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Hundertwasser, Friedensreich, Austrian painter (1928-2000).
Collection of 3 autograph letters signed and 7 autograph postcards signed. Vienna, Venice, Cefalu, Bonifacio, Elba, 1973 and no year.
4to and 8vo. A total of 9½ pp. Amicable correspondence with Marika Koszka, in German: "[...] But money is quite irrelevant. That is to say, I was never particularly interested in it, not even when I was a hitchhiker and slept on the streets. But undoubtedly it will be of some help to you. The important thing is only not to have any depressing thoughts [...]" (10 Feb. 1973). - "Last evening at the gate I quite forgot to mention that I have a lot of furniture for you should you need anything for your room: chairs, mattresses, cushions, beds, closets ... Also, I would like to show you my view and the meadow from up here [...]" (24 Feb., no year).
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[Album amicorum].
Friendship album of Bruno Grambert, containing 20 entries by significant personages. No place, 1999-2002.
8vo. Imitation leather with gilt-stamped cover title ("Livre d’Or"). All edges gilt. Includes contributions by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean Paul Gaultier, Regis Debray, Isabelle Comtesse de Paris, Elois Lichtenstein, Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, Druoy, Jean d'Ormesson, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, Lionel Jospin, Claudie and Jean-Pierre Haignieré as well as by Claude Pompidou.
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Grimm, Jacob, German philologist, jurist and mythologist (1785-1863).
Autograph letter signed ("Jac. Grimm"). B[erlin], 11 April 1851.
Large 8vo. 1 p. To his publisher Kästner, requesting a proof copy of his book "Mythologie und Rechtsalterthümer" so as to prepare the manuscript for print; afterwards he will similarly treat his "Grammar": "Lassen Sie mir ein planiertes exemplar der mythologie und rechtsalterthümer in losen bogen übersenden; ich will dann anfangen beide für den druck einzurichten. ist er beendigt, so soll es auch an die grammatik gehn, die begreiflich grössere schwierigkeit hat. Je länger ich aufschiebe, desto älter werde ich und zu der arbeit ungeschickter. Die mitgetheilten lettern sind mir recht, doch müssen die Ihnen bekannten besondern buchstaben dazu geschnitten vorräthig sein [...]". - Slight damage to edges. Accompanied by an autograph address "Herrn Dr. Franz Löher, Professor, Hochwolgeboren, im Cabinet S. M. des Königs Maximilian von Baiern".
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Bellini, Vincenzo, Italian composer (1801-1835).
Autograph musical manuscript from "Il Pirata". [Milano, La Scala, 27 Oct. 1827].
Oblong folio. 2 pp. From Act II, Scene 2; one page with the text. - After the enormous success of "Bianca e Fernando" in Naples (May 1826), Bellini was introduced to the librettist Felice Romani, who proposed the subject of the composer’s first project, "Il pirata". Its premiere, given on 17 October 1827, was "an immediate and then an increasing, success. By Sunday, December 2, when the season ended, it had been sung to fifteen full houses" (Weinstock, Bellini: His life and His Operas. New York, Knopf, 1971, pp. 40f.). - Margins somewhat spotty and browned. With an early certification of authenticity in the left margin, written by the lawyer (to the heirs of Vincenzo, his brothers Carmelo and Mario), Francesco Chiarenza, and dated Catania, June 21, 1902.
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Paganini, Niccolò, Italian violin virtuoso (1782-1840).
Album of 12 autograph manuscripts signed by Paganini, Rossini and others, containing mainly complete songs and piano pieces. Boulogne, Paris, Calais, Clermont and elsewhere, 1836-1847.
22 pages. Oblong 4to (c.17 x 27 cm). 8-stave paper, contemporary brown polished calf, stamped in gilt and blind ("Clara Mangin"), presentation inscription. Album of 12 autograph manuscripts signed by Paganini, Rossini and others, containing mainly complete songs and piano pieces. 1) Paganini, Niccolò. Album-leaf comprising two chromatic scale-passages in contrary motion, each spanning two octaves, twenty-six bars music in all, notated for treble & bass in brown ink on three two-stave systems, signed and inscribed ("All' Egregia Madamigella Clara Mangin ... Boulogne, li 15. Agosto 1834 Nicolò Paganini"). - 2) Rossini, Gioachino. Autograph manuscript of "Mi lagnerò tacendo", signed ("G. Rossini"), comprising a sixteen-bar setting of Metastasio's text, notated in dark brown ink on two three-stave systems per page, [c.1836], 2 pages. Together with: Théodore Labarre (the song "Mathilde", 2 pages) - Georges Mathius ("Andantino" in E minor for piano, 3 pages, 1836) -Jules Godefroy ("Pensée du moment", for piano, 2 pages, 1835) - Henri Bertini ("Téma" for piano, signed and inscribed 14 Mai 1836. HBertini") - Theodore Döhler (Allegro in c minor for piano, signed) - Sigismond Thalberg (musical quotation of an 'Andantino' in G) - George Onslow ('Allegretto con moto' in E-flat, for piano, signed "...23 Janvier 1846 George Onslow", 3 pages) - Eugene Ortolan ('Souvenirs d'auvergne' in F, 3 pages, 2 September 1847), and others in the album of Clara Mangin, 22 pages, oblong 8vo (c.17 x 27cm), the manuscripts all written directly into the album, 8-stave paper, contemporary brown polished calf, stamped in gilt and blind ("Clara Mangin"), presentation inscription, 26 June 1834, Boulogne, Paris, Calais, Clermont and elsewhere, 1836-1847, somewhat worn, with front cover detached. - Autograph music by Paganini is rarely offered for sale. This is a fine album of the 1830s-1840s, containing mainly complete works rather than short quotations. Rossini's song is one of many such settings that the composer made of his favourite Metastasian poem. The volume was given to Clara Stéphanie Mangin of Boulogne in 1834, in recognition of winning a music prize. We learn from the three-page piano work by George Onslow in 1846 that Clara had become Comtesse d'Espinay Theix Royat; the Château de Theix was near Clermont-Ferrand.
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Grassi, Joseph, painter; Mozart's portraitist (1757-1838).
Notebook with 55 autograph pages of travel notes. Rome, 1808-1810 and 1816-1821.
Small 8vo. 51 unnumbered ff. Original red morocco. Green moirée silk endpapers; all edges gilt. Signed by Grassi on front flyleaf. The personal travel notebook of Joseph Grassi, one of the foremost portraitists of his age and remembered today as the painter of one of the very few authentic Mozart portraits. In her biographical sketch of the artist, Elisabeth Eixner deplores the lack of studies concerning Grassi's Roman years: "It would be a rewarding task for scholarship to investigate Grassi's activities in Rome, which he first visited in 1808-10 (becoming member of the Academy of San Luca in 1810), and again in 1816-21 as 'Director of Studies of Saxon Artists in Italy'" (NDB VII, 5). Clearly, the present notebook constitutes the principal and hitherto entirely undocumented source for such an investigation: apparently begun during his first journey to Italy, the booklet also served Grassi upon his return, containing his travel plans as well as lists of important events, meetings, addresses, and contacts in Rome. The detailed schedule of his itinerary from Gotha to Rome (no less than 60 stations, stating the distances and length of stay) is followed by a five-page catalogue of artists active in Rome, most of which Grassi managed to visit, a brief account of social life in the city, and a list of various works of art and their locations. The names of numerous art dealers and antiquarians as well as several paintings offered to Grassi (including works by van Dyck, Raffael, Michelangelo, and Rubens) give evidence of his activity as an agent for the Ducal collections. Among the extensive notes at the end of the volume (which include payments to his coachman) we also find a three-page autobiography in which Grassi records the principal events of his life with their respective dates. - After his last visit to Rome "Grassi returned to Dresden, where he died in 1838, lonely and after years of illness. For a decade (1781-1791), Mozart and Grassi both lived in Vienna. The close connection between Joseph Grassi, the Mozarts and their in-laws Lange is proved by a letter of 12 March 1783 from Wolfgang to Leopold Mozart in which he discusses a performance of his pantomime 'Pantalon und Colombine' (with his music, KV 446) on March 3rd, an event held in the Hofburg Redoutensaal and attended by his friends" (cf. Angermüller). - Perfectly preserved. Autographs in Grassi's hand are of the utmost rarity: the past decades' auction records list a single specimen (Stargardt, 21 March 1996, lot 672: his signature on a receipt for Duke August of Saxe-Gotha). R. Angermüller, Mozart: Bilder und Klänge. Salzburg, Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, 1991, p. 358. NDB VII, 4-5.
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Beuth, Peter Christian Wilhelm, preußischer Staatsmann (1781-1853).
Brief mit eigenh. U. Berlin, 17. XII. 1835.
