Antiquaria Ludwigsburg
35th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg
28 January 2021
Virtual event
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1Never seen in the trade: sealed document by Wolfger von Erla, patron of Walther von der VogelweideDocument.Antro near Cividale del Friuli, 25 Apr 1206.
€ 50,000.00The only document by Wolfger von Erla ever seen in the trade, in excellent state of preservation. At the request of abbot Ulrich, Wolfger, writing as patriarch of Aquileia, confirms to St Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal, privileges of toll exemption granted by his predecessors Ulrich II and Gottfried to the abbot Pelegrine and his monks.
The research …
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2The finest Staufian document ever seen in the trade: the last Staufian emperor confirms a document by his grandfather Frederick I BarbarossaDocument.Ravenna, April 1226.
InquireExtremely rare, exceptionally well preserved ceremonial document, lost since 1782. At the request of abbot Conrad, Emperor Frederick II confirms the privilege granted to St Paul's Abbey, Lavanttal, by his grandfather Frederick Barbarossa on 19 March 1170, in which the latter bestowed his protection on the monastery, awarding it sole tenure of Völkermarkt, …
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3Bound by Master Mathias of ViennaSermones de poenitentia et restitutione (Poenitentiale). Sermones de confessione.Probably Vienna, after 1460.
€ 60,000.00Extensive 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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4Not seen in the postwar trade: the first edition of the works of Cusanus in a complete and well-preserved copy in its first bindingOpuscula theologica et mathematica.Strasbourg, not after 13 Oct. 1488.
€ 185,000.00Editio princeps: the extremely rare first printing of Cusanus's works, published only 24 years after the philosopher's death and based directly on his self-compiled, authorized final manuscripts. "Toward the end of his life Nicolaus Cusanus put together his numerous writings in two beautifully bound codices (Cod. Cus. 218 and 219 in the library of …
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5Complete with the 38 constellation woodcuts[Opera: carmina]. Arati phaenomena. (Add): Dionysius Periegetes, De situ …Venice, 25 Oct 1488.
€ 35,000.00First edition of Avienus's translation of this influential astronomical poem, rarely found complete, pre-dating the editio princeps of the Greek text by 11 years. Based on Eudoxus of Cnidus, Aratus's didactic poem about celestical phenomena (written soon after 276 BC, probably at the Macedonian court) enjoyed immense success and was frequently translated …
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6Epitoma regii ac vetustissimi ortus sacrae cesaree atque catholice majestatis… …Strasbourg, 1527.
€ 1,250.00First edition of this popular genealogy of the Habsburg monarchy, published nearly simultaneously with the German translation. The Alsatian Catholic humanist and educator Gebwiler (ca. 1473-1545; cf. ADB VIII, 486f.) was a friend of Jacob Wimpfeling and counted Beatus Rhenanus among his students. The title woodcuts show the Imperial Eagle on the …
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7"An astronomy fit for an emperor" (Owen Gingerich)Astronomicum Caesareum.Ingolstadt, May 1540.
InquireFirst edition of the "most spectacular contribution of the book-maker's art to 16th century science" (Gingerich). Copies in contemporary bindings are of the utmost rarity in the trade. Dedicated to Emperor Charles V and King Ferdinand, the book has been described as "a miracle of printing in folio format: most of the astronomical schemes and instruments …
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8First edition of two of the most important works on twilight and opticsSalacie[n]sis, de crepusculis liber unus, nu[n]c rece[n]s & natus et …Lisbon, January 1542.
€ 75,000.00First edition of two of the most important and rarest scientific works on twilight and optics. The first is written by the greatest Portuguese mathematician Pedro Nunez (1492-1577), who served as cosmographer royal to the court of João III. His "De crepusculis" discusses new solutions for problems concerning twilight (such as the shortest twilight …
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9Alhazen’s optics, this copy gifted by Wilhelm Xylander: the exceedingly rare first edition of a milestone in Arabic science[Kitab al-Manazir, latine]. Opticae thesaurus. Alhazeni Arabis libri septem, …Basel, August 1572.
€ 95,000.00First edition of "the most important work of its kind in Arabic literature" (cf. Poggendorf), this copy inscribed by the German humanist Wilhelm Xylander (1532-76), sometime rector of Heidelberg University.
Ibn al-Haytham (965-c. 1040), known as Alhazen in the Western tradition, has been hailed as "the greatest Muslim physicist and one of …
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10Safar Youhna al-Ra'ani (The Book of Revelations).Jerusalem, 9 Apr 1579.
