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Catalogue of valuable printed books, oriental drawings, european & oriental illuminated manuscripts, etc., comprising indian drawings of the Rajput, Delhi, Lahore and Mughal schools, the property of Percy Furniball, Esq., Capt. C. Webb-Johnson, R.A.M.C., Capt. Spencer-Churchill, and others. Decorated persian manuscripts of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries. First editions of R. Browning, Lord Byron, George Eliot, P. B. Shelley, R. L. Stevenson, Lord Tennyson, W. M. Thackeray, etc. The property of Maurice Yorke, Esq., Hillbrook Place, Iver Heath, Bucks. Burns' poems, Kilmarnock (1786) and Edimburgh (1787) editions, with autograph letters; a collection of first editions of Thackeray's works & Thackerayana; japanese vellum copies of Goupil's historical monographs, etc. The property of Charles William Cowan, Esq., of Logan House, Midlothian. The earliest (suppressed) edition of Richard Ford's handbook for travellers in Spain (1845), the property of Capt. R. Ford. Presentation copies of works by Lewis Carroll, the property of A. W. Wilson, Esq., 5, Stanhope Road, Darlington. A collection of about nine hundred book plates, sold by order of the widow of the late F. B. Salomons, Esq. Ackermann's repository, 40 vols. 1809-20; annals of sporting and fancy gazette, 13 vols. 1822-8; R. L. