Box Christie's
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Contains 264 Results:
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
Northwick Park Collection: Prints and Drawings, 1965-05-25
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 4
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including fine prints by old Masters, Oriental drawings of flowers, insects, costumes and birds, studies of Swiss plants by De Gillaboz for Thomas Martyn, miniature portrait replicas by George Perfect Harding, and other English and foreign drawings.)
Dates:
created: 1965-05-25
Folder 5
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 5
Identifier: Folder 5
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
Northwick Park Collection: Valuable Printed Books, 1965-05-26/27
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 5
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including the Cabinet du Roi 1727 in contemporary French citron morocco, a Collection of Piranesi's Works 1756-1807, 12 vols. Folio, Watteau's L'Oeuvre, 1735, and a magnificent illuminated manuscript being the Hours of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his wife, Margaret of York.)
Dates:
created: 1965-05-26/27
Folder 6
File — Box: Christie's, Folder: 6
Identifier: Folder 6
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
Northwick Park Collection: Valuable Printed Books & Indian Miniatures, 1965-06-24/25
Item — Box: Christie's, Folder: 6
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(from the Northwick Park Collection the property of the late Captain E.G. Spencer-Churchill, M.C.)
Dates:
created: 1965-06-24/25