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Folder 111
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 111
Identifier: Folder 111
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
Short-Title List of a Fine Collection of Books printed by Aldus Manutius and his Successors, 1995-03-29
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 111
Identifier: Item 1
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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1995-03-29
Folder 112
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 112
Identifier: Folder 112
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
Fine Books from the Aldine Press printed by Aldus Manutius and his successors at Venice, 1995-05-03
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 112
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including many in contemporary bindings and with important provenances. Greek editiones principes, the first book from the Press 1495; Latin and Italian first editions, Bembo's De Actna 1496; Aldus's own exceedingly rare Latin grammar of 1501; one of two known copies on vellum of Ovid's Fasti 1503; and Lyonese counterfeits of Petrarch and Dante.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1995-05-03
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
Folder 114
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 114
Identifier: Folder 114
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 Illuminated Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1995-06-28
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 114
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including a fine illuminated Prayerbook made for Countess Dorothea von Mansfeld, Southern Germany, 1551; antiphonal from the workshop of Pellegrino di Mariano, Siena, ca. 1480; Armenian Hymnal illuminated by Hovhannes Lrwec'i, Awendanc', 1647; a rare example of Dutch Prototypography, Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, Utrecht? ca.1463-70; Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Polophili. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499; the first illustrated book printed in France, Speculum Humanae Salvationis,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1995-06-28
Folder 115
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 115
Identifier: Folder 115
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
Important Autograph Letters, Manuscripts and Music from the Richard Monckton Milnes Collection and other properties, 1995-06-29
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 115
Identifier: Item 1
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:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1995-06-29