‎Autographes‎

‎Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Fritz, Schriftsteller und Zeichner (1877-1954).‎

‎Eigenh. Notiz. O. O., um 1950.‎

‎4 Zeilen in grauer Tinte auf 1 S. Kl.-4to. "Der Beau trug umgehängt einen großen | Operngucker, mit dem er, als er im | Foyer umherstolzierte, nicht geringes | Aufsehen erregte". - Aus dem Nachlaß seiner Frau Carmen.‎

‎Hugo, Victor, French writer (1802-1885).‎

‎Autograph letter signed. Hauteville House, 25 January [1859].‎

‎8vo. 1 p. In French, to Jules Noirit: "In my solitude, I often receive some verse. I am not saying so out of pride, since I am nothing but a quiet soldier of duty, but as a tribute to the cause for which I have been exiled as well as to all the poets in my country. Well, sir, your stanzas are among the most beautiful verses I have received in seven years. Your poems have the innate nobleness of the ideal; they come from a deep, generous heart, which gives them wings. I thank you very much, and I congratulate you even more warmly. Your soul sings in you. I shake your hand, poet". - By 1859 Hugo had adopted a new lifestyle, prompted by ill health, in which he spent the summers away from his island home on Guernsey. Although he avoided France, he would have been able to return home and end his now voluntary exile. - With integral address leaf attached; browning with some water staining.‎

‎Kipling, Rudyard, English poet and novelist (1865-1936).‎

‎Autograph letter signed. Bateman's, Burwash, Sussex, 3 Dec. 1913.‎

‎8vo. 3½ pp. (54 lines) on embossed folded sheet. To John Pearson, the house master of his son John (known as "Jack") at Wellington College. John had not been well through much of 1913 and Kipling is seeking advice after another trip to the doctor: "Just back from town after taking John to the doctor for the third time! He says that the boy can't go back to school yet as there is local poisoning consequent on a discharge from the nose after the operation, which is infective. We have not been able to get rid of this trouble and I hope to take him up again on Friday [...]".‎

‎Rolland, Romain, French poet and Nobel laureate (1866-1944).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("Romain Rolland"). Villeneuve (Vaud), 16. XI. 1935.‎

‎Large 8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. To André Malraux, on the role both of them play in a (political?) movement: "C'est à n'y pas croire, que 'Front Mondial' ne publie pas vos Appels! Non, je ne le savais pas, je suis trop loin, on ne m'écrit guère que quand on a qqchose à me demander. Et j'ai toujours insisté pour qu'on vous priât d'assumer dans votre mouvement un rôle actif de premier plan. Ce rôle que, pour de multiples raisons (de santé, d'éloignement, d'occupations) je ne puis remplir que très insuffisamment. La seule considération qui m'arrête est la crainte qu'on vous dérobe trop de votre temps. Vous le donnez déjà si généreusement! En vérité, nous sommes trop peu pour faire face à tous les fronts de la bataille. Il nous faut former des équipes. - Mais je sais bien que vous êtes irremplaçable. J'aime et j'admire votre esprit, votre art, votre énergie. Je ne vous ai jamais dit quel prix j'attache à votre sympathie. Je vous serre la main affectueusement [...]". - Right edge with small tear; traces of folding.‎

‎Zweig, Stefan, Austrian writer (1881-1942).‎

‎Autograph letter signed. Salzburg, [after 1914].‎

‎8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. To the autograph dealer Charavay, asking to send him auction catalogues dating from 1914 onwards: "Il y a plus d'une année que je m'adressais a vous avec la demande de m'envoyer tous vos catalogues de vente et vos catalogues a prie fixe a partir du aout 1914 [...]". - On headed paper; centerfold slightly torn; fol. 2 somewhat wrinkled at the top.‎

‎Bruckner, Anton, Austrian composer (1833-1897).‎

‎Autograph calling card signed. No place, 23 May 1892.‎

‎Calling card format. 2 pp. To the Austrian writer Aurelius Polzer, whose Poem "Das Deutsche Lied" Bruckner had set to music (WAB 63): "Accept [...] my great admiration and warmest greetings! 23.5.1892. | Dr. ABruckner".‎

‎Haydn, Joseph, composer (1732-1809).‎

‎Autograph musical manuscript. Fragment of the insertion aria ("Dice benissimo") for Antonio Salieri’s opera "La scuola de' gelosi", HXXIVb:5. No place, [1780].‎

