Continental books and manuscripts [other title:] Printed books; books printed before 1501; nine books from the Pillone library; books printed after 1500; Hebraica; science and medicine; correspondence with André Rousseaux (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby's, London, 25 May 2000)
London, Sotheby's, 2000
(27 cm), 140 pp., illustrations (some in colour). 210 lots. Price list loosely inserted. Publisher’s printed wrappers. - The sale included a group of eighty-eight incunables, the best (lot 49) Jordanus de Quedlinburg Meditationes de vita et passione Christi (Lübeck 1494), bought by Pickering & Chatto for Percy Nils Barnevik. Barnevik also bought the nine Pillone books with painted fore-edges or pen and ink drawings on vellum covers (lots 89-97), through the agency of Pierre Berès. Saleroom report in The Book Collector, Autumn 2000, p.406. ¶ Annotated copy, partly priced.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 2000
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby's (London)
- Auction date
- 20000525
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