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Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)

Illuminated manuscripts and single miniatures : including a fine initial S by Cristoforo Cortese, ca. 1420, two initials from an important Upper Rhenish choir book, ca. 1290, a splendid initial-letter portrait of King James I, 1603 : Continental and English literature : including the first and second Latin editions of Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio 1486, 1490, and first editions of Bembo, Casanova, Castiglione, Rousseau, Bacon, Boswell, Dryden, Gibbon, Hobbes, Johnson, Keats, Kipling, Lamb, Mesmer, Milton, Pope, Shelley, Swift, Trollope and Wordsworth : Autograph letters and manuscripts, musical manuscripts, the Gottschalk collection of autograph letters and manuscripts by Heinrich Heine and his circle (catalogue for an auction conducted by Christie's, London, 16 December 1991)

London, Christie's, 1991
(27 cm), 249 (5) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 435 lots. List of prices realised and buyers’ names loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The sale was dominated by the Gottschalk Heine collection; “all but two lots were bought by A. Rosenthal for the Heine Institut in Düsseldorf for a total of £450,150” (saleroom report in The Book Collector, Spring 1992, p.98). ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.

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