Buch Wien 2025
12 through 16 November 2025
Messe Wien, Trabrennstraße, 1020 Vienna, Hall D, Stand C01
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1An Indian curse in two ancient scripts from Central AsiaIllustrated curse tablet in Bactrian and Brahmi script.Afghanistan, ca. 400-600 CE.
€ 45,000.00A unique object with a Buddhist magical formula written in alternating Bactrian and Brahmi script around a figure, apparently the object of a curse. The depiction of a person with hair in a bun at the top pierced through with stakes leaves little doubt as to the attitude towards them, as does the nail that has been bored through their head, still …
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![Sermones de verbis domini [and other works].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/img-bn44879-324x324.jpg)
2The Vice of DiceSermones de verbis domini [and other works].Austria, 1448.
€ 45,000.00Fine late medieval manuscript, principally comprising sermons of St Augustine (pp. 1-410), but also containing four shorter treatises of his slightly older contemporary, Gregory of Nazianzus (pp. 411-523); dated "1448" at the end. Bound after this are 12 additional leaves, apparently penned slightly later by a different scribe, with theological writings …
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3"Thou art to pass over Jordan this day": a leaf from the 42-line Gutenberg-Bible - the first book ever printed from movable typeA leaf from the B-42 Gutenberg Bible.Mainz, ca. 1452/1454.
InquireA leaf from the first book ever printed from movable type in the Western world. This part of the Fifth Book of Moses contains the Lord's assurance that Israel is to have the Promised Land and recalls the revelation of the Ten Commandments. It also includes the command to His chosen people, famously described as "stiffnecked", to remake the Tablets …
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4Bound by Master Mathias of ViennaSermones de poenitentia et restitutione (Poenitentiale). Sermones de confessione.Probably Vienna, after 1460.
€ 50,000.00Extensive collection of mostly late sermons by the versatile Austrian theologian Thomas Ebendorfer from Haselbach near Korneuburg, who is best remembered for his "Cronica Austrie" and who long served as professor as well as variously as dean and rector of the University of Vienna. All writings here present are also to be found (in a slightly different …
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5Drawing on Arabic astronomers: only incunabular editionCompilatio de astrorum scientia.Augsburg, 9 Jan 1489.
InquireFirst - and only incunabular - edition of Leopold's thirteenth-century "Compilation on the Science of the Stars", an amalgamation of astrology and astronomy largely drawn from Latin translations of Sahl ibn Bishr, Abu Ma’shar, ‘Umar al-Tabari, ‘Ali al-‘Imrani, al-Kindi, and other Arabic astronomers. A number of the fine woodcuts of the constellations …
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![Praepositiones universales Aristotelis [Auctoritates Aristotelis, Parvi Flores].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/img-bn67356-324x324.jpg)
6The heart of medieval scholarship: the authoritative statements of AristotlePraepositiones universales Aristotelis [Auctoritates Aristotelis, Parvi …Italy, 1499.
€ 35,000.00A beautifully bound, meticulously penned compendium of the works of Aristotle in Latin, here in a rare variant of their most popular form in the later Middle Ages.
The so-called Parvi Flores were the dominant collection of Aristotelian florilegia, which circulated under various titles, mainly Auctoritates Aristotelis. In Italy, the collection …
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![Theotimus, sive de Tollendis et expungendis malis libris [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/img-bn60329-324x324.jpg)
7Catholic censorship of medieval and Renaissance PoetryTheotimus, sive de Tollendis et expungendis malis libris [...].Paris, 1549.
€ 3,500.00First edition of this notorious 16th century defence of censorship, couched as a dialogue between Theotimus and Nicolaus, which includes biting attacks on authors who were thought to threaten public morals - notably Rabelais. Other widely-received works of a particularly corrupting character that Dupuyherbault (ca. 1490-1566) singles out for criticism …
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![Thurnier Buech warhafftiger ritterlicher Thaten, so in dem Monat Junii des vergangnen LX. Jars in und ausserhalb der Statt Wienn zu Rosz und zu Fueß, auff Waser und Lannd gehalten worden [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/img-bn48925-324x324.jpg)
8"The pearl of all books printed in Vienna" (Mayer)Thurnier Buech warhafftiger ritterlicher Thaten, so in dem Monat Junii …Vienna, 1561.
