Manuscrits & Autographes

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Autograph manuscript of his poem ['Les Ballons'] (untitled herein), comprising 16 lines in four-line stanzas, preserving some otherwise unrecorded readings, 1 page, small quarto, watermarked 'B.O. LV. ye Antient Roman Writing Paper', loose in a paperbook (no watermarks) bound in olive green morocco gilt by Wood, London, with Wilde's signature reproduced on the front cover, bookplate of John B. Stetson Jr., [Paris?, no date, but c. 1883-1887]. Photo Bonhams The manuscript of one... [Lire la suite]

Dess Alten Testaments Mittler: Dess Neuen Testaments Mittler, Johanna Christina (or Christiana) Küsel (born 1665, active until about 1700), designer, and Maria Magdalena Küsel (active about 1688-1702), engraver l Augsburg, about 1690, 5.7 x 5 cm. Contemporary silver plaques and clasps on later (19th century?) leather binding. The Samuel Courtauld Trust: Gambier-Parry bequest, 1966 LONDON - The third display in the Illuminating Objects programme at The Courtauld Gallery focuses on the German... [Lire la suite]

Penelope jacutinga. Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX t.2 Monachii :Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni,1824-1825. Biodiversitylibrary. Biodivlibrary. BHL. Biodiversity Heritage Library

Crax globulosa. Avium species novae, quas in itinere per Brasiliam annis MDCCCXVII-MDCCCXX t.2 Monachii :Typis Franc. Seraph. Hübschmanni,1824-1825. Biodiversitylibrary. Biodivlibrary. BHL. Biodiversity Heritage Library

Kingfisher. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification London :W. & R. Chambers,1909. Biodiversitylibrary. Biodivlibrary. BHL. Biodiversity Heritage Library

Hoopoe. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification London :W. & R. Chambers,1909. Biodiversitylibrary. Biodivlibrary. BHL. Biodiversity Heritage Library

Insecta maderensia: being an account of the insects of the islands of the Madeiran group. London, J. Van Voorst,1854. Biodiversitylibrary. Biodivlibrary. BHL. Biodiversity Heritage Library Insecta maderensia: being an account of the insects of the islands of the Madeiran group. London, J. Van Voorst,1854. Biodiversitylibrary. Biodivlibrary. BHL. Biodiversity Heritage Library

This manuscript, now known as the Queen Mary Psalter, embellished with over one thousand images, is one of the most extensively illustrated Psalters ever produced in Western Europe. Confiscated at the border by a custom official Baldwin Smith, it was presented by him to the Catholic Queen Mary Tudor in 1553, the year she ascended to the throne. The image shows the tree of Jesse London (?), c. 1310–20 This 13th century Flemish Psalter, another survivor of Edwardian purges, was presented to Queen Mary Tudor by a London grocer... [Lire la suite]

Plan de de l’action de Gloucester, pendant la Guerre d’Indépendance américaine, le 25 novembre 1777 entre Lafayette et un corps de l’armée de Lord Cornowalis. Estimate: 60 000/80 000 €. Photo: Sotheby’s/ArtDigital Studio. PARIS.- Sotheby’s announced the sale of the Library of the Ducs de Luynes from the Château of Dampierre – one of the most important private libraries in France. The sale runs to nearly 1000 lots, charting the history of an illustrious family intimately linked to the history of France since the 17th century. Most... [Lire la suite]

Louis de Gruuthuse's copy of the Deeds of Sir Gillion de Trazegnies in the Middle East, in French, illuminated manuscript on vellum [southern Netherlands (Antwerp or perhaps Bruges), dated 1464] - Photo Sotheby's 237 leaves (1 blank), plus six modern vellum endleaves, 375mm. by 262mm., contemporary foliation in red in top-right hand corner of page, wanting a gathering after fol. 23 and a number of single leaves throughout, collation: i6(one blank, 2 further blanks cancelled at end), ii8, iii7 (wanting... [Lire la suite]