Continental printed books, manuscripts and music : Comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts, including a fifteenth-century block book, the Biblia Pauperum (The Low Countries, c. 1460); Paul Gauguin’s celebrated letter from Tahiti containing a sketch for his painting Vairaoumati tei oa; the autograph manuscript of Mahler’s Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen; the autograph manuscript of Mahler’s Todtenfeier; the original version of the first movement of the second symphony; portrait of Beethoven by Neugass; the autograph manuscript of Bloch’s Schelomo (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Sotheby's, London, 27-28 November 1986)
London, Sotheby's, 1986
(27 cm), 291 (9) pp., illustrations. 667 lots. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The Biblia Pauperum (lot 148) was consigned by the Duke of Northumberland; on its previous appearance at Sotheby’s, in 1978, it had failed to sell (bought in at £38,000). On this occasion, it was sold to Heribert Tenschert for £148,500, and soon appeared in the library of Joost Ritman. The book was last sighted with Jörn Günther (his Catalogue 10: Pagina Sacra, 2011, item 23). Mahler’s manuscript of his song-cycle “Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen” (lot 574) sold for £198,000 to Otto Haas; the “Todtenfeier” (lot 575) was left unsold, but “changed hands immediately afterwards for £120,000” (from a saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1987, pp.104-106). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced. No price list.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1986
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby's (London)
- Auction date
- 19861127
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