Illuminated manuscripts and single miniatures, continental and English literature, autograph letters and manuscripts, musical manuscripts, the Gottschalk collection of autograph letters and manuscripts by Heinrich Heine and his circle
Subtitle: Monday, 16 December 1991 ... (lot 333 see separate catalogue) ... Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd., 8 King Street, St. James's, London, SW1Y 6QT
Publisher: Christie, Manson & Woods ltd.
Published: 1991
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Notes: 435 lots.

Sale code: BLANCHE-4650.

Each lot with price estimate.

" ... including: A fine initial S by Christoforo Cortese,ca.1420, two initials from an important Upper Rhenish choir book, ca. 1290, a splendid initial-letter portrait of King James I, 1603 ..., including: the first and second Latin editions of Breydenbach's Pererinatio 1486, 1490, and first editions of Bembo, Casanova, Castiglione, Rousseau, Bacon, Boswell, Dryden, Gibbon, Hobbes, Johnson, Keats, Kipling, Lamb, Mesmer, Milton, Pope, Shelley, Swift, Trollope and Wordsworth ..., including: the first draft of Sean O'Casey's Cock-a-Doodle-Dandy and correspondence of Beckett, Burns, Degas, Dickens, Gandhi, Lord Grenville, Dr. Johnson, Lamb, Livingstone, Malevich, Napoleon, Orwell, ...

...Rasputin, Rilke, Wordsworth, the complete archive of three generati ons of the Marchesi family, the full score of Mendelssohn's Elijah."

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: December 16, 1991.