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Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese political and military leader (1887-1975).
Signed vintage portrait photograph. N. p. o. d.
180:128 mm. Fine vintage signed official photograph of the Chinese politician in a relaxing pose. Minor creasing. Unusual in this format.
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Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, leader of India during the Indian independence movement (1869-1948).
Autograph letter draft. N. p., apparently March 1946.
8vo. 1 p. Written on the reverse side of a portion of a 1946 letter written to Gandhi from a young Western follower, George Mammen. Gandhi has penned some closely-written notes - clearly a draft for a letter. He writes, in fountain pen ink: "Our India will have need of you. You have had your training. You will give India the benefit of that training. It would be sad only if after the trials and suffering ["of war" stricken out] that our soldiers have been through, they forget the lessons of their eyes, the moment the peril is lifted. But one thing you should remember, under national Govt, you won't be pampered. You won't have all those lavish remunerations and privileges which a foreign Govt. bribed you with at the expense of India. India is destitute. You can serve her only by showing her destitution and poverty. Otherwise you will earn not the gratitude but the execration of your country. [Now writing at the top of the page:] You will, I know, fully share in this freedom, only to breathe the air of freedom with your countrymen". - Somewhat wrinkled and dust-soiled; small pinhead-sized holes on top.
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Hassan II., König von Marokko (1929-1999).
Portrait mit eigenh. U. O. O., 6. XII. 1965.
175:125 mm. In goldgepr. grüner Ledermappe. Ein Geschenk anlässlich des Staatsbesuchs von König Hassan II. in Deutschland im Dezember 1965. - Aus dem Nachlass des deutschen Botschafters in Brasilien und Portugal und Protokollchefs im Auswärtigen Amt Ehrenfried von Holleben (1909-88).
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Milan I. Obrenovic, König von Serbien (1854-1901).
Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. U. O. O., [1896?].
193:131 mm auf etwas größerem Trägerkarton. Aus dem Atelier Wagner in Karlsbad mit dessen gedr. Signet am Trägerkarton; etwas verwischt.
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Milan I. Obrenovic, König von Serbien (1854-1901).
Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung und U. Karlsbad, 19. VII. 1896.
193:131 mm auf etwas größerem Trägerkarton. "A Madame la Baronne de Winterstein | hommage et souvenir de Carlsbad". - Aus dem Atelier Wagner in Karlsbad mit dessen gedr. Signet am Trägerkarton.
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Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (1769-1821).
Document signed ("Np"). Dresden imperial headquaters, 18 June 1813.
Small folio. 4 pp. on bifolium. An imperial decree constituting the "Corps d'Observation d'Italie", with a total of seven divisions of French, Italian and Neapolitan troops, stating the composition of their infantry, cavalry, and artillery regiments in detail: "[...] Art. 1er. Le Corps d'Observation de Vérone prendra le titre de Corps d'Observation d'Italie. Art. 2. Ce corps sera composé de 4 divisions françaises, 2 divisions italiennes et une division français-napolitaine, total 7 divisions. Art. 3. Les sept divisions seront formées ainsi qu'il suit [...]". - Written during the Truce of Pläswitz at the time of the Napoleonic Wars.
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Vere, Aubrey de, Irish poet and critic (1814-1902).
Autograph letter signed. Mount Trenchard, Foynes, 28. XI. 1893.
Small 8vo. 3 pp. on bifolium. Together with a cabinet photograph. To his "dear Agnes": "I have only just learned that several copies of my Vol. of Essays ('Religious Problems' etc.) which I directed my publishers to forward to various friends were never sent. Was the one I promised to send to you of the number? If so, I will send it at once [...]". De Vere refers to his just-published "Religious Problems of the Nineteenth Century" (1893). - Slightly spotty, small traces of mounting along the edge of the final page.
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Henschel, George, German-born British baritone, pianist, conductor, and composer (1850-1934).
Autograph letter signed ("G. Henschel"). 45, Bedford Gardens, Campden Hill, Kensington (stationery), 29. IX. 1889.
8vo. ½ p. on single leaf. With original portrait photograph (109 x 150 mm). To a Miss Nicholson: "Hoping you are very well & beg to inform you of our new address as above and to remain [...]". - On stationery with embossed letterhead. Traces of folding and old restoration of a minor tear. Slight browning.
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Liszt, Franz, composer (1811-1886).
Autograph letter signed. No place or date.
8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. With autograph address on verso. In French, to the director of the Weimar Hoftheater, Ferdinand Baron von Ziegesar (1812-57), about his conviction that the best way to serve the Weimar theatre in his retirement would be no longer to interfere in its affairs, and asking the recipient to permit him to retire: "Ayant a[c]quis durant ces 3 dernières années l'entière conviction que le meilleur service que je sois en etat de rente au théâtre de Weymar présentement, c'est de ne point m'en méler, permettez-moi de me renfermer desormais dans la paisible approbation de tout ce qui se fera sans moi [...]". Liszt also assures the recipient that there is no need of his presence at the performance of his concert paraphrase of Verdi's "Ernani", as the music director Goetz is experienced and perfectly prepared to conduct the work to everyone's satisfaction: "Pour l'Ernani il n'y a d'ailleurs aucun besoin de moi. Goetze qui est un excellent Maitre de Chapelle en a dirigé plusieurs repetitions et s'est annoté au crayon rouge toute la Partition, de manière qu'il n'y a aucun doute qu'il ne conduise cet ouvrage à la très grande satisfaction de notre Public - sans repetition quelconque". - On grey and blue stationery; small tear in the fold; mounted on backing paper. From the estate of Wolfgang Sawallisch.
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Lowell, James Russell, American poet (1819-1891).
Autograph letter signed ("J. R. Lowell"). 68 Beacon St., [Boston], 20. III. 1886.
8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. With carte-de-visite photograph. To Mrs. Jane Gray (née Jane Lathrop Loring), wife of the eminent American botanist Asa Gray (1810-88), declining an invitation: "I am very much obliged by your very kind invitation, but as arrangement has already been made to send a carriage for me here & to bring me back hither after the Circus-performance is over, I think it wiser to deny myself the pleasure you offer me. With kindest regards to the friend of flowers & of all good things, faithfully yours [...]"
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Strauss, Richard, composer (1864-1949).
Autograph musical manuscript. No place or date.
