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Show SALE OF THE IVES COLLECTION. Hook and Miiniiio-ipli Wort- t l.sasl Mali a Millioa. Fperlal to Ttii' T ines. New Yokk, March 3. The saloof tho Brayton Ives book, manuscript and art collection began today at the American Art association galleries. There was a large attendaueo from this and other cities, and tho articles offered brought good prices. Mr. Ives is tho owner of one of tho finest collections In this or any other country. It is estimatod to bu "worth at least $. 00,000. There are many notable books in Mr. Ives' Americana, Amer-icana, among them doing "Champlaiu's Voyages," of which there is believed to be only one other complete set in any private collection in this country. Another remarkable feature of the Americana is topv of the letter of Columbus to Louis do Sant Angel, written writ-ten in Spanish, and giving what some authorities believe to be the first primed account of the first Columbian voyage. Mr. Ives has two editions of tho letters of Columbus in Latin, to Gabriel Synches, Syn-ches, the royal treasurer of Spain. Among tho nianusoripU in the collection, collec-tion, the Pembroke "Book of Hours" is the most valuable. It is a magniticent-ly magniticent-ly illuminated, illustrated and written tirayer Look, "The Honrs of tho Holy Virgin Marv," and was prepared about the year llio, for William Herbert, first earl of Pembroke It is a large, perfectly per-fectly preserved folio, bound in boards, covered with old red velvet, with bases and clasps of silver in the style of the early Italian niello work. There are 207 water color miniatures in the book, and the pictures in coloring, color-ing, detail aud execution are simply marvellous. Mr. Ives himself paid 10,000 for this book to F. S. KUis of London. In addition to all the book and manuscript treasure, Mr. Ives has a big and valuable collection of oriental objects, including Chinese porcelains and jades, Japanese swords, lacquers aud carvings. The Brinley aud Cole copy of the Gutteuberg bible is probably proba-bly the gem of i lit) collection of earlv printed books. The sale will be continued con-tinued all this week. |