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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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Einstein, Albert, German-born physicist and Nobel laureate (1879-1955).
2 typed letters signed ("A. Einstein"). Princeton, NJ, 28 July & 16 August 1951.
4to. 2 ff. To Dr. Alessandro Cortese. The first letter (July 28) concerns Cortese's visit ("If convenient I suggest Wednesday afternoon"), the second (August 16) was written afterwards: "I am grateful for the informations [!] you gave me on your visit last week. The realization of your plan to establish a[n] Institute of International Studies in Rome seems to me desirable; because such an Institute could vitalize that supra-national point of view which is so important for the solution of the international problems and could reach those persons who are most influential in this respect [...]". An unsigned carbon copy is recorded at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Archival Call Number: 59-452).
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Morse, Samuel F. B., American painter and inventor (1791-1872).
Autograph letter signed ("Saml. F. B. Morse"). Poughkeepsie, 12. XII. 1862.
8vo. 1 p. on bifolium. To Charles H. Morse, responding to a query about a man who may have been a former employee, and requesting more information: "[...] By having answers to these questions, I might be able to find his friends, and the relief he requires [...]". - With a printed order of service for his memorial service on 16th April 1872 (8vo, 1 p.). - After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
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Pasteur, Louis, French chemist and microbiologist (1822-1895).
Autograph manuscript unsigned. [Paris], 24 May 1858.
4to (229 x 175 mm). 1 p. In French: notes on the work of Monsieur Rets entitled 'Present state of studies of silkworms in the Vivrais': "This is what I notice in this note: The few Italian species which, up to now, had resisted the illness and last year had given good results, have now contracted it. They had been left from the early stages by the breeders […] Designation of the species give the best guarantees […] nonetheless there is no sign of any other disease than that of the little ones […] The worms submitted to sulfur and carbon treatment are well up to the present. The worms are vigorous, healthier, steadier […]". - The present manuscript was written well before Pasteur concentrated his efforts in battling a catastrophic disease of silkworms which was then ruining the production of silk in the south of France during the five-year period from 1865 to 1869. In 1853, silkworm eggs could no longer be produced in France, but had to be imported from Lombardy. The disease then spread to Italy, Spain and Austria. Dealers procuring eggs (i.e., seeds) for the silkworm breeders had to go farther and farther east in an attempt to secure healthy products. The disease followed them, soon engulfing Greece, Turkey, the Caucasus, China and even Japan. By 1865, the silkworm industry in France was near ruin. Though Pasteur had never ever seen a silkworm or a mulberry tree, he began at the request of his master Jean Baptiste Dumas, the famous chemist to investigate the cause of the epidemic. To be of value in his scientific endeavor, Pasteur had to become a masterful industrialist and therefore, it is quite expected that he would criticize those who would be willing to let their own economic failures be dismissed blaming disease rather than their own ineptitude or mismanagement.
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Schrödinger, Erwin, physicist and Nobel laureate (1887-1961).
Autograph document signed. No place, [c. 1949].
Oblong small 8vo (87:132 mm). 1 p. A statement to Arthur Keith's "A New Theory of Human Evolution" (London 1948): "It really is a theory of the evolution of ethics. It is quite sufficient to read two or three of the essays. They all say virtually the same. / Erwin". - In pencil.
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[Album amicorum].
Album amicorum der Auguste Büttner. Ammelshain, Borna, Langenhennersdorf, (meist) Pirna und Sorau, 1843-1850.
22 Bll. Mit 1 kolorierten Lithographie und 1 Aquarell. Halbleder-Kassette der Zeit mit Goldprägung. Qu.-kl.-8vo. Hübsche Stammbuchkassette. Nach einem Blatt mit einer kolorierten Lithographie (zwei schnäbelnde Tauben über Spruchband "Liebe entzückt" und gedr. Reim "Freundschaft beglückt") und einem Blatt mit einer kleinen Widmung der Stammbuchhalterin folgen 22 Bll. mit zusammen 19 Einträgen mit Sinnsprüchen für das Leben: "Brich wo Du kannst des Lebens Rose. | Sie brechen ist der Weisheit Pflicht. | Der Weisheit Pflicht ist nebst der Rose | Zu pflücken ein Vergißmeinicht". - Gelegentlich stellenweise stärker fleckig.
