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‎Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 26 June 2001‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June 2001. Laminated wrappers 4to. 196 pp plates some colour ills. 183 lots. The sale included inter alios a Bremer Press Homer the autograph book of Constance Wilde an early Edison tickertape machine and several early woodblocks including one group by Thomas Bewick lots 152 -178. Fine. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 26th June, 2001 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-16076

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‎Printed Books and Maps Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 18 19 28 and 29 July 1988‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th 19th 28th and 29th July 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. unpaginated approximately 120 pp plates ills. 1255 lots. Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 18th, 19th, 28th and 29th July, 1988 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-16050

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‎The Library of Camille Aboussouan. Sotheby's auction catalogue Sale dates: 17 and 18 June 1993‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sales held on 17th and 18th June 1993. Illustrated boards 4to. 211 pp in double-column format numerous plates some in colour. 1097 lots. Aboussouan was for many years the Lebanese representative to UNESCO According to the catalogue introduction "The principal enthusiasm which informed his collecting was the flow of ideas from East to West and the role played in that process by what is today the Lebanon." His library was notable for its rare works on the history of the Lebanon Islam and the East its French illustrated books and exceptional works generally from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Indexed. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sales held on 17th and 18th June, 1993 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-15856

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‎The Library of Camille Aboussouan. Sotheby's auction catalogue Sale dates: 17 and 18 June 1993‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sales held on 17th and 18th June 1993. Illustrated boards 4to. 211 pp in double-column format numerous plates some in colour. 1097 lots. Aboussouan was for many years the Lebanese representative to UNESCO According to the catalogue introduction "The principal enthusiasm which informed his collecting was the flow of ideas from East to West and the role played in that process by what is today the Lebanon." His library was notable for its rare works on the history of the Lebanon Islam and the East its French illustrated books and exceptional works generally from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Indexed. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sales held on 17th and 18th June, 1993 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-15621

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‎Eight Manuscripts from the Sammlung Ludwig the property of the J. Paul Getty Museum to be sold as lots 32 to 39 in the sale of Western Manuscripts and Miniatures Sotheby's London on Tuesday 6 December 1988. Sotheby's auction catalogue for part of sale date; 6 December 1988‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue 1988. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 41-88 pp plates some in colour. Lots 32-39. A separate catalogue for the eight extremely important early manuscripts included in the sale "The following eight lots are the property of the J.Paul Getty Museum in Malibu. Half of them are earlier than the mid-ninth century. They form a small part of the great Sammlung Ludwig the most outstanding library of medieval manuscripts assembled in the last half century. The collection was formed mostly through the agency of Mr. H.P. Kraus by Dr.Peter Ludwig of Aachen and was at one time on deposit at the Schn�tgen-Museum in Cologne. In early 1983 the entire Ludwig manuscript collection comprising nearly 150 items was sold en bloc to the Getty Museum . The lots are described in the order of their listing in Anton von Euw and Joachim M. Plotzek Die Handschriften der Sammlung Ludwig I-�V Cologne 1979-1985. They begin with primitive fragments of a Theodulf Bible and of St.Aldhelm. Two outstanding secular manuscripts of the ninth century follow from the two great centres of Carolingian learning the schools of Auxerre and Laon. Both are illustrated with many schematic diagrams and are in almost perfect condition. The next lot is an Ottoman Macrobius with a world map and two further maps follow - an extremely rare fifteenth-century portolan and an entire renaissance atlas. The group concludes with the oldest manuscript to come for sale in over fifty years the celebrated Canons from the Phillipps and Bodmer libraries of the third quarter of the eighth century. Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue, 1988 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-15563

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‎The Collection of Otto Sch�fer Part IV : the Hans Furstenberg Collection of Eighteenth-Century French Books. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates: 7 and 8 December 1995‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 7th and 8th December 1995. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. unpaginated approximately 350 pp numerous plates including many in colour. 668 lots. A lavishly illustrated catalogue of a major collection. Rear wrapper and lower fore-edge corners of last few pages creased covers partly sunned otherwise Very Good. Addenda slip loosely laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 7th and 8th December, 1995 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-15255

