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Folder 135
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 135
Identifier: Folder 135
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
Printed Books and Manuscripts, 1962-03-12/13
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 135
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(English seventeenth century plays; Robert Whittington's very rare De Nominum Declinatione, Wynkyn de Worde, 1525; Gavin Douglas's translation of Vergil, 1553; George Peele's Historie of the two valiant Knights, 1599 and Famous Chronicle of King Edwarde the First, 1599; and the first quarto edition of The Taming of the Shrew, 1631 the property of A.N.L. Munby, Esq., and William P. Norris, Esq. Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, 1532, The Holford copy; Cronica del Cid Ruy Diaz, Medina del Campo,...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1962-03-12/13
Folder 136
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 136
Identifier: Folder 136
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
The Library at Melbury House, Dorset, 1962-05-14/15
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 136
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Rare books of the 16th, 17th, and 18th century, including Calvin's A Faythfull and moost Godlye treatyse, [c. 1549]; John Foord's Apocalypsis Jesu Christi, 1597; Henry VIII's Libellus regius adversus M. Lutherum, Pynson, 1521; Chapman's Homer, [c.1612]; and the Fourth Folio of Shakespeare.)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1962-05-14/15
Folder 137
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 137
Identifier: Folder 137
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
Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1962-06-18
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 137
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(The Waltham Abbey Bible, with the Abbey's Library Catalogue- one of only two examples privately owned; two manuscripts from the Abbey of Royaumont; The Morimondo Lectionary, from the Dyson Perrins collection; a glossed St. Matthew from the Abbey of Weissenau; and Bede's Homilies from the Library of the Cologne Carthusians. A very fine Besancon Book of Hours from the Phillips Collection; A Geneva Horae, in the earliest known Northern European gold tooled binding of the Renaissance; the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1962-06-18
Folder 138
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 138
Identifier: Folder 138
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
Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 1962-12-10
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 138
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Illuminated Books of Hours from Rouen, Limoges and Lyons; A fourteenth-century Breviary from Penwortham, Lancashire; the Psalter of the Ashley family, of Ruthland; an Office of the Dead apparently from the library of Robert Holme, prior of Haverholme; the Psalter of the Bussy family of Hougham, Co. Linics., and other manuscripts relating to Lincolnshire. Pseudo-Bonaventura's Mirrour of the Blessed Lyf of Jesus Christ, in the English translation of Nicholas Love, prior of Mount Grace, the...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1962-12-10
Folder 139
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 139
Identifier: Folder 139
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
Printed Books Autographed Letters, and Historical Documents, 1963-05-13/14
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 139
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(An unrecorded edition of Alexander de Villa Dei's Doctrinale, Daventer 1489; two very rare early Paris books, 1475-6; and other incunabula; the Genoa Polyglot Psalter, 1516; Monarde's Joyfull Newes out of the New-Found World, 1596; Schouten's Novi Freti, 1619; Saxton's Atlas of England and Wales, [1588].)
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1963-05-13/14