€ 35,000.00First German edition of the finest early printed book on tournaments. It describes in detail and spectacularly illustrates the tournaments, staged battles (including an elaborate naval scene), balls and banquets, held at Vienna to honour the visit of Albrecht V Duke of Bavaria (1528-79), son-in-law of Emperor Ferdinand I and brother-in-law of King …
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![L'isthoire [!] et les portraits des imperatrices, des reynes, et des illustres princesses de l'auguste maison d'Austriche, qui ont porte le nom d'Anne.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/img-bn67704-324x324.jpg)
9All the Habsburg AnnesL'isthoire [!] et les portraits des imperatrices, des reynes, et des illustres …Paris, 1648.
€ 25,000.00Lavishly produced panegyric on the Habsburg princesses named Anne, executed with exceptional contemporary hand-colouring heightened in gold and preserved in an armorial binding bearing the arms of the dedicatee, Anne of Austria.
Contains brief biographies of thirteen Habsburg princesses and queens sharing the name, from Anne of Austria, Margravine …
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10"Mit saubern Kupffern ans Licht gegeben"Allerneueste Nachricht vom Römisch-Käyserl. Hofe nebst einer ausführlichen …Hannover, 1730.
InquireSeltene erste Ausgabe der bekannten, noch heute brauchbaren Beschreibung von Wien und Umgebung. Die Tafeln zeigen den Stephansdom als Ansicht und Grundriss, ein astronomisches Instrument, eine "curieuse Feuer-Machine" für "Stein-Kohlen-Berg-Wercke", den Riesenkaktus im Garten der Favorita sowie die prachtvollen Ansichten des Belvedere.
Teils …
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![Monumenta veteris ecclesiae Brixinensis [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img-bn67819-324x324.jpg)
11The history of South Tyrol, from a Habsburg's personal libraryMonumenta veteris ecclesiae Brixinensis [...].Brixen, 1765.
€ 4,500.00A rare and important and beautifully bound volume on the history of South Tyrol from the eighteenth century, from the library of Archduke Leopold Ludwig at Schloss Hernstein. The so-called "White Library" ("weiße Bibliothek") was comprised of books relating to the history and culture of all the Habsburg lands, all bound in handsome white half-leather, …
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12An uncontacted four-legged people of the Marañón River?Relazione d'una nuova generazione d'uomini scoperta dal capitano Radoteur …Bergamo, 1770.
€ 1,800.00Very rare satirical pamphlet: "a fictitious account of travels in northern Brazil involving the 'discovery' of a race of four-legged people" (James Ford Bell Library). Purportedly translated from the French of one "Captain Dotard", it targets the young Italian anatomist and obstetrician Pietro Moscati (1739-1824).
In ostensibly reporting the …
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![El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha [...]. Nueva edicion corregida por la Real Academia España.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img-bn64185-324x324.jpg)
13"The finest edition of Don Quixote that has ever been printed" (Updike)El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha [...]. Nueva edicion corregida …Madrid, 1780.
€ 25,000.00A large copy of the most famous edition of "Don Quixote" ever produced. The "Ibarra" edition of 1780 was described by Palau as "magnificent, superior in artistic beauty to all others produced in Spain or abroad"; Richard Ford declares that "no grand library should be without it". Undoubtedly it was on these merits that this edition was famously cast …
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14Aleppine Melkite Psalter with bilingual Latin-Arabic titling and the rare apocryphal Psalm 151Manuscript Psalter in Arabic, with Ten Canticles and Psalm 151 (Melkite …Aleppo, mid to late 18th century.
€ 28,000.00A vivid witness to Melkite devotion in Ottoman Syria, marked by a rare bilingual title and the inclusion of Psalm 151. The Psalter opens with the Psalms of David, the scribe introducing the text in Arabic and adding a Latin heading of his own hand, “Liber Arabicus Psalmorum David”, a concise statement of the manuscript’s dual cultural horizon …
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15Splendid neoclassical binding by G. F. Krauss for Duke Albert of Saxe-TeschenOpera.Paris, 1799.
