| Corporate Author |
Christie, Manson & Woods |
| Title |
Catalogue of important Western and Oriental manuscripts, drawings and autograph letters and some printed books : the property of A.M.W. Curzon-Howe-Herrick, Esq., the Marquis of Dufferin and Ava, the Hon. Basil Feilding, G.M.T. Foljambe, Esq., H.S.H. Prince Nicolai Lieven, the Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, H.I.H. Prince Ali Vassib of Turkey, the Rt. Hon. Sir Henry Willink, Bt., and others ; including an early Timurid manuscript of Firdausi's Shahnama, c. 1436 ; a fine album of Indian paintings, Delhi, 1836 ; the original drawings of Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715 ; a large-paper copy of Redoutés 'Les roses' with the plates in two states, 1817-24 ; forty-six letters written by Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, 1787-96 ; a fine Flemish manuscript book of hours, c. 1460 ; the Herrick papers ; and the celebrated Warwick MSS of Sir Fulke Greville's Poems and dramas. |
| Publisher |
London : Christie, Manson & Woods, 1968 |
| Physical desc. |
68 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates ; illustrations (1 folded) ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
19/06/1968 |
| Includes loosely inserted compliments slip from Maggs Bros. Ltd. |
| Lot 8: Dufferin and Ava Shahnama. |
| Date & place of sale |
Wednesday 19 June 1968, London |
| Person as subject |
Curzon-Howe-Herrick, A.M.W. -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood -- Marquis of -- 1826-1902 -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Feilding, Basil -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Foljambe, G.M.T. -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Lieven, Nicolai -- Prince -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Vassib, Ali -- Prince -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Willink, H. U. (Henry Urmston) 1894-1973 -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Corporate name |
Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society (Great Britain) -- Library -- Catalogs |
| Subject |
Qur'an -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Shahnama -- Illustrations -- Catalogs |
| Rare books -- Catalogs |
| Engraving -- Catalogs |
| Illustrated books -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts -- Catalogs |
| Broadsides -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Arabic -- Catalogs |
| Manuscripts, Burmese -- Catalogs |
| Drawing, Chinese -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Iranian -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, Mogul Empire -- Catalogs |
| Illumination of books and manuscripts, European -- Catalogs |
| Islamic illumination of books and manuscripts -- Catalogs |
