39th Ludwigsburg Antiquaria
Musikhalle Ludwigsburg
Booth 54
23 through 25 January 2025
A fair list of 50 items
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1"Louise ist Braut, Sie wird mit Achenbach getraut!"138 autograph letters signed.Düsseldorf, Elberfeld Wuppertal, Hildesheim, and Wevelinghoven, 1846-1848.
€ 55,000.00Exceptional, previously unknown body of correspondence that sheds fresh light on the biography and immediate personal circle of this eminent representative of the Düsseldorf school of painting, writted during his engagement to Marie Louise Hubertine Catharine Lichtschlag (1827-89), which began with their betrothal on 29 November 1846 and ended with …
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2A long and thoughtful inscription to William OehlenschlaegerNye Eventyr. Andet Bind. Første Samling. With autograph inscription signed.Copenhagen, 1847.
InquireFirst edition. The first collection in Andersen's second series of "New Fairy Tales", containing the tales "The Old Street Lamp", "The Neighbouring Families", "The Darning Needle", and "Little Tuk", as well as the famous, bleak tale of "The Shadow". With a long and thoughtful autograph inscription in verse to William Oehlenschläger, the son of his …
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3Meyerbeer, Grillparzer, Ibsen, Turgeniev, ManzoniAutograph album of Wilhelmina Simson, containing 83 dedications and signatures …Various places, mostly 1850-1880.
€ 18,000.00Impressive autograph album compiled by the biographically unrecorded composer Wilhelmina Simson. Among the most significant contributors to this unique item are Alessandro Manzoni (Brusuglio, 7. X. 1865; f. 14v), Franz Grillparzer (pasted AQS, Vienna, 13. X. 1865; f. 16r), Henrik Ibsen (Dresden, 8. VI. 1873; f. 28r), Friedrich Frh. von Flotow (pasted …
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4Inscribed and signedAmras.Frankfurt, 1964.
€ 2,000.00First edition, inscribed to the German building contractor Norbert Pribbernow: "Für / Pribbernow / herzlich / Thomas Bernhard / 26. I. 65 / Bremen". On that same 26 January 1965, Bernhard was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize.
An immaculate copy.
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5Fit for a king: paintings of the final flowering of the Burmese court[Burmese court scenes - folding book].Burma Myanmar, ca. 1870s.
€ 38,000.00A lavishly illustrated Burmese parabaik manuscript, completely hand-painted in scenes and figures, probably from the court workshop of the royal court at Mandalay. Dominating the work are the ten court scenes across 31 folios, recording the major events of the year. These include the regatta festival in the 6th month of the traditional Burmese calendar, …
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6One of 100 copies: lithographed facsimile of a key manuscriptVendidad Sadé. L'un des livres de Zoroastre. Lithographié d'après le …Paris, 1829-1843.
€ 45,000.00One of only 100 copies: a complete lithographed facsimile of the key manuscript which Abraham Anquetil-Duperron had brought to France from India in 1762, winning instant notoriety. This facsimile was issued more than six decades after his feat, over a 14-year period (the lithographer died half-way through the process), under the supervision of the …
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7The autograph diary of the publisher Friedrich Campe on his first visit to Paris"Friedrich Campens Tagebuch, während seiner Reise, angetreten den 6. Februar …Hamburg, Oldenburg, Amsterdam, Paris and other places, 6 February through 2 March 1802.
€ 7,500.00Previously unknown source for the life of the noted Nuremberg publisher A. F. A. Campe (1777-1846). The diary sheds light on Campe's travels in the spring of 1822, of which hitherto nothing was known save that he visited Paris and probably London, after which he made a brief trip to Italy, supposedly accompanied by the Nuremberg deacon G. J. F. Seidel, …
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8The Lives and Deeds of the Popes: With more than 1,000 illuminated coats of arms, bound for Pope Clement VIII, from the library of the Earl of RoseberyVitae et gesta summorum Pontificium a Christo Domino usque ad Clementem …Rome, 1598-1601.
€ 75,000.00The famous principal work of the Spanish Dominican Alfonso Chacón in its almost unobtainable first edition, bound and splendidly illuminated as the personal dedication copy of Pope Clement VIII. The elaborately decorated bindings bear Clement's coloured and finely ornamented coat of arms, which is repeated on the coloured fore-edges; the magnificent …
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9The philosophy of warVom Kriege. In: Hinterlassene Werke des Generals Carl von Clausewitz über …Berlin, 1832-1837.