€ 18,000.00Didot's "Louvre" edition of Horace, limited to 250 copies, of which this is no. 46 (and one of 100 copies containing the engravings "avant la lettre), signed by the publisher Pierre Didot the Elder ("No. 46 quarante-sixieme sur deux cents cinquante. P. Didot, l'aine"). The elegant unsigned binding is to be attributed to the Viennese artist bookbinder …
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16"Des Hasses und der Liebe Rache"Hs. Wochenarbeitsplan für Schauspieler und Mitarbeiter des Weimarischen …Weimar, 18 Apr 1816.
€ 18,000.00Ein ebenso interessantes wie seltenes Schriftstück aus Goethes letztem Jahr als Intendant des Weimarer Hoftheaters, das dessen Anweisungen zur "Wöchentlichen Beschäftigung" von Montag, den 22. April bis Samstag, den 27. April festhält. "Montag, den 22ten April 1816 frühe um 10 Uhr Probe von dem Lustspiel: Die Brandschatzung; um 11 Uhr von der …
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17Armenian guidebook to ViennaStoragrut'iwn kayseranist k'agak'in Venneyi.Vienna, 1829.
€ 1,500.00Rare description of Vienna, printed in Armenian throughout and published by the Vienna Mechitharist press set up in 1811. "One of the earliest (and perhaps most beautiful) Armenian prints produced in a Viennese printshop is the 1829 guidebook to Vienna entitled 'Storegroit'iin kayseranist k'agak'in Venneyi' ('Description of the Imperial Residence …
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18Souvenirs de Vienne.Vienna, 1830.
€ 28,000.00A charming album comprising numerous views of Vienna's grand buildings, palaces, and parks as well as landscapes of the surrounding areas. Notable sites of the Austrian capital are depicted in all their splendour, including Klosterneuburg monastery, the Kohlmarkt, St Stephen's Cathedral, and the Circus Gymnasticus in the Prater park.
Landscape …
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19Original manuscript with the author's own corrections"Der Alpenkönig und der Menschenfeind. Original-Zauberspiel in 2 Akten. …No place, before October 1831.
€ 25,000.00Complete manuscript of Raimund's possibly most famous work, with corrections, deletions and insertions in his own hand. Raimund probably commissioned this copy for a performance in Innsbruck and thoroughly revised the manuscript. Some 30 pages contain Raimund's autograph revisions, comprising single words as well as whole sentences (several later …
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20Herausragendes Zeugnis der Wiener FarblithographieDas pittoreske Österreich oder Album der österreichischen Monarchie. …Wien, 1840-1846.
InquireAusnehmend schön gebundenes, komplettes Exemplar eines der herausragenden Ansichtenwerke der österreichischen Monarchie, in Lieferungen erschienen und in dieser Erhaltung selten.
Von den geplanten 40 Heften wurden nur die vorliegenden 31 publiziert; jedes Heft enthält eine Kreiskarte und fünf sorgfältig gedruckte chromolithographierte …
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21Botanische Taxonomie aus WienDer Wintergarten in der kaiserlichen königlichen Hofburg zu Wien.Wien, 1852.
€ 18,000.00Erste Ausgabe des bedeutenden botanischen Tafelwerks mit handkolorierten Ansichten des ehemaligen Glashauses im Wiener Burggarten, gefertigt von L. Czerny meist nach Originalzeichnungen des k. k. Hofgärtners Franz Antoine (1815-86), der für das vorliegende Werk vom preußischen und bayerischen Hof ausgezeichnet wurde. Neben einer winterlichen Außenansicht …
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22Viennese boxed friendship album containing autograph sentiments by Fanny …Vienna, mostly 1854-1887.
€ 9,500.00The 33 entries, some written on the album leaf, others in letters or separate sheets of paper mounted within the album, are by the poets and playwrights Eduard von Bauernfeld, Ignaz Franz Castelli, Franz Grillparzer ("Was man den Kindern thut / Ist doppelt gut; / Weil im Erfolg, den Jeder sieht / Man ihre Ältern miterzieht"), Friedrich Halm (i. …
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23Complete with 36 plates and rare lithographed title-pageDie k. k. Österreich‘sche Armée nach der neuesten Adjustirung.Vienna, ca. 1854.
