New Yorker Antiquariatsmesse 2025
65th New York International Antiquarian Book Fair
Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York
Stand B1
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1Royal Babylonian correspondence on clayBabylonian cuneiform clay tablet.Eshnunna now Tell Asmar, Iraq, early 2nd millennium BCE.
€ 35.000,00An Old Babylonian letter from Iluni, ruler of Eshnunna, to Warassa, King of Der (now Tell Aqar, near modern al-Badrah), both of whom were younger contemporaries of Hammurabi. The communication touches upon several matters of regional politics at a volatile time when Eshnunna was seeking to preserve a modicum of independence while already de facto …
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2To the memory of a formerly enslaved woman, freed by her mistressA Roman marble funerary plaque inscribed for the freedwoman Quirinia Felicula.Rome, 1st half of 1st century CE.
€ 48.000,00A tablet of marble engraved with five lines within a double-rule border, commemorating the dedication of a funerary urn to Quirina Felicula, who had been born a slave and was freed by her mistress. The plaque reads, in full: "Quiriniae [mulieris] l[ibertae] / Feliclae / ollam dat / C[aius] Valerius / Pylodamus", that is to say: "Gaius Valerius Pylodamus …
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3A foundational element in the development of written language: the only known complete pairRoman inked wooden tablets: contract for a sale of land.Numidia/Byzacena, Roman Empire, spring 300 CE.
€ 165.000,00One of the earliest extant documents in world history to be written in ink, and the only example of its kind joined and identified as complete: a pair of wooden tablets containing a contract for the sale of land in the Roman province of Africa during the reign of Emperor Diocletian.
These tablets come from a trove discovered in Northern Africa …
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4A palimpsest of stylus scratches: traces of Late Antique handwritingRoman inscribed wooden tablet.Numidia/Byzacena, Roman Empire, early 4th century CE.
€ 18.000,00A fine example of a Late Antique writing tablet from the Roman province of Byzacena. Originally the recessed panel was filled in with a layer of soft wax into which the writer would inscribe his text with a stylus, often also scratching the wooden ground. As such tablets were used over and over again, traces of many different texts can be found on …
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5Fifth century Coptic fragment of the Psalms[Leaf from a MS Coptic Psalter: Psalms 77:25-34].Upper Egypt probably the White Monastery, Sohag, ca. 425 CE / first half of fifth century.
€ 38.000,00A leaf of an early Coptic Psalter, and containing Psalms 77:25-34 in the Sahidic dialect of Upper Egypt, translated in the third or even late second century (see Budge, Nagel). The script here is a fine Coptic Uncial, derived from Greek Uncial, and showing its ultimate debt to older epigraphic letter forms in its monumental and rounded majuscules …
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6"Help from Allah and speedy victory"Polychrome Tarsh (printed amulet).Eastern Iran or Afghanistan, 12th century CE.
€ 185.000,00An extreme rarity of Islamic popular devotion: one of only two known Islamic "tarsh" amulets printed in colour. Both examples (the other is now in the David Collection, Copenhagen) have been attributed to Eastern Iran on the basis of the calligraphy and paper (see Fogg, 2003) and the single line of text in Persian. All other known tarshes are thought …
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7"Remember in Christ the worthless scribe Filip-Toros, and you too will be remembered"[Ch'ors Awetaranner]. Armenian Tetraevangelion manuscript on vellum.Cilicia, southern Anatolia, 1224 CE = 673 Armenian Era.
€ 150.000,00An exceptionally early 13th century Armenian Gospel manuscript on vellum, written by a Cilician monk who identifies himself as Filip Toros (Philip Theodore).
The manuscript begins with Matt. 1:17, "And from the Babylonian captivity to Christ - fourteen generations". The Gospels of Mark, Luke, and John all begin with a decorative title frame, …
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8The most important 13-century textbook of canon law: a magnificent manuscript on vellumDecretales Gregorii IX [with gloss of Bernardo Bottoni of Parma]. Constitutiones …Probably Bologna, ca. 1260 3rd quarter of the 13th century CE.
€ 135.000,00An imposing folio manuscript of the most important legal textbook of the 13th century, in its original binding, and with extensive glosses and annotations.
