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Continental books, manuscripts and music : Including Boccaccio, Decamerone, ninth edition, Venice, 1484 bound with Masuccio Novellino, Venice 1484; Homer, Odyssea, in a contemporary Parisian binding for Thomas Maioli, Paris, 1538; Roswitha, Opera, Nuremburg, 1501; and other incunabula and early printed books including an extensive collection of German bibles dating from 1483; an important collection of letters, printed and manuscript poems by C.P. Cavafy; an early letter by Napoleon to his mother; Toulouse-Lautrec’s Latin dictionary; autograph manuscript of the first movement of Schumann’s ‘Phantasie’ Op. 17; autograph manuscript of Massenet’s ‘Hérodiade’; with letters and manuscripts by Andersen, Baudelaire, Bolívar, Céline, Queen Christina, Fichte, Frederick the Great (series), Freud, Goethe (series), Guillotin, Hegel, Heine, Hesse, Marie Antoinette, Maria Theresa, Munch, Napoleon (series), Pasteur, Schiele, Charlotte von Schiller, Voltaire (including a sketch from the life by Hubert), Wilhelm II and Zola; J.S. Bach, Berg, Bernstein, Brahms, Britten, Casella, Chopin, Delibes, Donizetti, Elgar, Ellington, Falla, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Mayr, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganni, Puccini, Ravel, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Spohr, Richard Strauss, Verdi, Wagner and Hugo Wolf (catalogue of an auction conducted by Sotheby's London, 22-23 November 1984)

London, Sotheby's, 1984
(27 cm), [212] pp., illustrations (some in colour). 555 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contains the property of Bernd Pattloch (lots 1-110); Prince Karl Adolf Auersperg (1915-2006), consigned to Sotheby’s by his son-in-law, German Mailhos (1933-2005). The copy of the ninth edition of the Decameron (lot 22), the only known complete copy with table of contents (3 ff.) inserted between a1 and a2, bound with Masuccio Novellino (both printed by Baptista de Tortis), was bought for £50,000 by Yale; see Laurence C. Witten, “Boccaccio in Beinecke” in The Yale University Library Gazette, volume 60 (1986), pp.105-110. Saleroom reports in The Book Collector, Spring 1985, p.101; by Sarah Bradford, in The Times Literary Supplement, 30 November 1984, p.1395. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No Price list.

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