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21 Catalogue of valuable printed books, manuscripts, autograph letters and drawings: the properties of Sir Charles Ponsonby, Bt., the Rev. Hugh Cuthbertson, M.A. and others [Sales Catalogue] Christie, Manson & Woods 1962   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
22 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.
23 Catalogue seventeen: chiefly recent acquisitions [Sales Catalogue] Simon Finch (Firm) 1992   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
24 Catalogue twenty: recent acquisitions [Sales Catalogue] Simon Finch (Firm) 1993   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
25 Catalogue twenty-four: literature [Sales Catalogue] Simon Finch (Firm) 1994   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
26 Catalogue twenty-one: general miscellany [Sales Catalogue] Simon Finch (Firm) 1993   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
27 Catalogue twenty-six: chiefly recent acquisitions [Sales Catalogue] Simon Finch (Firm) 1995   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
28 Catalogue twenty-three: recent acquisitions [Sales Catalogue] Simon Finch (Firm) 1994   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
29 Catalogue twenty-two: recent acquisitions [Sales Catalogue] Simon Finch (Firm) 1994   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
30 La collection Ribes II: la bibliothèque des Comtes de Ribes [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's France SA 2019   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
31 De la bibliothèque Stéphane Mallarmé [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's France SA 2015   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
32 English literature: comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts, including : an unrecorded Tudor work in verse [...] ; Auden, Poems, first edition, with the erratum and with annotations by Stephen Spender ; bound-up set of the page-proofs for the first edition of Joyce, Dubliners ; Joyce, Ulysses, first edition, one of 100 copies signed by the author ; Ford Maddox Ford, The good solder, presentation copy [...] ; the photograph collection of Virginia and Leonard Woolf [...] ; letters and manuscripts by Auden, Beckett, Beerbohm, [...] Whitman, Whitehead and Yeats. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
33 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.
Number of Holdings: 1.
34 English literature and English history: comprising printed books, autograph letters and manuscripts : including Burton, The anatomy of melancholy, 1621 ; Montaigne, The essayes, 1603 [...] ; Lawrence, Seven pillars of wisdom, 1923 ; The seven pillars of wisdom, first American edition, presentation copy, 1926 [...] ; an important series of letters by Rider Haggard to members of his family [...] ; the Silver bell of the Ladies of Llangollen [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
35 English literature and fine printing, 1800-1985 [Sales Catalogue] Maggs Bros 1986   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
36 English literature and history: including the Charles Dickens archive ; also including the archive of Dickens's friend Charles Kent ; the Dickens collection from Bleak House Museum, Broadstairs ; fine letters and documents signed by Queen Elizabeth I, one three days after her accession ; other letters and documents signed by Mary Queen of Scots, James VI, Anne of Denmark, and the Marquess of Montrose ; the rare first edition of John Taylor's A brief remembrance of all the English monarchs, 1618 ; a rare author's inscribed presentation copy of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France ; fine autograph letters and presentation volumes by Lewis Carroll to Princess Alice ; a fine illustrated album by R.M. Ballantyne ; a fine presentation copy of Rudyard Kipling's Echoes, 1884 ; an important collection of memorabilia of the Yeats family, including W.B. Yeats's Mosada and early drawings by Jack B. Yeats ; books and manuscripts by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, including a signed Hound of the Baskervilles ; letters by Henry James, Max Beerbohm and others addressed to Filson Young ; a collection of works by Norman Douglas ; an important illustrated series of early letters by Henry Moore, 1926-1927 ; working poetical manuscripts by Ted Hughes ; other fine letters and documents by W.B. Yeats, Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, E.M. Forster, Henry Miller, Graham Greene, Raymond Chandler, Bruce Chatwin, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1999   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
37 English literature and history: including the archive and library of Dorothy L. Sayers ; the Ronald Segal collection of English literature and detective fiction ; important collection of papers of Nassau William Senior and his family, including letters by T.R. Malthus, Florence Nightingale, George Eliot, and G.F. Watts ; correspondence of Charles Dickens and Emmy Gottschalk and his presentation copy of David Copperfield inscribed to her ; important collection of books and manuscripts by Oscar Wilde ; collection of letters by survivors of the Lusitania ; fine first editions of novels by Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh and others ; autograph letters and manuscripts by Frances Stuart ('La Belle Stuart'), Daniel Defoe, James Harris, first Lord Malmesbury, Aubrey Beardsley, R.L. Stevenson, George Moore, G.K. Chesterton, John Betjeman, Samuel Beckett, Lord Mountbatten, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2000   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
38 English literature and history: including the archive of the philosopher and historian Sir James Mackintosh ; a collection of letters and working filmscripts relating to Stanley Kubrick's 'Dr. Strangelove' ; illuminated pedigree presented by Robert Cooke to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester ; important collection of family correspondence of Sir Laurence Olivier ; books and scripts of the actor Denholm Elliott ; papers of Guy Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New York in the War of Independence ; collections of first editions by Ian Fleming, William Golding and Vladimir Nabokov ; fine collections of works by W.B. Yeats, some inscribed ; fine autograph letters signed by John Evelyn, Joseph Addison, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, Horace Walpole, Charles Dickens, C.S. Lewis, Ted Hughes, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2000   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
39 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.
40 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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