To the music publishers Liepmannssohn & Dufour in Paris: "[…] Je suis contrarié de ne pas avoir Frizzi (4173) que je cherche de puis longtemps et dont j'ai besoin pour les additions de ma Biographie des musiciens. Si vous pouviez obtenir de la personne à qui vous l'avez vendu de me la céder, vous me rendriez grand service […]".
On headed paper "Conservatoire royal de musique - Cabinet du Directeur".
Thirteen charming panoramic views showing the Tyrolean Alps and their environs: Ammergau, Tux, Stubai, Ötztal, Zillertal, and Lechtal Alps, Karwendel, Verwall and Wetterstein Mountains. Executed by the well-known publishers Eugen Felle and Ott & Ruep in Isny/Allgäu; probably the work of the painter Josef Ruep (1886-1940), since one panorama bears his signature "Rp." - Tissue guards mostly wrinkled and with tears; drawings perfectly preserved.
To his "dear Agnes": "I have only just learned that several copies of my Vol. of Essays ('Religious Problems' etc.) which I directed my publishers to forward to various friends were never sent. Was the one I promised to send to you of the number? If so, I will send it at once [...]". De Vere refers to his just-published "Religious Problems of the Nineteenth Century" (1893).
Slightly spotty, small traces of mounting along the edge of the final page.
First edition. Lenin's popular commentary on Russia's political landscape in the form of questions and answers. Drafted within weeks of the February Revolution, it explains the positions of the major political parties regarding the burning issues of the day. It was originally planned as a leaflet, owing to the fact that the Cadets, Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks were making wide use of leaflets in their propaganda and pasted them up all over town. Lenin believed that a Bolshevik leaflet explaining what every party was and what it stood for should be pasted alongside the anti-Bolshevik proclamations. However, the article turned out to be too long to be issued as a leaflet, and was first published in the Helsingfors Bolshevik newspaper "Volna", then issued in pamphlet form by the Zhizn i Znaniye publishers in 50,000 copies. The proprietors of the printing-press, who sympathised with the Cadets, held up publication, but with the help of the workers' committee the pamphlet was issued on 4 July 1917. Owing to the July events, however, it was hidden away in the publishers' warehouse. A few days later it began to circulate in the working-class quarters. The first edition sold out quickly and a reprint was put out. A second edition was published in Moscow in 1918 with a foreword by Lenin.
Upper wrapper detached; small traces of worming.
A large map coving from the Balkans to the Ukraine, the Caspian Sea, Western Persia, Arabia and the Nile. Unusually, the map uses stipple engraving to give texture to the open areas, especially in Arabia. It is also an uncommonly international publication, published in France by the engraver, with the assistance of publishers in other countries: James Wyld and John Cary in London; Artaria & Fontaine in Mannheim; Villardi in Milan; Bouffa & Fils in Amsterdam; and Brunin in Glasgow (a publisher not listed in Tooley’s Dictionary).
Minor defects to the box, slight browning, otherwise in fine condition.
Promotional booklet announcing the publication of an encyclopedia series dedicated to the mid-20th century economic boom experienced in the Gulf countries, especially the oil-rich Trucial coast, soon to become the United Arab Emirates. The overarching aim of the publishers was to promote mutual understanding across the Arab world by making contemporary experience in Muslim nations widely available to the reading public. The Gulf renaissance, spurred by the discovery of vast oil reserves and one of the most dramatic cultural moments of the 20th century, was a natural inclusion.
In excellent condition.
An den kunstsinnigen Französischlehrer, Übersetzer und Journalisten Hermann Kindt (1834-89), der sich in Yarm (Yorkshire) niedergelassen hatte: "Sir, Returning from abroad I find your obliging letter which I regret should have remained so long unanswered. I have directed copies of the Crown of Wild Olive & Political Economy of Art to be forwarded to your address by my publishers. These two books will give quite sufficent example, for your purposes, of what I can do best either in thinking or speaking [...]". Das geprägte Monogramm "AS" vom Schreiber durchgestrichen. Faltspuren.
Zu Kindts Korrespondenten zählten Charles Darwin, John Herschel, Eduard Mörike und Ferdinand Freiligrath.
The photograph shows Gershwin in front of the office of Chappell & Co., one of the leading music publishers and piano manufacturers in Great Britain, located at 52 Maddox Street, together with the orchestra leader, composer, pianist and actor Harry Rosenthal and the former Managing Director of the New York branch of Chappell & Co., Walter Eastman, who had moved to London. On the reverse Eastman inscribed the photograph "to Maude Hamill [of Chappell & Co.] from Walter Eastman Nov. 14. 45 Rhapsody in Blue Day".
Traces of tape around the edges and traces of mounting on verso.
