2026 Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg Antiquarian Book Fairs
January 22nd to 25th
Musikhalle Ludwigsburg (stand 53/54) and
Liederhalle Stuttgart (stand 5)
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1Tables from the era that saw the height of Mesopotamia's mathemetical traditionCuneiform multiplication table of the number 320.Mesopotamia, ca. 2000-1700 BCE.
€ 12,500.00A cuneiform tablet containing mathematical tables, probably from a school where documents such as this would have been used as teaching aids to be studied and copied out by the students. Here the head number of 320 is multplied by the integers from 1 to 20, and then 30, 40 and 50. It was clearly kept together with other such tablets, as it is pierced …
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2700 years before Gutenberg: the earliest printed text that can be accurately datedHyakumanto Dharani.Japan, Nara Prefecture, Nara period 764-770 CE.
€ 65,000.00A rare example of the earliest printed text to have survived in Eastern or Western cultures that can be verifiably dated, predating the movable type of Gutenberg by some seven centuries.
In the year 764 CE, the Empress Shotoku commissioned one million ("hyakuman") miniature wooden pagodas ("to") for distribution to ten major Buddhist temples …
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3The finest Staufian document ever seen in the trade: the last Staufian emperor confirms a document by his grandfatherDocument.Ravenna, April 1226.
€ 450,000.00Extremely 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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![[Legendarium].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/img-bn68230-324x324.jpg)
4Gothic Legendary richly rubricated with dozens of fleuronné initials[Legendarium].Probably southeastern Bavaria, mid 14th century.
€ 95,000.00Beautifully appointed manuscript hagiography from Benedictine-Cistercian use, featuring lavish rubrication, red lombards, and dozens of red and blue fleuronné initials, prepared by two or three hands in a meticulous textualis script.
Modelled on Jacobus de Voragine’s famous "Legenda aurea", the present manuscript comprises the lives of some …
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5Coloured blockbook printsTwo consecutive bifolia (one split) from a blockbook Biblia Pauperum in …Netherlands, ca. 1465.
€ 185,000.00A set of beautifully coloured, highly rare specimens of blockbook printing, formerly in the Abbey of Wiblingen: four leaves from one of the best and most artistically valuable editions of the Biblia Pauperum, known as Schreiber ed. III. The figures are cut in simple strong outlines, with vigorous facial characterization suggested rather than elaborated; …
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6William Morris’s copy of a renowned Arthurian Grail narrativeJüngerer Titurel.Strasbourg, 1477.
€ 230,000.00First edition, William Morris’s copy of one of the most celebrated Arthurian romances recounting the quest for the Holy Grail. The Grail legend was a profound influence on Morris and, through him, on the Arts and Crafts movement; scenes from Grail literature appear repeatedly in his designs for tapestries, stained glass, and decorative arts, and …
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9Unique, early Renaissance alchemical manual drawing on Rhazes & Arabic tradition, a source for western botanyAn alchemist's handbook, in German. Illustrated manuscript on paper.Germany, ca. 1480/90.
€ 350,000.00A Renaissance alchemist's handbook, quoting Al-Razi by name and deeply rooted in the Islamic tradition of alchemical art. An intriguing manuscript which bears witness to early practical chemistry in 15th century Germany and to the immense influence of Arabic alchemy, illustrated with talented watercolour diagrams of the associated apparatus.
Indeed, …
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![[Vitas patrum - germanice]. Der altväter leben.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/img-bn63401-324x324.jpg)
10Exceptional early Vitas Patrum, with a set of 275 woodcut illustrations in contemporary colour, here used for the first time[Vitas patrum - germanice]. Der altväter leben.Augsburg, 25 Sep 1482.
€ 140,000.00An influential early work on the lives of the Saints of Christendom, each woodcut in vibrant contemporary colour. The first edition with this illustration cycle; second German edition overall.
This stimulating work is a collection of biographies of the so-called Desert Fathers, both male and female: early Christian hermits who retreated from …
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11For promoting the war against the Turks: the only xylographic indulgence form of the fifteenth century(Indulgence for the war against the Turks). Forma confessionalis et absolutionis …Munich, 1482.
€ 65,000.00Scarce indulgence for the crusading, promulgated by Pope Sixtus IV in 1480 and printed several times, with almost identical wording, in the years 1482 and 1483, mostly on behalf of the individual commissaries. Printed from a single woodblock, this is a block book like, verbatim copy of Friedrich Creussner’s typographic Nuremberg issue (GW 32). …
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12"Amt Unterntieff von 1486 biß 1491" (cover title).Unterntief near Bad Windsheim, Franconia, Southern Germany, 1486-1491.
