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Lot 390
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$400 -
600
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$2,125
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Lot Description
[KENNEDY ONASSIS, Jacqueline Bouvier (1929-1994), her copies]. A group of 7 works relating to history and culture from her library, including:
HORNE, Charles F., editor. Great Men and Famous Women. New York: Selmar Hess, 1894. 7 volumes (of 8, lacking vol. I). -- BURCKHARDT, Jacob. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. New York: The Modern Library, 1954. First Modern Library edition. --BROOKS, Polly Schoyer and Nancy Zinsser WALWORTH. The World Awakes: The Renaissance in Western Europe. Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1962. -- ELDAD, Israel, editor. Chronicles: News of the Past. Volume III: The Dawn of Redemption. Jerusalem: Reubeni Foundation, 1972. -- ONASSIS, Jacqueline, editor. In the Russian Style. New York: The Viking Press, 1976. SIGNED BY JACQUELINE ONASSIS on front free endpaper (without Sotheby's bookplate). -- And 2 others. Together, 8 works in 13 volumes, various 4to and 8vo sizes, most FIRST EDITIONS, 4to and 8vo, condition generally fine. Provenance for the lot: Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (Sold Sotheby’s New York, 23-26 April 1996, The Estate of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, with bookplates).