First Hungarian edition of Darwin's "On the Origin of Species", called "the most important single work in science" (Dibner) and "a turning point, not only in the history of science, but in the history of ideas in general" (DSB). "No work of science has ever been so fully vindicated by subsequent investigation, or has so profoundly altered humanity's view of itself and how the living world works" (Wilson).
Translated by László Dapsy, revised by Tivadar Margó. Bindings a little rubbed, extremeties worn, interior quite clean. Original publishers' binding by Lajos Bóka of Pest signed with his blindstamp to the white lacquer endpapers.
Partly printed contract in English with Christian Rudolph Wessel & Co, importers and publishers of foreign music in London, for the sale of the present and future copyright and rights in Great Britain, of opus 25, "Twelve Etudes or Studies", dedicated to [the name is left blank; it will be the Countess d'Agoult] in two volumes to be published simultaneously in France and Germany on the 14th October 1837, for the sum of 16 livres sterling. Piano maker Camille Pleyel, who had accompanied Chopin to London, also signed as a witness.
Blindstamped in lower margin; slight traces of moisture and small tear to centerfold.
Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau.
A co-founder of the "Janus-Presse", the first German private printing press of the "Buchkunstbewegung", Tiemann advanced to one of the most popular book artists and was commissioned by various publishing houses with creating covers, titles, vignettes and illustrations. He thus shaped the appearance of books issued by publishers including the "Insel Verlag" and the "Rowohlt Verlag" up to the First World War.
Traces of a postmark; some small ink spots. Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.
To Kvasnicka & Hampl about a court case regarding an unpaid fee, mentioning "Peter and Alexis" and the "Romance of Leonard da Vinci". Merezhkovsky asks his Czech publishers to represent his interests in court against Mme Kolova-Tushkova in the case of an unpaid fee for his article, stating that there is no written evidence concerning the size of the fee. Merezhkovsky writes that he will give more details about his novels "Petr i Alexey" ("Peter and Alexis") and "Voskrestchie Bogi. Leonardo da Vinci" ("Romance of Leonardo da Vinci") in a following letter.
Kolova-Tushkova was the publisher of the Centrum magazine in the 1920s and 1930s.
Two ink stamps by recipient. Some damage to right margin; left margin partly rebacked.
One of only a few literary manuscripts by the eminent French composer, extremely rare in trade. In this paper, which appeared in 1961 at La Palatine publishers, Paris-Genève, Poulenc compresses, as he writes in the preface, "une véritable passion" that he felt from adolescence onwards for Chabrier's music, into a memorial full of warmth, enthusiasm, and linguistic beauty.
The present ms. comprises the preface, the introduction "Portrait de Chabrier", and Chapters I and II (cf. pp. 1-78 in the printed version); Chapters III and IV (in the book pp. 80-119) might have filled another, clearly thinner quarto issue, the whereabouts of which are unknown today and are not established by MGG or New Grove.
To Treuttel & Wurtz, booksellers, rue de Bourbon, Paris, offering "a thousand excuses"; his factotum has made an error. He is himself at their disposal for the work that he requested and his confidence in them is such that their price will be his.
Alibert is noted for his work on skin diseases, for his elegant, fashionable life-style and several medical publications, some of them exploring the interface between medicine, physics and the moral sciences. Treuttel & Wurtz, publishers and booksellers at Strasburg and Paris, were founded by J. G. Treuttel (1744-1826) and later associated with J. G. Wurtz (1768-1841). Alongside publication of the works of Sismondi, Saint-Simon, and Frederick the Great, they produced the notable "Bibliothèque des Voyageurs".
Charming letter to the music historian and biographer of Federico and Luigi Ricci, Franz de Villars, quoting a telegram of a member of the Ricordi family of publishers, probably Tito I, that was written to congratulate Ricci on a successfull performance of his 1869 opera "Une Folie à Rome" and announcing a dinner with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: "Persuadé de vous faire plaisir, je vous envois la copie du télégramme que Gaudier vient de recevoir.
Mr. Gaudier 21 Rue Choisseuil Paris. Hier Folie Scène [?] succès complet. Termini, Bottero magnifiquement. Final bissé. Donner nouvelle à Ricci. Ricordi - Je vais diner chez Mr. Korsakoff. À revoir, donc, demain." - On stationery with printed monogram. With a tear to the blank leaf.
Handsomely bound, extraordinary collection of important scientific journal articles by 19th and 20th century Western explorers of Afghanistan, Central Asia, China, the Himalayas, India (including Assam, Bengal, Kashmir, and Punjab), Karakoram, Pakistan (including Sindh), and Tibet, with content covering anthropology, archaeology, exploration, geography, geology, glaciology, history, language and grammar, mountaineering, and politics. At the time these were the far outskirts of the world for Western science, where a lot was yet to be learned. Often the maps in these journals are the first modern maps of such regions and findings were the first to be scientifically published.
Generally in very good condition. Please inquire for a full list of contents.
