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Valuable Printed Books and Manuscripts. Illuminated Manuscripts, 1994-11-23

 Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 109
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents

(including Book of Hours, Use of Rome, Ghent, of Bruges, circa 1470; Gospel Lectionary from Southern Germany, circa 1480), Autograph Letters and Manuscripts (including a Venetian Libro dell Acque of circa 1610), Printed Books (including Three Albrecht Dürer first editions, in one volume; Etienne Jodelle's Oeuvres & Meslanges Poetiques, 1574; Francesco Sbarra's description of equestrian ballets, 1667), Natural-History Books, Travel Books, Atlases, and Maps.

Dates: created: 1994-11-23
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books / Folder 109

Folder 110

 File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 110
Identifier: Folder 110
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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books

Valuable English and Continental Books from the Bute Library, 1995-03-15

 Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 110
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents

Sold by order of the Executor's of the sixth Marquess of Bute (Including English literature and religious history, early printed and continental books, Bibles, and liturgy, travel and natural-history books.)

Dates: created: 1995-03-15
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books / Folder 110

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books

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: created: 1995-03-29
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books / Folder 111

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books

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: created: 1995-05-03
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books / Folder 112

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books / Folder 113

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
Found in: Western Michigan University Special Collections / Auction Catalog Collections / Auction Catalogs: Manuscripts and Books

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