1 S. Folio. Als Vorsitzender des "Vereins zur Beförderung des Gewerbfleißes in Preußen", an den Rentamtmann und Büchereienpionier Karl Benjamin Ritter von Preusker (1786-1871) in Großenhain: "Indem ich Euer Wohlgeboren im Namen des Vereins für Gewerbfleiß in Preußen für die mit dem gefälligen Schreiben vom 13ten v. M. demselben gemachte Mittheilung eines Exemplars des von Ihnen verfaßten Werkes: Baustein-Andeutungen über Sonntags- und Gewerbschulen etc etc. hiermit ergebenst danke, bemerke ich zugleich, daß dieses Geschenk in dem Abdruck des Vereinsprotokolls erwähnt werden wird. - Eine ausführliche Beurtheilung liegt indessen außer den Grenzen des Vereins [...]." Beuth gilt als "Vater der preußischen Gewerbeförderung". - Gefaltet. Im Oberrand angestaubt; im linken Rand etwas unregelmäßig aus der Registratur getrennt. Unterhalb der Unterschrift von späterer Sammlerhand in Bleistift bezeichnet.
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Haydn, Joseph, composer (1732-1809).
Autograph letter signed ("Joseph Haydn mppria"). Vienna, 17 Oct. 1804.
4to. ½ p. Framed and glazed. In Italian, to George Thomson in Edinburgh, a friend of Robert Burns and publisher of Haydn's song adaptations, inquiring about London performances of his "Creation" and announcing that he intends to write, before his death, another two or at least one dozen works specially for Thomson: "Stimatissimo Signor mio. Nell' ultima vostra lettera di Luglio m'avete fatto troppo Complimenti per la mia Creazione del Mondo. Mi stimo molto felice, che Iddio m'ha donato questo piccolo Talento per dar soddisfazione agli Amatori di Musica, tanto più, che per questa grazia Divina posso far del bene al prossimo mio, ed ai poveri: io vorrei dunque saper, se in Londra fu data la Creazione per i poveri, o per il Concerto professionale, e quanto denaro habbiano fatto; io ho fatto in Vienna con questi due pezzi di Musica, cioè colla Creazione, e con le quattro stagioni per le nostre povere Vedove di Musica, in tempo di tre anni quaranta mila fiorini: Se mi potete col tempo darmi una risposta sopra quel punto, mi fareste un gran piacere. - Vi mando dunque queste tredici Ariette con l'istessa speranza, che vi daranno piacere, io vorrei far ancora prima della mia morte venti cinque, o almeno dodici di queste Ariette, mà solamente per voi caro amico, perche cose più grandi non posso più sorprendere, la mia vecchiezza m'indebolisce sempre più [...]". With Thomson's autogr. note of contents on the reverse: "Dr. Haydn. With 13 more Airs to which he composed Symph.s and Accomp.ts and Enquiring whether the Creation had been perf.d in London for the benefit of the poor - and that he will yet do some more airs for me, and only for me!" - Traces of folds; slight tear at horizontal centerfold (touching text), otherwise immaculate. Provenance: in the collection of Emilie Schaup in 1931; later in a Vienna private collection. First published in German translation by Botstiber, Der Merker 1/19, 777; Italian text first printed by Leo Grünstein in: Das Alt-Wiener Antlitz (Vienna 1931) I, 138 (but recipient erroneously identified as Bridi). Dénes Bartha (ed.), Joseph Haydn. Gesammelte Briefe und Aufzeichnungen (Kassel 1965), p. 452, no. 357; H. C. Robbins Landon (ed.), The collected correspondence and London notebooks of Joseph Haydn (London 1959), p. 234f. Thomson's note was first published (with a departure) in: Eva Badura-Skoda, "Eine private Briefsammlung", in: Festschrift Otto Erich Deutsch (Kassel 1963), p. 280-290, at p. 283, with fig. 2.
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[Mühle, Johannes, Maler, Graphiker und Naturforscher (1920-1995)]. - Ruth Mühle.
Ms. Brief mit eigenh. U. St. Georgen, 30. XI. 1995.
1 S. 4to. Beiliegend ein gedr. Partezettel sowie ein gedr. Bestattungskärtchen. An den Kulturattaché und Botschaftsrat Peter Schoenwaldt (1934-2004) mit der Mitteilung vom Ableben des im 76. Lebensjahr verstorbenen Künstlers. - Auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf.
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Silveri, Alexander, Bildhauer (1910-1986).
Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U. O. O., 8. I. 1967.
1 S. 8vo. Mit eh. Adresse. Dankt Josef Wesely für ihm übersandte Wünsche zum Geburtstag. - Silveri schuf u. a. die Kanzelreliefs in der Grazer Fraziskanerkirche oder die Weltkugel in der Pfarre Strebersdorf. Vgl. Vollmer VI, 417.
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Silveri, Alexander, Bildhauer (1910-1986).
Eigenh. Bildpostkarte mit U. [Graz], 12. I. 1960.
1 S. (Qu.-)8vo. Mit eh. Adresse. An Josef Wesely, bei dem sich Silveri für die "lieben Wünsche" bedankt. - Der steirische Bildhauer Alexander Silveri schuf u.a. die Kanzelreliefs in der Grazer Fraziskanerkirche oder die Weltkugel in der Pfarre Strebersdorf. - Die Karte mit der Darstellung des Altars v. Deutschwagram (Eisen 3 x 4 m). - Die Karte etw. feuchtigkeitsfleckig.
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Welz, Ferdinand, Bildhauer und Medailleur (geb. 1915).
Eigenh. Briefkarte mit U. Wien, o. D.
1 S. Qu.-8vo. Mit eh. adr. Kuvert. Dankt Josef Wesely für ihm übersandte Geburtstagswünsche. - Welz leitete von 1955-86 die Meisterklasse für Medaillenkunst und Kleinplastik an der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Wien, 1970-72 war er auch deren Rektor.
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Wickenburg, Alfred, Maler und Graphiker (1905-1976).
Gedr. Billett mit eigenh. Grußzeile und U. Graz, o. D.
1 S. Qu.-12mo. Mit eh. adr. Kuvert. Dankt Josef Wesely für ihm übersandte Wünsche zum Geburtstag. - Nach Studien an der Azbè-Schule in München, an der Académie Julian in Paris und an der Kunstakademie in Stuttgart lebte Wickenburg mehrere Jahre als freischaffender Künstler u. a. in Florenz und Rom, ehe er 1934 als Professor für Landschafts- und Stillebenmalerei an die Landeskunstschule in Graz berufen wurde. Später auch an der an der dortigen landschaftlichen Freskoschule unterrichtend, war sein eigenes Werk wesentlich von kubistischen Strömungen und durch seinen Lehrer Adolf Hölzel beeinflußt. Zu Wickenburg vgl. Thieme/B. XXXV, 512f.
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Wickenburg (née Cointrelle), Marie, Gräfin (1817-1889).
2 eigenh. Briefe mit U. Wien, 2. bzw. 24. III. 1854.
Zusammen 4 SS. (Kl.-)8vo. Familiengeschichtlich interessante Briefe an einen Edlen von Dirnböck (hier "v. Dirnbök" bzw. "v. Dürnbek") hinsichtlich ihres Stiefsohns Franz Xaver bzw. ihrer Stieftochter Emma: "Herzlich danke ich Ihnen für die Mittheilung der beiden Briefe welche vortreflich ihren Entzwek entsprechen, Gott gebe das es auch die erwarteten Früch[t]e bringe, nach den Betragen meines Sohnes bei den Tode seines so liebevollen Vaters habe ich mir von ihm kaum etwaß beßers erwartet, als er sich in den Brief an Sie äußert das er gegen mich blos weil ich seine Stiefmutter bin so auftrit will ich garnichts sagen es ist nun eine vorgefaste Meinung das er aber gegen seine leibliche Schwester so ist beweist das er unnatürlich ist [...]" (2. III. 1854). - "Da ich ganz sicher erfahren daß Major Victor mit dem in Händen habenden Papiren mißbrauch treibt und überall dadurch beweisen will daß er meine Tochter heirathe so erlaube ich mir Anzufragen ob Ihr Schreiben [...] von Erfolg war? Wo nicht so mußte man zu einen ersten Mittel greifen [...]" (24. III. 1854). - Der Gatte der Schreiberin, Wilhelm Gf. Wickenburg, war in erster Ehe mit Therese Selliers de Moranville (1806-38) verehelicht gewesen, welcher Ehe vier Kinder entsprossen waren. Er war am 31. Jänner 1854 verstorben (vgl. Wurzbach LV, 226 und Tafel).
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Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875).
Nye Eventyr og Historier. Anden Samling. Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 1858.
8vo. (8), 67 pp. Later half cloth. First edition. - Provenance: descendants of the Henriques family, in whose home Andersen had been a frequent visitor during the last fifteen years of his life. The house was full of life and happy days as a large circle of both Danish and foreign musicians and artists visited the salons and parties held there. The friendship with the family was established in August Bournonville's home, where the poet first heard the young, talented Therese Henriques (1833-83) playing the piano. Immediately, a warm friendship between the two was kindled, and it would last a lifetime. - Some occasional foxing.
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Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), French photographer, caricaturist, and champion of manned flight (1820-1910).
Autograph letter signed. Paris, 31. XII. 1881.
