(Ferruccio Busoni in Wolfgang Sandner’s citation on Kurt Weill,
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung March 4, 2000)

Brecht – Sinn und Form. Beiträge zur Literatur. Ed. by the German Academy of Arts. Second special issue Bertolt Brecht. Berlin. (1957.) Large 8vo. 628 pp. Orig. half cloth with back-plate.

Contains  besides Walter Nubel’s still decisive Brecht Bibliography (pp. 481-623) and in first prints contributions referring to the theatre as

Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui (first print) – An Helene Weigel zum 1. 5. 1950 – Bentley, Die Theaterkunst Brechts – Chiarini, Lessing und Brecht – Augsburger Theaterkritiken (first print) –  Ihering, Kritiken aus den 20er Jahren – Benjamin, Ein Familiendrama auf dem epischen Theater – Einige Irrtümer über die Spielweise des Berliner Ensembles – Rülicke, Leben des Galilei – Berlau, Poesie der Regie – Wirth, Über die stereometrische Struktur der Brechtschen Stücke – Die Geschäfte des Herrn Julius Cäsar (first print) – Stimmen der Deutschen Bühne zum Tode Brechts (first print) – Dreizehn Bühnentechniker erzählen.
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Beethoven – (Seyfried, Ignaz Ritter von, 1776 Wien 1841.) Work fellow already of the Early Years – “(Biographical Notes [on Ludwig van Beethoven])“. Reduced reproduction + transcription of the autograph manuscript from 1831, having been laid before the musicologist Bettina von Seyfried. Bonn, Niemeyer, 1990. 12 unnumbered sheets. With 13 (12 full-page) illustrations. In sheets with repeated portrait vignette on cover (this in red and black).

Complete mansuscript version published for the first time

as  the  deviating  original  writing

of this second to the earliest more detailed source of the Beethoven biography with the highest important passage, missing in the print (within the appendix to L. v. B. Studies in the Thorough-Bass, Vienna 1832), regarding the generous gift of money of the London Philharmonic Society which B. on his deathbed so immensely moved out of gratitude. As also with difference at the beginning in respect of the birthday taken over by B. himself and at the broken end, here with “(Now will be inserted the Preliminary Report to the Miserere.)”, followed by naming of the annex I. as the funeral oration of Grillparzer. Otherwise the authentic report of the one who was present from the earliest time in Vienna. At the most legendary wrestlings with Wölfl at the piano in the house of Wetzlar,

at  the  disastrous  first  of  FIDELIO

November 20, 1805, whose orchestra rehearsals he had directed and whose 3^rd Leonoren overture he should have directed in the second run March 28 (29?) + April 10, 1806. And for the requiem he wrote the choral.
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– – – – The autograph manuscript above itself. – Also see the complete description.
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Seyfried – Seyfried, Bettina von. Ignaz Ritter von Seyfried. (Thematical-bibliographical list / Aspects of the biography and the œuvre.) 1990. Large 8vo. 589, 3 pp. With portrait-frontispiece + numerous examples of music. Ills. orig. wrappers. – EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY STUDIES Series XXXVI, Musicology XXXII. – Typoscript in German of the dissertation of 1983, dedicated to her “parents and Leonore”.
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l’Arronge – Organ-grinder and his Child, The. Theodor l’Arronge as Frieder Kranich in Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffers’s play at the city theatre at Cöln (Berlin). Glazed colored lithograph printed with tone plate for Louis Veit, Berlin. (1859-60.) 22.4 x 14.8 cm. – Sheet 48 of the Lipperheide set Ucd 19 on light cardboard.
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Birch-Pfeiffer – Romeo and Julia. Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer as the nurse of Julia in Shakespeare’s tragedy at the Berlin Royal Dramatic Theatre. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 28.
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Döllinger – Rast, Auf der hohen. Therese Döllinger as Bärbchen in Gustav Griepenkerl’s play at the Royal Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 46.
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Hendrichs – Demetrius. Hermann Hendrichs as Demetrius in F. Gustav Kühne’s drama after Schiller’s draft at the Royal Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 25.
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Julius – King, How is the? Louis Julius as Blücher in Arthur Müller’s play at the Friedrich Wilhelmstadt Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 36.
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Kaiser – Mondecaus. Wilhelm Kaiser as Richelieu in A. E. Brachvogel’s tragedy at the Royal Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 45 of the set.
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Mittell – Kitchen Novel, A. Carl Mittell as Ferenz in W. Kläger’s picture of life at Wallner’s Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 29.
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Porth – Maria. Carl Porth as Pope Gregory V in J. L. Klein’s drama at the Royal Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 34 of the set.
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Reusche – Folks, One of our. Theodor Reusche as Jsak Stern in O. F. Berg’s burlesque at Wallner’s Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, seeet 32.
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Wollrabe – Helmerding – Dancer, An Old. Amalie Wollrabe and Carl Helmerding as dancing pair Ninette and Girard in the 1st act of L. Günther’s burlesque at the Wallner Theatre, Berlin. Glazed colored lithograph as before, sheet 47.
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Dansant, Femme de qualité. Engraving by Jean-Baptiste Bonnart (? 1654 Paris 1726) publ. by Henri Bonnart (1642 Paris 1711) at Paris. Inscribed: Chez HBonnart, rue S^t. Iacques au Coq, avec priuil, otherwise as above. 27.9 x 18.8 cm. – AKL XII, 572 (J.-B. Bonnart). – Brilliant  impression . – See the complete description.
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(John) Rich’s Triumphant Entry. The great actor’s and his company’s moving from Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre into Covent Garden under the banner “Rich for ever”, confronted by the clock’s inscription “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi”. He himself, in the skin of the famous hound from ‘Perseus and Andromeda’, together with spouse in the carriage drawn by satyrs and driven by a harlequin at the head. At the rear the cart with the stage properties. Engraving. Inscribed: WHO’TH (?) SCULP. (in the image lower left), title as above. 20.7 x 35.3 cm.

Nagler 13. – Impression from the plate reworked by the royal engraver James Heath (1757 London 1834) about 1822 (“Even these impressions became relatively rare today though”, Art Gallery Esslingen 1970; and Meyers Konv.-Lex., 4^th ed., VIII [1888], 625: “A fine edition”). – Above trimmed within the platemark.
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– – – The same in engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Rich’s Triumphal Entry. / Hogarth pinx. / T. Cook sculp. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Nov. 1^st. 1809. Subject size 11.5 x 18.5 cm.

