Description
Bonhams (Firm). Fine Books and Manuscripts. New York: Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corp., [Published date: 2011]. Softcover, 125 pp; illustrated throughout with color photographs; 27 cm.
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Condition & notes
In very good condition. Glossy color pictorial wraps featuring an illuminated page from St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei; light rubbing and edgewear; binding tight; pages clean and unmarked. Auction catalog for Sale 19239, held June 22, 2011, at Bonhams New York. Includes lots 1001-1434 across major collecting categories: Early Printed Books and Illuminated Manuscripts; Travel Literature; Natural History and Science; Sporting and Angling; Art and Illustration; Literature to 1900; Modern Literature; Americana; and World Figures and Events. Highlights include St. Augustine's De Civitate Dei (1468); Fibonacci's mathematical manuscript; Audubon's Birds of America; Einstein's unified field manuscript; Levaillant's African voyages; Melville's Moby-Dick; Foujita's A Book of Cats; and Schonegge's illustrated archive on footwear history.