8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. In French, to an unidentified recipient: "Our mutual friend, Mr. Mennique, informs me that it is you who are legally entitled to the copyright of a small brochure which has just been published in a Paris newspaper and which was favourably received [...]" (transl.). In the postscript, Nadar writes: "Perhaps there may be a possibility of inserting a few simple drawings which I could take care of by resuming my former metier of caricaturist of the 'wild and raucous' [...]". - Very good overall, with some mounting remnants on the back of one of the quarter panels. From the Collection of John Herzog.
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Turner (of Oxford), William, English painter (1789-1862).
Autograph letter signed, with a fine illustration. Oxford, 6. VIII. 1841.
4to. 2¾ pp. on bifolium. To an unidentified recipient: "I have been favoured by your letter of June 29th, in which you have given me your opinion of your drawing of Blenheim, for which I am very much obliged. As the drawing was then in London, I thought it best to defer replying to your letter till I should have it before me, or till I had made the alterations you mentioned, which I believe I have now completed, and which undoubtedly improve it very much. In the first place I have darkened the large green oak No. 1, on the right, also the lower part of the warm oak No. 2 on the left, the upper part, at present, I am unwilling to alter unless I find that it be your wish that I should do so. The Wych Elm No. 3 was very yellow, but I have now made it somewhat green, such as it might be when the foliage has undergone a partial change only. The small beech trees remain much the same, for some time I was unwilling to do any thing to them, I have however made them a little darker. I have endeavoured to work up the distance and building to the effect you desired; and the ferns in the foreground I have varied both in effect and colour. I should say that I have not done much to the building, and was unwilling for some time to touch it, but after making the other alterations, I ventured also to deepen and warm it a little, and I now think it better. I shall be much obliged if you will inform me if you recollect any other little thing that you desire I should do to it, and I shall be most happy to do my best to work up to your idea of the subject. I must beg to say that I agree entirely with you as to propriety of strengthening the effect according to your suggestion [...]".
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[Album amicorum].
Fautoribus patronis atque amicis offert A. Barthold. Stettin, Berlin, Hamburg and other places, 1767-1782.
Large oblong 8vo. 53 written and ca. 50 blank ff. with a total of ca. 50 entries. Coloured title page on vellum, 4 armorial miniatures and 5 coloured illustrations; one pen drawing in red ink. Contemporary calf binding with spine label, covers and spine elaborately gilt, all edges gilt. A very charming album. The owner, Andreas Barthold, was born in 1752 into a wealthy merchant family from Stettin. He attended the school of mathematics established by pastor Johann Julius Hecker in 1747, which he left at the age of about 16 years, and was further educated at the Hamburg Academy of Commerce, founded in 1768. In 1773 he returned to Stettin, where he worked as a merchant, became a citizen in 1778, and married the following year. After this, his trail disappears. - Most of the entries in this album are from teachers and classmates at the Realschule in Berlin; another group of entries is by Hamburg merchants. Apart from the identifiable contributions (some 15 entries), the importance of this album lies in its very appealing colour illustrations, some of which are by known artists: this includes a view of a channel with ships by Christian Gottfried Mathes (1738-ca 1805), dated 1768, and a coastal landscape by Johann Carl Wilhelm Rosenberg (1737-1810), dated Stettin 1781. - Slight chipping to spine label; lower cover rubbed; bumped and chafed. Several leaves have been removed. Occasional slight staining and browning; very attractively bound.
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[Boxeraufstand].
Sammlung von 150 Ansichts-Postkarten und 4 weiteren Postkarten von Überfahrt und Aufenthalt eines deutschen militärischen Expeditionskorps in China und Japan. Verschiedene Orte, 1900-1901.
Zusammen 154 Bll. 8vo. 154 Postkarten des bayerischen Leutnants (ab 1901 Oberleutnants) Richard von Allweyer (geb. 1872), der ab 1900 dem Deutschen Ostasiatischen Expeditionscorps angehörte. 151 Karten sind illustriert und zumeist zusätzlich zu der gedruckten Beschriftung mit handschriftlichen Erläuterungen und Kommentaren versehen. 14 Karten sind postalisch gelaufen, die übrigen vermutlich regelmäßig gesammelt und in Briefen nach Hause verschickt worden. Die Karten beginnen mit Ansichten der Vorbereitungen in Deutschland (darunter eine farbige Ansicht von "Schiessübung und Schiessplatz Jüterbog" sowie eine farbige Innenansicht eines Speisewagens der "Internationalen Eisenbahn-Schlafwagen-Gesellschaft München-Karlsbad"), der Parade der Seebataillone vor dem Kaiser, der Besichtigung des Lazarettschiffs "Gera" durch die Kaiserin und der Transportdampfer "Aachen" und "Crefeld". Mit der "Aachen" führte die Reise nach Shanghai, Tsingtau und Taku, dann nach Japan (Kobe, Yokohama und Kyoto). Mit der "Crefeld" ging es nach Tientsin, ferner gab es Aufenthalte in Peking, Hongkong, wieder Shanghai und nochmals Tsingtau. Die sehr oft von Allweyer kommentierten Karten mit gedruckten Fotos (einige wenige sind Originalabzüge) zeigen Städte, Straßen, einzelne Gebäude, Landschaften, deutsches und chinesisches Militär sowie sonstige Bevölkerung Chinas und Japans in vielfältigen und seltenen Aufnahmen. Die heutigen Millionenmetropolen mit ihren Hochhäusern zeigen sich hier noch als kahle Landschaften mit wenigen Baracken oder als Ansammlung von einstöckigen Holzhütten. Im einzelnen sind Ansichtskarten vorhanden aus: Tsingtau (25), Kiautschou (1), Tsimo (8), Tientsin (8), Shanghai (16), Peking (18), Hongkong (17) und verschiedenen Landschaften (8). Ferner 34 Karten aus Japan (meist ankoloriert), 11 mit Schiffsansichten, 4 aus Deutschland, 1 mit Tuschzeichnung und 3 nicht illustrierte Postkarten. - Beachtliche Quellensammlung zur Situation Ostasiens um 1900.
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Ferdinand I., Kaiser von Österreich (1793-1875).
Urkunde mit eigenh. U. Wien, 14. IV. 1835.
Hinter Glas gerahmt (82 x 62 cm). Papiergedecktes Siegel. Stiftbrief für die Stiftung des zu Wischau in Mähren verstorbenen Postmeisters Ignaz Punsch, deren Zinserlös jährlich am Geburtstag des Kaisers Franz I. vom Hofkriegsrat an Invalide zu verteilen war. Frühes kaiserliches Dokument des erst knapp sechs Wochen zuvor seinem Vater Franz I. auf den Kaiserthron nachgefolgten Ferdinand. - Einige Schäden in den Bugfalten alt hinterlegt. Mit Gegenzeichnung durch den Präsidenten des Hofkriegsrates, General Ignaz Graf Hardegg (1772-1848). Dekorativ gerahmt.
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Leopold I., Kaiser (1640-1705).
Grafenstandsdiplom für Johann Wilhelm Freiherrn von Hainrichsberg mit eigenh. U. Wien, 21. III. 1696.
Pergamentlibell. 15 SS. Folio. Roter Samteinband mit tw. erhaltenen Schließbändern anhängendes Siegel in Holzkapsel, ornamentierte Metallkassette mit Ausnehmung für das Siegel. Gegengezeichnet von Graf Julius Friedrich Bucellini.
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Vaucelles de Ravigny, Louis de, French Egyptologist (1798-1851).
"Journal de voyage en Egypte et en Nubie 1826". Autograph manuscript signed. Egypt, 1826.
4to (235 x 185 mm). 177 pp. Contemporary wrappers (wanting spine). Handwritten title and name on front cover. An early 19th century Egyptologist's fascinating travel notes documenting his journey through the Nile valley, profusely illustrated with more than 230 sketches showing hieroglyphs and Greek and Coptic inscriptions. - At the age of 27, Louis de Vaucelles undertook an expedition to Egypt to explore the banks of the Nile from Cairo to Aswan. He set out from Marseille on 27 January 1826 and reached the second cataract on 27 May. In his journal he accurately reproduces all cartouches and inscriptions of the temples, tombs and palaces visited up to the first cataract south of Aswan. He gives the condition of monuments (sometimes mere ruins), identifies traces of Christian chapels and churches, translates hieroglyphs dedicated both to pharaohs and Roman emperors, indicates (in cursive script) several Arabic words and names, and mentions the orientalists who preceded him: his mentor Champollion as well as Denon, Maillé, Belzoni, and Niebuhr. Among the temples and sites he describes are Ipsamboul, Edfu, Dakka ("un des mieux conservés"), Thèbes ("Louqsor"), Karnak, Denderah Assouan, Elephantine and Philae as well as the pyramids of Giza, Cleopatra's Needle, the Sphinx (the head of which is said to be "extrêmement mutilée"), Alexandria, and the Nile Delta. - The final fifty-odd pages are devoted to contemporary Egyptian cities, their people, and their Arab, Jewish and Coptic traditions. As Vaucelle notes, Coptic Christians are free to practice their religion due to the unrivalled tolerance of the Muslim faith ("tant il est vrai qu’il n’y a pas de religion plus tolérante que la religion mahométane"). He also provides details of medical operations such as castration, circumcision, and excision, as well as of the "Kalisch" festivities held in Cairo at the time of the opening of the dikes. - Louis de Vaucelles de Ravigny was trained by Jean-François Champollion, who in 1824 published his "Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens". Apart from the present travel journal he also produced a "Chronologie des monuments antiques de la Nubie" (1829), based on the interpretation of the royal legends contained in the hieroglyphic reliefs, a book in which he pays tribute to the German egyptologist François-Christian Gau. - Slight fraying to edges; wants wrappers' spine. A fine survival.