InquireA well-preserved an uncommonly attractively bound account book recording the expenses and returns for the years 1486 to 1491 in the Middle Franconian settlements Unterntief, Windsheim, Oberntief, Berolzheim, Külsheim, Erkenbrechtshofen, Herbolzheim, Ergersheim, Rüdisbronn, Humprechtsau, and Kaubenheim (now largely incorporated into the city of …
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13Early news pamphlet: the first German account of European colonisation in IndiaGeschichte kurtzlich durch die von Portugalien in India, Morenland, und …Nuremberg, 1507.
€ 125,000.00First German-language printing of the curial newsletter containing the first account of European colonisation in India, documenting Portuguese conquests in East Africa and India as well as the first arrival of Europeans in Sri Lanka. Produced for a Central European audience shortly after the Roman issue of November 1506, it summarizes Portugal's …
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14Illustrated Meistersinger poemDas ist yetz der gemain und new gebrauch. in welchem das volck der welt …Augsburg, ca. 1520.
€ 18,000.00Exceptionally rare print of a Meistersinger poem, particularly remarkable for the woodcut title illustration prepared and signed by the German artist Urs Graf (1485-1528). It shows a jester sitting on a tree stump playing a lute with six strings, the initials "CH" on the lower left corner suggesting a depiction of the author. The poet Kunz Haß (ca. …
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15First German “Praise of Folly”Das Theür und künstlich Büchlin Morie Encomion das ist, Ein Lob der …Ulm, 1534.
€ 28,000.00First German edition. The best-known of Erasmus's works, "In Praise of Folly" is a biting satire which criticizes all human professions, from monks and theologians to grammarians, poets, and rhetoricians like himself. Erasmus's inversions and double-entendres begin with the title, playing with the name of his friend and host Thomas More, in whose …
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16Nuremberg Reformation sermon miscellany with rich medieval cuttingsFranconian manuscript miscellany of Reformation sermons, charmingly decorated …Probably Nuremberg, 1554.
InquireSubstantial Nuremberg Reformation sermon miscellany, completed in 1554 and notable for its elaborate, playful use of medieval manuscript fragments - painted initials, borders and fleuronnée - recycled from 12th to 15th century vellum books and cleverly arranged into an original decorative design.
Eleven sermons have been identified as by …
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17Fine Ottoman costume watercolours, with distinguished provenanceAn album of eight fine watercolour drawings depicting the costumes of Constantinople …Constantinople, ca. 1575 / later 16th century.
€ 65,000.00An album of eight splendid costume paintings, by a talented, unidentified artist who may have been a member of the entourage of a German ambassador to the Porte. The subjects in this collection are captioned: "Der Kriechen Patriarch" (the Greek Patriarch); "Der Türckisch Keiser" (the Turkish Sultan); "Der Türckisch Babst" (the Grand Mufti); "Türckische …
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![[Medical manuscript]. Artznei Buch. 1590. Opusculum non magnarum, sed necessarium rerum per Sigismundum Otthonem collectum.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img-bn59886-324x324.jpg)
18Medical recipes, arcane cures, Renaissance hippiatry, gold panning in Bohemia[Medical manuscript]. Artznei Buch. 1590. Opusculum non magnarum, sed necessarium …Germany, 1590.
€ 12,500.00A wide-ranging compilation of medicinal recipes and treatments for a great variety of ailments, certainly drawing on various medical and pharmacological texts, although only one specific reference is made, namely to Melchior Sebisch's 1580 translation of Charles Estienne's agricultural treatise "L'agriculture et maison rustique" (Paris 1564). A medicine …
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19A book for eternityDer christlich Glaube Mit Gottseligen christlichen und hoch tröstlichen …Nuremberg, ca. 1600.
€ 295,000.00Unique prayer book manuscript on vellum, containing sixteen full-page illuminated engravings after Marten de Vos: a highly expressive devotional work of the waning 16th century. One of only eight known manuscripts by Hieronymus Oertl, it provides a "unique example of the art of book arts around 1600" (Baeyer, p. 6), highlighting the transitory period …
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20Early Silesian album amicorum from the Thirty Years’ WarFriendship album of Adolph Weißhahn.Cluj, Cracow, Greifenstein, Mistelbach, Opava, Uhersky Brod, Wroclaw, and other places, 1619-1624.
