Auction 70: Details
Highlights of auction 70
Les roses. Déscrites par C.A. Thorry. Paris, Panckoucke, 1824-26. Gr.8°. With 160 subcolor color plates. 2 Bl., 4 pp., 198 Bl. Pbde. d. Zt. m. 2 red. Rsch. (Kl. Fehlst., shaved).
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Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société des gens de lettres. Seconde édition enrichie de notes, & donnée au public. 28 Bde. (17 Textbde. u. 11 Tafelbde). Lucca, V.Giuntini 1758-1775. Fol. Mit gest. Front. (im le. Tafelbd. eingebunden) u. 2796 tls. gefalt. Kupfertaf. Prgtbde. d. Zt. (Gereinigt, Gebrauchsspuren, Kap. tls. läd.).
of approximately 40000 wood engravings (estimated and not counted) taken from books and magazines; Mostly 19th century.
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Matthäus Evangelium. Bln., Käthe Vogt 1961. Fol. 37 Bl. Orig.-Lithogr. von Otto Dix, alle hs. num. u. sign. 1 Bl. Lose in Ohlwd.-Mappe.
(1894 Aachen - Haut-de-Cagnes/Nice 1970). Schiffers-Davringhausen (folder hs. titled: Arno (Schiffers), Davringh). With 89 drawings (mostly coal or black chalk, 2 with watercolor, 21 ink drawings, 2 color). Kreidezeichn., 1 oil on kart.), probably mainly 1920s, probably partly by Arno Schiffers and partly by Heinrich Maria Davringhausen. None of the drawings are signed, few with (later) attribution or endorsement, some with text. Some of the drawings on the back of unused sheets (H.B. Schiffers,...
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Chapter 1: Old and rare books, manuscripts
Chapter 2: Genealogy, heraldry, politics, economics
Chapter 3: Varia (movie-theatre-dance, freemasonry, judaica, occultism, military,
Chapter 9: Literature and illustrated books 19th century
Chapter 10: Modern literature and illustrated books 20th century
Chapter 11: Natural sciences and technics
Chapter 12: Geography - travel - history