Graf,O.
Sympathetic household treasure or the cure through sympathy... Grimma, V…

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Graf,O. Sympathetic household treasure or the cure through sympathy... Grimma, Verlags-Comptoir (1845). 3 pp., 217 p. Cloth hardcover with rebound boards. Covers of the OU. (rubbed). Ackermann II, 172. first edition. - Treats, among other things, the influence of amulets and the moon on the healing of diseases. - Bibl. ex. Slight signs of wear.

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Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS and miscellaneous. -Approximately 60 letters and documents, preserved in a burgundy morocco portfolio bearing the arms of the Counts of Antioch, and about 160 photographs. -Adenauer (Konrad). Signed letter, in German, to Baron Bruno de Leusse. Bürgenstock, August 4, 1952. "Von meinem Sohn Georg höre ich von der guten Aufnahme, die er bei ihrer Gattin und Ihnen gefunden hat. Ich danke Ihnen vielmals dafür. ich hoffe sehr, dass er Ihnen nicht zur Last fallen wird. Wenn ich eine Bitte äussern darf, dann ist es die folgende. Sorgen Sie bitte dafür, dass er abends um 10Uhr spätestens zu Bett geht. Er braucht viel Schlaf, denn er hat einen schweren Winter vor sich..." Translation: "My son Georg tells me of the warm welcome he received from you and your wife. I would like to thank you for this. I do hope that his presence will not be a burden to you. If I can express one wish, it is this. Please see to it that he goes to bed no later than 10 o'clock in the evening. He needs plenty of sleep, for he has a hard winter ahead of him..." -Bismarck (Otto von). 4 autograph letters signed, in French, [to Baron Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord]. Berlin, 1862-1864 and n.d. "I would be very grateful to you, my dear Baron, if you would do me the pleasure of dropping by my house tomorrow at noon. I have a Council meeting at my house at one o'clock, and in the morning my advisors won't allow me to go out, lest the reel should stop in my absence. So please excuse me, if I disturb you on time at lunchtime..." Etc. -Eugenie (Empress). 2 autograph letters signed to Baron Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord. Arenenberg [in the Swiss canton of Thurgau, 1884], to congratulate him on the marriage of his daughter Marie-Marguerite to Count Adhémar de Brotty d'Antioche, and Farnborough [in Hampshire, 1886 or 1890], to express her condolences on the death of one of his daughters. -Order of the Visitation]. -Fusina (Marie-Emmanuel). Signed as Mother Superior of the Visitation monastery in Annecy, countersigned by four other sisters from the same monastery. Annecy, 1922. "...We declare that we have received... from Baron Chaulin, the missionary cross of Saint François de Sales, our Father and Founder, which he himself passed around the neck of Maurice de Brotty d'Antioche at the time of his conversion [the latter had until then been a Protestant]..." -Paley (Olga Valerianovna Karnovitch, Princess). Autograph letter signed. Tsarskoye Selo [imperial residence near St. Petersburg], August 30, 1915. "...I have received the title of Princess Paley (o i: ) which is the name of the Cossack hetman under Peter the Great and sung by Pushkin in "Poltava". She is one of my maternal ancestors, and her name died out with my grandmother. We are very happy to leave the German name of Hohenfelsen, given to us by the Regent of Bavaria. Everything German is hated, abhorred and despised in Russia, and they deserve it! We won't make peace here for anything in the world until we've brought them down completely..." Born Olga Karnovitch, daughter of the tsar's chamberlain, divorced, she morganatically married Grand Duke Paul Romanov (son of tsar Alexander II): she was then titled first Countess of Hohenfelsen, then, in 1915, Princess Paley. -Paris (Henri d'Orléans, comte de)]. Photographic portrait, cliché Pierre Ligey in Paris, with autograph signed letter (1934, ink faded), and signed letter (Rabat, 1942), both addressed to Baron Robert Chaulin. -Édouard de Cazenove de Pradines (as secretary to the Comte de Chambord, to Comte Adhémar de Brotty d'Antioche, 1882), Robert d'Orléans, Duc de Chartres (to Comte Adhémar de Brotty d'Antioche, 1901), Dorothée de Courlande, duchesse de Dino (2lettres au général Simon Bernard, 1837), Édouard Drouyn de Lhuys (to comte Alphonse de Brotty d'Antioche, 1864), Gaston Alexandre Auguste de Galliffet (8lettres, 1890-1901 et s.d., on famous people, Charles Haas, Madame Standish, the Duchesse d'Uzès, etc.), Alexandre Mikhaïlovitch Gortchakov (9lettres in his capacity as Russian Foreign Minister to Baron Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord, s.d.), Isabella II of Spain (1882, twelve years after her abdication), Victor Bonaparte, Prince Napoleon (1914, concerning the birth of his son Louis Bonaparte), Sophie de Wurtemberg, Queen of Holland (to Rose-Amour de Roisin, Baroness Falck, 1846), Marie Clémentine Anne de Rochechouart-Mortemart, Duchesse d'Uzès (3letters, s.d.), Henriette de Belgique, duchesse de Vendôme (1911), Victoria d'Angleterre, impératrice douairière d'Allemagne (to Marie-Marguerite de Talleyrand-Périgord, comtesse d'Antioche, 1896), and more. -Approx. 160 photographs, mostly portraits, preserved.