€ 18,000.00Compiled during the opening phase of the Thirty Years’ War, this Silesian album amicorum preserves a dense network of noble and military signatories across Central Europe.
Rather than a purely student’s book, the sequence of entries and several rank designations point to a milieu connected with the field and with the noble estates of Silesia. …
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![Cryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX. In quibus & planissima steganographiae à Johanne Trithemio [...] olim conscriptae, enodatio traditur. Inspersis ubique authoris ac aliorum, non contemnendis inventis.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/img-bn68432-324x324.jpg)
21One of the most famous works on cryptography by the founder of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, GermanyCryptomenytices et cryptographiae libri IX. In quibus & planissima …Lüneburg, 1624.
€ 25,000.00First and only edition of one of the most renowned works on cryptography written by Augustus II, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1579-1666), founder of the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. Dedicated to Emperor Ferdinand II and printed in Lüneburg at the author’s expense by the brothers Johann and Heinrich Stern, this book is a comprehensive …
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![Drey Bücher vom Rechte des Krieges und des Friedens, darinnen das Recht der Natur und der Völcker [...]](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img-bn63364-324x324.jpg)
22Of the Law of War and Peace: The birth of international lawDrey Bücher vom Rechte des Krieges und des Friedens, darinnen das Recht …Leipzig, 1707.
€ 7,500.00First German edition of this epochal work, which gave birth to the doctrine of natural law and to international law. "His masterpiece, which made him famous throughout Europe ... Grotius's principle of an immutable law ... was the first expression of the 'droit naturel', the natural law which exercised the great political theorists of the 18th century, …
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![Montes Pietatis, oder Leyh-Assistentz und Hülffs-Häuser, Lehn-Banquen und Lombards, wie solche in einer jeden Republic, der gemeinen Bürgerschafft, und auch andern Leuten, sonderlich aber dem Nothleidenden Armuth zum Besten, höchst nöthig und nützlich anzulegen [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img-bn11586-324x324.jpg)
23"The completely lost first edition" (Sauer & Auvermann, cat. 5, 1382)Montes Pietatis, oder Leyh-Assistentz und Hülffs-Häuser, Lehn-Banquen …Leipzig, 1715.
€ 9,500.00First edition; very rare. The first German-language work on money-lending institutions. Also treats life annuities, widows' and funeral funds, and lotteries.
Marperger worked at a Lyons trading firm and occupied himself with matters of trade and business life. He counts among the most productive and widely read authors of German Cameralism.
Upper …
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24Riße und Beschreibung der Saltz-Cothen.Probably Halle/Saale, ca. 1720.
€ 12,500.00Fine German manuscript on how to increase the efficiency of German salt production. In German cities such as Halle, a major centre of the salt industry, the production of cooking salt was based essentially on the use of wells that provided a high concentration solution of brine. Extracted from the wells, the brine was boiled and refined to salt, …
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25Early Lessing aphorism from occupied LeipzigAutograph album leaf signed.Leipzig, 14 Dec 1757.
€ 15,000.00Album entry from Lessing’s early Leipzig years during Prussian occupation in the Seven Years’ War, presenting a pithy maxim on money and its spenders, subscribed with his signature and remembrance formula. The concise aphorism reads: "Geld und Gut muß zwei Schelme haben: Einen, der’s gewinnt, und einen, der’s verthut. / Hiermit empfiehlt …
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26"Er aber, sags ihm, er kann mich im Arsch lecken."Götz von Berlichingen mit der eisernen Hand. Ein Schauspiel.Darmstadt, 1773.
€ 28,000.00Rare first edition, self-published by Goethe and Merck in a very small press run. This first impression of the play about the maverick adventurer-poet Götz von Berlichingen contains the hero's famously profane "Swabian salute" unexpurged (p. 133); it was truncated in later editions. In spite of sluggish initial sales, the play enjoyed a sensational …
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27Eine Leipziger DynastieStammbuch der Leipziger Familie Küstner.Magdeburg, Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, Hamburg, Dessau, Paris u. a. O., um 1792 bis 1830.