The Decretals of Gregory IX became the fundamental text of canon law, controlling many aspects of secular as well as clerical life. This was what the Pope intended when in 1230 he ordered …
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9English 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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10Yusuf Abu'l Hadchach and the end of Moorish power in SpainPrivilegio rodado, granting the town of Escamjella to Yenego Lopez de …Segovia, Royal Chancery, 29.09.1344.
€ 18.000,00A fine, large manuscript document from the reign of Alfonso XI. The Royal Charter is written in Castilian vernacular with the royal names (Alfonso and that of his second wife, Maria of Portugal), opening device and King's seal painted in red, green, blue and beige (the latter occupying a large area at the centre of the document).
In the Charter, …
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11Magnets, hydraulics, alcohol, perpetual motion machines: a beautiful, unrecorded 14th century scientific manuscriptTractatus de magnete. [In a compendium of scientific texts, together with …Italy, ca. 1380-1400.
€ 600.000,00A truly outstanding late medieval manuscript comprising six self-contained works on chemistry, medicine, mechanics, engineering, and applied physics, including "one of the most impressive scientific treatises of the Middle Ages" (DSB X, 537): Peregrinus's "Tractatus de magnete", "the first extant treatise on the properties and applications of magnets" …
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12The work a Catalan polymath, copied and bound in 15th century TyrolProverbiorum libri Raimundi.Tyrol, ca. 1440s - 1460s.
€ 85.000,00A finely executed, early 15th century manuscript of the great proverb collection assembled by the philosopher and theologian Ramon Llull (ca. 1232-1315).
The Majorcan-born polymath Llull was known at the time as "Doctor Inspiratus" and "Doctor Illuminatus" for the visions he experienced (Bonner, 18), or as "Arabicus Christianus" (Zicanelli, …
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13Exceptional mercantile manuscriptLibro d'Abbaco.Milan?, second half of the 15th century CE.
€ 165.000,00Abacus books, of which the present manuscript is an excellent example, were compilations of practical and recreational mathematics, of geometrical questions and of algebra, used by merchants in Renaissance northern Italy (Folkerts, XII, 1), a tradition which flourished after Leonardo Fibonacci's "Liber abbaci" (1202/28) (Van Egmond, 6; Folkerts, …
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14Exceptional Timurid MS: the only illuminated copy, with the earliest appearance of illustrations by BihzadJam'i Jam [The Cup of Jamshid].Timurid Herat, 1459/60 CE = 863 H.
€ 750.000,00Princely Timurid manuscript: the only recorded copy of this rare text to be illustrated with miniatures, containing four full-page illustrations ascribed to Kamal al-Din Bihzad and signed by the master scribe Shir' Ali.
This rarely illustrated text is the "Jam'i Jam", or the "Cup of Jamshid", by Awhadi Maragha'i (1274/75-1338 CE). Both a mystical …
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15Illustrated anti-Jewish incunable with a coloured full-page woodcutStern des Meschiah (Contra perfidos Judaeos de conditionibus veri Messiae, …Esslingen, Eve of St. Thomas 20 Dec. 1477.
€ 125.000,00First German edition: the revised and considerably expanded vernacular version of the author's "Tractatus contra perfidos Judeos" ("Treatise against the treacherous Jews") published in 1475. This and the Latin edition together count as the first German-printed books in which Hebrew typefaces were used. They are also the first to contain a printed …
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16The third Aldine: with the editio princeps of the TheogonyIdyllia [Greek]. Add: Theognis; Dionysius Cato: Disticha (Tr: Maximus Planudes); …Venice, Feb. 1495 = 1496.
Auf AnfrageThe editio princeps of Hesiod's Opera omnia, published as part of the second and most celebrated edition of Theocritus (thirty eclogues by the father of pastoral poetry; the complete text would not appear until the Kallierges edition of 1516), together with the Distichs of Theognis and other Greek opuscula. This is the third book ever produced by …
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17The Catholic Monarchs investigate the case of the mishandled haciendaAutograph document signed by both ("Yo el Rey" and "Yo la Reyna").Toledo, 21.04.1498.