€ 4,500.00From the foremost military artists of their era: a complete series of brightly hand-coloured lithographs by two renowned students of the Viennese Akademie der bildenden Künste, dedicated to Emperor Franz Joseph and comprising 36 plates showcasing Austro-Hungarian military uniforms from all different sections of the newly reformed armies.
Karl …
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24Autograph signature on wrapper cover of: Medea. Ein Trauerspiel in drei …Paris, ca. 1856.
€ 5,000.00German-Italian libretto for Legouvé's "Medea" adaptation which premiered on 18 February 1858 at the Carl-Theater in Vienna's Leopoldstadt district, where Nestroy served as director from 1854 to 1860. The actors' names are corrected by hand, and Nestroy signed the secretary's presentation note for the board of censorship. The censor passed the text …
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25With original punch cardsCours de théorie pour le tissage professé par P. Audibert. Fait par L. …Lyon, 1871.
€ 7,500.00Beautifully preserved: an extensive, hand-drawn weaving pattern book compiled in the textile center of Lyon, including five pages of diagrams dedicated solely to punch cards. The work comprises over a hundred hand-painted designs alongside fabric samples illustrating the execution of various patterns.
The new, advanced weaving mills of the …
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26Original sketches of Vienna World's FairSketch book and travel journal.Vienna, St. Pölten, Semmering, Salzburg, Munich and other places, 4 Sept. - 23 Dec. 1873.
€ 2,800.00Charming, pocket-sized diary, kept mainly during September 1873 by a visitor to the Vienna's 1873 World's Fair, containing brief travel notes illustrated throughout with dozens of very talented watercolour sketches. The journal and the often dated drawings permit the reader to follow the traveller's itinerary from his arrival at Vienna's Hotel Zillinger …
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27Wiener botanische StilllebenPhotographische Blätter aus dem Wintergarten des k. k. Hofburggartens …Wien, ca. 1875.
€ 16,000.00Erste Ausgabe. Seltene botanische Stillleben, aufgenommen vom k. k. Hofgärtner und Amateurphotographen Franz Antoine (1815-86) im ehemaligen Glashaus im Wiener Burggarten. Die Photographien zeigen den beeindruckenden Pflanzenbestand im Inneren des Glashauses, darunter deckenhohe Bäume und Palmen sowie ausladende Farne, Kakteen, Sträucher und eine …
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28"Your account has not yet reached me"Autograph letter signed.1267 Broadway, New York, 1882.
InquireTo Mr. Boyce: "Your account has not yet reached me: pray send it at once".
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29The dawn of the computer age, in the form of a bookLivre de prières tissé d'après les enluminures des manuscrits du XIVe …Lyon, 1886.
€ 28,000.00A technical feat of bookmaking, weaving, and scientific ingenuity. Only approximately fifty - and no more than sixty - copies of this book were produced over two years; each page is entirely woven from silver silk thread, programmed into the Jacquard loom using over 200,000 individual punch cards, making this one of the earliest examples of what …
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30Inscribed to Adolf SonnenthalAlkandi's Lied. Dramatisches Gedicht in einem Aufzuge.Vienna, 1890.
€ 3,500.00Only book publication of Schnitzler's second published play. Inscribed by the author to the famous Austrian actor Adolf Sonnenthal (1834-1909) on the title-page: "Herrn Adolf v. Sonnenthal / in ausgezeichneter Hochachtung / Arthur Schnitzler". Although Schnitzler wished to see this one-act verse drama staged, it never saw performance. Sonnenthal …
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31Aus dem Jahr des "Reigens"Portraitphotographie mit eigenh. U.Wien, November 1897.
€ 4,500.00Das 1896 entstandene Portrait aus dem Atelier Heinrich Harmsen, Wien III, mit dessen gedrucktem Signet am Trägerkarton.
Die Darstellung an wenigen Stellen leicht fleckig, der Karton an einer unbedeutend beschabt; verso kleine Montagespuren.
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32"Zu freundlichem Gedenken"Gestern. Dramatische Studie in einem Akt in Versen. Dritte Auflage.Berlin, 1909.