InquireA unique manuscript translation of the Apocalypse of John, the final book of the New Testament, which was to be printed in Arabic at the Medicea Press only some ten years later. The Arabic and Bohairic Coptic text is set in two parallel columns. The colophon is signed by the scribe Jubra'il bin Yousha (Gabriel, the son of Joshua), recording that …
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11"Masterpiece of design"Alphabetum arabicum.Rome, 1592.
€ 45,000.00Only edition of this early milestone of Arabic typography from the Roman Medici Press, including a Latin treatise on Arabic script. The Medici Oriental Press, the first printing press in Europe dedicated to printing books in an Arabic typeface, was founded in Rome under the direction of Giovanni Battista Raimondi and the patronage of Pope Gregory …
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12Wilhelm von Grumbachs fernere Handlungen wider die drey vereinte fränkische …Apparently Southern Germany or Austria, end of the 16th century ca. 1600.
€ 8,000.00Extensive, near-contemporary collection of sources on the so-called "Grumbach Feud", a conflict between Wilhelm von Grumbach and the Prince Bishop of Würzburg which culminated in 1558 with the murder of bishop Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt and then blended into a scheme of Duke John Frederick II of Saxony to transfer the Saxon electorship to his …
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13Erneuerung der drittheiligen Weingarthen zu Nieder Wöllstadt, angangen …Wöllstadt, 11 Sep 1609.
InquireAn accurate register of vineyard leaseholders in Nieder-Wöllstadt (in Hesse's Wetterau region, north of Frankfurt), providing significant name material. Set up in 1609 on behalf of the Teutonic Order's commandery (Deutschordenskommende) of Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen, who owned the demesnes since the early 13th century, but still in use as late as 1743, …
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14Hand-carved woodblock engraved with "Safr Nishd al-Nishad li-Suleyman" …Probably Ottoman provinces, mid-18th century ca. 1750.
€ 18,000.00Woodblock in Ottoman Turkish for a Hebrew publication of the Song of Solomon, probably produced in the Ottoman regions of the Levant for a rural printing press. A rare survival of a printing tool, and also an important witness to cross-cultural printing for minority audiences in the Ottoman world.
Includes a print of the text reading "Safr …
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15A mid-18th century mission journey to the Near and Middle EastKurtze Nachricht von einer zum Heil der Juden und Muhamedaner auch zum …Halle, 1765.
€ 1,500.00Rare work report issued by the "Institutum Judaicum et Muhammedicum" in Halle (Saale), a Pietist institution founded in 1727 by the orientalist Johann Heinrich Callenberg for the mission of the Jewish population of Europe and the Orient. Stephan Schultz (1714-76) was Callenberg's successor as director. His pamphlet gives an account of the institution's …
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16Polyglot poems: an authorial manuscript bound for the KingPoemata anatolico-polyglotta seu plurium linguarum OO. in laudem Magni …Probably Turin, 1767.
€ 25,000.00A fine dedicatory manuscript, pre-dating the noted Hebraist's first published work: an assembly of polyglot odes by the 25-year-old scholar to the royal family of Sardinia, written in Aramaic, Arabic, Coptic, Ethopian, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and Syriac, all with their Latin translation opposite.
De Rossi studied at Ivrea and Turin. In 1769 he was …
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17The most comprehensive work on Portuguese colonial historyDa Asia. Nova ediçâo.Lisbon, 1777-1788.
€ 35,000.00A fundamental travel work: the best and most complete edition of what is considered the most comprehensive publication on Portuguese exploration and colonial history by João de Barros (decades I-IV) and Diego de Couto; the first edition to include decades X and XI. Books 2 and 3 of the "Decada Segunda" offer a detailed narrative of Afonso de Albuquerque's …
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18Numerical systems comparedAritmetica delle nazioni e divisione del tempo fra l'orientali.Cesena, 1786.
€ 7,500.00First edition thus. A highly interesting work comparing the different numerical systems used by various languages and cultures: Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, North and South American Indian cultures, Chinese, Japanese, Tamil, Coptic, Maori, etc. Separate chapters investigate the European adoption of the Arabic system of numerals. The engraved plate shows …
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19The first history of Cyprus in modern GreekHistoria chronologike tes nesou Kyprou eranistheisa ek diaphoron historikon …Venice, 1788.