Oblong folio. 2 pp. In pencil. A draft for the opera "Die ägyptische Helena" (op. 75), which premiered in 1928 in Dresden, as confirmed by the Richard-Strauss-Institute in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. - Hardly visible centrefold, slightly creased, two small ink blots in the left margin. From the estate of Wolfgang Sawallisch.
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Anderson (de Navarro), Mary, American actress (1859-1940).
Autograph letter signed ("Mary de Navarro"). Paris, undated.
8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. Together with 2 cabinet photographs. To an unidentified recipient, announcing her departure from Paris.
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Cushman, Charlotte, American actress (1816-1876).
Autograph letter signed. [London, 5 July 1866].
Small 8vo. 3 pages on bifolium. With autogr. envelope. To Dennis R. Alward, "Legation of the United States": "May I beg you kindly to forward the Enclosed for me [...]". - On stationery with black border and embossed monogram; small traces of former mounting.
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Edison, Thomas Alva, American inventor and businessman (1847-1931).
Portrait postcard signed. No place, [ca. 1925].
135:85 mm.
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Einstein, Albert, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955).
A large archive of material featuring a typed and signed letter to Wsevolode Grünberg and a short autograph note by Einstein, an ALS by Elsa Einstein and 2 TLS by Helene Dukas. Accompanied by a large archive of Grünberg's papers, consisting of well over 1,000 pages of material including some of his original drawings for his hydrofoil improvements, copies of his patents, etc. Princeton (NJ), Peconic, New York and Saranac Lake (NY), 1939 to 1948.
I: Albert Einstein. 4to. 2 pp. - II: Elsa Einstein: 8vo. 2 pp. - III: Helene Dukas. 4to. 2 pp. Grünberg, who later in life changed his name to Waldemar A. Craig, was a hydrodynamic engineer who developed an important design for the hydrofoil. The letters accompany a large archive of Grünberg's papers, consisting of well over 1,000 pages of material including some of his original drawings for his hydrofoil improvements, copies of his patents, (including a large dossier of declassified tests performed in the years immediately following WWI), photographs, correspondence, and other related documents and ephemera. - Wsevolode Grünberg was the nephew of the Russian orthodontist and collector Josef Grünberg, one of the few close friends of Albert Einstein, who gave him the nickname "Bolshie". It appears that Einstein and his second wife Elsa had become acquainted with Wsevolode Grünberg shortly before their friend's death in 1932, if not personally, then by correspondence. In an undated letter from Berlin, written sometime before 1932, Elsa Einstein commented to Wsevolode Grünberg: "I am assuming you are just as kind and clever as your uncle, our dear friend. My husband and I were so glad having been able doing this small favor for you. Mr. Dunne wrote a most gracious note to us from Florida. In particular I want to thank you for the delicious grapefruits [...]", adding, "Feel free to call on me anytime if you think I could be of help. Please be sure and do so". - Apparently Grünberg acted on her advice, and travelling to the United States in 1939 approached Einstein for an introduction to fellow engineers in the U.S. in order to demonstrate his hydrofoil designs. The two met in June 1939 at the home of Irving Lehman in Port Chester, New York. Einstein assisted Grünberg with the inheritance issue, acting as a go-between for Grünberg in the U.S. and Plesch in England. - Despite some annoyance, Einstein did what he could for Grünberg both regarding his inheritance and his scientific pursuits. Grünberg's personal papers concern his research on his hydrofoil designs which he first developed in France. The archive includes some of Grünberg's original drawings demonstrating applications for his design as well as some manuscript calculations in his hand, some original U.S. patent certificates for several inventions, one German patent awarded to him in 1930, original photographs, likely from the early 1930s, and several magazines including Popular Science and others discussing Grünberg's work and designs. - Detailed description available upon request.
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Einstein, Albert, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955).
Autograph manuscript (fragment). No place, [1948].
¼ page. 112 x 258 mm. Draft of most of the final paragraph of Einstein's article, "Relativity: Essence of the Theory of Relativity", published in 1948 in the American People's Encyclopedia: "als sie zwar zu einer bestimmten Theorie des Gravitationsfeldes führt, aber nicht zu einer bestimmten Theorie des Gesamtfeldes (mit Einschluss des elektromagnetischen Feldes). Der Grund liegt darin, dass dies allgemeine Feldgesetz durch das allgemeine Relativitätsprinzip allein noch nicht hinreichend bestimmt ist". - The present draft shows the original text written by Einstein in German. Written below by a different hand is the English translation as it was finally published: "while it leads to a well-defined theory of the gravitational field it does not determine sufficently the theory of the total field (which includes the electromagnetic field). The reason for this is the fact that the general field laws are not sufficently determined by the general principle of relativity alone". - An exceedingly fine autograph, wherein Einstein implicitly states why he spent so many of his final years searching for a Unified Field Theory. Written on the address side of an envelope addressed to him. Slight damage to edges, somewhat wrinkled.
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Holmes Sr., Oliver Wendell, American physician, poet, and polymath (1809-1894).
Autograph letter signed. 296 Beacon St., [Boston], 29. IX. 1877.
8vo. 1½ pp. on bifolium. With cabinet photograph. To the eminent American botanist Asa Gray (1810-88), a friend of Darwin's: "I am very much disappointed in not being able to come to the Club today. The day after getting back to Boston I was taken with a very severe cold which entirely unfits me for company. I had hoped to meet you and tell you how greatly I regretted that I could not be with you and your distinguished companions [...] and to have a good talk with you and some others of my friends who I hope will be at the Club [...]". A member of New England's "Fireside Poets", Holmes was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of his day. He was also an important medical reformer. His like-named son remains one of the most widely cited Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Lachâtre, Maurice, French journalist and publisher (1814-1900).
"Un épisode de la semaine infernale du 21 au 28 Mai 1871". Manuscript with autograph revisions signed. [Likely San Sebastián, Spain, autumn 1871].