Cook’s smaller repetition. – Trimmed within the wide white platemark whose outer parts are somewhat brown-stippled on two sides.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Beggars Opera. John Gay’s immortal opera – Act III, Scene 11 – in John Rich’s first night of 1728 at the sold out house. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Design’d by W. Hogarth. / Engrav’d by T. Cook., title as before. 24.8 x 28 cm.

With subtext :

“ Brittons  attend  –  view  this  harmonious  Stage
And  listen  to  those  notes  which  charm  the  age
Thus  shall  your  tastes  in  Sounds & Sense  be  shown
And  Beggars  Op’ras  ever  be  your  own. ”

“ In the former, all the characters are drawn with the heads of different animals: as Polly with a cat’s; Lucy with a sow’s; Macheath with that of an ass; Lockit and Mr. and Mrs. Peachum with those of an ox, a dog, and a owl. In the latter, several Noblemen appear conducting the chief Female Singer forward on the Stage … Harmony, flying in the air, turn her back on the English Playhouse, and hastens toward the Rival Theatre. Musicians stand in front of the former … ”

(Nichols).

Contrary to all later Hogarth editions in its original size. Cook “made himself a name as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker). – Below trimmed within the wide platemark, in the wide upper two weak water streaks.– See the complete description.
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– – The same. Cook’s smaller repetition engraved together with his son. Inscribed: Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook & Son sc. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, May 1^st. 1808., title as above. Subject size 13.9 x 17.4 cm.

In the opposite direction to Cook’s large first version, as to that by Hogarth. – Trimmed within the wide white platemark. This somewhat browned on the outer parts of two sides.
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– – The same in Hogarth’s own engraving. Inscribed: Design’d by W. Hogarth., title + subtext as above. 25 x 28 cm.

Heath impression as above. – As half size trimmed below within the wide platemark.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). M^r Garrick in the Character of Richard the Third. Here “The tent scene, Act V, Scene 3, which was especially praised” – the king raising terrified from his dream in the tent. To the left his own camp and that of Richmond’s “so that a battle is inescapable”. Steel engraving. About 1840. Inscribed: Garrick in der Rolle Richard des Dritten. / Shakespear (sic!) Act 5, Scene 7 (sic!, recte 3), otherwise as above. 14.3 x 16.9 cm.

Side-correct to Hogarth’s painting of c. 1745 (H. Cat. Tate Gallery 1971/72, 123 with ills.). – Below trimmed within the last line of text.

“ This picture was caused by the first appearance of the British Roscius in the rôle of Richard III^rd at the theatre of Goodman’sfield (Lincoln Inn Fields) in the year 1741 by which that famous actor forced his way in a way that from the first moment on he found the most complete acknowledgement by the nation … Garrick has reshaped the English stage, and still exercises his efficacy through the tradition as his method to impersonate Shakespeare’s characters was handed down to actors from generation to generation … The whole body (here), from top to toe, is frantically moved by the terror of the other world … ”

(Lichtenberg).

And “The design follows Le Brun’s ‘Tent of Darius’”, so Lawrence Gowing in the catalogue by the Tate Gallery. Also drawing the attention to the fact that the proceeds of 200 £ received for the painting “paid by Mr Duncombe, who commissioned the picture, remained a matter of pride to the painter”. Support for this not least that charming letter of the master of Oct. 21, 1746, on the “Proportions of Garrick and Quin” in which he explains this nice sum with the words

“ … sold … on account of its Likeness which was the reason it was call’d Mr Garrick … & not any body else “ .

David Garrick’s (Heresford 1716 – near London 1779) beginning dates from just that year, first in Ipswich, then already see above. 1746 he went on to Covent Garden, 1747 he bought the Drury Lane together with Lacy where he endeavoured “to revive especially the taste for Shakespeare’s works” (Meyer’s Konversations-Lexikon, 4^th ed.). 1776 he withdrew. He was buried in Westminster Abbey at the foot of Shakespeare’s memorial. He himself wrote 27 comedies (see on this “The Farmer’s Return”). And even Hogarth’s epitaph. – See the complete description.
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Garrick  is  the  Greatest

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Fac Simile of the Proportions of Garrick and Quin. The two, both twice, outlined at the stadia rod, of which each of the outer double is marked with “a very short proportion” (Quin) and “a very tall proportion” resp. Within the autograph letter of Oct. 21, 1746. Engraved facsimile by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: From the Original in the Collection of J. P. Kemble Esq^r. / T. Cook sc. / Published by Longmann, Hurst (quite pale), Rees, & Orme, Nov^r. 1^st. 1808., title as before. 25 x 35 cm.

“ To G H (?) to be left at the Post office at Norwich / HO (?), Siegel / Sr / If the exact Figure of Mr Quin, were to be reduced to the size of the print of Mr Garrick it would seen to be the shortest man of the two, because Mr Garrick is of a taller proportion. / examples … / Let these figures be doubled down so as to be seen but one at once, than let it be ask’d which represents the tallest man. Yours W H. ”

And left above of the address :

“ The Picture from whom the Print in question was taken, was Painted from Mr Garrick big as the life, & was sold for two hundred pounds on account of its Likeness which was the reason it was call’d Mr Garrick in the Character of Richard the 3d – & not any body else ”

The latter paragraph referring to Hogarth’s mentioned painting of c. 1745, now in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Hogarth Catalogue of the Tate Gallery, 1971/72, 123 with ills.; “Portraiture and the theatre as a basis for history painting on the grand scale”). After this then the mentioned engraving, worked by Hogarth together with C. Grignon in July 1746 (Hogarth Catalogue Zurich, 1983, 73 with ills.; see no. 7,816 before).

On Hogarth’s pride in the good payment for the painting expressed in the letter the Tate Catalogue says :

“ The price of £ 200 paid by Mr Duncombe, who commissioned the picture, remained a matter of pride to the painter. ”

Very rare. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker). – Three vertical folds within the engraving, additionally right of the white platemargin repeatedly sligthly pleated. If framed only limitedly perceptible. – The white upper margin weakliy brown striped and not absolutely fresh.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Southwark Fair. The London fair with its populous colorful scene. Engraving by Thomas Cook (ca. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Designed by Wm. Hogarth / Engraved by T. Cook / Published April 1^st. 1796, by G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London., title as before. 37.4 x 47.5 cm.

