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Dear Mining Historians: > Rarely does a collector succeed in reaching the highest level of > connoisseurship in more than one discipline. Joseph A. Freilich, however, > can make that claim, having built two extraordinary collections with which > Sotheby's will inaugurate the 2001 live auction season. On 10 and 11 > January, we will be offering the Magnificent Scientific Library of Joseph > A. Freilich, and on 11 and 12 January, we will auction Mr. Freilich's > companion collection of Magnificent Minerals. Viewed together (as they > can be at a joint exhibition opening on 5 January), the Freilich books and > minerals are reminiscent of the great "cabinet" collections of centuries > past, with each component being selected with extraordinary discrimination > and attention to significance, rarity, and condition. Please click on the > link below for more details: > https://news.sothebys.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eCTF0HXrB0Yk077D8 > > The Freilich Library must be ranked as one of the great achievements in > post-War American book collecting. A fully cohesive collection > illustrating western achievements in science (especially mineralogy and > metallurgy), technology, natural history, cartography, medicine, and a > host of other subjects, the Freilich Library truly earns the term > "magnificent." Scanning the authors represented in the Freilich Library is > akin to flipping through the Dictionary of Scientific Biography: among > innovators and inventors represented are Aristotle, Agricola, Linnaeus, > Euclid, Locke, Curie, Erker, Descartes, Diderot, Kepler, Einstein, > Lavoisier, Maxwell, Thomson, Pasteur, Buffon, Sowerby, Rutherford, and > Albertus Magnus. > > "Magnificent" is also an accurate description of Mr. Freilich's mineral > collection, one of the most significant private cabinets of the entire > twentieth century. Mineral collecting represented a return to a childhood > passion for Mr. Freilich, and over the course of a decade, he assembled > about 550 museum-quality specimens. The Freilich minerals are so > arrestingly beautiful that it is difficult to remember that they are > neither cut nor polished, but rather exactly as they were naturally formed > in the earth ten to twenty million years ago. > > The fully illustrated catalogues of both The Magnificent Scientific > Library of Joseph A. Freilich and The Magnificent Mineral Collection of > Joseph A. Freilich are available at: > https://news.sothebys.com/cgi-bin2/flo?y=eCTF0HXrB0Yk077D8 > For further information, you can also call our Books and Manuscripts > Department at +1-212-774-5322. > > Best regards, > > Selby Kiffer and Justin Caldwell > Books Department > Sotheby's New York > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Your Email:[[log in to unmask]] is in our mailing list. To > update your profile and change your selections please visit > http://profile.flonetwork.com/sothy/testurl.htm?https://news.sothebys.com/ > cgi-bin2/profile?y=eCTF0HXrB0YkN > To unsubscribe please click here > http://www.sothebys.com/preview/unsubscribe.html *********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the postmaster at [log in to unmask] www.sothebys.com ***********************************************************************