![]() In comparison with the first edition from 1867, this 1872 edition was thoroughly revised and increased by Marx. The estimate price is at € 8,000.ĬRITICAL: The second revised edition of the critique of political economy "Das Kapital" from Karl Marx will be called up in form of the rare dedication copy for "Mr. With its bright and intensive watercolors it is a wonderful document of the artist's masterly versatility as poet and painter. POETIC and pictorial, too: Hermann Hesse's "Six poems with Original Watercolors" from 1932. von Krusenstern, William Edward Parry and John Ross. The work is part of a comprehensive private collection of more than 100 books from the 16th-20th centuries about expeditions to the Polar region, among them works by Olaus Magnus, Adam J. It is an account of captain Billings' voyage to the Northern Siberian Chukchi people in a very rare and complete copy of the first edition with the precious map of the Bering Strait. A complete and well-preserved copy of the first edition with true-to-life illustration in splendid colors on untrimmed copper plates will be offered for € 10,000.ĮXPLORATIVE: The same price has been tagged to the travelogue "Puteshestvie Kapitana Billingsa" (The Voyage of Captain Billings through Chukchi Country), published in Russian in 1811, by the navigator and admiral Gavril Andreewich Sarychev. It is estimated at € 30,000.ĪCCURATE: Johann Conrad Susemihl created one of the finest German works on birds. Its fine borders are adorned with fanciful grotesques and lovely birds. The estimate is at € 60,000.ĬONTEMPLATIVE: With the Latin Book of Hours for the use of Troyes, made in France around 1480, a complete and richly illuminated Livre d'Heures from the Champagne will be called up. On around 1,600 pages he shows all the then larger and relevant cities in Europe, Africa, Asia and America. Together with the engraver Frans Hogenberg, who had already made various maps for Abraham Ortelius, he created more than 600 true-to-life views and maps between 15. GLOBAL: The lavishly made six volume strong "Civitates orbis terrrarum und Urbium praecipuarum" by the theologian and publisher Georg Braun is a fascinating addition to the famous world atlas "Theatrum Orbis Terrarum" by the Dutchman Abraham Ortelius. The original print "Liberté J’Ecris Ton Nom" will enter the race with an estimate of € 15,000. Shortly after his death it would inspire his his friend Fernand Léger to a bright and colorful illustration that was eventually released in an edition of just 200 signed copies in 1953. Under the German occupation of France in 1942 Paul Éluard expressed his longing for freedom in this famous poem. ![]() The gaudy sheet in leporello-fold will be called up in the Rare Books Auction at Ketterer Kunst in Hamburg on May 25. Hamburg, Ma(kk) - Fernand Léger's color lithograph for Paul Éluard's poem "Liberté j'écris ton nom" is a homage to freedom. ![]()
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