Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1993-11-24
Scope and Contents
(Including the First Book from the Aldine Press [Venice: 1495]; important incunabula and early Greek printing from the collection formed in the eighteenth century by Sir George Shuckburgh; Cicero, Of Old Age, printed by William Caxton [Westminster: 1481]; first editions of Holbein's Dance of Death, (1538), Le Giroufflier aux Dames (ca. 1505); Milton's Of Education to Master Samuel Hartlib (1644); the Dutch edition of Blacu's Theatrum (1648-50); Horace, De arte poetica, manuscript on vellum (Italy, early fourteenth century); a finely illuminated Genealogy of Charles, first Comte de Nelse (ca. 1466); an important Armenian illuminated manuscript of the Gospels (1669); autograph manuscripts of Martin Luther, Phillip Melanchthon, and Jean Calvin.)
Dates
- created: 1993-11-24
Creator
- From the Collection: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc. (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Publisher, Organization)
- From the Collection: Sotheby's (Firm) (Publisher, Organization)
Extent
From the Collection: 621 Volumes
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the Western Michigan University Special Collections Repository
Western Michigan University Libraries, Special Collections
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