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Join us at at \u003cstrong\u003eStand 5\u003c\/strong\u003e in the unique historical setting of the Kronprinzenpalais on Unter den Linden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlights include the last of the 17th-century editions of Shakespeare's Fourth Folio, Francisco de Goya's \u003cem\u003eLos Caprichos, \u003c\/em\u003eErasmus' \u003cem\u003eMoriae Encomium\u003c\/em\u003e, alongside many other rare books, manuscripts, prints, and artworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shapero.com\/blogs\/news\/rare-books-berlin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Rare Books Berlin News Page\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eLearn more here\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"karl-baedeker-autograph-letter-signed-1882-86270","title":"Autograph Letter Signed to a Mr. Tuckett.","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"srb-faux-head\"\u003erare manuscript letter from Karl Baedeker\u003c\/h4\u003eThis letter, written by Karl Baedeker, gives an interesting insight into the workings of the Baedeker company. Written two years after the publication of the first (German) edition of Palestine \u0026amp; Syria, and in the same year as the publication of the guidebook to Egypt, the letter shows the attention to detail Baedeker put into each work. Greece, the last part of his Oriental enterprise, appeared in 1883 six years later.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[English Translation]. 'Leipzig, September 3, 1882 \/ Dear Mr. Tuckett: \/ This morning I received your valuable communication for 'Greece'. I am thanking you for this in the most heartfelt manner, as well as for the proposed additional help in the new project. I give you the assurance that I will take the same care of it as I did with the two volumes Palestine \u0026amp; Syria and Lower Egypt, so that all the support I get in that matter will result in my thanks and goodwill. \/ From the two mentioned volumes you will have realised how much I am aiming at giving this Oriental enterprise a solid and scientific foundation for which I want to raise interest among eminent specialists, in order to gather the best possible material. Besides that, two of my colleagues and me, naturally each on his own, will travel in that country in order to be able to give in the book, if possible, firsthand information about each place gathered on location. When the manuscript has thus been finished I will have it typeset and send proofs to all the gentlemen who helped, asking them to revise the text again and meticulously. Please excuse me for having informed you about the production of these volumes in such detail. I felt the need to give - specially to you - a rough idea about that. \/ I don't know yet whether I will come to Euboea myself; nevertheless, with your permission and referring to you I will try to get interest in the handbook as well from your friend Capt. Mansell in Chalkis. \/ [in English:] Ever yours sincerely \/ Karl Baedeker. \/ Today at lunchtime I received a letter from Sparta written by a colleague who has been travelling since last autumn; I will have a passage from it copied. 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The present edition, almost as rare, is not merely a reprint of the Paris edition, but contains additional material including an address and laudatory letter to Erasmus by his fellow humanist Jakob Wimpfeling. All early editions are exceedingly scarce, with only three appearing at auction in the last 100 years that we could trace. The first English translation was not published until 1549, although there had been Czech, French and German editions prior to this.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn excellent example of a classic work of paradoxical satire, in which folly is personified and holds up a mirror to mankind. An extremely significant work both in its own right and for its influence on the Protestant Reformation in general. Sir Thomas More's own magnum opus Utopia was at least in part written as a response to Moriae Encomium.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Praise of Folly was written when Erasmus was staying in the house of Thomas More in the winter of 1509–10. 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Unfortunately Conway and Eckenstein did not get on, and Eckenstein withdrew from the expedition after six months. In Kashmir, he conducted bouldering contests for the locals - a form of free climbing without the use of ropes or harnesses. Eckenstein collected his letters and diary notes from this expedition into the present book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNowadays he is best known as the inventor of the modern crampon and as an innovator in climbing technique and mountaineering equipment. 