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Sat 04 May

Hornstain, Gabriel (Hornstein). - Styria (?), 1st half of the 17th century. Erection of a cross. Pen and black ink, gray wash, edged with black pen, on laid paper with cut watermark: Coat of arms, signed "G: Hornst" at bottom center. 27 x 19.3 cm. Depiction closed in a round arch at the top and with drawn-in corners. Two creases in the upper part of the image, several tears in the right margin restored and trimmed with loss of the framing line, stain in the center of the image. Provenance: Auction Karl & Faber, Munich, 29.11. - 1.12.1962, cf. no. 194; Collection Herbert List, Munich, not in Lugt; A.Pertsch, Mannheim; Auction A. Winterberg, Heidelberg, 15.4.1972, cf. no. 108; Catalogue 31, Joseph Fach, Frankfurt a.M., 1984, cf. no. 3 and 4 illus. page 7; Catalogue 55, Joseph Fach, Frankfurt a.M., 1992, cf. no. 3 with color illus. Literature: exhib. Catalog: Drawings from five centuries. A Stuttgart private collection (W. Sumowski). Stuttgart, 1999, cf. no. 98, ill. 21. From a 12-part Passion cycle with dates between 1639 and 1641. Due to the round-arched finial at the top, it can be assumed that this is a preparatory work for a mural. According to Geissler (H. Geissler, Zeichnung in Deutschland, Deutsche Zeichner 1540-1640. Stuttgart, 1979, I page 124), Hornstein's work is mainly a copy after G. Dreer, who was court painter in Admont in Styria around 1620/30. The Pentecost scene from the cycle bears the autograph inscription "G. Dreer inventor", and an "Annunciation to Mary" from 1639 in the Kurt Meissner Collection, Zurich (W. Sumowski, 1967, no. 9 with illus.), goes back to a model by Dreer in the Albertina (H. Geissler, op. cit., I, p. 123, C 33 with illus.). Hornstain is only known for a few drawings in a late Mannerist style. Geissler has recorded 17 sheets by his hand. D

Estim. 1 200 - 1 700 EUR

Sun 05 May

CHAUMETTE (Pierre-Gaspard). Autograph letter signed to his friend Jean-Eugin Thomas. S.l.n.d. 2 pp. 1/4 in-4, address on spine; small loss due to opening without affecting text, some old restorations. INTERESTING LETTER ON THE RELIGIOUS QUESTION BY THE MAN WHO WOULD BECOME ONE OF THE MOST RELENTLESS SPOKESMEN OF THE DECHRISTIANIZATION CAMPAIGN WAGED IN 1793. " ... I am very sensitive to your memory, I would like to be in a position to be useful to you, I would do it with all my heart, but THE DEVIL IS IN MY KITCHENS, POLITICS ARE TURNING MY HEAD, I hardly notice my existence, for I no longer live for myself, my days and nights are devoted to politics. THE NEW LAWS [notably on the CIVIL CONSTITUTION OF THE CLERK, in July 1790] HAVE CHANGED NEITHER ORDER, NOR THE MISSION OF PRIESTS, NOR CULTE, NOR MORAL, they have changed nothing in intelligent harmony, they have only changed its vitiated mode and brought it closer to the principles of universal reason. France has not demolished its church, but rather polished its stones, bringing it back to its origins and patriarchal simplicity. The oath decreed by the Ass[emblée] Nat[ionale] has been like the sieve that separates the chaff from the wheat; THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SUBMITTED TO IT HAVE DECEALED TO HAVE AN AVARE AND PERFID HEART; they have shown that they were unworthy of their mission... You ask me how to study theology. Ah, my God! Well, my friend, the best way to succeed in this study is to burden your memory with this trivial jumble, and be careful to submit it to the light of common sense. Theology, bone Deus! Learn your lesson and that's it; but READ LOCKE, ROUSSEAU, VOLTAIRE AND BERNARDIN DE ST-PIERRE. THIS IS WHAT WILL FORM YOUR HEART AND MIND, this is the reading that will make you happy in whatever situation you find yourself... Don't forget me... I'll always be your friend, because I know the difference between a man and his clothes... " Jean-Eugin Thomas, who had entered the ecclesiastical profession, would eventually establish himself as a notary in Chapallement in the Nièvre region (Chaumette was born in Nevers). PROSECUTOR OF THE PARIS COMMUNE FROM 1792, PIERRE-GASPARD CHAUMETTE (1763-1794) embraced the most radical ideas of the Revolution, particularly in favor of the poorest sections of society, and played an important role in preparing the day of August 10, 1792, which led to the fall of royalty. He was also a member of the Société des Amis des Noirs (Society of Friends of the Blacks), and played a key role in getting the Convention to adopt the abolition of slavery. Although himself an opponent of the Gironde, he came up against the hostility of Maximilien de Robespierre: accused of being a foreign agent, he was brought before the Revolutionary Tribunal and executed in April 1794.

Estim. 400 - 500 EUR

Sun 05 May

MARAT (Jean-Paul). Autograph letter signed "Le Dr Marat" [to Alexis Rochon]. Paris, January 25, 1788. One p. 1/2 in-4; small foxing, one crack restored. A physician and physicist by trade, the future publicist and conventioneer Jean-Paul Marat criticized certain aspects of Isaac Newton's theories on optics, particularly with regard to the differential refrangibility of light. However, he also sought recognition for his own scientific work from the Académie des Sciences, which held it to Newtonian orthodoxy. So, at the end of 1787, he published a translation of the Opticks treatise that the great English scientist had published in 1704: in it, he affirmed his admiration for the latter, but set out his own ideas on various points in a critical commentary accompanying his translation. "I DO NOT IGNORE, MONSIEUR, THAT YOU ARE THE FIRST WHO HAS ATTACKED, WITH KNOWLEDGE OF CAUSE, THE DOCTRINE OF DIFFERENT REFRANGIBILITY; and I have no doubt that you would not have overthrown it, had you turned your views to the facts on which it is based. Chance has spared me this work, and although we still differ in principles, the love of truth unites us, AND I AM PLEASED THAT YOU WOULD WISH TO RECEIVE MY WORK AS A MARK OF ESTIMATE. Examine it, Sir, with the impartiality and discernment you have shown so often; note the little-known facts it contains, weigh the new proofs it develops; and if it deserves your approval, deign to contribute to the triumph of truth; with the generous zeal of a true scrutinizer of nature..." THEN SUB-DIRECTOR OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ABBE ROCHON (1741-1817) had acquired a certain notoriety as a physicist, astronomer and optician. Born Alexis-Marie de Rochon de Fournoux, in 1765 he was appointed keeper of the instruments and library of the Académie de Marine in Brest, carried out scientific missions in Morocco, the Cape of Good Hope, the South Seas and Madagascar, and became an associate member of the Académie de Marine (1774), keeper of the king's private physics and optics cabinet at La Muette (1775). He invented a prismatic micrometer using the birefringence of rock crystal (1777), which opened the doors of the Académie des Sciences to him in 1780, and enabled him to obtain the post of optician astronomer to the Navy in 1787. During the French Revolution (1791), he served as General Commissioner of Coins, before returning to his native Brittany under the Terror. Having regained his position at the Institut, he was appointed Director of the Paris Observatory (1795-1805).

