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RAUL MARCHISIO Have you always dreamed of riding in one of "Professor" Raul Marchisio's racing cars? The mythical Ferarri F40, the overpowering Porsche Carerra GT or the incredible Lamborghini Aventador SVJ... take your pick! A once-in-a-lifetime experience. This unique experience continues with two nights at the AC hotel in Nice.

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RAUL MARCHISIO Have you always dreamed of riding in one of "Professor" Raul Marchisio's racing cars? The mythical Ferarri F40, the overpowering Porsche Carerra GT or the incredible Lamborghini Aventador SVJ... take your pick! A once-in-a-lifetime experience. This unique experience continues with two nights at the AC hotel in Nice.

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Estim. 250 000 - 300 000 EUR

Martin Luther Autograph Letter Signed: "These Jews are not Jews, but devils incarnate who curse our Lord" ALS in German, signed “Martinus Luther D,” one page both sides, 8 x 12, [circa September 1, 1543]. An extensive, uncommonly well-preserved letter to Georg Buchholzer, Provost of St. Nikolai in Berlin, regarding the latter’s altercation with the Brandenburgian court preacher Johann Agricola from Eisleben (also known as ‘Magister Eisleben’) about the treatment of the local Jews. Prince Elector Joachim II, who in 1539 had introduced the Reformation to Brandenburg and whose tolerant politics toward Jews enraged the population, had long desired a reconciliation between Luther and his former disciple Agricola, and he must have suspected that Provost Buchholzer was poisoning Luther’s mind against his court preacher. Buchholzer therefore wrote to Luther requesting an interpretation of some Biblical verses by which Agricola justified his pro-Jewish stance, and in his answer Luther insists that Buchholzer has done well to preach against the Jews and shall continue to do so, ignoring the habitual liar Agricola. In part (translated): “Grace and Peace. My dear Provost! I must be brief with writing, for the sake of my weak head. You are aware that you have no previous association with me, nor I with you, other than that you recently wrote to me asking for an explanation regarding several statements. And even if you were to write me many things about M. Eisleben, how could I believe you alone? For whoever says that you or anyone in Berlin or in all of Brandenburg is inciting me against Eisleben, if he says so unwittingly, may God forgive him, but if he says it knowingly, then he is a roguish liar, as well as M. Eisleben himself has lied frequently, here in Wittenberg. M. Eisleben needs nobody to incite me against him; he himself is much better at that, much better than anyone whom he might suspect of such dealing. He knows that full well....In my opinion, he will give up his life before he gives up his lying.—You have preached against the Jews and fought serious battles over that with the Margrave....And you were quite right to do so. Stand fast and persevere! The words against you which you quoted to me, allegedly protecting the Jews, I will not hope to be true, nor shall I believe that M. Eisleben ever will preach or ever has preached such. I do not yet consider him so deeply fallen. May God prevent him!...For then M. Eisleben would not be the Elector’s preacher, but a true devil, letting his sayings be so shamefully misused to the damnation of all those who associate with Jews. For these Jews are not Jews, but devils incarnate who curse our Lord, who abuse His mother as a whore and Him as Hebel Vorik and a bastard, this is known for certain. And anyone who is capable of eating or drinking or associating with such a foul mouth is a Christian as well as the devil is a saint....You may show this letter to whomever you wish. I do not know, nor do I care, who wrote the other three letters from Wittenberg to Berlin. You will undoubtedly confess this to be the first letter you ever received from me. For your name and person were previously unknown to me.” The letter bears several corrections in Luther’s own hand. The date of receipt is noted by Buchholzer at the foot of the reverse: “Received by me in Berlin on Wednesday after St Egyd [5 September] anno etc. 43.” In very good to fine condition, with intersecting folds and light overall soiling; a beautifully preserved specimen. Accompanied by a handsome custom-made quarter leather clamshell case. Luther had apparently forgotten that several years previously, in late 1539, he had answered a letter of Buchholzer’s inquiring about Catholic rites still in use in Reformed Brandenburg. More notably, although Luther is writing to a fellow scholar, this letter is written in German so that the recipient may show it “to whomever he wishes”—that is to say, to the Elector himself, thus providing Buchholzer with a writ of protection against any suspicion which Joachim may harbor against him. The Hebrew words invoked by Luther, “Hebel Vorik” [vanity and emptiness], are taken from Isaiah 30:7. They were part of a Jewish prayer in which Jews thanked God for having made them different from those peoples who worshipped “Hebel Vorik,” though Luther construed the words as a code for Jesus Christ. Luther’s anti-Judaism had not always been this radical—as a young man he had spoken out judiciously against the traditional defamation of Jews and against all forms of forcible conversion, but he soon grew increasingly bitter, and by 1543 his attitude was one of undisguised loathing. His most notorious antisemitic pamphlet, ‘On the Jews and Their Lies,’ was published only months before the present letter was written. With the same rhetorical skill with which he had previously ridiculed the papacy he now invoked a grotesque abhorrence of Judaism