‎Two pages (207:300 mm). 14 bars on one six-stave system (bars 51-64 of the published edition) for voice, bass, two horns and strings, the text for the aria "Sono le femmine si maliziose [...] nessun per certo le troverà". A fragment of Haydn's "Dice Benissimo". Haydn composed two insertion arias for Antonio Salieri’s dramma giocoso of 1778, "La scuola de' gelosi": one is lost to us, while the present manuscript is a fragment of the aria created for the bass voice of the manservant Lumaca. One of Haydn's many responsibilities as Kapellmeister of the Esterházy family - by 1780 under Nikolaus I - was as director of the opera company, his patron's newest passion as of the mid-1770s. Esterháza Palace was transformed, at the behest of Prince Nikolaus, into an important fixture on the opera calendar, with its theatre routinely hosting multiple productions each year. Not only would Haydn direct and produce the performances, but he would compose his own works, as well as adapting those of other composers - usually choosing dramma giocoso - to suit the forces at his disposal. This often meant composing insertion arias - such as the present work - to suit the voice of a particular singer: around twenty such arias survive, dating from 1777 to 1789, although only a handful are written for bass or tenor. - Remnants of tape at upper, left-hand and bottom margins of recto. Provenance: Professor Theodor Dielitz (presentation and authentication inscription; Dielitz's substantial autograph collection was auctioned by Hartung in Berlin in January 1858), given to a Dr. Pribil as a duplicate, 1 January 1848. Last in the Metropolitan Opera Guild Collection. Not in Hoboken.‎

‎Nicolai, Johann Georg, organist (1720-1788).‎

‎Choralvorspiele für die Orgel im Lauf des Kirchenjahrs. [Rudolstadt], 1785.‎

‎Oblong 8vo. Autograph musical manuscript. 95 pp. (notes in four lines; pp. 96-260 empty systems only), 6 unnumbered leaves of index. Contemporary calf monogrammed in gilt "J. G. N. 1785" on upper cover. Edges sprinkled in red. A rediscovered late work: apparently the final, never completed and never published collection of 78 preludes for Protestant church songs by the highly esteemed J. G. Nicolai (cf. ADB XXIII, 593), who served as the organist at Rudolstadt for nearly forty years. The book must have served him to write down newly composed choral preludes as they were occasioned by the ecclesiastical year. The manuscript begins with "Nun komm der Heiden Heiland" for the first Sunday in Advent; Christmastime includes chorals such as "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her", "In dulci jubilo", and "O Jesulein süß"; Passiontide includes "O Lamm Gottes unschuldig", "Da Jesu an dem Kreuze stund" and "O Mensch bewein dein Sünde groß". For Easter, Nicolai wrote preludes to "Christ lag in Todesbanden", "Christ ist erstanden" and "Heut' triumphieret Gottes Sohn", for Pentecost to "Komm heiliger Geist" and "Der heilige Geist hernieder". The abrupt end of the manuscript after "Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren Dank sagen" (19th Sunday after Trinity) is undoubtedly due to the composer's final illness; the last Sundays of the ecclesiastical year are missing, though the lines of the systems have been inked in. - It cannot be determined whether the present series was intended for publication. Nicolai did publish several such collections of preludes, but this might just as well constitute a personal compilation for his own use at church services, as suggested by occasional abbreviated parts with varied figuration, likely indicating improvisation. Nicolai had already published many of the chorals for which we here find preludes in his "Vollständiges Choralbuch über die Fürstlich Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtischen Kirchengesänge" (Leipzig: Breitkopf, 1765). The attribution of the volume is secured by the cover monogram and the watermark (crowned double-headed eagle with the insignia of the Empire, based on the arms of the Princes of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt). - Binding slightly rubbed and bumped; some worming to lower cover; insignificant browning to interior. Cf. MGG IX, 1452.‎

‎Strauß, Johann (Sohn), Komponist (1825-1899).‎

‎"Die Fledermaus". Originalplakat der Uraufführung. Wien, 5. IV. 1874.‎

‎630:475 mm. Gut erhaltenes Originalplakat der Uraufführung am Theater an der Wien vom 5. April 1874. - Kleine Läsuren am unteren Rand.‎

‎Türk, Daniel Gottlob, German composer and organist (1750-1813).‎

‎Autograph musical quotation signed. Halle, 15 Sept. 1797.‎

‎140:192 mm. One line of musical quotation as a friendly souvenir: "Zum freundlichen Andenken [...]". - Slightly stained and browned.‎