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[Lienz in East Tyrol].
Accounting booklet of St. Michael am Rindermarkt in Lienz. Lienz, 1511/1512.
8vo. German manuscript on paper. 25 inscribed pp. on 16. ff. In dust cover with the handwritten dating "1511". A unique testimony of late medieval building, significant for questions of art history as well as economic and social history. On the one hand, the manuscript proves useful for dating the construction works at St. Michael and provides important information about the persons in charge, being, apart from inscriptions in some of his sacral buildings, the only known written source naming the builder Bartlmä Firtaler. On the other hand, it allows a profound insight into the organisation of a late medieval construction site. While other manuscripts document the building of cathedrals or urban edifices, the one at hand lists the expenses of a small site in the periphery, covering about two months. The booklet was probably composed after the work was completed, drawing from notes constantly taken during the building process. It is arranged in several chapters, stating the weekly expenses for bricklayers and carpenters, for day works, the acquisition and transportation of stones, as well as other more general expenditures (such as the purchase of wood, nails, chains, saws etc.). Expenses for sealing by the town judge, for an errand and for the workmen's wine supply complete the picture. - Bartlmä Firtaler, born aound 1480, built many sacral edifices in Carinthia, Tyrol and Carniola/Slovenia, his debut work being the chapel in Schloss Stein near Oberdrauburg in 1505. The lord of the castle, Lukas von Graben, who also appears in the manuscript, probably acted as the principal and financier of St. Michael, which was to become the future burial place of the lords of Graben. The booklet records the offer of 22 guilders to Firtaler, which he didn't accept ("damit hat er aber nit besteen mügen"), leading to a concession of 32 guilders in the end. This episode illustrates Firtaler's esteem as a builder, as well as his self-confidence. Previous researchers didn't assign St. Michael in Lienz to Firtaler, or merely accredited him works in the nave, dating them around 1530, when he might have already been deceased. The accounting booklet proves the church to be a product of Firtaler's first style period, which might have been inspired by Benedikt Ried's work in the Vladislav Hall in Prague Castle. - The expenses were listed by an unknown scribe, giving the total at the end of each page. The grand total of 83 guilders is given at the end of the booklet (a miscalculation, as the total reached by adding the sums of each page amounts to 84). However, not only financial but also social circumstances connected with the Lienz building site can be reconstructed. The scribe distinguishes between masters and assistants, who are mentioned by name, and unskilled workers, whose names aren't given. Personal names also appear in the expenses for the transportation of stones to Lienz, as well as in the general expenses, indicating sellers and handymen. These names could be a basis for further research, not only defining the roles of the historical players involved in the building of St. Michael in the whole of the city's history, but also placing the accounting booklet in a prominent position compliant with its historical relevance.
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[Weinbau im Wiener Umland: Maria Enzersdorf / Mödling / Brunn am Gebirge]. Lissl, Ignaz Ferdinand, österr. Beamter (fl. 1780er Jahre).
Schreiben mit eigenh. U. Wien, 20. IV. 1787.
2 SS. Folio. An einen Fürstlich Liechtenstein'schen Verwalter: "Das aufgehobene Stift Lambach besizet zu Enzersdorf ein Haus, und 10 Pfund Weingarten in Enzerstorfer Gebürg. In Mödlinger Gebürg 5 Pfund Weingarten [...] In Brunner Gebürg 20 Pfund die Hundsführer [...] Es ist zu Folge einer allerhöchsten Entschliessung erforderlich obgedachtes Haus samt den Weingärten ordentlich abschäzen zu lassen, um sonach mit derer Verkauf fürgehen zu können. Da dem Vernehmen nach, diese Realitäten ohnehin der Herrschaft Vesten Liechtenstein dienstbahr sein sollten, so nehme ich mir die Freyheit Euer Wohledelgebohrn zu ersuchen, das Haus durch Bauverständige Werkleute, die Gründe aber durch die gehörige Bergämter ordentlich, jedoch so abschäzen zu lassen, daß man bei künftiger Lizitation wegen einer etwa übertriebenen Schäzung keinen Anstand haben möge [...]". - Lissl zeichnet als "k. k. Staats-Güter-Administrations-Grundbuch-Amtsverwalter". Gefaltet und leicht fleckig mit Randeinrissen.
