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1 The art of illustration from the collection of Michael Winner [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2012   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
2 Atlases, maps and printed books relating to voyages, travel and British topography: including Ptolemaeus, Geographiae, Venice (1511) and another edition (1535) ; Ortelius, Theatrum orbis terrarum (1573) ; Parergon (1624) ; a sea atlas by Colom (1662) ; six composite atlases, several containing very important maps ; Porcacchi, L'isole (1576) ; Mercator, Atlas (1623) ; Speed, Theatre of the empire of Great Britain (1676) ; Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates orbis terrarum (1582-1600) ; a number of atlases by W. and J. Blaeu ; Visscher, Atlas minor (1682) ; two atlases by J.B. Homann ; and a small collection of continental books relating to surveying ; single maps of all parts of the world ; printed books, including: Campanius, Kort Beskrifning om Provincien Nya Swerige uti America (1702) ; Keymis, A relation of the second voyage to Guiana (1597) ; Maximilian Zu Wied-Neuwied, Reise nach Brasilien (1820-1821) ; Roberts, Holy land and Egypt and Nubia, 6 vol. (1842-1849) ; Spix, Atlas zur Reise in Brasilen (1831) ; Dupré, Voyage a Athenes et a Constantinople (1825) ; Rechberg, Les peuples de la Russie (1812-1813) ; a collection of books relating to Switzerland, including Ebel, Voyage pittoresque dans le Canton des Grisons (1827) ; ten lots containing the topographical illustrations of Germany and France by Merian, with text by Zeiller ; Atlases of the British Isles, including editions of Camden's Britannia (1637, 1695, 1722, and 1806) ; Smith, A delineation of the strata of England and Wales (1815) ; Chapman and André, Map of the county of Essex (1833) ; single maps of the British Isles ; British topography and local history, including: fine extra illustrated copies of Blomefield, An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk (1739-1775) ; and his History of the city and county of Norwich (1741) ; Boydell, An history of the River Thames (1794-1796), and other works [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   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 Aubrey Beardsley [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1999   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
5 Books and manuscripts from the English library of Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery and Midlothian, K.G., K.T. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2009   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
6 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.
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 English illustrated books and related drawings: including an extensive collection of books from the Vale Press ; other private press books ; sets of The yellow book, 1894-97 and The Savoy, 1896, illustrated by Beardsley ; Bewick's Figures of British land birds, 1800 ; Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Job, 1825 ; Dalziel's Bible gallery, 1881, with related A.L.s.s. ; proof impressions of David Jones' engraved illustrations for The ancient mariner, 1929 ; The Book of Jonah, illustrated by David Jones, one of 10 copies on vellum, 1979 ; Owen Jones' The sermon on the mount, printed on vellum, 1845 ; presentation copies of books illustrated by Jessie M. King ; an extensive collection of books illustrated by the Robinson brothers ; and Timlin's The ship that sailed to Mars, (1923) ; drawings and watercolours by Nicolas Bentley, Charles E. Brock, Randolph Caldecott, Edmund Dulac, Errol Le Cain, Paul Mack, William Nicholson, Kay Nielsen, Mervyn Peake, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Szyk, Sir Leslie Ward, and others [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
9 Catalogue of Japanese colour prints, surimono, illustrated books and kakemono: the first portion of the collection formed by the late J. Thatcher Clarke, Esq. of Gayton Corner, Harrow [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1921   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
10 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.
11 Catalogue of the Meggendorfer archive: comprising watercolour drawings, hand-coloured proofs, and specimen sheets for moving picture books, panoramas, transformation books, and other publications by Lothar Meggendorfer [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
12 Catalogue of valuable printed books from library at Donaueschingen: the property of His Serene Highness the Prince Fürstenberg [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
13 Catalogue of valuable printed books: comprising continental and English books of the sixteenth to twentieth century of natural history, science and medicine, including : Audebert's Histoire naturelle des singes et des makis, 1798 ; Curtis's Flora Londinensis, 1777-98 ; Ercker's Beschreibung allerfurnemisten mineralischen ertzt unnd bergwercks arten, 1598 ; Euclid's Elements of geometrie, 1570 ; Galileo's Dialogo, 1632 ; Gesner's De omni rerum fossilium genere, 1565-66 ; Linnaeus's Hortus cliffortianus, 1737 ; Schlegel & Verster de Wulverhorst's Traité de fauconnerie, 1844-53 ; Spix's Selecta genera et species piscium, 1829-32 ; and continental and English books of the fifteenth to twentieth century of literature, history, philosophy, theology, etc., including : Almanach de Gotha, an extensive run, 1784-1944 ; Boccaccio's The fall of princes, 1494 ; Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719-20 ; Diderot & d'Alembert's Encyclopédie, 1778-81 ; Dodwell's Views in Greece, 1821 ; Eden's The state of the poor, 1797 ; Legenda Aurea, Dutch. Passionael, 1516 ; Locke's Essay concerning humane understanding, 1690 ; Platea's Opus restitutionum usurarum excommunicationum, 1472 ; Repton's Fragments on landscape gardening, 1816 ; Restif de la Bretonne's Monument du costume physique et moral de la fin du dix-huitième siècle, 1789 ; Schedel's Nuremberg chronicle, extensively hand-coloured, 1493 ; Turrecremata's Quaestiones euangeliorum, 1478 ; Wotton's Speculum christiani, circa 1486 [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
14 Continental illustrated books: including an important Russian futurist collection, English illustrated and private press books, children's books, juvenilia and related drawings [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1983   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
15 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.
16 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.
17 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.
18 English literature, history, children's book and illustrations [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2005   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
19 English literature, history, children's books & illustrations [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2009   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
20 English literature, history, children's books & illustrations [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2009   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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