Welcome  at  the  Famous  Place  of  Tradition

Leipsic Fair – Invitation. Rose as opening motif set into fivefold golden line on black ground. Body color. At the reverse design pattern of a typographic invitation design in gold + black as well as rose vignette repeated twice with executed center text

C. 1920. Inscribed in German as above. 142 x 90 mm.

Elegant  illustration  design  on cardboard. – At the back lower right written reg. no. R. 473.
Offer no. 15,050 / EUR  130. (c. US$ 206.) + shipping

From  the  Century  when  the  Fair  went  on

(Leipsic, Woman from.) 1592. Colored wood engraving heightened with gold. (1877-84.) 20.5 x 14 cm. – Lipperheide Ad 46. – LEAVES FOR THE KNOWLEDGE OF COSTUMES NF. 201.

Traditional costume from the century when the fair went on. For developing from the early markets the

“ Leipsic  Fairs  …  obtained  only  a  larger  importance

when  in  1507  Emperor  Maximilian  I  vested  the  city

with  the  right  of  staple  and  depot ”

(Meyer’s Convers.-Lex., 4^th ed., Leipsic 1889, X, 665/I). And in 1711 Leipsic surpassed the older Imperial Fairs of Frankfort on the Main.
Offer no. 14,683 / EUR  65. (c. US$ 103.) + shipping

Saxony – Lusatia – Saxe, Cartes de la Haute, et de la Lusace. Upper Saxony and Lusatia. With title-cartouche and miles indicator. Map by Edme Mentelle (1730-1815), historiograph of the Comte de Artois, engraved by Pierre François Tardieu, Paris. (1788.) 35.6 x 47 cm.

Watermark. – Worked „pour l’Ouvrage intitulé: De la Monarchie Prussienne“. – Centered on the Fair place Leipsic , Dresden finely in the right center field . In the left outer field still with place + D(uché) Eisenach . – With Weissenfels – Naumburg – Delitzsch . – Ballenstedt – Hoym – Bernburg at the northwestern fringe . – Up to Goslar – Potsdam – Fürstenwalde – Sagan – Greiffenberg – Eger – Schweinfurt – Eschwege .
Offer no. 7,355 / EUR  138. (c. US$ 218.) + shipping

Löhmann, Friedrich. (Tables of the Currency Calculation or Conversion, Division, Weight, and true Worth of those Currencies by which the Public Cashier’s Offices as the Trade Calculate; not only of the countries and commercial centres in Europe, but also for the places of the other parts of the world important for European trade; with 46656 … calculated results, from one to one million pieces … Leipsic, Joh. Ambr. Barth, 1826. In-4. XVI, 482 pp. incl. 6 folded leaves. Timemarked orig. wrappers.

(TABLES  FOR  THE  CONVERSION  of linear and capacity measures just as the weights and currencies … IV.) – French-German parallel text. First leaves waterstreaked. – RARE . – The French title as following:

„Tables de monnaies de compte, ou réduction, division, poids et valeur effective des monnaies d’après lesquelles ou compte soit dans les caisses publique, soit dans le commerce, non-seulement des pays et places de commerce de l’Europe, mais encore des pays et places de commerce des autres parties du globe qui sont de quelque importance pour le commerce européen; avec 46656 résultats trés-exactement calculés, depuis un jusqu’ à un million de pièces, d’après les renseignemens qui ont été adressés à l’auteur par les gouvernemens auxquels il les avait demandés directement, et d’après les recherches qui ont été faites à Londres par ordre suprème sur les monnaies des dits pays. Calculés avec soin pour la première fois.“

Offer no. 12,182 / EUR  373. / Export price EUR  354. (c. US$ 560.) + shipping

“ I am curious as to the history of this (original Ridinger copper-printing-)plate (just I bought) and the others you have offered. Did you purchase them from the Ridinger estate (indirectly, indeed) or a private collector? These are truly rare one of a kind pieces ”

(Mr. L. A. F., October 28, 2003)