€ 165,000.00Das vorliegende Stammbuch wurde im 19. Jahrhundert aus einzelnen Stammbüchern der Familie Küstner zu einem gemeinsamen, generationsübergreifenden großen Familienstammbuch zusammengeführt. Dazu wurden einzelne Beiträge aus kleineren, früheren Stammbüchern ausgeschnitten, auf eine Vorlage aus kräftigerem Papier montiert und in einem aufwendigen, …
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28From Marshal Radetzky's libraryBeschreibung eines Deutschen, und Hungarischen Sattels, samt Plans.Vienna, 1 Sep 1807.
€ 7,500.00A highly appealing manuscript on saddlery from Marshal Radetzky's library, discussing the production and characteristics of German and Hungarian saddles with the exact measurements of each component. Possibly not written by Radetzky himself but commissioned by him at a time when he was applying himself to military studies and editing his memoirs …
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29With important provenanceDas Käthchen von Heilbronn oder die Feuerprobe. Ein großes historisches …Berlin, 1810.
€ 9,500.00First edition.
Prettily bound and well preserved: a crisp and wide-margined copy, only slightly browned with very occasional foxing. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "Meinem Freunde Eduard Ludolff für -- / W. Haering / Berl. d. 8ten Novbr. 1821", probably by the writer Wilhelm Haering, known under his pen name Willibald Alexis, for his school-friend, …
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30Autograph letter signed.Weimar, 11 Mar 1813.
€ 18,500.00To the Privy Councillor Christian Gottlob von Voigt (1743-1819) about the lease on his Weimar garden and garden house: "Euer Exzell[enz] vermelde schuldigst: daß ich, bey herannahendem Frühling, jenen alten Gartenpacht pure erneuert und also diese Angelegenheit, gewiß auch mit Ihrer Beystimmung beseitigt habe. Mich und das Meinige angelegentlichst …
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31"a vivid account of the pernicious influence of secret societies under weak governments, and of the hideous abuse of religion"Die Geschichte der Assassinen aus morgenländischen Quellen.Stuttgart & Tübingen, 1818.
€ 3,500.00First edition. The first extensive history of the medieval Muslim sect of the Assassins, a radical group from whose name the English term for a political or religious killer is derived. A fanatical branch of the Ismaili Muslims who viewed themselves as martyrs, the Assassins specialised in political murder (usually carried out with a dagger), often …
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32Splendid 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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33Goethe's quillsAutograph letter signed, accompanied by two quills owned and used by Johann …Weimar, 1820s.
€ 35,000.00A note in German written to Wilhelmine Taschner, who had asked permission to meet Goethe and perhaps receive a small memento from the poet: "My father-in-law instructs me to let you know you that he much regrets his being unable to fulfil your wish, as his time is currently fully engaged by old acquaintances who are here at the moment. Yours, Ottilie …
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34"Insulting to humanity"Acta die Misshandlung der Johanna Christiana Proescholdin zu Lichte und …Lichte, Schmiedefeld, Königsee & Rudolstadt Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, 1821.
€ 2,500.00Uncommon example of early modern court records relating to a case of sexual assault in the principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (now Thuringia). During the night of Sunday, 14 January 1821, the 19-year-old maidservant Johanna Christiane Pröschold from Piesau was brutally raped at Pfeiffer's inn in Ascherbach (now part of Lichte near Neuhaus am …
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35Promising Hobhouse twenty pounds for a Byron monumentAutograph letter signed ("JW de Goethe").Weimar, 6 Jul 1828.
€ 18,500.00To the British politician John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton (1786-1869), Byron's friend and travel companion, promising him the sum of 20 Pounds Sterling toward a planned monument for Lord Byron, deceased in 1824: "Mein Herr / Bey der Subscription für Lord Byrons Denckmal bitte mich mit Zwanzig Pfund zu unterzeichnen, wozu ich mich schon vormals …
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36Autographed poemAutograph poem signed ("JWvGoethe").Weimar, February 1831.
€ 45,000.00"Liegt dir Gestern klar und offen / Wirkst du Heute kräftig, treu; / Kannst auch auf ein Morgen hoffen, / Das nicht minder glücklich sey".
This famous quatrain, a masterly paraphrase of a poem by François de Maucroix (1619-1708), was originally published in 1826 in lithographed facsimile of the original manuscript (dated 7 November 1825), …
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![Chochemer Loschen. Wörterbuch der Gauner- und Diebs- vulgo Jenischen Sprache, nach Criminalacten und den vorzüglichsten Hülfsquellen bearbeitet [...].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/img-bn66746-324x324.jpg)
37Chochemer Loschen. Wörterbuch der Gauner- und Diebs- vulgo Jenischen Sprache, …Regensburg, 1832.
