Continental books and manuscripts [other title:] Autograph letter signed by Niccolò Machiavelli; important early autograph letter signed by Napoleon; printed books, science and medicine, food and drink; pre-1600 binding for Jean Grolier, binding for Cardinal Filippo dalla Sega, binding for Giovanni Battista Grimaldi; 1600-1800, Torelli, theatre designs for Bellerofonte 1642 (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's London, 17 June 1999)
London, Sotheby's, 1999
(27 cm), 164 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 339 lots. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - Two fine bindings, Grolier’s copy of Acta scitu dignissima Constantiensis Concilii (Milan 1511), bound by his ‘Last Binder’, and Thucydides in Italian translation (Venice 1545), bound for Grimaldi by ‘Maestro Luigi’, made £130,000 and £95,000 respectively (the Thucydides reappeared in Sotheby’s New York disposal of the Freilich collection, 10-11 January 2011, realising $140,00/£96,550). The book of Giacomo Torelli’s stage designs for II Bellerofonte, Venice, 1642, printed on vellum and coloured, in contemporary dark red velvet, went for £160,000. Saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 1999, p.422. Named consignors include Marquis de Ganay, Terence Hodgkinson. ¶ Annotated, partly priced.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1999
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby's (London)
- Auction date
- 19990617
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