Valuable Manuscripts and Printed Books. [ Christie's, auction catalogue, sale date: 24 November, 1993 ]

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 24th November, 1993. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 154 pp, numerous plates (including several in colour). 150 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: The first book from the Aldine Press (Venice: 1495); Important Incunabula and Early Greek Printing from the Collection formed in the 18th Century by Sir George Shuckburgh; Cicero, Of Old Age, printed by William Caxton (Westminster: 1481); First Editions of Holbein's Dance of Death (1538), Le Giroufflier aux Dames (ca. 1505); Milton's Of Education to Master Samuel Harttib (1644), Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776); Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1811) and Pride and Prejudice (1813); The Dutch edition of Blaeu's Theatrum (1648-50); The Bragadin Press's Ashkenazic Mahzor (1711-15), containing Moses Hayyim Luzzatto's autograph manuscript of his important Kavvanot; Horace, De arte poetica, manuscript on vellum (Italy, early 14th Century); A finely illuminated Genealogy of Charles, first Comte de Nesle (ca. 1466); An important Armenian illuminated manuscript of the Gospels (1669); Autograph manuscripts of Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon and Jean Calvin. Scribbled notes to margins, otherwise near Very Good.