€ 48,000.00The first edition of Clausewitz's writings on warfare: a complete set with all ten volumes, of which the first three include the first printing of "Vom Kriege", still today recognized "as the most profound exposition of the philosophy of war" (PMM). "Vom Kriege" "is less a manual of strategy and tactics … than a general inquiry into the interdependence …
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10An Egyptian Coptic hymnalEpsalia [Coptic Hymnal].Egypt, 1883 CE = 1599 AM.
€ 6,500.00A beautiful Egyptian Coptic liturgical manuscript, likely written by a female scribe. The manuscript, which contains a large collection of hymns, states in its Arabic colophon that "the priest Marqus ibn Fam ibn Abd al-Sayyid al-Deiri appointed to this book Mari Jirjis of Jazirat Shandaweil". Jazirat Shandaweil is located in the Sohag Governorate …
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11First editionBerlin Alexanderplatz. Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf.Berlin, 1929.
InquireFirst edition of the famous novel of the German metropolis. Includes the rare, well-preserved original dustjacket by George Salter: the revolutionary visual design combined Döblin's specially written blurb with seemingly naive elements of poster art and advertising, creating a collage of word and image that mirrors the author's artistic principle …
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12"Es gibt keine absolute Bewegung""Wesen der Relativitätstheorie". Autograph manuscript.No place, 1947-1948.
InquireGerman-language draft for "The Essence of the Theory of Relativity", an article published in English within volume XVI of "The American Peoples Encyclopedia" (1948). After a general introduction, the "special theory of relativity" and the "general theory of relativity" are discussed, with a few equations and a small graph sketch.
"Die Mathematik …
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13"Lassen Sie uns ja wo möglich verhindern, daß der Riß zwischen zwey verdienten jungen Leuten ... nicht unheilbar werde"Eigenh. Brief mit U.Weimar, 14 Nov 1804.
InquireAn den nicht namentlich genannten Philologen Heinrich Karl Eichstädt (1771-1848): "Mit unserm lieben Professor Voß bin ich einig geworden beyliegendes als eine Antwort auf die Astische Erklärung vorzuschlagen. Finden Ew. Wohlgeb. etwas dabey zu erinnern, so wünschen wir es zu vernehmen. Lassen Sie uns ja wo möglich verhindern, daß der Riß …
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14The History of the MagyarsAutograph note signed.Berlin, 31 May 1828.
€ 8,500.00To a bookseller or librarian, agreeing to keep a book on the history of the Hungarians: "Die Geschichte der Magyaren will ich behalten".
The five volumes of Johann Mailáth von Székhely's "Geschichte der Magyaren" would appear between 1828 and 1831.
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15Splendid costume plates for the King of Württemberg: the complete setVolkstrachten des Koenigreichs Würtemberg.Stuttgart, ca. 1820.
€ 8,500.00Rare, complete set of these splendid costume plates originally prepared for the King of Württemberg: a fine example of visual folk history. Each of the sumptuously coloured plates depicts an administrative division of the Kingdom of Württemberg, featuring couples and families in traditional Swabian garb, some accompanied by dogs, equipped with …
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16"Wanderung"14 watercolour drawings, mostly with autogr. inscriptions.No place or date.
€ 48,000.00Complete set of templates for the illustrations of his book "Wanderung. Aufzeichnungen von Hermann Hesse. Mit farbigen Bildern vom Verfasser", published by S. Fischer in 1920. Most of the watercolors have inscribed titles such as "Farmhouse", "The Bridge", "Rectory", "Trees", "Rainy Weather", etc.
Includes the 1949 edition of "Wanderung" with …
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17A complete apothecary of homeopathic remedies from the early 19th century"Homöopathische Apotheke" (spine title).Germany, ca. 1840.
InquireAn extensive and apparently complete apothecary set of homeopathic remedies from the early heyday of the still-popular alternative medicine system.
Homeopathy was first conceived in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), following the doctrine that a substance that causes symptoms of a disease in healthy people can cure …
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18The astrological science which brought together India and Ancient Greece[Jyotihshastra manuscript].Gwalior State, India, 1862 CE.
InquireBoasting thirty-two hand painted miniatures in bright and bold colour, this beautiful jyotihshastra manuscript details the workings of Hindu astrology. The illustrations include each iconographic representation of the zodiac alongside other signs and symbols, executed quite skilfully. Alongside these are astrological diagrams designed to aid in calculations, …
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19On Zen Buddhism: "The recitation of sutras I find unattractive"Autograph letter signed ("C.G. Jung").Bollingen, 6 Jun 1960.
