Continental books, manuscripts and music ... : day of sale: Thursday, 22nd November, 1984 ...; Friday, 23rd November, 1984 ... Sotheby's ..., 34-35 New Bond St. London W1A 2AA.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sotheby's (Firm)

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Catalogs.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Sotheby's, 1984.

Notes:

555 lots.

Sale code: INK.

Includes estimates.

Place of sale: London.

" ... including Boccaccio, Decamerone, ninth edition, Venice, 1484 bound with Masuccio Novellino, Venice 1484; Homer, Odyssea, in a contemporary Parisian binding for Thomas Maioli, Paris, 1538; Roswitha, Opera, Nuremburg, 1501; and other incunabula and early printed books including an extensive collection of German bibles dating from 1483; an important collection of letters, printed and manuscript poems by C.P. Cavafy; an early letter by Napoleon to his mother; Toulouse-Lautrec's Latin dictionary; autograph manuscript of the first movement of Schumann's 'Phantasie' Op. 17; autograph manuscript of Massenet's 'Hérodiade'; with letters and manuscripts by Andersen, Baudelaire, Bolívar, Céline, Queen Christina, Fichte, Frederick the Great (series), Freud, Goethe (series), Guillotin, Hegel, Heine, Hesse, Marie Antoinette, Maria Theresa, Munch, Napoleon (series), Pasteur, Schiele, Charlotte von Schiller, Voltaire (including a sketch from the life by Hubert), Wilhelm II and Zola; J.S. Bach, Berg, Bernstein, Brahams, Britten, Casella, Chopin, Délibes, Donizetti, Elgar, Ellington, Falla, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Mayr, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganni, Puccini, Ravel, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Spohr, Richard Strauss, Verdi, Wagner and Hugo Wolf."

OCLC:

171493888

Publisher Number:

INK