Handwritten Signature and Comments by Avraham Geiger, the Founding Father of Reform Judaism, on the book Nachal ...

Handwritten Signature and Comments by Avraham Geiger, the Founding Father of Reform Judaism, on the book Nachal Kdumim Nachalat Ya'akov by Leib Dukes - Hanover, 1853 - Extremely Rare!
Nachal Kdumim – Nachalat Ya'akov. Printed in Hanover in 1853. Two notebooks in one volume on early Hebrew poetry.
On the title page, his handwritten signature: Avraham Geiger.
Inside the book: glosses and corrections in his handwriting.
On the back side of the title page, a stamp of the library of the institution he had founded and headed: "Hochschule fur die Wissenschaft Judenthums in Berlin".

An item handwritten or signed by him has never been seen in auctions! Extremely rare!

Yehuda Leib Dukes (1810-1891), born in Hungary, was a critique and editor of Jewish literature. Was a member of the Jewish Enlightenment movement. Contributed much to Hebrew philology. The masterpiece of his research was the Medieval poetry of Sephardic Jewry. He wrote many books on the subject, a few of them in Hebrew, among them, the two notebooks before us, Nachal Kdumim and Nachalt Ya'akov, on early Hebrew poetry.

Description of the Glosses
Almost all of Geiger's glosses are in Hebrew except for one in German. His handwriting is eloquent and readable.
Some of the glosses are corrections of one letter or colon,; yet there are glosses that are references and others that are scholarly glosses.
There are glosses with the initials "S.S" at their end in brackets. We do not know what this means. The handwriting is seemingly identical to that of Geiger.

Avraham Geiger (1810–1874) was a German rabbi and scholar, considered the founding father of Reform Judaism. Emphasizing its constant development along history and universalist traits, Geiger sought to reformulate received forms and design what he regarded as a religion compliant with modern times.