Estim. 2 000 - 2 500 EUR

Sun 05 May

PAUL III (ALESSANDRO FARNESE, KNOWN AS). Autograph letter signed with his initial ".A.", TO KING FRANÇOIS I. Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, February 8, 1541 [1540 c. s.]. 1 p. folio. PAUL III INTERESTED PROMOTER OF PEACE. The rivalry between Francis I and Charles V conditioned much of the European politics of the time, particularly in Italy, where both sovereigns had interests. Paul III wanted to reform the Church and reduce the Protestant question, and was thinking of a great Council that would allow him to have it both ways. He also actively pursued the project of securing his family's fortune and practiced unbridled nepotism, having, for example, appointed two of his grandsons cardinals. Elected in part for his position of neutrality towards France and the Empire, he pursued this line, which alone served his public and private projects. He was, for example, behind the Truce of Nice between Francis I and Charles V. One of the great popes of the Renaissance, Alessandro Farnese is best known for launching the Council of Trent, approving the founding of the Society of Jesus and, as a brilliant patron of the arts, employing Michelangelo to decorate the Sistine Chapel. THE AVIGNON AFFAIR AND THE DUC DE MONTMORENCY. The connétable, a powerful minister whose star was fading, wanted the legation of Avignon for his nephew Cardinal Odet de Coligny-Châtillon. He had obtained from the current legate, Cardinal de Clermont, his resignation in favor of Châtillon, but Paul III wanted it for his nephew Alessandro Farnese, already archbishop of Avignon: the pope therefore opposed this resignation, and, after first promising that Châtillon would receive the legation on Clermont's death, finally gave it to Allessandro Farnese in March 1541. Montmorency was already opposed to the Pope in another matter, that of the marriage of the Duc d'Aumale, to whom Paul III proposed his niece, Vittoria Farnese. THE PRESENT LETTER IS A FIN DE NON RECEVOIR CONCERNING THE CONNETABLE'S VIEWS OF AVIGNON, which he cannot access "without scandal". "Charissime in Christo fili salutem et apostolicam benedictionem. Monsr de Limoges, ambasciatore di Vostra Maestà, me ha data questa ultima lettera sua, e ne ha soggionto quel di più che da Lei haveva in commissione, e, perché con esso ne siamo satisfatti de la risposta, et l'habbiamo fatto bene capace de la verità, e de la mala informatione che e stata data a Vostra Maestà circa al negotio de la resignatione de la legatione de Avignone, e da poi ne havemo ancor ragionato con il protectore e con mons. de Ferara quali sonno bene resoluti, oltra questo che havemo fatto scrivere de novo al legato et al nuntio, non replicaremo altro per la presente a Vostra Maestà salvo che la pregamo a tenere per certo che noi la amamo et l'havemo amata sempre cordialissimamente, e che, si come fin qui havemo piena satisfatione de non havere mai pretermessa cosa con la quale habbiamo possuto COMPIACERLA E GRATIFICARLA, cossi speramo che in lo avenire quando si presenti altra occasione megliore e CHE SENZA SCANDALO SI POSSA FARE, COME HORA NON SI PÒ, sia per cognoscerece del medesimo bono animo verso Lei e MONS. CONESTABILE, il quale havemo conosciuto bono servitore di Vostra Maestà et affectionato a questa Sede apostolica et alle cose nostre particularmente, e TENEMO DESIDERIO DE FARLI COSA GRATA. QUANTO ALLA PACE, CHE SOPRA OGNIALTRA COSA DESIDERAMO, come sa Vostra Maestà, speramo che Lei, si come, con la prudentia e bontà sua, ha dato fin qui cossi bono principio, dil che la laudamo e ringratiamo molto, cossi la debbia condure al perfetto fine, per benefitio universale, dil [che] di bono core la pregamo - et il medesimo faremo con la Cesaria Maestà... "

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Sun 05 May

LESZCZYNSKA (Marie). Autograph letter signed "Marie" to principal minister André-Hercule de Fleury. S.l., "ce 3" [July 3, 1729, according to an early notation in ink by another hand]. One p. in-4, address on spine with 2 armorial black wax seals retained. "YOUR LETTER, MY DEAR CARDINAL, HAS FILLED ME WITH JOY BY EVERYTHING YOU TELL ME ABOUT THE KING MY FATHER [STANISLAS LESZCZYNSKI]. As I know his feelings for you, nothing pleases me more than to know that yours are the ones I desire. It is an interesting union for the contentment of my life, that I would never have a more lively attention than that of maintaining it more and more. Quan[t] à mon départ, je raporte à ce que je vous ai dit hier que je ne suis pas assez maîtresse de moi-même pour prendre le parti entre l'empressement que j'ay de voir le roy et la crainte des suites [peut-être une allusion à son état de grossesse, alors qu'elle donneait naissance à un fils le 4 septembre 1729]... et il n'y a que l'ordre du roy qui puisse déterminer me pour me tranquiliser dans l'inquiétude où je suis. Please let me know his will. You know that I have none other than his, and that I will always act on your salutary advice, which I await with impatience and am, my most cherished Cardinal, yours with all my heart...". CARDINAL FLEURY, ONE OF THE GREAT STATE MEN OF THE 18th CENTURY. Hercule-André de Fleury (1653-1713) was very pious, but no less well-versed in worldly affairs. He became chaplain to Queen Marie-Thérèse, then quarterly chaplain to the King, and accompanied Cardinal Forbin-Janson on his mission to Rome in 1690. In 1698, he obtained the bishopric of Fréjus, which he did not win until 1701, but where he proved to be an apostolic bishop close to the people. He always worked for peace, notably in 1707 during the War of the Spanish Succession, when he received Victor-Amédée of Savoy and Prince Eugène, who had come to lay siege to Toulon, in his bishopric. His attitude made an impression, and he was offered an archbishopric, which he refused; he even renounced his see of Fréjus and returned to Versailles, where he was given the title of tutor to the future Louis XV. He won the latter's confidence, and in 1726 was appointed principal minister (the same year the Pope made him a cardinal): he pursued a policy of appeasement on all fronts - internal, external and religious.

