‎Autographes‎

‎[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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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).‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎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.‎

‎Man Ray, i. e. Michael Rudnitzky, American artist (1890-1976).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("Man"). Paris, 13 Jan. 1961.‎

‎4to. 1p. To Virginia Knopik, an American friend: "We are still wondering by what process of divination you could send us (me) a pair of shoes that fit - and the package of men's Cleenex [!] in the box, that caught me with a cold in bed [...] Things are going well - no problems - we keep the studio comfortable and travel a bit - Germany, England; South of France and Spain for vacation, always where there are friends. Hope soon in New-York, and that you 'll be there. Am sending to Toronto address - the last I have but keep us posted. Love to all of you from Julie and Man".‎

‎Whistler, James Abbott McNeill, American painter and etcher (1834-1903).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("J. A. M. Whistler"). "9 Lindsey Row, Old Battersea Bridge, Chelsea, Saturday", no year.‎

‎8vo. 2¼ pp. on bifolium. To Ernest Brown: "I have just got your letter and am sorry about Tuesday's dinner coming to grief - I haste now to write and tell you that being judged sufficiently recovered by my brother, I am to go down and meet my Mother in the country and bring her back on Monday morning [...]". - Whistler goes on to discuss plans and is very desirous of "showing you what I am about", etc. - A nice letter with much cirtuitious meandering in trying to establish a meeting.‎

‎Browne, Maximilian Ulysses, Baron de Camus and Mountany (1705-1757).‎

‎Letter signed, with a four-line autograph postscript. Heidelberg, 15. I. 1746.‎

‎3 pp. on bifolium. Folio. "Si j'ai retardé jusqu'a present de rendre mes Soumis devoirs a Votre Eminence, ce n'est certainement pas par oublie des Graces et politesses, dont Elle m'a Comblé pendant mon séjour en italie en 1744. et pour les qu'elles je lui aurez une reconnoissance perpétuelle, mais uniquement pour ne la pas distraire inutilement dans les hautes occupations, et par ce que je scavoir que Mr le Marechal Comte de Traun lui donnoit part diréctement de tout ce qui se passoit de remarquable à notre Armée d'Empire. Mais à present Monseigneur que S. M. J. R. atpris La Resolution après la paix conclue le Roy de Prusse d'envoyer incessament un renfort considerable de Trouppes en italie, et qu'Elle at denommera cet effêt de l'Armee en Empire les Regimens de Schullenbourg, Bärenklau, jeune Königsegg, Mercy, Stahremberg et Forgatsch infanterie. Chaque de trois Batallions presque complettes à 7300 hommes, ceux de Portugall, Lobskowiz, Ballayra, et Holly Cavallerie […]". In holograph: "Je supplie Votre Eminence vouloir permettre que je la prie assurer des mes regrets Monsieur Le Prince de Santa Croce". - Browne was born in Basel, the son of Count Ulysses Browne (1659-1731) of Limerick and of Annabella Fitzgerald, a daughter of the House of Desmond. Both families had been exiled from Ireland in the aftermath of Tyrone's Rebellion. A second-generation "Wild Goose", he became one of Austria's most capable military leaders in the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War. He was mortally wounded in the 1757 Battle of Prague.‎

‎Cumberland, Stuart C. (d. i. Charles Garner), Hellseher (1857-1922).‎

‎Eigenh. Albumblatt mit U. O. O., 26. IX. 1889.‎

‎1 S. Qu.-4to. "Just my luck. Whenever I am trying to concentrate my thoughts on the 'other world' there is sure to break upon my meditations the autograph fiend reminding me that I am of all things earthly [...]". - Der als Charles Garner geborene "Mentalist" Cumberland, Sohn eines Oxforder Schlachtereibuchhalters, verblüffte nicht nur das viktorianische England, sondern ganz Europa mit seinen Gedankenlesekünsten. Wohlhabend geworden, zog er sich 1910 von der Bühne zurück.‎

‎Hardinge, Henry, 1st Viscount Hardinge, officer and statesman (1785-1856).‎

‎Autograph letter signed ("Hardinge"). "Hesse Guards", 25 Nov. 1852.‎

‎4to. 2 pp. on bifolium. To Count Colloredo, marked "private": "Having sealed my letter to Baron Hesse, it appeared to me that Your Excellency ought to see it. I therefore annex a copy, requesting you to return it after perusal [...]". - Hardinge had succeeded the Duke of Wellington as commander-in-chief of the British Army on 28 September 1852; while in this position he had responsibility for the direction of the Crimean War.‎

