The Estelle Doheny Collection From the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library, St John's Seminary, Camarillo, California. Sold on behalf of The Archdiocese of Los Angeles.<br />PART IV. PRINTED BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS including EARLY PRINTING, LITERATURE & FINE BINDINGS.

New York: Christie, Manson $ Woods International, Inc., 1988. Beautifully produced auction catalogue for this important collection of printed books and manuscripts. Large hardback. 345, [8]pp. Approx. 305mm x 210mm. Red cloth binding with gilt to boards and spine. Many of the lots are illustrated, some in colour. This sale covered lots numbered 1011 to 1672 and provides, as expected, professional cataloguing & provenance together with sale estimates. the catalogue also contains a list of works cited in the catalogue. Estelle Doheny was the widow of an oil tycoon, a man with something of a chequered history. Estelle Doheny was an avid book collector and brought together a number of historically significant early Bibles, including a Gutenberg. When she bequeathed her book collection to the Archdiocese of Los Angeles she had hoped the collection would be kept together. It was broken up and sold, including the Gutenberg Bible which went to a Japanese buyer for $5.4 million in 1987. The sale of many of these lots took place over the two days of October 17th and 18th, 1988. The auction included some other spectacular Bibles, an impressive collection of early books and some fine books from (for example) the Aldine Press, bindings by Roger Payne, Riviere & Son and Sangorski & Sutcliffe etc etc. Book in very good condition. A couple of slight pressure marks to board edges. Internally very clean and unmarked. A large and heavy book but no additional shipping costs to UK post codes.