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Heading: (Rare Books Reference)
Author:
Title: The Collection of The Garden Ltd., Magnificent Books and Manuscripts at Sotheby's
Place Published: New York
Publisher:
Date Published: 1989
Description:

The Collection of The Garden Ltd., Magnificent Books and Manuscripts (Sotheby’s, NY, November 1989) Original cloth. 9 x 12”. Approximately unnumbered 300 pages plus index. Profusely illustrated in color and black-and-white.

With prices-realized list tipped in. Fine printing of an auction catalogue, the 308 lots sold comprising an incredible collection of rarities, from an ancient Egyptian illuminated manuscript and a Gutenberg Bible to rare printings of Galileo, Dante, Pascal, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Bacon, Milton, Spinoza, Newton, Melville, Nietzsche, Darwin, Whitman, Joyce, T.S.Eliot, and T.E.Lawrence. The top prices paid were $2 million for all Four Folios of Shakespeare and $1.65 million for the first edition of Don Quixote. A beautifully-produced catalogue.