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Published by Austria Imperial, Vienna, Austria, 1998
ISBN 10: 3902196017ISBN 13: 9783902196019
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 130 Color & b/w Illus (illustrator). 1st. First Edition, First Printing; pictorial wraps; 128 clean, unmarked pages Size: 4 vo.
Published by Collier's Weekly, NY, 1898
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Unbound. Condition: Very Good. B/w (illustrator). 1st. 1/2 page story w/engravings. While travelling in Geneva in 1898, she was mortally wounded by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni. Elisabeth was the longest serving Empress of Austria . Size: 10.5' x 15.5".
Published by Published by Constable and Company Ltd., 3 The Lanchesters, London First Edition . London 1998., 1998
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original deep purple cloth covers, silver lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼'' 224 pp. ISBN 0094780609. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Fine condition book, in near Fine condition dust wrapper with tiny impression marks to the lower cover, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. AUSTRIA.
Published by Summit Beacon / Summit University Press 1981, Clean and Tight Binding, 1997
ISBN 10: 0916766519ISBN 13: 9780916766511
Seller: GREAT PACIFIC BOOKS, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Previous Owner Name. Frontis and Some Other Illustrations (illustrator). Dent in front cover goes thru a few pages. Paperback : soft cover edition in good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Book.
Published by Carl Pietzner, Wien, 1800
First Edition
Vintage photographic portraits mounted on two cardboard plates (175 × 245 mm and 155 × 245 mm) with the embossing of the coat of arms of Austria-Hungary. 330 × 245 mm. Scarce vintage photographic portraits of Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916) and Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898). Signs of tacking on the cardboards and some minor damage to their corners. Cardboard of the photograph of Elisabeth was trimmed on both sides. Light smudge on the cardboards. Photographs in fine condition. Overall in good condition. Vintage photographic portraits mounted on two cardboard plates (175 × 245 mm and 155 × 245 mm) with the embossing of the coat of arms of Austria-Hungary.
Published by N. p. o. d.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
8vo. 1 p. Four verses of four lines each. - Published in the Schulvereinskalender 1900. - Includes a sheet with a printed address by the Grillparzer Society to the writer Kurt Frieberger, who was presented with this autograph on the occasion of the 80th birthday. Signed by the Society's members Franz Theodor Csokor, Johann Gunert, Fritz Neumann, Paul Wimmer, Edwin Rollett, Albert Mitringer, and Friedrich Schreyvogel. - Slight tears in middle fold and at right edge, otherwise well-preserved.
Published by 1850 60s. 18??, 1850
Seller: Bernard Quaritch Ltd ABA ILAB, London, United Kingdom
TogetherElizabeth Amalie Eugenie of Bavaria (1837 1898), or 'Sisi', married Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria at the age of 16, on 24 April 1854. Her first child, a daughter, was born 11 months later but died as an infant (see below), and a male heir had to wait until the birth of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1858 he later killed himself and his lover in a murder-suicide pact at Mayerling in 1889 (subject of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet of 1978). Famed for her exceptionally long hair, and the extreme thinness of her waist a product of fasting cures, and tight-lacing Sisi had romantic poetic instincts and a tendency towards melancholy. Isolation at court and recurring health troubles increasingly took her for cures at Corfu and Bad Kissingen (see below). In 1898, while travelling incognito in Switzerland, she was assassinated by an Italian anarchist. A museum devoted to her tragic life is in the Hofburg in Vienna, and she has garnered much recent attention on screen from the series The Empress and the film Corsage. HEINEFETTER, Wilhelm. Mein Glück. Lied für Tenor mit Pianoforte-Begleitung Op.3. [1850s]. Oblong folio, pp.6; contemporary mauve cloth, blocked in blind and gilt (gilding faded, edges sunned); cypher and index tag of Empress Elizabeth. (XIV 24).HEINEFETTER, Wilhelm. Zwei Tänze. 1. Polka, 2. Polka-Mazurka für Clavier. [1860s?]. Oblong folio, pp.[2 (dedication and blank)], [1 (title)], [10], [1 (blank)], music within a passepartout border (by Jos. Scholz, Mainz) printed in purple; in contemporary dark blue cloth, blocked in black and blind; cypher and index tag of Empress Elizabeth (XIV 31). Dedication to title-page 'zur Erinnerung an Kissingen'. Wilhelm Heinefetter (1835? 