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Contains 264 Results:
Folder 116
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 116
Identifier: Folder 116
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 Mss., Autograph Letters and Music, 1995-11-29
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 116
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including a rediscovered complete copy of the blockbook Biblia Pauperum, Schreiber III. [Low Countries ca. 1465]; a Book of Hours, Besancon, ca. 1440; first edition of Valerius Maximus Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, Strassburg, ca. 1470.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1995-11-29
Folder 117
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 117
Identifier: Folder 117
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 Continental Books and Fine Bindings, mainly Italian, 1996-04-03
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 117
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including illuminated manuscripts of Cicero's De Senectute and other works (North-east Italy, ca. 1475-1500) and Petrarch's Trionfi (Florence, ca. 1450) in contemporary bindings; an illuminated manuscript containing unpublished documents relating to building restorations in Verona ca. 1505, in a contemporary Veronese binding; important Greek printing, including the first book printed entirely in Greek, Lascaris Erotemata (Milan: 1476), and editiones principes of the works of Aristotle...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-04-03
Folder 118
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 118
Identifier: Folder 118
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 Historical and Modern Decorated Bookbindings, 1996-05-01
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 118
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including two important painted and gold-blocked Jena bindings by Lukas Weischner for Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I of Saxe-Weimar; silver binding, including a sixteenh century manuscript on vellum by Nicholas Jarry, bound by Florimond Badier (1649).)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-05-01
Folder 119
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 119
Identifier: Folder 119
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, Music and Manuscripts, 1996-06-26
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 119
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including a dedication copy of a humanist manuscript on vellum, written and illuminated for Pope Calixtus III (Zopello, ca. 1455-58); illuminated chronicles in French by Foissart and Monstrelet, printed on vellum by Verard; an important collection of illustrated incunabula from a European private library, including the Dutch Dialogus creaturarum, Schatzbehalter, Stultifera navis, La Mer des Histoires; fine early printed books, including the first edition of Hortus sanitatis with...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1996-06-26
Folder 120
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 120
Identifier: Folder 120
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 Mss., Autograph Letters, Music and Printed Books, 1996-11-27
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 120
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: 1996-11-27