Author: SOTHEBY'S
Title: Continental Books, Manuscripts and Music Including Boccaccio, Decamerone, Ninth Edition, Venice, 1484 Bound with Masuccio Novellino, Venice 1484... Day of Sale Thursday, 22nd November, 1984... 23rd November, 1984
Description: London: Sotheby's, 1984. First Edition; First Edition. Softcover (Perfect Bound). 555 lots. With b/w & coloured plates & illustrations. Annotation in pencil on title page. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. ; Quarto; Continental Books, Manuscripts and Music including Boccaccio, Decamerone, ninth edition, Venice, 1484 bound with Masuccio Novellino, Venice 1484; Homer, Odyssea in a contemporary Parisian binding for Thomas Maioli, Paris, 1538; Roswitha, Opera, Nuremberg, 1501; nd other incunabula and early printed books including an extensive collection of German Bibles dating from 1483; an important collection of letters, printed and manuscript poems by C. P. Cavafy; an early letter by Napoleon to his mother; Toulouse-Lautrec's Latin dictionary; autograph manuscript of part of Offenbach's 'Tales of Hoffmann'; autograph manuscript of Massenet's 'HÄrodiade'; with letters and manuscripts by Andersen, Baudelaire, Bolivar, CÄline, Queen Guillotin, Hegel, Heine, Hesse, Marie Antoinette, Maria Theresa, Munch, Napoleon (Series) , Pasteur, Schiele, Charlotte von Schiller, Voltaire (including a sketch from the life by Hubert) , Wilhelm II and Zola; J. S. Bach, Berg, Bernstein, Brahms, Britten, Casella, Chopin, DÄlibes, Donizetti, Elgar, Ellington, Falla, Grieg, Haydn, Liszt, Mahler, Mayr, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Puccini, Ravel, Rossini, Saint-Saaens, Spohr, Richard Strauss, Verdi, Wagner and Hugo Wolf. Day of Sale Thursday, 22nd November, 1984 ... 23rd November, 1984. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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