Description
Christie's Printed Books and Manuscripts including Literature and Fine Bindings, New York, Friday, October 7, 1994, Sale No. VAILIMA-7964. Auction Catalogue, paper covers, 141 pp. Contents include descriptions and estimate ranges for 200 lots as follows: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts (lots 1-11), Fine Bindings and Private Press Books (12-33); General Printed Books and Manuscripts Including Literature (34-142); The Property of Miss Frances H. Jones. Several with black and white illustrations and a few in colour.
Condition & notes
In good condition. Black and white illustrated paper cover have a 1/2" tear to the paper over the bottom of the spine and light bumping and creasing to edges and corners. light overall scuffing to covers . as well. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Highlights include a Latin Bible 1st half of 13th century, five Books of Hours; Sangorski & Sutcliffe, binders, Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Longfellow's "Selections"; Reginald B. Burch drawings for Burnett's Little Lord Fauntleroy; E. W. Kemble Sketches; Anthony Trollope's autographed manuscript of North America; Jules Verne autograph manuscript of Journey to the center of the Earth; Oscar Wilde autograph manuscript "The Model Millionaire"; books on Witchcraft; Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy, James Henry, Robert Lewis Stevenson.
