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1 Art reference and bibliography: printed books : including a collection of books by George C. Williamson, a collection of numismatic books, and books on painting, architecture and decoration, porcelain, works of art and furniture [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1984   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
2 Art reference books, ancient glass and jewellery, Middle Eastern, Egyptian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1993   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
3 Atlases, maps and printed books relating to voyages, travel and British topography: a Portolan chart of Europe (mid-sixteenth century) ; several editions of Ptolomaeus, Geographia, including the maps to the edition of 1478 or 1490 ; Waghenaer, Speculum nauticum, Leiden (1586) ; Mercator, Atlas (Amsterdam, 1619) ; atlases by Blaeu, including the Low Countries townbook (1649) [...] ; a fine extra-illustrated set of Horsfield's Sussex and a set of Knight's London similarly extended [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
4 Atlases, maps and printed books: including naval and military books - Jenkins, The naval achievements of Great Britain, 1817 ; Charnock, An history of marine architecture, 1800-1802 ; Fontana, I Pregi della Toscana, 1701 ; The British Isles - Speed, Theatrum Magnae Britanniae, 1616; Saxton and Lea, The shires of England and Wales, [c. 1693] ; Ackermann, The microcosm of London, 1808-1810 ; [...] Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, c. 1750 ; Catlin, North American portfolio, 1844 ; printed maps ; a collection of eighteenth-century manuscript charts and plans relating to Texas, Louisiana, the American Northwest and the Pacific ; original drawings by Rugendas for Voyage pittoresque en le Brésil, [c. 1835] [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1984   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
5 Books and maps: including children's and illustrated books, the performing arts and related drawings, Islamic and Eastern art reference, bonds and music [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1991   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
6 Books and maps: including the art reference library of the late Dr. A. Scharf [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1992   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
7 A California private collection including science, medicine and travel [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2002   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
8 Catalogue of an important collection of Islamic coins and related reference books [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
9 Catalogue of Islamic coins, mainly in gold, together with Islamic numismatic books [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1980   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
10 Catalogue of printed books and periodicals: comprising English literature of the 16th to the 19th century ; an extensive collection of books relating to Lincolnshire ; continental books of the 16th to the 19th century, including books relating to the Reformation ; science, medicine, natural history and architecture ; a very large collection of periodicals relating to science, medicine, natural history and literature [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
11 Catalogue of printed books: including Continental books of the 15th to the 19th century, including Diogenes Laertius's Vitae et sententiae ..., Venice, Jenson, 1475, and Porta's De furtivis literarum notis, 1563 ; the Fugger copy of the 1605 edition of Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha, which forms part of an extensive collection of this work ; English literature of the 16th to the 20th century, including an interesting collection of the works of Jonathan Swift and many well-bound books and sets ; books on architecture ; science and medicine and natural history, including Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica, 1543 ; travel and topography, including Coxe's Travels in Switzerland, Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark, 1789-1792, in contemporary citron morocco [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
12 Catalogue of printed books: comprising English literature of the 16th to the 19th century, including a collection of novels and a group of gothic novels ; books on natural history and science ; continental books of the 15th to the 19th century [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
13 Catalogue of printed books: including books relating to bibliography and the fine arts : including continental books of the 16th to the 19th century, including books in Slavonic and East European languages ; a collection of Bibles ; English literature of the 16th to the 19th century ; books on science and medicine ; Chinese drawings on rice paper ; travel and topography, including colour-plate books ; books relating to bibliography and book-collecting, including publications of the Roxburghe Club, to painting, furniture, architecture, antiquities and porcelain [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