€ 15.000,00Decree signed by King Ferdinand V and Queen Isabella, the first rulers of dynastically unified Spain, addressed to the prior of the convent of San Benito de Vilha, regarding a dispute over property. The lieutenant Olca de Reynoso had sold a hacienda in Biscaya to one Juan Lopez, but the purchase was contested due to existing rights of the convent …
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18Lateinische Handschrift auf Pergament.Nordfrankreich, um 1500.
€ 185.000,00Besonders sorgfältig ausgeführtes Manuskript mit bemerkenswerter Ausstattung durch den Pariser Illuminator Jean Coene IV, genannt der "Meister der Pariser Einzüge". Neben den Hunderten auf Goldgrund gemalten, meist mit Blumen, Beeren und Blättern geschmückten Initialen enthält die Handschrift folgenden Bildschmuck: fol. 7v Hl. Hieronymus (28:30 …
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19Peter Martyr, first historian of the Americas, in his own handAutograph receipt of funds, signed in full.Milan, 06.11.1515.
€ 65.000,00A unique survival in the hand of Peter Martyr d'Anghiera (1457-1526), the first European historian of the New World. Peter Martyr was an Italian swept up in the milieu of the Spanish court, a tutor to princes, and a personal friend of the likes of Christopher Columbus, Ferdinand Magellan, and Amerigo Vespucci. It was Martyr who wrote the first accounts …
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20The earliest voyage collection to focus on the New WorldLibro primo della historia de l'Indie Occidentali. (Summario de la General …Venice, October 1534.
€ 75.000,00One of the earliest published attempts to assemble a group of travel and exploration accounts. This important collection of voyages and narratives is the work of several authors, although most bibliographers attribute it to Peter Martyr, a translation of whose work makes up the first section. The book was probably compiled for publication by Giovanni …
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211522 travel and navigation advice by Ferdinand Columbus to Charles VAviso de la Orden y Mareaje a la Armada del Emperador Nro Señor Debia …Seville, ca. 1522.
€ 250.000,00Exceptional manuscript by Hernando Colón (Fernando Columbus), one of the first people to travel to America as early as 1502, and son of the most famous explorer of all times.
The present "Aviso de la Orden y Mareaje" was composed by Hernan Colón (1488-1539), one of the first Europeans to travel and explore the coasts of America, a renowned …
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22Luther's New Testament, with lavishly coloured and gilt woodcuts after Hans Holbein the YoungerDas Gantz Neüw Testament recht grüntlich teutscht.Basel, March 1523.
Auf AnfrageOne of the earliest editions of Luther's German New Testament translation, illustrated with fine woodcuts after Hans Holbein the Younger, all in splendid original hand colour and elegantly gilt. The nearly full-page illustrations show the Saints Matthew (fol. A1r), Mark (G7v), Luke (L6v), and John (S4r), the Virgin Mary and the Holy Spirit (Z3v), …
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23The first model book of the German Renaissance, with distinguished provenance and magnificently boundEin Frembds und wunderbars Kunstbüchlin allen Molern, Bildschnitzern, …Strasbourg, 1538.
€ 85.000,00First edition of the first model book for artists. Heinrich Vogtherr's popular model book comprises some 700 designs of headwear, hands and feet, armour, weaponry, and columns. The woodcuts of heads, hands and feet are shown in various different attitudes, and the male and female headgear includes contemporary and historical costumes, including some …
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24"diese Juden sind nicht Juden sondern leibhafftige teuffel, die Unserm Herrn fluchen"Eigenh. Brief mit U. ("Martinus LütheR D").Wittenberg, ca. 1. IX. 1543.
€ 350.000,00Ausführlicher, später Brief von ungewöhnlich schöner Erhaltung, gerichtet an Georg Buchholzer (1503-66), Propst zu St. Nikolai in Berlin, der mit dem brandenburgischen Hofprediger Johann Agricola (1492-1566) über die Begünstigung der märkischen Juden in Streit geraten war. Buchholzer hatte Luther um Auslegung von Bibelsprüchen gebeten, mit …
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25Martin Luther's scathing antisemitic textVon den Jüden und iren Lügen.Wittenberg, 1543.
€ 15.000,00Extremely rare first edition, first printing of Martin Luther's ruthlessly antisemitic pamphlet. There was another edition printed in 1543 that has a slightly different title-page and only 128 leaves, which is more commonly found. A Latin adaptation by Justus Jonas was published the following year.