€ 7,500.00Second edition of this popular dictionary of Yenish, an idiom of vagrants in southwest Germany, Switzerland and Austria, consisting of elements of Yiddish, gypsy elements and the jargon of the criminal underworld. "A continuously valued book of 'scoundrel literature'" (cf. Hayn/G.).
The work is arranged in four sections: a German-Yenish and …
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38Autograph letter signed ("de Balzac").Paris, 8 August 1834.
€ 4,800.00Unpublished letter to his new publisher, Edmond Werdet: "Je reconnais avoir à M. Werdet la facture par laquelle M. Gosselin déclare ne conserver aucun exemplaire des ouvrages qu'il avait eu à vendre et la joindre aux pièces qui me libèrent, et je la lui communiquerai toutes les fois qu'il en aura besoin" (transl.: "I acknowledge to have with …
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39Autograph pencil drawing signed with autograph date.Possenhofen, 24 Aug 1848.
€ 9,500.00Pencil drawing on paper with autograph inscription and date on the verso: "Elise / Possenhofen 24. August 1848".
The drawing shows a simple building, made from wood and stone. At the time, the later Empress of Austria (known familiarly as Sisi) was ten years old and lived in Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg in Bavaria.
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![Pokhozhdeniya i strady Kondratiya Selivanova [The Travels and Sufferings of Kondratiy Selivanov].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/img-bn68187-324x324.jpg)
40Rare Skoptsy sect manuscript recounting the passion of Kondrati SelivanovPokhozhdeniya i strady Kondratiya Selivanova [The Travels and Sufferings …No place, 23 May 1863.
€ 18,500.00A central Skoptsy text recounting the life, persecution, and claims of the sect’s founder, Kondratiy Selivanov.
Emerging from the Khlysty in the 1760s, the Skoptsy were among the most radical sects of Russian Spiritual Christianity, notorious for ritual castration and mastectomy as a means to eradicate lust and achieve perfection. Selivanov, …
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41The cradle of DadaismZur Kritik der deutschen Intelligenz.Bern, 1919.
€ 9,500.00First edition, inscribed to the managing director of the "Freier Verlag" (whose name has been effaced): "[Herrn Hans Huber] / In treuer Kameradschaft / Hugo Ball". Three years previously, the author had co-founded (with Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, and Marcel Janco) the famous "Cabaret Voltaire" in Zurich, regarded as the cradle of Dadaism. In his present …
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42Die Biene Maja und ihre Abenteuer.Frankfurt am Main, 1920.
€ 2,500.00Deluxe issue of the first illustrated edition of this children’s classic, no. 63 of only 100 numbered copies. The imprint is signed by Waldemar Bonsels and the artist Fritz Franke, whose illustrations made "Maya the Bee" famous. Exceptionally well preserved in the particularly fine vellum binding by the Spamer bookbindery in Leipzig. With an ex …
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43Die Kinderhölle in Berlin. Sonderheft Die deutsche Nation.Berlin, November 1920.
€ 2,500.00First edition of this study of child poverty in Berlin. Rare.
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44"Sealed for sanitary reasons"Die Silbergäule. Die Kathedrale.Hannover, 1920.
€ 9,500.00Only edition of one of the most important Dada publications, an early work containing some of Schwitters' finest and most original illustrations of the 1920s. With the wrapper title "Merz 8". This specimen includes the rare sealing strip, Schwitters' riposte for having been ostracized by the Berlin Dada Circle, who refused to admit him to the First …
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45Disavowing "apocryphal" interviews with him in the German pressAutograph manuscript signed (in Cyrillic, "M. Gorky")Berlin, 9 Nov 1921.
€ 6,500.00Addressed to the editor of a newspaper, Gorky's statement repudiates remarks that have been attributed to him in various newspapers: "From Maxim Gorki, who is staying in Berlin at present for a short time, we have received the following note: / Allow me, dear editor, the polite communication that the interviews with me which have appeared in various …
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46Bocksgesang. In fünf Akten.Munich, 1921.
€ 6,500.00First edition.
