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BACHRACH, David & Louis Fabian - MARCEAU, Theodore - WHITE, Lucas

Album of photographs of the Braggiotti Sisters, Francesca and Berthe, Italian dancers and actresses, daughters of an American mezzo-soprano from Boston. [Boston, New York, 1920-1930] Oblong folio (325 x 450 mm.) Contemporary brown calf, blind and large gilt stamped borders, gilt stamped decoration and name BERTHE at center of front cover (hinges slightly cracking). 52 leaves (last 38 blank), 26 photographs of various sizes (some of them unfinished proofs) on the first 13 leaves, 5 watercolor drawings and one charcoal portrait signed by Joseph Haley, Boston transcript. Several photographs bear blind stamps from renowned photographers of the time, including the still-operational Bachrach Photographers; Theodore Marceau, a pioneer of photographic studios; White Studio, known for innovations in theatrical photography; the Arlington Studio in Boston; and Nicholas Muray, noted for his portraits of Frida Kahlo. ALBUM of ephemera. [Boston, New York, 1919-1922] 4º (330 x 245 mm.) Contemporary brown calf, blind and large gilt stamped borders, gilt stamped decoration and name BERTHE at center of front cover (slightly worn at spine). 53 leaves containing various press clippings (from The Harvard Crimson, The Boston Sunday Globe, The Boston Telegram, The New York Herald) manuscript letters addressed to Miss Berthe Braggiotti, theatre brochures, programes, invitations, business cards with handwritten dedications, envelopes and a typed script titled “The chosen King” by Esta Mae Barr, which includes the first act of the play, facing a striking photograph of the actors on stage during its premiere at the Boston Opera House on May 10, 1920. The album also includes a copy of the original program, issues of the VINCENT CLUB magazine (from 1920 and 1922) and the BENEFIT ACTOR’S FUND journal from 1921.

Sachgebiete: Jugendstil, Film, Zeitschriften/Zeitungen, Theater

18000,- EUR
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THUROCZY, Janos

Der Hungern Chronica inhaltend wie sie anfengklich ins land kommen sind, mit anzeygung aller irer Koning, und was sie namhafftigs gethon haben. Angefangen von irem ersten Konig Athila… Vienna, Johann Petreius, 1534. Folio (294 x 190 mm.) Bound in a later ink lettered vellum leaf. 65 ff. inc. title page with large wood engraving by Peter Flotner, 18 woodcuts within the text, signed P.F. (Peter Flötner).

Sachgebiete: Alte Drucke 16. Jahrhundert , Europa, Geschichte, Ungarn , Illustrierte Bücher

6000,- EUR
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MELANCHTHON, Philipp

Heubtartikel Christlicher lere im latin genannt loci theologici. Wittenberg, Veit Kreutzer, 1556. 4º (194 x 150 mm.) Contemporary blind stamped pig skin (lacking clasps). 9 ll. inc. title page printed in red and black, 358 ff., 10 ll. (last blank).

Sachgebiete: Einbände, Deutschland, Reformation, Religion, Religionsgeschichte

2500,- EUR
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VALVERDE DE HAMUSCO, Juan

Anatomia del corpo humano composta por... con molte figure di rame et eruditi discorsi in luce mandata. Roma, per Ant. Salamanca et Antonio Lafreri, 1560 (colophon: Vinegia, appressi Nicolò Bevilacqua). Folio (293 x 210 mm.) Contemporary vellum (spine repaired). 18 ll. inc. engraved title and 42 full-page engraved anatomical plates, woodcut historiated initials featuring anatomical subjects and a few anatomical woodcuts, 154 ff.

Sachgebiete: Illustrierte Bücher, Italien, Medizin, Spanien

8000,- EUR
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HEIRMANS, Samuel

Panegyricus Augustissimo atque potentissimo Principo Ferdinando Frederico invictissimi imperatoris et maximi Caesaris Ferdinandi III. filio. Venetiis, Baba, 1654. Folio (410 x 295 mm.) Splendid Venetian baroque dedication binding for Ferdinand Frederick, son of emperor Ferdinand III, who became King of Bohemia (1646) and of Hungary (1647). At the time the book was printed in 1654, Ferdinand III was in Italy and died of smallpox on the ninth of July on his way to Milan. Title-page with engraved vignette of arms of Ferdinand III, one six-line floriated woodcut initial, engraved emblematic headpiece representing Helios and a quadriga, 34 p.

Sachgebiete: Einbände, Europa, Geschichte, Ungarn

12000,- EUR
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WESTERHOUT, Arnold van

Effigies et Series Regum Hispaniae Primum ex Gothis Christianorum… S.l. (Roma), 1684. Folio (265 x 200 mm.) Contemporary red Morocco gilt. Manuscript title, engraved dedication to Carlos II, King of Spain, 83 engraved portraits (ink numbered at foot)

Sachgebiete: Geschichte, Illustrierte Bücher, Porträts, Spanien

8000,- EUR
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