Estim. 800 - 1 000 EUR

Tue 07 May

Tsarina Ekaterina II (1729 - 1796) - a handwritten letter to her Quartermaster General Count von Elmpt Double sheet measuring 22.5 x 19 cm with a "D & C Blauw" watermark. Two pages written in ink, Ekaterina writes in German (tr.): "...I have received your two letters safely and written to the Governor General about them ... my opinion has not changed, I still insist on my edict and the aforementioned letter is written in confirmation of this matter. I furthermore hope that the construction of this important building will progress without any obstacles ... Incidentally, I cannot express anything but satisfaction with your conduct ... Caterina". Folded. Includes a portrait of the tsarina in calling card format. Field Marshal Ivan Karpovich Count von Elmpt (1725 Cleves - 1802 Courland) joined the French military service early and went to Russia in 1749. He was appointed Colonel in 1755, honored for his courage in the Seven Years' War in 1759 and consequently became Brigadier. In 1762, Tsar Peter III promoted him to Major General and Quartermaster General. In 1763, he received the Order of Saint Anna, and Catherine II awarded him the Order of Alexander Nevsky for the conquest of Moldavia, especially due to his contribution to the storming of Khotyn Fortress in the campaign led by Prince Golitsyn. In 1796, he became Infantry General, Commander of the Livlandsky Division, Chief of the Saint Petersburg Grenadier Regiment, which was named after him. In 1798, Tsar Paul I appointed him Field Marshal and awarded him the Order of Saint Andrew. Von Elmpt retired from the Russian army in 1798. Condition: II

No estimate

Tue 07 May

Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865) - a handwritten letter to Major General George Meade, Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the Potomac, September 21, 1863 A lined sheet of paper (measuring 22 x 18.8 cm) with pre-printed header "Washington D.C.", hand-dated "Sep. 21 (186)3" and addressed to "Major General Meade - Army of the Potomac". Written in ink, the text reads "I am appealed to in behalf John H Williams Co. D. 4 Regt. Md Vols, 1 Corps who is said to be under sentence of death to be executed on the 25th for desertion. The appeal is made on the ground of unsoundness of mind. Please give me briefly the facts and your views." Signed by his own hand "A. Lincoln". Small blotches of ink at the end of the signature and the lower edge, otherwise in excellent condition. This letter is listed in the "Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln", Volume 6, Roy Basler's eight-volume work on Lincoln's writings, published in 1953 (see https://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/lincoln6/1:972.1?rgn=div2;view=fulltext;q1=July+7%2C+1863). This volume also includes the following note: "The roster of Co. D, Fourth Maryland Volunteers, lists no John H. Williams, but Charles W. Williams who was sentenced to be shot for desertion (Army of the Potomac, General Orders No. 91, September 17, 1863) is listed with the notation 'Died, September 25, 1863'." See Private Chas. W. Williams, enlisted on June 10, 1862, entry in the roster of D Company 4th Rgt Md Volunteers at: https://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/000001/000367/html/am367--165.html. From July 1863, as part of the Army of Potomac, the 4th Regiment of the Maryland Volunteers was headed for Warrenton, VA and fought in the battles in East Virginia under Major General Meade. Condition: II +

No estimate

Tue 07 May

Reichskommissar Dr. Carl Peters (1856 - 1918), founder of German East Africa - 37 letters and documents from 1908 to 1918 and a telegram on his rehabilitation, 1937 Correspondence with Dr. Wilhelm Arning (1856 - 1943), a critic of Peters who was doctor of the protection troop in German East Africa between 1893 and 1896 and served there again in this function under Lettow-Vorbeck from 1914 to 1917. From 1907 to 1911, he was a representative of the Reichstag. Included is a handwritten letter dated 1 February 1908 in which Peters asks Arning on what grounds he based his warning to others not to stand up for Peters. Comes with a contemporary transcription. Three letters by Dr. Arning to Mr. Wolff (1907/08) concerning the accusations against Peters. Two letters by O. Wolff to Dr. Arning (27 January 1908, 12 December 1912) as contemporary copies. Letter by Arning to Peters dated 3 February 1908. Further letter by Arning to Peters (5 February 1908). Handwritten letter by Peters from Hotel Adlon in Berlin (5 February 1908) to Arning concerning the warning against Peters as well as Arning's reply (6 February 1908). Handwritten note by Peters from Adlon, Berlin. Two handwritten letters (12 May and 20 May 1908) by Peters to the industrialist Oscar Wolff (1858 - 1943), containing notes concerning Bennigsen, Rosenthal, Stölting etc. Handwritten letter of appreciation by Peters to Wolff (1 February 1908). Inscribed visiting card by Peters (24 March 1916). Handwritten card by Peters to Wolff dated 21 May 1908. Telegram to Wolff (26 May 1908) (tr.): "My lawsuit filed under the statute of limitations / complaint in 1906 was dismissed / appeal has been lodged / Peters". Handwritten letter by Peters to Wolff (27 May 1908). Celebration program for the wedding with photograph of the couple, wedding songs and wedding newspaper (27 February 1909). Graphological expertise requested by Wolff (27 March 1912). Eight handwritten letters by Peters to Wolff between 1911 and 1917 in which he expresses his political opinions (tr.: "I only regret that I am unable to be lost in action after having killed several dozens of our enemies", 26 August 1916). Letter by Wolff to Peters (13 March 1916). Comes with seven sheets of correspondence between Peters' wife Thea and Wolff (1918 - 1920). Furthermore, a telegram to Wolff dated 6 November 1937: (tr.) "Achieved official rehabilitation ... Kind regards Mrs. Karl Peters". Slightly damaged in places, traces of age. Unique set of documents. Carl Peters was appointed Imperial High Commissioner for the Kilimanjaro region in 1891. His conduct in office was characterized by his brutal behaviour against the local population and the erratic application of the death penalty. In 1892, Peters was therefore recalled to Germany where he was employed in the Imperial Colonial Office between 1893 and 1895, while official accusations were brought against him. After the investigations by the disciplinary court he was dishonourably deprived of his commission in 1897. Peters evaded final sentencing by relocating to London and lived in England between 1896 and 1914, where he was engaged in gold mining in South Africa. He married in 1909 and at the beginning of World War I he returned to Germany, where he died in 1918. Condition: II

No estimate

Thu 09 May

Eliot, Thomas Stearns. Collection of 3 typewritten letters with signature and handwritten additions, 12 letters from his wife Valérie, further correspondence and enclosures. Ca. 1924-93. various formats. In private linen box. Well-kept small archive, compiled by the Fribourg Eliot researcher and librarian Gerd Schmidt. - Contains: T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature, short handwritten postscript and inserted accents. London, 31.III.1924. 1 p. 26 x 18.5 cm. - In French to Jacques Rivière, director of the "Nouvelle Revue Francaise". Thanks for "l'envoi du précieux inédit de Proust" and, also on behalf of the Vicomtesse Rotheremere, "pour tous les soins que vous avec pris pour nous". With letterhead from "The Criterion. A Quarterly Review". - T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature and short handwritten addition. London, 1.III.1956. 1 p. (greeting and signature on the reverse). 20 x 17.5 cm. - English on Faber & Faber stationery to Ronald Gregor Smith, The Athenaeum, London. Hopes to be able to arrange "a date in two or three weeks (not Holy Week, however)" for a dinner (in his own hand). Dictates the reason for the delay into the machine: "I have been for over a month in a nursing home and am now convalescing at home, but am not yet allowed out of doors ...". - T. S. Eliot. Typewritten letter with signature and handwritten postscript. London, 22.XI.1957. 1 p. 20 x 17.5 cm. - On Faber & Faber stationery to a German autograph collector. "I almost never write with a pen since for many years I have suffered from a writer's cramp ...". In his own hand: "I hope this brief specimen of my handwriting will suffice." - Valérie Eliot, his secretary, second wife since 1957 and executor of his estate (1926-2012). 12 typewritten letters with signature, 1 handwritten postscript and all envelopes. London, 1970-88. Together approx. 12 pp. 20 x 15 cm to DIN A4. - With one exception in English to Gerd Schmidt, on sheets with private head (mostly Kensington Court Gardens) or from Faber & Faber. Responds to requests for the publication of poems and letters from the estate. In April 1984, thanks "excitedly" for a copy of Eliot's above letter to Rivière, "because I have been pursuing my husband's letters to Rivière for many years without success and had begun to fear that he would not appear in the Correspondence". May 1984 then thanks for notification of Eliot's letter to Gregor Smith, July 1985 inquiry about Eliot's correspondence with E. R. Curtius, December 1987 the corrective notification "that 'Casey Jones' was not written by my husband. It is a popular American folk ballad that TSE used to enjoy singing!". - Also mentions the following letter: Laurence Binyon, poet and art historian, close friend of Ezra Pound. Handwritten letter with signature. Streatley, Berks., 18.VII.1941. 2 pp. 19.5 x 14 cm. - To the writer Robert Nichols about reactions to his most recent publication of poetry ("The North Star"): "T. S. Eliot, by the way, admires Angkor ... and in Hospital most. He wanted to have the book published by his firm, but Macmillan wouldn't allow it. In writing to me he was very modest about his own work - wondering if his 'experiments' are really any good, etc.". - Also: Typewritten letter from Erhart Kästner, handwritten letter from Eva Hesse and handwritten card from Hugo Friedrich to Schmidt, 1967-75 - 3 offprints dedicated to Schmidt by Alfred Weber (1) and Donald Gallup (2) on Eliot and Pound, 1968-92 - Further enclosures, including some large-format prints of photo portraits of Eliot (including National Portrait Gallery). - In very good condition. VAT: #

