A large rectangular image with several images throughout, including crests, seals, and other items. Centered within, beneath the title text, are the plate owner's attributes and affiliations. Above is the motto Nicht Liebe Leben.
Subject (Name):
Browning, Arthur Giraud
Subject (Topic):
Fleur-de-lis, Heraldic bookplates, Hospitals, Medical societies, Seal, and Shield
XII Bilder zu Göthe's Faust and Zwölf Bilder zu Göthe's Faust
Description:
Dedicated to Goethe., Engraved throughout., List of plates on front cover., and On first plate, "gest. von Thaeter in Dresden."
Publisher:
F. Wenner,
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832.--Faust--Illustrations., Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832--Dedications to., Ruscheweyh, Ferdinand, 1785-1845., and Thaeter, Julius Caesar, 1804-1870.
An advertisement, laid in, presenting the first Heft and soliciting subscriptions for future Hefte, gives a date in 1826 as closing time for subscriptions. Goethe mentions having seen the second Heft in a letter from the year 1828., Goethe commented on the first and second Hefte in Kunst und Altertum, v. 6., Illustrations to Faust I only., and Wanting plate I.
Publisher:
Hamburger Steindruck, in Commission bey J.M. Commeter,
Subject (Name):
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von,--1749-1832.--Faust--Illustrations.
"Alles ist einfacher, als man denken kann, zugleich verschränkter, als zu begreifen ist" --Goethe. The scene is of the interior of a library with books on a table, and books on shelves. A quill pen is also on the table.
Subject (Name):
Dusser de Barenne, J. G.
Subject (Topic):
Books, Buildings, Libraries, Medical libraries, Pens, and Physicians
From the Philippe Zoummeroff Collection of May 1968 Paris Counterculture.
Publisher:
Comité d’action,
Subject (Geographic):
France --Politics and government --1958-1969 --Periodicals
Subject (Topic):
College students --France --Paris --Political activity --Periodicals, Labor movement --France --Paris --Periodicals, Protest movements --France --Paris --Periodicals, and Underground newspaper
Depicts the town of New Braunfels, Texas, circa 1856. In left foreground is a man on horseback, with rifle on his shoulder, standing near two steer; in the right foreground is a man on horseback talking with a man on foot.
The collection primarily contains letters received by Carel Mondriaan and his wife Mary Mondriaan, including one autograph letter and twelve postcards, signed, from Piet Mondrian writing from Paris (1937-1938), London (1938-1939), and New York (1941). Other correspondents in the papers are Willem Frederik Mondriaan (two telegrams, 1943-1944); Harry Holtzman (one typed letter, signed, 1948), Michel Seuphor (one autograph letter, signed, 1956), and Kunstkreis-Verlag (one typed letter, 1956). Also present is a manuscript inventory in an unidentified hand (1946) listing some of the items in the collection, a printed announcement for Louis Cornelis Mondriaan's funeral (1943), a photograph of Carel and Mary Mondriaan with Piet Mondrian in his studio at 278 Boulevard Raspail, Paris (1936), and an album holding seventy-two carte-de-visite portrait photographs of Mondriaan family members (1870s-1880s).
Description:
Carel Mondriaan was born on June 1, 1880, and died on July 28, 1956. The younger brother of Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), Mondriaan had a career as an insurance broker. and Purchased from S. W. Myers (Sotheby's sale, 1983 November 7, lot 291) on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 1983.
Subject (Name):
Mondriaan, Carel, 1880-1956, Mondriaan-van den Berg, Mary, and Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944--Portraits
Featured within a leafy frame is a scene of a mountain beneath a partly sunny sky and additionally framed by a pine tree. In the forefront below are several books, a microscope, and a skull. Above the entire image is the motto √úber allen Gipseln ist Ruh.