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[Beethoven, Ludwig van]. Schuler, Johannes, Schriftsteller (1800-1859).
Rede zur Geburts-Feyer Bethovens am 17. December 1838. O. O., [ca. 1838].
4to (ca. 180 x 217 mm). Deutsche Handschrift auf Papier. 37 SS. Zeitgenöss. marmorierter Einband. Zeitgenössische Reinschrift der von Schuler 1838 im Innsbrucker Verein "Die Namenlosen" gehaltenen Beethoven-Gedenkrede, die posthum in seinen "Gesammelten Schriften" (Innsbruck 1861, S. 166-178) gedruckt wurde. Wohl von Schuler selbst als Geschenkexemplar für einen namentlich nicht genannten Freund besorgte Reinschrift, der am Ende des Manuskripts folgenden Eintrag hinterließ: "Ich danke dir lieber Schuler! Unter Thränen gelesen im (!) meinen 7u.7sten Jahr!". - Der Jurist und Schriftsteller Schuler, Abgeordneter der Frankfurter Nationalversammlung und Wegbereiter der Tiroler Literatur im Vormärz, hinterließ auch eine Reihe literarischer Werke, darunter das Libretto zur Oper "Die zehn glücklichen Tage" von Louis Schindelmeisser. Schuler, der in seiner Gedenkrede auf Lebensstationen und Charakter sowie einzelne Werke Beethovens (u. a. die Sonate für Pianoforte und Violine in G-Dur, Op. 96) eingeht, konnte diesem während seiner Studienzeit in Wien ab 1820 noch persönlich begegnet sein. Die überragende musikgeschichtliche Bedeutung des damals noch verkannten Meisters war Schuler bewusst ("obwohl keinem seiner erhabensten Kunstgenossen nachstehend, ist [er] unter unsern Umgebungen am wenigsten gekannt, u. beinahe unverstanden", Bl. 3v), und seine Rede ist ein wichtiges Zeugnis der frühen Beethoven-Biographik, die eigentlich erst 1838 mit den "Biographischen Notizen" von Wegeler und Ries einsetzte. - Einband gering berieben; Papier leicht gebräunt aber insgesamt von schöner Erhaltung.
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Mascagni, Pietro, Komponist (1863-1945).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. Monaco, 13. III. 1905.
1 S. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An einen namentlich nicht genannten Freund, mit dem und dessen Freunden gemeinsam zu Mittag zu essen ihm aufgrund seiner vielen Arbeit nicht möglich sei: "Mon cher Ami, il m'est absolument impossible de dejeuner avec vous aujourd'hui, à cause du grand travail et aussi de la grande preoccupation. Je regrets infinitement de perdre l'occasion sympatique de causer un peu d'art avec vous et vos amis [...]". - Mascagnis Oper "Amica" hatte drei Tage später, am 16. März 1905, Premiere in Monte Carlo. - Auf Briefpapier mit gedrucktem Briefkopf des "International Sporting Club".
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Rafn, Carl Christian, Archäologe und altnordischer Philologe (1795-1864).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. Kopenhagen, 31. X. 1848.
2 SS. auf beschäd. Doppelblatt. 4to. Im Namen der Kgl. Gesellschaft für nordische Altertumskunde an den russischen Historiker, Archäologen und Ethnographen Baron Dmitry (Demetrius) von Schoeppingk (1823-95): "Ew. Hochwohlgeboren Abhandlung von den Statuen oder Götzenbildern, welche man in den Steppen Klein- und Neu-Russlands häufig begegnet, nebst den beifolgenden Abbildungen, haben wir richtig empfangen, und statten Ihnen hiedurch unseren herzlichsten Dank dafür ab [...]". Weiters über die Aufnahme Schoeppingks in die Kgl. Gesellschaft. - Das Gegenblatt mit Resten der Adresse, die untere Hälfte verloren.
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Arafat, Yasser, Palestinian political leader (1929-2004).
Autograph letter signed. No place, 21. XII. 1988.