€ 7,500.00Only early edition of one of the most famous and important histories of Cyprus, the first ever published in modern Greek. Written by Kyprianos, an Archimandrite of the Church of Cyprus, it covers most of the long period of Ottoman rule in the island (1571-1878). The dedication to Archbishop Chrysanthos boasts a fine half-page allegorical engraving …
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20Dr Jenner is "sorry it is not in his power to send any vaccine Virus"Autograph letter signed (in third person).London, Bond Street, 26 June 1801.
InquireA rare and early letter by Jenner relating to vaccination. Probably written to Edward Beeston Long (1763-1825) of Hampton Lodge, Surrey, only five years after Jenner's first successful vaccination: "Dr Jenner presents his Compliments to Mr Long & is sorry it is not in his power to send him today any vaccine Virus he can depend upon; but Mr Long …
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21The original Polish editionDziennik podrozy do Turcyi odbytey w roku MDCCCXIV.Breslau, 1821.
€ 48,000.00First edition.
The very rare original edition of this important account of a journey through Turkey and Asia Minor. According to Brunet the finest publication ever to leave a Polish press, it was soon translated into German as "Malerische Reise in einigen Provinzen des Osmanischen Reichs" (last sold for £20,400 at Sotheby's 2004 Natural History …
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22Autograph poem.No place or date.
€ 35,000.00From "Zahme Xenien VI" (mainly written between 1824 and 1827): "Ursprünglich eignen Sinn / Lass dir nicht rauben! / Woran die Menge glaubt / Ist leicht zu glauben. / Natürlich mit Verstand / Sey du beflissen, / Was der Gescheite weiß / Ist schwer zu wissen".
Red-sealed certification of authenticity by Ottilie von Goethe on the reverse.
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23Souvenirs 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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24"The escapee Büchner has died"Nachtrag zu dem von der Centralbehörde des Bundes am 1. Juli 1835 überreichten …Frankfurt, 29 March 1836 / 11 Oct. 1838.
€ 4,500.00Rare documents of political persecution in Germany's "Vormärz" period: two addenda to the 1835 escapee list published by the German police, containing signalments of a total of 63 wanted men. For each they state the occupation, charge, date of flight, probable location, personal description, and the date they were first posted as wanted. Charges …
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25Unpublished Notes of Lectures by Ernst Ludwig Schubarth, "A Savant Whose Work has been most Useful for the Progress of the Industry" (Alexander von Humboldt)Physik nach Schubart.Berlin, 1839.
€ 7,500.00A meticulously maintained record of one of Schubarth's lecture series, kept by a student, "W. Mück," and a fascinating look at 19th century physics. Unpublished.
Schubarth (1797-1868) was a medical doctor, surgeon, and technological chemist. He gave lectures on chemistry and physics at the Königliches Gewerbeinstitut in Berlin from 1821 …
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26Der 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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27Important German Gothic art collection, reproduced in watercolour by the collector himselfCollection of watercolour drawings with manuscript captions.Augsburg, 1849-1853.
€ 18,000.00Collection of impressive watercolour drawings after medieval art objects by Magnus Soyter, an Augsburg-based collector of German medieval art who prepared watercolours of the objects in his collection, adding captions in ink with information about the items depicted. Soyter was a highly skilled watercolourist, and his large reproduction drawings …
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28The Sudhoff Collection of the History of Arabic Medicine, deaccessioned …Various places, 1855-1941.
€ 95,000.00A highly important ensemble of books on early Islamic medicine and science, assembled by one of the most renowned medical research institutes of its age, comprising not only rare historical and bibliographical studies, but also many first printed editions of crucial scientific texts in Arabic, frequently in the form of doctoral theses that remain …
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29Correspondence archive containing more than 200 letters and cards from …Various places, mainly 1880s and 1890s.
€ 25,000.00An extensive correspondence archive of the famous Viennese salonnière, a native of Waltershausen in Thuringia who married the well-respected Austrian publisher Moritz von Gerold (1815-84). In her elegant salon she received many eminent personages from art as well as scholarship. Among the correspondents, some represented in several letters, are …
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30Correspondence by and to Gusti Adler, as well as correspondence by third …Various places, 1900-1984.
€ 85,000.00The present correspondence archive includes, among many other items, 6 letters or cards by Peter Altenberg, 1 by Richard Beer-Hofmann, 10 by Lili Darvas, 2 by Kasimir Edschmid, 13 by Anton Faistauer, 1 by Egon Friedell, 1 by Heinrich Friedjung, 1 by Hermann Hesse, 54 by Max Kalbeck, 1 by Alma Mahler-Werfel, 3 by Ernst Matray, 1 by Max Mell, 5 by …
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31"Secret" and "Confidential": The making of the most famous map of ArabiaCorrespondence relating to Fraser's classified map of Arabia and the Gulf.Mostly Simla and Dehra Dun, 1905-1906.
