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- Michel Levy Frères, Paris 1867, 11,5x18,5cm, relié. - La Mare au Diable [The Devil's Pool] Michel Levy Frères | Paris 1867 | 11,5 x 18,5 cm | bound in shagreen New edition. Contemporary binding in half green shagreen, spine in four compartments set with gilt stippling, gilt fillets and gilt fleurons in the corner pieces, multiple blind tooled frames on the boards, white iridescent paper endpapers, all edges gilt. Some leaves shorter in the bottom margin. Handwritten inscription signed by George Sand on the first endpaper: "à mon bon ami Edmond Plauchut. G. Sand". Today the only outsider to the family buried in the cemetery of the Nohant house, is Lucien-Joseph-Edmond Plau chut (1824-1909) who began an epistolary relationship with George Sand in the autumn of 1848 when he was a voluntary expatriate after the fall of the Republic. Leaving for Singapore, he was shipwrecked off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands and was able to save only one cassette containing Sand's letters that he had preciously bound. These missives were his salvation: they allowed him to be collected, fed and laundered by a rich Portuguese admirer of the Lady of Nohant, Francisco Cardozzo de Mello. After several journeys toward the Far East, and several exotic presents sent to his distant and yet so close friend, Plauchut finally met George Sand in 1861. In 1870, she paid a vibrant tribute to him in the preface of her novel Malgrétout. Despite everything, she recounts the shipwreck of which he was a victim and expresses with emotion her friendship for this courageous friend. Plauchut, much loved by the Sand family - and particularly George's granddaughters who nicknamed him Uncle Plauchemar - was an integral part until his death in January 1909. The handwritten signed inscriptions on La Mare au Diable are very rare, this one is from a superb provenance. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Nouvelle édition. Reliure de l'époque en demi chagrin vert, dos à quatre nerfs sertis de pointillés dorés filets dorés et fleurons dorés en écoinçons, multiples encadrements à froid sur les plats, gardes et contreplats de papier blanc moiré, toutes tranches dorées. Certains feuillets plus courts en marge basse. Envoi autographe signé de George Sand sur la première garde?: «?à mon bon ami Edmond Plauchut. G. Sand.?» Aujourd'hui le seul étranger à la famille inhumé dans le cimetière de la maison de Nohant, Lucien-Joseph-Edmond Plauchut (1824-1909) entama une relation épistolaire avec George Sand à l'automne 1848 alors qu'il était expatrié volontaire après la chute de la République. Parti vers Singapour, il fit naufrage au large des îles du Cap-Vert et ne put sauver qu'une cassette contenant les lettres de Sand qu'il avait précieusement faites relier. Ces missives furent son salut?: elles lui permirent d'être recueilli, nourri et blanchi par un riche Portugais admirateur de la dame de Nohant, Francisco Cardozzo de Mello. Après plusieurs voyages vers l'Extrême-Orient, et de nombreux cadeaux exotiques expédiés à sa lointaine et pourtant si proche amie, Plauchut rencontra finalement George Sand en 1861. En 1870, elle lui rendit un vibrant hommage dans la préface de son roman Malgrétout, narrant le naufrage dont il fut victime et exprimant avec émotion son amitié pour ce courageux ami. Plauchut, très aimé de la famille Sand - et particulièrement des petites-filles de George qui le surnommaient «?L'Oncle Plauchemar?» - en fit partie intégrante jusqu'à sa mort en janvier 1909. Les envois autographes signés sur La Mare au Diable sont très rares, celui-ci est d'une superbe provenance.
- s.l. [Londres] 24 mars 1900, 10x15,7cm, 6 pages sur 2 doubles feuillets. - Handwritten signed letter addressed to Natalie Clifford Barney and enriched with a poem entitled « Le Miroir » [London] 24 March 1900 | 10 x 15,7 cm | 6 pages on 2 double leaves Handwritten manuscript letter by Renée Vivien signed "Pauline" and written in black ink on a double leaf, headed 24 Hyde Park Street. This letter contains a handwritten alexandrine poem entitled "Le Miroir"; never published on the initiative of the poet, but it has been transcribed in "Renée Vivien et ses masques" (in à l'encart, April 1980): Je t'admire et ne suis que ton miroir fidèle Car je m'abîme en toi pour t'aimer un peu mieux; Je rêve ta beauté, je me confonds en elle, Et j'ai fait de mes yeux le miroir de tes yeux Je t'adore, et mon cur est le profond miroir Où ton humeur d'avril se reflète sans cesse, Tout entier, il s'éclaire à tes moments d'espoir Et se meurt lentement à ta moindre tristesse Ô toujours la plus douce ô blonde entre les blondes, Je t'adore, et mon corps est l'amoureux miroir Où tu verras tes seins et tes hanches profondes, Ces seins pâles qui sont si lumineux le soir! Penche-toi, tu verras ton miroir tour à tour Pâlir ou te sourire avec tes mêmes lèvres Où trembleront encore les mêmes mots d'amour, Tu le verras frémir des mêmes longues fièvres Contemple ton miroir de chair tendre et nacrée Car il s'est fait très pur afin de recevoir Le reflet immortel de la beauté sacrée Penche-toi longuement sur l'amoureux miroir! The rest of this long missive has, however, remained unpublished. A very beautiful letter sent from London by the Muse aux Violettes who misses her "little one": "Despite its slowness time passes, you see, and brings the hour that I await feverishly, the time to meet again, Natalie! Two more sad evenings, and the third you will be there to rock me in your arms! [...] Today, I was still disproportionately bored... I so need to see you again that I count the hours as they pass... I only think of you, obsessed, haunted, taken, possessed by you and by our memories. I am a poor, unhappy thing far from you." Weary of society life ("We had the queen's dressing room - how chic, my darling! Lady Augustus Fitz Clarence invited us. She descends from a bastard of the King and is therefore an illegitimate relative of the sovereign!"), Renée lingers on the contemplation of a present from her "darling": "Your ring, I love it so much, it is a bond of our love that never