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Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875).
Eventyr og Historier. Ny Samling. With autograph inscription signed. Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 1872.
8vo. (8), 73, (3) pp. Bound with both original wrappers in later half cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author on half title to Therese Henriques (1833-83), in whose home Andersen was a frequent visitor during the last fifteen years of his life. The house was full of life and happy days as a large circle of both Danish and foreign musicians and artists visited the salons and parties held there. The friendship with Henriques was established in August Bournonville's home, where the poet first heard the young, talented Therese Henriques playing the piano. Immediately, a warm friendship between the two was kindled, and it would last a lifetime. - Provenance: descendants of Henriques family.
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Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875).
Lykke Peer. With autograph inscription signed. Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 1870.
8vo. 1 blank f., (6), 183, (1) pp. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine and green marbled covers. Publisher's original printed front wrapper bound within. First edition of Andersen's sixth and final novel, "Lucky Peer". With a fine inscription to the daughter of his benefactor and friend, the great Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted: "Kaere Froeken Mathilde Ørsted! Forrige Fredag skulde alle-rede 'Lykke Peer' have bragt Hislen og Lykoenskning, nu kommer han een Uge for seent, men han faaer vel nok Lov til at blive i Stuen? Erboedigst H. C. Andersen En 11 November 1870" ("Dear Miss Mathilde Oersted! 'Lucky Peer' should have presented his greetings and congratulations last Friday; now he arrives with a week's delay, but surely he still will permitted to stay in the your sitting room? Yours very sincerely, H. C. Andersen, November 11, 1870"). Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851), famous as the discoverer of electromagnetism, was one of the few notable men of Danish society who advanced H. C. Andersen from the very beginning. - Binding slightly rubbed, but altogether a fine copy. Provenance: 1) Mathilde Ørsted; 2) Bent W. Dahlström, Danish publisher (his bookplate); 3) collection of Pierre Bergé (his bookplate). Nielsen, Bibliografi, 1942, no. 1006. Bork, no. 76. R. Boyer, Histoire des littératures scandinaves, 1996.
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Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875).
Nye Eventyr. Andet Bind. Første Samling. With autograph inscription signed. Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 1847.
8vo. (8), 72 pp. Publisher's original printed front wrapper; lower wrapper and spine replaced. Stored in modern half morocco case with flat gilt spine and marbled covers. First edition. - First collection in Andersen's second series of "New Fairy Tales", containing the tales "The Old Street Lamp", "The Neighbouring Families", "The Darning Needle", and "Little Tuk", as well as the famous, bleak tale of "The Shadow". With a long and thoughtful autograph inscription in verse to William Oehlenschläger, the son of his friend and benefactor Adam Oehlenschläger, written on the back of the upper wrapper: "Min inderlig kjaere Ven / William Oehlenschlaeger. / Her er’mine Børn, de yngste fem, / Jeg taenke hos Dig de finde et Hjem. / De komme i Digter Kongens Slot, / Dig søge de der og saa faae de det godt / H. C. Andersen / Paaskemorgen" ("My very dearest friend William Oehlenschlaeger. Here are my youngest five children: I believe they shall find a home with you. They enter the Poet King's castle, where they shall seek you out and find their happiness. H. C. Andersen, on Easter morning"). - It was Andersen's wont to send copies of his fairy tales to his friends' and relatives' children. The poet and romantic playwright Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger (1779-1850), revered by Heine, was the author of the Danish national anthem. Oehlenschläger had met the 17-year-old Andersen in 1822 and supported the struggling young man from the beginning; Andersen's early writings are informed by a desire to imitate the work of his much-admired mentor. - Binding repaired, preserving the inscribed upper cover only, remargined and reinforced in places. Paper somewhat browned throughout, as common. Provenance: 1) William Oehlenschlaeger; 2) Bent W. Dahlström, Danish publisher (his bookplate on inside of morocco case and lower wrapper); 3) collection of Pierre Bergé. A charming association piece. Nielsen, H. C. Andersen Bibliografi, 1942, no. 516. Bork, H. C. Andersen. Catalogue of First Editions Collected by Jens S. Bork, 2014, p. 91: "The second cycle of fairy-tales is considered the breakthrough for Andersen as a story teller." Oeuvres, I, Pléiade, 1992, pp. 320-355 & 1320.
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Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875).
Nye Eventyr og Historier. Tredje Samling. With autograph inscription signed. Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 1859.
8vo. (8), 79 pp. Bound with both original giltstamped cloth-structured wrappers in later half cloth. First edition. Inscribed by the author on flyleaf to Therese Henriques (1833-83), in whose home Andersen was a frequent visitor during the last 15 years of his life: "Fru Therese Henriques som fra Pjanoet forstaaer at fortælle digterisk Eventyr og Historier bringes denne lille Bouquet med hjertelig Hengivenhed H. C. Andersen" ("Mrs. Therese Henriques, who from the piano understands how poetically to weave fairy tales and stories, is given this little bouquet with heartfelt devotion. H. C. Andersen"). - Henriques's house was full of life and happy days as a large circle of both Danish and foreign musicians and artists visited the salons and parties held there. The friendship with Henriques was actually established in August Bournonville's home, where the poet first heard the young, talented Therese Henriques play the piano. Immediately, a warm friendship between the two was kindled, and it would last a lifetime. Provenance: descendants of Henriques family.
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Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875).
Autograph letter signed ("H. C. Andersen"). Copenhagen, 16. I. 1845.
8vo. 2 pages. To his translator Heinrich Zeise, with whom he corresponded frequently. While most of their correspondence has been published, this letter was previously unknown. Apart from matters regarding translations, Andersen writes that he sends greetings from his close friend, the Danish physicist and chemist Hans Christian Oersted, and, in a postscript, that he is staying at the Hotel du Nord on Kongens Nytorv. - Slight defect to upper right corner.
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Andersen, Hans Christian, Danish poet (1805-1875).
Signed and inscribed copy of "I Spanien". Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzel, 1863.
8vo. (6), 309 pp. Bound with both original wrappers in later half morocco. First edition. Inscribed by the author on front wrapper to Therese Henriques (1833-83), in whose home Hans Christian Andersen was a frequent visitor during the last 15 years of his life. The home was full of life and happy days as a large circle of both Danish and foreign musicians and artists visited the salons and parties held there. The friendship with Henriques was established in August Bournonville's home, where the poet first heard the young, talented Therese Henriques play the piano. Immediately, a warm friendship between the two was kindled, and it would last a lifetime. - Provenance: descendants of the Henriques family.
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Debussy, Claude, French composer (1862-1918).
Autograph calling card signed (with initials). No place or date.
Calling card format. 1 page. In French, translated: "Here, my dear Abel! / and all my friendship". - Faint scattered soiling.
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Hammer-Purgstall, Joseph von, oriental scholar (1774-1856).
"Triolet". Autograph manuscript of a poem signed. No place, 1 May 1839.
4to. 1 page. For a consul general: "Triolet || Le premier jour du mois de Mai | Fut le plus hereux de ma vie. | Fanchin || So eben dacht ich heut am ersten Mai | An Fanchins hochberühmtes Triolet, | Und wie die Jahre längstens schon vorbei | Da Sylvien ich sah am ersten Mai. | Da brachte mir Dein Both des Blattes Reih | Die im Geschenk des Buchs an mich besteht, | Drum sende ich Dir heut am ersten Mai | Als Dank für den Quatrain dies Triolet [...]". - A fine fair copy, probably intended as a gift.
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Hedin, Sven, Swedish explorer and geographer (1856-1952).
Autograph picture postcard signed. Stockholm, 11 Nov. 1952.
Oblong 8vo. 1 page. With typed envelope. To General Hans R. Lorenz, written a few days before he died. - Accompanied by a printed lettercard by the Hedin siblings, thanking for condolences.
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Hedin, Sven, Swedish explorer and geographer (1856-1952).
Autograph lettercard signed. No place, 31 Oct. 1950.
8vo. 2 pages on bifolium. To General Hans R. Lorenz, giving a detailed account of the political situation in East Asia.
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Hedin, Sven, Swedish explorer and geographer (1856-1952).
Autograph lettercard signed. No place, 12 June 1950.
8vo. 2 pages on bifolium. To General Hans R. Lorenz: "The politics of the Anglo-Saxons, led by Roosevelt and Churchill, were madness. The so-called victors opened Europe's gates to Soviet Russia and created this situation. And in so doing these deluded persons have also ruined their own people [...]".