InquireVortitel mit eigenhändiger Widmung und Unterschrift des Autors "zu freundlichem Gedenken" an den Dramaturgen und Schriftsteller Franz Horch (1901-51), datiert 1923.
Die insgesamt vierte Ausgabe von Hofmannsthals Erstlingswerk (die zweite unter diesem Titel).
Der Einband gering lichtrandig.
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33Masterpiece from the Wiener WerkstättePresentation box containing 127 congratulatory cards by notable writers …Vienna, 1910/1911.
€ 45,000.00Unique, splendidly presented collection of 127 birthday cards, personally inscribed by notable Austrian and German writers and artists including Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, and Arthur Schnitzler.
The elaborate red morocco casket, a masterpiece from the Wiener Werkstätte in the shape of a little house with a curved …
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34Prodromos. 3rd edition.Berlin, 1912.
€ 950.00Front endpaper with a fine dedication to the Viennese merchant and officer Hugo Fekete (1883–1915), maternal uncle of the Austrian writer Hans Weigel.
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35Betrachtung.Leipzig, 1913 but: 1912.
€ 20,000.00First edition, first issue, of Kafka's first book publication. One of 800 copies printed at the press of Poeschel & Trepte in Leipzig in November 1912 (though dated "1913" on the title-page). Published on the initiative of Kurt Wolff and dedicated to Kafka's friend Max Brod (designated only by his initials), "Betrachtung" ("Meditation") is a …
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36Autograph letter signed.Vienna, 25 Apr 1917.
€ 35,000.00Unpublished letter to lieutenant Gustav Herrmann at the POW camp in Mühling near Wieselburg (Lower Austria), requesting a loan of several portraits for Vienna's 1917 War Exhibition: "Ich wurde zur Beteiligung an der Kriegsausstellung eingeladen und bitte Sie Herr Oberleutnant alle Ihre Porträtzeichnungen, die von Herrn Oberleutnant, von Herrn Oberleutnant …
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37"The painter is not quite the artist - it is the spirit that created art"Zeichnungen - Egon Schiele: 12 Blätter in Originalgrösse.Vienna, 1917.
€ 225,000.00The only set of reproductions of Schiele drawings issued during the artist's lifetime and under his supervision: an unnumbered proof copy inscribed by the 26-year-old Schiele to his 24-year-old wife Edith (née Harms) and signed with his monogram. The inscription reads: "Der Maler ist noch nicht der Künstler, - / Es ist der Geist der Kunst geschaffen …
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38One of the last photos of Klimt, inscribed to his sitter Johanna StaudePortrait photograph signed and inscribed.Vienna, 1917.
€ 85,000.00The half-length portrait shows the 55-year-old artist outside his studio in Vienna's Feldmühlgasse. The photograph is inscribed and signed by Klimt on the backing card: "Wien 1917 / Frau Johanna Staude zur freundlichen Erinnerung an Gustav Klimt" ("Vienna 1917 / For Mrs. Johanna Staude in fond memory of Gustav Klimt"). The photograph by Moritz Nähr …
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39"Not a word about Palestine"Autograph letter signed ("K").Prague, December 1921.
€ 75,000.00To his close friend, the physician Robert Klopstock, about mutual friends, including Irene Bugsch, who, to Kafka's great joy, had recently been accepted by the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts: "I am exaggerating with happiness that such a childhood dream is being realized in my proximity, at least according to form; that there is so much naivity, and …
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40"sinnlose Laszivität und bis zum Aeussersten gesteigerte Perversität"Der Nacktball in der Annagasse. Ein Wiener Roman.Wien, um 1926.
€ 350.00Anonym erschienener, seinerzeit beschlagnahmter pornographischer Privatdruck. Erschien textlich identisch auch unter dem Titel "Das Börsenspiel der Gräfin Stellamare".
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41Turing’s undergraduate copy of Russell’s logical primer, signed and datedIntroduction to Mathematical Philosophy.London & New York, 1930.
€ 35,000.00Turing’s signed copy of Russell’s concise exposition of the logical foundations of mathematics, acquired in March 1933 during his final undergraduate year at King’s College, Cambridge.
