Illuminated manuscripts and single miniatures ... continental and English literature ... autograph letters and manuscripts ... musical manuscripts ... the Gottschalk collection of autograph letters and manuscripts by Heinrich Heine and his circle. [ Christie's, auction catalogue, sale date: 16 December, 1991 ]

Christie's, London, auction catalogue for the sale held on 16th December, 1991. Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to,. 249 pp, plates (some in colour). 435 lots. Among the highlights noted were the following: Illuminated Manuscripts and Single Miniatures including: A fine Initial S by Christoforo Cortese, ca. 1420; Two Initials from an important Upper Rhenish Choir Book, ca. 1290; A splendid initial-letter portrait of King James I, 1603. Continental and English Literature including: The first and second Latin editions of Breydenbach's Peregrinatio 1486, 1490 and first editions of Bembo, Casanova, Castiglione, Rousseau, Bacon, Boswell, Dryden, Gibbon Hobbes, Johnson, Keats, Kipling, Lamb, Mesmer, Milton, Pope, Shelley, Swift, Trollope and Wordsworth. Autograph Letters and Manuscripts ncluding: The first draft of Sean O'Casey's Cock-a-Doodle Dandy; and correspondence of Beckett, Bums, Degas, Dickens, Gandhi, Lord Grenville, Dr. Johnson, Lamb, Livingstone, Malevich, Napoleon, Orwell, Rasputin, Rilke, Wordsworth. Musical Manuscripts including: The complete archive of three generations of the Marchesi Family; The full score of Mendelssohn's Elijah.The Gottschalk Collection of Autograph Letters and Manuscripts by Heinrich Heine and his Circle. Near Very Good. List of prices realized and buyers' names laid in.