Hogarth Catalog Tate Gallery, 1971/72, 74 (the 1733 oil) along with ills.; H. Catalog Zurich, 1983, 20 (H’s engraving of 1734 in reverse) with ills. – As subscription ticket Subskriptionsbeleg served suggestively “The Laughing Audience (see below)”.

The  second  earliest  depiction

of the exposition “Come in, Come in – Fair’s Prints from Three Centuries” of the Puppet Show Collection Munich of 1975/76. See no. 2 of the exhibition catalog along with double full-page ills. pp. 52/53.

“ This first sheet by Hogarth of larger consequence, which he himself attached importance also still later, giving the depiction of one of those fairs which in England in the beginning of the new time were still of importance for the trade, but already in the last half of the 17^th century served only as motive for amusement of the lower-classes, which is usually the case on such occasions.

But it also don’t lack at tragedy … especially in front at ‘Bajazet’s  Fall’ (see below), at that time a famous heroe on the national theatres … played by the way by Cibber and Bullock …, by a company which circumstances a (deliciously illustrated) signboard with the headline

The  Stage  Mutiny

( the  players  rebellion  from  Drury Lane

with  Theophilus  Cibber

at  the  head , from  which  the  Haymarket  Theatre  formed )

still more detailed comments …

At a large kiosk … dramatical performances are promised by comedy-bills and executed, too, … A heroic piece likewise is in the process of the show, the siege of Troy …

The main thing on the sheet naturally formed the crowd. Also here a troupe of comedians is noticeable which first makes known its performance under beat of the drum and trumpet-blast. The drum is played by a beauty … This should be the portrait of an actress from a similar company of players. How it is told once Hogarth had mixed with the crowd on a Southwark Fair and saw how a pretty street comedian was maltreated by her director. The spectacle was so awkward to him that he directly gave a lecture of gallentry with the riding-whip to the director. But the girl pleased him so much that he draw her and later placed on this picture ”

(Lichtenberg).

Arthistorical  hub

however, is the own fall of the future Haymarket ensemble, and in such a way unintentionally life playing just “The Fall of Bajazet”, from its wooden stage established raisedly above the crowd into the goods of a porcelain shop.  And  in  doing  so , full  of  symbolism , showing  leg . In this case that of a beauty. A leg with past and future. For

“ The actress’s flailing legs among the timbers of the stage … recall  Bruegel’s ‘Fall of the Magician’ (rather than the work by Coypel which is sometimes suggested.)

This  passage  in  the  ‘ Southwark  Fair ’

… may have suggested the similar detail in Plate 30 of  Goya’s ‘Disaster of War’ ”

(Lawrence Gowing im Katalog der Tate Gallery).

Splendid  impression  of  finest  chiaroscuro

of this unrepeatable sheet, in the same direction to Hogarth’ engraving, on strong paper. Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker), whose original size he maintained in contrast to all later Hogarth editions. – The wide white margin with a quite weak water-streak above right.
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– – – The  Same  in  Cook’s  smaller  repetition , in same direction to the oil. Inscribed: Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook sculpt. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, July 1^st. 1807., title as above. Subject size 14 x 17 cm.

Trimmed within the wide white margin, two sides of which, relatively three, in its outer parts weakly brownspotted.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Laughing Audience. The laughing pit during a comic opera, “perhaps Gay’s famous or notorious Beggars Opera”. In front three members of the orchestra. Engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840). 21.7 x 19.5 cm.

“ The  masterly  reproduction  of  all  nuances  of  laugh ”

(Thieme-Becker). – Served originally as subscription ticket for Southwark Fair (see above) + A Rake’s Progress. – See the illustrations of the 1733 Hogarth etching in the Hogarth catalogs of the Tate Gallery, 1971/72, no. 82 + the Art Gallery Zurich, 1983, no. 22.

“ The beholder can find in the depicted faces the complete graduation of jollity … and besides note the expression which will be caused at the funniest high spirits by the difference ages. Only  one face preserves an unshakable earnestness … perhaps of a critic … ”

(Lichtenberg).

RIEPENHAUSEN’S  ENGRAVINGS  AFTER  HOGARTH  ( “very estimable” ) count to his main work and are preferred partly to the Hogarth engravings itself. – Fine  early  impression .
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– – – The same by Riepenhausen in probable impression of a special edition in view of the good, strong paper. 22 x 20 cm.
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– – – The same by Riepenhausen on a slightly toned less paper. 22 x 20 cm.
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– – – The same in Hogarth’s own engraving of 1733 in an impression from the plate retouched by the royal engraver James Heath (1757 London 1834) about 1822 (“But even these impressions became relatively rare today”, Art Gallery Esslingen 1970). 19 x 17.2 cm. – Served originally as subscription ticket for Southwark Fair + A Rake’s Progress whose receipt text was taken away per 4^th state in 1737 by corresponding shortening of the plate.
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– – – The same in engraving by Thomas Cook (ca. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook sculpt. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Nov. 1^st. 1807., title as above. Subject size 15.7 x 14 cm. – Cook’s smaller repetition. – Trimmed within the wide white margin. Three outer edges somewhat brownspotted.
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– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 –Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) 21 x 17.6 cm.
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– – – The same in lithography. (1833/36.) 23.7 x 15.5 cm. – With detailed subtext à la Lichtenberg in German.
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– – – The same in steel engraving. Ca. 1840. 18.5 x 15.4 cm.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Enraged Musician. The Italian violinist enraged about the many itinerant traders acting before his window. Engraving by Thomas Cook (ca. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Designed by W. Hogarth / Engraved by T. Cook / Published August 1^st. 1797 by G. G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, London., title as above. 35.9 x 41.3 cm.

