Ludwigsburg & Pasadena 2020
A Chronological Selection of 50 Books, Manuscripts and Autographs
Antiquaria Ludwigsburg, 23-25 January 2020
Stand 53/54, Musikhalle Ludwigsburg
California International Antiquarian Book Fair, 7-9 February 2020
Stand 605, Pasadena Convention Center
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1English Bible ManuscriptLatin manuscript on vellum.Northern France or England?, ca 1300 CE.
€ 145,000.00A beautiful, complete mediaeval Bible written in a miniscule bookhand on extremely delicate vellum, probably copied in England or commissioned from there. As is common, the Bible is prefaced with the epistle of St Jerome to Paulinus (53: "Frater Ambrosius [...] moriturum", fols. 1r-3r), followed by Jerome's prologue to the Pentateuch ("Desiderii …
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1216th century illustrated Italian manuscript about the art of war in a fine contemporary bindingLibro utillissimo et molto necessario di varii secreti importantissimi …Italy, before 1581.
€ 85,000.00An unusual and attractive Italian Renaissance manuscript on the art of war, lavishly illustrated in colour and in a sumptuous contemporary binding. The text comprises eight chapters dealing with the duties of the captain, making gunpowder, siege-breaking devices, the deployment through artillery of artificial fire, smoke and poisonous fumes, the …
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16A magnificent masterpiece of calligraphy and micrography for Princess Juliana of Hesse-DarmstadtGerman Psalter in the translation of Martin Luther.Oldenburg, 1634.
€ 125,000.00A splendid calligraphic manuscript on vellum and paper created for the 28-year-old Juliana of Hesse-Darmstadt (1606-59), countess of East Frisia, later in the collection of Victoria, Princess Royal, the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria and Albert of Saxe-Coburg. The micrographic text includes the liturgical calendar for 1634, the Psalms in mirror …
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43Written in the year of "Ulalume", one of Poe's most powerful tragic balladsAutograph letter signed ("Edgar A. Poe").New York, 31 Aug 1847.
€ 135,000.00Poe's final letter to the Philadelphia lawyer and playwright Robert Taylor Conrad (1810-58), of "Graham's Magazine": "It is now a month since I wrote you about the two articles I left with you - but, as I have heard nothing from you, I can only suppose that my letter has not reached you - or, at all events, that, in the press of other business, you …
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50Alfred Hitchcock's storyboard for "Stage Fright" in 340 pencil drawingsSketches with autograph annotations: storyboard for "Stage Fright".No place, circa 1949.
€ 150,000.00Extraordinary autograph pre-production storyboard for Hitchcock's 1950 film "Stage Fright", comprising preparatory sketches for some three quarters of the film, including the infamous "false flashback" initial sequence, the rest of the first half of the film, the garden party scene and the finale. A rare collection of sketches and comments detailing …