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1 1¢ books [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2001   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
2 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.
3 Catalogue of collection of bindings of J.R. Abbey [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1965   Number of Holdings: 1.
4 Catalogue of the celebrated library of valuable printed books, fine bindings and manuscripts, the property of the late J.W. Hely-Hutchinson, Esq., Chippenham Lodge, Ely [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1956   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
5 Catalogue of the celebrated library: the property of Major J.R. Abbey [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1967   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
6 Catalogue of the library of the late Edward Gordon Duff, Esq. [...] [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1925   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
7 Catalogue of the remaining portion of the renowned library of the late Henry Yates Thompson, Esq. comprising fine early illustrated books including J.P. Bergomensis, De claris mulieribus and St. Jerome, Life, both printed at Ferrara, 1497 ; Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, Venice, 1499 ; important works on geography, including Berlinghieri, Georgafia, 1490 ; and a Portolano by J.F. Roussin ; superb 16th century bindings, including very fine examples of the libraries of Thomas Mahieu and Pier Luigi Farnese ; English late 17th century bindings from the libraries of William III and Samuel Pepys ; French 18th century dentelle bindings ; John Lydgate, Fall of princes, Pynson, 1494 ; English literature ; bibliographical works, etc. ; drawings by W.M. Thackeray and Richard Doyle ; autograph letters of J. Boswell, C. Brontë, T. Carlyle, W. Cowper, C. Darwin, B. Franklin, Josephine to Napoleon, C. Lamb, Napoleon to Josephine, R.B. Sheridan, G. Washington, etc. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1941   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
8 Catalogue of the second portion of the famous library, principally of fine bindings, rare engravings, illustrated books and French literature, formed by the late Mortimer L. Schiff, Esq. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1938   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
9 Catalogue of the second portion of the famous library, principally of fine bindings, rare engravings, illustrated books and French literature, formed by the late Mortimer L. Schiff, Esq. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1938   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
10 Catalogue of the third and final portion of the famous library, principally of fine bindings, rare engravings, illustrated books and French literature, formed by the late Mortimer L. Schiff, Esq. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1938   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
11 Catalogue of the third and final portion of the famous library, principally of fine bindings, rare engravings, illustrated books and French literature, formed by the late Mortimer L. Schiff, Esq. [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1938   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 2.
12 Catalogue of valuable printed books and fine bindings from the celebrated collection: the property of Major J.R. Abbey [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1965   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
13 Catalogue of valuable printed books: including a collection of books on bookbinding ; XVIIIth century French books from the collection of Admiral Duff (1777-1858), many in attractive contemporary bindings ; incunabula and early printed books, including Higden, Polychronicon, Wynkyn de Worde, 1495 ; Paleotti, Esplicatione del Lenzuolo, Bologna, 1598 ; M. Sceve, Savlsaye, Lyons, 1547 ; Horae, Use of Rome, Paris, c. 1518, printed on vellum ; colour plate and illustrated books, including Lory, Voyage pittoresque de Geneve à Milan, 1811, extra-illustrated with 6 original watercolours ; Ottley and Tomkins, Marquess of Stafford's Collection of pictures, 5 vol. 1818, one of a few copies with the illustrations coloured and mounted ; Doyle, Political sketches, 11 vol. 1829-51, one of only four complete coloured copies ; G.B. Piranesi, Della magnificenza d'architectura de Romani, Rome, 1761-65 ; Watteau, Figures, Paris, c. 1735 ; Piazzetta, Studi de pittura, Venice, 1760 ; English literature of the XVIIth to the XIXth century, including Burton, Anatomy of melancholy, 1621 ; Shakespeare, third folio, 1664 ; Encyclopaedia Britannica, 3 vol., first edition, 1771 ; a large collection of the works of Charles Dickens ; French and German literature from the XVIIth to the XXth century, including works by La Fontaine, Crebillon, Baudelaire, Goethe, Heine, Wieland and Jung-Stilling [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1981   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
14 Catalogue of valuable printed books: comprising books relating to natural history, including Bloch's Ichthyology, 1785-97, Elliot's Family of the pheasants, 1872, and Birds of Paradise, 1873, Gould's Birds of New Guinea, 1875-88, Hayes's The portraits of British and exotic birds, 1778, an unrecorded and apparently unique issue, Levaillant's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux de Paradis, 1801-06, Low's The breeds of the domestic animals of the British Islands, 1842, Pennant's The history of quadrupeds, 1793, the author's own copy, and Sharpe's Family of kingfishers, 1868-71, and Birds of Paradise, 1891-99 ; a collection of books on fungi ; botanical drawings, including examples by George Edward Lodge, Christian Frederik Baede and Jean Prêtre ; colour-plate books, books on travel and atlases, including Barrow's Travels into the interior of South Africa, 1806, Bleau's Nouveau theatre de l'Italie, 1704, Daniell's Island of Ceylon, 1808, and African scenery, 1804-05, Hart's Afghaunistan, 1843, Kip's Nouveau theatre de la Grande Bretagne, 1715, Laborde's Voyage de l'Espagne, 1806-20, Pine's Tapestry hangings, 1739, Rowlandson's Loyal volunteers, 1798-99, Zurlauben and Laborde's Tableaux topographiques ... de la Suisse, 1780-88, and works by Piranesi ; English literature of the 15th to the 19th century, including Shakespeare's Poems, 1640, and Sandford's Coronation of James II, 1687, in red morocco by the Samuel Mearne Bindery and with a royal grant of license ; broadsides and newspapers ; continental books of the 15th to the 19th century, including Valerius Maximus's Facta et dicta memorabilia, Mainz 1471, printed on vellum, Strabo's Geographica, Venice 1472, Vergil's Opera, Milan 1474, Venice 1480 and Lyon 1492, Ovid's Opera, Rome c. 1471, Speculum humanae salvationis, Augsburg 1473, Schedel's Nuremberg chronicle, Nuremberg 1493, an exceptionally tall copy ; an extensive collection of first editions of Kierkegaard, including many presentation copies ; decorated book bindings [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 1982   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
15 The Christmas collection of Jock Elliott [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2006   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
16 Continental and Russian books and manuscripts: including science and medicine [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2008   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
17 Continental and Russian books and manuscripts: including science and medicine [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2008   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
18 Continental and Russian books and manuscripts: including science and applied arts [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2009   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
19 Continental books and manuscripts [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2000   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
20 Continental books and manuscripts [Sales Catalogue] Sotheby's (Firm) 2001   Shelf Location: LEC.
Number of Holdings: 1.
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