One  of  the  most  delicious  Hogarth  sujets

“ reducing the stylistic quarrel between Händel and the Beggars Opera, for the ‘serious’ musician belongs here to the ensemble of the Beggar’s Opera ”

(FAZ Sept. 26, 1978 along with ills.; see also this of the Hogarth catalog Zurich, 1983, no. 41). At the window accordingly a poster announcing the 62^nd performance of Gay’s famous piece and calls the cast for Macheath, Polly and Peachum. Und passend darunter singt eine das Baby wiegende Dame The Ladies Fall. Otherwise joined “the lovliest of the so-called London cries … ” (Lichtenberg). – Very  fine  impression  standing  out  by  splendid  light  effects. – See the complete description.
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– – The Same in Hogarth’s own engraving in Heath impression as above. Inscribed: Design’d, Engrav’d & Publish’d by Wm. Hogarth Nov^br. the 30^th. 1741. According to Act of Parliament, otherwise as above. 36.4 x 40.8 cm.
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– – in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl. (1818/23.) 19.8 x 22.8 cm.
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– – in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen. 19.4 x 26.5 cm. – Impression about 1820 on slightly toned minor paper.
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– – by Riepenhausen as before, but in an impression about 1850 on especially buff paper.
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King Henry the Eigth & Anna Bullen (Boleyn). Henry confesses the court lady of his wife (1.) Catharine, this set back on the throne, his feelings. To the right the almighty cardinal + archbishop Thomas Wolsey. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Design’d by W^m. Hogarth. / Engrav’d by T. Cook. / London Published by G & J Robinson Paternoster Row October 1 1801., title as above. 48 x 37.9 cm.

The work owes its creation to Cibber’s 1727 Shakespeare performance in the Drury Lane “although the print does not show any scene in the play” (Cat. Tate Gallery). Thieme-Becker’s assumption the engraving represents the lost painting of a third is considered as dated as quite contrarily that painting is regarded as a copy of the engraving known to Hogarth. It hang in Vauxhall Gardens till into those 40s and was seen, what Horace Walpole denied, as a representation of the Prince of Wales with Harriet Vane. A satire on their marriage in 1763 had recourse to Hogarth’s composition.

Marvelous impression full of contrast of the also optically effective large sheet. Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker). And as the only one of the later Hogarth editions he maintained his original format. – Two weak brown stripes in the wide white upper margin. The feeble foxing at the back not getting through to the picture. Only the outer edges of two, limitedly three, sides slightly browned. Pinhead-thin spot invisible within the upper wall ornaments. – See the complete description.
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– – – The same in Cook’s smaller repetition engraved together with his son. Inscribed: Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook & Son sc. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, May 1^st. 1806., title as above. 18.7 x 15.3 cm.

Reverse to Cook’s large first version which corresponds with Hogarth’s engraving. – Trimmed within the wide white platemark. This weakly brownspotted on three sides.
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– – – The same in Hogarth’s own engraving of c. 1728/29 in Heath impression as before, here additionally “Republished March 18^th. 1828, by R. & E. Williamson, Engravers, & Printers, 14. Moore Place, New Bethlem, Lambeth, London”. Inscribed: King Henry the Eigth, & Anna Bullen. / Design’d & Engrav’d by W^m. Hogarth. / London, Printed for Robert Wilkinson, Cornhil, Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard & R. Sayer, in Fleet Street., otherwise as above. 48.5 x 38.5 cm. – Illustration of the first state (with subtext) see cat. Tate Gallery, 21.
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A Just View of the British Stage, or three heads are better than one, Scene Newgate …. Rich stage properties scenery with the three actors in the center on the stage. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Design’d by W. Hogarth / Engrav’d by T. Cook. / London Published by G. & J. Robinson Paternoster Row October 1^st. 1802., title as above. 22.6 x 27.6 cm.

With 4-lined subtext: “This Print Represents the Rehearsing a new Farce that will include (i. a. ?) two famous Entertainments Dr. Faustus & Harlequin Sheperd, to which will be added … Ben Johnsons Ghost …” – Above trimmed within the wide platemark.
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– – The same in Hogarth’s own engraving (? inscription deleted). Inscribed: Design’d by W. Hogarth / …, title + subtext as above. – Nagler 9. – Fine impression of the Heath edition. – Above trimmed within the wide white platemark.
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– – – in Cook’s smaller repetition engraved together with his son, relinquishing the subtext. Inscribed: A Just View of the British Stage. / Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook & Son sc. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, July 1^st. 1808. Subject size 14.7 x 16.9 cm.

Trimmed within the wide white platemark which is somewhat brown-stippled in the outer parts of three sides.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). The Farmer’s Return. The farmer with smoking pipe at the fireplace being comforted by his family while the housewife pours the beer onto the floor instead of the mug held out to her. Engraving by James I Basire (1730 London 1802). Inscribed: W^m. Hogarth delin. / James Basire. Sculp., title as before. 25.5 x 21.8 cm.

“ Of the three engravers of this name the eldest is … the most superior … Correct drawing and true control of the graver are said to his praise ”

(Thieme-Becker). – Worked as frontispiece for the little play by the legendary Shakespeare actor  Garrick. – Heath impression.
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– – The same in engraving by Thomas Cook. Inscribed: Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook sculp^t. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, March 1^st. 1807., title as above. Subject size 17.2 x 14.1 cm.

Trimmed within the wide white platemargin which is weakly brown-spotted in the outer parts of 2.5 sides.
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(Hymen and Cupid.) Admission ticket for the mask play “Alfred the Great” in Cliveden House – this in the background – 1748 before Prince and Princess of Wales on occasion of the latter’s birthday. Engraving in oval. 18.7 x 21.2 cm. – Heath impression.
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– – The same in engraving by Thomas Cook. Inscribed: Hymen & Cupid. / Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook sculp. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Aug. 1^st. 1809. Subject size 14.1 x 16.8 cm.

Trimmed within the wide white platemark whose outer edges are weakly brownspotted on two sides.
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Masquerades and Operas. Burlington-gate. The several establishments situated before the Academy of Arts. On the left the advertising banner with the scene from an opera. At the neighbouring window a tout endeavours to tempt the fools rushing to the side entry into the masquerade in his own house. Greatest crush, however, on the opposite side where, just in the front of the picture,

“ Dr.  FAUSTUS  as  Hero ”

is promised by the tout in harlequin costume. In-between a book cart with purified dealer who knows what he sells: Waste paper for Shops, amongst it Shakespeare, Ben Johnson, Dryden. Engraving. (1724.) Inscribed as above. 14.5 x 19 cm.