€ 9,500.00To the Swiss Biblical scholar Rivkah Schärf Kluger on his dislike of Zen, a year before his death. Jung denigrates humans' ambition for super-humanity: "I am only interested in how I can live properly as a human being. This is difficult enough for me, so that I have no time left for any additional koans. The recitation of sutras I find unattractive. …
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20An envelope to Felice BauerEnvelope with autograph address and sender.Prague, 8 August 1913.
InquireTo Felice Bauer in Westerland/Sylt.
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21First edition of Kant's most highly regarded workCritik der reinen Vernunft.Riga, 1781.
InquireOne of the most influential works in the history of philosophy. In the preface to this first edition Kant explains what he means by a critique of pure reason: "I do not mean by this a critique of books and systems, but of the faculty of reason in general, in respect of all knowledge after which it may strive independently of all experience." Before …
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22In self-defenceUeber eine Entdeckung nach der alle neue Critik der reinen Vernunft durch …Königsberg, 1790.
InquireFirst edition of this response to attacks levelled against the "Critique of Pure Reason" by the Wolffian philosopher Johann August Eberhard (1739-1809) in the first volume of the "Philosophisches Magazin" (1789). Kant felt it necessary to break his own rules and take up the gauntlet: with the present book he defended the core of his critique of reason …
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23"Let us hope that the whores of evil no longer loiter on the doorsteps of your path beckoning you into the brothel of despair"Autograph letter signed ("J. Kerouac").Ozone Park, NY, 2 Sep 1945.
€ 18,000.00An early letter to William Burroughs ("Bill") alluding to his heroin addiction: "Allow me to congratulate you on your speedy recovery and to express the heartfelt wish that in the future there will be fewer rocky bumps on the road of life for you. In temperance is wisdom; moderation is the key to all sound accomplishment. Let us hope that the whores …
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24"So spät ist es, so späte""Nachts". Autograph poem manuscript.Pottenstein now Potštejn, Czech Republic, 21/22 July 1918.
€ 4,500.00"So spät ist es, so späte, / was werden wird, ich weiß es nicht. / Es dauert nicht mehr lange, / mir wird so bange, / und seh’ in der Tapete / ein fragendes Gesicht [...]". The poem, penned at Pottenstein Castle, is a copy or revision of one previously written on 28/29 December 1917 in St. Moritz and was first published in 1919 under the title …
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![Zwey hundert vier und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes von seinem Ursprunge bis zu seinem Ausflusse in das schwarze Meer. Begleitet mit einer [...] Beschreibung von G. C. B. Rumy.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/img-bn63710-324x324.jpg)
25One Belt, One Road in 1826Zwey hundert vier und sechzig Donau-Ansichten nach dem Laufe des Donaustromes …Vienna, 1826.
InquireA splendid set of views, probably the finest record ever published of the course of the Danube from its source to its outlet into the Black Sea. This is the only copy in contemporary colour known in the trade and in auction records of the last decades.
The Danube played a vital role in the settlement and political evolution of central and southeastern …
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26Far-reaching prophecies, illustrated by Jörg Breu the ElderDise Practica und Prenostication, ist getruckt worden zu Mentz im M.CCCC.XCII. …Augsburg, 1534.
€ 18,500.00Extremely rare edition of this finely illustrated prognostication book by Johannes Lichtenberger (1426-1503), an astrologer at the court of Emperor Frederick III. Lichtenberger was inspired to write prophecies after noticing astronomical curiosities, including Jupiter with Saturn in Scorpio in November of 1484, and a solar eclipse the following year. …
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27The legend of the Swiss Saint Meinrad and the foundation of Einsiedeln AbbeyPassio Sancti Meynradi martyris et heremite. Ed. Sebastian Brant.Basel, XII. kal. octobris = 20 Sept. 1496.
€ 58,000.00First Latin edition: this small incunable contains the account of the life and martyrdom of St. Meinrad of Einsiedeln, illustrated with 21 fine, large woodcuts. Sebastian Brant's rare Latin edition is based on a 12th-century manuscript.
Meinrad became priest and monk on the Reichenau island in Lake Constance and decided to live as a hermit. …
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28Nietzsche's farewell to his grandmother: "Tomorrow I set forth into a new world"Autograph letter signed ("Dr. Nietzsche Professor in Basel"). In German.Naumburg, 11 April 1869.
€ 58,000.00Emotional farewell letter to his grandmother Wilhelmine Oehler in Halle, on the eve of his relocation to Basel, where Nietzsche assumed his professorship on 28 May 1869. He attached his doctoral diploma to thank his grandmother for a congratulatory letter, apologizing for being unable to present it in person due to a "flood of urgent affairs". The …
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29After the first Bayreuth Festival: "Behind the great event lies a streak of blackest melancholy"Secretarial letter signed by the scribe Heinrich Koeselitz ("Friedrich …Basel, 27 Sep 1876.