‎Becquerel, Henri, French physicist and Nobel laureate (1852-1908).‎

‎Autograph manuscript. N. p., 20 Jan. 1883.‎

‎Large 4to. 3½ pp. on bifolium. In pencil and black ink. List in tabular form, possibly on infrared spectrum.‎

‎Talleyrand-Périgord, Charles Maurice de, French statesman (1754-1838).‎

‎Autograph note signed. [Probably Philadelphia or Manhattan, ca. 1794/1795].‎

‎54 x 116 mm. 1 p. Matted. A plain, unpresuming note that probably once accompanied a small hospitality gift, inscribed by one of the most powerful French statesmen of all time to a Founding Father of the United States, reading: "Presented to hon. M. Burr / by M. Talleyrand". The Frenchman's use of English appears to be a polite signal of deference to his American host, for Burr's French undoubtedly would have been more than sufficient to understand the same note in the international language of education and diplomacy, whereas Talleyrand's command of English is largely agreed to have been extremely limited (cf. Earl, p. 290). - Talleyrand's career straddled the Ancien régime, French Revolution and Restoration; he was successively a bishop, a revolutionary who assisted in the drafting of the Declaration of the Rights of Man, an exile in America, and later Foreign Minister to both Napoleon and his successor, the restored Bourbon king, Louis XVIII. Talleyrand had left revolutionary France just before the beginning of the Great Terror on a diplomatic mission to Britain, but earlier French exiles pressured Pitt to expel him to the Republic, where a warrant for his arrest had been issued in the meantime. "A return to France meant certain death, and most of the other countries of Europe were openly hostile to him for the part he had played in the early days of the Revolution. In mid-February, 1794, he booked a passage on the American ship 'William Penn'. He had made up his mind; the United States would be his refuge until such time as France returned to a normal, stable, and reasonable condition" (Earl, p. 282). - In America, Talleyrand settled comfortably into the cosmopolitan society of Philadelphia, the federal capital and a haven for Gallic émigrés. Fortified with his reputation as well as with warm letters of recommendation to Washington, Benjamin Rush and the Hamilton family, the French exile found American drawing rooms open to him, and "from his April arrival until his visit to New York in June, 1794, Talleyrand was hardly ever without an invitation to dinner" (Earl, p. 289). One of his famous hosts was Aaron Burr, two years Talleyrand's junior and then serving as U.S. Senator representing New York. At his Richmond Hill estate in Manhattan, which he had purchased in 1794, Burr "maintained a liberal establishment, and exercised the hospitality which was then in vogue. Talleyrand, Volney, Louis Philippe, and other strangers of distinction, whom the French Revolution drove into exile, were [there] entertained with princely profusion and elegance" (Parton I, p. 154). Burr's biographer Parton reports that Talleyrand was among those with whom the Senator "became particularly intimate" (ibid.), and it is possible that Burr, who like Talleyrand had forsaken theology for politics, sensed in his guest a kindred instinct for nimbly "doubling one's choices" in that ever-shifting world. Indeed, Alexander Hamilton's biographer Chernow describes Burr as an "agile opportunist", a "chameleon who evaded clear-cut positions on most issues and was a genius at studied ambiguity" - a portrait recreated in the words put into his mouth by a recent broadway hit: "Talk less, smile more - don't let them know what you're against or what you're for." The loose friendship between the two statesmen, both notorious womanizers, lasted throughout the Frenchman's American exile: as late as 1796, Parton writes, Talleyrand was among the notabilities invited to a dinner party which Burr gave at his Philadelphia residence for the Mohawk chief Joseph Brant (cf. p. 204). - When the political climate in France changed after the fall of Robespierre and the threat of the guillotine receded, Talleyrand petitioned to the National Convention for permission to return. The intercessions of Madame de Stael and other friends proved successful. "On June 3, 1796, Talleyrand paid a visit to the French Minister to the United States, Pierre Auguste Adet, and received his passport. The last barrier had been hurdled" (Earl, p. 297). On 13 June, Talleyrand left Burr and the United States behind him, sailing back to Europe and an extraordinary career on the Danish vessel "Den Nye Prove" - "The New Enterprise". His host Burr would go on to serve as third U.S. Vice President, though his political career was to be ruined when he famously shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel, eight years hence. When the tables were turned and Burr himself was an exile in France in 1810, the affair proved to have frustrated his hopes of gaining access to Napoleon through his old acquaintance, who had also been a friend of his opponent's: "when Burr requested an interview, Talleyrand rebuffed him with a haughty note: 'General Hamilton's likeness always hangs over my mantle'" (Merrill/Endicott, p. 32). - A slight waterstain. Removed from an old collection; mounted on backing paper with the collector's bio-bibliographical annotation "Galerie hist[orique] des contemp[orains] VIII. 319b" (referencing the 8th volume of the said work, published in 1820). Cf. J. L. Earl III, "Talleyrand in Philadelphia, 1794-1796", The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 91, No. 3 (1967), pp. 282-298. J. Parton, The Life and Times of Aaron Burr (Boston, 1867). R. Chernow, Alexander Hamilton (NY, 2004). J. Merrill/J. Endicott, Aaron Burr in Exile (Jefferson, NC, 2016).‎