14 Catalogue of printed books: including an extensive selection of printed ephemera ; comprising Continental books of the 15th to the 19th century ; English literature of the 16th to the 19th century ; books relating to travel and topography, including Ackermann's Oxford, Westall and Owen's Tour of the River Thames, and Ireland's River Medway, Illustrations of Hogarth, Holland Brabant and part of France, inns of court, and River Thames, in contemporary red morocco ; books relating to Iceland and India ; books on architecture, works of art and costume ; ephemera, including a large collection of broadsides and an extensive collection of manuscript and printed matter relating to English lotteries from 1681 to 1826, material relating to the theatre and music hall, valentines, scrapbooks and albums [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
15 Catalogue of the celebrated library: the property of Major J.R. Abbey [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1966   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
16 Catalogue of valuable printed books relating to science, medicine and natural history: including Adler, Uber [sic] dn [sic] nervosen [sic] Charakter, 1912, presentation copy, perhaps to Freud ; Boyle, Experimental natural philosophy, 1663 in contemporary English red morocco ; Brahe, Epistolarum natural philosophy, 1663, in contemporary English red morocco ; Brahe, Epistolarum astronomicum, 1596-1610 ; W. Clowes, Gun shot wounds, 1596 ; Copernicus, De revolutionibus, 1543 ; Darwin, Origin of species, 1859 ; Galvani, De viribus electricitatis, 1748-91 ; Goeurot, The regiment of life, 1553 ; Guericke, Experimenta nova, 1672 ; Leonicenus, Libellus de epidemia, Venice, Aldus, 1497 ; Roesslin, The birth of man-kinde, 1626 ; The seynge of Urynes, 1562 ; Albin, Natural history of birds, 1731-40 ; Bury, A selection of hexandrian plants, 1831-34 ; Donovan, Epistome of the natural history of the insects of India, 1800( -04) ; Gould, Monograph of Trochilidae, 1861-67 ; Oeder, Icones plantarum florae Danicae, 1766-1883, 1887 ; Redoute, Choix des plus belles fleurs, (1824) ; Redoute and Thory, Les roses, 1817-24 ; Roesel von Rosenhof, Historia naturalis ranarum nostratium, (1753)-58 ; Roscoe, Monandrian plants of the order Scitaminae, 1828 ; Ruini, Anatomia del cavalla, 1618 ; Ventenat, Jardin de la malmaison, 1803( -04) [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
17 The celebrated reference library of H.P. Kraus [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2003   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
18 Egyptian, Middle Eastern, Greek, Etruscan and Roman antiquities, ancient glass and art reference books: including an Egyptian gabbro temple statue of Ptah-Ankh carrying an offering basin, Reign of Amenhotep III, 18th dynasty, from the collection of the late Herrn Richard von Kaufmann of Berlin [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
19 English literature, history, children's & illustrated books & drawings: including a previously unknown autograph manuscript of the Eumaeus episode in James Joyce's 'Ulysses' ; and : the original signed contracts for Bram Stoker's Dracula ; an important series of autograph letters signed by the African explorer Mungo Park to his wife, including his last letter ; a series of editions of Samuel Beckett inscribed to Henri and Josette Hayden ; a comprehensive collection of volumes published by the Limited Editions Club ; a variant proof copy of the first 'James Bond' novel by Ian Fleming ; early works by Virginia Woolf published by the Hogarth Press ; important annotated and inscribed copies of first editions by Vladimir Nabokov ; a fine collection of private press and illustrated books from the library of Walter Kupfer ; Gregynog Press books from the library of Daisy Davies, co-founder of the press ; a fine group of presentation copies signed by Lewis Carroll ; other children's books by Jessie M. King, Beatrix Potter, J.K. Rowling and R.L. Stevenson ; important watercolours and drawings by Kay Nielsen, Beatrix Potter, E.H. Shepard and Thomas Taylor ; books from the library of the British artist Joe Tilson ; Marcel Vertès' own copy of Ramon Gomez de la Serna's La Cirque, extensively extra-illustrated ; a collection of books on Sir Henry Irving, including books from his library ; important letters and other manuscript material relating to Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, S.T. Coleridge, John Betjeman, Graham Greene, Margaret Mitchell, J.R.R. Tolkien, Sir Winston Churchill, Lady Hamilton, J.M. Keynes and Captain R.F. Scott [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2001   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
20 English literature, history, children's book and illustrations [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2005   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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