Null Bapa Mene yam mask, Abelam population, Aire Wosera, Papua New Guinea

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Bapa Mene yam mask, Abelam population, Aire Wosera, Papua New Guinea Braided lygodium fern, pigments Dimensions: 24 x 15.5cm Mask used for agrarian rituals, especially yam rituals. The expressive face is accentuated by the treatment of the eye area. The forehead is crowned with a beautiful openwork crown headdress decorated with triangular shapes.

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Bapa Mene yam mask, Abelam population, Aire Wosera, Papua New Guinea Braided lygodium fern, pigments Dimensions: 24 x 15.5cm Mask used for agrarian rituals, especially yam rituals. The expressive face is accentuated by the treatment of the eye area. The forehead is crowned with a beautiful openwork crown headdress decorated with triangular shapes.

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Bary, Mariano deMy diary of our trip to the Argentine Republic June 28 - October 24, 1891.Manuscript with title page with original drawings and 42 mounted original photographs. 131 hs. numm. S. 4°. Hardcover with gilt-stamped spine and cover title, rich ornamental gilding on spine, covers and inner edges, three gilt edges and marble endpapers. Gilt edges and marble endpapers (somewhat rubbed and bumped, partly slightly scuffed). Signed: J. Mössly. Bary, Mariano de Mein Tagebuch unserer Reise nach der argentinischen Republik 28. Juni - 24. Oktober 1891.manuscript with title page with original drawings and 42 mounted original photographs. 131 hs. numm. S. 4°. Hardcover with gilt-stamped spine and cover title, rich ornamental gilding on spine, covers and inner edges, three gilt edges and marble endpapers. Gilt edges and marble endpapers (somewhat rubbed and bumped, partly slightly scuffed). Signed: J. Mössly. Mariano Bary (1874-1917) came from an extremely influential entrepreneurial family active in Antwerp in the late 19th century. His father, Albert de Bary from Wuppertal, married the Argentinian Célina Saavedra, daughter of the former governor of the Argentinian province of Buenos Aires, in 1873, who died just three years later. Albert founded a number of joint-stock companies ("Mutualité Anversoise", "Société Anonyme Industrielle et Pastorale Belge Sud Américaine", "Compagnie des Produits Kemmerich"), as well as the company "von Bary & Co." in 1900, which took over the general agency of North German Lloyd, the Roland Line and the German East Africa Line. The Gera, on board which the family traveled to Argentina in 1891, was a city-class steamship of North German Lloyd, which had completed its maiden voyage to La Plata in January of the same year. The original photographs of the voyage, mounted in the extremely neatly written text, show group portraits on board, landscapes and photographs of the local population. - Album pages somewhat wavy in places due to mounted photographs. Occasionally somewhat brownstained. Slightly browned in the margins. Very good overall. German manuscript with title page with original drawings and 42 mounted original photographs. Cont. leather with gilt title on spine and covers, rich ornamental gilt on spine, covers and inner edges, gilt edges and marbled endpapers (somewhat rubbed and bumped, partly a little scuffed). Signed: J. Mössly. - Mariano Bary (1874-1917) came from an extremely influential family of entrepreneurs active in Antwerp in the late 19th century. His father, Albert de Bary, from Wuppertal, married Célina Saavedra, daughter of the former governor of the Argentine province of Buenos Aires, in 1873, who died only three years later. Albert founded a number of stock corporations ("Mutualité Anversoise", "Société Anonyme Industrielle et Pastorale Belge Sud Américaine", "Compagnie des Produits Kemmerich"), as well as the company "von Bary & Co." in 1900, which took over the general agency of Norddeutscher Lloyd, Roland Linie and Deutsch-Ostafrika-Linie. The Gera, on which the family traveled to Argentina in 1891, was a Norddeutscher Lloyd city-class steamship that had completed its maiden voyage to La Plata in January of the same year. The original photographs of the voyage mounted in the extremely neatly written text show group portraits on board, landscapes and shots of the local population. - Album pages partly a little bit wavy due to mounted photographs. Sporadically somewhat brownspotted. Margins a little bit browned. Overall very good. This work is taxed. The hammer price is subject to a 23.95% surcharge and the final invoice amount is subject to 7% (books) or 19% VAT in the European Union. This work is subject to the regular margin scheme. There is a 23.95% buyer's premium on the hammer price and 7% (Books) or 19% VAT on the final invoice amount in the European Union.

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. 2 800 - 3 000 EUR

MANUEL TORRES (Marín, Pontevedra, 1901 - 1995). "Village house". Oil on canvas. Signed in the lower margin. Measurements: 52 x 65 cm; 82 x 95 cm (frame). One of the great Galician artists of the XX century, Manuel Torres was granted a scholarship by the Provincial Council of Pontevedra to study in Madrid in 1927. In 1928 he participated in the Galician Art Exhibition in Madrid and in 1931 he received another scholarship to travel to Paris, thus broadening his artistic vision. In 1990 he was awarded the Castelao Medal of the Xunta de Galicia. Although he studied teaching, he combined his career with painting, and from his youth he collaborated regularly with various Galician magazines and newspapers. In addition, from the twenties onwards, his works would appear in the magazine "Céltiga", published in Buenos Aires. Influenced mainly by his friend Carlos Maside, Torres worked not only in easel painting and illustration, but also in sculpture. During the Civil War, Torres Martinez returned to his native Marin, where he shut himself up and began an insatiable period of creative work, acquiring great success among the Galician population. Such was his success that the Biennial of Pontevedra dedicated an anthological exhibition to him on two occasions. He is currently represented in the Municipal Museum of Marín, which bears his name, as well as in all Galician art galleries, official institutions and private collections.

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