Catalogue of Valuable Western and Oriental Illuminated Manuscripts, including a Very Fine and Rare Treves Psalter of the XIII Century, with full-page Miniatures on Gold Ground.. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 23 June, 1931 ]
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- Priced in pencil, generally with buyers noted, edges foxed, occasonal mild spotting to contents
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Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd June, 1931. Green printed wrappers 4to, 26 cm,. 28 pp, 15 plates (including 4 folding). 90 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: a very fine and rare Treves Psalter of the XIII Century, with full-page Miniatures on Gold Ground; a very fine XVI Century Shah-Nameh; an English vernacular manuscript of Mandevilles Voyages; Etc. from private collections in England, France and Germany. a Fine Block Book (Biblia Pauperum), the Property of a Nobleman; an important series of drawings of North American Scenery, collected by George, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, G.C.B., Governor of Canada, 1819-28, ..; the complete contemporary manuscript of Benjamin Franklin's famous examination before Parliament regarding the Stamp Act; and the original manuscript proposals for the Institution of the Society of the Cincinnati by Officers of the American Revolutionary Army signed by Baron Von Steuben at His Headquarters in 1783. Priced in pencil, generally with buyers noted, edges foxed, occasonal mild spotting to contents.
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- Title
- Catalogue of Valuable Western and Oriental Illuminated Manuscripts, including a Very Fine and Rare Treves Psalter of the XIII Century, with full-page Miniatures on Gold Ground.. [ Sotheby & Co., auction catalogue, sale date: 23 June, 1931 ]
- Author
- Sotheby & Co
- Format/Binding
- Green printed wrappers 4to, 26 cm,
- Book Condition
- Used - Priced in pencil, generally with buyers noted, edges foxed, occasonal mild spotting to contents
- Publisher
- Sotheby & Co., London, illustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 23rd June, 1931
- Date Published
- 1931
- Pages
- 28 pp, 15 plates (including 4 folding)
- Keywords
- Sotheby & Co. auction catalogue Dalhousie, George Ramsay Earl of 1770-1838 -- Library. Broun-Lindsay Mrs. -- Library
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We specialize chiefly in "books about books", the emphasis being on historical aspects of book collecting, production and distribution. A particular speciality is in bibliographies, of all subjects of interest to collectors, dealers and scholars, with several thousand bibliography titles in stock. Other strengths include extensive holdings of auction catalogues for book sales and a good selction of reference material on and facsimiles of illuminated manuscripts. We also have a special interest in rare material by or about Rudyard Kipling.
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