Unique scrapbook, containing hundreds of paper items collected by the banker, philanthropist and Austrian consul in Monaco, Adolf Springer (1846-1896), and his wife Ernestine (1852-1828): admission tickets to exhibitions and theater productions, advertisements for various entertainment events, menus from formal hotel dinners, letters and telegrams from members of the high society, and other items. Vienna, Berlin, and elsewhere, late 19th Century. German (several items in other languages). A scrapbook with over 200 paper items and ephemera (pasted to the leaves), documenting the life of the Austro-Hungarian high society. Embossed on the front cover: "Allerlei" (in German: Miscellaneous). Items include: • Admission ticket to the 1878 Paris World Fair. • Invitation to the opening event of the Viennese "Internationale Ausstellung für Musik- und Theaterwesen" (International Exhibition for Music and Theater), 1892. • Ticket to a performance in the Viennese Ringtheater (burnt down in 1881) • Autograph letter, signed by the Italian war minister Cesare Bonelli (Rome, 1881), addressed to Adolf Springer. • Two cards with humoristic depictions of Otto von Bismarck (apparently related to a pact signed with the Foreign minister of the Austrian Empire, Bernhard von Rechberg, in 1864). • Small poster advertising a revue – "the Twins from Nanking and their Wife, the Bearded Wonder Woman" (undated). • Membership cards of various organizations and clubs, letters and telegrams (some written on visiting cards), newspaper clippings, colorful scraps, and more. Approx. 220 paper items, most are pasted to the album leaves (some detached). Size and condition vary. Overall good-fair condition. Many stains. Fold lines, closed and open tears to some items. Album: approx. 33 cm. Fair-poor condition. Leaves partly detached, some with large open tears. Binding worn, lacking spine.