8vo. 13 pp. on blue squared paper, written on rectos only. A long, unpublished manuscript recounting the horrors of the "Semaine sanglante" of May 21st through 28th, 1871, which saw the defeat and collapse of the revolutionary government of Paris. Originally drafted as a preface to a never-published sequel volume to Lachâtre's 1870 "Nouvelle encyclopédie nationale", what the author conceived as an apology for the book's long delay constitutes a powerful first-hand account of the "Bloody Week" and of his own persecution. The manuscript is written in a scribal hand but is extensively revised in Lachâtre's own, characteristically graceful handwriting, showing his deletions, insertions and various textual changes on almost every page. Lachâtre describes the Communards' heroic resistance, in which women fought on the barricades alongside their husbands, brothers and sons against the vastly more numerous and better equipped army. He deplores the atrocities which the Communards, too, committed in their desperation (such as the execution of no fewer than 123 clergymen and gendarmes who had been taken hostage), but his emphasis is clearly on the indiscriminate, ruthless cruelty with which the invading soldiers slaughtered men, women and children, the decrepit and infants alike, if they suspected them of any connection at all with the Commune: "Les Versaillais massacrent, fusillent, percent de leurs sabres - baïonnettes et par milliers tous ceux qui leur tombent sous leur main, innocents ou coupables, hommes et femmes, enfants et vieillards; la vapeur du sang les énivre, la soif de la vengeance les pousse à chercher de nouvelles victimes; ils parcourent les rues, envahissent les maisons, fouillent les demeures des citoyens, arrachent de leur lit les malades, tuent tous ceux qu'ils soupçonnent avoir été partisans de la Commune [...] Ceux là sont conduits par files innombrables, prisonniers de tous les âges, hommes et femmes, des mères tenant de petits enfants par la main, quelques unes allaitant un nouveau-né; ces longues files de victimes enchaînées vont s'engouffrer dans les cours des casernes dont les portes se referment avec un bruit lugubre, et où toutes sont massacrées, toutes, jusqu'à la dernière!!!" - Lachâtre himself barely escaped into hiding before a platoon of soldiers arrived looking for him and his associate Félix Pyat (1810-89), with whom he had published the radical papers "Le Combat" and "Le Vengeur": "Se décida à abondonner la place, laissant chez lui deux femmes, deux jeunes filles dont une de dix ans à peine, son enfant. Dans la maison se trouvait également le caissier de la librairie, M. Profilet, vieillard inoffensif, qui jamais ne s’était occupé de politique [...] On était au mercredi, 22 mai! Vers les deux heures de l’après-midi, moins d’une demi-heure après le départ du citoyen Maurice La Châtre, la maison est envahie par une troupe de soldats [...] Après une heure de mortelles angoisses pour le pauvre caissier, il est lui-même emmené prisonnier! Mr. Profilet était porteur d’une montre en or avec sa chaîne, et d’une somme de 400 fr en pièces d’or, quand il fut enlevé de sa maison… Où fut-il conduit par les soldats de 55e de ligne? Quel a été le sort réservé à ce vieillard inoffensif, absolument innocent de tout acte insurrectionnel? C’est ce que ni sa famille, ni ses amis n’ont jamais su! [...] Nous vous devions le récit de ces évènements, chers lecteurs [...] A vous, aimables lectrices, à vous, chers lecteurs, amis connus et inconnus, l’auteur adresse de la terre d’exil de salut fraternel". - Slight paper flaws to bottom edge of the final leaf, otherwise very well preserved. At the head of the first page, Lachâtre has inscribed the manuscript to his longtime collaborator Félix Pyat: "Maurice LaChâtre à Félix Pyat". A diplomatic transcription of the full text is available upon request.
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[Lachâtre, Maurice, French journalist and publisher (1814-1900)].
Judgment. Handwritten document, unsigned. Versailles, 19 Dec. 1873.
Folio. 1 p. Copy of a court martial's judgment, sentencing the bookseller Maurice de La Châtre to be deported and imprisoned in a fortress for his involvement in the Paris Commune of 1871: "3ième Conseil de Guerre de la 1ère Division militaire séant à Versailles. Jugement par Contumace. Le 3ième Conseil de Guerre permanant de la 1ère division militaire a rendu le jugement suivant: Aujourd'hui 19 décembre 1873 le 3ième Conseil de Guerre de la 1ère Division militaire séant à Versailles, ouïr le commissaire du Gouvernement dans ses réquisitions et conclusions, a declaré le nommé Delachartre (Claude Maurice) homme de lettres et libraire éditeur, contumax, à l'unanimité, coupable d'avoir en 1871, à Paris, pratiqué des intelligence avec les directeurs et commandants de bandes armées dans le but d'envahir des places et des postes appartenant à l'état & de faire attaque et résistance à La Force publique agissant contre les auteurs de ces crimes. - 2° à la l'unanimité coupable d'avoir à la même époque et au même lieu participé à un attentat dans le but de détruire & de changer le gouvernement. En conséquence le dit conseil condamne par contumace, à l'unanimité le nommé Delachartre (Claude Maurice) Sus-qualifié, conformement aux articles 96, 88, 87 du code pénal, 5 de la constitution de 1848, et de la loi du 16 Juin 1850 et 135 du code de Justice militaire, à la peine de la déportation dans une enceinte fortifiée. Le dit Jugement à commencé à recevoir son exécution le 30 Xbre 1873". - Lachâtre, who at this time was publishing the first French translation of Marx's "Kapital", had been able to avoid arrest by flying to Spain, where he lived in San Sebastián, near the border, under the name of "Leconte". Driven away by the Carlists two years later, he again escaped to Brussels and later to Vevey in Switzerland before finally returning to France in 1879. - Traces of folds; some brownstaining; some slight defects to upper edge.
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Hawking, Stephen / Rocek, Martin (eds.).
Superspace and Supergravity: Proceedings of the Nuffield Workshop, Cambridge June 16-July 12, 1980. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981.
8vo (226 x 152 mm). Publisher's maroon cloth, lettered in silver on spine, original pictorial dustjacket. Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page in Hawking's own hand. This is a collection of densely mathematical papers given at a workshop on supergravity organized by Hawking. The dustjacket reproduces a blackboard covered with doodles by Martin Rocek and other attendees at the Nuffield Workshop, including a caricature of Hawking himself: the blackboard itself remained in Hawking's office in Cambridge until his death. A fine copy of the first edition. - Provenance: authorial inscription on title "Love from Stephen x x x"; Judy Fella (Hawking's first secretary and later PA and nursing co-ordinator: Fella typed up some of the manuscript for the work, and is depicted, as "one of the Fella's", in the cover artwork).
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De Kooning, Willem, Dutch-American artist (1904-1997).
Autograph letter signed. East Hampton, NY, [19 May 1966].