Estim. 800 - 900 EUR

[Hunting]. SET OF BOOKS ON HUNTING AND RIDING. - FINOT (baron). Album d'aquarelles. Preface by H. de Chaudenay. S.l., Les Amis de la Nature et de la Chasse dans l'Art, 1988. Fort in-4 oblong, full publisher's decorated green chagrin, gilt title on spine and front cover + 1 paperback in half-chagrin folder, all in publisher's slipcase (negligible rubbing to slipcase). Unique edition of this collection featuring 52 watercolors in color. Limited edition of 550 copies on Arches vellum, this one no. 302. Enriched with an autograph greetings and thanks card from Isabelle Reille. - REILLE (Karl). Livre des honneurs. Pref. by P. Vialar. Foreword by H. de Chaudenay. S.l., Les Amis de la Nature et de la Chasse dans l'Art, 1980. Large in-4, leaves in publisher's cover, folder and slipcase. Illustrated with 60 reproductions of unpublished watercolors. Limited edition of 550 copies on Arches vellum, this one no. 269. - FOUDRAS (marquis de). Veillées de St Hubert. Paris, Editions Livres d'Art, 1947. In-4, leaves, filled cover, publisher's folder and slipcase (folder spine browned, slipcase split). Illustrated with 25 burin engravings by A. Portal. Limited edition of 250 copies on Arches vellum à la forme: one of the 20 collaborators' copies (n° XII). - DU PASSAGE (comte). Un siècle de vènerie dans le nord de la France. Paris, Ateliers Lacer-Rambault et Guiot, 1968. In-4, full green cloth, green basane title page on spine. Facsimile reprint of the original 1912 edition. Edition of 500 copies on Arches laid paper. - HALLO (Charles-J.). De la cape à la botte. Historique des tenues françaises de vènerie. Paris, Crépin-Leblond, 1951. Large in-8, dark green half-maroquin with stripes, spine with 4 bands, author, title and dates gilt, cover and spine preserved [Girardin]. Edition of 1,350 copies on Lafuma pur fil, this one no. 240. Very well bound. - CRAFTY. Paris sportif. Texts and drawings. Paris, Plon, 1896. In-8, publisher's blue illustrated percaline binding (qq. ff. a little out of order). - CRAFTY. Paris à cheval. Texts and drawings. New ed. Paris, Plon, 1884. Large in-8, publisher's green percaline, illustrated title on upper cover, gilt edges (stains on lower cover). - MONTIGNY (comte de). Équitation des dames. Second edition with 3 etchings by J. Lewis Brown. Paris, Dumaine, 1878. In-8, paperback (cover a little faded, foxing). - Encyclopédie française du cheval de sang. Paris, O. Perrin, 1951. Ib-4, paperback (spine rubbed and cracked at head). Total of 9 volumes