Luther long believed he could convince Jewish …
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26The sanitary effects of Arcadian wineTeütsche Speiszkammer. Inn welcher du findest, was gesunden unnd krancken …Strasbourg, 1550.
€ 25.000,00First edition of this extremely rare manual of popular medicine and the sanitary effects of various foods, with chapters on wine, oil, bread, eggs, vinegar, milk and butter, meat and fish, etc. Reprinted in 1555, the work eventually came to be appended to later editions of Bock's famous "Kräuterbuch".
Hailed as one of the fathers of botany, …
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27"Nata in Arabia": The Phoenix in Tasso's own hand"La Fenice". Autograph manuscript signed ("Torq. Tasso").No place, before 1586.
€ 280.000,00A singular find: the autograph presentation copy of Tasso's poem "La Fenice", published twelve years after Tasso's death as part of his great, posthumous "Sette Giornate del Mondo Creato" (and subsequently included as a separate poem in his "Rime"). In this long poem, Tasso celebrates the glorious Arabian-born bird as created by God to symbolize …
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28Fifty imaginary island cities, drawn for the Doge of Venice"Inmaginationi Millitari." Manuscript on paper, in Italian.Venice, 20.09.1595.
Auf AnfrageUnique album with splendid manuscript designs for imaginary fortified cities, created for and dedicated to Marino Grimani in the year of his appointment as Doge of the City and Republic of Venice, which he would reign over until his death. Grimani served as Superintendent of Fortresses before becoming Doge and worked for many years on the design …
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29Ein Buch für die EwigkeitDer christlich Glaube Mit Gottseligen christlichen und hoch tröstlichen …Nürnberg, um 1600.
€ 295.000,00Einzigartiges Gebetbuchmanuskript auf Pergament mit 16 ganzseitigen illuminierten Kupferstichen nach Marten de Vos, entstanden zum Ende des 16. Jahrhunderts. Dies ist eine von nur acht bekannten Handschriften Hieronymus Oertls: ein "neo-illuminated manuscript" und ein "unique example of the art of book arts around 1600" (Baeyer 6), das den Übergang …
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30"having writ a base booke to proove the kings murther lawfull, the Duke putt him into close prison"Autograph letter signed ("Elizabeth").The Hague, 8 April 1651.
€ 12.500,00A remarkable letter to Charles II, crowned King only a few months earlier at Scone, in a ceremony recognised only by Scotland. Soon after, the kingdom would be conquered by Cromwell and the royalist cause defeated at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651. Elizabeth had by this time been living in exile in the Hague for decades. She here provides …
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31Galileo's disciples: a new generation of mathematicians in Rome4 autograph letters signed.Rome, February 1661 - August 1662.
€ 18.500,00A fascinating set of four autograph letters by the Italian scientist and cleric Michelangelo Ricci, who played an important role in the development of the Galilean school, very probably all addressed to Galileo Galilei's disciple Carlo Roberto Dati (1619-76). Ricci studied law and theology in Rome, and mathematics with Galileo's confidant Benedetto …
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32The greatest work of Ibn Sina, almost impossible to find completeAl-Qanun fi al-Tibb [The Canon of Medicine].Eastern Mediterranean, 17th century dated 800 H / 1397/98 in colophon, likely copying the earlier date of a source manuscript.
€ 135.000,00Almost never found complete in a single manuscript: all five volumes of Ibn Sina's greatest work, copied in the 1600s CE. For over five hundred years "al-Qanun fi al-Tibb" dominated medical science in the Muslim and Christian worlds alike, but it is difficult to locate on the market even split into individual books. One complete manuscript is known …
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33The organ-maker of ViennaSchreiben mit eigenh. U. ("Ant. Salieri Maestro di Capella della Corte …Wien, 09.04.1798.
€ 25.000,00"Daß der seel. Johann Fridolin Ferstl Hoforgelmacher als wirkliches Mitglied bey der k.k. Hofkapelle angestellt gewesen - daß er mit derselben sowohl hier Orts bey den Hofkirchendiensten und Hofkammermusiken, als ausserhalb des Landes bey den Krönungen und Feyerlichkeiten persönliche Dienste gethan habe - daß derselbe mithin ein wirklicher Hofdiener …
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34Inscribed by Florence NightingaleNotes on Nursing.London, 1860.
