Fred, I think you’ve won a kilo of madeleines. 
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I see there are also the single line markings in bar 4 of the excerpt and the double line mini pause in bar 8.
so, an indication of emphasis?
“Impassioned accel.” maybe? Seems unclear to me in your examples if that would hold for the duration of the note, or how exactly it would be applied. Perhaps a Liszt scholar would know and be able to chime in if they are the same markings. I flipped through a couple of ornamentation and embellishment books from the 1800s and that’s the only thing I found that was close though.
Example was from this book:
(I actually have a reprint copy that combines the 2 volumes.)
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Which publisher ?
Looks like Breitkopf & Härtel, 1910. Honestly, I just opened the file from the IMSLP site and randomly scrolled through until I saw those glyphs. There may be far better examples elsewhere in there.
If I ever come near New York again (as unlikely as it is, for the foreseeable future), you just have to let me ring you up so that I can get a tour of your library.
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I’m actually in NJ, which is much less fun to visit, LOL! My library has been expanding lately though, as I’ve been on a bit of a purchasing spree, with 7 or 8 things incoming. With a couple of exceptions, most of my stuff isn’t very expensive or valuable though, I just have a lot of it! Lots of ex-library editions, reprints, books with writing or highlighting in them, etc. These generally don’t have a lot of interest outside of our niche field, so can be grabbed for cheap on eBay, AbeBooks, etc. For specific less common titles, you can set up alerts when one becomes available.
With the current attacks on truth and education in the US, I just like having physical copies. With Elon trying to get Wikipedia closed down, and archive.org and openlibrary.org recently hit with DDOS attacks, I’m feeling much less confident that “the internet is forever.” A recent Pew study showed that almost 40% of sites that were accessible in 2013 were no longer accessible a decade later. My dead tree versions will always be accessible, even if other digital formats at some point in the future aren’t.
Probably my most interesting recent pickup is a book that accompanied a 1985 art exhibit, with a really great essay on notation by Hugh Davies. I’ll spoiler tag pics since this is pretty OT.
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Yes. This is the Busoni edition at Breitkopf.