‎[Album amicorum].‎

‎Freundschaftsalbum der Betty Danckwarth. Meist Ratzeburg oder Rostock, 1808-1815.‎

‎Mit 6 (5 kolorierten) Zeichnungen und 30 Einträgen, zahlreiche Bll. weiß. Lederband d. Zt. mit etwas Vergoldung und Goldschnitt, Deckel mit Schild "B. D." bzw. "1808". Qu.-8vo. In Pappschuber der Zeit. Betty Danckwarth stammte offenbar aus Rostock. Mehrere Einträge stammen aus der Familie Danckwarth und der verwandten Familie von Wickede. - Etwas berieben, einige Wurmspuren, Rückenschild abgefallen. Schuber berieben und bestoßen.‎

‎[Album amicorum]. - Berlin.‎

‎Stammbuch des E. Voelmy. Berlin, 1833 bis 1840.‎

‎8 Einträge und zahlreiche weiße Bll. Halbleder d. Zt. mit Rückenvergoldung, goldgeprägten Deckeln mit Namen und Datierung, Goldschnitt. Qu.-8vo. Innen gering fleckig und gebräunt, der Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen.‎

‎[Album amicorum]. - Brandenburg.‎

‎Stammbuch des C. F. Briedenhan. Brandenburg, Berlin, Lüdersdorf, Halle und Sonneberg, 1803 bis 1805.‎

‎Mit aquarelliertem Titelblatt. 361 meist einseitig num. Bll. mit 36 Einträgen. Lederband d. Zt. mit Rückentitel, goldgepr. Deckelbordüre und Goldschnitt. Qu.-8vo. "Der Freundschaft gewidmet von C. F. Briedenhan". Nicht sonderlich umfangreich geratenes, wohl studentisches Stammbuch mit hübsch illustriertem Titel und handschriftlichem Namensregister. - Anfangs gering fingerfleckig, der Einband berieben und beschabt.‎

‎[Album amicorum]. - Hamburg.‎

‎Stammbuchkassette des Ferdinand Gloede. Hamburg, Stade, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, u. a., 1822 bis 1846.‎

‎Mit 10 meist farbigen Zeichnungen, 1 Haararbeit, 2 Stickereien, 1 Portrait-Silhouette und knapp 70 Einträgen sowie 8 w. Bll. Gelackte Karton-Kassette mit goldgeprägter Deckelbordüre und Rückentitel in Kartonschuber. Qu.-8vo. Wie ein beiliegendes hs. Blatt späteren Datums erläutert, entstammte der Stammbuchhalter einer Hamburger Kaufmannsfamilie. Neben den Einträgen von Familienmitgliedern und seiner späteren Frau, Julie Büttner, gibt es etliche freundschaftliche Einträge, die auf See geschrieben oder gezeichnet wurden, nämlich "an Bord der George Canning" und "im atlantischen Ozean. An Bord der Henriette". Der Schreiber Joh. Hinr. Krabbe präzisierte den Ort mit genauen geographischen Koordinaten. Am 19. April 1833 war Gloede wohl nach Rio de Janeiro aufgebrochen, wie der beiliegende gereimte Abschiedsbrief von (H.?) Asmus belegt. Etliche Einträge von 1842 bis 1844 geben Buenos Aires als Ort an. Unter den zahlreichen Hamburger Einträgen ist auch Joao C. Bahlsen genannt. Ein hübsches naives Aquarell zeigt das Treideln eines Bootes; eine Zeichnung mit Schiffsportrait. - Vereinzelt fleckig oder gering gebräunt; der Schuber etwas berieben, die Kassette am Rücken bestoßen und mit kl. Einriß an Kopf und Fuß, Gelenk angebrochen.‎

