Fine Books and Manuscripts Including A Private Collection of Historical Hawaiiana
Catalogue Information: 288 lots | 184 with images
Date: 2006
Auction House:
Sotheby's
Location:
USA
Lot 1: BEETHOVEN, LUDWIG VAN
PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTORAutograph letter signed ("Beethoven"), 3 pages (9 3/8 x 8 3/8 in.; 239 x 214 mm), in German, [Vienna, shortly after 26 September 1826] to Ignaz Czapka regarding Beethoven's nephew, Karl, who had recently attempted sui [...more]
Lot 2: CATHERINE OF ARAGON, QUEEN OF HENRY VIII OF ENGLAND
Extraordinary autograph letter signed ("Katherina") 3 pages (12 x 8 1/2 in.; 301 x 216 mm) , in Spanish, Buckden, 8 February 1534, addressed to "the most High and powerful lord, the Emperor and King my nephew" (Holy Roman Emperor Charles V), entirely [...more]
Lot 3: CHARLES V, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR
Letter signed ("El Rey"), one page (13 x 11 3/4 in.; 330 x 299 mm, sight), Saragossa, 16 April 1529, to Pope Clement VII, requesting him to renew an earlier brief so that "the Inquisitors of heretical depravity may try those found guilty of the nefar [...more]
Lot 4: CHOPIN, FREDERIC
Fine autograph letter signed ('Ch."), 3 pages (7 3/4 x 5 in.; 198 x 126 mm), on George Sand's embossed stationery, in Polish with a few words in French, [Nohant], 4 October [1839] to Julian Fontana, a Polish musician and lifelong friend, regarding an [...more]
Lot 5: COMPOSERS
Fine group of six autographs of composers and musicians, as follows: Liszt, Franz. Autograph letter, signed "F. Liszt," in German. To an unnamed friend. Weimar: 11 December [18]578vo, 4 pages on blue paper; formerly folded. Tipped into a cream cloth [...more]
