38th Antiquaria Ludwigsburg
Musikhalle Ludwigsburg
Booth 54
25 through 27 January 2023
A chronological fair list of 40 items
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Autograph letter signed.Basel, 8 Jun 1608.
€ 6,500.00Fine and rare letter to a fellow scholar, the Dutch Reformed theologian Conrad Vorstius (von der Vorst, 1569-1622) at the Steinfurt Academy, who would succeed Jacob Arminius as professor in Leiden in 1609, only to be driven from his new office as a Remonstrant by his strictly Calvinist enemies.
By this letter, Buxtorf politely introduces himself …
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FischBiechlein. Unterschidliche nuzliche Khinst und Recept aller erkantnus …Probably Tyrol, 1724.
€ 6,500.00A pretty early 18th century German manuscript, written in an uneven hand, all about methods to catch fish and crabs. The author describes fishing techniques throughout the year and in various seasons, with rods, weirs, and bare hands, also discussing baits, feathered wobblers, and other lures. Captions include: "Wie man fischen solle", "Huechen auf …
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Friendship album of the theologian Matthias Harnwolf with more than 250 …Mostly Leipzig and Jena, but including Berlin, Frankfurt/Oder, Halle/Saale, Liegnitz, Magdeburg, Sopron, and Waldau, 1769-1773.
€ 12,500.00Exceptionally comprehensive friendship album assembled by the theologian Matthias Harnwolf(f), who served as preacher in his native Agendorf (Ágfalva in Hungary) from 1783 until his death in 1809.
Harnwolf was a well-travelled man, of which fact his album gives ample evidence. The first entry is also the most prominent: it is written by none …
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Autograph letter signed ("Wieland").No place, 8 Jan 1810.
€ 4,500.00To Eleonore Maximiliane Ottilie Henckel von Donnersmarck, née Countess von Lepel (1756-1843), widow of the Lieutenant-General and Prussian Governor of Königsberg, Victor Amadeus von Henckel zu Donnersmarck (1727-93), and Grand Mistress of the Court with the Grand Duchess Helena of Russia and from 1804 onwards with the Duchess Maria Paulowna von …
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Friendship album box of Friedrich Ferdinand von Ammon.Göttingen 42, Heidelberg 26, and other places, 1815 to mostly 1817.
€ 8,500.00Exceptionally comprehensive and pretty friendship album assembled by the Prussian jurist and member of parliament Friedrich Ferdinand von Ammon (1794-1874) during his university years in Heidelberg und Göttingen. After serving as judge in various capacities, Ammon was chief prosecutor in Düsseldorf from 1832 to 1835, then councillor to the court …
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Silhouette album for Wilhelm Müller's poem "Frühlingseinzug".No place, 19 Jan 1826.
InquireThe probably last privately owned silhouette album created by Adele Schopenhauer, all other recorded examples being in public collections (several in the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, "Des Einsiedler's Traum" in the Schopenhauer archive at the Frankfurt University library; the silhouettes for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy are kept at the Bodleian Library, …
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Autograph letter signed ("Felix").Birmingham, 21 Sep 1837.
€ 25,000.00One of only two surviving letters to his young wife Cécile Jeanrenaud: "Voici, chère Cécile, comme je garde ma promesse ! 1000 lieues ! 1000 baisers ! Espoir !".
The "promise" to which Mendelssohn alludes probably refers to his departure from England immediately after his participation in the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival on September …
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Autograph letter signed ("J. Br.")Vienna, 15 Dec 1893.
€ 9,000.00To his publisher Fritz Simrock: "Epstein dankt mir u. ich danke Ihnen herzlich daß Sie so freundlich hinter dem Rücken des Autors in s[einem] Namen versandten. Nun aber: Was dem E. recht, ist dem Door billig! Wenn Sie das nicht selbst schon gedacht haben, bitte ich, doch auch an Door (I, Sonnenfelsgasse 1) ein Ex. zu senden. (An Brüll habe ich …
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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".