Oblong 4to. 1 p. In Palestinian Arabic, apparently to a Yugoslavian recipient: "My memory of the good Commander Tito stands out boldly in my mind from the shadow, inciting all the perseverance of the excellent men and of those who fight against oppression around the world. So verily the Palestinian people and the revolutionary fighters of the Palestinian Revolution will rise to it successfully, assisted in this noble struggle and supported by the firmness of the champions of our just people. To the spirit of Commander Tito I tribute all the esteem, victorious purity and exaltation; to the people of Tito, I wish the achievement of all prosperity and I pay all our gratitude; to the defenders who fight for the cause of freedom, may be all the support and hope of the fruits of victory. And long live the Revolution until victory!" (transl.). - In fine condition. Autograph letters by Yasser Arafat with such important content are of the utmost rarity; we could not trace an even remotely comparable letter in the trade of the last decades.
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William Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne, British politician and colonial administrator, High Commissioner of South Africa (1859-1942).
Typed letter signed ("Selborne"). Governor's Office, Johannesburg, 31. XII. 1909.
4to. 2 pp. on bifolium. Headed paper. An unpublished official document (to Frederick Sleigh Roberts, 1st Earl of Kabul and Kandahar, 1832-1914) which sheds new light on the assault on Gandhi in Johannesburg on 10 February 1908, the first attempt on Gandhi's life. Earlier that year, Gandhi had been summoned from prison in Pretoria to meet with the Colonial Secretary, General Smuts, to discuss the British treatment of Indian labourers in South Africa. Gandhi eventually convinced Smuts to allow the voluntary registration of all Indians rather than the punitive system of the "Black Act". However, this settlement did not prove popular with all Indians in the colony; as Gandhi was making his way to the Registration Office in Johannesburg, he was brutally beaten by one Mir Alam, a disillusioned Pathan: "I had scarcely finished the last sentence when a heavy cudgel blow descended on my head from behind. I at once fainted with the words 'He Rama' (O God!) on my lips, lay prostrate on the ground and had no notion of what followed. But Mir Alam and his companions gave me more blows and kicks, some of which were warded off by Yusuf Mian and Thambi Naidoo with the result that they too became a target for attack in their turn" (Gandhi, Satygraha in South Africa, p. 140). According to his own account, Gandhi immediately requested that Mir Alam and his companions not be charged or imprisoned for the assault; for, "according to their lights they could not behave otherwise than they did". Gandhi himself was philosophical about his near-fatal encounter, commenting, "As for me, nothing better can happen to a satyagrahi than his meeting death all unsought in the very act of satyagraha, i.e., pursuing Truth" (ibid, p. 157). - The present document, however, sheds new light on the assault. The letter discusses complaints received by one Mahomed Shah, "Pathan Priest", regarding the treatment of Indian prisoners. High Commissioner Selborne is dismissive of Shah, calling him an "illiterate Punjabi" and "of violent character". Most intriguingly, Selborne reveals that Shah himself "instigated the serious assault on Mr. M. K. Gandhi in February, 1908, and although Mr. Gandhi declined to prosecute he requested the government to remove Mahomed Shah from the Transvaal, where he was a source of danger to other Indians, and deport him to India." Gandhi's account of the incident holds that Mir Alam was responsible for the attack, and that although he insisted on not pressing charges, Alam was convicted by the Government of a public offence and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. The present official document suggests that the affair was more complicated than this and indeed was "instigated" by an entirely different person, and that while Gandhi did not press charges officially, he nevertheless took action against his aggressor. - Original materials relating to Gandhi's South African years - before his rise to international fame - are decidedly uncommon. It is often forgotten that Gandhi spent no fewer than 22 years of his life (1893-1915) in South Africa, promoting his practice of satyagraha to improve conditions for the large Indian population in that colony. "It is only recently that historians have come to recognise the centrality of his time abroad in Gandhi's life, and in particular, the significance of his southern African years [...] it was in southern Africa that he developed the entire spiritual, philosophical, and political programme that he would implement in India...Gandhi's political and intellectual projects, as they evolved in these years, operated across political boundaries, linking India, South Africa, and Britain itself, as well as points beyond" (Cambridge Companion to Gandhi, p. 30). - Traces of horizontal folds; slight brownstains in the left margin of the first leaf.
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Rückert, Friedrich, Dichter und Übersetzer (1788-1866).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. [Wohl Berlin, zwischen 1841 und 1848].
