(Only Danish text available): Album comprising a collection of more than 250 original contributions (autographs and signed letters, carte de visites, drawings, musical notations, photographs and cut-outs) by important cultural figures including Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, Henry James, Henrik Ibsen and Emile Zola. 397 pages. Ca. 1890-1940. All made for Edith Brandes, daughter of Georg Brandes. Bound in full green velvet with brass fittings, all edges gilt. Housed in box. Full list of contributors available upon request.

Georg Brandes (1842-1928) is widely held to be one of the most crucial figures in Danish cultural history. It is less known, perhaps, that he was also exceedingly famous abroad - not least due to his influential lectures: It was not until Georg Brandes lectured on Nietzsche that Europe began to take Nietsche serious as an important philosopher. The album contains a letter from Elisabeth Förster-Nietsche, in which she unequivocally credits Brandes for having "discovered" her brother, thus doing intellectual Europe an immense service. Not only does the album of the Brandes family bear witness of his close personal ties to wide circles of European intellectuals, it is also a testimony of how deeply he was admired by many of the most acclaimed of his contemporaries. It contains an abundance of names that evoke the great culminations of history: Bismarck, J.P.E. Hartmann, Max Klinger, Edvard Grieg, Maurice Ravel, Claude Monet, Albert Einstein, Anatole France, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Alfred Schnitzler, Ernst Toller, Henrik Ibsen, Henry James, Thomas Mann, John Stuart Mill, Auguste Rodin, Theodore Dreiser, Rainer Maria Rilke, Igor Strawinsky, August Strindberg, Leo Tolstoy, H.G. Wells, Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Stefan Zweig and many others.

Denne enestående samling af personlige breve, originale tegninger, signaturer og fotografier, er samlet til en stambog af Georg Brandes' (1842-1928) datter, Edith Brandes (1879-1968). Det monumentale værk er blevet til over et halvt århundrede og indeholder en lang række bidrag af celebre og verdenshistorisk vigtige navne fra en hel epoke. Så langt fra at være en simpel samling af autografer, er denne stambog et vidnesbyrd om hele den samtidige europæiske kulturkreds og dennes kredsen omkring navnet Brandes. Edith Brandes har forsynet en række af bidragene med håndskrevne kommentarer, som ofte belyser forbindelsen til Georg Brandes. Yderligere materiale om stambogen samt en liste over alle bidragsydere kan rekvireres.