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Whispers of Anatolia: Vintage Turkish Sivas Masterpiece in Emerald and Rose
By Zeki Müren
Located in Dallas, TX
meditative landscape of texture and tone. It is not merely a floor covering, but a woven manuscript—a rare
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Art Deco Turkish Rugs
Materials
Wool
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding The Biccherna Aesthetic Siena Tuscany
By Icilio Federico Joni
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
as a commission for a specific book. There is another in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance More Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel
Painted Wood Tavolette Book Cover Binding The Biccherna Aesthetic Siena Tuscany
By Icilio Federico Joni
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
as a commission for a specific book. There is another in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance More Art
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Tempera, Wood Panel
Bertrand Dorny Abstract Modern Painting Circa 1963
By Bertrand Dorny
Located in New York, NY
Chicago, USA Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University, New York, USA.
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Materials
Aluminum
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
art photograph reveals the ethereal glow of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s vast
Category
2010s Conceptual Still-life Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
art photograph reveals the ethereal glow of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s vast
Category
2010s Conceptual Color Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Shining Wall of Books, Yale Beinecke Library, Interior Architecture Photograph
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
art photograph reveals the ethereal glow of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s vast
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Rare illuminated Tibetan Medical Manuscript Leaves
Located in Hudson, NY
Rare illuminated Tibetan Medical Manuscript Leaves. Early 19th century. Gilt frame, glazed on both
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Tibetan Scholar s Objects
Rare Kamawa-sa Burmese Manuscript, 16 Plates
Located in Lentate sul Seveso (Mb), IT
Rare Kamawa-sa Burmese manuscript, 16 plates (Size: 60 x 14cm).
Internal pages in palm leaf
Category
Late 20th Century Burmese Tibetan Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
$2,020 / set
"Pelargonium sidoides”, Botanical Watercolor of a Scented Geranium
By Agnes Murray
Located in Brooklyn, NY
drawings, watercolors and prints in manuscripts in the rare book collection of the library of the BBG were
Category
2010s Naturalistic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Searching for Samuel VII
By James Murray
Located in Chicago, IL
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Contained within his expansive archives is a standard card
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
"Love That Burns" by Mick Fleetwood, Signed, Limited Edition Book
By Mick Fleetwood
Located in Guildford, Surrey
.
This official limited edition chronicle, Love That Burns, contains over 400 rare images and an original
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
"Changes" Limited Edition Metallic Print by Douglas Stockdale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale), The Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn) and the book
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Ghost" Limited Edition Metallic Print by Douglas Stockdale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale), The Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn) and the book
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Fatigue" Limited Edition Metallic Print by Douglas Stockdale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale), The Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn) and the book
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Mourning" Limited Edition Metallic Print by Douglas Stockdale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale), The Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn) and the book
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Bewilderment" Limited Edition Metallic Print by Douglas Stockdale
Located in Los Angeles, CA
), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Yale), The Franklin Furnace Archive (Brooklyn) and the book
Category
2010s Modern Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Burn No. 85
Located in New York, NY
Photography (FL), Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University (CT), Centro Fotografico Alvarez
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Snowy Owls", Oppenheimer Editions, 2006, Ed 200 on Watercolor paper
By John James Audubon
Located in Cleveland, OH
works are available for collectors to own and enjoy. Museums and libraries, including the Beinecke Rare
Category
Late 18th Century American Realist Animal Prints
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Rare Autograph Letter by José Salomé Pina - Original Manuscript - 1850s
Located in Roma, IT
A Rare Authograph one-page letter by José Salomé Pina, signed and dated in French 4th August 1859
Category
1850s Modern More Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Japanese Three "Water Fowl
Flowers" Large Woodblock Prints, Kono Bairei, 1899
Located in South Burlington, VT
single page.
These rare manuscripts were rescued from a rare original group and book numbering some
Category
Antique 19th Century Japanese Meiji Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
19th Century, Mandalay, A Set of Antique Complete Burmese Manuscript
KAMMAVACA
Located in Sampantawong, TH
A set of rare and complete Burmese manuscript (KAMMAVACA) made from thick cloth coated with gold
Category
Antique 19th Century Burmese Antiquities
Materials
Wood
The Complete Works of O. Henry, Manuscript Edition Limited to 125 Copies
Located in San Francisco, CA
The complete works of O. Henry, manuscript edition, limited to 125 copies in 12 volumes bound in
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper, Parchment Paper
An Italian 18th Century Leaf with Megillah Blessings
Located in New York, NY
This rare and beautifully preserved 18th-century Italian manuscript leaf, meticulously hand-scribed on
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Religious Items
Materials
Hide
Antique Indo Persian Gouache Painting of a Bird
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Enchanting 18th century Indo Persian gouache painting on paper from a manuscript of a rare and
Category
18th Century Folk Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique Indo Persian Gouache Painting of a Bird
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Enchanting 18th century Indo Persian gouache painting on paper from a manuscript of a rare and
Category
Antique 18th Century Indian Anglo-Indian Paintings
Materials
Paint
Susan Bee, Abuses of the World, 2018, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
By Susan Bee
Located in Darien, CT
from medieval manuscripts that were featured in the 2018 Morgan Library show: Medieval Monsters
Category
2010s Feminist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Gordon Bunshaft Chest of Drawers
By Gordon Bunshaft, Florence Knoll, De Coene Frères
Located in Dronten, NL
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington D.C., and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Category
Vintage 1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Chrome
Logbook of the Brig John Gilpin: Baltimore to Canton, 1832–1841
Located in Atlanta, GA
A rare and highly detailed early 19th-century maritime logbook chronicling the voyages of the
Category
Antique Early 19th Century American American Colonial Nautical Objects
Materials
Paper
New York Chest of Drawers in Mahogany, circa 1900, Signed Ernest F. Hagen
By Ernest F. Hagen
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
drawers was going to and where. The purchaser, Philip Ashton Rollins was as collector of rare documents
Category
Early 20th Century American Sheraton Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Mahogany
Mexican War Era Scrolling Broadside Featuring the 1st 11 Presidents, ca 1845-46
Located in York County, PA
finials, each of which retains its original black-painted surface.
