The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library. St John�s Seminary, Camarillo, California. (estelle Doheny)

The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library. St John�s Seminary, Camarillo, California.

Author	(Estelle Doheny)
Publisher	New York/London/Camarillo: Christie, Manson & Woods International, 1987-89
Edition	1
Weight	9000 gram
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Booknumber	11523
Category's	Books on Books (Catalogs) Books on Books (20th Century) Books on Books (Libraries)
7 volumes (6 catalogues + index + introductory booklet). 4to, pp. 302; 126; 320,(6); 345,(9); 316,(5); 103,(2), 99,(34). Red gilt-lettered publisher�s cloth. Profusely illustrated. This convolute is the complete series of catalogues of an astonishing collection: 2370 lots, divided into 6 sales and fetching a total sum of $ 32.758.807. The first sale included the first volume of a Gutenberg bible and 135 15th-century books. The 2nd sale consisted of 46 Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts. The 3d sale offered Western Americana, literary manuscripts (including a very rich Mark Twain-collection) and almost 400 Fore-Edge Paintings. The 4th and 5th sale consisted of 1221 early books, fine bindings, Americana, manuscripts and literary works (including a.o. again Mark Twain). The 6th sale offered 139 printed books and manuscripts concerning William Morris and his circle totalling over $ 2.300.000. A superb collection. The first part has a foreword devoted to Estelle Doheny (1875 - 1958). She was the widow of Edward Doheny (1935), a California oil man and a central figure in the Teapot Dome Scandal. In 1921 Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interiorsecretly negogiated the lease of federal lands, containing naval oil reserves, to Doheny's Pan American Petroleum Company. Fall, who received $ 100.00 in currency from Doheny as a 'loan', was convicted of accepting a bribe and went to prison, whereas Doheny was acquitted of bribery charges (sounds familiar, watching the present administration; of course this part of the Doheny oil history is not to be read in the foreword to this catalogue). Mrs Doheny began collecting books in 1931 by buying her first incunable and manuscript and after that purchased at major auctions through the famous Dr. Rosenbach. Apart from that, she donated a substantial part of her husband's fortunes to seminaries, hospitals and other Catholic charities. For that, Pope Pius XII created her Countess in 1939. All 6 volumes with numerous excellent coloured illustrations. Back covers gilt-decorated with Estelle Doheny's Ex Libris. The extensive alphabetical index provides all prices realised (as usual with the buyer's names). We join the richly illustrated (stapled) introductory booklet. Hardly to imagine that such a rich collection will ever again come to the market. Fine set.
Prijs	� 350.00

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The Estelle Doheny Collection from the Edward Laurence Doheny Memorial Library. St John�s Seminary, Camarillo, California.

(Estelle Doheny)