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'Picasso's stylistic range from the animals of the 1942 Buffon to these horses is a vast one. Here he has restricted himself to an extreme simplification of outline, accented only by the drypoint burr, yet vividly descriptive of movement. The typographic layout by Iliazd carefully balances and sometimes echoes the design of the plates' (Artist and the Book)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poem Chevaux de Minuit by Roch Grey (pseudonym of Baroness Hélène Oettingen) was edited by Iliazd after her death in 1950. The two had been friends and Ilia Zdanevich felt that the writer's work had been under-appreciated in her lifetime, having not received recognition in either mainstream or avant-garde literary circles. 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Kaspar König, working as an intern for the Moderna Museet in New York, developed the initial concept for the book, which Warhol approved. Warhol's dealer Leo Castelli then gave König access to the gallery's documentation archive and their Xerox machine, with which König produced a dummy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn place of an introduction, the first section comprises a small selection of Warhol quotes and aphorisms, including the first appearance in print of the likely misattributed quote: 'In the future everybody will be world famous for fifteen minutes.' The following section reproduces photographs, reproductions of Warhol's artworks and installation views, and a series of photocopies of documentation from Leo Castelli's archive. Two large groups of photos of Warhol and his associates in and around the Factory follow, the first by Billy Name and the second by Stephen Shore, who each composed their sequences. 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The two men [Tériade and Giacometti] had maintained a close friendship ever since the Surrealist Years. The one hundred and fifty lithographs are a profoundly interpenetrating view of Giacometti's experience of Paris. He selected the plates to be printed and determined the order of their relationship, numbering each one. The frontispiece shows a nude figure of a woman plunging forward, as though diving into space, and is immediately followed by a quantity of views of city streets, then of interiors familiar to the artist. We come upon views of his studio, of the cafes he frequented, of Annette's apartment in the rue Mazarine and Caroline's in the Avenue du Maine, strangers at cafe tables, passers by, parked automobiles, the towers of Saint-Suplice, bridges across the Seine, The Eiffel Tower. To accompany the hundred and fifty plates, a text of twenty pages was planned, but the artist never got further than a few rough drafts. 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Afat is a collection of seventy-six classical sonnets in Russian written by Iliazd, the majority of which were written between January and June, 1938. \u003cbr\u003eAll of them were published under the imprint of 'Degré Quarante et Un', a name Iliazd chose in memory of a school of futurist poetry called the 'University of the 41º', which he had founded in Tiflis in 1917...Afat is a collection of 76 sonnets in Russian by Iliazd, the majority of which were written between January and June, 1938. In his poems, Iliazd writes of love, of feminine beauty, of the poet's difficult métier and the hidden meaning of words. Three sonnets are about the poet's relationship to 'Pablo' (Picasso).' (Patrick Cramer).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sonnets are preceded by two Arabic titles in aquatint by Picasso, both titles are written in kufic letters. Afat - the title is a Persian term signifying unhappiness in love. 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Little is known about the life of the translator, Mirza Reza Tabrizi, however he is known to have been working as a civil servant in Khorasan in 1846 and spent the years 1853-58 as an interpreter and instructor in French at the Dar al-Fonun.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis manuscript is particularly striking for the remarkable decorated marbled borders, of many varying designs and patterns, that adorn all the text pages. The use of marbled paper borders in a bound manuscript, as here, is very unusual. Marbled paper was often used to decorate album pages and calligraphic panels from the sixteenth century onwards and was very much a decorative tool elevating the design and appeal of a single artistic creation (i.e. a miniature or calligraphic exercise), it's use to adorn the margins of every text leaf is a sign of great luxury and decadence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe only other known textual manuscript to include marbled borders to this degree was copied by the same scribe as the present manuscript and was entitled Tarikh'i Iskander (History of Alexander the Great), assembled by James Campbell at the bequest of Qajar Prince Abbas Mirza; a reference to this primary text is given in the preface of the other manuscript: 'Ibn Muhammad Khan Safdar 'Ali is to produce this text as well as the History of Peter the Great' thus confirming that the two volumes were undeniably associated at the time of production. Although notably the secondary volume was completed a year later and in Kabul, Afghanistan, indicating that the patron of these works was likely travelling with the scribe and engaging with them as they worked. 