« The sent sheets are of infinite value to me
for as the sensual view is indeed essential for me
excellent people are made present in a magic way by their writing. »
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe to Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, 10 May 1812
Autographs & Manuscripts
- Gärtner, Wilhelm Friedrich. Formula “for the extinction of rats and mice”
- Imperial Thanks
Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger
Issued by Imperial Count Palatine Ludwig Bartholomäus von Herttenstein
Augsburg 24 August 1746 - Showcase copy in red half leather with grand ducal supralibros :
Guild Order of Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, for the weavers in the guild district Remda - Imperial Thanks
Herttenstein, Ludwig Bartholomäus von. Grant of Arms for Johann Elias Ridinger - “The Koch Collection is a European matter”
Koch – Georg Kinsky, Manuscripts – Letters – Documents from Scarlatti to Stravinsky. Catalogue of the Musical Autograph Collection Louis Koch - About theatre, culture & art :
Linke, Oscar (writer & editor, theater critique). Autograph Documents from Berlin & Weimar - Observations from the first months of WW I :
Linke, Oscar (writer & editor, theater critique). Autograph letter of Nov. 13, 1914,
to Franz Hermann Meißner, director of the Sedan Panorama Berlin - The General’s extravagance
four weeks before leading the Kapp Putsch/Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch :
Lüttwitz, Walther von (Prussian General of the Infantry). Signed autograph letter in German to an art dealer - The prince’s copy of the Edwin Beinecke Library
Magellan – Pigafetta, Antonio. Magellan’s Voyage
With 23 coloured full-page sketch-maps & innumerable coloured initials - Maurepas Papers, The
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(Mr. S. V., December 7, 2009)