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Kokoschka, Oskar, Austrian artist (1886-1980).
4 autograph letters signed (one of which with a full-page drawing) and 1 autograph picture postcard signed. Probably Villeneuve, 1955 to 1957.
8vo and oblong 8vo. Altogether 8 pp. on 5 ff. With 4 autogr. envelopes. Intimate, longing missives to Antonia Mangelmann, probably a former model or student of Kokoschka's at his Salzburg Summer Academy: "You have proven to me a dedication, truly limitless for a mother, in this, your possibly finest letter; do not be angry if the Swan proves human in his desire to embrace you in thanks for all that you keep so close to my imagination that I was overjoyed all day, so very happy. How sweet are your two hearts, and how beautiful your two bodies, such harmony of earthly forms and divine souls was known only to Greek antiquity, and I confess frankly that I return to Salzburg on your behalf alone. To have to leave such wonderful sweetness! for soon I shall have to die, a fate which I find it hard to get used to! That there shall be a wall between the three of us, that the world of shadows shall remove me forever, while you and Inge strew like buds your charm and love beneath the sky, in the light of day and the star's nightly gleam, this hurts me as my love hurts me but still keeps alive / your Oskar" (translation). The reverse of this undated letter shows a sketch of three embracing persons, inscribed "for dear Antonia / variation on our theme / by OK". The persons depicted are apparently Antonia, her daughter Inge, and Kokoschka himself. - All letters with printed letterhead. Includes 11 pp. of responding letters.
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Matisse, Henri, French artist (1869-1954).
Autograph letter signed. N. p., 4. XII. 1940.
4to. 2 pages. To his friend, the French writer Henry de Montherlant. Matisse regrets not being able to receive him in the evening, as he has had a "spasm crisis which tired me much": "[...] mes journées sont souvent longues et le soir je dois renoncer à des visites qui prépareraient une nuit d'insomnie, d'autant plus certaine que visiteur serait plus intéressant. Aujourd'hui j'ai supporté un examen radiographique qui m'a brisé. En somme, je me trouve surtout en lutte avec les médecins [...] Ma fille que j'ai fait appeler m'aide heureusement dans cette lutte difficile et délicate. Au fond je me sens très bien, et aucune urgence ne me paraît indiquée. Comme je ne prends que des bouillies pour désenflammer l'intestin et des oranges (vitamines), j'ai forcé un peu trop sur les oranges, qui par leur aciditée m'ont dérangé l'intestin qui allait au mieux. Au lieu de reconnaître la cause vraie de ce petit accroc, les médecins y voient un motif de hâter l'intervention. Je ne les crois pas malhonnêtes mais simplement un peu trop excités à l'action. Le chirurgien est un père coupe toujours. Le médecin traitant est fils d'italiens et menacé par le nouveau régime a l'air de ne pas vouloir contrarier ce chirurgien établi solidement à Nice. Le 2e médecin est juif tremble dans ses culottes et se range de l'avis du plus fort. - Il a dit à ma fille, moi j'ouvrirais pour voir ce qu'il y a dedans. Au fond tout ça est rigolo. Il suffit de savoir se défendre - et pour ça je suis assez fort quand je ne fais pas de tableau - ce qui est le cas [...]".
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Neutra, Richard, Austrian-American architect (1892-1970).
Autograph letter signed. No place, 25 Jan. 1956.
4to. 1 page. To the graphologist Fritz Schweighofer, expressing his interest in Schweighofer's research on graphology and asking for an analysis of these handwritten lines: "Ihre Forschungsarbeit, die sich auf Handschriften als Charakterausdruck bezieht, ist von grossem und allgemeinem Interesse. Vielleicht darf man erfahren was Ihre Experten in solch ein paar Zeilen finden können [...]". - Slightly wrinkled, some traces of mounting.
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[Album amicorum].
Album amicorum des Johann Heinrich Scherber (1759-1837). Jena und Erlangen, 1779-1781.
143 Bll. (pag. SS. 27 bis 346), 11 Bll. Register, 1 Bl. 283 Einträge mit 13 Scherenschnitten/Silhouetten, 3 einmontierten Kupferstichen (einer davon koloriert) und 1 kolorierten Zeichnung (Studenten beim Billardspiel). Lederband der Zeit. Qu.-8vo. Der Inhaber des vorliegenden Stammbuches, Johann Heinrich Scherber, war Pfarrer von Bischofsgrün und später dann von Selb. Die Einträge entstanden ausschließlich während der Studentenzeit in Jena (Immatrikulation am 23. X. 1777) und Erlangen (Immatrikulation am 3. V. 1779). Hervorzuheben ist ein bislang nicht bekannter Eintrag des Dichters Johann Peter Hebel (S. 102) und daß einige Beiträger einen Bezug zu Goethe haben, so etwa der "Onkel von Christiane von Goethe", Justus Herrmann Deahna, andere zu Jean Paul, etwa Johann Nicolaus Apel oder der Schwiegervater von Jean Pauls jüngster Tochter Odilie, Christian Hake. Unter den Eintragungen finden sich u. a.: 1) Erlangen, 27.06.1779. Friedrich Gustav Metzger (1762-82) aus Rothenburg; in das Stammbuch des früh Verstorbenen hat sich Johann Peter Hebel eingetragen; der von Metzger mit einem Kommentar versehene Eintrag des Dichters ist wiedergegeben bei Pietsch. Das Stammbuch liegt im Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt a. M. 2) Erlangen, 21.09.1780. Johann Nicolaus Apel (1757-1823), deutscher Autor, Naturforscher, Konstrukteur und Politiker. Stand u. a. in Briefkontakt mit Jean Paul, der von seinem Vater, dem Pastor Johann Apel (1726-79) getauft worden war. 3) Erlangen, 16.10.1780. Georg Christian Elias Erb (1759-1826), Pfarrer in Schornweisach, später in Neudrossenfeld. War als Feldprediger 1782-84 bei den Bayreuther Regimentern in Amerika und nahm dort an den Kämpfen der Amerikanischen Revolution teil. Verfasser einiger Predigten. 4) Jena, 14. III. 1779. Johann Wilhelm Schmidt (1760-1816), Pfarrer, zuletzt in Buggingen. Freund des Dichters Johann Peter Hebel, der sich gleich zwei Mal in sein Stammbuch eingetragen hat, das in der Badischen Landesbibliothek in Karlsruhe liegt. 5) Erlangen, 1780. Johann Gotthard Gericke (1759-83), Theologiestudent aus Riga, der auf der Heimreise nach Riga ertrank. Sein Stammbuch ist erhalten geblieben, in dieses haben sich Goethe, Wieland und Herder - mit einem Gedicht - eingetragen. 6) Erlangen, im März 1779. Johann Peter Hebel (1760-1826) mit einem Gedicht: "Fehlt innen Ruhe nicht, was fehlet meinem Leben. | Als was entberlich ist, und unentberlich scheint? | Solt ich bei iedem Unfal beben, | und weinen, wan die Torheit weint | Zum Andenken der ungeheuchelten Freundschaft von deinem treuen Freund J. P. Hebel [...]". Der vorliegende bislang unbekannte Hebeleintrag zitiert - wohl aus dem Gedächtnis - eine Strophe aus dem Gedicht "Glückseligkeit" des Dichters Johann Peter Uz. 7) Erlangen, 4. V. 1779. Johann Friedrich Plitt (1761-1823), ab 1803 "von" Plitt, Dr. iur., Hofrat, Minister-Resident usw. 8) Erlangen, im May 1779. Ludwig Sebastian Zehelein (?-?), bis 1803 Conrector des Lyceums, ab 1803 Rector der Lateinschule in Tirschenreuth, Bruder des Lyrikers Ludwig Sebastian Zehelein. 9) Erlangen, 07.05.1779. Ehrenfried Hans Friedrich Ferdinand Busch (1756-1816), als Secondeleutnant bei den Ansbacher Jägern in den Jahren 1781-1783 in Amerika kämpfend (in derselben Einheit wie die Einträger Erb und Deahna), später Hauptmann und Stadtvogt in Crailsheim. Busch "verliess Erlangen am 14.May in der Hoffnung, sein Glück als Officier in Amerika zu machen. Der Himmel begleite deinen Entschluß, gute Seele!" 10) Erlangen, September 1780. Philipp Adolf Besserer von Thalfingen (um 1756- 1779), Sohn des Ratsältesten Christoph Erhard Besserer von Thalfingen, ertrank 1789 bei Bövingen, mutmaßlich Suizid. Sein Stammbuch liegt in der HAAB in Weimar (StB128). 11) Erlangen, Nov. 1780. Sebastian Andreas Balthasar von Hößlin (1759-1845), bedeutender Stadtbaumeister der Stadt Augsburg. 