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The first book, KT Ranch, is interesting as it features archive photographs, an example of work made before Shore defined the parameters of the project: initially photographs taken over one day, he later refined it to be photographs taken during the course of one day on days when the New York Times deemed it appropriate to print a full-width six-column headline on its front page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe note laid in to Merry Christmas. Tivoli, NY December 2006 is regarding Shore's decision to leave Simon Lee Gallery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Street London 2003': First edition, number 1 of 20 copies inscribed on the title-page, with an autograph note laid in; oblong 4to (215 x 278 mm, 8½ x 11 in); colour photographs printed in digital offset; grey textured endpapers with 'made on a mac' printed on rear pastedown, burgundy cloth-covered boards with photographic title label mounted on upper side, fine; 'Merry Christmas. 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Edwards had a large circle of friends with an interest in science and he drew and painted the natural history objects owned by them. He kept copies of these drawings, and it was as a result of his wishing to see these drawings preserved in some way that he resolved to publish A Natural History of Uncommon Birds. This proved a success, and thus encouraged, Edwards brought out the Gleanings, although this took many years to complete.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmongst the species described, many are from India and North America. The Indian specimens were largely based on the watercolours made by Pieter Cornelis de Bevere, a member of the household of Governor Gideon Loten, a Dutchman who settled in England for a while, where his collection was studied by Edwards. The North American birds came from two main areas, Hudson Bay territory and Pennsylvania. 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Reston lived until 1819, whereupon the library was divided between his two daughters Mrs Cunningham and Mrs Bannerman. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bannerman portion was donated intact to New College, Edinburgh (now housed in the University of Edinburgh Library). By contrast, the Cunningham inheritance was dispersed over a period of some 50 years, beginning in 1878 when part of the collection was sold upon the death of Cunningham's husband. Further sales are recorded in the early 20th century, with a large contingent (some 141 items) bought by Professor Nitobe of Tokyo University in 1920 (and subsequently donated to the University). A retained portion of the collection was donated by Cunningham's son Professor R.O. Cunningham to Queen's College, Belfast on his death in 1918. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith regards to the size of Smith's library, 'MacCulloch, who saw the books before the dispersion, reckons their number at 5000. Dugald Stewart says Adam Smith possessed \"a small but excellent library, which he had gradually formed with great judgement in the selection\"... The whole collection was more probably 3000 than 5000' (Bonar). The most thorough catalogue of Smith's library to date (see Hiroshi Mizuta, Adam Smith's Library (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2000)) records 1808 individual works.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook's from Smith's library can now be found in institutional holdings at Edinburgh University (898 titles), Tokyo University (148 titles), Queen's College, Belfast (110 titles), Glasgow University (68 titles), New York Public Library (5 titles), Nihon University Law Library (4 titles), Keio University (2 titles), Kyoto University Library (1 title), and Reading University Library (5 titles).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Book: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first edition of David Hume of Godscroft's History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSmith was related to the Douglas family through his mother Margaret (née Douglas), a granddaughter of the prominent fife landowner and member of parliament, Sir William Douglas of Kirkness, a descendant of the Earls of Morton. 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The note speculates that this could relate to Smith's intimacy with the philosopher David Hume (1711-1776), however, in our opinion these annotations likely pre-date Adam Smith's ownership of the work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy contrast, a single, unique one-word marginal annotation 'Apolug' in a later hand appears on p.265 in a passage quoting the speech made by Smith's ancestor Sir George Douglas (d.1552) promoting the marriage of Mary, Queen of Scots and Prince Edward of England in which he '\"told them of the apologue of the ass\"' (p.265).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiven the context of this passage and its relevance to Smith's family history, as well as the hand's outward similarity to marginal annotations found in Smith's copy of Locke's Two Treatises (held by Kirkcaldy Museum), which have been attributed to Adam Smith himself (see C. 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