Large 4to. ¾ p. With autograph envelope. To Greenwich Village bohemian Helen Elliott: "I did not see Hans Namuth this week-end, ... and I would not want to loose [!] the chance ... I mean not to be in your book, ... I would certainly regret it alright ... With names, with people like Camus, Dostoyesky [!] W. C. Fields ... It is very nice of you to remember me, ... and it will be nice to see you again [...]". - Helen Elliott (1925-1990) is best known for her love affair with Lucien Carr and friendships with Jack Kerouac and Alan Ginsberg. She has been identified as the characters Ruth Erickson in Kerouac's "Desolation Angels" and Eileen Weber in the expanded edition of his "Book of Dreams". - German-born American photographer Hans Namuth (1915-1990) was known for his portraits of architects and artists, notably a series of photographs depicting Jackson Pollock at work in his Long Island studio, which are reputed to have precipitated a change in Pollock’s artistic style. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Namuth photographed de Kooning and his work, most notably, his "Reclining Man", and chronicled his studio’s construction in Long Island’s East Hampton artist colony. - Written in blue ink on a folded sheet of lined yellow legal notepaper.
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Kline, Franz, American painter (1910-1962).
Autograph letter and related ephemera. Boston, 25 Oct. 1931.
6 pp. on wood-grained pattern stationery, with the matching lined holographic envelope. Includes a program for the Lehighton High School commencement, 5 June 1931, with Kline's name listed, and the Lehighton High School football schedule for 1929. To Lavona Edgar, sharing news of life at Boston University: "I have a roommate. He's from Maine. Tonight we bought a Drip-o-Lite coffee percolator, so we laugh to each other while eating doughnuts & drinking coffee. Our mid-nite luncheon. He with me is a supposedly art student, half the time we don't know whether we're Budding Artists, or Blooming Fools, but we're happy and get along fine together.". - All three with signs of wear, some chipping, folds, fading.
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Kokoschka, Oskar, Maler, Graphiker und Schriftsteller (1886-1980).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. Villeneuve (Vaud), 24. X. 1962.
2 SS. 8vo. Mit eh. adr. Kuvert. An den Kunsthistoriker Ludwig Goldscheider, Phaidon Press, London: "Sie haben mir ja einen richtigen Lobbrief geschrieben und diesen liebenswürdig als Versuch Ihre Erschütterung loszuwerden motiviert. Ich wurde rosig wie eine Jungfrau und vergaß für eine kurze Zeit meine Bestürzung daß ja, nachdem die Ausstellung als mein Lebenswerk zu gelten hat, es sozusagen zu Ende wäre. Und ich war doch nie anders als ein Beginner und Morgen sollte ich dann was erreichen, was das frühere überflügelte! Verdammt dieser Kalender, der viel zu schnell abläuft, das fällt einem besonders schwer, denkt man wirklich an die Heiligen und Großen, im Reich der Kunst, die Sie erwähnen, diese kamen aus mit der Lebenszeit während ich fast fertig bin mit der mir gegebenen Spanne Zeit und stehe noch vor der Türe. Aber es war liebenswert von Ihnen, lieber Freund, mir so tröstend zu schreiben. Haben Sie vielleicht meine Schallplatte der Deutschen Grammophongesellschaft noch nicht gehört? Wenn so, dann lasse ich Ihnen diese senden, falls es Sie freut. Die läuft fast 45 Minuten, mit Unterbrechungen, ich wählte Musik, die ich gerne selber höre[,] weil zu langes Reden ermüdet. Ich sprach sie auch Englisch, die deutsche war spontan und improvisiert gemacht. Der Vorschlag selber eine Einleitung zu schreiben? Es wird lange dauern, ich will so viel auf einmal, daß der Tag vorüber ist ehe ich beginne [...] Für die Taktlosigkeiten 'Karl Kraus', 'Altenberg' kann ich nichts, ich hatte Winglers Aufsatz im Katalog erst gelesen nachdem Ihr Brief mich darauf verwiesen hat. Ich bedauere es sehr! Nun mit allen herzlichen Wünschen und Grüssen von uns beiden Ihr Oskar Kokoschka".
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Rops, Félicien, Belgian artist (1833-1898).
Autograph letter signed. Heist, "Hotel des Bains", undated.
8vo. 1½ pp. To the French painter Jules Adolphe Chauvet, sending some drawings: "Vous voyez que je ne me presse guère de quitter la Flandre. Je vous ferai parvenir dans quelques jours 1o Le volume des Rimes de Joie avec tous les états rares des planches & les dessins originaux plus les dessins non gravés | 2o Les frontispices des Diaboliques & d'autres frontispices [...] Je vous envoie en attendant le croquis de La Fleur Lascive [...] Si votre amateur désire les croquis des dernières publications de Gay, - les œuvres de Grécourt [...] Collé [...] etc j'ai gardé les croquis d'après lesquels ces dessins ont été gravés. Ces croquis sont plutôt des dessins faits [...]". - On blue paper.
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Bakunin, Mikhail, Russian revolutionary anarchist, and founder of collectivist anarchism (1814-1876).
Autograph letter signed ("M. Bakunin"). [London], 15 Jan. 1861.
8vo. 1 page. In German. To an unnamed addressee: "Please excuse my not coming today, but it was impossible for me, as I was already committed elsewhere. Even tomorrow I will not be able to see you, as I want to take advantage of an extraordinary opportunity to write to Russia. But the day after tomorrow I certainly want to see your home. Your unchanged, albeit older M. Bakunin" (transl.). - The aristocratic Russian anarchist, a figurehead of permanent revolution, had escaped from Siberia to Japan in 1861, made his way from there to San Francisco, and then to London, where he began to renew his associations in revolutionary circles. A compelling if somewhat intemperate figure, Bakunin loathed Karl Marx and vigorously challenged his authority. This enmity led to Bakunin's expulsion from the International in 1872.
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Bebel, August, Politiker und Publizist, Mitbegründer der Sozialdemokratischen Arbeiterpartei (1840-1913).
Albumblatt mit eigenh. U. Berlin, 8. V. 1897.
1 S. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. "Geehrtes Fräulein / Um Ihren Wunsch zu erfüllen sende ich Ihnen diese Zeile. / Hochachtungsvoll / A. Bebel". - Mit stärkeren Randläsuren.
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Chiang Ching-kuo, Taiwanese Politician, leader of the Kuomintang (1910-1988).
