>Illuminated manuscripts and single miniatures : including an unrecorded Book of Hours illuminated by Jean Poyet, a fine calligraphic ms. perhaps by John de Beauchesne : Valuable printed books : including a unique fragment of the Sarum Breviary (Rouen ca. 1492), Vavassore’s xylographic edition of Biblia Pauperum in Italian, first editions of Kepler, Malthus, the Communist Manifesto, and Pinocchio, presentation copies of books by Byron, Joyce and Wilde : Historical bindings : including the only known Italian binding for Thomas Mahieu, a fine fanfare binding by the Rocolet Atelier for Pierre Séguier : Autograph manuscripts and letters : including the Alexander Ball archive of the first British Administration on Malta, an early article on legal philosophy by Karl Marx, Lewis Carroll’s correspondence with the young Agnes Hull : Musical manuscripts : including Fanny Mendelssohn’s album amicorum with unpublished compositions by her brother Felix, an important Leopold Mozart letter to his publisher, unpublished draft sketches by Franz Liszt (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie's, London, 26 June 1991)
Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
Illuminated manuscripts and single miniatures : including an unrecorded Book of Hours illuminated by Jean Poyet, a fine calligraphic ms. perhaps by John de Beauchesne : Valuable printed books : including a unique fragment of the Sarum Breviary (Rouen ca. 1492), Vavassore’s xylographic edition of Biblia Pauperum in Italian, first editions of Kepler, Malthus, the Communist Manifesto, and Pinocchio, presentation copies of books by Byron, Joyce and Wilde : Historical bindings : including the only known Italian binding for Thomas Mahieu, a fine fanfare binding by the Rocolet Atelier for Pierre Séguier : Autograph manuscripts and letters : including the Alexander Ball archive of the first British Administration on Malta, an early article on legal philosophy by Karl Marx, Lewis Carroll’s correspondence with the young Agnes Hull : Musical manuscripts : including Fanny Mendelssohn’s album amicorum with unpublished compositions by her brother Felix, an important Leopold Mozart letter to his publisher, unpublished draft sketches by Franz Liszt (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie's, London, 26 June 1991)
London, Christie's, 1991
(27 cm), 225 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 398 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1991, p.426. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.