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FINE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF KING UMBERTO II OF ITALY -

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FINE ORIENTAL MANUSCRIPTS AND MINIATURES INCLUDING PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF KING UMBERTO II OF ITALY

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London: Sotheby's, 1984. stiff paper wrappers. Miniatures. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Auction, October 15, 1984, of mainly Indian, Persian and Turkish items. Includes Quran leaf possibly dating back to 7th/8th century. 369 lots. Color illustration on front wrapper. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Advertising brochure laid in. Ink stamp on title page.
  • Bookseller Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press US (US)
  • Illustrator Miniatures
  • Format/Binding Stiff paper wrappers
  • Book Condition Used
  • Quantity Available 1
  • Publisher Sotheby's
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1984

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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 ]

by Sotheby & Co

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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.… Read More
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