‎[Album amicorum]. - "Leentje".‎

‎Stammbuch-Kassette einer "Leentje". Leeuwarden und Nijmegen, 1835 bis 1859.‎

‎Mit 1 Bleistiftzeichnung, 1 Haararbeit, 2 Stickereien, 1 farbigen Zeichnung und 2 Spickelbildern. Hldr.-Kassette mit reicher Goldprägung und Schließe. Qu.-8vo. Innerer Kartonkasten erneuert, Rücken unter Verwendung alten Materials restauriert.‎

‎[Album amicorum]. - Niedersachsen.‎

‎Album der Sophie Lange (verheiratete Heise). Bramsche, Sögeln, Badbergen u. a., 1839 bis 1848.‎

‎Mit 44 Einträgen (2 davon mit kleinen Zeichnungen) und 2 weiße Bll. Lose in Hldr. mit goldgepr. Deckelbordüren und Monogramm "S. Lange". Qu.-8vo. Neben den Einträgen der verwandten Familien Lange, Heise und Sanders aus Bramsche finden sich acht Einträge aus drei Generationen derer von Stoltzenberg, den Besitzern des ehemaligen Rittergutes Sögeln. Darunter: Amalie von Stoltzenberg, geb. von Pückler, deren Sohn Ernst von Stoltzenberg sowie dessen Tochter Adelheid von Stoltzenberg. - Etwas gebräunt; Deckel etwas aufgebogen, ohne Schuber.‎

‎[Album amicorum]. - Niehof.‎

‎Stammbuch-Kassette der Johann(a) Niehof. Celle und Hannover, 1842 bis 1888.‎

‎Mit koloriertem und gestochenem Deckblatt. 20 Einträge. Goldgepr. Hldr.-Kassette mit Rückenvergoldung und goldgepr. Namen in Kartonschuber. Qu.-8vo. Die jüngsten Einträge stammen von den Töchtern Dora und Auguste (1872) sowie dem Großsohn Max (1888).‎

‎[Album amicorum]. - Ungarn.‎

‎Ungarisches Stammbuch und ungarische Stammbuch-Kassette. Komorn, Patak, Kesmark und Harkacs, 1809-1821.‎

‎Mit 8 Aquarellen, 2 Bleistiftzeichnungen sowie 1 Wiener Kunstbillet. 2 Lederbände der Zeit, davon einer mit mit Schließe. Qu.-8vo. Unter den Einträgern im Buch finden sich: Jeannete v. Huszán (Schwester), Ludwig von Vintze, Christine v. Domonkes, Elise von Szalay, Emrich von Mogary, Sigismunda von Mariássy, u. a. - 2 Bll. der Kassette mit modernen Einträgen verso (1946).‎

‎Burton, Richard Francis, English explorer and diplomat (1821-1890).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("R. F. Burton"). Trieste, "May 28" (no year, but ca. 1880s).‎

‎Small 8vo. 3½ pp. on bifolium. On his blue notepaper with his Arabic "Hadji Abdullah" heading, marked "Private". To "My dear Green", congratulating his correspondent on a promotion ("your services amply deserve it") and recommending that he secure an equivalent position "in some decent country". He mentions enclosing "a pamphlet showing the result of my last Expedition" - perhaps one of his visits to the Middle East or West Africa hunting gold - before reporting his wife's illnesses, and asking if a "Sale" is related "to the Sir Robert of Jelealabad" (i.e., Sir Robert Henry Sale, who died in 1845 as commander of the garrison of Jalalabad). "Is there any thing I can do for your here? [...] Any chance of any of you coming to Trieste? [...]" - Old horizontal fold; traces of mounting at lower edge of pp. 2 and 3. A well-preserved example.‎

‎Knigge, Heinrich von.‎

‎Obligation. [Hannover?], 18. V. 1359.‎

‎Deutsche Handschrift auf Pergament. Mit 8 Siegelpressen aus makulierter Urkunde. 95:220 mm. Heinrich von Knigge und Familie beurkunden eine Schuld von 20 Mark Silber Hannoveranischer Währung ("twintich mark lodeghes zulveres Honouerscher wichte und were") bei Margarethe, "husfrouwe" des Conrad von Lude, Bürgers von Hannover. Zahlbar ist die Schuld zum 26. April 1360 bei 10% Zinsen ("to tynse twe mark"). - Es bürgen die Herren von Alten, von Winnighusen und von Herbecke. - Zu den prominenten Mitgliedern des seit 1241 bezeugten Geschlechts der Knigge zählt u. a. der Namensgeber des bekannten "Benimmratgebers". - Etwas angestaubt, sonst gut erhalten.‎