Autograph signature. N. p. o. d.
56:32 mm. Bold black ink. Neatly affixed to a larger sheet, beneath a clipped piece from German newspaper. The article entitles "The eldest son of Tschiang Kai-Scheks is prepared for his father's legacy". The Taiwanese politician and son of Generalissimo and President Chiang Kai-shek held numerous posts in the government of the Republic of China (ROC). He succeeded his father to serve as Premier of the Republic of China between 1972 and 1978 and was the President of the Republic of China from 1978 until his death in 1988.
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Kropotkin, Pjotr Alexejewitsch, Anarchist und Revolutionär (1842-1921).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. Brighton, 8. VII. 1915.
5½ SS. 8vo. Kropotkin bedankt sich für wichtige Pamphlete und Bücher über den ersten Weltkrieg, von denen er einige nach St. Petersburg geschickt hat und berichtet von Problemen mit der Zensur. Er hofft auf ein Ende der Untentschlossenheit in Russland, besonders auf ein Umdenken im zu deutschlandfreundlichen St. Petersburg, angesichts der Eroberungen durch Deutschland (Kurland, Polen) und die Unterstützung der ukrainischen Separatisten durch die Mittelmächte. Kropotkin setzte sich, entgegen seiner überwiegend pazifistisch orientierten Freunde für die Beteiligung der Anarchisten am Krieg gegen Deutschland ein. "Dear Mr. Unwin / Permit me to express you my very best thanks for the pamphlets and books concerning the war which you do kindly continue to send me. Most of them are extremely valuable, and some of them I sent to Sasha and Boris to Petrograd; but I do not know yet whether they have reached them. Their letters reach us regularly in 11 or 12 days; but our letters remain sometimes 27 to 28 days on the journey, probably on account of the censorship. All letters coming from Russia are opened by the Russian Military Censorship, but are not delayed in transmission. There is a great awakening in Russia - even in that non-Russian - cosmopolitan and German city of Petrograd; so the previous letters of both Boris and Sasha were very sad on account of the pessimism, or indifferent state of mind at Petrograd. The Court, especially its feminine part, is of course pro-German, and the attitudes of a certain portion of the 'intellectuals' was one of sad pessimism. Thus the latest news from Boris and Sasha speak of a serious awakening and consciousness of the seriousness of the conditions. I think that the success of the Germans in Courland, and the conquest of Poland left indifferent, which the stupid attitude of the Russian Government towards the Ukrainian Autonomist tendencies in East Galicia could only provoke the deepest discontent [...]".
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Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715).
Letter signed. Versailles, 22. VI. 1703.
Folio. 1 p. Counter-signed by foreign minister Colbert. To Cardinal Leandro Colloredo, thanking him for his moral support upon his great-grandson's death: "Mon Cousin, Jay receu la lettre que vous m'avez ecrite le 26 du mois dernier. Linterest que vous prenez a cequi me regarde dans la triste conjoncture de la mort du duc de Bretagne mon arriere petit fils est l'offre des sentiments que vous m'auez toujours temoignez. Ainsy vous ne devez pas douter que je ne continue de vous donner des marques de lestime part[iculie]re que j'ay pour vous, lorsque les occasions s'en presenteront. […] je prie Dieu qu'il vous aye, Mon Cousin, en sa s[ain]te et digne garde. Ecrit a Versailles le 22 Juin 1703".
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Schindler, Oskar - Emilie Schindler, wife of Oskar Schindler (1908-1974), saviours of 1,200 Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
A collection of jewellery and ephemera. Germany and Argentina, apparently 1930s-1950s.
A ms. workbook; 4 bracelets; 3 brooches; a pendant; a typed letter signed; a typed airmail envelope. Comprises: Emilie Schindler's manuscript workbook containing 60 pp. of German-Spanish translation notes, made in preparation for the Schindlers' move to Argentina in 1949, along with other notes; a collection of jewellery comprising four bracelets, three brooches and one pendant from the collection of Emilie Schindler; an airmail envelope sent from Oskar to Emilie Schindler, dated 2 July 1957; a typed letter signed by Emilie Schindler, dated 11 June 1997, to the General Consul Dieter Koepke in Bonn, asking for legal assistance from the German consulate in Buenos Aires. - Together with her husband Oskar, Emilie Schindler (née Pelzl) helped to save the lives of at least 1,200 Jews during World War II by employing them in his enamelware and munitions factories, providing them immunity from the Nazis. She was recognized as Righteous Among the Nations by Israel's Yad Vashem in 1994. - Provenance: From the estate of Emilie Schindler and thence by descent.
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Trotsky, Leon, Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist (1879-1940).
Typed letter signed. Constantinople, 31 Oct. 1929.
