Sotheby's (London)
Music, Continental manuscripts and printed books, science and medicine : Comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts including autograph manuscript of the Overture “in the Italian style” by Schubert; autograph manuscript of revisions for Beethoven’s Ninth symphony; autograph manuscript of an early and apparently unrecorded version of Jean Genet’s Les nègres; letters written by the Russian Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Marie and Anastasia during their captivity; Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s photograph albums; papers of the naturalist Jean-Henri Fabre; Anthologia graeca planudea, Florence, 1494, printed on vellum (catalogue of an auction sale conducted by Sotheby's, London, 5-6 May 1988)
London, Sotheby's, 1988
£ 18