12) [Erlangen], 1779. Martin Heinrich Friedrich Pilger (1760 Wetzlar-1838 Charkov), zuletzt Ordinarius für Veterinärmedizin in Charkov. Nach einer militärischen Karriere veröffentlichte der Autodidakt Pilger zahlreiche Aufsätze zum Thema Veterinärmedizin, dies unter Nennung seines Offiziersranges als Hauptmann. Daneben veröffentlichte Pilger 1791 die sog. "Wezlarische Annalen", die ihn als echten deutschen Aufklärer zeigen, der sich mit buchstäblich allen anlegt. Bis heute von hoher Bedeutung seine Abhandlung "Ideen über die Behandlung der Juden in Deutschland", die ihn als Vorkämpfer der Juden-Emanzipation ausweisen. Der Ruf an die Universität Charkov in der Ukraine war Diskussionspunkt bei J. W. v. Goethe. In Charkov hat sich dieser streitlustige Mann dann mit allen überworfen. Zu ihm wird bemerkt: "Dies wenige mag von dem Charakter dieses Ehrenmannes zeugen | war zu nichts anderes tüchtig als zur Tragung der Flinte" und "General aller Schisser und dummen Jungen". 13) Erlangen, Merz 1781. Ludwig Steinbrenner (1759-Großbödungen), Theologe. 14) O. O. u. D. Justus Herrmann Deahna ( 1758-1825 Bayreuth) zuletzt Justiz- und Regierungsrat in Bayreuth. Nahm als junger Mann als Leutnant der Ansbacher Jäger für ca. 2 Jahre an dem Unabhängigkeitskrieg in Amerika teil. Seine Tochter Helene heiratete 1801 Christian August Vulpius, den Schwager Goethes, die andere Tochter Rosalie den Bankier Falkner. Deahna wird wegen dieser verwandtschaftlichen Beziehungen, die ihm Tischeinladungen mit Goethe einbrachten, in der Literatur als "Onkel von Christiane von Goethe" bezeichnet. 15) Erlangen, Mai -79. Justus Friedrich Zehelein (1760-1802), Schriftsteller, Lyriker, Komponist, Radierer. Friedrich von Matthisson hat ihn mit seinen Werken in Band 14 seiner Lyrischen Anthologie aufgenommen. 16) Erlangen, 10.11.1780. Peter Adam Freiherr Liebert von Liebenhofen (1759-1818), Augsburger Bankier, Sohn des (weitaus berühmteren) Benedikt Adam Liebert, des Erbauers des Schaezlerpalais in Augsburg, in dem Marie Antoinette angeblich ein Paar Schuhe durchgetanzt hat. 17) Erlangen, 17.08.1779. Christian Heinrich Gottlieb Harke(?-nach 1823), bayerischer Appellationsgerichtsrat, Verfasser eines Kommentars zum Bergrecht mit dem Titel "Commentar über das Bergrecht" (1823) und eines Lehrbuches zum Bergrecht. Sein Sohn, der spätere Hauptmann Friedrich Harke (1797-1873) heiratete 1829 die jüngste Tochter Jean Pauls, Odilie Richter. Auf den Briefen Friedrich Harkes basiert im wesentlichen das Buch von Christiane Pritzlaff "Geliebt und vergessen: Odilie Richter - Jean Pauls jüngste Tochter" (2013). 18) Erlangen, 28.11.1780. Immanuel Gottlieb Koch (1762-1788 in türkischer Gefangenschaft), war ab 1788 dem österreichischen Infanterieregiment Nikolaus Esterhazy zugeteilt, geriet dann in türkische Gefangenschaft. (Das Regiment hatte 1788 die Festung der Osmanen in Schabatz, heute: Sabac/Serbien, gestürmt.). 19) Erlangen, Mai 1779. Christoph Ludwig Schreiber (1758-1839), zunächst Deputierter der Stadt Heilbronn in den napoleonischen Kriegswirren, später badischer Hofrat, in der Zeit von 1817-1820 in Korrespondenz mit dem Freiherrn von Stein. Führte häufig Protokoll bei den Experimenten seines Freundes Eberhard Gmelin, v. a. bei der Behandlung der Caroline Heigelin, dem (so wird vermutet) Vorbild für das "Käthchen von Heilbronn" von Kleist, der seinerseits mit Schreibers Kommilitonen Georg Christian Wedekind nahe befreundet war.
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Frederick II, the Great, King of Prussia (1712-1786).
19 autograph letters signed and 1 letter signed ("Federic"). Potsdam and Charlottenburg, 1777-1785.
Mostly 4to. 23 ff. 4 letters on halved sheets; mostly folded. Addendum. Highly interesting collection of personal letters from the last years of the King's life. In French, to Eléonore de Maupertuis, lady-in-waiting to Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia, Frederick's youngest sister. Eléonore was the daughter of the well-esteemed Prussian diplomat, scholar, and translator Kaspar Wilhelm von Borcke. In 1744 she had married the French mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, also a close confidant of Frederick's and head of the Prussian Academy of Science. After her husband's death in 1759 she concentrated on her office in the household of the Princess. - Since 1756 Anna Amalia of Prussia was Abbess of the Quedlinburg Convent but spent most of her time in Berlin. She is mainly remembered for her alleged affair with the Prussian officer and adventurer Frederick von der Trenck. While the historical truth of this anecdote cannot be proven, she was undoubtedly - and more importantly - one of the 18th century's few female composers of note. Her music collection ("Amalienbibliothek") contains many important prints and manuscripts, including the autograph of Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerts. She spent her last years in seclusion at Berlin, always remaining in close contact with her brother, who visited her regularly. She survived Frederick's death on 17 August 1786 by just a few months, passing away on 30 March 1787 (cf. MGG I, 486f. and T. Debuch, Anna Amalia von Preußen, Berlin 2001). - There are but few sources for the life of Anna Amalia, many of which are dubious (such as Trenck's autobiography) or focus on Frederick the Great (such as the diaries of Count Lehndorff). Thus, the King's present letters to Eléonore de Maupertuis constitute a unique source for the last years of the Princess. They reflect Frederick's concern for Amalia's health after she suffered a stroke in 1773 and underscore the close relationship between the siblings: "Ma cher Madame, J'ai non recours a Vous pour ne point fatiguér ma bonne Soeur, Com(m)e je suis obligé de ma rendre demain au Parc pour des affaires je me propose des profités en ces Voisinages pour rendre visite a ma bonne Soeur [...]" (Charlottenburg, 2 May 1783). - "Je Vous prie Ma chere Madame, de Conjurer ma Soeur en mon nom de Voulloir prendre quelque Medecine, pour Luy facillitér L'expectoration [...]" (n. d.). - "Voici ma bonne Madame deux Sortes de Tabac pour ma bonne Soeur [...]" (n. d.). - "Je vous prie Ma chere Madame, de m'envoyer Le Nom de Soupes que Ma Soeur mange avant dinér, et une Liste des plats qu'elle aime et qui convienent le mieux en Sa Santé [...]" (n. d.). - "Je vous suis bien obligé, des bonnes nouvelles que vous me donnez de la Santé de la Principe ma Soeur, par votre lettre endate d'hier [...]" (6 March 1785). - Almost all letters close with the words "Votre (tres humble) Serviteur Federic". Most of the present letters are a quarter or half page in length and undated; a few are dated only by day but not year ("ce 6 May", "ce 22", "ce 25 Juin", etc.). One bears a note by another hand on the reverse ("[...] Potzdam, 1777, Von I. M. d. König"). Only two are dated in full: "Charlottenburg ce 2 May 1783" and "a Potsdam le 16 de Mars 1785". This last letter is written by a scribe's hand, bearing only an autograph postscript and signature by the King. This is also the only letter formally addressed "à la Gouvernante de Maupertuis, neé de Borck, à Berlin". Content and form, however, prove that all letters are from the same time and to the same recipient. - All letters written in brown ink on fine, clean laid paper, most with posthorn watermark. Includes a browned folio sheet (watermark St. Wolfgang, pointing to Georg Friedrich Meyer's Röthenbach paper mill) with late 18th-c. caption: "Collection de Lettres de Fredéric le Grand Roi de Prusse, de Sa main propre; à feüe Madame de Maupartuis Gouvernante de feüe la Princesse Amélie Soeur de ce Roi". - An exceptionally well-preserved collection.
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Hainisch, Marianne, founder and leader of the Austrian women's movement (1839-1936).
Autograph manuscript signed. No place, December 1927.
4to. 1½ pp. on 2 ff. Written for a newspaper or magazine, Hainisch's article deals with the cooperation between home and school. - In 1888 Hainisch initiated the League for Extended Women's Education, which fought for women' access to higher education. In 1902 she founded the Federation of Austrian Women's Organisations and served as its Chair until 1918. In 1919 she was elected Deputy President of the International Council of Women, to which the Federation had become affiliated in 1904, and held this position until 1924. Marianne Hainisch was the mother of Michael Hainisch, the first president of Austria (1920-28).
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Saint-Simon, Henri de, French political and economic theorist (1760-1825).
"Mémoire sur la Science de l’homme". Manuscript signed ("Henry de St Simon"). [Paris, at end:] "Rue des maçons Sorbonne, chez Didot, imprimeur de la faculté de médecine", [1813].