Large 4to. 1 ¼ pp. To his lawyer Gérard Rosenthal about the Trotskist newspaper "La Vérité", which Trotsky had co-founded in 1929: - "[...] La Vérité s'améliore visiblement. On voit que les articles pour la plupart sont écrits avec attention et soigneusement. Je vous ai déjà écrit quelques impressions dans ma lettre précédente. Pour préciser mes idées sur son contenu, je vous dirai quelques mots cette fois sur la bibliographie. Les articles d'A.A. sont très bons et très utiles, mais par le choix des livres et par la manière de les critiquer plus appropriés à une revue marxiste qu'à un hebdomadaire politique. On préférerait voir dans les colonnes bibliographiques de la Vérité des articles sur les Cahiers du bolchevisme, sur la Revue marxiste, sur l'Humanité même, et sur d'autres journaux du parti; naturellement, aussi sur toutes les éditions du Komintern, du Profintern, de la C.G.T.U, etc. Je crois que par l'intermédiaire de la presse, [des éditions mêmes] et d'autres éditions du parti on pourrait mettre en lumière les traits essentiels de l'activité toute entière du parti. Les Cahiers pompeux du bolchevisme avec leur papier de luxe, leurs vignettes originales, etc., démontrent la richesse matérielle et la pauvreté idéologique d'une manière éclatante et même écoeurante. Je crois aussi que l'on devra donner deux ou trois articles sur l'Humanité en les comparant avec les souscriptions précédentes par villes, régions, etc. C'est un travail minutieux, encombrant, mais il peut donner des résultats d'une importance tout à fait singulière sur les changements de l'influence du parti, sur la composition des sympathisants, etc. Sans des études pareilles (aussi par et sur les syndicats) notre critique restera abstraite et parfois même vide. Je parlais dans une de mes lettres à Naville de la nécessité de diviser sérieusement le travail entre la Vérité et la Lutte en en formant un organisme unique. Le camarade Naville me répond que pour cela il faut une organisation unique, ce qui est entièrement juste. Malheureusement je ne vois pas par le journal lui-même ni par les lettres comment on s'y prend pour aboutir à cette organisation unique composée avant tout d'ouvriers actifs. Maintenant quelques mots au 'maître'. Je vous ai envoyé une lettre ennuyeuse sur mes relations avec Rieder. J'ai omis d'y mentionner que Paz lui a accordé le droit de traduction pour les pays européens, à l'exception de l'Allemagne et de l'Angleterre. Rieder retient, dans ce cas, 40% des sommes payées à l'auteur. C'est une piraterie. Il est juste vrai que les éditeurs français pratiquent cette piraterie normalement envers les jeunes écrivains en abusant de leurs besoins d'être introduits par les voies de la 'franc-maçonnerie' internationale des éditeurs. Mais sans parler de ce que j'ai aucun besoin de la protection de Rieder devant ses semblables en Hollande et en Tchécoslovaquie, j'ai reçu un tas de propositions incomparablement plus favorables. J'ai transmis il y a quelques jours à Rieder une proposition analogue d'une société anglo-allemande, qui n'émet pas la prétention de retenir plus de 15% (au lieu des 40% de Rieder). Dans ce cas-ci je suis lié par le traité et Rieder a le droit formel de transporter ce paragraphe dans le nouveau traité. Mais vous pourrez tout de même essayer de faire une certaine pression sur cette matière problématique qui lui sert de conscience. Quant à mon livre sur l'Internationale j'apprends inopinément que toute l'affaire est entre les mains de Madeleine Paz. Je vous envoie ci-joint sa lettre et ma réponse pour vous mettre au courant. Je ne vous encombrerais pas de cette question qu'il ne s'agissait que d'une question personnelle [...] D'ailleurs je vous fais une proposition 'commerciale': les honoraires dus à un avocats dans un cas pareil, nous les déposerons à moitié dans la caisse de la Vérité et dans celle de la Lutte […]". - Atatürk had granted Trotsky political asylum in 1929; he spent the years until 1933 on the Turkish island of Büyükada. In Constantinople he began work on his autobiography. - Slight traces of handling.
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Zaifeng (aka Prinz Chun II.), Manchu prince and regent of the late Qing dynasty (1883-1951).
Autograph signature. N. p. o. d.
1 p. 175:72 mm. Rare signed bold black ink piece, in Chinese characters, by Prince Chun. - With annotation from someone else's hand at the foot.
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Zaifeng (Prince Chun II), Manchu prince and regent of the late Qing dynasty (1883-1951).
Calling card. [Berlin/Potsdam, Sept. 1901].
255 x 120 mm. Presented by Prince Chun as a gift to Anna von Elbe (neé Richthofen), the sister of the German Foreign Secretary Oswald von Richthofen, when he was sent to Germany as a Special Ambassador to offer his regrets for the murder of the German diplomat Clemens von Ketteler during the Boxer Rebellion.
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Byron, Anne Isabella, née Milbanke, 11th Baroness Wentworth, wife of poet George Gordon Byron (1792-1860).
Autograph letter signed ("A. I. Noel Byron"). Moore Place, Esher, 31 Oct. 1842.
8vo. 2½ pp. on bifolium. Includes an engraved portrait of Lord Byron with a print of his poem, "Fare thee well". To an unidentified Lord, contributing 10 pounds towards the erection of a new chapel: "In compliance with the wish you have expressed to me in so kind a manner, I will settle an endowment of Ten Pounds on the Minister of Petton. I should have great satisfaction in doubling that sum, if the New Chapel were open to the use of Christians of a different denomination, as is the case with Protestant Churches abroad - but as long as the present exclusion system is continued I shall feel that Roman Catholics & Dissenters have likewise a claim to the Landowner's assistance. Your Lordship will I trust pardon me for giving this explanation in order to account for the smallness of my contribution. Should I travel Northwards next Summer, I shall be happy to accept yours & Mr Maltby's gratifying invitation [...]". - A highly educated and strictly religious woman, Anna Isabella seemed an unlikely match for the amoral and agnostic poet Byron. Indeed, the marriage lasted but a year, as Byron was given to fits of anger and maintained an incestuous relationship with his older half-sister Augusta Leigh. The couple separated in March 1816. Their only child, Augusta Ada Byron (Countess of Lovelace), was a gifted mathematician and is credited with creating the first computer programme.
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Dumas, Alexandre (père), French writer (1802-1870).
Signed and inscribed cabinet photograph. No place, [c. 1860s].
90:56 mm. An excellent signed and inscribed cabinet photograph. The A. Bernoud image, depicting the French poet in a half length formal pose. Signed and inscribed "A ma bonne amie […] Al. Dumas" in bold black ink, in French, to the lower clear area of the photograph. Matted in off-white to an overall size of 148: 110 mm.
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Gessner, Salomon, Dichter, Maler und Graphiker (1730-1788).
Eigenh. Federskizze und eh. Zitat. O. O. u. D.
2 SS. 8vo. Recto ein ganzseitiger Illustrationsentwurf zu "Damon. Phillis" (Zürich, 1756, SS. 44-47) mit einem Textzitat ("Doch setze mir zuerst den Kranz zurecht | Du hast mein Haar zerzaust") sowie einem weiteren Zitat aus "Die Erfindung des Saitenspiels und des Gesanges" (ebd., 91-99: "[Man pflanzte da zween Bäume auf einem hohen Hügel, dem Mädchen und] dem Jüngling, u. die späten Enkel erzählten [den K]indern in ihrem Schatten d. Erfindung des Saitenspiels u. des Gesangs"). Verso mit zwei Zitaten aus "Der Frühling" (ebd., 107-112) und "Die übel belohnte Liebe" (Salomon Gessners Schriften. Zürich: bey Orell, Gessner, Füssli u. Comp., 1770. Bd. 2, SS. 113-121; S. 120f.). - Gering fleckig.
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Hamsun, Knut, Norwegian author and Nobel laureate (1859-1952).
Portrait photograph signed and dated. Nörholm, 26 Aug. 1939.
