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   The Prints of Hendrik Goltzius A Private European Collection

                                           LONDON

                                   Sale HERCULES

                             Tuesday 27th June 1989

                                        SOTHEBY'S

                       full illustrated catalog & price list

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                             Illuminated Manuscripts from 

           The Celebrated Library of The Late Major J.R.Abbey 

                              The Eleventh and Final Part

              Forty-Four Mnauscripts from c.1100 to 1762

      Sold by Order of the Trustees of the J.R. Abbey Will Trust

                                            LONDON 

                                Monday 19th June 1989

                                          SALE JULIUS

                                           SOTHEBY'S

         full illustrated catalog.price list with bidder's names

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                   Livres Anciens :: Livres Illustrés Modernes

                                           MONACO

                                         Sale SIRAH

                                 Vendredi 16 juin 1989

                                          SOTHEBY'S

                         illustrated catalog & liste des prix

                                              120FF

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                      The Library of H.Bradley Martin

                         Magnificent Color-Plate Ornithology

                                                 NEW YORK

                                              Sale RICHESSE

                                      Wednesday JUNE 7, 1989

                                                SOTHEBY'S

               illustrated catalog.price list without bidders names

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                     The Estate of Walter P. Chrysler,Jr. 

                  Old Master and 19th Century Paintings

                                            NEW YORK 

                                         Sale CHRYSLER

                                     Thursday,June 1,1989

                                           SOTHEBY'S

                          full illustrated catalog & sale results

                 $40 at the gallery. $45 by mail. $50 overseas

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                                 Les Vues de Sagan

                                        MONACO

                                     Vente SAGAN

                               Samedi 4 Mars 1989

                                       SOTHEBY'S

                    full illustrated catalog & liste des prix

                                           FF100

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                       Tableaux Anciens et du XIXe siècle

                                           MONACO

                                       Code Marinus

             Vendredi 2 Décembre et Samedi 3 Décembre 1988

                                         SOTHEBY'S

                         full illustrated catalog.brand new

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                        Dessins Anciens et du XIXe siècle

                                       MONACO

                                     Code Roma

                           Vendredi 2 Décembre 1988

                                      SOTHEBY'S

                   full illustrated catalog & liste des prix

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                             Livres Anciens et Modernes

                                          MONACO

                                    Code Petit-Bourg

                            Vendredi 2 Décembre 1988

                                         SOTHEBY'S

                           illustrated catalog.brand new

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                                            FRANZ KAFKA 

                           THE AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF 

                                   DER PROZESS::THE TRIAL

                                                LONDON

                           TURSDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 1988

                           during the second session of the

                          Sale 'FRANZ' beginning at 2:30 pm

                                           illustrations of

                                    1st page of manuscript

                                 the beginning of chapter VI

the end of chapter VII showing max brod's transcription of kafka's shorthand

                              the opening of the final chapter

                        part of the fragment 'fahrt zur mutter'

                           part of the fragment 'staatsanwalt'

                                              SOTHEBY'S

                 illustrated catalog.price list with bidders names

                       for estimate please refer to department

          in sending commissions this catalogue may be referred to 

                                                 as ''K''

                                       catalog included in

              MUSIC.CONTINENTAL BOOKS.SCIENCE & MEDICINE

                                             Sale ''FRANZ''

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Music.Continental Manuscripts & Printed Books.Science & Medicine

                                           including

            The Autograph Manuscript of Kafka's 'The Trial'

                                         comprising

            Printed Books.Autograph Letters & Manuscripts

                                               i.e.

               THE NINTH GERMAN BIBLE.NUREMBERG 1483

 THE FIRST SPANISH EDITION OF SENECA'S WORKS.SEVILLA 1491

             THE FIRST EDITION OF EUCLID'S Elementa 1482

 AN IMPORTANT SERIES OF EARLY POEMS BY BERTHOLT BRECHT

     AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED BY ALEXANDER PUSHKIN

 AN AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT OF PART OF BEETHOVEN'S Archduke Trio

 AN AUTOGRAPH DRAFT OF THE 'WEDDING MARCH' FROM WAGNER'S Lohengrin

                                          LONDON

                                        Sale 'FRANZ'

     THURSDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 1988 AT 11 AM AND 2.30PM

                  FRIDAY 18TH NOVEMBER 1988 AT 11AM

                                         SOTHEBY'S

            illustrated catalog.price list with bidders names

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                       Western Manuscripts and Miniatures

                                             LONDON 

                                             Sale JESSE

                              Tuesday 20th June 1989

including a two-volume manuscript of the Grandes Chroniques de France 

with 10 miniatures by the Virgil Master.Paris c.1410

an early gothic Psalter with 19 miniatures.Brabant c.1250-75

the charter of Godwine Earl of Kent to Leofwine the Red c.1013-20 in Anglo-Saxon

a long-lost portion of the seventh-century Rental of St.Martin's Abbey in Tours written in Merovingian cursive

documents and charters of King John.Philip Augustus.Ferdinand the Catholic.Sixtus IV.Leo X. and Philip II.

manuscripts and texts by Vegetius.St.Bernard.Wolfram von Eschenbach.Raymond of Penafort.Walter Burley and Michele Zopello.

cuttings from the Speculum Humanae Salvationis and of a Perugian Matricola both with miniatures.

five thirteenth-century Bibles.three Breviaries.twenty-one Books of Hours from the thirteenth century to 1568.

including examples from Paris.Lyons.Rouen.Tours.Tournai.Ghent.Bruges.Delft.Genoa and Bologna.

manuscripts formerly in the libraries of Pope Calixtus III.Archbishop Thomas Rotherham.

the Wizard Earl of Northumberland.Prince Fürstenberg.Baron Wolkenstein.the King of Spain.the Duke of Wellington.

