"Dancing Notebook" with Dedication by Theodore Herzl at the age of 23 – Vienna, 1883

Universitäts-Kränzchen, 30. Januar 1883. [Vienna], 1883. German. "University Bouquet" – small notebook, leather bound, prepared for the participants in a students' dancing ball in Vienna on January 30, 1883. Names of different dances were printed in the notebook. On a line under each dance name, the student signed his name when he danced with the notebook owner. The notebook owner danced the Quadrille dance – a 17th century dance for four pairs – with Theodore Herzl who signed his full name under the dance's name and added a few words in pencil. The pencil is attached to the notebook and serves as a clasp. Herzl, born in 1860, was at the time 23 years old and studied law at the University of Vienna. One year later, in 1884, he got the degree of PhD (Law) from the University of Vienna. [1] leaves, 9.5 cm. Fair-good condition. All of the leaves are detached. Dry, acid and very fragile paper. Tears and cracks. Origin: collection of Pappenheim family (attached are copies of letters from the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, confirming the receipt of original items handwritten by Herzl from the Pappenheim family).