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Auction archive: Lot number 645

MINIATURE BOOK] OMAR KHAYYAM Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Ren...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,680
Auction archive: Lot number 645

MINIATURE BOOK] OMAR KHAYYAM Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Ren...

Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,680
Beschreibung:

MINIATURE BOOK]. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald With an Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole . Cleveland: Charles Hardy Meigs, 1900.
MINIATURE BOOK]. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald With an Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole . Cleveland: Charles Hardy Meigs, 1900. 8 x 8 mm. (Text block broken with one leaf loose, slight damage to one or two leaves from earlier re-insertion of loose page.) Original plain green cloth. Provenance : Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas (his sale, Parke-Bernet, 1 April 1947, lot 226, and described as "The Smallest Book in the World," Emil Offenbacher agent). ONE OF ONLY FIFTY-SEVEN COPIES, printed from plates which were afterward destroyed. Bondy, pp. 154-155.

Auction archive: Lot number 645
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jun 2006 - 28 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
27-28 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

MINIATURE BOOK]. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald With an Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole . Cleveland: Charles Hardy Meigs, 1900.
MINIATURE BOOK]. OMAR KHAYYAM. Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald With an Introduction by Nathan Haskell Dole . Cleveland: Charles Hardy Meigs, 1900. 8 x 8 mm. (Text block broken with one leaf loose, slight damage to one or two leaves from earlier re-insertion of loose page.) Original plain green cloth. Provenance : Fred W. Allsopp, Little Rock, Arkansas (his sale, Parke-Bernet, 1 April 1947, lot 226, and described as "The Smallest Book in the World," Emil Offenbacher agent). ONE OF ONLY FIFTY-SEVEN COPIES, printed from plates which were afterward destroyed. Bondy, pp. 154-155.

Auction archive: Lot number 645
Auction:
Datum:
27 Jun 2006 - 28 Jun 2006
Auction house:
Christie's
27-28 June 2006, New York, Rockefeller Center
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