1934), was a Kapellmeister from a family of singers; a number of his compositions were published by Schott from 1860. As Konzertmeister of the orchestra of Mainz, he also led the spa orchestra at Bad Kissingen during the summer months from 1855 until the late 1860s. Elisabeth went on cures there regularly from 1862, and the second work here seems to have been dedicated to her as a memento of a visit.KEMPTER, Karl. Grosse Militair-Messe für 1 Flöte, 5 Clarinetten, 2 Oboen, 4 Hörner, 3 Flügelhörner, 4 Trompetten, 2 Fagott, 1 Euphonium, 3 Posaunen, 1 Ophiglaid [ophicleide], 1 Bombarden und Pauken Opus 50. [1855?] Large 4to, ff., [1 (title)], [1 (blank)], [21 (music)]; in worn contemporary white silk over boards, onlaid gilt paper borders (chipped), spine defective, edges frayed; cypher and index tab of Empress Elizabeth to front endpaper (XIV 9); laid in loose is an unrelated letter to Kempter from Johann Mayer, Priester des ritterlichen Kreuzherrn-Ordens mit dem rothen Sterne (a Bohemian order), dated 11 March 1851, discussing music.Karl Kempter (1819 71), was organist of Augsburg cathedral from 1839 for 25 years, and then the cathedral conductor from 1865. Probably the best known among this group of composers, his work is still performed, particularly the Great Pastoral Mass in G Minor (op.24, 1851).KRETSCHMER, Benedikt. Wiegenlied mit Begleitung des Piano-Forte. Worte mit Musik verfasst und Ire Kaiserlichen Hohheit der erst gebohrenen Erzherzogin von Oestreich Sophie Friderike in tiefster Ehrfurcht und Demuth gewidmet [1855]. 4to, ff.4, with a part-printed calligraphic title-page, four pages of music and final blank; stitched with green thread; with an autograph letter from the composer to the Empress dedicating the work, dated 18 March 1855. 'O! That I might obtain through Her high influence, that the fair imperial child were lulled just once into sweet sleep by this song ' (our translation). Archduchess Sophie had been born on 5 March 1855 but would die as an infant in 1857. Benedikt Kretschmer's letter proclaims him a music-teacher in Mährisch-Schönberg in Moravia (now umperk, Czech Republic), but he is otherwise unk nown.MAYRHOFER, Steffen. Christnacht Träume. Salon Piece componirt für Piano-Forte. [after 1867]. Oblong folio, ff.[1 (title and dedication)], [2 (music)], within a passepartout border printed in blue (the same design as on Reuss-Gaudelius below); stitched into a dark purple portfolio, blocked in blind and gilt; index label of Empress Elizabeth (XIV 148). Dedication on title-page to Empress Elizabeth as Queen of Hungary.Steffen Mayrhofer describes himself on the title-page as 'Capellmeister u. Violin Concertist', as well as a recipient of the 'Orden für Kunst u. Wissenschaft'. He was largely active in Vienna.REUSS-GAUDELIUS, Agathe [Anna?]. Weiss und Blau. Zur Feier des 24 April 1854. Two copies, oblong folio, each three pages of music on a bifolium, within a passepartout border printed in gold; cypher and index tab of Empress Elizabeth to first page (XIV 94). Reuss-Gaudelius (1818 61) was a well-known actress and soprano. The present work, 'gedichtet und componirt' by her, was written in honour of Elisabeth's marriage to Franz Joseph, and has been supplied in two copies, presumably one each for the pianist and singer. Sisi was herself a poet manqué but we have been unable to determine if she sang. We cannot trace another composition by Reuss-Gaudelius. Language: German.
Published by No place, [25 August 1863]., 1863
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
8vo. ¾ p. To her mother, in German: "The Empress to Her Royal Highness the Duchess Luise in Bavaria in Possenhofen near Starnberg. I kiss your hands with the most profound and best wishes". - With drystamped monogram; slight traces of mounting on reverse; dated by a contemp. hand.
Published by Vienna, 17 Nov. 1855., 1855
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Manuscript / Paper Collectible Signed
Folio. ½ p. A receipt for the Imperial Court's Disbursements Bureau: confirms having received her monthly apanage of 8333 guilders and 20 kreuzers (her allowance for November 1855 out of a guaranteed yearly "Spenadelgeld" of 100,000 guilders). These funds, essentially the Empress's allowance for all her private expenditures, had formed an explicit part of the marriage contract. This is a particularly early example, signed but one and a half years after her wedding with Emperor Franz Joseph. - Folded; archival notes. Very rare: the records of the Court's Disbursements Bureau were discarded in 1923.
Published by No place, 1848., 1848
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Art / Print / Poster Signed
Single sheet, ca. 191 x 232 mm. The drawing shows a simple farmhouse built of wood and stone, signed and dated in the artist's own hand on the verso: "Elise. 1848". At the time, Elisabeth, later famous as "Sisi", Empress of Austria, was ten years old and lived at Possenhofen Castle on Lake Starnberg. - Minor stains and a little browned. Provenance: House of Wittelsbach (former Royal Family of Bavaria).
