Box Christie's
Container
Contains 264 Results:
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:
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:
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:
created: 1995-06-29
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:
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:
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