Catalogue of a Collection of Highly Important Oriental Carpets, Part I by Sotheby & Co - 1969

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1979.. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Sotheby's Estimates, Bidding Slip, and Price List are all laid in. (Numismatics, Coin Collecting, Auctions)

London: Sotheby & Co, 1974. Very Good condition. Mild corner bump. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Sotheby & Co. auction sale catalogue 21-22 Oct 1974. London. Lots #497-997. Illustrated in the text plus 17 plates on coated paper. The second in a series of seven parts that comprise the finest collection of children's books ever to be offered at auction. A useful tool with many informative annotations and expert descriptions. Bound in the original green wraps. Prices realized laid in. 7.25" wide by 19.75" tall. . First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 117pp. + plates xv-xxxii. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1979.. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (coins, antiquities, auction catalogs) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Sotheby & Co., Zurich, auction catalogue for the sale held on 5th November, 1975. Printed wrappers, small 4to,. [xviii], 128, [4] pp, many plates. 38 lots. The 38 extremely distinguished MSS included : the Damascus Pentateuch, a Spanish Pentateuch XXXlagiographa and Haftoroth 1468; a Samaritan BilXXX perhaps the oldest known text outside Nablus; an autograph manuscript of Maimonides, the greatest Jewish philosoper and codifier of the Middle Ages, as well as two highly important 14th century MSS. Of his famous code ‘Mishne Torah', one Spanish and one German, containing many variants from printed editions, also his chief philosophic work 'The Guide to the Perplexed', with the arms of the King of Leon and Castille, the only known Hebrew manuscript written and illuminated for royalty. Also included are two tenth century manuscripts from Palestine, an important fragment of the Mishnah with vowel accents (lot 21), and stories from the Talmud, with Judaeo-Arabic translation, one of the… Read More

Sotheby & Co., London, unillustrated auction catalogue for the sale held on 11th June 1963. Yellow printed wrappers, small 4to,. 31 pp. 49 lots. From Herrmann: 'Sotheby's Portrait of an Auction House': "Also in June there occurred the sale of the 'immensely important' collection of Impressionists of the late William Cargill of Carruth, Bridge of Weir, Scotland. In his collecting he had progressed cautiously from an early interest in Fantin- Latour (there was a group of eight flower paintings) and Corot, to Monet and Renoir, who were both still regarded as rather an advanced obsession in the 1920s. A Degas pastel, Danseuse Basculante, for which Cargill had paid £4,200 in 1928, now fetched £105,000, and Pissarro's Charing Cross Bridge of 1890, which had cost £2,600 in 1937, sold for £47,000. There were also four fine Renoirs, a Brittany Gauguin, two Monets, two Seurats and a Van Gogh." From the introduction - "Of the collections formed… Read More

London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co, 1976. Very Good condition. Spine a bit sun faded. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked. Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. auction sale catalogue, 21-22 October, 1976. Lots #1485-1993. Illustrated in the text plus 14 plates. The fourth sale of seven. A valuable reference, cross referenced when applicable to Gumuchian, Osborne, Moon, Roscoe, etc. A useful tool with many informative annotations and expert descriptions. Bound in the original green wraps. Prices realized laid in. 7.25" wide by 19.5" tall.. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. 96pp. + plates XLIII - LVI. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

[London]: Sotheby & Co., 1973. NOT a library discard. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition in a Near Very Good dust jacket. The jacket is only lightly rubbed, with a little soil/spotting. NO chips. NO creases. NO fading. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. 1973 copyright. First Edition. Part I only. Day of sale: Tuesday 26th March 1974. 399 illustrations, 21 in full color. Numerous fold-outs, all in perfect condition. Bound in the original green boards, stamped in bright silver and dark green. 8.75" wide by 12" tall by 1.75" thick. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail.. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition/Near Very Good DJ (light soil). xi, 382pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, auction catalogues for the series of six sales held from 1st-2nd July, 1974 to 13th-14th October, 1977. 6 vols, printed wrappers, small 4to,. 103 + 117 + 116 + 96 + 106 +127 pp, 84 plates, ills. 2951 lots. A complete set of catalogues for this major series of sales of children's books, The collection was that of Edgar oppenheimer, the foundation of which had been the books brought together by Percy muir for the National Book League 1946 exhibition "Children'sBooks of Yesterday". Among the highlights noted were the following: numerous works by Newbery, a wide variety of Battledores including a New Invented Hornbook [c. 1770-75] and the Aunt's Gift, 1795; and extensive groups of Chapbooks by Houlston, Kendrew, Marsden, Rusher, Walker and others; extensive groups of books by Thomas Day, Mary Elliott, and Lady Eleanor Fenn; various editions of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe; a comprehensive set of Fuller's cut-out costume books; an extensive… Read More