The  youthful-fresh  lively  work

as an already true Hogarth. Illustrating “the so-called ‘Pleasures of the City’” (Thieme-Becker) and together a “satire on Lord Burlington who preferred the scribbler Kent to the famous Thornhill (Hogarth’s father-in-law)” (Nagler). – Fine Heath impression.
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– – The same in engraving by Thomas Cook. Between 1795 + 1803. Inscribed as above. 14.6 x 19.8 cm. – In the original Hogarth format. – Two sides trimmed within the white platemark. In the wide right outer margin feeble waterstreak. – Illustration
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Humours of Oxford, 1729. The vice chancellor of the university together with proctor’s man surprises two students in a tavern, one of the two even drunk. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed: Hogarth pinx^t. / T. Cook sculp^t. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, Nov^r. 1^st. 1807., title as above. 18.1 x 12.1 cm.

Frontispiece to James Miller’s comedy staged in Drury Lane. – Trimmed within the wide white platemark whose outer edges are weakly brown-spotted on two sides. Repaired minor tear in the lower margin.
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“ …  but  unfortunately !”

Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Rehearsal of the Oratorio of Judith. Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818). Ca. 1800. Inscribed as before as well as in the picture: Judith: an Oratorio; or sacred drama by. 19.5 x 17.2 cm.

Illustrations of Hogarth’s etching of 1732 see Hogarth catalogues Tate Gallery, 1971/72, 81 (with the receipt text of states 1 + 2) + Kunsthaus Zurich, 1983, 21 (without text settled from the 3^rd state on of which just the “Rec(eive)d” remained), each with illustration. – Served as subscription ticket for the immortal gentlemen sujet “A Midnight Modern Conversation”.

Leading  character  of  this  capital  sheet  is the then conductor William von Fesch here practicing his oratorio Judith – with the text by William Huggins, both not only today forgotten since long – with the choir.

“ Hogarth … has given to all faces … so much expression that one cannot doubt for one moment how all make a point of winning satisfaction and applause of the audience … but unfortunately! ”

(Lichtenberg).

Very fine impression on strong paper. – In the white upper margin feeble waterstreak, left and below trimmed within the wide platemark. – Cook “made a name for himself as Hogarth engraver, too” (Thieme-Becker). – See the complete description.
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– – – The same in Hogarth’s own etching printed from the plate reworked by the royal engraver James Heath (1757 London 1834) about 1822 (“Even these impressions became relatively rare today though”, Art Gallery Esslingen 1970; and Meyers Konv.-Lex., 4^th ed., VIII [1888], 625: “A fine edition”). (1732.) 17.6 x 16.4 cm.

With the feeble “Rec(eive)d” of the receipt text settled from the 3^rd state on. – Due to the strong paper somewhat harsh impression with laterally extreme, below wide margins. – Two sides cut within the wide white platemark.
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– – – The same in Cook’s smaller repetition. Subject size 17 x 14 cm. – Trimmed within the wide white platemark that is slightly browned in its outmost parts.
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– – – The same in engraving by Carl Heinrich Rahl (Hoffenheim 1779 – Vienna 1843). (1818/23.) 21.3 x 18.6 cm.
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– – – The same in engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). 20.3 x 18.4 cm. – Riepenhausen’s engravings after Hogarth (“very estimable”, Nagler) belong to his chief work and not least for their side-correctness they are partly even preferred to Hogarth’s own engravings. – Fine early impression with light plate tone.
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– – – The same by Riepenhausen as before, but on especially buff paper, supposedly about 1850. – Especially the wide upper as well as the left margin with traces of glue, the reverse isolated foxspots in the area of the wide platemark and white lower margin resp. barely noticeable on the front.
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– – – The same in lithography. (1833/36.) The Choir. Inscribed in German as before, above right erroneously “64.”. 22.5 x 15.1 cm. – Marvellous impression of rich contrast with extensive subtext in German à la Lichtenberg:

“ William von Fesch, former conductor in Antwerp … took all possible pains to gain this oratorio admission in London, but unfortunately the audience not only remained cool during the performance but even forced him to stop already in the middle what of course could not but cause the highest pains for a composer, especially if he has a high opinion of himself. ”

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(Ticket for the) Theatre Royal / April a Comedy with the Mock Doctor for the Benefit of the Author of the Farce. Stage scenery. Engraving. Inscribed: W. Hogarth ft, otherwise as before. 14.7 x 14.2 cm. – Slightly palish Heath impression.
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(Ticket for the) Theatre Royal / Drury Lane / The Old Batchelor. For the Benefit of Joe Miller. Stage scenery. Engraving. Inscribed: W. Hogarth ft, otherwise as before. 13.2 x 17.7 cm. – Slightly palish Heath impression.
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(Ticket for the) Theatre Royal / Covent Garden. For the Benefit of Mr. Walker. Stage scenery. Engraving by John Sympson (b. c. 1740). Inscribed: W. Hogarth int. / J. Sympson Junr. Sculp., otherwise as before. 11 x 13.2 cm. – Slightly palish Heath impression.
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The Rape of the Lock. Vignette with the representation of a scene from Alexander Pope’s equal-named heroi-comical poem. Engraving by Ernst Ludwig Riepenhausen (1765 Göttingen 1840, university engraver there). 8.5 x 12.8 cm.

Impression from about 1850 on especially buff paper. – Wide-margined, the lateral outer edges slightly brown-striped.
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– – – The same on slightly toned minor paper. 8.5 x 12.8 cm.
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– – – The same in lithograph about 1830. Inscribed in German: Scene from the Rape of the Lock by Pope (4^th song) together with five lines subtext. 9.5 x 12.5 cm. – Somewhat palish.

“ Besides Hogarth worked this picture for a box which shall have been presented to a gentleman who himself played a rôle in the poem. “

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Crackling  Sujet  of  Earthy  Liveliness

Hudibras encounters the Skimmington (or The Antichristian Opera). The knight coming among vagrants marching into the place in great procession. Engraving by Thomas Cook. Inscribed: Plate XII. / Design’d by W. Hogarth. / Engrav’d by T. Cook. / London Published by G. & J. Robinson Pater noster Row February 1^st. 1802., Titel wie vor. 29 x 51,1 cm.