¾ S. Kl.-8vo. An den Anatomen und Pathologen Robert Froriep: "Werden Sie nicht böse, wenn ich Ihnen wieder etwas aufbürde. Sie haben schon für mich eine Visitencharte [sic] stechen zu lassen übernommen; wenn sie fertig ist, möchten Sie nicht sogleich davon eine Anzahl dem Portier Ihres Hauses übergeben zum Herumtragen an sämmtliche Ordinarii der übrigen Fakultäten, u die nöthigen Auslagen dafür wie für das Übrige machen? [...]". - Mit einer annähernd zeitgenöss. Notiz zum Adressaten von anderer Hand am unteren Rand und einem winzigen Randeinriss; mit altem Sammlungsumschlag.
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Houdini, Harry, Hungarian-American escapologist and magician (1874-1926).
Autograph picture postcard signed ("Houdini & Bess"). Münster, 26. VIII. 1908.
8vo. 1 page. With autograph address. To his sister Carrie Gladys Weiss (1882-1959) in New York: "Dear sis. Gladys. Am here on a visit. Leave for Hannover for 1 day than [!] to Berlin. Regards & love [...]". - In August 1908 Houdini had begun his second European tour, starting in Germany, where he enjoyed a particularly enthusiastic audience with his recently developed "milk can trick". - It is surprising that Harry wrote directly to his sister, who had been almost blind since childhood and probably could not have read the card without help. Remarkably, the stamp is affixed at an angle turned 120° to the right: in the "stamp language" common between lovers of the time, this was as much as to say: "I dearly long for you", "You are my happiness" or "Always thinking of you". Another Houdini mystery?
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Schlechta von Wschehrd, Ottokar Frh., Austrian orientalist (1825-1894).
Autograph letter signed. No place, 3. II. 1857.
Small 4to. 2½ pp. on bifolium. With autograph address. To Mr. L. Schwarz, typesetter at the Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office in Vienna, about the layout of an upcoming edition of one of his works, explaining the changes he requests to be made in the received typesetting samples, such as reducing the line spacing and inserting asterisks in a few places: "Ich nehme mir die Freiheit Ihnen einige Bemerkungen über die neulich mir zugesandten Setzproben mitzutheilen. Erstens ersuche ich Sie den Satz überhaupt kompresster zu halten, indem ein weiter Satz in den Augen eines Orientalen ein Gräuel ist. Zweitens, wo ein Sternchen zu setzen ist habe ich einen rothen Strich gemacht. Nur an diesen rothbezeichneten Stellen bitte ich mit Leerlassung eines kleinen Raumes ein Sternchen zu setzen [...]". - After finishing his studies at the Vienna Oriental Academy Schlechta von Wschehrd worked as an ambassador in Constantinople and soon became a dragoman. In 1860 he was the provisional director of the Oriental Academy and was appointed a diplomatic agent and Counsel General of Bucharest in 1870.
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Musil, Robert, Schriftsteller (1880-1942).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. [Berlin], "Pension Stern, Kurfürstendamm 217, 21. X. 1932.
¾ S. 4to. An den namentlich nicht genannten Franz Blei: "Der wahrhaftige Grund, warum ich Ihre beiden Briefe erst heute beantworte, ist der, daß man mir nicht die Zeit dazu läßt. Obwohl ich im Juni angekündigt hatte, daß ich nicht fertig werden könne, und die Versicherung bekam, daß man auf Grundlage der Zwischenveröffentlichung der einstweilen fertigen 600-700 Seiten, das Weitere ordnen werde, fand ich mich bei meiner Rückkehr in einer Situation des völligen Nichts. Ohne persönlichen bösen Willen, im Gegenteil bei persönlicher Anteilnahme, angesichts jener unpersönlichen kaufmännischen Theodizee, die sich einbildet, alles Üble rechtfertigen zu können. Um die moralische Wirkung beiseite zu lassen: ich habe vierzehn Tage lang überhaupt ohne Geld gelebt und lebe bis zum heutigen Tag noch ohne Sicherheit des nächsten Monats. Geld vom Verlag war nur unter der Bedingung zu bekommen, daß ich in drei Monaten mit dem Rest des Buches fertig wäre, was ich zurückweisen mußte [...] Ich stehe also unter einem Druck, der kaum und auf die Dauer sogar sicher nicht auszuhalten ist. | Denken Sie nicht an Deutschland, solange es möglich ist! [...]". - Musil und seine Frau Martha erlebten die Anfänge des nationalsozialistischen Regimes in der Berliner "Pension Stern" und zogen im Mai 1933 weiter nach Karlsbad, später wieder nach Wien, ehe sie - vor allem Marthas jüdischer Abstammung wegen - im August 1938 ins Schweizer Exil gingen. - Winzige Einrisse an den Rändern im Mittelfalz.
