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ALBUM AMICORUM of Adolf, Frieherr von BRENNER-FELSACH (1814-1883, Austrian diplomat). An autograph album containing signatures and inscriptions by writers, academics and politicians including Franz GRILLPARZER (eight lines of verse, 'Du trittst nun in die Welt oft falsches Spiel, Mußt horchen lernen, schweigen, lauern', Vienna, 30 May 1852), Prince METTERNICH ('Kraft im Recht', Vienna, 12 March 1855), Graf NESSELRODE (signature only, St Petersburg, 12 May 1856), Constantin TISCHENDORF (St Petersburg, laetare Sunday, 1868), Alfred Arneth, Joseph Bergmann, Bernhard von Beskow, Ernst von Birk, Josef Chmel, S. Eszterházy, Friedrich Halm, Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, Feldzeugmeister Heß, Theodor Georg von Karajan, Eduard Freiherr von Sacken, Johann Gabriel Seidl, Alexis Tolstoi, Ferdinand Wolf, Josef Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz, entries made Vienna, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Warsaw and Hanover, May 1852 - 14 December 1873, altogether approximately 38 inscriptions (one pasted in) and a card signed by W. Unger, in an album, large 8vo, green roan, stamped in gilt and black (rubbed). Provenance : Adolf Freiherr von Brenner-Felsach (inscription on front free endpaper noting its presentation by his sister Sefine, Vienna, end May 1852); Antiquitätabteilung der Bukum (article from Wiener Tagblatt , 22 February 1925); Rudolf, Ritter von Gutmann (his shelfmark, Ms.739); shelfmark (Ser.nov. 2976) of Österreichische Nationalbibliothek.