€ 28.000,00Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the reformer Joseph Adshead (1800-61) on the half title: "Joseph Adshead Esq / from his obliged friend / Florence Nightingale / July 1860 / Please do observe Pages 209-211".
Florence Nightingale and Joseph Adshead made their acquaintance through the Liberal politician and manufacturer Richard Cobden …
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35Mi’kmaq pictographic script: one of the few surviving sets, owned by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowBuch das gut, enthaltend den Katechismus, Betrachtung. [With:] Buch das …Vienna, 1866.
€ 18.500,00Only edition of the Christian catechism, meditations and hymnal for the Mi'kmaq, a First Nations People of Nova Scotia, printed in their hieroglyphic writing (also known as Suckerfish script): the first and long the only books ever published in this writing developed by the French Jesuit Chretien Leclercq in the 17th century, apparently based on …
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36"But behold the advantage of art; painting endures"Autograph letter signed ("Paul Cézanne").Aix, April 1876.
€ 25.000,00To Camille Pissarro ("Mon cher Pissarro"), on all the current news of post-Impressionist circles. Cézanne speaks frequently of business gossip: Monet has sold a painting for a large sum ("la Japonaise de Monet c'était vendu 2 mille francs"), and Manet has yet again faced rejection from the Salon, to much furor ("Il parait d'ápres les journaux …
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37A gentleman's fancyPhotograph album.Possibly Sweden, ca. 1870s.
€ 4.500,00A playful photograph album and scrapbook, perhaps a bit transgressive, from the lively fin du siècle. A pasted-in ticket to the Tuileries and a menu from the Grand Hotel de Rome in Berlin perhaps place the creator(s) on a trip through Europe, or they were may simply have been avid collectors of hotel cards and menus. The majority of the album, however, …
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38Original Edison pen and ink sketch of telegraph circuitsTwo original sketches. [With:] Autograph letter signed ("Thos. A. Edison").Newark, NJ, 20.01.1879.
€ 18.000,00Two original Edison design sketches of a telegraph circuit, sent to Charles Sumners Wentworth with a letter (signed, and in Edison's own hand) discussing telegraph design: "Without I know what the resistance of your sounder is it would be hard to say how many cells would be required. I should think about 8 would do the business if they are 3 ohm …
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39Illustrated Urdu translation of the 1001 Nights in prose, done for the Naval Kishor PressHazar dastan [The Thousand Tales].Lucknow, 1890.
€ 12.500,00Lavishly illustrated lithographed edition: a prose Urdu translation of the Thousand and One Nights from Naval Kishor's press, perhaps the most famous Indian press of the 19th century. The translator, Hamid 'Ali Khan (1860-1918), was a barrister, colonial administrator, and poet whose edition of the Nights appears to have received little critical …
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40Limited issue, signed by the authorThe Picture of Dorian Gray.London, New York & Melbourne, 1891.
€ 35.000,00First edition of Wilde's only novel, signed limited issue: number 40 of 250 large-paper copies of the de luxe issue on Van Gelder handmade laid paper, signed "Oscar Wilde". The title-page and half title were designed by Charles Ricketts, who provided illustrations and cover designs for many of Wilde's works. This luxury issue is the corrected second …
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41First edition, first stateDer Judenstaat. Versuch einer modernen Lösung der Judenfrage.Leipzig & Vienna, 1896.
€ 12.500,00First edition, first state (one of 300 copies): Theodor Herzl's landmark manifesto for an independent Jewish state, commonly called the single most important manifesto of modern Zionism. "That a Jewish State was created in Palestine within fifty years of [Herzl's] death was due to the vision and the practical methods of Herzl, expressed in [this] …
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42WidmungsexemplarDer Kaiser und die Hexe.Berlin, Mai Kolophon: August 1900.
€ 15.000,00Erste Buchausgabe des lyrischen Dramas, Hofmannsthals allegorische Spiegelung des Dichterberufs. Nummer 73 von 200 numerierten Exemplaren auf Van-Gelder-Bütten mit lnsel-Wasserzeichen. Widmungsexemplar Hofmannsthals an den Göttinger Literaturhistoriker Otto Deneke (1875-1956): "Hugo von Hofmannsthal. / Göttingen, den 6. XII. 1906, im Hause Deneke".