leaves me... I so regretted your dagger, that at the last moment I forgot to carry. Your ring, you see, is your memory on my finger, I look at it and part of our tenderness is embodied in it." It is at the end of 1899 and through Violette Shillito that Renée Vivien - then Pauline Tarn - met Natalie Clifford Barney "this American woman softer than a scarf, whose sparkling face shines with golden hair, sea blue eyes, never-ending teeth" (Colette, Claudine à Paris). Natalie, who had just experienced a summer romance with the scandalous Liane de Pougy who introduced her to sapphism, paid little attention to this new acquaintance. Renée, on the other hand, was totally captivated by the young American woman and describes this love at first sight in her autobiographical novel, Une femme m'apparut: "I lived again the hour, already well past, when I saw her for the first time, felt the shiver that ran through me when my eyes met the mortal steel of her look, those eyes blue and piercing as a blade. I had a dim premonition that this woman would determine the pattern of my fate, and that her face was the predestined face of my Future. Near her I felt the luminous dizziness which comes at the edge of an abyss, or the attraction of a very deep water. She radiated the charm of danger, which drew me to her inexorably." "Winter 1899-1900. Beginnings of the idyll. One evening, Vivien is invited by her new friend to Mme Barney's studio [Natalie's mother], 153 avenue Victor-Hugo, on the corner o
Author's presentation copy for Eva Steiner of Adolf Loos' seminal collected essays on architecture and life style. – Inscription, Provenance: Present copy of the first edition and first imprint of »Ins Leere gesprochen« (Spoken into the Void), a collection of essays and critical reviews by Adolf Loos (1870-1923), the influential pioneer of modern architecture and life style, bears a signed presentation inscription with black ink by the author's hand, reading: „Meiner lieben Freundin / Eva Steiner / Weihnachten 1921 / Adolf Loos“ (To my dear friend / Eva Steiner / Christmas 1921 / Adolf Loos) on the free endpaper recto. Eva Steiner (1905-83) was the daughter of artist Lilly Steiner and entrepreneur Hugo Steiner, whose celebrated »Haus Steiner« in Vienna, one of the first completely modern dwellings worldwide and important meeting point for Vienna modernists in architecture, literature, music and visual arts, had been designed and constructed by Loos in 1910. In 1934 Eva Steiner married Otto Benesch (1896-1964), a distinguished art historian, early patron of Schiele. Branded a „half-jew“ after the »Nuremberg Laws«, Eva had to flee the Nazis to France, Britain and finally the U.S., together with her husband Otto, who taught at Harvard and Yale. Back in Vienna, Otto Benesch became director of the Albertina Museum, a position he held until 1961. Over all his career Eva Benesch contributed heavily to her husband's publishing, and not only managed but also revised his intellectual bequest and collections for two decades. Stamp of „Nachlass Otto und Eva Benesch“ (Otto and Eva Benesch estate) with the stamped remark „unveräusserlich unentlehnbar“ (not for sale, not borrowable) on front paste down. – Content, Edition: Present texts were originally published in 1898 in the Vienna newspaper »Neue Freie Presse«. Because of Loos' radical criticism of the highly decorative style of the Vienna Secession it took until 1921 for them to be published. Present first imprint of the book had a print run of only 100 copies. – Condition: Top edge with minor stains, pictorial owner's stamp on title page, otherwise fine indeed. – Rarity: Autographs of Loos are of extreme rarity. JAP/APO and RBH mention only 2 of them for the last ca. 30 years at auction (207,2008).
Large 4to. 1 p. on bifolium with integral address panel ("A Monseigneur Monseigneur Conte de Lester a Paris"). On watermarked paper. To Sir Robert Sidney (1595-1677), 2nd Earl of Leicester, referring to the hasty return to Paris of the recipient's secretary James Battier, sending (premature) congratulations on a putative Anglo-French treaty, and hoping himself to visit Leicester in Paris in about three weeks' time: "Mr. Battiers dispatch hath bin so uncertaine, as I prepared not for it till I should understand of a certaine time pitched for his departure; and the knowledge of that came not to me untill this very instant that he is going, w[hi]ch maketh it too late for me to trouble y[ou]r ho[nor] w[i]th any longer a letter than to congratulate w[i]th you the happy conclusion of the treaty you have carried and effected w[i]th so much honor. I hope about 3 weeks hence to wayte upon y[ou]r ho[nor] in Paris. In the meane time I humbly kisse y[ou]r handes and rest y[ou]r ho[nors] most humble servant [...]". - In April 1636 Charles I had sent Leicester as Ambassador Extraordinary to Louis XIII of France, seconding the mission of the Ambassador in Ordinary, Viscount Scudamore, whose negotiations with the French had proved unsuccessful. Despite working hard for a projected Anglo-French agreement, other factors (such as intrigues against Cardinal Richelieu and secret talks with the exiled Marie de Medici) doomed the treaty from the start. - Kenelm Digby, the elder son of Sir Everard Digby (1578-1606), executed for his part in the Gunpowder Plot, was a man of many parts, including those of a courtier (he was a friend of Charles I and was known to Cromwell), poet, pirate, alchemist, book collector, and inventor. He travelled extensively, fighting Venetian galleys off Iskenderun and living successively in France and Italy. "In 1657 his increasingly poor health led Digby to take the waters at Montpellier, where he gave his famous account of the 'powder of sympathy', which cured wounds by being rubbed on the weapon that inflicted them. It was a strong solution of vitriol (copper sulfate) in rainwater, which could be improved by drying in the sun and by mixture with gum tragacanth" (DSB IV, 95). - Tears where opened repaired; left margin laid down on modern paper for an album. Folds, slightly browned. - Autograph material by Sir Kenelm Digby is extremely scarce.