Estim. 1 200 - 1 800 EUR

Thu 09 May

Fröbel, Wilhelm - Middendorff, Wilhelm. Preliminary exercises for finding figures. Course for drawing on the net. Handwritten manuscript, enclosed in a brochure with Middendorff's ownership note on the cover. With several example sketches in pen and pencil. Acceptance note next to the signature: Keilhau 1847. 8 pages closely written in brown pen. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. 2 loose sheets. Middendorff (1793-1853) worked closely with Fröbel in Keilhau for many years, and manuscripts in his hand are rare. - The present manuscript reflects the drawing course developed by Fröbel on a slate with a grid. Middendorff begins with sections A and B for vertical and horizontal lines, followed under C by extensive combinations such as angles, angular surfaces, extension to oblique lines and circles, right up to a crystal-like structure (these in pencil). At the end, a summary of the "Course and law of finding figures" in 27 sub-items. In 1826, Fröbel himself had only presented elementary initial exercises in his "Menschenerziehung" (Human Education); the actual "inventing" was reserved for the unpublished second part. Middendorff's manuscript summarizes the entire course in a condensed form and illustrated with figures. - Somewhat browned, well preserved. - Inserted in: Franz Keller. Spinoza and Leibnitz on the freedom of the human will. Erlangen 1847. 78 pp., 1 leaf. Printed original wrappers (spine with small losses, somewhat stained). - Corners creased throughout. VAT: #

Estim. 500 - 750 EUR

Thu 09 May

Hemingway, Ernest. Handwritten letter with signature "Papa" and self-addressed envelope. With 3 small circle drawings (kisses) under the greeting. Finca Vigia, San Francisco de Paula, Cuba (letterhead printed in red), 25.IX.1958. 2 pp. on 2 sheets of thin airmail paper written on one side in blue fountain pen. 28 x 21.5 cm, the envelope: 10.6 x 24 cm. Very nice retirement letter, addressed to his first son John H(adley) Hemingway (1923-2000) in San Francisco. - Ernest Hemingway had lived in Cuba since 1939, from 1945 with his fourth wife Mary Welsh. In 1960, he had to leave the Finca Vigia estate for health reasons and shot himself in Ketchum (Idaho) in 1961. He addressed his son, commonly called "Jack", by the African name "Bem" (peace): "Dear Bem. Thanks for the letter with gen or gig. Sorry trip was such a bitch and delighted you are going good in S.F. Sorry Mary wrote. She was upset at me sweating out cables to you and to Gregory (Hemingway's youngest son "Gig") with no answers. Gregory left no change of address ... so checks sent him registered had been returned after you left. Then I got a bill forwarded from K.W. for new psycho treatments. He cabled 2 weeks ago acknowledging checks and saying letter wrote. No letter of course ..." - Hemingway reports on his plans for the fall: "Very happy things are shaping so well out there. We hope to get away from here the first of next week. Weather been as hot many days as when you left. Mary been laid up five weeks with bad virus flu getting OK now. Too late now for Spain or Africa so will get out west for a while ... It's too late now to fish but will try to get some shooting. I'm stale as a goat ..." - Literary: "Signed the books for Frank Aldrich and paid one cab driver, old man, whose story seemed plausible. Hope it was." - Postscript under the drawn kisses: "Dog is fine. He will be OK. with René while we are gone ... He's very well and cheerful and did a wonderful thing: He bit Sinsby really well in the hand under perfect circumstances." - The envelope addressed to the business address of John H. Hemingway with the note "Personal", postmark Habana, 26.IX.1958. - Envelope with minor traces of postage, the letter in perfect condition. VAT: #

Estim. 4 000 - 6 000 EUR

Thu 09 May

Jünger, Ernst. Handwritten letter with signature accompanying 4 pages of handwritten diary entries. With 5 plant specimens mounted under adhesive tape in the text. Wilflingen, 16, 22 and 24.VII.1969 (diary) and 12.VIII.1969 (letter). Together 5 A4 sheets written on one side in fountain pen or ink pen. - Including the handwritten address page of the original envelope of the consignment. In padded leather folder (somewhat rubbed). To Jürgen Bergeder in Hamburg, 45 letters from him to Jünger preserved in the DLA Marbach. - "Dear Mr. Bergeder, Enclosed is what I promised: a few pages from my current notes. I hear that there are fewer and fewer compatriots who can read German script - tant pis. Mostly it's herbaria that I write around." - The diary pages numbered in red pencil. Leaves 1 to 2 above contain the published entries from July 16 ("nutmegs") and July 22 ("riverbed", including a plant sample, last line corrected in red pencil). Sheets 2-4 comprise a long entry from July 24, 1969, not printed in the diaries, beginning "While the trees grow busily inside the forest, they lower their branches to the ground at the edge." With four pressed plants, including a gingko leaf; a half-page typescript transcription of the beginning of the text mounted on the reverse of sheet 2. The style partly very cursory, several corrections, changing ink colors, sheet 3 with a three-line insertion on the verso. - The cover letter on yellowish stationery with printed header, the notes on thin "Reflex Special" concept paper. - The tesa strips browned and showing through, otherwise in perfect condition. VAT: #