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‎The Lyttelton Papers: The Property of the Viscount Cobham. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 12 December 1978‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th December 1978. Printed boards small 4to. 196 pp colour frontispiece and several black-and-white plates. 181 lots. The first section comprises medieval charters including those of Halesowen Abbey and historical letters and documents running from the twelfth century to the Glorious Revolution. Among them are Royal Letters Patent of Kings John and Henry III each with magnificent impressions of the Great Seal of England and with rare examples of medieval seal bags and those granted by Philip and Mary Elizabeth I and James I embellished with initial letter portraits of the monarchs one of James I with the superb coloured portrait which is illustrated as the frontispiece. Poignancy at least is served by the touching autograph �Memoriall� of Elizabeth I by the documents signed by Robert Dudley and his ill-used spouse by Richard Duke of York and George Duke of Clarence and by the bill for a monument in Magdalen College Oxford by the celebrated sculptor Nicholas Stone erected to the memory of the brothers Lyttelton who died together by drowning. Standing on its own is the autograph manuscript of the greater part of the first history of Worcestershire. Thomas Habington its author and godson of Elizabeth I. was a neighbour of the Lytteltons and like members of that family was heavily implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. The remainder of the catalogue is arranged as the papers of individual members of the family in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Sons and grandsons natural and legitimate of Sir Thomas Lyttelton d. 1751. Those of William Henry known affectionately as 'Billy' or more formally as 'Governor' reflecting his successive employments as Governor of South Carolina and Jamaica include letter books of the greatest historical importance providing. ineer alia unpublished information about his dealings with the American Indians. The papers of Admiral Thomas Smith known as �Tom of ten thousand� the illegitimate son of Sir Thomas are a panorama otlife in the navy in the eighteenth century. Bachelor Dean Charles follows the unmarricd Admiral. The letters from Horace Walpole to him are charming; those to his brother more waspish. Mrs Montagu is revealed as his friend; to his brother she was the 'Madonna'. That brother George first Lord Lyttelton poet scholar and Chancellor of the Exchequer gathered round him a galaxy of literary and political stars: Boswell Johnson a letter about George though addressed to his brother Garrick Swift Voltaire Pope James Thomson the elder Pitt Pelham Newcastle Bolingbroke Chesterfield Rodney Shenstone and William Warburton. The fourth Baron's papers include letters by Dickens and Macready about prostitution in the theatre and by Carlyle about the choosing of the librarian of the London Library. His brother.in-law W. E. Gladstone appears in the unlikely guise of poet but also as letter-writer; Queen Victoria as mourner for Albert a subject she rarely touched upon in her letters. Newman on his conversion and Cobden on the Corn Laws are among other correspondents with Manning Macaulay Tennyson Trollope and Browning. Boards a little browned letter from the bookseller A.G. Thomas loosely laid in. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 12th December, 1978 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-15019

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‎The Mercator Atlas of Europe. To be sold as a single lot in the sale of Valuable Autograph Letters . Sotheby's auction catalogue devoted solely to the Atlas sale date: 26 November 1996‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue devoted solely to the Atlas for the sale held on 26th November 1996. Illustrated wrappers 4to. 34 pp several plates most in colour. 1 lot. The catalogue for the second appearance at auction of this magnificent atlas which had first passed through the saleroom in 1979. The atlas is described as follows: The Mercator Atlas of Europe Containing the oly two known Autograph Manuscript Maps by Him the Only Surviving Copy of His Wall-Map of Europe of 1554 One of Only Four Known Copies of His Wall-Map of the British Isles of 1564 and Two Sections of His Rare Wall-Map of the World of 1569 the first use of the @Mercator Projection' Together with a Map of Ancona Signed 'AB' and Thirty Maps from Ortelius' Theatrum orbis terrarum of 1570. Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue devoted solely to the Atlas, for the sale held on 26th November, 1996 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-15254

