The collection of Otto Schäfer. Part IV: the Hans Fürstenburg collection of eighteenth-century French books (catalogue for an auction conducted by Sotheby’s, London, 7-8 December 1995)
London, Sotheby’s, 1995
(27 cm), 340 pp., illustrations. 668 lots. List of prices realised loosely inserted. Addenda loosely inserted (additional lots 666-668). Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. - This collection, assembled by Hans Fürstenberg (1890-1982), had been acquired en bloc by Otto Schäfer in 1972. Cf. B.H. Breslauer, “Jean Furstenberg, 1890-1982: portrait of a bibliophile” in The Book Collector, volume 31 (1982), pp.427-444. ¶ Annotated copy.
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- Subjects
- Auction sale catalogues - Books - 1995
- Printing - France, 1701-1800 - Collections
- Authors/Creators
- Sotheby's (London)
- Owners
- Dr Otto-Schäfer-Stiftung e.V.
- Fürstenberg, Hans, 1890-1982
- Schäfer, Otto, 1912-2000
- Auction date
- 19951207
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