According to records in the rare Book
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Political and Patriotic Memorabilia
Materials
Paper
Colorado Gold Dredge, Breckenridge, Signed Black and White Mining Lithograph
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
American Art Museum and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, both in Washington, DC; Beinecke Rare Book
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Grand Lake (Yacht Races, Colorado)
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
American Art Museum and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, both in Washington, DC; Beinecke Rare Book
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Summer Afternoon, Taos, New Mexico, 1920s Modern Watercolor Mountain Landscape
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
American Art Museum and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, both in Washington, DC; Beinecke Rare Book
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Reinhard Görner: Beinecke, New Haven (Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library)
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner captures the monumentality of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale's
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Shining Wall of Books // Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, New Haven
By Reinhard Görner
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Shining Wall of Books
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
New Haven
Category
2010s Conceptual Landscape Photography
Materials
C Print, Lambda
Rare Judaica Synagogue Service with Shofar
By Norman Rubington
Located in Surfside, FL
collages and manuscripts are included in the Bienecke Rare Book Room and Manuscript Library of Yale
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Loren Eiferman, 39r, 122 Pieces of Wood, 2017, Wood, Pastel, Wood Sculpture
By Loren Eiferman
Located in Darien, CT
researching mysterious manuscripts to studying the patterns inside our brains.
For Invocation, we are
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Pastel
Loren Eiferman, Black Hole, 244 pieces of wood, 2012, Wood Sculpture
By Loren Eiferman
Located in Darien, CT
Rare Book Library, the manuscript has eluded all attempts in the intervening centuries to decode or
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Putty
Property The Estate of the Late J.P. Morgan, Complete Set of Catalogs from 1944
Located in valatie, NY
, and endowed the creation of a rare book and manuscript collection at the Morgan Library. Morgan
Category
Vintage 1940s Books
Materials
Paper
Architectural Engraving of the House of Conseequa, Canton, China by Thomas Allom
By Thomas Allom
Located in Alamo, CA
Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale among others. It is presented in an ornate gold-colored wood
Category
1840s Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Engraving
Casa Luhan, Adobe Home of Mabel Dodge Luhan, Taos, New Mexico, Landscape
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
Sculpture Garden, both in Washington, DC; Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library-Yale University, New
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Bucking Bronco, Original Sketch of Horse and Cowboy, Modernist Framed Drawing
By Arnold Rönnebeck
Located in Denver, CO
American Art Museum and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, both in Washington, DC; Beinecke Rare Book
Category
20th Century American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Tibetan Manuscript/Book Cover
Located in New York, NY
Rare manuscript cover from 14th century Eastern Tibet. Priced as pair.
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Tibetan Decorative Objects
Framed Manuscript Page
Located in San Francisco, CA
A rare and interesting framed manuscript from the middle east of India. We think this was made
Category
Antique 19th Century Indian Anglo Raj Drawings
Materials
Paint
Rare Historic 19th Century Hand Drawn Manuscript depicting U.S. Presidents
Located in Gallatin, TN
Very rare original 19th Century antique ink drawing on paper by G.B. Pampel Circa 1856 This hand
Category
17th Century Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Rare and unusual French silver and Shagreen Table magnifier
Located in New York, NY
. Typically collectors would use them for coins, rare stamps, manuscripts etc. The reason they are so rare is
Category
Vintage 1940s French Desk Accessories
Tibetan Bookcover
Located in New York, NY
A rare Tibetan manuscript cover with five Tathagatas (transcedent) Dhyani Buddhas carved in relief
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Decorative Objects
Materials
Hardwood
$3,750
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Rare Manuscripts For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a broad range of rare manuscripts for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Modern versions of these works for sale. There are many variations of these items available, from those made as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. You can search the rare manuscripts that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of brown, black and blue. Many versions of these artworks are appealing in their rich colors and composition, but Reinhard Görner produced especially popular works that are worth a look. Each of these unique pieces was handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in c print, digital print and lambda print.
How Much are Rare Manuscripts?
The average selling price for rare manuscripts we offer is $8,800, while they’re typically $796 on the low end and $11,000 for the highest priced.