FOLIUM
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The joint antiquarian book fair hosted by the trade associations of Switzerland, Austria, and Germany
10-12 June 2021
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1Letter of indulgence of one hundred days, granted to support the construction …Leiden, 15 Sep 1451.
InquireVery rare indulgence issued by Nicolaus of Cusa as Cardinal-Priest of S. Pietro in Vincoli. The great humanist philosopher and scholar served as papal legate to Germany from 1446 and in 1448 was appointed cardinal by Pope Nicholas V. During his "Great Legation" of 1450-52 he visited numerous churches in North-Western Europe; in Leiden he supported …
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3The first edition to call Geber an Arab: profusely annotated throughout(De alchemia). In hoc volumine de alchemia continentur haec. Gebri Arabis, …Nuremberg, 1541.
€ 48,000.00The rare first edition of this extremely important and early collection of alchemical writings, which unites several first printings of works previously circulated only as manuscripts. This is first edition to call Geber an "Arab", the first to use "Summa perfectionis magisterii" on the title-page, and also the first printing of the famous "Smaragdine …
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8The women of Constantinople: the first costume book to show only women in their traditional dressRecuel [!] de divers portraits des principales dames de la Porte du Grand …Paris, 1648.
€ 35,000.00First edition, very rare. Georges de la Chappelle, a native of Caen, accompanied the French envoy Le Haye to the Porte and spent several years in the Levant. His work is known to us almost exclusively through these engravings, showing what Thieme/Becker described as "the prettiest ladies in the Imperial Seraglio". In the introductory text included …
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18Splendid 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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27The history of armour throughout the agesDer Harnisch von seinem Entstehen bis zu seinem Wiedervergehen in Bildern …Southern Germany, "1714" but apparently early 19th century.
€ 35,000.00Two striking series of highly decorative watercolours illustrating the history of armour throughout the ages. The first is purportedly copied after an earlier manuscript by the Augsburg artist G. P. Rugendas, dated 1714. The latter, with a date of 1688, is attributed to one "Matteo Argenteocorno" - a pseudonym for the goldsmith Matthäus Silberhorn …
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36Rare Tchaikovsky manuscript, from an early period in the compositional history of the opera "The Maid of Orleans"Autograph musical manuscript. "Allegro molto", Dance of the Buffoons (from …Florence, 27 Nov. - 9 Dec. 1878.
€ 250,000.00Extremely rare musical manuscript: the orchestral score for a dance from "The Maid of Orleans". Composed in 1878-79, with a libretto by the composer, Tchaikovsky's opera in 4 acts premiered on 25 February 1881 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg; in the following year it became the first of Tchaikovsky's operas to be performed outside Russia, …
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52Perfect numbered copy of the deluxe issue, signed by the sitters throughoutKöpfe 1920. Eine Sammlung von Bildnis-Radierungen bekannter Persönlichkeiten.Leipzig, 1920.
€ 35,000.00Number 33 of 50 copies of the deluxe issue (entire press run: 150), each portrait bearing the additional signature of the sitter. The sitters are Lovis Corinth, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Gerhart Hauptmann, Wolfgang Heine, Ludwig von Hofmann, Arno Holz, Arthur Nikisch, Wilhelm Ostwald, Max Reinhardt, Richard Strauss, and August von Wassermann; …