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‎Silver and Enamel Bindings. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 10 May 1985‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th May 1985. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to 27 cm. 102 pp. 58 lots. From the preface: "Bindings made of silver or precious metals have always been rare and rather unusual. Splendid examples survive from the mediaeval period on Missals and Manuscripts but most of these are now in public institutions or still in the religious houses for which they were made all beyond the reach of private collectors. From the second half of the sixteenth century onwards they became less rare and the present collection is composed of objects of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries with one example from the sixteenth lot 6. There have been very few collections of such bindings and this is certainly the first time that a whole sale catalogue has been devoted to them. During the period covered by this collection the production of these bindings took place almost exclusively in Holland and Germany although there are also examples here from Italy lots 34 39 55 Scandinavia lots 18 19 44 56 Switzerland lots 30 47 57 Hungary lot 12 and Russia lot 58. There is one example from England a hornbook lot 38. In the seventeenth century the covers were mainly engraved often inspired by contemporary engravings by masters such as de Bry lot 48 Collaert lot 31 and others. Particularly some of the Dutch ones show engraving of high quality. In the eighteenth century methods somewhat changed and many bindings are more or less heavily embossed. Their size on the whole was small; the larger ones are rarer as they were normally produced for churches and many still remain there. The subjects shown are almost exclusively religious and many of the German books which have been placed in them are of a highly pietistic character and mostly Protestant the Roman Catholic ones being much less com mon. By the end of the eighteenth century silver bindings went out of fashion not appealing to the changing religious views of the nineteenth-century.Attention should perhaps be drawn even in this remarkable and unusual collection to a few particularly interesting bindings. There are two bindings of Hebrew interest an early one of the sixteenth century lot 6 and the nielloed silver binding lot 24 a piece of extraordinary rarity. Lot 39 is a magnificent Venetian binding embossed in high relief intended for a Commissione and conveying the splendour and pride of the city. There is magnificent German parcel- gilt binding enamelled in translucent blue formerly in the Rothschild collection lot 23 an exquisite German gold and mother-of-pearl cover of the eighteenth century lot 35 and a splendid large Russian eighteenth-century Gospel book in a Moscow binding elaborately constructed on two levels and with a long interesting note describing the making of the binding and its cost. This catalogue is the result of the combined work of the Book and Silver Departments but we think it should be emphasised that many of the descriptions were originally made by the late John Hayward of the Victoria and Albert Museum and later an Associate of our firm for many years. The Hayward numbers refer to his article on part of this collection in the Connoisseur October 1952. The majority of the bindings in this collection were formerly in the collection of Major J.R. Abbey and his accession numbers have been quoted. Top fore-edge corner of title-page cut away otherwise Very Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 10th May 1985 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-13147

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‎Important Books and Manuscripts. Atlases Travel Natural History Science Economics and Literature Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 2 February 1985‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd February 1985. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. unpaginated approximately 160 pp plates ills. 222 lots. Good. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the sale held on 2nd February, 1985 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-13171

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‎Printed Books and Maps. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 30-31 July 1991‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 30th-31st July 1991. Printed wrappers 8vo. 120 pp ills. 1098 lots. Hole punched in top corner otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 30th-31st July, 1991 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-13176

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‎The Library of Horace N. Pym 1844-1896 Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 23 April 1996‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd April 1996. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. 81 pp plates ills. 376 lots. With an introduction on Pym and his books. Among the highlights noted were the following: George Richmond's Proof Copy of William Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job; A portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Sir Joshua Reynolds; A fine pair of early portraits of Charles Dickens and his wife by Samuel Laurence; Dickens's pewter tankard from Gad's Hill; An extra-illustrated copy of Pickwick Papers with original watercolour drawings by F. Pailthorpe; Benjamin Disraeli's dispatch box and related ephemera; The original manuscripts of T. Anstey Guthrie's The Giant's Robe and The Tinted Venus; Charles Darwin's Narrative of the Surveying Voyages. of the Beagle. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd April, 1996 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-13184

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‎The Fairfax Library and Archive Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 14 December 1993‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th December 1993. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. unpaginated approximately 400 pp plates ills. 541 lots. From the introduction: "The Fairfax collection of over 5000 pamphlets and tracts of the English Civil War is undoubtedly the most important and largest collection of such material ever to be offered for sale at auction. Never before in English history had the recording in print of political and military events and of all manner and shades of opinion been possible on such a scale and with such immediacy as in the Civil War: nothing it seems was said or done debated in Parliament or fought out with sword and cannon but that it was without delay committed to print. The Fairfax collection was largely put together over a period of forty years early this century by Albert Fairfax 1870-1939 who succeeded his father as the twelfth Baron Fairfax in 1900 and had returned to live and work in England from Virginia where the sixth Baron Fairfax had settled early in the eighteenth century. It was an act of family piety the main concern being to document the career of the great Parliamentary general Sir Thomas third Lord Fairfax 1612-1671 and of his father Ferdinando 1584-1647. But although accounts of individual battles and sieges form much of the core of the collection the scope was widened to include the political and religious background so that a whole panorama of the concerns and events of the years 1641 to 1649 unfolds itself. The collection was extended backwards to include certain material from the earlier years of the reign of Charles I and later to carry the story up to the Restoration. But it is for the years of the Civil War itself that the collection can take its place alongside the great holdings of Oxford and London. Top fore-edge corners of front wrapper title-page and next page cut away otherwise near Very Good contents a trifle age-toned. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 14th December, 1993 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-13157