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Behmer, Marcus, German books artist, painter and illustrator (1879-1958).
Autograph letter signed. Weimar, 26 Feb. 1904.
8vo. 1 p. To an unnamed recipient, asking for the consignation of an outstanding amount of 300 Deutsche Mark and for sending some proofs of scaled-down drawings. - Somewhat rubbed and with minor damages to edges.
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Boxall, William, English painter and director of the National Gallery (1800-1879).
ALS. 14 Welbeck Street (London), Tuesday 16 July, no year.
8vo. 1 p. on single leaf. With a portrait photograph (65 x 105 mm). To a Miss Moore in response to an invitation: "I hope Rembrandts works interested you. The collection is I think most admirable. - We will talk of their wonders on Thursday at a 1/4 past 7 when I hope to have the pleasure of hearing your criticisms as well as eating your dinner [...]". - Boxall refers to the Rembrandt collection of the National Gallery that grew under his mandate as director (1865-74). The attributions of serveral of Boxall's acquisitions where controversial at their time. Some of them couldn't be substantiated as in the case of the so called "Suermondt Rembrandt". - With damages of the upper right and the lower left corners and traces of former mounting. No text loss
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Catlin, George, American painter, author and traveller (1796-1872).
Autograph letter signed ("G. C."). "Monday evening", [ca. 1840].
8vo. 2½ pp. on a single bifolium. To an unidentified recipient ("Dear Sir"), stating that he has been unable to see him and that he must leave for Manchester, and requesting that he not mention his name to Col. Sherburne. "Returning too late from Preston I could not reach your house on Sunday evening & my avocations since have been such as to prevent me as yet from calling on you. I leave at an early hour tomorrow (Tuesday) for Manchester [...] In any correspondence you may have relative to Col. Sherburne I pray that (though you are at liberty to make use of the information I have given you) you will make little use of my name as you well can, as I would rather study peace than war with such a person [...]". - Unable to find a suitable market in America for his growing body of work, Catlin travelled to England in 1839 hoping to find a more receptive audience.
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Greenough, Richard Saltonstall, American sculptor (1819-1904).
Autograph letter signed ("RichardSGreenough"). [Paris], 10. II. 1868.
8vo. 2 pp. on bifolium. Together with a portrait photograph (94 x 55 mm). To Mrs. Byrne: "I have been hoping to call and thank you for your very kind note, and the verses you were so good as to send me. Having been prevented, I will delay no longer, but beg to assure you of the pleasure I received in reading those exquisite lines, which merit all that you said in their praise [...]".
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Horovitz, Leopold, Maler (1838-1917).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. O. O., 12. II. o. J.
¾ S. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An eine Dame: "Ich bin grade heute frei und wird es mir zum Vergnügen gereichen Sie heute vor halb 12 Uhr zu erwarten [...]". - Mit einigen kleinen Randeinrissen.
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Horovitz, Leopold, Maler (1838-1917).
Eigenh. Visitenkarte mit U. O. O., 28. IX. o. J.
1 S. Visitkartenformat. An eine Dame: "Mit Vergnügen habe ich vernommen daß Sie wieder in Wien und bereit sind die Sitzungen wieder aufzunehmen. So beeile ich mich denn Sie für Donnerstag 10 Uhr zu bitten und will hoffen daß Ihnen dies passen wird [...]".
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Malevich, Kazimir, Russian painter and art theoretician (1879-1935).
Autograph letter signed. Moscow, 14. IX. 1933.