Estim. 1 000 - 1 500 EUR

Thu 09 May

Marie Therese of Braganza, Archduchess of Austria. Fragment of 33 letters addressed to her, mostly in her own hand, with signatures of noblemen, diplomats, officials etc. in German, French and English. Vienna, Innsbruck, Brunswick, Moscow, London, etc., 1883-1904. Together over 100 pp., 2 sealed envelopes preserved. Formats from octavo to folio, often large 4to. Loosely bound in leather-lined linen folder of the period. Marie Therese von Braganza (1855-1944) was the third child of Michael I King of Portugal and Princess Adelheid von Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. By marrying Carl Ludwig Archduke of Austria, she became Archduchess in 1873 and first lady of the realm from 1889. One of the surviving envelopes gives her Viennese address as Favoritensstraße 7, the location of the Palais Erzherzog Carl Ludwig. - The letters addressed to her are partly personal, partly of an official nature, partly New Year's greetings, partly mourning messages, in any case often detailed, in very careful handwriting and on expensive paper. Among the authors are F. M. L. Duke of Braganza, Albrecht (Prince of Prussia, Regent of Brunswick?), the church historian Heinrich Denifle (3, 2 from Bohemia), Alexander von Mérez (2, one over 13 quarto pages), William and Marion Des Voeux (London, Cadogan Square), Heinrich Liechtenstein, Cousin Mary, Ferdinand Héraudeau of the Bureau de la Mission de Maduré in Kalosca (2), the nun and mystic Marie de la Croix, Baron von Braun at Schwanegg Castle, Comte Anatole Orloff Davidoff from Moscow 1883, Alain Prince Rohan at Sichrow. - Very well preserved. VAT: #

Estim. 400 - 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Ricoeur, Paul. 51 letters and letter cards in French to the Danish philosopher Peter Kemp, 30 handwritten, 21 typewritten with signature and handwritten additions. Together ca. 50 pp., plus carbon copies and copies of some counter-letters and other correspondence by Kemp, typescripts by Ricoeur, lecture programs, etc. Paris, Châtenay, Chicago and others, 1969-2002. 8 x 12.5 cm to 29.5 x 21 cm. Many with the original envelopes. Archive collection by Peter Kemp (1937-2018), who made the thought of the great French philosopher known in the Northern European world from 1970 onwards through Danish and English translations. Ricoeur (1913-2005) is famous for his phenomenological-hermeneutic description of human will as well as his philosophical analysis of language and history. His work was the result of discussions with Husserl, Heidegger, Jaspers and Freud. - These letters - in Ricoeur's later years often short messages - document the rapid development of a lifelong friendship, Kemp's commitment through translations, articles, the organization of a lecture series in Denmark and Sweden in 1987, Ricoeur's life and travels from 1970 (including his time in Chicago), and not least the discussion of individual philosophical and linguistic issues. These include, for example, a three-page typescript commentary by Ricoeur on Kemp's essay "Langages de l'engagement" from 1975, corrected and signed in his own hand (also with a signed carbon copy and a copy of the reprint in the "Bulletin de philosophie"). A handwritten speech manuscript by Kemp for Ricoeur's presentation at the Institut Francais Danemark is dated 29.V.1979 (6 pp.). - Among Ricoeur's speech and essay drafts preserved in Kemp's archive: 1. "Soutenance" (defense) for Kemp's doctorate in 1973. Typescript. 6 p., corrected and signed in his own hand. - 2. parole et écriture. 1984. typescript copy. 14 p., corrected with opaque white and typewriter. - 3 Grandeur et Misère du Langage Politique. No year. Copy of the corrected and signed typescript, with pencil underlining. 1 leaf, 44 pp. - Further manuscript copies. - Well preserved. VAT: #

Estim. 2 400 - 3 600 EUR

Thu 09 May

Music - Extensive collection of over 65 autographs of classical music performers. Album and 16 loose sheets as well as 2 handwritten letters. Berlin, 1960s. 24 sheets (album). 25 x 21.5 cm (album). The lovingly designed album of a Martha Wagner from Berlin contains numerous mounted programs and program excerpts, newspaper clippings, original photographs and dedications. - The first sheet has a handwritten Martin Luther quote and a signed dedication from Wolfgang Stresemann, director of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. - Further autographs mostly alongside mounted portraits of Shura Cherkassky, John Barbirolli, Eugen Jochem, Julius Katchen, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Antonio Janigro, Zara Nelsova, Claudio Arrau, Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras, André Cluytens (signed portrait card and full-page dedication with musical notation), Ferenc Fricsay, Maria Stader, Oralia Dominguez, Michael Rabin, Karl Böhm (3), Sergiu Celibidache, Hans Werner Henze (dedication), Jean Martinon, Lorin Maazel, Hans Swarowsky, Zubin Mehta, Karel Ancerl, Thomas Schippers, Grace Bumbry, Hans Swarowsky (with signed letter), James King, Silvio Varviso (with handwritten card) and many more.The loose sheets with mounted portraits and concert announcements with autographs by Stefan Askenase, Hans Richter-Haaser, Van Cliburn, Ernest Ansermet and many others - The two handwritten letters from Silvio Varviso dated 8.6. and 19.9.1960 - Some browning due to paper, overall in very good condition. Enclosed: 24 portraits of singers and conductors. Mostly original photographs. Various formats. - Including two signed by Franz Völker and Maria Müller. - Partly slightly silvered, otherwise good. VAT: *

Estim. 300 - 450 EUR

Thu 09 May

Liber amicorum - Family book of the Soest grammar school teacher Johann Anton Friedrich Kleine (1764-1801). With 7 sheet-sized watercolors or brush and ink drawings (2 signed by the owner), 67 inked silhouettes or profile drawings in the text or on inset pages, 17 small vignettes in watercolor, pen and ink or lead, 4 examples of sheet music and 1 handwritten letter by the owner. Soest and other places in Westphalia, 1784-93, Halle 1785/86, Benkendorf 1786. 169 pp. (instead of 187 according to the old count), 4 pp. index. With over 240 entries, 9 of which in precisely labeled and folded copies from the 2nd half of the 19th century. 12 x 18 cm. Modern leather binding in the style of the time. Still a very rich friendship album. About 2/3 of the entries are from Kleine's home country, the rest from his student days in Halle. In addition to fellow students, the following academic teachers are listed: Johann August Eberhard (profile in brush), Johann Reinhold Forster (profile in brush) Georg Christian Knapp (profile in lead), Ludwig Natorp, August Hermann Niemeyer, Christian Friedrich Prange and Johann Salomo Semler (half-profile in brush). - Some entries were made in 1786 on the Benkendorf estate acquired by the physician and numismatist David Samuel von Madai (1709-80), mostly by family members, some with silhouettes in ink. - From Westphalia, entries by members of the noble families von Mallinkrodt and von Hymmen should be mentioned. - Some browning and fingerstaining throughout, 1 leaf with cut-out, 2 others with marginal tears. - Comes with: Family register of the jurist Johann Franz August Lampe from Bielefeld, created in Halle 1785. With approx. 110 entries, mainly from fellow students in Halle 1786/87, including the holder of the above family register, J.A.F. Kleine, on 9.IX.1786. 12 x 19 cm. Contemporary leather binding with new spine label, remnants of cover gilding and calico paper endpapers (rubbed). - Several leaves removed, otherwise in good condition.