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‎The Mercator Atlas of Europe. To be sold as a single lot in the sale of Valuable Autograph Letters . Sotheby's auction catalogue devoted solely to the Atlas sale date: 13 March 1979‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue devoted solely to the Atlas sale date: London 13th March 1979. Printed wrappers 8vo. 20 pp several plates most in colour. 1 lot. The catalogue for the first appearance at auction of this magnificent atlas which was to pass through the saleroom a second time in 1996. The atlas is decsribed as follows: Atlas of Europe Compiled and Annotated by Mercator Containing Two Unique Autograph Manuscript Maps by Him the Only Surviving Copy of His Wall-Map of Europe of 1554 One of Only Four Known Copies of His Wall-Map of the British Isles of 1564 and Two Parts of His Rare Wall-Map of the World of 1569 Together with a Map of Ancona Signed 'AR' and Thirty Maps from a Latin Atlas of May 1570 by Abraham Ortelius some of those Maps Engraved by Mercator. Rear wrapper marked otherwise Good. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue devoted solely to the Atlas, sale date: London, 13th March, 1979 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-13150

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‎Biblioth�que Marcel Jeanson Premiere Partie : Chasse Sotheby's auction catalogue sale dates 28 February and 1 March 1987.‎

‎Sotheby's Monaco auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March 1987. Cloth 4to. 515 pp numerous colour and black-and-white plates. 598 lots. In French. The first part of the sale devoted to works on all forms of hunting. From the introduction: "Jeanson bien s�r ne manqua pas d'acqu�rir nombre de chefs d'oeuvre aux ventes Rahir 1938 et Schwerdt 1939 qui demeur�rent ainsi absents du march� pendant les cinquantes derni�res ann�es. Parcourrons cette bifoho-di�que et feuilletons certains de ses tr�sors: ce sont six des sept manuscrits enlumin�s de Gaston Ph�bus aujourd'hui en mains priv�es ainsi que les deux premi�res �ditions imprim�es circa 1507. Ce sont les trois premi�res �ditions du Roy Modus d'Henri de Ferri�re 1486 et un des deux seuls manuscrits demeurant en collection priv�e. De Guillaume Cr�tin voici les premi�res �ditions de ses po�mes de chasse Chante Royaulx 1527 et circa 1529 et Le d�bat des deux dames 1526 ainsi que l'ensemble exceptionnel d'enluminures de chasse extraits d'un manuscrit de ce second texte. Voici encore la premi�re �dition de La V�nerie de Du Fouilloux ainsi que treize �ditions ult�rieures. Voil� les trait�s les plus rares de fauconnerie d'archerie de louveterie; introuvables pour la plupart certains sont m�me uniques: l'�dition Wynleyn de Worde du Book of St Albans 1518 ou l'�dition d'Augsbourg de 1497 d'un trait� de fauconnerie. Voil� encore de splendides exemplaires d'ouvrages de v�nerie du 17e au 19e don't nombre sont reli�s en maroquin rouge brun ou vert et tous en merveilleux �tat. Voil� des ouvrages reli�s aux armes des plus grandes familles voire aux armes royales; voil� m�me deux carnets de chasse de la main de Louis XVI couvrant tous les deux l'ann�e cruciale 1789.Voil� encore de fabuleuses images de chasse; des miniatures milanaises de 1400 des dessins de Stradanus des gravures de Victor Adam d'autres des fr�res Vernet. . . et voil� encore . . . et encore . . . Two small areas rubbed on front board otherwise Near Fine. on front board otherwise Fine. Sotheby's, Monaco, auction catalogue for the sale held on 28th February and 1st March, 1987 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-12503

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‎A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books. Being the Finest Colour-Plate Books from the Celebrated Library formed by Robert de Belder. Sotheby's Auction Catalogue sale dates: 27 - 28 April 1987‎

‎Sotheby London auction catalogue for the sales held on 27th - 28th April 1987. Cloth with mounted colour illustration on front board as issued 4to. 425 pp profusely illustrated with colour plates. 388 lots. The catalogue introduction claims this to be "the finest collection of botanical colour-plate books ever offered at auction". Robert de Belder a diamond merchant who bought and restored the Kalmthout Arboretum in Belgium in the 1950s built up the greatest private collection of botanical books in the world securing many of the very best copies from the Arpad Plesch collection the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library virtually the entire rare book collection of the Horticultural Society of New York as well as many other distinguished collections. His collection was initially offered for sale en bloc without success before being acquired by Quaritch who finally consigned the colour-plate books to auction - in the process revolutionising price levels for this sort of material. Catalogued here are some 388 lots being the chief monuments of botanical illustration from the period 1600 -1900. Each lot is carefully described and annotated with the great majority of lots illustrated usually in colour. Fine. Sotheby, London, auction catalogue for the sales held on 27th - 28th April, 1987 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-12434