‎Marlborough, John Churchill Duke of, englischer Feldherr (1650-1722).‎

‎Reisepass mit eigenh. U. "Au Camp devant Donay", 9. V. 1710.‎

‎1 S. Folio. Mit schwarzem Siegel. Ein für zwei Monate gültiger Reisepass für Leopold Eberhard von Württemberg-Mömpelgard und Tross mit oder ohne Eskorte für die Reise durch Holland und Deutschland zu dessen Fürstentum, auf vorgedr. Dokument: "Jean Duc & Comte de Marlborough, Prince du Saint Empire, Marquis de Blandford, Baron Churchill d'Aymouth & de Sandridge […] Nous Ordonnons par la Presente à tous Gens de Guerre étant sous notre Commandement, & prions ceux à qui il apartiendra, de vouloir laisser librement passer [aus Sekretärshand:] Monsieur le Duc Leopold Everard Prince de Montbeliard allant d'icy en Hollande, et de la à sa Principauté en Allemagne, avec ses Domestiques et Baggages, par toute sorte de voiture, avec ou sans escorte. Le present Passeport valable pour Deux mois […]". - Mit kleinen Einrissen, knittrig, leicht gebräunt.‎

‎Nelson, Horatio, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral (1758-1805).‎

‎Autograph letter signed. St. George, Revel Bay [Gulf of Finland], 15. V. 1801.‎

‎4to. 1 page. With fly-leaf bearing address in his handwriting, and his seal (head of Lady Hamilton). Fine autograph letter to "Lady Hamilton, 23 Piccadilly, London". An important letter written when Nelson was Commander-in-Chief in the Baltic, six weeks after the Battle of Copenhagen. The political situation was complicated in that the Russians, while not now openly hostile, were definitely unfriendly. The cold air of the northern latitudes disagreed with Nelson, who had a severe cough and chill, and he was depressed at the separation from Lady Hamilton and concerned about their baby daughter Horatia, who had been born in January. The letter is discreet, evidently because of Nelson's fear that it might fall into other hands, and he employs the deception previously arranged with Lady Hamilton of referring to himself as "Thomson". The tone of the letter is melancholic, and Nelson concludes by quoting the last portion of an equally unhappy letter he had written recently to the First Lord of the Admiralty Lord St. Vincent: "My Dearest Friend, | The Harpy Brig sails tomorrow for England, you will not receive this Line for a fortnight after her arrival. I cannot say a word on Politicks. I expect to find a new Admiral on my return which will be in a very few days, poor Thomson is return'd from Petersburgh he desires his kindest affections to his Wife and familiy [i. e. to Emma Hamilton herself and Horatia] - And ever believe me Your Most attach'd & affectionate | Nelson & Bronte. | Most probably you will never receive this letter I have 3 wrote for you now laying by me, firm as a Rock, finish of 8 lines to Lrd. St. V[incent]. I expect to find a new Ad[mira]l when I return off Bornholm, or most probably you will never see again your aff[ectiona]te | N & B".‎

‎Stanley, Henry Morton, African explorer (1841-1904).‎

‎Autograph letter signed. Pirbright, Surrey, 18. VIII. 1902.‎

‎8vo. 3 pp. on 3 ff. A sharp letter revealing Stanley's sensitivity to cultures other than his own and his desire to impart this on others. To Robert Stein, criticizing his correspondent's remarks about the French, Germans, Americans and the English: "It is impossible to read your article without coming to the conclusion that you are an accomplished writer, & I feel immensely flattered at being asked to endorse what has been so ably & eloquently argued. I am sorry however to say that my rude common sense prevents me from approving your suggestion. I am neither pro-German, or pro-French and I distinctly see that the ideas you broach will not please Frenchmen nor indeed any American or Englishman who is of clean unbiassed mind, & I doubt, whether the higher class of Germans will regard them as wise. I cannot divest my mind quite from the suspicion that there is some irony concealed in your proposals, & if I were a Frenchman I feel I should be furiously angry. You may be innocent of all intention to provoke Frenchmen, but it is too evident your exaggerated ideas of German[y] might border perilously near being offensive. If America talked of American projects with such exaggerated insinuation of her power, & her wealth &c, she would be simply insufferable, & no lover of Germany would care to put ideas in her mouth which would estrange the good will of every nation. Germany is too rich & powerful to need such language to impress her greatness & her value as one of the foremost among the nations. As yet she feels the need of more land, but if out of inordinate conceit she proclaims her greedy love of it & wantonly promotes discord to indulge it, she will end in making herself as detested as the French did previous to 1870-71 [...]". - On his imprinted stationery; very scattered spotting.‎