Catalog Zurich, 7 with ills. (Hogarth’s engraving: “gets into a fools procession”). – HUDIBRAS XII (cat. Zurich: 7). – Rich subtext. – After the so-called large Hudibras set of 1726 contrary to the smaller, supposedly earlier one “having more the character of woodcuts”, published, however, only 1727 in a text edition of Butler’s epos. While the latter follows the course of action, “the large sheets only represent the decisive scenes with an abridgement as legend”. “Hudibras” is for H.’s

“ development of decisive significance. Here lies the key to the understanding of the satirist H. ”

(Thieme-Becker).

On buff paper. – Of finest chiaroscuro. – Small tear off in the wide white upper margin, in the right one two weak water-streaks.
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– – – The same in Cook’s smaller version with the subtext being replaced by the series title. Inscribed: Pl. XII. / Hogarth pinx^t. / HUDIBRAS. / T. Cook & Son sc^.. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, May 1^st. 1808. Subject size 11 x 19.4 cm. – At three sides trimmed within the wide white platemark, which is partially a little time-marked.
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– – The same in Hogarth’s own engraving. Bezeichnet: 12. (by the publisher) / W Hogarth Inv et Sculp (in the lower left edge of the subject), title as above + subtext. 27.4 x 51.7 cm. – Heath impression.
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The Indian Emperor. Or the Conquest of Mexico (John Dryden’s, 1637-1700); Act 4, Scene 4. As performed in the year 1731 at Mr. Conduit’s, Master of the Mint, before the Duke of Cumberland etc. Engraving by Robert Dodd (1748-1818). Inscribed: Printed by Wm. Hogarth. / Engrav’d by Robt. Dodd. / From the original-Picture, in the Collection of Lord Holland. / Jan^u. 1. 1792, by J. & J. Boydell Cheapside, & at the Shakespeare Gallery Pall Mall., otherwise as above. 46.7 x 58.9 cm.

Hogarth Catalogue Tate Gallery, 1971/72, 41 (the painting of 1731/32) with ills. – The play usually enacted in the house of the directing John Conduitt here as children theatre in St. Jame’s Palace before the little ones of the royal family and their entourage, among which the Duke of Cumberland. – Somewhat palish Heath impression.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). (Country Dance.) Engraving by Thomas Cook (c. 1744 – London 1818) together with his son. Inscribed: Pl. II. / Analysis of Beauty. / Hogarth pinxt. / T. Cook & Son sc. / Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, July 1^st. 1808. Subject size 14.4 x 17.8 cm.

Catalogues Tate Gallery 192 + Zurich 77, each Hogarth’s version with illustrations.

The final sheet of Hogarth’s artistic credo “Analysis of Beauty” that “stirred an immense sensation” (Th.-B.) with its fine ball-like presentation of the  English  dance  (7.7-9.2 x 13.6 cm) by which the ideal of beauty + grace is illustrated. And here especially dominating by the couple dancing front left somewhat isolated whose elegance contrasts with the more rustic appearance of the rest of the party. By the way Hogarth transformed this gentleman in the 3^rd state, not without expectation, into a portrait of the future George II. On the dancing floor, partly covered by the cast-off hats of the gentlemen, the silk cushion as necessary accessories of any ball for the so-called cushion dance, a kind of cotillion. The painting “The Dance” of c. 1745 as picture VI of “The Happy Marriage” served as model for this rich scenery. – See the complete description.
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Hogarth, William (1697 London 1764). Musick (sic!) Introduc’d to Apollo by Minerva.

Apollo with lyre holding out his hand for Minerva who looks up to him. In her right a music-book. In their midst Mars holding Minerva’s left. Engraving by Thomas Cook (ca. 1744 – London 1818). Inscribed and with Hogarth’s date of 1727. Ca. 1805. Subject size 19.2 x 13.3 cm. – Trimmed in the wide white platemark slightly foxed on three sides.
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Letter of Dec. 7, 1913, with letterhead Dr. Oskar Linke Wörthstr. 47 / Weimar. 1 page.

“ Dear Franz Hermann! Therefore today Monday (Dec. 8) you have joined the round dance of the 50-years old: my warmest congratulation! … Your old true Oscar / who has just, on Sunday!, had to … a stage critique 6 columns long.” – On light cardboard. – Acid-freely backed little tear in the white margin of the centerfold.

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– from Nov. 13, 1914, with letterhead editor’s office of the Weimarische Landeszeitung Deutschland. 1 page.

“ Your fine essay, which I enjoyed personally with highest pleasure like caviar and Burgundy, unfortunately I cannot use it for our paper. You don’t know the ‘spirit’ Weimar .. … Personally I now (?) have heavy duty: ½6 get up, 1½ hours pause, then till 7 o’clock in the evening, often afterwards still theatre with following … But what one doesn’t do pro patria! / All my five nephews are in the field … ”

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Ridinger, Johann Elias (Ulm 1698 – Augsburg 1767). The Hippocrene. The Horse’s or Muse’s Fountain at the Parnas or Helicon as column of water rising up like a dome. With fountain ornaments, here the overgrown arch of a grotto, dominated by the fountain’s and Muse’s horse Pegasus and populated by the nine Muses as the guardians of the spring as well as river gods as the equally mandatory attributes of the fountain. Etching + engraving. 34.9 x 28.7 cm.

erlebnis ridinger 45 with illustration. – One of six Roman numbered I/VI preferential prints in reddish black on ivory-coloured Hahnemühle paper. Besides there are ten ordinary prints in black numbered Arabic 1/10 on the same and toned Hahnemühle resp. and some Épreuves d’Éditeur from the not cleaned plate in partly additional colours and on further papers, all with the autograph signature of ridinger dealer lüder h. niemeyer together with the date of February 16^th, 1998, as the master’s 300^th birthday, and two remaining with the printer without signature. With the exception of the latter two all with comprehensive stamp to this edition on the back.

Undescribed composition, obviously dismissed by the master and uncovered here during cleaning at the back of the original printing plate for the “Evening of the Stags”, Th. 240, of the set of their “Four Daytimes”, thematically near, but autonomous to the group of “Fountains” Thienemann (878-881) called the “Mythological Pyramids”.