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‎The Collection of Otto Sch�fer Part I : Italian Books Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 8 December 1994‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December 1994. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. numerous plates including many in colour. 198 lots. A lavishly illustrated catalogue of a major collection. Front wrapper and first few pages index pages badly creased across lower foredge corners otherwise near Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December, 1994 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-12499

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin. Part III : Watercolors for Selby's Illustrations of British Ornithology Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date : June 8 1989‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the H. Bradley Martin Library sale held on 8th June 1989. Cloth cover ill 4to. unpaginated profusely illustrated. 277 lots nos 243-517 This part of the sale included all the known surviving original drawings for Prideaux John Selby's "Illustrations of British Ornithology" 1819-1834 of which 217 were by Selby himself. 55 by Robert Mitford four by Sir William Jardine and 1 by Edward Lear. Fine. List of estimates loosely laid in. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the H. Bradley Martin Library sale held on 8th June, 1989 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-12932

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin. Part IX : Highly Important Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date : June 14 1990‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the H. Bradley Martin Library sale held on 14th June 1990. Cloth cover ill 4to. unpaginated approx 270 pp profusely illustrated including many full page plates some in colour. 326 lots nos 3347 - 3672 The final volume of this most important series of sales. "A gathering of highlights not falling into any of the preceding categories the last sale will include the spectacular dedication manuscript of Valtan with full-page miniatures by Poyet the Mentelin Bible a 1486 Ptolemy Cosmographia printed on vellum with contemporary handcoloring and a wide range of non-ornithological color-plate natural-history books. Very Good. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the H. Bradley Martin Library sale held on 14th June, 1990 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-12439

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‎The Frank T. Siebert Library of the North American Indian and the American Frontier. First and Second Sales 2 vols Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 21 May 1999 and 28 October 1999‎

‎Sotheby's New York 1999 auction sale dates : 21st May 1999 and 28th October 1999. 2 vols cloth 4to photograph on panel in front boards. 370 394 pp numerous illustrations including in colour. Lots 1-548 and 549-1063 Some 1063 lots are carefully described often with extensive annotations. Dr. Seibert spent more than 50 years assembling his collection. Part I : Very Good. Part 2 has results pasted onto title-page covers partly faded and slightly scuffed. Sotheby's, New York, 1999, auction sale dates : 21st May, 1999 and 28th October, 1999 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-12470

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‎The Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 16 June 1984‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th June 1984. Printed illustrated wrappers 4to. 25 pp plates ills. 1 lot. From the introduction: " The autograph Bolivian diaries of Che Guevara compiled by him during his ill-fated and legendary revolutionary campaign in Bolivia in 1966-1967 kept to within a day of his capture and subsequent death comprising: i Che Guevara's autograph diary for the period 7 November to 31 December 1966 together with drafts and copies of messages and communiqu�s to and from Fidel Castro in Cuba and Bolivian contacts and Guevara's revolutionary proclamations to the Bolivian people bearing dates from 23 January to 26 August 1967 but the earliest written on 20 November 1966 .ii Che Guevara's autograph diary for the period 1 January to 7 October 1967 including a five-page list of books taken and read by him during the campaign the text written throughout in his hand in blue ink and ball-point . iii Che Guevara's autograph notebook containing his personal observations on forty-three of his men and associates with his remarks on their qualities as guerrillas and their record of conduct written throughout in his hand in blue red green and black ball-point foliated in a later hand in black felt-tip bearing dates from 7 November 1966 to 1 October 1967 ". Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th June, 1984 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-09735

