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Album of autographs and dedications by authors, composers and intellectuals. Vienna, 1899-1900. The album belonged to Mr. Sigmund Milch of Vienna, who gathered the collection with much devotion, autograph after autograph, integrated postcards that were sent to him by famous persons within the album, got artists to sign in the notebook or on cards, added their photos and even perfumed the album. The album contains more than one hundred autographs and handwritten dedications. A majority of the signatories signed within the album and even added illustrations next to their autograph, while some autographs were on Bristol cards, pasted or attached to the album. Most autographs are dated by the signatories. The album contains autographs and dedications by: • Theodor Herzl – A handwritten dedication (in German): Wer nicht wenigstens / eine Idee hat, für / die er zu sterben / bereit ist, der ist / nicht werth zu leben. / Th. Herzl / 2 Juni 1900 (Who has not an idea, for which he could die, is not worthy to live). June 2,1900. • Author Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy. • German author Julius Stinde (with a long handwritten dedication). • German author Wilhelm Raabe. •Austrian author Marie Ebner-Eschenbach (with dedication). • Danish literary critic and researcher Georg Brandes • Composer Siegfried Wagner son of Richard Wagner • Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (autograph on a receipt). • Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (fine autograph with an illustration of notation staff). • German composer Richard Strauss. • Spanish violinist and composer Pablo de Sarasate (next to his autograph Sarasate added an illustration of notation staff). • Burgtheater actors (national Austrian theater in Vienna), opera singers and many others. About 121 autographs in an album 13X20 cm. Good condition. Minor spots and tears. Damages to binding (spine partly detached, loose binding).