184172914Paris 18 novembre [1841] | 13.90 x 20.80 cm | une page sur un feuillet remplié
190783638s. l. s. d. [ca 1907] | 12.60 x 20.40 cm | 3 pages sur un double feuillet
Very Good Arabic Original autograph document/letter sealed by Ahmad I of Tunisia. 54x42 cm. 1 p. 6 long lines. The letter includes full of poetic praise. It must be sent after successful diplomatic intercourse with Naples. Ferdinand II (Ferdinando Carlo) was King of the Two Sicilies from 1830 until his early death in 1859. It starts with 'Thank God alone', and goes on 'From poor Ahmad Pasha to Lord Almighty Field Marshal Amîr [ruler]. Sealed by the seal of Ahmad Basha Beg including an impressive qasidah in Arabic. Ahmed I (ibn Mustafa), born 2 December 1805 in Tunis died May 1855 at La Goulette, was the tenth Husainid Bey of Tunis, ruling from 1837 until his death. He was responsible for the abolition of slavery in Tunisia in 1846. He succeeded his father Mustafa Bey on 10 October 1837. He had grand ambitions - to expand his army and create a modern navy; to build a new royal residence, a mint and modern institutions of education but neither he nor his brother-in-law the young Mustapha Khaznadar who served as his finance minister, had a clear idea of what such initiatives would cost. As a result, many of his projects became expensive failures which damaged the financial health of the country. Soon after his accession, Ahmad Bey received the traditional Firman from the Sublime Porte which formally invested him with authority to rule from the Ottoman Empire and furnished him with the insignia of office. The Ottoman envoy, Osman Bey, arrived in la Goulette on 15 May 1838 onboard a frigate. The following day, Osman Bey made his official entry into Tunis on horseback, preceded by all the ministers of the beylical cabinet who went before him until he was two leagues from the city. Before he were carried the sword of honor and the caftan to be presented to the Bey. He was escorted by spahis and followed by a large contingent of regular troops an Arab cavalry. Three days after his official entry into the city, the envoy presented himself at the Bardo Palace to formally invest Ahmad Bey with his insignia of office and present gifts. Named as a Divisional General in the Ottoman army in May 1838, he was later promoted by the Sultan to the rank of Marshal on 14 August 1840. This was the first time that a Bey of Tunis had held a rank higher than Divisional General. The purpose of these honors was to emphasize the supremacy of the Ottoman Empire over the Regency of Tunis. Under a treaty with France signed in 1830 by Hussein Bey, a piece of land in Carthage had been ceded to allow the erection of a monument to Louis IX of France who had died there during the Eighth Crusade. On 25 August 1840, the first stone was laid in the cathedral of Carthage. Ahmad Bey also permitted the Christian community of Tunis, consisting mainly of European merchants, to enlarge their small church near the Bab el Bhar. In June and July 1846 the Duke of Montpensier, son of King Louis Philippe of France visited Tunis and Carthage. He was received with great solemnity by Ahmad Bey. According to the Tunisian historian Mohamed Bayram V, Bey's reforms were focused on state structures, the army, and education. He established a modern structure of government and gave his high officials the title of 'minister'. His senior ministers were his Grand Vizier Mustafa Sahib at-Taba'a, Mustapha Khaznadar, Minister of Finance and of the Interior, Mustafa Agha as Minister of War, Mahmoud Khodja as Minister of the Navy and Giuseppe Raffo as Foreign Minister. At certain times Mahmoud Ben Ayed also served as Trade Minister, Kuchuk Muhammad in the honorific post of Minister in charge of the security home of Ahmad Bey's reforms wasted money, such as the large frigate built at La Goulette that could not make it through the channel to the sea. of Tunis and Mohamed Lasram IV as Minister of the Pen. The historian Ibn Abi Dhiaf was the Bey's private secretary. Among Ahmad Bey's successes may be counted as the abolition of slavery in January 1846. To this may be added the formation of the military academy at...
174660957(Unsigned, and no date, but penned between 1746 and 1751). 1 leaf 4to (25,5 x 19 cm), off-white paper in fine condition. Fully penned on both recto (24 lines) and verso (5 lines).
19195846Paris, chez Ambroise Vollard, 1919. In-4 de 261-[19]p., couvertures et dos conservés, demi-maroquin chocolat (85% cacao), dos à nerfs (auréole sur les couvertures).