Estim. 2 000 - 4 000 EUR

Charles Lindbergh Four-Page Autograph Letter Signed from England, Written in the Wake of the Kidnapping and Hauptmann Trial ALS signed “Charles A. Lindbergh,” four pages, 6 x 8, personal Long Barn letterhead, October 30, 1936. Handwritten letter to friend Martin Engstrom, in full: "Your letter makes me homesick for Minnesota and the fall days which are nowhere as beautiful as in a country of cold winters. Seasons have never meant as much to me as they did during the years I lived in Minnesota. Dr. Nute, of the Minnesota Historical Society, sent me a number of pictures she took when you showed her over the property. I think you and everyone responsible for the work are to be congratulated on the simplicity and taste which are shown in the pictures. I hope similar discretion will always be used in projects connected with the old farm, and I am sure it will be, as long as you take part in the plans which are made. The planting of the trees which you mention in your letter should be a great improvement and should add materially to the beauty of the property after they have had a few years to grow. I shall look forward with great interest to seeing the place again because you have apparently done a great many things since I was there. You ask if I have any suggestions. I am especially interested in two policies in connection with the park. First, that the property be left in a simple and natural condition. Second, that the fact of it’s being named after my father be not lost by bringing out too prominently incidents connected with my own life. One other thing — I hope the property is always handled in a way which will permit people from Little Falls and the nearby country to obtain real pleasure from going there. It should be a place where families can go on Saturday and Sunday and where children can enjoy playing in the creek and river. I know that you are in full accord with me in all of these policies, and that there is really little need for me to mention them again.” In very fine condition. After the highly publicized kidnapping of their son, Lindbergh and his wife, Anne Morrow, found respite and privacy when, in 1936, they rented the Long Barn house, located in the English village of Sevenoaks Weald, Kent. Their second child, Jon, is remembered by the villagers as being watched over by an armed bodyguard while playing on the grounds. When the Lindbergh family donated its 110-acre farm to the state of Minnesota in 1931, a state park was created in Congressman C. A. Lindbergh’s honor. Little attention was given to the development of the park until 1936 when it became a local project for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). In addition to repairing the Lindbergh home, other structures — buildings and bridges, trails, trail shelters, and parking lots — were constructed by the WPA on the former Lindbergh farm.

Estim. 200 - 400 EUR

Keanu Reeves Signed Photograph Color satin-finish 8 x 10 photo of Keanu Reeves as Neo from the Matrix franchise, signed in blue felt tip. In fine condition, with poor signature contrast and a PSA/DNA authentication label affixed to the lower right. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from PSA/DNA.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

HUGO (Victor). L'Homme qui rit. Paris, Librairie internationale, A. Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Ce, publishers in Brussels, Leipzig and Livorno, 1869. 4 vol. in-8, 381 pp. 307 pp. 296 pp. 384 pp. Eggplant half-chagrin, spine ribbed and decorated, gilt title and tomaison (period binding). Minor rubbing to spine ends. First edition. Minor foxing. (Vicaire IV, 341.) A very fine copy, well preserved in its pleasant period binding, enriched with a very fine AUTOGRAPHIC LETTER SIGNED by Victor Hugo to "his old friend" Théodore de BANVILLE, Hauteville House, April 28 [1869], Hauteville House ("H. H."), 1 p. in-12: "I have always said that a great poet contains a great critic. I have just read your admirable first page on L'Homme qui rit. Judge how I await the next ones! This magnificent study of my book, begun by you, pays for all my trouble. Complete it, my eminent and dear colleague. Having fame, you have the right to give it, and I thank you, moved and charmed."

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