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Thu 09 May

Utopia - Ziegenhagen, Franz Heinrich. Doctrine of the right relation to the works of creation, and the general happiness of mankind to be brought about by the public introduction of the same alone. With folded engraved frontispiece and 7 (1 folded several times) copper plates by Daniel Chodowiecki as well as 1 folded music supplement by W. A. Mozart (on 4 folding plates, 8 pp.). Brunswick, Vieweg, 1799. 4 pp., 633 p. (recte 639; pp. 95/96 and 233-236 counted twice), 2 pp. 19.5 x 11.5 cm. Half cloth (circa 1880) with gilt-stamped spine title (slightly rubbed). Rare title edition of the work first published by the author himself in Hamburg in 1792. - Lanckoronska/Oehler II, 119-120 and 214 - Rümann 1299 - Schröder 4549, 1 - Bauer 1551-54, 1556-59 and Engelmann 664-667, 672-675 (Chodowiecki) - RISM M 4161. - With Ziegenhagen's autograph: In the preface, the author recommends a stay on the agricultural estate that he still intends to build in "Strasburg" in the 1792 print; in the very poorly selling 1799 edition of the title, as here, Ziegenhagen tried it on his estate in Billwerder, which ultimately did not work out either. The place name is blackened here and a handwritten slip is bound in opposite: "*Hamburg, auf meinem Landgute, von welchem das große Kupfer ein Abbild ist". - Attached to this is another handwritten sheet with French text, which confirms the above phenomenon and also refers to "Dr. Rauschenplatt" (Johann Ernst Arminius von Rauschenplat, 1807-1868, German revolutionary?): "Le fameus Dr. Rauschenplatt a contenu que Hourir n'etait qu'un plagiaire de Ziegenhagen." - An early major work of utopian socialism. - The most important work by the Hamburg merchant Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen, in which he describes his attempt to establish a separatist colony as an agricultural educational institution independent of existing society. This institution was later to be transformed into a community with collective ownership. Based on the ideas of Rousseau, Ziegenhagen called for the right relationship between things to be restored in order to live well and happily. Chodowiecki's wonderful large folding copper - "a particularly interesting and amusing large-format folded panel" (Lanck./Oehler) - shows the ideal of such a system. In 1788, Ziegenhagen bought an agricultural estate in Billwerder near Hamburg in order to found such an institution, which would exemplify his ideas of common property, the idea of the collective and social security. He appealed in vain to wealthy citizens, the nobility and even the French Convention to support the establishment of similar colonies and ultimately failed with his project. After twelve years, he sold the Billwerder estate, returned to his Alsatian homeland in 1802 and committed suicide there four years later. - In addition to its philosophical significance, this work is important not least because of the outstanding Chodowiecki illustrations. "The colony with its bird's-eye view of the buildings and squares, with its children playing and grazing herds of cattle, illustrates Ziegenhagen's teachings without detracting from the artistic effect. The other panels, an anatomical school, a smithy, the turner's and mechanic's workshop, the rooms of the nature teacher and schoolmaster are also particularly finely executed ..." (ibid.). - Nevertheless, Ziegenhagen succeeded in persuading W. A. Mozart to set an exemplary song to music. The cantata, written in 1791 - and thus at the same time as his composition of the Magic Flute - is attached to this work as an 8-page music appendix (KV 619. - RISM M 4161), the text of which has a clear connection to Masonic ideas and which was also published separately as a broadsheet in the same year (Wolfstieg 41259). - The engravings partly on bluish paper. - 1 music plate and the folding plate with marginal tear, title and preliminaries with brown stain (due to the engraving in the preface), last text leaf somewhat stained, otherwise a fresh copy. VAT: *

Estim. 800 - 1 200 EUR

Fri 10 May

Eisendle, Helmut. Extensive collection with 3 handwritten artist's books with numerous watercolors, 2 large watercolors, 3 signed letters, 5 drawings and 6 (5 with signed dedication) book publications as well as 1 oil painting by Klaus Georg Janoschka on Eisendle's wedding. Ca. 1975-1999. The Austrian writer and psychologist Helmut Eisendle (1939-2003) was a representative of the language-sceptical and language-critical movement in recent Austrian literature. - The collection contains, among others: I. Women with pen and brush ... by Helmut Schrenck. Handwritten and with 27 watercolor pencil drawings by Eisendle. Vienna, 1984 - The last 2 sheets with handwritten dedication. - II. On general peace. 1985. handwritten artist's book with 6 (2 signed) watercolors. - III. nude with H. Vienna, 1987. handwritten artist's book with 16 drawings and watercolors. - IV. The non-smoker. Signed watercolor. 30 x 39.5 cm. - V. Styrian Alexandrian. Signed watercolor. 28 x 41.5 cm. With handwritten text on verso. - VI. 3 signed typewritten letters to Wolf Fuchs. 1997-1999 - VII Janoschka, Klaus Georg. Noble people in brutal surroundings. Oil painting. Signed, dated and inscribed verso. Also inscribed on rough wooden frame. 1989. 50 x 65.5 cm (including frame). - The painting was intended by Janoschka as a gift for Eisendle and Veronika Wolschlager for their wedding on 31.3.1989, 2 invitation cards enclosed. As the wedding was postponed, the gift was never presented. -

Estim. 600 - 900 EUR

Fri 10 May

Fluxus - Hansen, Al. Collection with 3 original photographs, 1 etching, 4 handwritten letters, 1 signed exhibition poster, 1 large-format gouache, handwritten notes (5 sheets), 1 original drawing, 1 signed collage, numerous copies, invitation cards and small posters. Mostly Cologne or Berlin, ca. 1972-1984. Al Hansen (1927-1995) was an important member of the Fluxus movement and took part in numerous international Fluxus festivals with happenings and performances. He was friends with Andy Warhol and occasionally worked in his "Factory". In 1983, Al Hansen moved to Cologne and had a series of exhibitions. In 1987, inspired by the Final Academy of the British pop and performance artist Genesis P-Orridge, among others, he founded the Ultimate Academy in Cologne with the performance artist Lisa Cieslik. - The collection contains, among other things: I. 3 original photographs by Al Hansen. Vintages. Silver gelatine. Approx. 17 x 12.5 cm. Hansen at the pub counter. - Hansen drinking coffee in the pub. Handwritten inscription on verso "Photography by: Lorraine Senna ... New York", the later film director. - Hansen with a cigarette. Handwritten inscription on verso "Steve Balkin 10-5-72 NYC", (1938-2023). - II. from the story of Schultz and his beer. Original etching with dedication to Ossi Wiener. Signed lower right, dedicated lower left. 1973. sheet size: 25.5 x 20.5 cm. - Picture story about Hansen and his father stealing beer from their neighbor Schultz. - Browned due to paper, margins somewhat stained. - III. collage from copied magazine illustration. Signed verso. Approx. 30 x 82 cm. - Creased. - IV. Sophistofluxus. Nicholas Neodada. Offset on paper. Exhibition poster for Galerie Petersen, Berlin, 6.12.1983. Signed lower left by Hansen. Sheet dimensions: 86 x 61 cm. Published on the occasion of the 1983 exhibition at the Petersen Gallery in collaboration with the artists' program of the D.A.A.D. - Margins slightly creased. - V. 4 handwritten letters on 5 sheets ca. 1983-1984. To "Bibbe", "Bibs", "Lykke" and "Med Dig". - Hansen reports on his artistic activities in Germany. - VI Handwritten notes with several sketches. 5 sheets - Including on SMILE "a mail art correspance stamp art project". - VII Portrait of Al Hansen. Large-format gouache on paper dedicated to Hansen. Illegibly signed ("Rainer ..."), dated 1984. Sheet dimensions: 85.5 x 60.5 cm. - Overall in good condition. - With the dedication: "To my brand new friend Alan". - Provenance: Private collection Berlin.

