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Music, Continental And Russian Books And Manuscripts
20 November 2014 • London
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207 lots
  • 13. Fröbel, Friedrich Wilhelm August
    Die Menschenerziehung, die Erziehungs-, Unterrichts- und Lehrkunst, angestrebt in der allgemeinen deutschen Erziehungsanstalt zu Keilhau... Erster Band [all published]. Keilhau: Verlag der allgemeinen deutschen Erziehungsanstalt (Rudolstadt: Fröbel), 1826
    Estimate: 2,000 – 3,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 14. Gide, André
    Les contemporains. Études. Portraits. Documents. Biographies: André Gide. Paris: Éditions du Capitole, 1928
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 15. Giegher, Mattia
    Li tre trattati... nel primo si mostra... il modo di piegare ogni sorte di panni lini... Nel secondo, intitolato lo Scalco, s'insegna... la maniera di mettere in tavola le vivande... Nel terzo, detto il Trinciante, s'insegna il modo di trinciare ogni sorte di vivande... Padua: Paolo Frambotto, 1639
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 16. Gilliers, Joseph
    Le cannaméliste français, ou nouvelle instruction pour ceux qui désirent d'apprendre l'office, rédigé en forme de dictionnaire. Nancy: Abel-Denis Cusson, 1751
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 17. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
    Important series of thirty-nine letters signed (two entirely autograph), and two letters by his son Julius August von Goethe, to Joseph Sebastian Grüner, mainly about mineralogy, paleontology and literature, and including, in his final letter, written a week before his death, a summary of his philosophy of science
    Estimate: 80,000 – 100,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 18. Grotius, Hugo
    La vérité de la réligion chrestienne [translated by F. Eudes de Mézeray]. Paris: Pierre Moreau ("m[aistr]e escrivain à Paris"), and sold by F. Rouvelin, [1644]
    Estimate: 3,000 – 5,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 19. Winslow Homer
    Ilias [translated by Lorenzo Valla]. Brescia: Baptista Farfengus, for Franciscus Laurinus, 6 September 1497
    Estimate: 10,000 – 15,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 20. Hugo de Sancto Caro
    Postilla super Psalterium. Venice: Joannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, for Stephanus and Bernardinus de Nallis, 12 November 1496
    Estimate: 1,500 – 2,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 21. [Edited by Matthias Farinator]. [Strassburg: Printer of the 1481 Legenda Aurea], 22 March 1482
    Estimate: 3,000 – 4,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 22. Kerssenbrock, Hermann von
    Fine seventeenth-century manuscript of "Anabaptistici furoris inclitam Westphaliae Metropolim evertentis historica Naratio" [History of the Anabaptist Madness that Overthrew the Famous City of Münster in Westphalia]
    Estimate: 4,000 – 6,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 23. Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France
    Unsigned autograph letter to the Comte de La Luzerne, written in the third person, [about the envoys of Tipu Sultan]
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED
  • 24. Merian, Matthaeus
    Todten-Tantz, wie derselbe in der löblichen und weitberühmten Statt Basel als ein Spiegel Menschlicher Beschaffenheit... Frankfurt: [Merian], 1649
    Estimate: 5,000 – 7,000 GBP
    BIDDING IS CLOSED