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Folder 113

 File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 113
Identifier: Folder 113
Scope and Contents From the Collection: The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of  those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...
Dates: 1815-1997; bulk 1920-1997; Other: Date acquired: 2000

Valuable Atlases and Maps, 1995-03-24

 Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 113
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents

(Including a Mercator Atlas, 1619, extra-illustrated with manuscript maps by Salomon de Caus; a Mediterranean Portolan chart by Jacopo Scotti, late sixteenth century; a fine hand-coloured copy of Ptolemy's Geographia, 1552; Waghenaer's Speculum nauticum, 1591 and rare nautical atlases by Pieter Goos and Johannes van Keulen.), Travel Books (Including Champlain's Voyages, 1613.), and Natural History Books.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1995-03-24