- s.d. (ca 1839), 13x8cm, une feuille. - Signed, handwritten letter to Louis Desnoyers [ca 1839] | 13 x 8 cm | one leaf Handwritten letter signed by Honoré de Balzac addressed to Louis Desnoyers written on a white piece of paper in black ink. "My dear Mr Desnoyers, extraordinarily, today I attend a diplomatic dinner of good-natured folk who want to laugh and drink, and as I am in a stupor at work I have not had the courage to refuse this debauchery; I will therefore not be at home. Come early Sunday morning. / Yours / de Balzac". Louis Desnoyers plays an important role in the foundation of the Société des gens de lettres, which aims to protect literary and artistic property and to create a solidarity fund. Balzac supported the creation of this Society, of which Desnoyers was vice-president. Amusing letter, testimony of Balzac's love of good food. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Lettre autographe signée d'Honoré de Balzac adressée à Louis Desnoyers rédigée sur un feuillet de papier blanc à l'encre noire. «?Mon cher monsieur Desnoyers, par extraordinaire, j'assiste aujourd'hui à un dîner diplomatique de bons enfants qui veulent rire et boire, et comme je suis hébété de travail je n'ai pas le courage de me refuser cette débauche ; je ne serai donc pas chez moi. Venez dimanche matin de bonne heure. / Tout à vous / de Balzac?» Louis Desnoyers joua un rôle important dans la fondation de la Société des gens de lettres, qui visait à la protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique et la création d'un fonds de solidarité. Honoré de Balzac soutint la création de cette Société dont Desnoyers fut le vice-président. Amusante lettre, témoignage de l'amour de Balzac pour la bonne chère.
184172928Paris 1841. Fine. Paris s. d. avril 1841 13.50 x 21 cm une page sur un feuillet Autograph letter signed by Gérard de Nerval addressed to Hippolyte Delaunay written in black ink. Recipient's name in Nerval's hand on the verso of the leaf. A central fold inherent to the mailing. This letter has been transcribed in Nerval's Complete Works in the Pléiade edition. Gérard de Nerval is finally ""free and released from the Maison Blanche"" after staying there following his crisis of early spring 1841. This is not however a definitive release but probably permission granted by Doctor Blanche to his patient the latter would not be definitively released until November 1841. The handwriting difficult to read in places shows Gérard de Nerval's feverishness as he seeks to reconnect with the literary milieu: ""I bring masses of copy for you and three or four other journals."" Hippolyte Delaunay was editor-in-chief of the review L'Artiste in which Nerval published on April 11th of the same year an article entitled ""Mémoires d'un Parisien Sainte-Pélagie 1832"". unknown
184173272Paris 1841. Fine. Paris s. d. circa mars 1841 10 x 13.10 cm un feuillet et son enveloppe dépliée Very rare autograph letter signed ""Gérard Labrunie"" addressed to ""his dear papa"" Dr. Labrunie. 13 lines written in small handwriting in black ink on one page. Unfolded envelope attached showing several postal stamps restored on the back with an adhesive piece. A few transverse creases as well as some very discrete holes not touching the text and inherent to the use of a pin to seal the letter. Fine letter from Gérard Labrunie to his ""dear papa"" about a ""very complicated affair"" relating to the ""capacity as surrogate guardian"" of the writer's father. Very rare signature of Gérard de Nerval under his real patronymic name: Gérard Labrunie. unknown
- Paris s.d. (avril 1841), 13,5x21cm, une page sur un feuillet. - Lettre autographe signée de Gérard de Nerval adressée à Hippolyte Delaunay rédigée à l'encre noire. Nom du destinataire de la main de Nerval au dos du feuillet. Une pliure centrale inhérente à la mise sous pli. Cette lettre a a été retranscrite dans les Oeuvres complètes de Nerval à la Pléiade. Gérard de Nerval est enfin « libre et sorti de la maison Blanche » après y avoir séjourné des suites de sa crise du début printemps 1841. Il ne s'agit toutefois pas d'une sortie définitive mais probablement d'une permission accordée par le docteur Blanche à son patient, ce dernier ne sortira définitivement qu'en novembre 1841. L'écriture, difficilement lisible par endroits, montre la fébrilité de Gérard de Nerval, qui cherche à renouer avec le milieu littéraire : « J'apporte des masses de copie, pour vous et trois ou quatre autres journaux. » Hippolyte Delaunay fut rédacteur en chef de la revue L'Artiste dans laquelle Nerval publia le 11 avril de la même année un article intitulé « Mémoires d'un Parisien, Sainte-Pélagie 1832 ». [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
- Paris s.d. [circa mars 1841], 10x13,1, un feuillet et son enveloppe dépliée. - Très rare lettre autographe signée "Gérard Labrunie" adressée à "[son] cher papa" le Dr Labrunie. 13 lignes rédigées d'une petite écriture à l'encre noire sur une page. Enveloppe dépliée jointe présentant plusieurs tampons postaux, restaurée au dos à l'aide d'une pièce adhésive. Quelques pliures transversales ainsi que quelques très discrets trous, sans atteinte au texte et inhérents à l'utilisation d'une épingle pour sceller la missive. Belle lettre de Gérard Labrunie à son « cher papa » à propos d'une « affaire très embrouillée » ayant trait à la « qualité de subrogé tuteur » du père de l'écrivain. Très rare signature de Gérard de Nerval sous son véritable patronyme : Gérard Labrunie. [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION ON DEMAND]
- Léon Vanier, Paris 1891, 12,5x19cm, broché sous chemise et étui. - Later edition on Hollande paper Chemise backed in dark green morocco over marbled paper boards, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, slipcase edged with same morocco and with boards of the same paper, lined with apple-green paper Rare inscription from Paul Verlaine to Achille Segard A small marginal lack to pages 15 & 16 due to paper fault, manuscript note "1866" in ink below the date featuring on the upper cover A rare, unsophisticated and uncut copy. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Nouvelle édition imprimée sur Hollande. Dos de la chemise de maroquin sapin, plats de papier marbré, gardes et contreplats de papier à la cuve, étui bordé du même maroquin, plats de même papier marbré, intérieur de papier vert pomme. Rare envoi autographe signé de Paul Verlaine à Achille Segard. Un petit manque marginal en pied des pages 15 & 16 en raison d'un défaut de fabrication du papier, mention manuscrite "1866" à la plume en dessous de la date figurant sur le premier plat. Rare exemplaire non rogné et tel que paru.