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‎The Library of Paul Francis Webster. April 24 1985. auction catalogue Sale 5313‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th April 1985. Cloth mounted cover illustration 4to. Unpaginated over 100 pp plates some in colour. 181 lots. Webster's was one of the few private collections to contain copies of all four folios of Shakespeare's plays. His collection also featured illuminated manuscripts as well as many first editions of English and American classics. Among the highlights were: The four folios of Shakespeare; The Pickwick Papers presented by Dickens to Hans Christian Andersen; A presentation copy of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter; First editions of Pride and Prejudice Jane Eyre and Frankenstein; A presentation copy of Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; Keats' copy of Thomas Sackville's poems; A copy of A Christmas Carol inscribed by Swinburne to Watts-Dunton; A presentation copy of Flaubert's Madame Bovary to Champfleury; Uncle Tom's Cabin in a red 'gift' binding; A complete set of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence; A complete set of Presidential autographs from George Washington through Franklin Delano Roosevelt; A 1791 George Washington letter discussing plans for the new capital city; Franklin Delano Roosevelt's federal inlaid mahogany secretary circa 1820. Top corner of front cover marked otherwise Fine. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue, for the sale held on 24th April, 1985 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-10648

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‎The Library of H. Bradley Martin. Part IX : Highly Important Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts. Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date : June 14 1990‎

‎Sotheby's New York auction catalogue for the H. Bradley Martin Library sale held on 14th June 1990. Cloth cover ill 4to. unpaginated approx 270 pp profusely illustrated including many full page plates some in colour. 326 lots nos 3347 - 3672 The final volume of this most important series of sales. "A gathering of highlights not falling into any of the preceding categories the last sale will include the spectacular dedication manuscript of Valtan with full-page miniatures by Poyet the Mentelin Bible a 1486 Ptolemy Cosmographia printed on vellum with contemporary handcoloring and a wide range of non-ornithological color-plate natural-history books. Fine. List of estimates loosely laid in. Sotheby's, New York, auction catalogue for the H. Bradley Martin Library sale held on 14th June, 1990 hardcover‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-10366

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‎The Collection of Otto Sch�fer Part I : Italian Books Sotheby's auction catalogue sale date: 8 December 1994‎

‎Sotheby's London auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December 1994. Laminated illustrated wrappers 4to. numerous plates including many in colour. 198 lots. A lavishly illustrated catalogue of a major collection. Fine. Sotheby's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 8th December, 1994 unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : BIBLIO-11080

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‎The Magnificent Botanical Library of the Stiftung fur Botanik Vaduz Liechenstein collected by the late Arpad Plesch. 3 vols complete set‎

‎Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications first editions sale dates 17-18 November 1975 15-16 March 1976. 3 vols printed boards large 8vo. frontispiece x 251 frontispiece viii 265 frontispieces viii 209 pp ills. throughout. 863 lots The lavishly illustrated auction catalogues for one of the great botanical library sales of the 20th century. The catalogue gives references to Nissen for illustrated works Pritzel for unillustrated works and generally adds the Stafleu and Henrey number. Additional references are given where a point is in dispute or where they add special information. Collations are given in cases where Sotheby's could not find an easily accessible description of a particular book. Part III includes a full index of provenances an addenda and a list of corrigenda. From the introduction: ".the collection of botanical books which Arpad Plesch built up for the Stiftung fur Botanik is particularly strong in books on medical botany and the botany of Hungary.Dr. Plesch conceived the foundation not only as a repository for rare books but also for rare plants and the Essais d'Acclimatation de Plantes tropicales en France 1962 by Pierre Gossot shows how successful he was with this latter interest. The library is not only a magnificent collection from the bibliographical point of view but also the working library of a serious botanical garden; and this dichotomy is reflected in the books. Those in this first portion include the only complete copy recorded of a luxury work produced for the children of Philippe Egalite lot 12 the dedication copies of books by Colonna and Gouan lots 141 & 297 a copy of the Nouveau Duhamel bound for the Emperor of Austria probably at the instance of his son-in-law Napoleon lot 230 the hitherto unrecognised first edition of a celebrated Italian floral work lot 259 a book bound for presentation by the dedicatee King of the Two Sicilies to his daughter the Queen of Spain lot 308 and long runs of books illustrating the history of botany Adanson Bonnet de Vries Goethe and Grew and the changing fashions of botanical illustration Andrews Bauer Blackwell Bui Hard Curtis Edwards Redoute lots 182 230 and others and Weiditz lot 97. Among the rarities are copies of Bonelli and Besler first editions of Dodoens Cruydeboek and Fuchs both with contemporary colouring and a number of books unrecorded in botanical bibliography e.g. lots 89 & 286. Spines somewhat darkened and that of Volume 2 slightly torn at head otherwise a Very Good set. List of prices realized loosely laid in. Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications, first editions, sale dates 17-18 November 1975, 15-16 March 1976 hardcover‎

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