The library of Sir Karl Popper… including his private collection of antiquarian books, two letters to him by Einstein, his heavily annotated "master copies" of his own works, and his extensive working library (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 19 May 1995)
London, Sotheby's, 1995
(27 cm), 111 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 209 lots. Sale cancellation notice loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The library was sold en bloc in advance of the proposed auction to the Republic of Austria on behalf of the Karl-Popper-Sammlung at the University of Klagenfurt. The purchase price was approximately $1.05 million (ATS 11 million). Popper’s archive had been purchased by Stanford University in the 1980s. Cf. Manfred Lube, “Karl R. Popper: Die Bibliothek des Philosophen als Spiegel seines Lebens” in Imprimatur. Ein Jahrbuch für Bücherfreunde, N.F., volume 18 (2003), pp.207-238. ¶ Unmarked copy.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1995
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby's (London)
- Owners
- Popper, Karl Raimund, 1902-1994
- Auction date
- 19950519
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