- Léon Vanier, Paris 1891, 12,5x19cm, relié. - Second edition, first for some parts, one of 100 copies on vergé blanc paper. Contemporary Bradel half dark-green cloth over marbled paper boards, the spine with gilt fleuron, date and double gilt fillets at foot, upper corners rubbed, covers preserved. Handsome autograph inscription from Paul Verlaine to Alice Densmore. An attractive copy in a pleasant binding. [FRENCH VERSION FOLLOWS] Deuxième édition, en partie originale, un des 100 exemplaires d'auteur imprimés sur vergé blanc. Reliure à la bradel en demi percaline sapin, dos lisse orné d'un fleuron doré, date et double filet dorés en queue, plats de papier marbré, coins supérieurs émoussés, couvertures conservées, reliure de l'époque. Précieux envoi autographe signé de Paul Verlaine à Alice Densmore. Bel exemplaire agréablement établi.
4to. ¾ p. In his office as president of the National Bank of Cuba, to Samuel G. Breidner of the New York real estate company Cross & Brown: "I refer to your letter of August first and regret to inform you that our Bank is not interested in real estate investments". - Following the resignation of the economist Felipe Pazos, Che Guevara served as president of the National Bank from 26 November 1959 to 23 February 1961. The unspecified offer by Cross & Brown slightly predates the US embargo that was imposed on 19 October 1960 and was further extended in February 1962. Guevara was appointed Minister of Industries in February 1961, which he remained until his departure from Cuba in 1965. - On stationery with embossed and printed letterhead "El presidente del Banco nacional de Cuba". Traces of folds and gently creased.
Deutsche, griechische, hebräische und lateinische Handschrift auf Papier. 212 Bll. mit 90 Einträgen. Schwarzer Lederband der Zeit mit Rücken- u. Deckelblindprägung. Dreiseitiger Goldschnitt. Qu.-8vo (156:105 mm). Stammbuch des Jusstudenten Bartholomäus Hermsdorff. Neben zahlreichen Einträgen seiner Kommilitonen und Honoratioren aus Quedlinburg sind besonders hervorzuheben: Balthasar Voigt (Voidius), dat. 1638, der "Ostpreußische Ovid" (1592-1654); Michael Ludovici, dat. 1633, Professor der Beredsamkeit, Superintendent zu Wismar, im 30jährigen Krieg schwedischer Generalfeldsuperintendent; die Stiftsdame Dorothea Gräfin zu Oldenburg und Delmenhorst, dat. 1633, sowie die Dechantin Anna Dorothea v. Schomburg. Ferner aus Jena: der Jurist Petrus Theodoricus, der Philosoph Paul Slevogt, die Theologen Joh. Maior und Joh. Tobias Maior. Aus Leipzig: die Juristen Johann Böhem, Andreas Corvinus, Caspar Jungermann, Valentin Riemer und Georg Tobias Schwendendörffer, die Mediziner Johann Heintz und Johann Michaelis, die Theologen Moritz Burchard, Heinrich Höpfner und Johann Höpner. Aus Wittenberg: die Theologen Jakob Martini und Wilhelm Lyser sowie der Historiker Reinhold Franckenberger. - Meist durchgehend etwas gebräunt, teils stockfleckig. Zahlreiche Bll. mit Abklatsch bzw. Durchschlag. Spiegel an den Rändern stark gebräunt. Beschabt und bestoßen. Bindebänder fehlen. - Aus der Sammlung des Theologen, Pädagogen, Philologen und Autographensammlers Gotthilf Sebastian Rötger (1749-1831) mit seinen Archivnummern in roter Tinte auf einigen Bll. sowie 2 lose Bll. (folio) mit seinen Anmerkungen zu vorliegendem Stammbuch.