Mythological background of the time of interest here is the moment Pegasus “calmed the Helicon rising up to heaven by the ecstasy about the Muses’ songs with a beat of his hoof evoking by this the enchanting Fountain of the Muses Hippocrene” (Meyer’s Konversations-Lexikon, 4^th ed.).

Just to the sides of the horse the Muse of Painting not designated for her own with the painter’s stick and palette along with brushes in her left, pressing a groundhigh slab to herself, and

but in the raised right. On the same level outwards Aphrodite casting the horoscope and Clio as announcer of history. After two puttos holding bird-shaped gargoyles – two reptile-like ones at the bottom – follow the other five Muses partly bathing their feet. The two in front right may be Erato connected specially to erotic poetry, here standing without attributes, and

Terpsichore  responsible  for  dance  +  choir  singing ,

but with plectrum only. Of the both on the left one with yardstick. In between on the water group of river gods.

The self-identification with the Muse of Painting cannot be overlooked and leads directly to his own ex-libris, Schwarz, Cat. of a Ridinger collection, 1569 with illustration. – The reason for the supposed not using of the “Hippocrene” is not obvious. If the waterfall, falling down above  behind  the grotto, below, however, arriving  before  the river gods placed rather  before  this and by this having these, basically quite meaningful, appearing slightly veiled, was probably regarded as failed must be left unsettled. The platework itself may have been marginally shortened in its composition due to adjustment of the format to the other three plates.

Printing was effected on occasion of the master’s 300^th birthday. And that with all the necessary care for the stag scenery on the other side. A care that inevitably had been thought as dispensable in the other way round so that the Hippocrene side was not quite virginal anymore.
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– – – – The Same in one of the ten copies in black numbered in Arabic.
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Schiller, (Friedrich von.) (Complete Works.) (Newly revised edition.) 7 vols. Leipsic, Insel, (1924.) Flexible dark brown orig. cloth with title at the back and the Inselschiff signet on front board, both gilt, and wrappers, and yellow book-mark ribbon. Yellow head edge.

(Großherzog-Wilhelm-Ernst Edition of German Classics.) – Originally published in 6 vols., 1905-06. Contrary to this the 7 vols. edition is rare. – India paper edition in fine compact format as currently no complete edition of Schiller is available. – backed tear in leaf 475/76 of the first volume, otherwise impeccable.
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Rugendas, Johann Moriz (traveller in South America, painter, draughtsman, engraver + lithographer, Augsburg 1802 – Weilheim/Teck 1858). Autograph letter in German with signature to the Ulm music director Wilhelm Speidel. Without place “5ter April 1854”. In-8. 1 page plus address on double leaf.

Provenance :
Adalbert Frhr. von Lanna ( 1839 – 1909 ), Prague,

and  after  90  years  quite  virginal  on  the  market !

With blind-stamped crown stamp. – Folded repeatedly, three small tears repaired acid-free. – “To Herrn Speidel Esq. music director. / My dear Mr. Speidel. One has not to have a lot (?) self-assurance or it must rest deep inside if one gives away such scribble as a drawing for an album. But I had been so busy these days that this is all I can offer you. Remember once there might follow a better one and think of me friendly Yours sincerely M. Rugendas”.

Speidel (Ulm 1826 – Stuttgart 1899), “music teacher and composer … son of the music teacher and singer there, Konrad S. … got his education at the high school at Ulm … Since 1843 he continued his musical studies in Munich where he was instructed in composition by Ignaz Lachner … (he distinguished himself) especially by his profound interpretation of Beethoven’s sonatas … (Instructed) 1846/7 at Thann/Alsace as private tutor in the Kestner family … the great-granddaughters of  Goethe’s  Lotte  in music … appeared in most larger towns in Germany as piano virtuoso. In 1855 (according to the address here already in 1854) S. was appointed as music director at the top of the choral society in Ulm, but already in 1857 he moved to Stuttgart where he (co-founded) the music school that later changed to the Royal Conservatory … From 1857 to 1885 he directed the choral society there and imparted to the choir his … much adored expression and freedom of recitation … ” (Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie LIV, 409). – See the complete description.
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Present by Rugendas and his father with the same provenance
together a lot of letters in connection with
Johann  Moritz’  1^st  voyage  to  Brazil  from  1821 ff.,
published for the very first time (in portugese translation) in
Diener-de Fátima Costa, A América de Rugendas, Obras e Documentos, Sao Paulo 1999
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Brandenburg, Hans. (The modern Dance.) (2^nd, enlarged ed.) With 107 plates. Munich, Georg Müller, ca. 1920. 4to. 202 pp., 3 ll. Marbled orig. boards.

Comp. Derra de Moroda 457: The most important book on the Modern German Dance. – Without plates 17-20, 34 + 36, at whose place due to misstitching 5 others have been bound with in duplicate. 1 additional plate lying in loosely. – Back renewed. – STANDARD  WORK .
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Arnold Schönberg. With contributions (in German) by  Alban  Berg, Paris von Gütersloh, K. Horwitz, Heinrich Jalowetz, W.  Kandinsky, Paul Königer, Karl Linke, Robert Neumann, Erwin Stein,  Ant.  v.  Webern, Egon Wellesz. Munich, Piper, 1912. Large 8vo. 90 pp., 1 l. publisher’s advertisements., i. a. for the first edition “The Blue Rider” of the same year. With portrait-frontispiece + 5 ills. on 4 plts. (paintings, two of which self-portraits), all mounted on black-blue carton, and numerous examples of music. Orig. boards with coloured fly-leaves.

Hirsch 3^rd series, pt. 291 B, 416. – Title in red + black. – (“Arnold Schönberg in highest reverence. – The half of the net proceeds of this book shall be transferred to the Gustav Mahler foundation”.) – Owner’s note of 1916 on title. – Quite isolated minimally foxed. – Fine copy. – See the complete description.
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Schönberg, Arnold, zum fünfzigsten Geburtstage 13. September 1924. Vienna, (Universal-Edition, 1924). Large 8vo. Title, pp. 269-342 (cpl.), 3 ll. publisher’s advertisements of Schönberg’s works. With portrait-frontispiece, 2 folded plts. and some examples of music. Orig. wrappers.

