745, she offered him the position as her private secretary and tutor to her son. During his six years in her employment, he spent most of the time working on the grandiose project of the history of women, until it was abandoned in 1751. ""In the years between 1745 and 1749 Jean Jacques Rousseau was employed by Louise Marie Madeline Dupin as a research assistant on her ambitious project to delineate in print the history of women. After years of labor by Rousseau and Madame Dupin her ""Ouvrage sur les Femmes"" was shelved, unfinished. The research notes, drafts, and fair copies written by Rousseau and his employer were stored at the chateau of Chenonceaux, essentially forgotten, until their sale at a series of auctions held between 1951 and 1958."" (Harry Ranson Center, University of Texas)‎

Bookseller reference : 60957

‎"RØRDAM, VALDEMAR.‎

‎Egenhændigt digtmanuskript (""Nytårs ny"") m. underskrift. 7 vers, 2 sider stor 8vo.‎

‎Digtet blev trykt i 1908 i ""Under aaben Himmel"", og begynder således: ""Intet er lyst og intet er let/ som Nytårets ny lille Måne""... Side 2 bærer præg af tryksværte.‎

Bookseller reference : 16462

‎"RØRDAM, VALDEMAR.‎

‎Egenhændigt brev m.underskrift til ""Hr. Direktør Jakob Jakobsen"". 2 sider 8vo.‎

‎R.skriver, at han har omarbejdet skuespillet ""grønlandsfærd"", ""i det Håb, at de måtte finde det brugeligt for åben Teater""...‎