€ 45,000.00An important, deeply ambivalent letter to Richard Wagner, marking the beginning of the philosopher's estrangement from the great composer, whose first Bayreuth Festival he had recently attended and found disappointing. In a previous telegram from Venice, Wagner had requested Nietzsche to purchase for him "two pairs of silk vests and underpants of …
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30Signed by the authorLeaving Las Vegas.Wichita, 1990.
€ 3,500.00First edition. This copy signed to the title-page by the author as well as by Nicholas Cage, the lead actor in the film adaptation.
Source material for the 1995 American drama film of the same name, directed by Mike Figgis and starring Cage and Elisabeth Shue. The film was a critical and commercial success, garnering four Academy Award nominations, …
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31A splendidly illuminated setLectura super libros decretalium.Venice, 1482-1483.
InquireA complete and splendidly illuminated set in six massive, strictly contemporary folio volumes: a still fairly early incunabular edition, rarely encountered with all parts present, of this great decretal commentary, the magnum opus of the Sicilian Benedictine Nicolaus de Tudeschis (1386-1445) from Catania.
Every volume is prefixed in the wide …
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32Signed and inscribed by the authorKiss of the Spider Woman.New York, 1979.
€ 2,500.00First American edition. Presentation copy, signed and inscribed by the author and the actor Raul Julia (one of the leads in the film adaptation) to director and actor Paul Bartel: "I who she spares / you her poison, / Saludos [...]".
Source material for the 1985 film of the same name, directed by Héctor Babenco and starring William Hurt, Raul …
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33Signed by the authorThe Godfather.New York, 1969.
€ 2,500.00First edition, 11th printing of Puzo's genre-defining masterpiece and basis for Frank Coppola's iconic 1972 film by the same name, inscribed by the author "Best, Mario Puzo" on the title-page.
Mario Puzo (1920-99) grew out of a childhood in Hell's Kitchen into one of the great novelists and screenwriters of the 20th century. The Godfather is …
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34The "Bible" of BengalThe Balmiki-Ramayun, Translated into Bengalee by Kirti-Bas Pundit.Calcutta, 1857.
€ 9,500.00Exceedingly scarce edition of the first Bengali translation of the Ramayana, completed in the 15th century by Krittibas Ojha (1381-1461) and of utmost importance to the literary history of the Bengali language. Despite its fame and history, no institutions hold a copy issued prior to 1926, and only two editions (1926 and 1977) are held in institutions …
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35Baroque recipe book with noble sourcesKunst-Reich-Hoch Rüehmliches Artzney Buech, welchs aus sonderbahren und …Probably Austria, ca. 1700.
€ 18,000.00A very extensive manuscript recipe book, undoubtedly the handiwork of a noble lady, containing a plethora of ointments, balms, waters, powders, purgations and other treatments, many of special gynecological interest.
Most of the names of witnesses or sources provided for individual recipes are those of women, which agrees with the observation …
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36Reynard the FoxReineke Fuchs, das ist ein sehr nützliches Lust- und Sinn-reiches Büchlein.Rostock, 1662.
€ 3,500.00Second Wilde edition of the popular tales of Reynard the Fox, which were widespread across northern Europe from the Middle Ages onwards. This "Baroque retelling" (Menke) in verse, "d'un contemporain inconnu du fameux Zesen" (Graesse), had first appeared in 1650 and was here expanded "by several hundred lines" (subtitle). Virgil Solis' fine woodcut …
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37A foundational element in the development of written languageRoman inked wooden tablet.Numidia/Byzacena, Roman Empire, second half of the 4th century CE.
€ 85,000.00One of the earliest extant documents in world history to be written in ink: a writing tablet from the Roman province of Numidia with script in Roman cursive. Soon adopted throughout the later Roman Empire, the style became a foundational element in the development of written language in Western Europe and the ultimate precursor of all subsequent …
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38A new young German authorLeviathan.Hamburg, 1949.
€ 4,500.00First edition of Schmidt's first book publication, containing the three stories "Gadir oder Erkenne dich selbst", "Leviathan oder Die beste der Welten", and "Enthymesis oder W.I.E.H".
Rare, well-preserved copy with the author's autograph inscription in indelible pencil to an employee at the Rowohlt publishing house: "Fräulein Ulrike Kallenrode …
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39"So this is my first diary""Mein Tagebuch". Autograph manuscript signed on front endpaper."Mariengrund", i.e. Schönau near Berchtesgaden, February and March 1955.