Special Issue of the Musikblätter des Anbruchs (vol. VI, issue August-September 1924). – Title + last page with the stamp of the Austrian theosophical society “Adyar” and their rental library pocket inside of the front cover and on the latter itself the double library no. 1781. – Wrappers not quite fresh, text with dog’s ear in the white upper margin, but falling off. – Isolated notes in pencil.

Contributions i. a. by Erwin Stein (Neue Formprinzipien, 18 pp.), Hans Eisler (A. S., der musikalische Reaktionär), Hermann Scherchen, Artur Schnabel,  Alban  Berg, list of the published works. Introduction by Schönberg himself. – See the complete description.
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Gurrelieder. Guide (Small edition). Ed. by  Alban Berg. (Vienna,) Universal-Edition, before 1933. 45, 3 (Arnold Schönberg’s works in the Univ.-Ed.) pp. With portrait-frontispiece and numerous notes (pp. 19-45). Orig. wrappers.

UNIVERSAL EDITION 5275. – German translation by Rob. F. Arnold. – Small tears at the back and the upper margin of the back cover acidfreely repaired, otherwise fine copy.
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Briefe (letters from 1910 to 1951). Selected and edited by Erwin Stein. Mayence, Schott, (1958). Large 8vo. 309 pp., impr., 1 l. publisher’s advertisements. With mounted portrait by Man Ray and some ills. Orig. cloth. with time-marked jacket.

“ The publishing of this collection is … an event. Schoenberg himself qualified his letters as a piece of him, and here are published for the first time … the decisive … It should be the last work (Erwin Stein’s, the pupil’s and friend’s) he rendered for the master and the musician world ”.

English letters after 1933 are translated into German. – See the complete description.
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Engelbrecht, Martin (1684 Augsburg 1756). (Chinese Female Dancer or Comedian – Chinese Reverence.) Dominating in the centre the danceress moving elegantly with a fan in her hand on the stage to the music of the Chinese throning in the upper margin. Behind her the play of a troupe. The portal filled by her resting on the head of a little monkey and the backs of two bowing Chinese. Further ornamental border with birds + plants. Of the latter i. a. the tea plant shall be emphasized. Engraving. 30 x 18.8 cm. – Schott 1728. – (New Chinese Figures along with … Ornaments IV).
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Syracuse, Ruins of the Ancient Theatre of. At the fountain laundry women, in the middle distance property, the circle of the arena dominating the foreground. Wood engraving after Alfred Metzener (Niendorf 1833 – Zweisimmen, Bern, 1905) for Adolf Closs, Stuttgart. (1876.) Inscribed: within the subject AM., otherwise typographically in German as above. 12.4 x 18.8 cm. – Continuous local text on both sides. – See the complete description.
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Haendel – Rolland, Romain. Haendel. From the French (to German) by L. Langnese-Hug. Appendix by Johanna Rudolph. Berlin, Rütten & Leoning, (1954). 292 pp. Orig. cloth.

First edition within these  Complete  Works  in  Single  Volumes. – With wrapper and blurb (with tear): For the 10^th anniversary of  Romain  Rolland’s  death December 30, 1954. – Three-words-dedication from 1954 on fly-leaf.
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Beethoven – Rolland, Romain. Beethoven the Creator. The great creative Epochs. I: From the Eroica to the Appassionata. From the French by Ernest Newman. London, Victor Gollancz, 1929. 2 vols. Large 8vo. With woodcut illustrations and 30 plates. 432 pp. Orig. cloth (spines foxing) in time-marked slipcase.

First English edition, one year after the French. – One of only 55 copies of the édition de luxe (still otherwise published at all? see above) on wonderfully fresh heavy handmade Van Gelder-paper,  autographed  by  the  author . – See the complete description.
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FOLLOWING  steel engravings by different engraver from 1828/31 after Thomas H. Shepherd (1^st half of the 19^th century) in oblong formats of c. 10 x 15 cm, inscribed in the plate, partly with date. And throughout with charming scenery.

Liverpool – Royal Amphitheatre. – Deviantly after Harwood. – Three foxspots in the white upper margin. – See the complete description.
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London – Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly. With doorman. Among the announcements “The Fall of Niniveh by Mr. Martin”.
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– Harmonic Institution, Regent Street. – Feeble brown spot in the sky part upper right.
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– Haymarket Theatre & Part of the Opera Colonade … from Regent Street.
Offer no. 9,128 / EUR  28. (c. US$ 39.) + shipping

– Italian Opera House, Haymarket, from Pall Mall East.
Offer no. 8,654 / EUR  33. (c. US$ 46.) + shipping

– Royal Olympic Theatre, Wach St. With the entrances Gallery + Pit, admittance first at the former. – Three foxspots barely perceptible from front.
Offer no. 8,655 / EUR  30. (c. US$ 42.) + shipping

– Russell Square, and Statue of the Duke of Bedford. In front rich scenery of a puppet stage. – Weak brown strip at the right lining of the picture.
Offer no. 9,264 / EUR  33. (c. US$ 46.) + shipping

– St. James’s Palace, Pall Mall , as place of the children theatre “The Indian Emperor or the Conquest of Mexico” of lot 7,875. – One tiny foxspot each in sky + white margin.
Offer no. 6,993 / EUR  29. (c. US$ 40.) + shipping

– Surry Theatre, Blackfriars Road. Shining in the sunlight besides “Surry Theatre” itself the entrances Gallery – Boxes – Pit. – Three tiny focspots in the white upper margin.
Offer no. 8,656 / EUR  33. (c. US$ 46.) + shipping

– Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. – Three feeble tiny foxspots in the lower subject margin (2) and white margin + mini spot in the sky.
Offer no. 8,657 / EUR  35. (c. US$ 49.) + shipping

– – Drury lane. With visitor scenery. – Weakly foxing.
Offer no. 8,658 / EUR  33. (c. US$ 46.) + shipping

“ Subject: Thanks!

Thanks for your kind reply. I wanted to comment that your thoughts on freedom (the quote that you had on the end of your message to me) are exactly the same as my beliefs.

I write, however, because I was surprised to get it from Europe … Although an American, almost all my early family were Huguenots … In fact, my relative, Jan C. is noted as the earliest C. to have arrived in N. America (in 1636, I think) … ”

(Mrs. C. F., November 14, 2003)