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1 English literature: comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts : including the second edition of Bacon's Essayes, 1597 ; Donne, Poems, 1633 ; Davenant, Gondibert, 1651, presentation copy ; Shakespeare, Comedies, histories, and tragedies, fourth folio edition, 1685 ; the collection of seventeenth-century English literature formed by the late John Hart ; Byron, Waltz, 1813 ; Keats, Endymion, 1818, Charles Dickens's copy ; Trollope, La vendée, 1850 ; Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897 ; Joyce, Ulysses, 1922, one of 100 copies signed by the author ; Nancy Cunard, Negro, 1934 ; Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937, presentation copy, and The lord of the rings, 1954-1955, inscribed ; Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead revisited (1944), pre-publication version ; and presentation or inscribed copies of works by H.D., Gertrude Stein, Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Faulkner, W.B. Yeats, and Ian Fleming ; a page from the earliest known promptbook of 'Hamlet' ; an autograph letter by Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, to the Earl of Essex ; an autograph letter by Dryden ; the literary archive of Elizabeth Taylor ; the autograph manuscript of John Cowper Powys's 'Dostoevsky' ; manuscripts of Shaw's last dramatic work ; notes by Sir Walter Scott on the prototype of 'Meg Merrilies' ; manuscripts by contemporary writers sold partly on behalf of the Arvon Foundation [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
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2 Valuable printed books and manuscripts: comprising science and medicine, including large collections of books on cardiology and teratology, and anatomical works printed in colours by Gautier d'Agoty ; natural history, including Bry, Florilegium renovatum (1641-1647) [...] ; a collection of books on cookery and related subjects [...] ; atlases and maps, including Berlinghieri, Geographia (Florence, 1482) ; Jaillot, Atlas nouveau (1692-1695) ; Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum (Antwerp, 1595) [...] ; travel, topography, and costume, including Dodwell, Views in Greece (1821) ; Lory, Voyage pittoresque de Genève (1811) ; Melling, Voyage pittoresque de Constantinople (1819) ; Roberts, Holy Land (1842-1849) ; Reinhardt, Collection de costumes suisses (1819) ; sporting books, many with coloured plates by Alken [...] ; continental and fine illustrated books and bindings, including La Fontaine, Fables choisies, bound by Louis Douceur (1755-1759) ; English books, including Erasmus The praise of folie (c. 1553-1562), and the major works of Godwin, Locke and Adam Smith ; historical letters and documents, letters and designs by Robert Adam and John Nash, [...] Admiral Jellicoe and Lord Nelson [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
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