135:111 mm, mounted on cardboard. Depicting the poet in profile, writing at the desk.
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Jameson, Anna Brownell, English writer (1794-1860).
Autograph letter signed ("Anna Jameson"). No place or date ("Wednesday"), but probably late 1840s.
8vo. 3½ pp. on bifolium. To Anna Isabella Noel-Byron, "Lady Byron", the poet's wife: "Would the page of whom you were speaking last night, go to Lady Monson for a month or six weeks? - she only wants him while she is in London, & as it is of importance to her to have a boy of good character - & not easy to find one for so short an engagement she would be likely to overlook some outward deficiencies - moreover she is an excellent person & kind to all around her - particularly to her servants. Would you send the boy to 49 Park Street between 11 & 12 on Friday - if the situation suits him? I am sailing in extremest haste - & can only add my earnest hope that you are not the worse for yesterday [...]". - Jameson was a friend of Ottilile von Goethe, the poet's daughter-in-law. Her friendship with Annabella Byron dates from about 1845 and lasted for some seven years; it was brought to an end apparently through Lady Byron's unreasonable temper. The marriage between Lord and Lady Byron had lasted but a year, as Byron himself was given to fits of anger and maintained an incestuous relationship with his older half-sister Augusta Leigh. The couple separated in March 1816. Their only child, Augusta Ada Byron (Countess of Lovelace), was a gifted mathematician and is credited with creating the first algorithm intended to be carried out by a machine - in fact, the first computer program.
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Maffei, Andrea, Italian poet, translator and librettist (1798-1885).
"La Viola" and "Alla Signorina Teresa Martini". 2 autogr. poems signed. N. p. o. d.
Oblong 8vo. 1 p. "La Viola" ("Odorosa foriera d'aprile [...]"), comprising eight stanzas with four lines each, and three stanzas entitled "Alla Signorina Teresa Martini", from whose album the present sheet was removed: "Alla giovane musa un fior dimanda [...]". Maffei's poem was set to music by Anton Rubinstein under the title "La prima viola" (op. 83/7). - Slightly spotty and waterstained; left edge trimmed closely.
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Neruda, Pablo, Chilean poet and Nobel Prize laureate (1904-1973).
Autograph quotation signed. New York, 1943.
Oblong 8vo. 1 p. Reverse with autograph musical quotation signed by Arthur Rubinstein. The second verse of his famous poem "Un Canto para Bolivar", read by Neruda at the University of Mexico on July 24, 1941, for the 101st anniversary of the death of Simon Bolivar, and published in an edition of 500 copies (Imprenta Universitaria, 1941). Neruda noted this stanza in an autograph album in New York in 1943. "Tu pequeño cadáver de capitán valiente | ha extendido en lo inmenso su metálica forma, | de pronto salen dedos tuyos entre la nieve | y el australien pescador saca a la luz de pronto | tu sonrisa, tu voz palpitando en las redes". - Two years earlier, Rubinstein penned four bars of the Polish national anthem "Himno Polaco" in the autograph album from which this sheet originates.
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Qualtinger, Helmut, Schauspieler, Schriftsteller und Kabarettist (1928-1986).
Fräulein Casanova. Wien, 1952.
(2), 248 und einige eingeschobene Bll. Halbleinenband der Zeit. 4to. Bei dem vorliegenden Typoskript handelt es sich um das von Helmut Qualtinger zusammen mit Karl Leiter verfaßte Drehbuch zu dem Film "Fräulein Casanova", der im Jahr darauf in die Kinos kommen sollte; seine Deutschland-Premiere hatte der Film am 9. I. 1953 in Stuttgart, die Österreich-Premiere fand am 13. Februar statt. Unter der Regie von E. W. Emo waren u. a. Angelika Hauff, Josef Meinrad, Walter Giller, Ernst Waldbrunn und (in seiner zweiten Filmrolle) Helmut Qualtinger selbst zu sehen. - Etwas lichtrandig und angestaubt; innen etwas gebräunt und stellenweise (stock-)fleckig.
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Stendhal, French writer (1783-1842).
Autograph letter signed ("Chapuis"). [Milano], 7. XI. [1813].
4to. ¾ p. With autogr. address. A hitherto unpublished letter to his sister Pauline Périer-Lagrange. On the point of leaving Milan, he invites his sister to wait for him on the way to make the trip with him to Paris. "Mes affaires me rappellent à Paris, ma chère amie. Il est possible que je parte le 12 novembre, mais c'est le 15 au plus tard que je me mettrai en route. Je suppose que tu attendras un moment plus brillant pour faire le voyage de Paris. Cependant, si tu as la possibilité de le faire, je suis d'avis de partir, vu que l'occasion est chauve, comme dit don Japhet d'Arménie. Si tu n'as rien de mieux à faire, rends-toi à Cularo le 15 nov. Tu ne m'y attendras pas: 3 jours au plus. Sinon viens à Bourgoin le 16 ou le 17. J'embrasse tendrement ton mari. Je ne resterai que 20 à 24 h. au plus à Cularo; depuis la mort de notre pauvre grand-père, je n'ai plus de coeur dans cette ville. | Chapuis". - As soon as Stendhal arrived in Paris at the end of November 1813, he was to be charged with the defense of his native city Grenoble, a mission which proved impossible considering the superiority of the coalition forces. Like many high-ranking Napoleonic officials, Stendhal found no place in the strictly diminished government of the Bourbon Restoration under King Louis XVIII, and became a Napoleon's nostalgic and liberal, an oppositionist. He once more went to Milan and became the literary man and writer he is known as.
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Beethoven, Ludwig van, composer (1770-1827).
Autograph sketchleaf to op. 117, "König Stephan" ("Ungarns erster Wohltäter"). [Teplitz, 1811].
