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Contains 992 Results:
Catalogue of Manuscripts and Printed Books, 1961-06-06
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 132
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Finely decorated English twelfth-century manuscripts from St. Osyth's Abbey, Essex; a thirteenth-century manuscript from Norwich Cathedral; a fourteenth-century manuscript of Rolle of Hampole Pricke of Conscience; The Helmingham Codex of The Canterbury Tales; The only known manuscript of an anonymous English translation of The Dicts and Saying of the Philosophers; A fifteenth-century collection of French Ballades and Poetry, Hitherto unknown and largely unpublished; the Helmingham Herbal...
Dates:
created: 1961-06-06
Folder 133
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 133
Identifier: Folder 133
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 Marquess of Bute Library from Dumfries House, Ayrshire, 1961-10-16/18
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 133
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(A further portion of the valuable library from Dumfries House, Ayrshire, largely formed by John, third Earl of Bute 1719-92; Prime Minister, 1760-63. Also included in this catalog Americana, early printed books, travel, early Italian literature, bibliography, books on the arts, and architecture.)
Dates:
created: 1961-10-16/18
Folder 134
File — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 134
Identifier: Folder 134
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 Western and Oriental Mss. and Miniatures, 1961-12-11
Item — Box: Sotheby's, Folder: 134
Identifier: Item 1
Scope and Contents
(Including items from the collection of Thomas E. Marston, Esq.; a good Troyes Horae; an attractive pontificale from the collection of Thomas Edwards of Halifax; a fine gospel lectionary illuminated by Maître Francois from the Dyson Perrins collection; and an important psalter and breviary for the use of St. Martin De Laon, fourteenth century from the Arenberg Collection. A good thirteenth century Durandus; Giovanni Maria Filelfo's Cicero, De officiis, annotated in his hand; a Roman Ms....
Dates:
created: 1961-12-11
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:
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:
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