Inscribed to the Czech playwright Arnošt Dvorák (1881-1933) "in admiration and with fraternal wishes, for his deep and true artistic plans / Franz Werfel / Nov. 22, Prague". Dvorák's translation of the tragedy would be published by Svejda in Prague in 1923. This is Werfel's personal working copy with his ownership "F.W." on …
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![Georg Büchners Wozzeck. Oper in 3 Akten (15 Szenen) [...] Op. 7. Klavierauszug von Fritz Heinrich Klein. Eigentum des Komponisten.](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/img-bn68462-324x324.jpg)
47Association copy inscribed by Berg to his studentGeorg Büchners Wozzeck. Oper in 3 Akten (15 Szenen) [...] Op. 7. Klavierauszug …Vienna, 1922.
€ 15,000.00First edition, first issue of the composer’s privately printed piano vocal score, produced at Berg’s expense and prepared by his pupil Fritz Heinrich Klein (1892-1977): a presentation copy inscribed by Berg to his student Josef Polnauer (1888-1969).
Issued in advance of Universal Edition’s adoption of the score, this reduction, funded …
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48Weyl’s Riemann surfaces: Turing’s undergraduate copyDie Idee der Riemannschen Fläche.Leipzig, 1923.
€ 25,000.00Copy signed “A. M. Turing” in ink on the front free endpaper and dated “January 1934”, when Turing was an undergraduate at King’s College, Cambridge.
The second, revised and corrected edition, expanding Weyl’s Göttingen lectures and recasting Riemann’s conception of complex surfaces within a rigorous topological-analytic framework. …
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49Inscribed to Gusti Adler, Max Reinhardt's "right hand"Kulturgeschichte der Neuzeit.Munich, 1928-1931.
€ 2,800.00Presentation copy inscribed by the author in pencil on the flyleaf of the first volume: "Der geliebten Gusti / von ihrem aufrichtigen Seelenfreund / Egon Friedell / Berlin, Februar 1930" ("To my beloved Gusti from her sincere soulmate Egon Friedell").
The printed dedication of Friedell's magnum opus is to the great director Max Reinhardt; the …
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![Ba-ma'arav en hadashot [All Quiet on the Western Front, Hebrew].](https://inlibris.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/img-bn66168-324x324.jpg)
50"Im Westen nichts Neues" - inscribed by the authorBa-ma'arav en hadashot [All Quiet on the Western Front, Hebrew].Warsaw, 1930.
€ 3,500.00Very early and exceedingly scarce Hebrew edition, printed in Poland: the second issue of the translation by S. Yismu'eli (Milikowski), which was one of two that had appeared in 1929, the year of the German first edition (the other one being that of Ya'akov Horovits, using a slightly different title, "Ba-ma'arav en kol hadash").
Inscribed in …
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51"Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu": early Dada sound poem in original wrappersMerz 24. Ursonate.Hannover, 1932.
€ 15,000.00First edition, in the scarce original wrappers, of this seminal Dadaist sound poem by Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), one of only 1000 copies. The "Ursonate", also known as "Sonate in Urlauten" and occasionally written in English as the "Ur-sonata", was composed in different versions between 1923 and 1932 and joined Schwitters's lifelong fascination …
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52Felix Guggenheim's personal copy of "Gone WIih the Wind": with a typed letter signed by Margaret MitchellVom Winde verweht.Berlin, 1937.
€ 7,500.00The splendidly bound personal copy of Felix Guggenheim, the driving force behind the Berlin publishing house Deutsche Buchgemeinschaft.
"Gone with the Wind" was first published in Germany in mid-September 1937, by the recently-established Hamburg publisher H. Goverts. The translation by Martin Beheim-Schwarzbach was immediately licensed to …
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53Weill and Anderson sign "Knickerbocker Holiday" - with Robert E. Sherwood, Elmer Rice, S. N. Behrman, Walter Huston, and Dick KollmarKnickerbocker Holiday.Washington, D.C., 1938.
€ 2,500.00First print edition of the American musical, signed on the half title by the play's German-American composer Kurt Weill (1900-1950), and signed on front free endpaper by Weill's co-writer Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959) and fellow producers of the Playwrights' Company, S. N. Behrman (1893-1973, twice), Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955), and Elmer Rice …
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54"A souvenir from Switzerland"Einführung in das Wesen der Mythologie. Gottkindmythos. Eleusinische Mysterien.Amsterdam & Leipzig, 1941.
€ 2,800.00First edition, with authorial presentation inscription "To Peter! Here is a souvenir from Switzerland! C. G. Jung".
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55Original 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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56"Vom Wunderkind selbst"Child Prodigy.New York, 1945.