Estim. 260 - 400 EUR

Fri 10 May

Caricature - Collection of 33 original drawings and 35 original prints by various caricaturists and artists. Mostly signed and dated, some titled and with a dedication. 1952s to 1980s. Different techniques and papers. Sheet dimensions: 14 x 10 cm to 28 x 35 cm. Robert Marx began writing to caricaturists and newspaper illustrators as a schoolboy asking for a small drawing. Hardly any artist was able to resist the child's requests, so that over the years he not only amassed an impressive collection, but also developed a cordial relationship with some of them, as evidenced by the accompanying letters, some of which have been preserved. - Among other things, there are: A small signed gouache by Hermann Poll, the pen and ink drawing "Glosse nach Tucholsky" by Paul Rosié with a letter in his own hand, a self-portrait by Wolfdietrich Schnurre on his stationery with "Hippipotamos", original drawings by Werner "Kümmel" Droth, Volker Detlef Heydorn, the Swiss caricaturist Hans Moser, the Polish comic pioneer Szymon Kobylinski with a heartfelt accompanying letter, a portrait by the "quick-draw artist" Lutz Backes (Ingeborg Geisendörfer), three pencil portraits by Kurt Benz, a pretty Berlin street scene by the "painting Berlin chief inspector" Richard Gohlke, a "Sportpalast" scene by Hans-Joachim Stenzel, a Nick Knatterton by Manfred Schmidt, as well as a "ballpoint pen sketch" by Helmut Maletzke, which he "made during a vacation in Saxon Switzerland", a cover letter with some enclosures by Hugo Kükelhaus, signed etchings by Eberhard Schlotter (1967), Hans Hauffe, Peter Stephan (3 pieces), as well as works by Wilhelm Wellner, Henry Albrecht, Ole Jensen, Siegbert Jatzko, Gerhard Klampäckel and many more.and many more. - The drawings mostly mounted, some slightly browned and stained. - Provenance: Robert Marx Collection, Berlin. VAT: #

Estim. 1 500 - 2 200 EUR

Fri 10 May

Roth, Dieter. Very extensive collection of correspondence. With 53 letters, including 39 manuscripts, 18 typescripts and 3 telegrams, including 7 original photographs, 12 letters, some with several drawings and sketches. Mostly Reykjavik, 1966-1973 and 1976, mostly signed or monogrammed. A total of 80 sheets. Some in 29 mostly handwritten envelopes. Roth writes to his long-time friend and business partner Rudolf Rieser in detail about various joint projects (Wolken, Poetrie, Mundunculum, Portrait of the artist as Vogelfutterbüste, Printenmann, Piccadillies, SNOW, Gesammelte Werke, kleiner Sonnenuntergang etc.) with text drafts, drawings and sketches, suggestions for designs and layout, negotiations with publishers, distribution, sales opportunities, accounts etc., about mutual friends, his health, his family etc.: "if you haven't sent off the 130 white books yet, keep them... (because I don't think I want to paint them all) We can do it this way with the signature, YOU just sign my NAME - or is that not possible?..." (Reykjavik, August 1966 to Poetrie 1). - "i'm sick in bed (an attack of depression) and can't write much..." (Reykjavik, ca. March 1967). - "...i will transplant myself back to iceland...because i want to have the opportunity to see my children more often...although of course i won't get into the old war theater at my old home.... now they're singing wagner here on the radio - the boy knew how to get on with the world, didn't he?" (Providence, ca. January 1967). - "i think i've found a publisher for WOLKEN, it's EDITION ET in berlin, they want to pay me something if they accept it. for our next number poetrie i can bring something really dirty i already have an idea such obscene things are very right in private editions..." (Reykjavik, Jan. 30, 1967). - "i have to say: the leather things are simply the greatest, i see that you can be trusted with a lot, and i congratulate you from the bottom of my heart..." (Reykjavik, 18.4.1967). - "dear RIE, have I already written to you since we came back from the frankfurt book fair?" (Basel, 3.11.1967). - "emmett (Williams) and the rest of us have been partying for a week, it's been thundering, the nerfs are always out of order" (Reykjavik, 5.7.1967). - "SOS IN THE HIGHEST GRADE SEND TWO TAUSES OR MORE - YOUR SOS" (Telegram, January 14, 1970). - "the typesetter doesn't understand a word of the mass he is kneading for me. Part of the manuscript is scribbled down by hand, very quickly and rapidly (in bed, when I can't sleep again at night), and I let the typesetter set it as he sees it - maybe something will come of it. Sometimes I yodel with joy in my sleep!" (Reykjavik 14.1.1971 on "a volume of essays"). - Numerous letters with handwritten additions, deletions, etc. - Some letters and envelopes with small tears or small losses, 1 letter glued several times with Sellotape, 1 letter with 2 losses due to removed photos. - Enclosed: 2 letters from Hanns Sohm to Rieser. Signed typewritten letter dated 5.3.1967 about complicated purchases of Roth's works "I send him money from time to time and then get something..." - Signed typewritten letter dated 17.11.1976 with a list and confirmation of the transfer of documents to the Dieter Roth archive. - Enclosed: 7 undated sheets with handwritten notes, 1 sketch and instructions from Roth for Rieser. - Partly torn and creased. - Enclosed: 2 handwritten powers of attorney in copy. Both Düsseldorf, 10.2.1972. Powers of attorney handwritten by Roth on the letterhead of Eat Art Galerie, for Carlo Schröter for the purchase of the remainder of the "Funktürme" (?) as well as for the receipt of the "Anisuhr", "Selbstturm" and "Bohnenrotkohlbild" on commission. - Copies lightened. - Almost all letters with enclosed handwritten translation into English, these with order numbers, in 9 laid paper envelopes, these also with order numbers. - A detailed list of all documents can be sent on request. - Provenance: Estate of Rudolf Rieser.

Estim. 10 000 - 15 000 EUR

Sat 11 May

Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color (Die Wechselbeziehung der Farbe). Text and commentary volume. With 81 loose double sheets with color serigraphs. Starnberg, Keller/Albers, 1973. 78 pp. (text); 47 pp. (commentary). 37 x 27.5 cm. Plates loose in original leatherette case, original leatherette binding (text) and original brochure (commentary) with spine titles together in original leatherette slipcase with spine title (slipcase somewhat soiled and scuffed, spine of case soiled). First German edition of Albers' famous color theory, published ten years after the original edition. - One of 1000 copies. - Die Lesbarkeit der Kunst 48 - Saur II, 48 - cf. Danilowitz p. 20 - The 81 folding plates contain one or sometimes several color serigraphs or color offsets, some with fold-out color elements that illustrate Albers' theories, such as the "Bezold effect", the application of which led him to his "Homage-to-the-Square" pictures. - Albers dedicated this publication to his students: "This book is my thanks to my students." - "Among the numerous publications on his own work as well as on general questions of art theory and art education, the book 'Interaction of Color' became the most famous." (R. Langenberg, in Legibility of Art. 1999). - Designed by Norman Ives, who was later also responsible for Albers' "Formulation : Articulation". - Inside in perfect condition. - Enclosed: I. Josef Albers. graphic tectonic. Cologne, Galerie der Spiegel, 1968. original cardboard. - With autograph dedication by Albers on the flyleaf. - With crease throughout. - II Josef Albers. Paintings and "interaction of color". Catalog Kunstverein Munich, 1970. original cardboard. - III Gomringer, Eugen. Introduction "Interaction of Color" in Starnberg, October 2, 1970. 5 pp.