Published by No place or date, 27 June 1897., 1897
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
Oblong 8vo. 1 page. In pencil. In German, to her daughter Marie Valerie in Wels, offering her to stay at the Villa Hermes anytime if Wiederhofer, the Emperor's personal physician, has no concerns regarding her father and considers it beneficial for Marie Valerie's son, Franz Carl: "Falls Wiederhofer wegen Papa keine Bedenken hat und es für Franz Carl zuträglich findet, steht Euch Villa Hermes jeden Moment mit Freuden zur Verfügung. Elisabeth".
Published by Gastein, 21 Aug. 1886., 1886
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
8vo. 2 pp. on a bifolium. In German. With printed letterhead of the "Villa Meran". Kind words written from Gastein, where she was spending her summer holidays, to the just-departed German Emperor Wilhelm I, whom Franz Joseph met in Gastein, Salzburg or Ischl almost every year since 1871, in spite of the fact the neither ruler felt very kindly toward the other (cf. Vocelka, Franz Joseph I [2015], p. 244): "Would your Majesty permit me to send you these flowers from our Alps, in remembrance of the happy hours which I had the enjoyment of spending here with you. I remain in fond love, your Majesty's much devoted Elisabeth". - Archduke Johann had the Villa Meran built for the frequent summer sojourns he spent there with his wife Anna Plochl; Elisabeth used the Villa, which boasted its own hot springs, from 1886 onwards.
Published by [Évêché prison, Geneva], no date.
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
Manuscript / Paper Collectible
12mo. 3½ pp. on bifolium. To Alexandre Perrin, the director of Geneva's Évêché prison, asking him to make another prisoner named Klein stop bothering him during his walks, knowing that Klein's sole objective is to drive his co-prisoners to causing trouble or to denigrating the director: "Bien qu'il soit genevois et qu'il se vaute d'avoir de nombreuses reconaissances parmi les magistrats de Genève, veuillez aviser le détenu Klein de me laisser tranquille lorsque je suis à la promenade. Ne lui adressant jamais la parole parce qu'il m'a prouvé à plusieurs reprises - et cela malgrè le titre de Franc-Maçon qu'il se donne - que son sejour ici a l'Évêché semble n'avoir d'autre but que celui de pousser ses codétenus à faire le mal ou à dénigrer votre direction vis-à-vis de vos superieurs [.]". - He hopes the director will advise Klein not to approach him when he has a complaint and mentions another encounter that same morning, in the course of which Klein threatened him, predicting he would soon make enemies and suggesting he complain to Perrin about the matter: "En tout cas, j'espère que vous l'aviserez de me laisser tranquille et lui faire comprendre que Lucheni n'a pas besoin d'être poussé par Klein lorsque il eut de plainte a adresser au Departement. Encore ce matin il s'est arreté près de moi pour me dire: 'vous savez d'ici a quelques jours, vous allez avoir des enemis, car j'ai appris que le grossier Lée vient reprendre son service comme chef du quartier B. Pourquoi vous ne complaignez pas à M. le Président du Departement en le mettant au courant de ce qui s'est passé; car c'est encore lui qui va diriger l'Évêche' [.]". - On delicate paper with a horizontal tear through the second leaf, touching the text but not affecting its legibility; smaller tears along the centrefold.
Published by Possenhofen, Lauterbach, Geretshausen, Oberzeismering and other places, ca. 1845., 1845
Seller: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Austria
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8vo. Ca. 42 sketches (3 of which watercoloured) and 2 texts on 30 ff. Original marbled boards with pencil sheath. Charming sketchbook used by the young Bavarian duchess Elisabeth, containing numerous landscapes and architectural drawings, sketches of pets as well as caricatures and portraits, especially of her sisters. Also, there is an amusing piece of doggerel ("In Lautenbach habe ich mein Strumpf verloren / Und ohne Strumpf geh ich nicht heim ."; "In Lautenbach I lost my stocking, and lacking it, will not go home ."), a diary entry of sorts, and a draft for a congratulatory card, "signed Elisabeth", for her younger brother Carl Theodor's name day. - The sketchbook provides a rare and often humorous glimpse of Elisabeth's childhood in Possenhofen. Her love of nature is evident in the several talented tree sketches she prepared at various places throughout Bavaria. A collector's annotation in pencil records that the book was preserved among the personal effects of Countess Camilla von Otting, who served as governess in the ducal household: "Kindliches Zeichenbuch der späteren Kaiserin Elisabeth v Oesterreich Herzogin in Bayern stammt aus dem Nachlass der Gräfin Camilla v Otting ihrer Erzieherin und Hofdame". - Binding a little rubbed, showing occasional delicate repairs. Light browning and staining, but altogether a fine survival.