4to. 3½ pp. on 2 ff. With autogr. envelope. In Russian, to his third wife, Natalya Andreevna (née Manchenka, 1902-90), about a day he and Ivan Vassilyevitch Kljun spent together attending an exhibition of the Red Workers' and Peasants' Army with visiting officials. Kljun urged him to have his hair cut, as Malevich resembled a "savage". They failed to meet Lobanov, who wanted a landscape. "[...] You cannot imagine my sentiments. What else should I do, and how wait? I am completely starved, and although I have eaten quite well these two days at Ivan Vassilyevitch's, there is no way I might be satiated, and after all, I cannot live at his place, and there is nowhere for me to go. I still have no money to go to Nemchinovka and stay there overnight [...] It's simply a nightmare when the thought turns up that something might happen to me, a severe mental illness might afflict me. Tomorrow I will try to see mother, maybe I can raise some money there [...]". Malevich goes on to discuss his difficult relationship with his brother, and that he avoids seeing him: "That's what it amounts to, when a man has not a penny, everyone starts to lecture you and call you a fool [...]". Malewitsch über sich. Zeitgenossen über Malewitsch. Briefe. Dokumente. Erinnerungen. Kritik. Vol. 1, Moscow 2004, no. 43.
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Manzù, Giacomo, Italian sculptor (1908-1991).
8 letters signed. Milan, 27 July 1949 through 16 February 1950.
Nine pages, on eight quarto and octavo leaves. In Italian. Occasional creases and minor isolated foxing, very good. Accompanied by typescript translations. Manzù here writes extensively to Marcelo de Ridder, gallery owner and art dealer in Buenos Aires, concerning the nuts and bolts of an exhibition of his works de Ridder is organizing for late 1949. Always polite, but frequently exasperated, Manzù deals with burdens he feels are de Ridder's responsibilities (customs, shipping, etc), and is justifiably upset when, on 27 December 1949, he writes: "La mia mostra si è aperta e chiusa a mia insaputa senza nessure sapere dagli organizzatori la minima notizia, e questo nonostante le mie risetute preghiere, alle quali non è mai stato risposto. Non ho avuto nemmeno il Catalogo della mostra. Di tutto questo sono veramente stupito, veda di avvicare a quel minimo di gentilezza informandoni almeno dove si trovarro ora le mie opere [...]" ("My exhibition has opened and closed unbeknownst to me, and without my having received the slightest notification from its organizers, despite my repeated requests which were never answered. I did not even receive a catalogue of the exhibition. I am truly amazed at this, could you try to at least have the courtesy to let me know where my works are now [...]", transl.). The 16 February 1950 letter is far more conciliatory and grateful, perhaps as a consequence of having received the exhibition documentation and photographs, with which he is pleased, as well as received proceeds so far of "two hundred thousand lire". - Manzù is most widely known for his public works of sculpture, including the bronze doors at St. Peter's Basilica and two reliefs for Rockefeller Center, but was accomplished and prolific in other media as well. During WWII, his anti-Fascist drawings forced him underground, and in 1968 he was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize for his public stance against Western policies in Southeast Asia.
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Remington, Frederic, American artist and writer (1861-1909).
Illustrated autograph letter signed. N. p. o. d.
8vo. 3½ pp. on single bifolium. To Joel Burdick, describing aspects of an improved design for a medical stretcher, with 3 small diagrams showing a wheel from various angles: "I had advice yesterday at David's Island wid [sic] de machine [...] They like it but suggested two changes [...] It wants to be cut out for a 5 ft 8 inch man or have a system of pins in the bearing irons which will make it adjustable to any man's height--simple. Second, we want it made with a platform, so that a stretcher will set on it and can be taken off at will [...] then the cross piece must be bent slightly so that the canvas won't fall on it with weight of patient &c [...] To hell with Germany--I don't see but we can let them do the worrying. We can get this in the European armies all right by trying [...]". - Minor staining at bottom corners.
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Schwind, Moritz von, Maler (1804-1871).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. O. O. u. D.
1 S. auf Doppelblatt. 4to. Mit hübscher lithographischer Umrahmung (szenische Bordüre mit Laute und Leier, floralem Rankenwerk, Stephansdom und Karlskirche). "Tages Arbeit, Abends Gäste | Saure Wochen, frohe Feste". - Mit insbesondere am rechten Rand stärkeren Läsuren.
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Schwind, Moritz von, Maler (1804-1871).
Eigenh. Skizzenblatt. O. O. u. D.
