Source : Rossini

Source Title The Rossini Auction House
Description

The Rossini Auction House of Paris, France, is one of the more active auctions. It conducts 60 or more sales per year, both in its own rooms or the Hotel Drouot which faces it.

Rossini describes its specialties as "modern paintings, drawings and sculptures, gems and jewellery, silver, objects of vertu, costumes, textiles and accessories, stamp collections and postcards, books and manuscripts, coins and medals, tribal art, furniture and decorative arts." This database contains listings from the field of books and manuscripts along with prints.
Scope of Text
Total Records in AED 52669
  • Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Reaffirms the US Treaty of Friendship and Peace with Morocco, the Longest Unbroken Treaty in US History. $50,000 – 80,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Weeks After Victory at Yorktown, Benjamin Franklin Promises Repayment of a French Loan that Funded the American Revolution. $200,000 – 300,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. Rare First Edition of the Foundational Text of the Mormon Church. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. President Washington Sends the First Major Law Passed by Congress, the Tariff Act of 1789. $100,000 – 150,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. A Scarce Example of Audubon's Depiction of a Brown Pelican, Plate CCLI from his Birds of America. $30,000 – 50,000.
    Freeman’s, August 20. The Official and First Obtainable Broadside Printing of the Lincoln's Final Emancipation Proclamation. $30,000 – 50,000.