Lateinische, griechische, hebräische, deutsche und arabische Handschrift auf Papier. 34 Bll. mit 36 Einträgen. Moderner schwarzer Ledereinband mit vergoldetem Monogramm "F. K." vorn und Jahreszahl 1644 hinten. Qu.-12mo (95:132 mm). Stammbuch des Jenenser Theologiestudenten Friedrich Keil mit Einträgen zahlreicher bedeutender Professoren und Gelehrter. Besonders spannend ist der arabische und lateinische Eintrag des lutherischen Theologen Josephus Adjutus (1602-68), datiert Wittenberg, 28. IV. 1644. Adjutus entstammte einer christlichen Familie aus Ninive, dem heutigen Mosul, und wurde in Jerusalem erzogen. Von dort gelangte er nach Neapel, wo er dem Franziskanerorden beitrat. 1637 erlangte er in Bologna den Doktor der katholischen Theologie und leitete bald darauf das Franziskanerkonvent St. Jakob in Prag. Als Adjutus aufgrund eines Konflikts im Konvent nach Italien zurückversetzt werden sollte, floh er nach Wittenberg und konvertierte am 9. Juni 1643 öffentlich. Kurfürst Johann Georg I. unterstützte den prominenten Konvertiten und verschaffte ihm eine außerordentliche Professur für italienische Sprachen in Wittenberg. - Weitere prominente lutherische Theologen unter den Einträgern sind Balthasar Balduin (1605-52), Gottfried Cundisius (1599-1651), Michael Hunold (1621-72), Daniel Lüdemann (1621-77), der ab 1648 als Hof- und Feldprediger des Pfalzgrafen und späteren schwedischen Königs Karl X. Gustav wirkte, Wihelm Lyser I. (1592-1649), Johannes Tobias Major (1615-55), Samuel Pomarius (1624-83), der berühmte Prediger Paul Röber (1587-1651), Johann Rothmaler (1601-50) und der Kirchenhistoriker und Hofprediger in Altenburg Johann Christfried Sagittarius (1617-89). - Hinzu kommen bedeutende Mediziner und Naturwissenschafter wie der Mediziner Marcus Banzer (1592-1664), der Wittenberger Anatom Jermias Bertram, der Mathematiker und Astronom Christoph Notnagel (1607-66), der Mathematiker Nikolaus Pompeius (1591-1659), der Jenenser Mediziner und Botaniker Werner Rolfinck (1599-1673), der Mediziner Konrad Viktor Schneider (1614-80), der Mediziner und Zoologe Johann Sperling (1603-58) und der Jenenser Professor der Physik Johann Zeisold (1599-1667). Der Gräzist Johann Erich Ostermann (1611-68), die Juristen Jeremias Reusner (1590-1652) und Christoph Wacke (1596-1649), der Orientalist Andreas Sennert (1606-89), der Philologe Paul Slevogt (1596-1655) sowie die Jenenser Professoren für Logik und Metaphysik Daniel Stahl (1589-1654) und Christian Trentsch (1605-77) sind ebenfalls unter den Einträgern. Ein besonders charmanter Eintrag stammt von Keils Kommilitonen Andreas Schwalb (1623-62), künftiger Rechtsgelehrter und brandenburgischer Hofrat, der sich mit dem auf den 1632 erschienenen Schäferroman "Jüngst-erbawete Schäfferey" zurückgehenden Liedrefrain "Ach, ach! Wie wohl ist der daran, der liebt und auch genießen kann" verewigte, ergänzt um die französische Sentenz "Tout avec le temps". Der poesiebegeisterte Schwalb war mit dem Dichter Sigmund von Birken bekannt, der 1662 ein Memorialgedicht für seinen Freund verfasste. - Der Jenenser Student Friedrich Keil ist selbst in einem Stammbuch bezeugt: Er trug sich im Februar 1644 in Jena im Album amicorum des Christian Fuhrmann ein, das in der Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek aufbewahrt wird (Stb 536). - Gebräunt, die rechte obere Ecke braunfleckig, leicht angestaubt. Mehrere Seiten mit kleinen Löchern, eine Seite mit einem restaurierten Seiteneinriss. Aus der berühmten Autographensammlung des Gotthilf Sebastian Rötger mit seinen typischen hs. Ergänzungen in rostroter Tinte. Rötger identifiziert die meisten Einträger anhand des Gelehrtenkompendiums von Jöcher und Adelung.
Ca. 65 SS. auf 51 Bll. Moderner schwarzer Lederband mit goldgepr. Initialen und goldgepr. Jahreszahl. Qu.-8vo (132:154 mm). Sammlung von Einträgen bekannter Gelehrter aus Theologie, Medizin, Geographie, Jura, Philosophie, Philologie, Dichtung und Kirchenmusik des ausgehenden Frühbarocks bzw. beginnenden Hochbarocks. - Das Album beginnt mit einem Eintrag des Musik- und Literaturmäzens Georg Rudolf Herzog von Liegnitz und Herzog von Wohlau (1595-1653), dem Gründer der "Bibliotheca Rudolfina" in Liegnitz, zu dessen Hof Martin Opitz sowie die Komponisten Paul Hallmann und Heinrich Schütz gehörten. Verewigt sind u. a. der Rektor und Pastor zu Freiberg Otto "Apianni, aliás Benewitz", der Mediziner und Leibarzt Heinrich Boezo mit dem Wahlspruch "Ut fert Divina Voluntas" (Wie es der göttliche Wille gibt), der Strafrechtler und Hexentheoretiker Benedikt Carpzov (1595-1666) sowie der Kirchenlieddichter Henricus Closius (fl. 1640), später Professor am Elisabethanum in Breslau. Der Dichter und Epigraphiker Georg Fabricius (1605-77), der Hofprediger bei Kurfürstin Anna von Brandenburg Daniel Fessel (1599-1674), der Theologe Caspar Finck (1578-1631), der Altphilologe Christian Friedrich Franckenstein, Johann Frenzel (1609-74), der Geograph und Kartograph Christian Funck (1626-95), der Theologe Martin Geier (1614-80), Johann Ulrich Hayer (1616-79), der Kirchenlieddichter Johannes Heermann (1585-1647), Martin Heinsius (1611-67), der evangelische Bischof von Reval Jacob Helwig (1631-84), der Theologe Daniel Henrici (1605-66), der Probst und Pastor in Breslau Michael Herrmann (1593-1669), der Mediziner Johannes Hoppe, der Philologe Johann Hornschuch, der Theologe Johann Hülsemann, der Mediziner und Physiker Johann Ittig, der Pädagoge Valentin Kleinwechter (1607-61), der Pädagoge Elias Major (1578-1669), Rektor am Elisabeth-Gymnasium in Breslau, der Rechtswissenschaftler Samuel Mosbach (1584-1649), der Physiker, Mathematiker und Mediziner Philipp Müller (1585-1659), der mit Johannes Kepler in Verbindung stand, der Hymniker und Hofprediger Johannes Olearius, der eines der größten und wichtigsten deutschen Gesangbücher des 17. Jhs. zusammenstellte, Joachim Pollio (1577-1644), der Jurist Johannes Preibisius, der Philosoph Christoph Preibisius (1580-1651), der Rektor Jacob Rolle (1592-1645), der Theologe Christoph Schlegel, Prinzenerzieher in Coswig, der Jurist Georg Tobias Schwendendörfer, der Theologe Adam Spengler (1612-65), der Erzieher des Prinzen Rudolf August von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, Paulus Sperling, der Superintendent in Dresden Aegidius Strauch (1583-1657), der Theologe und Kirchenlieddichter Abraham Teller (1609-88), Rektor der Thomasschule in Leipzig, Ananias Weber (1596-1665) sowie der Theologe Jacob Weller (1602-64), Oberhofprediger am Hof des Kurfürsten von Sachsen. - Aus der Autographensammlung Gotthilf Sebastian Rötger, mit dessen typischen hs. Anmerkungen und Nummerierung in rötlichbrauner Tinte. Leicht gebräunt bzw. braunfleckig, mehrere seitliche Ränder etwas ergänzt und verstärkt. Ein Blatt im Bug verstärkt. Am oberen äußersten Rand teilweise mit leichten Feuchtigkeitsspuren.