Small folio (212 x 316 mm). Manuscript on paper. 140 ff. Contemporary half calf with giltstamped spine labels. Marbled endpapers. A very rare manuscript copy of this work which its author had not intended for publication (or could not afford to have printed). Fournel, in his "Bibliographie Saint-Simonienne", placed the total number of such manuscript copies prepared at 60 (erroneously giving a date of 1811). The text was first printed in 1858 in a collection with the "Physiologie religieuse d’Enfantin" (Paris & Leipzig, Masson), and then again in the following year within Volume II of the "Œuvres choisies", with a list of some 30 known recipients of the original "Mémoire". - This work was planned as part of a series of studies based on the work of Vicq d'Azyr, Cabanis, Bichat, and Condorcet, the four scholars who had supposedly done most to study the human mind. The author proposes that his "Mémoire" be copied and criticized before being presented to the learned societies. It is an attempt to develop a positive social science which would study man as a species rather than as an individual; physiology would thus be elevated to the rank of the natural sciences. Saint-Simon believed that society could be understood by examining its underlying natural laws, the resulting social science would supposedly be capable of constructing a perfect society. His arguments for the scientific organization of society have been seen as "the first example of pure socialism [...] understood as an economic system in which production is entirely carried on in common and the fruits of labour distributed according to some ideal standard" (R. T. Ely). - Bookplate of the anthropologist and ethnographer Ernest Théodore Hamy (1842-1908), founder of the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro. Some repairs to the first two leaves, otherwise a very well preserved specimen. Mazzone 29. Walch p. 28 (listing MS 578 at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle) and no. 82 (mentioning copies in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal and the Bibliothèque Thiers). Fournel p. 13 (misdated "1811"). Dolléans & Crozier 6. Stammhammer I, 214, 53. Booth p. 24-30.
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Andersen, Hans Christian.
Paa Langebro. Folkekomedie. Copenhagen, C. A. Reitzels Forlag, 1864.
8vo. 22 pp., final blank f. Publisher's original printed wrappers. First edition. - In the scarce original printed wrappers, with a signed handwritten presentation inscription from the author: "Frøken Clara Hartmann / den 9 April 1864 / med hjertelig Hilsen fra / H. C. Andersen". Clara Hartmann (1839-1925) was the daughter of the Danish composer Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann. - Cover stained; some edge fraying thoughout. An untrimmed copy as issued. HCA Vaerkregister no. 635.
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Brügel, Fritz, Diplomat und Schriftsteller (1897-1955).
1 eigenh. Brief und 2 eh. Postkarten mit U. Wien, 30. IV. bis 8. VIII. 1926.
Zusammen 3 SS. auf 3 Bll. (Qu.-)8vo. An Franz Othmar Haeller in Wien-Alsergrund. - "[…] Herr Schmal von der Buchhandlung Beyer hat mir Ihre liebenswürdige Bereitwilligkeit übermittelt, mir Doubletten Ihrer Rückert-Sammlung abzutreten. Ich bin nun augenblicklich dienstlich so sehr mit Arbeiten überhäuft, (Vorbereit[un]g einer Bücher-Ausstellung für den Bibliothekartag) dass ich mich nicht weit von meiner Bibliothek entfernen kann […]" (30. IV. 1926). "[I]m Verlag Strecker u. Schröder ist ein Band 'Gedichte' von Friedrich Rückert hgg. von Dr. Leopold Magon erschienen [...] Bei flüchtigem Durchschauen scheint das Buch sehr gut zu sein [...]" (19. V. 1926). "Der Verfasser der Rückertrezension, dessen Namen ich Freitag nicht wusste, ist Fr. v. Sallet. Sein Aufsatz 'Rückert' steht im V. Band der sämmtlichen Schriften [...]" (8. VIII. 1926). - Der Sohn jüdischer Eltern, aufgewachsen in Prag, wurde nach Studium und Promotion Leiter der Sozialwissenschaftlichen Studienbibliothek der Wiener Arbeiterkammer. Er engagierte sich in der sozialdemokratischen Bildungsarbeit, arbeitete als Publizist, Journalist, war Mitglied der Kommunistischen Partei Österreichs und veröffentlichte lyrische und politische Gedichte. 1934 emigrierte er nach der Teilnahme an den Februarkämpfen in die Tschechoslowakei ("Februar-Ballade", 1935), 1938 nach Frankreich, 1941 über Spanien und Portugal nach Großbritannien. 1945 trat Brügel in den diplomatischen Dienst der Tschechoslowakei ein und wurde 1949 Leiter der Abteilung Deutschland und Österreich des CSR-Außenministeriums. Aus Protest gegen die Willkür der Justiz quittierte er den Dienst und floh über die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und die Schweiz 1950 nach Großbritannien. - Der Brief auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf.
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Hesse, Hermann, Swiss writer and Nobel laureate (1877-1962).
14 watercolour drawings, mostly with autogr. inscriptions. No place or date.
56 to 125 mm (height) and 82 to 135 mm (width). On laid paper. Complete set of templates for the illustrations of his book "Wanderung. Aufzeichnungen von Hermann Hesse. Mit farbigen Bildern vom Verfasser", published by S. Fischer in 1920. Most of the watercolors have inscribed titles such as "Farmhouse", "The Bridge", "Rectory", "Trees", "Rainy Weather", etc. - Includes the 1949 edition of "Wanderung" with autogr. inscription. - Slight foxing (more extensive in some specimens); marked for reproduction.
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Lagerlöf, Selma, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate (1858-1940).
9 letters and 2 lettercards signed. Mårbacka, Sunne, Badesanatoriet Skodsborg, and Karlavägen, 1925 to 1933.
Mostly small 4to. Altogether 34½ pp. on 22 ff. With 8 envelopes. Together with a portrait postcard with 2 autograph but unsigned lines. Mostly dictated. To the prominent Swedish baritone and opera administrator John Forsell, mentioning her novel "Gösta Berling's Saga", which was set to music by Riccardo Zandonai (under the title "I cavalieri di Ekebù") and was staged at the Stockholm Opera in 1928 in connection with her 70th birthday. Moreover, on some economic problems with a Mr. Falke, who wrote a dramatization of "Gösta Berling", and "who has never paid me a Pfening, but has repeatedly sought to capitalize his being in contact with me" (transl. from the Swedish original). - From the estate of John Forsell (1868-1941).
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Mann, Thomas, German writer and Nobel laureate (1875-1955).
Important series of ca. 90 early autograph letters and postcards, to Otto Grautoff. Various places, mostly 1894-1901.
92 items, ca. 260 pages in all, mainly 8vo, autograph address panels to the postcards, some on Mann's printed stationery, with a few unpublished greeting cards, mainly 1894-1901, together with letters to Erna Grautoff and Karl Federn, mainly Munich and Rome and a few items from Naples, Unterach, Riva del Garda, Dresden, Bad Tölz, Oberammergau and Paris, September 1894-7 July 1925, about twelve letters incomplete (mostly undated letters from ca. 1895-1896), the first two letters with sections cut away, occasional dust-marking and splitting at folds, each letter carefully annotated in pencil by the Austrian National Library (July 1938) and some also with editorial dating (ca. 1975). Important series of ca. 90 early autograph letters and postcards, to Otto Grautoff, about Buddenbrooks, including eleven unpublished items, with poems and transcriptions about his writing, reporting his commission from the publishers Fischer to write a long prose work, specifying the mid-nineteenth-century milieu to be treated in Buddenbrooks, its length and plans to finish it, and finally giving Grautoff a long analysis of its Germanic and Wagnerian nature, discussing Goethe (with quotations of "Alles Vergängliche", from Faust), Shakespeare (Hamlet; Romeo and Juliet), Wagner (Tristan und Isolde), Turgenev, Nietzsche, his brother Hermann, Balzac, Dehmel, Fontane and many other writers, the publisher Fischer, the journals "Simplicissimus" and "Neue Deutsche Rundschau", and reporting his travels in Italy, mainly Rome during the years 1895 to 1897; the collection also includes two autograph poems by Mann, 'Weihnacht' ("O festlich Sternenzelt!"), and, in a letter of 1898, the apparently newly-composed poem 'Nur Eins' ("Wir, denen Gott den trüben Sinn gegeben"), together with a transcription from the love duet in Tristan und Isolde ("Bricht mein Blick sich..."), and from Romeo and Juliet ("Komm, Nacht...Verhülle mit dem schwarzen Mantel mir"), poems by August von Platen and others. T. Mann, Briefe an Otto Grautoff 1894-1901 und Ida Boy-Ed 1903-1928, ed. by Peter de Mendelssohn (1975).
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Wells, H[erbert] G[eorge], English writer (1866-1946).
Autograph letter signed ("H. G. Wells"). Easton Glebe, Dunmow, undated [but ca. 1914/15].
8vo. 1¾ pp. 8vo. To an unidentified recipient: "Dear Sir, Although I am anxious to help the country in this war, I cannot conceive any human being who is likely to be impressed by my inspired utterances upon the National War Bonds. I think you will do well to keep me & Little Tich & G.B.S. & so on out of this & get opinions from people of financial repute. A letter from Sir Alfred Mond or Lord Northcliffe saying that the bulk of his reserves is in N. W. Bonds will impress all of us [...]". - On stationery with printed address. From the collection of Diana Herzog.