2 pages in ink and pencil on 16-stave paper (322:234 mm), with two folds. Formerly sewn on the left margin, leaving three punched holes. Accompanied by two autograph letters signed from Friedrich Wilhelm Künzel in Leipzig to Fred M. Steele of Chicago, dated July 16th, 1886, discussing the acquisition and certifying the authenticity of the present leaf. Stored in custom-made green morocco portfolio. A densely-used two-sided autograph sketchleaf containing music to opus 117, "König Stephan" or "Ungarns erster Wohltäter" ("Hungary's first Benefactor"), the front showing, among other motifs, the opening cello/bassoon line for the beginning of the first movement chorus, "Ruhend von seinen Thaten" (Andante maestoso e con moto, C major), and the verso with material from the end of the movement, all over with various freely written passages in ink and pencil, mostly on single staves, some with text underneath, containing many holograph corrections and instances where ink is written over pencil. - The present sketchleaf, apparently hitherto unknown to scholarship, belongs to a book of sketches that Beethoven used while writing his stage music "König Stephan" in 1811. Beethoven created his own book from various paper on hand and used it while at the spa in Teplitz from late 1810 into mid 1811. He finished "König Stephan" between 20 August and mid-September 1811. The sketches are of the first chorus (after the overture). The musical play was commissioned for the opening of the new theatre in Pest along with "The Ruins of Athens". First performed on 9 February 1812, it was published as op. 117. King Stephen I founded Hungary in 1000. Emperor Francis I of Austria commissioned the new theatre, and Beethoven was chosen as the composer to honour the occasion of the opening. The Austrian Emperor was honouring Hungary's loyalty, thus the subject matter on a text by August von Kotzebue. - The Beethoven-Haus in Bonn holds four other sketches from this sketchbook (viewable in their digital online archive, as entries HCB Bsk 2/50, 3/51, 4/52, and Mh 81), all of which share the same three holes punched on the left-side margin of the present sketch. We would like to thank Dr. Carmelo Comberiati, professor of Music History at Manhattanville College, for his assistance in cataloguing this lot. - Provenance: Friedrich Wilhelm Künzel, Leipzig, before 1886; Collection of Fred M. Steele, Chicago, purchased from the above, 1886. Offered in the "Collection of Important Autographs in the estate of Mrs. Ella P. Steele, widow of Mr. Fred M. Steele" (Philadelphia, 1918). Acquired from the purchaser's descendants, last located in Greenwich, CT. For an in-depth discussion of the pages to which this sketch belongs, cf. Douglas Johnson, Alan Tyson and Robert Winter, "The Beethoven Sketchbooks", p. 201-206.
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Liszt, Franz, composer and pianist (1811-1886).
Portrait photograph signed ("F. Liszt"). [Vienna, c. 1870s].
92:58 mm. Vintage albumen print from the studio of Fritz Luckhardt, Vienna.
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Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix, composer (1809-1847).
Autograph letter signed (within the text). "4 Hobart Place Eaton Sqa.", i. e. London, 28 April 1847.
8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. To Mrs. Erskine, possibly the wife of the Scottish orientalist and historian William Erskine: "Mr. Mendelssohn presents his Compts. to Mrs. Erskine & regrets most sincerely not to be able to accept of Mrs. Erskine's very kind invitation; as he must leave London already next week he is not sure whether he will be able to thank Mrs. Erskine in person for her kind note, but he hopes to find an opportunity of doing so [...]". - Mendelssohn was known to have been in London in April 1847, to hear Jenny Lind sing in Meyerbeer's "Robert le Diable". Mendelssohn greatly admired Lind and in the 1840s she became a protégée - it was rumoured that in 1847 he had written to her to suggest an elopement, though she was married at the time. - On laid paper watermarked "J. WHATMAN", with two early horizontal folds, in very good condition. - Though not formally signed, the use of his name at the beginning is effectively a signature.
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Rachmaninoff, Sergei, Russian pianist and composer (1873-1943).
Portrait postcard signed. No place, 1914.
8vo.
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Schumann, Robert, German composer (1810-1856).
Autograph calling card signed ("R. Schumann"). No place or date.
Calling card format. 1 page. To the musical writer and musician August Schmidt (1808-91), in German, on the verso of his printed visiting card, introducing a musician named Puyn visiting from Amsterdam. - "64" written in unknown hand at upper right of printed side.
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Strauß, Johann (fils), Austrian composer (1825-1899).
Autograph letter signed. No place, [c. 1888].
8vo. 2 pp. To Emma Pollak, his wife's cousin, apologizing for having to refuse an invitation, as his wife Adele will go to Franzensbad to take the waters: "So geschieht immer mehr was uns Beide näher zusammenführt! In veritas Ihr aufrichtigster Verehrer und ziemlich nahe stehender Verwandter! Ihrer verführerischen Einladung zu widerstehen wäre nicht denkbar, wenn nicht Adele wegen ihrer leider noch immer grossen Nervosität Franzensbad dringend nothwendig hätte. Wenn wir uns in der einsamen, ruhigen Coburg zu zerstreuen versuchten da sprachen wir von unsern Sympathien für dies und Jenes sich in Wien Befindliches - aber in erster Linie wurde immer Emma der Gegenstand unserer Herzensergießung - der Bewunderung, Verehrung; für Sie zu schwärmen - wahrhaftig bezwingen Sie alle Welt - doch so aufrichtig Ihnen ergeben wie wir Beide dürfte wohl kaum möglich sein. Meine respektvollsten Handküsse von Ihrem Sie hochschätzenden Johann Strauß". - Centerfold repaired; signature slightly smudged.
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Stravinsky, Igor, Russian, and later French and American, composer, pianist, and conductor (1882-1971).
Autograph musical quotation signed. Paris, 1936.
Small oblong 8vo. 1 p. A particularly fine quotation from his second ballet "Petrushka", first performed by Sergei Diaghilev's "Ballets Russes" at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 13 June 1911. - In pencil; small traces of mounting on reverse.
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Wagner, Richard, German composer (1813-1883).
Portrait photograph (albumen print) with autogr. dedication and signature on reverse. N. p., app. 1876.
138:101 mm (portrait) on cardboard. Dedicated to Carl Brandt, a close collaborator of Wagner at Bayreuth: "Lieber Brandt | wenn wir erst zum | letzten Brand | gekommen sein werden, | wollen wir Lachnerin | einen Hahn | schlachten | Dieses gelobend bin ich | Ihr | dankbarer Richard Wagner". - From the studio of Fritz Luckhardt. - Mentioned in Wagner, Letters (A 673) and in an auction catalogue of Leo Liepmannsohn (cat. 63, no. 193). - Somewhat spotty; script somewhat faded. Hermann Kaiser: Der Bühnenmeister Carl Brandt und Richard Wagner. Kunst der Szene in Darmstadt und Bayreuth. Darmstadt, Eduard Roether Verlag, 1968.
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