Auction 32 - Autographs, old books & travel photography

Allegories – Saint Apollonia. Mounted coloured woodcut medallion in hexagonal double brush border, filled with…

Ball favours – Collection of 7 partly colour-lithographed ball favours, 1 decorative folder and 2 souvenir plaques, except for one simple…

Ball favours – collection of 9 decorated ball favours (8 with pencils on ribbon or cord), 2 dance cards and 2 printed miniature dance guides

Billets – Adamek, Johann. Fold-out billet with youthful messenger as Atlas carrying the globe, in three discs below the wishes in words and pictures

Billets – Berka, Anton. Transparent billet "Heiliger Ehe-Bund": woman's and man's arm shaking hands, completed to full figures on a second layer when held to the light

Billets – Eisen, Anton Paul. Lever-pull billet: by pulling and turning, the neck and wings of an eagle move, a small goddess of fortune appears

Billets – Eisen, Anton Paul. Pull-tab billet with scenery: a double bosquet appears before a sun and fountain temple

Billets – Endletsberger, Joseph. Embossed billet in relief and coloured card, sky backed with gauze, printed blessing

Billets – Müller, Heinrich Friedrich. Pull-tab billet of a cup and saucer, filled by a dinner service and a putto

Billets – Müller, Heinrich Friedrich. Two-layer rotating billet with wheel of fortune, two slits reveal the wishes

Billets – Collection of 4 congratulation billets

Billets – Collection of 5 flap billets with printed text on coloured silk

Billets – Collection of three colour-printed billets and one embossed billet

Billets – Collection of eleven coloured Biedermeier flap and pull pictures

Billets – Six billets in very elaborate die-cutting and embossing technique, some with chromolithographs, gilding and mounted gemstones

Billets – Pull-and-fold billet with compass rose, the mechanism reveals the wish as a rebus sequence and written out in six directions

Decorated papers – Collection of 23 decorated papers. Germany, 18th to early 20th century. 7.7 x 11.5 cm to 33.5 x 39 cm

Canivets – Three lace-cut sheets of parchment around gouached medallions with flowers and scrolls. Probably Southern Germany, 2nd half 18th century

Canivets – Pair of lace-cut frames of very thin paper around 2 brush medallions of a peasant couple

Fan – Double-sided gouache fan in Rococo style, mother-of-pearl with rolled silver appliqués

Greeting cards – Album of approx. 120 inserted greeting cards and ribbons, a few loose or mounted

Greeting cards – Collection of 21 multi-level stand-up folding cards, chromolithographed

Greeting cards – collection of 23 multi-level pop-up cards

Greeting cards – collection of 32 cards with fabric appliqués