Hofmannsthal …
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43Test prints with pencil correctionsDie träumenden Knaben.Wien, 1908.
€ 28.000,00Breitrandige Probeabzüge sämtlicher Farblithographien aus der ersten graphischen Veröffentlichung Kokoschkas, ein ab 1906 im Auftrag der Wiener Werkstätte gestaltetes Kinderbuch, in dem Illustration und beigedruckter Text meisterlich aufeinander bezogen sind. Obwohl der Künstler den Jugendstil seiner Lehrergeneration ablehnte, ist dessen Einfluss …
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44Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. Widmung und U.Wien, 1917.
€ 85.000,00Das Brustbild im Profil zeigt Klimt im Alter von 55 Jahren vor seinem Atelier in der Wiener Feldmühlgasse. Am Untersatzkarton eigenhändig gewidmet und signiert: "Wien 1917 / Frau Johanna Staude zur freundlichen Erinnerung von Gustav Klimt". Die Photographie von Moritz Nähr (1859-1945) gilt als eine der letzten Aufnahmen des Künstlers.
Die …
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45Mao Zedong's fundamental text on guerrilla warfare - an enormously rare signed exampleKang-Ri you-ji zhan-zheng di yi-ban wen-ti [Common Problems in the Anti-Japanese …Yan'an, 1938.
€ 350.000,00The first appearance in book form of this fundamental text on the use of unconventional warfare in modern conflict, with a rare early signature of Mao and compelling provenance.
One of the most consequential modern books, the ideas in Mao's 1937 pamphlet On Guerrilla Warfare have been a constant influence in a post-colonial world. Tactics that …
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46Dalí's ballet: "le tumulte orageux et visceral"Autograph manuscript signed ("Salvador Dalí").Monte Carlo, 21.04.1938.
€ 22.500,00Dalí's concept statement for "Tristan Fou", in the artist's own hand. In 1938, Salvador Dalí composed "Tristan Fou / Espectacle paranoiaque" as a reinterpretation of Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde". Based on the medieval tragic romance of Tristan and Isolde, Dalí's ballet, according to his manuscript, featured music by R. Wagner and "Federic …
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47From the creator of "Madeline"[Original mock-up copy of Parsley].New York, likely 1948.
€ 7.500,00The pre-publication artist's design copy, predating the first edition and unique. Written and illustrated by the Austrian-American creator of the internationally beloved "Madeline" children's series, this copy of "Parsley" shows the final stages of the book design process. Each piece of text and each illustration has been cut and pasted into place …
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48"I haven't written because I have fallen in love"Autograph letter signed twice ("Jim").Burbank, CA, 19 May 1954.
€ 38.000,00To his girlfriend Barbara Glenn ("Darling"). Dean naughtily commences his letter with potentially heart-breaking lines, "I haven't written because I have fallen in love. It had to happen sooner or later", although immediately reveals the subject of his affection: "It's not a very good picture of him, but that's 'Cisco the Kid', the new member of …
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49With upside-down Thomas Jefferson postage stampAutograph postcard signed ("Bro Malcolm").Battle Creek, Michigan, 12 May 1955 postmark.
€ 17.500,00A note to Roy Munford and his family in Jersey City: "As Salaam Alaikum. Greetings from Battle Creek. This Teaching is fast-spreading every where".
On the verso is a photograph showing the entrance to the Youth Building in the Irving Park neighborhood of Battle Creek, Michigan.
On 24 January 1965, just weeks before being murdered, Malcolm …
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50Signed and inscribed by Martin Luther King Jr.Original photograph boldly signed and inscribed "Best Wishes to Mr. & …No place, 1956/1957.
€ 20.000,00Rare vintage glossy photograph of King sitting in a half profile pose to his left in a sharp suit and tie, signed and inscribed in fountain pen, "Best Wishes to Mr. & Mrs. Ken Browne, From Martin L. King". The reverse bears the photographer's credit stamp of Arthur Freeman of Montgomery, Alabama, and a typed collector's notation indicating that …