‎[Tagebuch]. - Ledebur, Else (Elisabeth) von, geb. von Kyaw, deutsche Adelige (geb. 1866 oder 1868).‎

‎"Marie Elisabeth geboren den 5. April 1893, getauft den 4. Mai". Tagebuch der Else von Ledebur. (Crollage und Klein Zschachwitz), 1893-1904.‎

‎Mit farbig kalligraphiertem Titel und Gebet verso sowie Haar-Applikationen und Trockenblumen. 38 hs. und zahlreiche weiße Bll. Lederband der Zeit mit Schließen. In Kartonschuber. Kl.-8vo. Tagebuch der Else von Ledebur mit Einträgen zur Geburt, Taufe und weiteren Entwicklung der kleinen Tochter Marie Elisabeth. Der Vater, Karl Eberhard Frhr. von Ledebur (1864-1922), wird in seiner Profession als Maler erwähnt: "Papa ist in Bückeburg und malt den Fürsten", ebenso die Großeltern mütterlicherseits, Rudolf und Elisabeth von Kyaw, geb. v. Miltitz. "September 1894. Marie-Elisabeth läuft ganz selbständig. Sehr gerne schüttelt sie ganz energisch das blonde Köpfchen u. sagt 'Nei'(n) wie überhaupt der eigene kleine Wille sehr ausgeprägt ist. Bitterlich weinen, ja sogar mit den Beinchen strampeln kann sie wenn ihr was weggenommen wird oder überhaupt ihr was gegen den Strich geht [...]". - Else von Ledebur wurde lt. Gotha (Freiherrl. Häuser 1916, S. 452) am 20. Februar 1868 in Klein-Zschachwitz bei Dresden geboren, nach frdl. Auskunft der Familie bereits am 20. Februar 1866.‎

‎Mailer, Norman.‎

‎"The Big Bite." Typed manuscript signed ("Norman Mailer"). No place, April 1963.‎

‎4to. 5 double-spaced typed leaves (watermarked "Millers Falls Ezerase"). With a manual correction on the first leaf. Manuscript for Mailer's monthly Esquire column "The Big Bite", signed by the author on the last leaf. Incipit: "The rite of spring is in the odor of the air." Mailer depicts the doomsday atmosphere of New York during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962. Esquire published Mailer's column from November 1962 through December 1963, when the writer began devoting the space to the serialization of his novel "The American Dream". According to his secretary at the time, Anne Berry, Mailer handed her the first draft of a column, which she typed triple-spaced, gave it back for editing, and then typed it again double-spaced (cf. Mills, Mailer. A Biography, p. 263). This manuscript thus belongs to the second, edited version of the column. - Folded twice. Adams p. 10.‎

‎[Artaria, Carl, artist, engraver, art dealer and publisher (1792-1866)].‎

‎Album of 71 mounted pencil and pen-and-ink drawings, mainly showing horses. No place, ca 1827-1836.‎

‎Small folio (235 x 290 mm). 20th century calf. A fine collection of sketch leaves by Carl Artaria, often dashed off on the reverse of old letters or forms, later cut out (likely by a 20th century member of the family) and thus assembled in the present album. Some of the sketches are dated (1827, 1828, 1833, 1836 etc.), others signed with the artist's "CA" monogram. The dominant theme is that of equestrianism and horsemanship (including many drawings of horses without riders, in landscapes or in military contexts, etc.), but there are also occasional hunting scenes, a caricature of a Turk firing a blunderbuss, etc. - Carl Artaria was a son of the long-established art seller and publisher Domenico Artaria from Mainz who in 1793 moved the business premises to Mannheim. Carl took over the company in 1816; it flourished until 1867. In the course of his business, Carl Artaria met many of Germany's great writers and illustrators, including Goethe. "In his youth he created etchings after W. Kobell und Boissieu [...] In his old age he began to draw the beauties of Mannheim's environs in meticulous watercolours" (cf. Thieme/Becker). - Occasional insignificant traces of handling, but in excellent state of preservation. Cf. Thieme/Becker I, 159.‎