Considered the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence, the British mathematician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist Alan …
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42"Er ist ein Selfmademan. Selbst ist der Mann!"Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald. Ein Volksstück in drei Teilen.Berlin, 1931.
€ 1,500.00First edition of Horvath's pitch-black satire "Tales from the Vienna Woods", a key work of modern drama. Published in a press run of only 1,500 copies, of which some were bound in half cloth. It is likely that no more than 1,000 copies of the issue in wrappers reached the trade. Extremely rare.
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43Freud signing "half as papa"Guest book inscribed by Sigmund Freud, Ernest Jones, Marie Bonaparte, Max …Hochroterd near Vienna, 1932-1936.
€ 12,500.00Anna Freud's guest book from Hochrotherd in the Vienna Woods, where she and her partner Dorothy Tiffany Burlingham had bought an old farmhouse as a weekend and holiday home in 1930. Several major figures in the psychoanalytic movement signed the book: Sigmund Freud signed the first page, dating his inscription 26 July 1932 (with a three-word sentiment …
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44László Willinger's Freud portraitPortrait photograph signed ("Sigm. Freud").Probably Vienna, 1936.
€ 25,000.00The well-known portrait of Freud taken by the Austro-Hungarian photographer László Willinger: a very attractive print in excellent condition. Willinger, who has been barred from any professional activity in Germany in 1933, worked for some time in the Vienna atelier of his father Wilhelm before emigrating in 1939. The present portrait was created …
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45Original typescript of Hesse's well-known fairy tale"Piktor's Verwandlungen. Ein Märchen von H. H.". Typescript, signed with …Presumably Montagnola, ca. 1940/45.
€ 28,000.00Written in 1922 for his second wife Ruth Wenger, the fairy tale was published as a facsimile in 1954. Hesse himself wrote in his afterword to this edition: "Until today it was only available as a manuscript. I copied it many times in earlier years and painted little pictures for it, somewhat different ones each time [...]".
According to Hesse's …
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46Wittgenstein schtirbtPartezettel.Wien und New York, 1951.
€ 4,800.00Der Partezettel, mit dem die drei letzten noch lebenden Geschwister Wittgensteins dessen Ableben und Beisetzung anzeigen, welch letztere am 1. Mai in Cambridge stattgefunden hatte.
Mit schwarzem Trauerrand. Tadellos erhalten.
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47In the Red Bar at the SacherGuestbook with 166 entries by writers, actors, singers, and other contemporary …Vienna, 1952-1969.
€ 11,500.00Fine guestbook kept by an employee of the Red Bar in Vienna's Hotel Sacher, with entries by Thomas Mann, Romy and Magda Schneider (both twice), Bing Crosby, Richard Nixon, Robert Stolz, Hilde Knef, Liuba Welitsch, Hedy Lamarr, Johannes Heesters, Theo Lingen, Raoul Aslan, Erich Kästner, Leni Riefenstahl, Eddie Constantine, Erich Maria Remarque, Fritz …
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48"Zsammpempert, klar, von an Krawina und Hrdlicka"Rama tan ma.Wien, 1966.
€ 2,000.00Hochinteressante satirische Dialektdichtung in Versen über den Wiener Kunstbetrieb der Nachkriegszeit. In Wort und Bild ausführlich portraitiert werden u. a. Leherb, Friedensreich Hundertwasser und Arnulf Rainer. Auf letzteren, der seine frühen Arbeiten mit dem Pseudonym "TRR" signierte, beziehen sich die Verse: "[...] Weil aner då net mittuan …
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49Inscribed association copy of the countercultural personal computing manifestoComputer Lib / Dream Machines.Chicago, 1974.
€ 3,000.00First edition of Nelson’s cult manifesto for individual access to computers: here, an association copy inscribed on the upper wrapper to the computer historian Henry Tropp. Profusely illustrated with over 450 drawings, cartoons, and tables laid out in a collage-like manner that invites browsing and nonlinear reading, the book was conceived as two …
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50Ein Mann halt sich immer no. Ein Mann hat noch immer einen gewissen AnwertPortraitpostkarte mit eigenh. U.O. O. u. D.
€ 450.00Rollenportrait im ¾-Profil in S/W.