€ 2,500.00Inscribed in German by the Austrian-American composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) as "the child prodigy himself".
Part memoir and part biography, Julius Korngold's work book on the topic of his famous son's life was never actually finished, nor was it ever published in German. This is the American edition, published under the title …
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57Inscribed by the author to his literary agentMein ist die Rache.Wien, 1947.
InquireFirst European edition of one of the earliest works of literature to address the moral conflict of concentration camp survivors.
Felix Guggenheim, to whom this copy was gifted, had produced the original first edition in 1943, together with his business partner Ernst Gottlieb: their Los Angeles-based "Pazifische Presse" was the only West Coast …
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58For Erich HoneckerEin Mensch unsrer Zeit in seinen Gedichten. 1911-1951.Berlin, 1951.
€ 1,500.00First edition. The title-page bears the author's autograph inscription to Erich Honecker, like Becher a leading member of the SED (Socialist Unity Party): "Lieber Honecker, lass es Dir so gut gehen / Joh R Becher / Berlin 1953".
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59First printing, signed by the author and the starSpartacus.New York, December 1951.
€ 3,500.00First printing, self-published by the author, who was blacklisted for his Communist sympathies. Signed on the front free endpaper by the author, Howard Fast (1914-2003), as well as by Kirk Douglas (1969-2020), who starred in the lead role in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 epic film dramatization of the novel.
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60The original manuscript famously smuggled out of RussiaDoktor Zhivago. Autograph manuscript signed in full and monogrammed twice, …No place, 1955.
InquireThe original manuscript of one of the most famous novels of the 20th century. After having been rejected by the literary monthly Novy Mir for not adhering to socialist realism, the manuscript was smuggled out of Soviet Russia by the Italian journalist Sergio d'Angelo and first published by Feltrinelli in Italy in 1957. It became an international …
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61"mein Meniscus ist angerissen (das mir - dem unsportlichsten Menschen des Universums)"A collection of 27 autograph letters, cards, programmes and photographs …Barcelona, Bethlehem, Beverly Hills, Paris, Salzburg, Stratford-upon-Avon, Triesen, and Vienna, 1966-1983.
€ 9,500.00An extensive collection of letters, cards, portraits and ephemera by and relating to one of the most talented and beloved stage and screen actors of his generation, assembled over many decades.
"Dass Ihr liebenswürdiger Brief […] so lange unbeantwortet blieb, hat verschiedene Gründe - 1) lag er zu unterst von einem Stapel - 2) brauchen …
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62Signed by Coppola, Pacino and De NiroThe Godfather. Signed by Francis Ford Coppola, Al Pacino, and Robert De …New York, 1969.
€ 3,500.00Uncommon association copy of Puzo’s modern crime classic (in a later edition), bearing contemporary inscriptions by the film’s Oscar winning director and two of its principal actors.
The convergence of Coppola, Pacino, and De Niro on a single copy creates a desirable nexus between the novel and its landmark screen adaptations (1972-90), …
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63Inscribed by the author: Alex C. Walker Memorial Lecture, delivered by Milton Friedman, 5 December 1974.Is Inflation a Curable Disease?Pittsburgh, PA, 1974.
€ 4,500.00First edition. Inscribed by the author, "For Scott, Milton Friedman" in black ink to the title-page.
A lecture delivered by the great American monetarist economist Milton Friedman two years before he was awarded the Nobel Prize. Friedman's lecture was delivered at the height of the the great inflationary recession of 1974/75, when both inflation …
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64Superspace and Supergravity - signed by HawkingSuperspace and Supergravity: Proceedings of the Nuffield Workshop, Cambridge …Cambridge, 1981.
€ 35,000.00Author's presentation copy, inscribed on the title page in Hawking's own hand. This is a collection of densely mathematical papers given at a workshop on supergravity organized by Hawking. The dustjacket reproduces a blackboard covered with doodles by Martin Rocek and other attendees at the Nuffield Workshop, including a caricature of Hawking himself: …
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65Signed by a co-discoverer of DNA and Nobel Prize winnerDNA: The Secret of Life.New York, 2003.
€ 1,000.00First edition, inscribed by Nobel laureate James D. Watson, "for Dave & Fanny from Jim" on the half-title.
The single most important advance in biology since Darwin's theory, the discovery of the structure of DNA was the product of the research of James Watson, Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, and Maurice Wilkins. For this monumental work, …