€ 18,000.00Highly interesting, intimate diary of the only 16-year-old actress, written a few months before the beginning of the principal photography for her sixth film, Ernst Marischka's first "Sisi" movie which would lauch her to stardom.
In her journal, addressed to an imaginary boyfriend, the artist adopts an enthusiastic tone: "Donnerstag, 17. Februar …
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41The history of armour throughout the agesDer Harnisch von seinem Entstehen bis zu seinem Wiedervergehen in Bildern …Southern Germany, "1714" but apparently early 19th century.
€ 25,000.00Two 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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42500 unpublished letters by the author of 'The Voyage of Forgotten Men'Collection of 480 autogr. letters and postcards and 2 telegrams to Yvonne …Berlin, Bad Aussee, Bremen, Darmstadt, Hamburg, London, Vienna, and other places, 1918-1965.
€ 65,000.00"There never was a time when Frank Thiess was not controversial", states the commemorative publication in honour of the writer's 60th birthday (Frank Thiess, Werk und Dichter, p. 30). Before the National Socialists seized power in 1933, the writer had enjoyed great success with his historical novels, and his literary importance was largely undisputed. …
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43Formerly in the manuscript collection of Stefan Zweig"Fantaisie de Concert pour Piano, avec accompagnement d‘Orchestre par …Probably Leipzig or possibly Paris, winter 1887/88 or February/March 1888.
€ 75,000.00Highly appealing manuscript of the Concert Fantasia for piano and orchestra, Op. 56, formerly in the collection of Stefan Zweig: a secretarial copy prepared at the time of the work's composition, containing several autograph additions in Tchaikovsky's own hand. The manuscript was long considered by scholarship to be fully holograph; a more recent …
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44Original 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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![Zehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bawen. Ein Schlüssel und einleytung aller Mathematischen unnd Mechanischen Künst, Scharpffsinniger fleissiger nachtrachtung oder Speculation künstlicher Werck […]. Alles mit schoenen künstlichen Figuren unnd Antiquiteten, und sonderlichen Commentarien […] gezieret und erkleret.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/img-bn64164-324x324.jpg)
45The German Vitruvius: fine illustrated edition, Praun copyZehen Bücher von der Architectur und künstlichem Bawen. Ein Schlüssel …Basel, 1575.
€ 18,000.00A handsome copy of the first German translation (in its second edition) of the only architectural treatise to survive from classical antiquity. Considered the supreme authority by Italian Renaissance architects, it became the single most influential work for the later development of European architecture.
The translation by Walther Hermann …
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![De institutione foeminae [...] libri tres, mira eruditione, elegantia, brevitate, facilitate, plane aurei, pietateq[ue] & sanctimonia, vere Christiani, Christianae in primis Virgini, deinde maritae, postremo viduae, novo instituendi argumento longe utilissimi. Quid autem singuli libri toto opere contineant, sequenti pagella, videre est.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/img-bn45727-324x324.jpg)
46"The first systematic study to address exclusively the education of women": a fabled rarity, the original first editionDe institutione foeminae [...] libri tres, mira eruditione, elegantia, …Antwerp, 1524.
InquireVery rare first edition of "the first systematic study to address explicitly and exclusively the universal education of women", commissioned by Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon, who was at the time rearing her own daughter, Mary Tudor. Translated and adapted by numerous followers, Vives' treatise would go on to be read in almost every European …
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47The first systematic study to address exclusively the education of womenVon underweysung ayner Christlichen Frauwen, Drey Bücher.Augsburg, 1 March 1544.
€ 18,000.00First German edition of "the first systematic study to address explicitly and exclusively the universal education of women", at the same time a fine and rare woodcut book. Commissioned by the wife of Henry VIII, Catherine of Aragon, who was at the time rearing her own daughter, Mary Tudor, Vives' treatise was translated and adapted by numerous followers …
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48The 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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49"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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50Wittgenstein's copy, signedSchriften. Ausgewählt und herausgegeben von Hans Kayser. Mit der Biographie …Leipzig, 1923.
€ 15,000.00Ludwig Wittgenstein's copy of Jakob Böhme's Selected Works, a Christmas gift in 1931 from his nephew Thomas Stonborough, with the philosopher's signed ownership inscription in pencil to the front free endpaper: "Von Tommy zu Weihnachten 1931 / Ludwig Wittgenstein".
Having been fascinated by the mystics in his youth, but for many years not …