Apostolo Zeno.Ambroise Firmin-Didot.Sir Thomas Phillipps.Manuel Johnson.the Tarleton family.

and the Church of St.Michael in Temamang in the province of Gojam.

manuscripts in Latin.Greek.Anglo-Saxon.Middle-English.French.German.

Dutch.Italian.Spanish.Church Slavonic.Coptic.Arabic and Ge'ez

                                             SOTHEBY'S

         full illustrated catalog & sale results with bidders names

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                    Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures

                                             LONDON 

                                           Sale QUARA

                              Tuesday 10th April 1989

Indian miniatures from the 16th to the 20th century including seventeen bird drawings from

the collection of Lord Valentia.Company school.Calcutta c.1803

a miniature depicting an ascetic reverend by a female devotee.Mughal.mid-seventeenth century.

an illustration to the Mahabharata with Vishnu disguised as Mohini decapitating Rahu with a discus.Guler 1745

Persian and Turkish miniatures including an album containing

seventy watercolour drawings of Turkish costumes.Ottoman.eighteenth century.

a painting depicting a performance of the Mevlevi ritual at Galata on the 24th July 1888.Ottoman c.1888

Calligraphy.illumination and firmans from the 13th century to the 19th century including an

illuminated tughra of Sultan Selim II.Constantinople c.1567.

an illuminated tughra of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent.Ottoman c.1560

waqfiyyah of Sokollu Mehmed Pascha with tughra of Sultan Selim II in gold.Ottoman c.1571-1573

Qur'ans and Qur'an leaves from the 9th century to the 19th century including a vellum Qur'an leaf in kufic in gold.

with an illuminated sura heading  the Great Mosque.Qairawan.tenth century.

a Qur'an section written in gold.Seljuk.thirteenth century.

a richly illuminated Qur'an written in alternating blue and gold.Safavid c.1550.

a Qur'an attributed to Ahmed Quarahisari.Ottoman mid-sixteenth century

Arabic.Persian and Turkish manuscripts from the 13th to the 19th century including a manuscript of

Firdausi's Shahnama illustrated with twenty-five miniatures.Qazwin c.1560-1565

a manuscript of Kashifi's Anwar Suhaili illustrated with one hundred and nine miniatures.Multan.India dated 1791

                                           SOTHEBY'S

         full illustrated catalog & sale results without bidders names

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     Books from the John Rylands University Library of Manchester

                                             LONDON

                                     Sale DEANSGATE

                                Thustday 14th April 1988

                                          SOTHEBY'S

                          full illustrated catalog & price list

                          currency exchange rates 14.4.88

                                       US $            1.94

                                       D.Mark         3.31

                                       French F.   11.17

                                        Yen         249.90

                                       Lire        2430.66

                                      Swiss F.        2.74

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Old Master Prints from the Collection of the late Dr. Albert W. Blum

                                             NEW YORK 

                                             Sale RHINE

                              Saturday, February 27, 1988

                                             SOTHEBY'S

                        full illustrated catalog & sale results

                 $25 at the gallery. $27 by mail. $32 overseas

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                 A Magnificent Collection of Botanical Books      

             BEING THE FINEST COLOUR-PLATE BOOKS FROM 

       THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY FORMED BY ROBERT DE BELDER      

                Consigned for Sale by Bernard Quaritch Ltd.

                                               LONDON

                                       Sale FLORILEGIUM

                                  Monday 27th April 1987

                                  Tuesday 28th April 1987      

                 

                                              SOTHEBY'S

                         Auctioneers of Literary Property and 

                           Works Illustrative of the Fine Arts

                          Full Illustrated Catalog & Price List

                                                GBP 30

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                         The Distinguished Collection of

                               REMBRANDT ETCHINGS

                                          formed by

                         GORDON W. NOWELL-USTICKE

                      Sold by Order of the Present Owner

                                          PART ONE

                                       Public Auction

                               Tuesday and Wednesday

                             October 31 and November 1

                         PARKE - BERNET GALLERIES.INC

                  [Affiliated with SOTHEBY & Co London]

                                            New York 

                                                1967

                                 full illustrated catalog.

                with handwritten list of bidders and prices

                                                    ::

                       The Distinguished Collection of

                               REMBRANDT ETCHINGS

                                          formed by

                         GORDON W. NOWELL-USTICKE

                      Sold by Order of the Present Owner

                                          PART TWO

                                       Public Auction

                               Tuesday and Wednesday

                             October 31 and November 1

                         PARKE - BERNET GALLERIES.INC

                  [Affiliated with SOTHEBY & Co London]

                                            New York 

                                                1967

                                            Title Page

                                   full illustrated catalog.

                with handwritten list of bidders and prices

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