Sotheby's (London)
Music, Continental manuscripts and printed books : Including the autograph full-score of the overture to Schubert’s Fierabras; the autograph draft of the overture to Wagner’s Tannhäuser; archive of autograph manuscripts of Wolf-Ferrari; autograph manuscript of part of Chopin’s Variations on “La ci darem la mano”; the inventory of the Empress Josephine’s possessions made after her death; an important series of letters by Jorge Luis Borges; a fine series of letters of the Empress Maria Theresa; Napoleonic material from the collection of the late Baron Verheyden de Lancey; the Fairfax Murray copy of Eruditorium Penitentiale, Paris, 1487; an exceptional seventeenth-century collector’s volume of calligraphic and architectural books, prints and drawings; a collection of three first editions of Ronsard’s works in their original binding; the first edition, second issue of the Communist Manifesto (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Sotheby's, London, 28 May 1986)
London, Sotheby's, 1986
£ 18