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Continental and Russian books and manuscripts, science and medicine : including the collection of the late Erwin Huerlimann of Freudenberg, former president of the Swiss Reinsurance Company comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts including the “Fourth” German bible (not after 1474); Harvey, De motu cordis, 1628; a remarkable series of love-letters by Tsar Alexander II; the papers of Cardinal Granvelle relating to the Council of Trent; a fine letter by Jean Racine to Madame de Maintenon (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Sotheby's London, 26 April 1990)

London, Sotheby's, 1990
(27 cm), 274 (8) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 493 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Contains French books consigned by the Heirs of Erwin Huerlimann (1880-1968): “these were as nice as the Salomon books were awful and the prices reflected it” (The Book Collector, volume 39, 1990, p.383). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.

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