In French and Russian. Various formats. Altogether 14 pp. Together with an autograph letter by Jean Françaix's father Alfred, 1 typed draft for a letter to Aleksandr Shervashidze, the carbon copies of 11 typed letters and 1 telegram, and a copy of the first page of a contract between Leonide Messine and Wassily de Basil. Correspondence of five artists with Wassily de Basil, director of the famous ballet company and his office: André Derain (1 letter), Jean Françaix (2 letters), André Masson (1 letter), Nicolas Nabokoff (2 letters, one of which incomplete), and Pedro Pruna (5 letters). Carbon copies of answers and requests addressed to the artists complete the collection. - André Derain confirms the receipt of a cheque for his stage designs for the ballet "La Concurrence" (Competition) and photographs from the production as announced in an undated letter from the office (Paris, 26 July 1933). "La Concurrence" had successfully premiered on 12 April 1932. - In January 1933 Jean Françaix sold his ballet "Scuola di Ballo" with music based on themes by Luigi Boccherini to the company and later had a disagreement concerning an outstanding payment. A letter from the office was sent with the contract, asking for the signature of Jean’s father Alfred Françaix, as the young composer was not yet of age, prohibiting ballet productions with other companies until the premiere. Jean Françaix responded within a week: "You will find the contract signed by my father, as you requested, attached to this letter. Concerning the letter that you sent me, my father has reminded me that it is important to set the latest possible date for the premiere of our ballet in Paris. This date should be 1 July 1933. Before that date I naturally commit not to have another ballet performed. I would be willing to give you an option for the commission of a new ballet under the condition that I receive the binding commission no later than 1 January 1934 and that the terms of the new contract are established by mutual agreement [...]“ (Le Mans, 17 January 1933). Apparently, Françaix's offer led to the commission of the musical "Beach" mentioned in the telegram from 16 June 1933: "Urgent tell me date first performance Beach". The more successful premiere of "Scuola di Ballo" was on 9 June 1933 at the Théâtre du Châtelet. - In February 1933, André Masson received two letters from the office ahead of the premiere of "Les Présages" on 13 April 1933 at the Théâtre de Monte Carlo, concerning a meeting with Wassily de Basil and a stay in Monte Carlo for the execution of stage designs. "Les Présages" was a plotless ballet choreographed by Léonide Massine based on symphonic music from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 with costumes and stage designs by Masson. On 10 June 1933 Masson sent a pneumatic post to de Basil, underlining the absolute necessity to repair a damaged frieze: "It is necessary to repair the second frieze that was damaged. I absolutely want to. Please give me notice so that I can go where it needs to be done. Yesterday’s soiree was completely to the honour of the Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Decidedly, it is what is really good that ultimately triumphs over snobism and free advertisement". This intervention probably occurred during the production of "Les Présages" in Paris. - Both letters from Nicolas Nabokov are in Russian. The complete letter from 20 March 1934 concerns his ballet "Union Pacific, composed for the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo that premiered in Philadelphia and New York with resounding success. - The correspondence with the Spanish painter and Picasso student Pedro Pruna concerns stage and costume designs for the revival of "Les Matelots" (The Seamen) in Monte Carlo, which had originally premiered in Paris on 17 June 1925. In a letter to de Basil from 15 February 1933, Pruna accepts the commission: "I agree to redo the sets for the Ballet 'the Matelots' under the conditions indicated in your kind letter from the 12th February inst. In three days I will have the documents that will serve me for this reconstruction, and I will start immediately. Please be so kind and tell me until when you will be in Paris, as well as the dimensions in which I need to do the designs. Is it 12 by 18 meters? I forget [...]". Pruna's set designs were to be complemented by decorations by the scenographer and painter Prince Aleksandr Shervashidze. In a letter from 27 March 1933 an impatient Wassily de Basil asked Pruna for two additional costume designs for the premiere on 11 April. In later letters Pruna asks for the final payment and confirms sending his sets to Shervashdize after the production, as the company needed them for an exhibition in New York: "I have asked you several times please to return to us Pruna's designs in your possession. Mr Pruna himself confirmed to us by letter and verbally that these designs will be sent us by you. As we cannot wait any longer, being obliged to send them to New York for the exhibition, I ask you to have them sent to me as soon as you receive this letter [...]. Do you have the model for your design for Swan Lake? If you want it to be shown in New York, please provide us also with the same [...]" (draft for a letter to Shervashdize). - All but one of the letters and all carbon copies with filing holes occasionally touching the text. Some rust stains and small holes from paper-clips and staples. Minor browning and tears to some of the letters; carbon copies with creases, tears and brownstains but no loss to text.