€ 150,000.00This letterbook containing correspondence on the research and preparation for F. F. Hunter's "Map of Arabia and the Persian Gulf" (1908) forms an important source that reveals the extensive and detailed work behind the production of a milestone in the mapping of the Arabian Peninsula.
When Hunter joined the Survey of India from the Indian …
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32Rare photographs of MuscatNine original photographs of Muscat.Muscat, ca. 1905.
€ 6,500.00Rare photographs of Muscat depicting variously, "The Rock of Muscat", the Al-Jalali Fort, and the Al-Mirani Fort. A number of the images are of a military nature, from which it is possible to surmise that the photographer was an officer: a torpedo being fired, a significant cache of weapons and troops (bluejackets) disembarking on the shore to be …
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339 autograph (picture) postcards signed, 1 autograph letter signed, 7 typed …Gaienhofen and no place postmarked Gaienhofen, Göschenen, Frankfurt a. M., ca. 1908-1956.
€ 12,500.00Amicable correspondence with the Konstanz dentist and composer Alfred Schlenker (1876-1950) and his wife Martha, reporting on his travels, his wish to see them, his health, his family, and his artistic work.
"Der Sommer holt noch etwas vom Versäumten nach, das ist gut. Aber in Lugano stehen die Fremden einander auf den Zehen, alles ist unleidlich …
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34Portrait postcard with autograph aphorism signed on verso.No place, 24 Feb 1910.
€ 8,500.00An aphorism in Russian, penned in the last year of Tolstoy's life: "Love everyone, and you shall prosper with all those with whom you live and will live in the future / Leo Tolstoy / 24 Feb. 1910" (transl.).
The card shows a reproduction von Ilya Repin's famous portrait of Tolstoy from 1901. Written side a little stained and with insignificant …
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35Typed document signed.Paris, 28 Dec 1922.
€ 6,500.00Contract between Maxim Gorki and André Germain, who hereby agrees to represent and commercialize Gorki's copyright in France.
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36Album with entries by the foremost German and Austrian writers, musicians, and actors of their ageAutograph album of Alice Wagner (1914-1982).Vienna, 1925-1934.
€ 9,500.00A fine document of a young autograph collector's passion for the world of the stage, and of the Viennese "World of Yesterday" described by Stefan Zweig, remarkable for its surprising number of eminent contributors.
Alice Wagner, born in Zadar, Croatia (then under Austrian rule) eight days before the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand …
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37Autograph postcard signed.Dakar, Senegal, 7 Jul 1926.
€ 3,500.00Photographic postcard ("Afrique Occidentale, Jeune féticheuse") sent to Reneé Galabert. The postcard was sent from Dakar by Marie Curie and her daughter Iréne to Renée Galabert at the "Institut du radium" in Paris, asking for news from the laboratory and about the devices provided by a certain Mr. Muguet, while the two were en route to Brazil, …
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38"I declare myself absolutely incompetent in matters of theatre as well as in those of literature"Autograph letter signed and illustrated with two small sketches.London, Fleming's Hotel, 29 Apr 1939.
€ 6,500.00To the writer Lucienne Favre about his incompetence in matters of theatre as well as in those of literature: "[...] je me déclare absolument incompétent en matière de théâtre comme en matière de littérature: me laissant guider par un simple intérêt des choses, je figurerais, par ex, u. pièce sous cette forme graphique: [dessin], c-à-d, …
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39Operation Magic CarpetCollection of Yemenite documents and publications in Hebrew.Israel, first half of the 20th century to the 1970s.
€ 6,500.00Extraordinary corpus of Hebrew records reflecting the struggle of the Yemenite Jews to emigrate and settle in Israel following Operation Magic Carpet in 1949/50. Includes several letters from the early 1960s written to Eretz Israel by members of the Yemeni community in Aden, regarding the arrangement of their emigration, as well as an important document …
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40Autograph postcard signed and with a small sketch.Roxbury Litchfield County, CT, USA, 9 May 1958.
€ 25,000.00To the Franco-Hungarian sculptor István Beöthy (Etienne Beothy) in Montrouge/Seine, announcing his arrival in Paris for the end of June. The sketch on the card's picture side, partly hand-coloured by Calder, shows a "collaboration entre vaches et sculpteur" ("collaboration between cows and sculptor").