Dec 6, 2024 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Exceptional manuscript with genealogies and lists of rulers
[JUDAICA]
Tables Genéalogiques, Chronologiques et Historiques des Patriaches des Juges, des Gouverneurs, des Rois et des grands personeees des Juifs. De la Division des ages du monde Des Papes, des Caliphsdes Sarrasoines, des Rois, des Emperurs, des Princes at autres Souverains qui ont regné dans les quatre parties du monde. Depuis Adam jusqu'à 1780. Avec les Genéalogie des Dieux et des Héros de la Fable... Perhaps Paris: after 1780. Manuscript in French in ink on paper. Paste-paper over boards backed in vellum. 14 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches (37.5 x 24.75 cm); [iv], 384, [2] pp index; [ii], 19, [1], 12 ff. index, [4] pp. (of the Doges of Venice).
An extraordinary and elegantly written set of historical genealogies and lists of rulers, with complex diagrams indicating their descent throughout. Drawing on a variety of historical authorities, the work is encyclopedic in extent, beginning with a substantial section of Judaica. We have found no indication of the author/draughtsman for this remarkable manuscript. The diagrams are frequently of considerable graphical elegance and we suspect this manuscript was intended for publication. According to the introductory matter, the tables conclude at 1780, and it was presumably completed shortly thereafter.
Sold for $960
Estimated at $1,500 - $2,500
Includes Buyer's Premium
[JUDAICA]
Tables Genéalogiques, Chronologiques et Historiques des Patriaches des Juges, des Gouverneurs, des Rois et des grands personeees des Juifs. De la Division des ages du monde Des Papes, des Caliphsdes Sarrasoines, des Rois, des Emperurs, des Princes at autres Souverains qui ont regné dans les quatre parties du monde. Depuis Adam jusqu'à 1780. Avec les Genéalogie des Dieux et des Héros de la Fable... Perhaps Paris: after 1780. Manuscript in French in ink on paper. Paste-paper over boards backed in vellum. 14 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches (37.5 x 24.75 cm); [iv], 384, [2] pp index; [ii], 19, [1], 12 ff. index, [4] pp. (of the Doges of Venice).
An extraordinary and elegantly written set of historical genealogies and lists of rulers, with complex diagrams indicating their descent throughout. Drawing on a variety of historical authorities, the work is encyclopedic in extent, beginning with a substantial section of Judaica. We have found no indication of the author/draughtsman for this remarkable manuscript. The diagrams are frequently of considerable graphical elegance and we suspect this manuscript was intended for publication. According to the introductory matter, the tables conclude at 1780, and it was presumably completed shortly thereafter.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 6, 2024
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Auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps on December 6, 2024
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NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle held a successful auction of Rare Books, Autographs & Maps onDecember 6, 2024 showcased is a wonderful diversity of Americana, maps, autographs, early books and landmarks of literature and science.
Highlighting the sale was the first edition of Spinoza's Tractatus theologico-politicus from 1670 that soared to $70,350. Spinoza’s Tractatus is his only work published during his lifetime and remains his most significant. It presents a clear theory of natural right, asserting that the love of God leads to love for others. The state exists to ensure liberty, not oppression, with justice, wisdom, and toleration as key. Influential to thinkers like Blake and Goethe, it shaped Romanticism.
The Jean Vounder-Davis Collection offered the largest trove of unpublished Raymond Chandler stories, poetry, letters, books and personal artifacts to come to market. Best known for his Philip Marlowe detective novels including The Big Sleep (1939) and Farewell, My Lovely (1940) and as screenwriter of film noir classics such as Double Indemnity (1944) and The Blue Dahlia (1946), Raymond Chandler is considered one of the top writers in the hardboiled fiction genre alongside Dashiell Hammett and James Cain. Held for decades, the archive belonged to Jean Fracasse [later Vounder-Davis] who was first hired in January 1957 as Chandler's personal secretary but quickly became his close friend, confidant, fiancé and muse to whom he dedicated his last book.
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