STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLVIII. Adolf Hitler: outline in note form for a speech made in Berlin; [1928]. Draft. German. ff. 13. 330 x 210mm. Adolf Hitler, German Chancellor: Outline for a speech by Adolf Hitler: 1928: Germ: Autogr. draft.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCVII. Jules Verne: letter to Charles Carter, Captain of the Mayfly at St. Malo; n.d. French. ff. 2. 134 x 104mm. Jules Verne, author: Charles Carter, captain of the 'Mayfly': Letter to Charles Carter from Jules Verne: n.d: Fr.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXXIII. Madame Manon-Jeanne Roland de la Platière: 'Rêveries Philosophiques', 'Pensées Détachées' and 'Lettres à Madame P.'; 18th cent. French. ff. ii+32. Binding of red morocco, gold-tooled by Rivière and Son. 244 x 196mm. Rivière and Son; bookbinders: Bindings...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXXI. Marie Antoinette: letter, with seal, to Count Rosenberg; [1775]. French. ff. 2. 189 x 146mm. Louis XVI of France; Marie Antoinette: Count Rosenberg: Letter to Count — Rosenberg from Marie Antoinette: [1775]: Fr.
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVI. Henri Masers de Latude: part 20 of the Mémoire sent from Vincennes to M. de Sartine, Lieutenant-General of the Police; 1770. French. ff. 24. 159 x 88mm. Notebook with marbled paper covers, inserted in a portfolio of matching paper-covered boards, half bound ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CXCIX. Oscar Wilde: poem 'In the Gold Room'; [1881]. Draft. First published among 'Flowers of Gold' in Wilde's Poems (1881). See The Poems of Oscar Wilde (1908), p. 159. f. 1. 259 x 206mm. Poetry ENGLISH: Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, author: Poem 'In the...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CLXVIII. John Locke; Latin epitaph on Descartes; n.d. Fair copy. Accompanied by an engraving of Descartes by J. B. Grateloup after F. Hals. ff. 4. 271 x 212mm. overall. Epitaph (f. 4) 94 x 75mm; engraving (f. 2 pasted down) 103 x 72mm. includes: f. 2 Jean Baptis...
Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Lines to —’, a sonnet to Lord Byron: autograph fair copy; headed ‘Jan 22.’ [composed 1821 or 1822]
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Begins: ‘If I esteemed you less, Envy would kill / Pleasure’.Ends: ‘The worm beneath the sod / May lift itself in worship to the God’. A sonnet of fourteen lines, divided into two stanzas of eight and six lines. The addressee or subject of the sonnet was first publicly identified as Lord Byron ...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vol. CC. Reformatoren-Gedenkbuch; 1542. German and Latin. Album with entries by Reformers and others, including Martin Luther, Johannes Bugenhagen, Philipp Melanchthon and Caspar Creutziger. The volume also includes a letter of 1554 from Philipp Melanchthon to Theodor Fa...
STEFAN ZWEIG COLLECTION. Vols. CLXXXIV, CLXXXV. Two notebooks containing the final part of the novel 'Jean-Christophe'; 1911-1912. Draft. French. Entitled 'L'Aube Nouvelle', but published in the section 'La fin du voyage' as 'La Nouvelle Journée'. See Cahiers de la Quinzaine, series xiv, cahiers 2, 3 (Paris, 1912). ff. 111, 108. 219 x 177mm. Bound volumes.