Estim. 2 000 - 3 000 EUR

Wed 15 May

BEDEL (Maurice) Jérome 60° latitude Nord. Paris, Gallimard, 1927. 1 vol. in-12 paperback, uncut. Traces of rust left by a fastener at the edge of the cover. 262 pp, (1) p. First edition - press service. Autograph signed letter from the author to Léon Treich. Attached is a handsome 5-page autograph manuscript signed by Maurice Bedel entitled La Norvège, le prix Goncourt et les exégètes, in which Jérôme 60° latitude Nord is discussed. Several other volumes with authors' consignments are enclosed: BENJAMIN (René): Grandes figures - Antoine déchainé, Paris, Arthème Fayard et Cie, s.d.(1923). 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition on plain paper. Autograph letter signed by the author on the title page. A beautiful autograph letter to Léon Treich. - FAYARD (Jean): Journal d'un colonel. With a portrait of the author drawn by Sem and woodcut by G. Aubert. Paris, N.R.F., 1925. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition. One of 118 copies hors commerce on Navarre imitation vellum. Autograph letter signed by the author, and autograph letter signed by the author to Léon Treich (February 23, 1923). - ERLANDE (Albert): La Tragédie du Consolateur. Novel. Paris, J. Ferenczi & fils, s.d. (1925). 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition printed on alfa (not numbered). Autograph letter signed by the author. With an autograph letter signed by the author, an autobiographical note and a signed postcard portrait. - MILLE (Pierre) : L'illustre Partonneau. Novel. Paris, Albin Michel, s.d. (1924). 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition on plain paper. Autograph signed letter from the author. With a signed autograph letter (6 pp.) to Léon Treich. Together, 5 volumes.

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Wed 15 May

DEREME (Tristan) et alii Guirlande pour deux vers de Gérard de Nerval. Paris, Au Pigeonnier, 1926. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. Covers faded. Double state burin-engraved hors-texte portrait of the author by J. Jullien (one on copper), 79 pp, (1) p. Large witnesses. First edition. One of 56 copies on old Vidalon vellum (and one of 6 hors commerce). Handsome autograph letter from the author on the title page. Copy to which is attached a hand-corrected typescript of the same text with autograph dispatch to Léon Treich. Also included: - DEREME (Tristan): En rêvant à P.-J. Toulet, Paris, Le Divan, 1927. 1 vol. in-12 uncut paperback on publisher's paper. With autograph letter from the author. Attached is an autograph manuscript by Tristan Derême entitled La Muse chez Procuste ou le Pied coupé, billet (3 leaves in brown ink). - DEREME (Tristan): Fausse mort de M. Théodore Decalandre. Paris, Emile-Paul, 1925. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. Confidential first edition printed on Hollande Van Gelden (only 30 copies were printed, all hors commerce). Handsome autograph letter from the author to Léon Treich. Attached is an autograph postcard signed by Tristan Derême to Léon Treich, dated Saint-Pée, September 3, 1927. - DYSSORD (Jacques): Le dernier chant de l'Intermezzo Poèmes. Paris, Bernard Grasset, 1909. First edition on plain paper. Autograph signed letter from the author to Léon Treich. Attached is an autograph manuscript by the author entitled Du Quai Voltaire au Quai Conti, Jérôme Tharaud (on a large sheet folded several times). - HERTA (Simon): Triptyque. Poèmes. Pen drawing by Marcel Lascou. Paris, Les Cahiers du Nouvel Humanisme, s.d. 1 vol. in-8° paperback. Autograph signed letter from the author to the poet Jean Arsac (dated 1954). Enclosed is an autograph letter signed by the author (2 pp. 1/2) dated July 7, 1954. - LEFEVRE (Frédéric) : La Poésie dans nos poètes. Paris, Les Amis d'Edouard, 1923. 1 vol. in-16 paperback. One of 190 copies on Arches. Autograph signed letter from the author. - BLONDEL (Maurice): Letter from Maurice Blondel to Frédéric Lefèvre. Paris, Spes, 1928. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition printed in an edition of 100 copies. Signed autograph letter from Frédéric Lefèvre to Léon Treich. Two autograph letters signed by Frédéric Lefèvre (addressed to Léon Treich). - HIPPEAU (Jean-Paul): Idées de derrière la tête. Translated from the German by Harry Hops [Jean-Paul Hippeau], Paris, Les Carnets de la Lucarne, 1925. 1 vol. in-12 paperback Rare first edition (155 copies in all). One of 21 copies on Hollande (n°17) reprinted. We enclose a second copy (in-16 paperback), one of 102 on Madagascar, and an autograph letter from Hippeau to Léon Treich about this work. A fine set of 9 volumes.

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Wed 15 May

[ENVOIS d'AUTEURS] Set of books with author's mailing. - MARCEROU (Lucien): La Comédie Française, Paris, Librairie de France, 1925. 1 vol. in-8° paperback. Long letter from Mme Dussane, sociétaire de la Comédie française, to Léon Treich (on the flyleaf and faux-titre). - FAYARD (Jean): Oxford and Margaret. Paris, Arthème Fayard, 1924. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition. Autograph address and autograph letter signed by the author to Léon Treich. - LANG (André): Déplacements et villégiatures littéraires, Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, n.d. Autograph letter signed by the author and 2 autograph letters signed. - TALVART (Hector): Conjectures. Essais & Propos, Paris, Armand Huard, 1922, 1 vol. in-12 paperback. Autograph letter signed by the author and a signed autograph letter dated December 4, 1924. - MEREJKOWSKY (Dimitry): La Naissance des Dieux. Toutankamon in Crete. Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1924. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. Autograph signed letter from the author to Léon Treich. - DUHAMEL (Georges): Délibérations, Paris, Les Cahiers de Paris, 1925. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition with signed autograph dispatch and a fine signed autograph letter from Georges Duhamel to Léon Treich (November 25, 1924). - MAUCLAIR (Camille): Les Maîtres de l'Impressionnisme, Paris, Ollendorff, s.d., 1 vol. in-12 paperback. Autograph letter signed by the author and an autograph manuscript (autobiographical) by the author addressed to Léon Treich. - LATZARUS (Louis): La France veut-elle un roi, Paris, éditions du Siècle, 1925. 1 vol. in-12 paperback. First edition. One of 25 nominative hors commerce copies (on pur fil Lafuma). Autograph signed letter from the author to Léon Treich and an autograph signed letter to the same author. - RIOU (Gaston): Aux écoutes de la France qui vient. Paris, Editions Baudinière, s.d. (1925). 1 vol. in-12 in sheets. Corrected proofs with autograph letter from the author to Léon Treich. Together, 9 volumes.

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