Valuable printed books and manuscripts : Including Jean de Vignay’s Les Epistres et Les Evangiles, illuminated manuscript of c. 1400; Hours of Jean I Ferrières de Presle, Chamberlain of Pierre de Beaujeu; Bifolium from a blockbook Biblia Pauperum; A fine group from the Pillone Library with their fore-edges painted by Cesare Vecellio; Early Folio and Quarto Editions of Shakespeare Plays and Poems; A Polychrome Parisian binding for Thomas Maheiu; The Autograph Working Manuscript of Goldoni’s Il Talismano; A Letter signed by Mary Queen of Scots to James, Earl of Bothwell (catalogue for an auction sale conducted by Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 3 June 1998)
London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1998
(27 cm), 207 (19) pp., illustrations (some in colour). 206 lots. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Included was a fine group of eighteen Pillone Library books (lots 70-86), from the collection of Bartolomé March. Among books from the Knowsley Library, sold following the death of the 18th Earl of Derby, was a tract volume (lot 191) containing the Pavier quartos of Henry the fift (“1608”, i.e 1619) and A Yorkshire Tragedie (1619), which sold for £70,000 (Stephen Massey). ¶ Annotations, partly priced.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1998
- Authors/Creators
- Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd (London)
- Owners
- Derby, Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of, 1918-1994
- March Servera, Bartolomé, 1917-1998
- Pillone, Giorgio, 1539-1611
- Pillone, Odorico, 1503-1594
- Auction date
- 19980603
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