Estim. 2 500 - 3 000 EUR

CAPECE DELLA SOMAGLIA, Theodore. Study of fortifications. Manuscript. Paper manuscript, 1726-38. 4to, mm. 222x154; Bound in half leather and marbled paperback, title stamped in gold on gusset on spine, corners; cc. 25 unnumbered with many illustrations in brown and sepia ink; 1 paper with drawing in brown ink depicting a seated warrior; cc. 52 with 26 watercolor drawings of city fortifications, many signed by the author "C.te Teodoro Capece della Somaglia Convitt.e. del Coll.ode Nob. Di Mil.o." On the front counterplate heraldic ex-libris of the noble Milanese family Cavazzi della Somaglia. Good state of preservation. Rare and interesting manuscript with 26 watercolor drawings of city fortifications. The manuscript, compiled by the Milanese nobleman Teodoro Cavazzi Della Somaglia, "for his particular study," describes in the first papers, with many annotations and figures, the ways of delineating military fortifications. This is followed by a beautiful drawing depicting a seated warrior holding a lance and 26 full-page watercolor drawings depicting fortifications of Italian cities-Milan, Como, Messina, Casale di Monferrato, Tortona-as well as foreign cities, including Corbie, Boulogne, Stenay, Guise, Balvet now Port Louis, Rue, Charleville, Sedan, Clermont, Chaumont, Nancy, S. Quentin, S. Malò, and Villefranche. The work was composed while the Count was studying at the Military College of Nobles in Milan. On the recto of the first paper the title "Military Architecture 1738" in sepia ink. At the end of the text, at the top of the page with the drawing, handwritten note in sepia ink "Studio di fortificazioni del Co[nte] Teod[or]o Cavazzi della Somaglia ... 1826." The noble Milanese family Cavazzi della Somaglia, formerly 'Capece della Somaglia,' obtained from Francesco Sforza the feat of the three crossed rings and the title of counts and barons; the letters "F R" and "S F" appear in the coat of arms; the motto "Meminisse iuvat" appears in the upper ribbon. Bertarelli, Achille - Prior, David Henry, Gli ex libris italiani, Milan, U. Hoepli, 1902, pp. 145-146 4to, mm. 222x154; Half calf and boards binding, title impressed on golden label on the spine, corners; leaves 25 mss.with many illustrations, 1 drawing in brown ink depicting a seated warrior, leaves 52 with 26 watercolor drawings of city fortifications, many signed by the author "C.te Teodoro Capece of the Somaglia Convitt.e. of the Coll. ode Nob. Di Mil.o." On the inside cover heraldic ex-libris of the noble Milanese family Cavazzi della Somaglia. Good condition. Rare and interesting manuscript with 26 watercolor drawings of city fortifications. The manuscript, compiled by the Milanese nobleman Teodoro Cavazzi Della Somaglia, "for his particular study," in the first pages describes, with many annotations and figures, the ways to delineate the military fortifications. This is followed by a beautiful drawing that portrays a seated warrior holding a spear and 26 full-page watercolor drawings, depicting fortifications of Italian cities, Milan, Como, Messina, Casale di Monferrato, Tortona, as well as foreign cities, including Corbie, Boulogne, Stenay, Guise, Balvet now Port Louis, Rue, Charleville, Sedan, Clermont, Chaumont, Nancy, S. Quentin, S. Malò, Villefranche.The work was composed while the Count was studying at the Military College of Nobles in Milan. On the recto of the first page the title "Military Architecture 1738" in sepia ink. At the end of the text, at the top of the page with the drawing, handwritten note in sepia ink "Study of fortifications by Co[nte] Teod[or]o Cavazzi della Somaglia ... 1826". The noble Milanese family Cavazzi della Somaglia, formerly 'Capece della Somaglia,' obtained from Francesco Sforza the device of the three crossed rings and the title of counts and barons; the letters "F R" and "S F" appear in the coat of arms; in the upper ribbon the motto "Meminisse iuvat."

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