1 S. 8vo (214:144 mm). Dargestellt sind drei Putti, eine Säule und der rechte Rand eines angedeuteten Theatervorhangs, dahinter einige Bäume und Sträucher in Umrissen.
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Toorop, Jan, Dutch-Indonesian painter (1858-1928).
Autograph letter signed ("JThToorop"). Nijmegen, 14 April 1913.
Large 8vo. 1 p. Concerning arrangements for his portrait of the Flemish priest and author Hugo Verriest. The board of the Amsterdam catholic artist's society "De Violier", represented by secretary Wentinck, commissioned Toorop to make the portrait. "[...] Ik denk dan het portret in Juni of begin Juli [...] te teckenen [...]".
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Woolner, Thomas, English sculptor and poet (1825-1892).
Autograph letter signed ("Thos. Woolner"). [London], 6. XII. 1866.
8vo. 1 page on bifolium. Together with a photograph depicting Woolner at work. To Dr. Hooker: "I have just finished the medallion at length: and have kept the relief lower to suit Wedgwoods and have allended to the points you mentioned. Shall I send it off to be Wedgwooded, or would you like me to keep it till you are able to see it? [...]".
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Wright, Frank Lloyd, American architect and interior designer (1867-1959).
Autograph manuscript. N. p., [ca. 1926].
4to. 2 pp. on 2 ff. Ramblings from a man who has loved and lost with the blame firmly placed upon his own shoulders; a vexing manuscript from Wright clearly revealing the effects of his personal upheavals. "I am regarded as though I had stolen myself, gone off with what was not my own. And I am traduced, derided, despised, held up to public contempt and loathing. My character is remorselessly assassinated: no means however vile are spared to injure my property or my work. It is a falsity that men respect and honor independent of thought and action. Tolerance in anything or anywhere is plainly a gentle lie. It is in no man's heart. The perception of Beauty is a moral test. The body is the first proselyte the soul makes. Our life is but the soul made known by its fruits, -- the body. The whole duty of man is expressed in one line. Make to yourself a perfect body! To be a man is to do a man's work! The true laborer is recompensed by his labor not by his employer. Laws are a matter of lawyers and judges. Lawyers and judges, as such, are not men of sense or principle but creatures of law: In any high moral sense they are not men at all! Earth song. Universal [in pencil]. I who have shown that I can behave particularly well am put under bonds for good behaviour! Every man should see that his influence is on the side of justice -- and let the courts make their own characters. Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust, there is a ripe fruit overhead! Woe to him who wants a companion, for he is unfit even to be the companion even of himself! We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods. Any reverence, even [if] a material thing proceeds from an elevation of character?". - With a few revisions; first page devoid of 3 inches of paper, marginal fraying and chipping, the two pages affixed together at head.
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Aleardi, Aleardo, Italian poet (1812-1878).
Autograph letter signed. Florence, 25 March (no year).
Small 8vo. 1 page on bifolium. Letter of excuse to the Italian historian and politician Pasquale Villari: "Ricordo benissimo quella gentil Signorina, e molto però mi desolo non poter tenere lo invito. Martedi sera ho una seduta della Giunta per le Belle Arti, per la quale furono già spediti avvisi ai lontani [?]; ed io per di più devo presiederla. Scusami con Lei: Non potendo questa volta verrò un' altra [...]". - The mentioned "Giunta per le Belle Arti", a commission for the selection and documentation of national monuments as well as the establishment of an archeological school at Pompei, was established by the minister of education Michele Coppino in 1867. The letter can thus be dated between 1867 and 1878. - Upper left corner missing due to former mounting, folded and slightly creased.
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Azeglio Tapparelli, Massimo d', Politiker, Maler und Schriftsteller (1798-1866).
Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("M."). Genua, 3. I. 1838.
4 SS. auf Doppelblatt. 8vo. An einen namentlich nicht genannte Adressatin: "Non professerò della sua demenza per dispensarmi di rispondere, ma ne professerò per farti qualche volta aspettare i miei adorati caratteri i come appunto quel volta. Ito malto gradite le sparate che hai falle a mio benefizio sul catino, le eroei, le ricchezze e i lutti; e me e ton divertito coll'immaginazione. [...]". - In Italienisch.
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