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Rachmaninoff, Sergei, Russian pianist and composer (1873-1943).
Photograph signed and inscribed. No place, 1927.
284 x 212 mm. "To Mrs. R. E. Yarnale [?] / S. Rachmaninoff / 1927". - A fine bust portrait by Kubey-Rembrandt, showing the artist in profile, looking downwards. Inscribed in the image, vertically, lower right. Additionally signed by the photographer, in pencil, in the blank lower margin.
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Sibelius, Jean, composer (1865-1957).
4 autograph letters signed ('Jean Sibelius') and 1 typed letter signed. Järvenpää, Berlin and Helsingfors, 1925, Nov. 16, 1930, May 17, 1931 and Dec. 17, 1940.
In 8vo and 4to. (folds, 1 with Russian stamp and with tear, 1 with stamp from the Royal Swedish Opera). 4½ pp. on 9 ff. With 1 autogr. envelope. To John Forsell, in Swedish. Sibelius writes of his admiration towards Forsell and other Swedish artists/conductors "till dig oförliknelige konstnär, Nils Grevillius och Ture Rangström". - Together with Sibelius' calling card and an envelope stamped Berlin. - Provenance: John Forsell (1868-1941), Swedish opera singer, Director at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm between 1924 and 1939.
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Braun, Wernher von, German rocket engineer (1912-1977).
Signed and inscribed photograph. No place, c. 1962.
265:204 mm. Black-and-white studio portrait of v. Braun in a suit jacket before a curtain, signed on the image. - Accompanied by a letter from Bart J. Slattery Jr. at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama, fulfilling the request for a signed photograph.
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Hasenöhrl, Friedrich, Austrian physicist (1874-1915).
2 autograph manuscripts, both signed on flyleaf ("Prof. Dr. F. Hasenöhrl"). Vienna, 1907-1914.
4to. 2 vols. (1), 314, (1) pp.; 2 ff. of equations inserted loosely. 260 [but 248: page count jumps from 229 to 240; 1 revised leaf removed by author after numbering the pages], (3) pp. Black ink on squared paper, occasional additions and notes in pencil and red or blue crayon. Includes numerous diagrams (some nearly full-page). Contemp. half calf with giltstamped spine title "Vorlesungen Mechanik I. [bzw. II.] F.H.". All edges red. Hasenöhrl's Mechanics lecture manuscripts, used and revised throughout the great physicist's last seven years of work, mainly composed in 1907/08 and bound for the author around that time. His name is on the flyleaf in his own hand: "Prof. Dr. F. Hasenöhrl / Wien, Universität". The volumes comprise the complete first two lectures (Mechanics and Continuum Mechanics) of Hasenöhrl's four-year cycle, which also included Electrodynamics, Theory of Heat, and Optics. - Volume 1 contains "Vorlesung über Mechanik der starren Systeme. Gehalten fünfstündig im Wintersemester 1907/8 (vom Beginn 24. X, bis 14. II.)" (a piece of information that contradicts Bittner's statement [p. 335] that Hasenöhrl did not teach that winter semester). The first session was Hasenöhrl's inaugural lecture at Vienna University. He inherited Boltzmann's chair, who had taken his life in Duino in the fall of 1906. In the appointment process for the successor to Boltzmann, Hasenöhrl had prevailed against his older colleagues Max Planck and Wilhelm Wien. Appropriately, this inaugural lecture, the only one largely written in shorthand, is an obituary of his predecessor (not identical with his Boltzmann obituary published in "Elektrotechnik und Maschinenbau" 41 [1906]). The remaining 28 chapters include "Kinematik des Punktes", Lagrange's equations, "Hamiltons partielle Differentialgleichung", and the theories of relative and cyclical movement. Red crayon markings indicate the progress made from session to session; individual problems are marked as having been treated in the seminary course rather than in the lecture hall. At the end (p. 305 ff.), Hasenöhrl has included the changes made for the 1910/11 winter semester (according to Bittner, Hasenöhrl again repeated the lecture in 1913/14). - Volume II contains the two-semester "Vorlesung über Mechanik der deformablen Körper" (winter semester of 1907/08: Elasticity; summer semester of 1908: Hydromechanics, of which latter course two weeks were lost due to the great student strike). Hasenöhrl prefixed a motto from Guido Ubaldi's "Paraphrasis in duos Archimedis aequeponderantium libros" (1588): "Quapropter ad Archimedem confugiendum est, si vera huius scientiae principia perdiscere cupimus." This volume likewise contains final changes made in 1911, constituting a thorough revision of pp. 90-101. In the summer of 1914 he revised the "slipshod pages 183 ff." about ray formation, which are partly struck out (p. 183f.), partly removed altogether (p. 185f.; the leaf is missing save for a narrow guard); these notes are followed by the sections "Allgemeines über Bewegung mit Rotationssym[m]etrie" and "Kreisförmige Wirbel" (13 pp. in total). Shortly before the end of the semester, the First World War erupted. Hasenöhrl, whose mother was descended from the old military nobility, volunteered for the infantry and was decorated after an injury in July 1915. In a battle near Folgaria he was killed by a shell splinter to his head on 7 October. - Although Hasenöhrl always spoke freely during his lectures (cf. Bittner, 198), rather than reading out a written text, as many of his colleagues did, it is clear that his presentation was based on minutely prepared notes. So closely did he compress the subject matter of his lectures that each session usually comprises a mere four to six pages in the manuscript; and still, we find in the text many tidily formulated paragraphs, including digressions on themes such as Sven Hedin's observations on the rivers of Tibet, which, when flowing south-north, are deflected eastwards - a practical example of relative movement. In his 1933 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Erwin Schrödinger looked back on the gift of his teacher Hasenöhrl to discuss a subject matter in the lecture hall both extensively and closely: "The lecture cycle, which spanned eight semesters of five periods per week, treated the advanced theories of mechanics as well as the eigenvalue problems of continuum physics with the degree of detail that I would later need dearly - I have never been able to study from books with any ease [... He died in the War], and a feeling tells me that, but for that, it would be he who would be receiving this honor in my place today." In his 1904 treatise "On the Theory of Radiation in Moving Bodies", Hasenöhrl had applied the concept of "electromagnetic mass" to a cavity filled with radiation, arguing that any kind of thermal radiation provides such a body with an apparent increase of mass. This achievement, which makes the connection of energy and mass and - in its most radically compressed form "m = E/c²" - seems to anticipate Einstein's special theory of relativity, won Hasenöhrl the 1905 Haitinger Prize (at Boltzmann's suggestion) and was the basis for his appointment to the Vienna Chair of Physics the following year. In 1905, Einstein generalised Hasenöhrl's equation (which the latter had applied only to cavity radiation) and managed to embed it within an encompassing theory, thus arriving at the iconic "E=mc²" equation (for Hasenöhrl's role in the development of the equation cf. Stephen Boughn's recent article, "Fritz Hasenöhrl and E=mc²", in: The European Physical Journal H 38/1 [Jan. 2013], p. 1-18). Incidentally, Hasenöhrl taught Einstein's theory of relativity in his lectures - a highly uncommon course topic for the time. In 1911, Hasenöhrl participated in the historic first "Conseil Solvay", the invitation-only Brussels conference that united the world's elite of experimental and theoretical physicists to discuss the fundamental problems of their field. Themed "La théorie du rayonnement et les quanta", that first conference tackled the various approaches of classical physics and the emerging quantum theory; among the other participants were Einstein, Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, H. A. Lorentz, Wilhelm Wien, Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, and Henri Poincaré. Hasenöhrl also participated in the second Solvay Conference in 1913. - Edges slightly frayed and dusty, otherwise perfect. Of the utmost rarity: Hasenöhrl manuscripts are considered virtually unobtainable; auction records since 1975 list not a single leaf of writing in his hand (in contrast with more than 1000 records for Albert Einstein, more than 100 of which are manuscripts). The Göttingen State Library holds a 17-page transcript of Hasenöhrl's lecture on spherical functions (Cod. Ms. G. Herglotz E 15) in the hand of the student Gustav Herglotz (1881-1953), later professor of Mathematics at Leipzig and Göttingen. The Austrian Central Library of Physics keeps an archive of Hasenöhrl material: a single-box corpus containing mainly photographs, offprints, and photocopies of personal documents, but no manuscripts at all (with the exception of a single page of equations on the reverse of a letter from a bookseller). Several letters by Hasenöhrl are to be found in the personal archives of scholars (e. g., to Prof. Stefan Meyer, in the Archives of the Institute for Radium Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences). Cf. Lotte Bittner, Geschichte des Studienfaches Physik an der Wiener Universität in den letzten hundert Jahren (Vienna, Ph.D. thesis 1949), pp. 193-202 and 335-337. Cf. Stephen Boughn, "Fritz Hasenöhrl and E=mc²", in: The European Physical Journal H 38/1 [Jan. 2013], p. 1-18.
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