Ludwigsburg & Pasadena 2020
Eine chronologische Auswahl von 50 Büchern, Manuskripten und Autographen
Antiquaria Ludwigsburg, 23.-25. Januar 2020
Stand 53/54, Musikhalle Ludwigsburg
California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 7.-9. Februar 2020
Stand 605, Pasadena Convention Center
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1English Bible ManuscriptLateinische Handschrift auf Pergament.Nordfrankreich oder England?, um 1300.
€ 145.000,00Komplette, sehr sorgfältig geschriebene Perlbibel in zierlicher gotischer Minuskel auf feinstem geschabten Pergament, vermutlich in England oder in englischem Auftrag entstanden. Dem Anfang ist wie gewöhnlich der Brief des Hieronymus an Paulinus vorgesetzt (53: "Frater Ambrosius [...] moriturum", Bl. 1r-3r), dann der Prolog des Hieronymus zum Pentateuch …
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1216th century illustrated Italian manuscript about the art of war in a fine contemporary bindingLibro utillissimo et molto necessario di varii secreti importantissimi …Italy, before 1581.
€ 85.000,00An unusual and attractive Italian Renaissance manuscript on the art of war, lavishly illustrated in colour and in a sumptuous contemporary binding. The text comprises eight chapters dealing with the duties of the captain, making gunpowder, siege-breaking devices, the deployment through artillery of artificial fire, smoke and poisonous fumes, the …
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16A magnificent masterpiece of calligraphy and micrography for Princess Juliana of Hesse-DarmstadtGerman Psalter in the translation of Martin Luther.Oldenburg, 1634.
€ 125.000,00A splendid calligraphic manuscript on vellum and paper created for the 28-year-old Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt (1606-59), countess of East Frisia, later in the collection of Victoria, Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg. The micrographic text includes the liturgical calendar for 1634, the Psalms in mirror …
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43Written in the year of "Ulalume", one of Poe's most powerful tragic balladsAutograph letter signed ("Edgar A. Poe").New York, 31.08.1847.
€ 135.000,00Poe's final letter to the Philadelphia lawyer and playwright Robert Taylor Conrad (1810-58), of "Graham's Magazine": "It is now a month since I wrote you about the two articles I left with you - but, as I have heard nothing from you, I can only suppose that my letter has not reached you - or, at all events, that, in the press of other business, you …
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50Alfred Hitchcock's storyboard for "Stage Fright" in 340 pencil drawingsSketches with autograph annotations: storyboard for "Stage Fright".No place, circa 1949.
€ 150.000,00Extraordinary autograph pre-production storyboard for Hitchcock's 1950 film "Stage Fright", comprising preparatory sketches for some three quarters of the film, including the infamous "false flashback" initial sequence, the rest of the first half of the film, the garden party scene and the finale. A rare collection of sketches and comments detailing …