4to. ½ p. on bifolium with integral address panel. A business lettter to the perfume factory of Johann Maria Farina, concerning the invoice for a box of Eau de Cologne they had sent. - Founded in 1770 by Friedrich Engels's grandfather Johann Caspar Engels, the family-owned textile company was, at that time, headed by Engels's father of the same name. - Spotty and some damage and tears to edges and foldings.
Folio (47 x 36 cm). German, Polish, and English manuscript on paper. 11 ff. With calligraphed title, three watercolour vedutas, and numerous signatures and stamps of McGarvey's business partners in Galicia. Bound on cloth tabs and spine and thus stored loosely in an original dark blue full calf portfolio by F. W. Papke of Vienna, with elaborate, partly gilt brass ornaments and giltstamped borders to the upper cover (lacking two central ornaments) and protective brass beams across the lower cover. Inside covers have yellow moirée silk pastedowns within wide giltstamped floral borders. All edges gilt. Unique, luxurious testimony to the late 19th and early 20th century oil boom in Galicia and to one of its central protagonists. Three watercolours on the title-page show a view of Mariiampil (in present-day western Ukraine), where McGarvey had built his first refinery in Galicia, McGarvey’s "first home" in the region, and an oil well in the now Polish village of Wietrzno. This is followed by three pages of a laudatory address in German, Polish, and English, all with floral art-nouveau borders and initials. McGarvey is hailed as a technological innovator whom fate "across the Ocean" to his new home 19 years ago. - Since the album was commissioned by McGarvey's local business partners and competitors, emphasis is placed on his fairness and on his unfailing attention the oil industry: "you never ceased to care for the whole oil industry, and you became a friend and protector of the small, even the smallest oil producers and refiners, you were the adviser and promoter of every single workman, you became the benefactor of our country Galicia". The remainder of the album offers the signatures of more than 150 congratulators (with several business stamps) on five leaves. This is a valuable document of the Galician oil industry in general and of the significant involvement of Jewish businessmen in particular. - William Henry McGarvey (1843-1914) became probably the most successful oilman of Galicia through the introduction (in 1883) of the Canadian "pole tool" drilling system that allowed for oil exploration at previously unheard-of depths and speed. His "Galizische Karpathen-Petroleum-AG", headquartered in Vienna, was among the most lucrative companies in the Austro-Hungarian empire and made multimillionaires of McGarvey and his British partner John Simeon Bergheim. In 1908, McGarvey was knighted by Emperor Franz Joseph for his innovations that had enabled Austria-Hungary to become a net oil exporter. Retreating Russian troops who briefly had occupied Galicia in the first months of the First World War set fire to Galicia's oil wells and blew up the refineries, effectively destroying the oil industry and McGarvey’s business. - The splendid album was designed and executed by the Austrian painter and illustrator Erwin Pendl (1875-1945). Minor foxing to the title-page and the first page of signatures: occasional light stains. Well preserved with only very minor scratches and flaws to the upper cover.
Ca. 150 Einträge. Zusammen ca. 43 SS. auf 24 Bll. Roter Maroquin-Lederband mit goldgepr. Lilien und Fileten, Ringbindung. Folio (ca. 290 x 240 mm). Berühmtheiten und illustre Gäste des Hotels und Restaurants "L’Aigle Noir" aus Film, Musik, Kunst, Literatur, Sport, Politik, Militär, der Medien- und Unternehmensbranche verewigten sich mit meist einfachen Namenseinträge, teilweise mit ausführlicheren Bemerkungen zum Aufenthalt und versahen diese gelegentlich mit kleinen Zeichnungen. Meist in französischer, einzelne Beiträge auch in deutscher oder englischer Sprache verfasst. - Besonders erwähnenswert ist ein ganzseitiger Eintrag mit Zeichnung von Salvador Dalí auf dem zehnten Blatt (datiert 1965), sowie die Autographen der Pianisten Artur Rubinstein und Swjatoslaw Richter (mit Notenschlüssel), des Gitarristen Andrés Segovia, der Komponistin Nadia Boulanger, des Chansonniers Gilbert Bécaud, des Filmproduzenten Jack L. Warner, des Regisseurs Jean Renoir, der Schauspieler Jean Marais und Claude Brasseur, des Bühnenbildners Georges Wakhévitch (mit schöner Schloss-Zeichnung), der Schriftstellerin Violette Leduc (mit Zeichnung), der Tennislegende Henri Cochet oder des deutschen Raketeningenieurs Arthur Rudolph (1969), der vor und während des Zweiten Weltkriegs an der Entwicklung und Produktion der V2-Raketen beteiligt gewesen war, sowie zahlreiche weitere Einträge prominenter Gäste. Die beiden Einträge der Schauspieler Philippe Avron und Nina Kompaneitzeff (Companeez) beziehen sich auf den Filmdreh zu "Bye, bye, Barbara" von 1968, für den einige Schlussszenen vor dem Hotel gedreht wurden. Aus der Zeit der Hotelbesitzer Charles Lezier und Paulette Lamotte. - Kanten und Ecken etwas berieben und bestoßen, Einrisse am Rücken, innen stellenweise leicht braunfleckig.
