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Folder 123

 File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 123
Identifier: Folder 123
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 Printed Books and Manuscripts, 1997-11-26

 Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 123
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents

(Including The Hours of Anne Boleyn, an illuminated manuscript on vellum (Flanders, fifteenth century); an important binding by Jean Picard for Jean Grolier in fine condition; a coloured and illuminated copy of the Ninth German Bible (1483); the Schatzbehalter, illustrated with woodcuts by Wolgemut and Pleydenwurff; Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, printed by Aldus Manutius (1499); Editio Princeps of the works of Aristophanes (1498), and first edition of the works of Apuleius (1469).)

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1997-11-26