Bound with Harring, Harro. Historisches Fragment über die Entstehung der Arbeiter-Vereine und ihren Verfall in communistische Speculation. London, 1852.
Collection of eleven documents on parchment with wax seals on parchment ribbon, relating to the monastery of Amorbach; Heinrich, abbot of Amorbach and villages in the surrounding area.
Six autograph letters (1853-1856) from August Scharf and his wife to her parents in Hermann [Missouri?] written after their arrival in California. The letters discuss their ranch, August's work in the mines, trouble with Elisabeth's brothers, financial difficulties, and Elisabeth's death. One letter contains an addendum by August's friend Jakob Schneider and wife. The Scharf letters are accompanied by three autograph letters dated 1860-1863, one from Alwine Scharf Weber to her brother from Naumburg, Germany containing family news, another from Gottlob Sachse Shuhmacher to his friend August Scharf from Nebra, near Naumburg, asking for news of his brother-in-law, and a third from Charles Robert Kleine to [August?] Scharf from San Francisco mentioning that he had visited Scharf's little son.
Description:
August Scharf, his wife Elisabeth, and her three brothers made an overland journey to California in 1853 from Hermann (possibly Hermann, Missouri, a German settlement). The Scharfs lived in Grizzly Flat, where they had a farm and had shares in a gold mill. Elisabeth died in August 1856, two months after having a third child, their first girl. and Purchased from Charles Apfelbaum on the Arthur Corbitt Hoskins Memorial Fund, 2000.
Subject (Geographic):
California--Gold discoveries and Hermann (Mo.)
Subject (Name):
Scharf, August and Scharf, Elisabeth
Subject (Topic):
German Americans--California and Gold mines and mining--California--El Dorado County
Festival honoring Charles VI and his inheritence of Lower Austria.
Description:
Festival honoring Charles VI and his inheritence of Lower Austria., Illustrations: five single plates, including the frontispiece, one large folded plate and six double plates. The frontispiece is engraved by Benjamin Kenckel after Antonio Beduzzi. The other plates are engraved by Johann Andreas Pfeffel and Christian Engelbrecht after Johann Cyriak Hackhofer and depict: the entry of Ertz Hertzog Hüetl in Vienna, unsigned, caption: "Einführung dess Ertz Hertzog Hüetls", the procession from the royal court to Sankt Stephansdom (impression size: 42.5 x 115.5 cm.), the high mass held at Sankt Stephansdom, the oath of allegiance held at the "Ritterstube", the "Te Deum Laudamus" ceremony held at the court chapel, and five plates depicting banquets., Signatures: )(⁴ A-T² U²(-U2)., and The plates are the same, with slight changes, as those in the account by Ludwig von Gülich of the 1705 Erb-Huldigung for Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor (cf. Lipperheidesche Kostümbibliothek). Plates numbered VIII, IX, X, and XI depicting banquets were later issued unsigned and with slight changes in captions, in the account by Georg Christoph Kriegl of the 1740 Erb-Huldigung for Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria.
Publisher:
Bey Johann Jacob Kürner ...,
Subject (Name):
Beduzzi, Antonio Maria Nicolao, 18th cent., Charles--VI,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1685-1740., Engelbrecht, Christian, 1672-1735., Habsburg, House of--History--Early works to 1800., Hackhofer, Johann Cyriak, 1675-1731., Kenckel, Benjamin, 18th cent., Kürner, Johann Jacob, 1653-1729, printer., and Pfeffel, Johann Andreas, 1674-1748.
Subject (Topic):
Visits of State--Austria--Vienna--Early works to 1800.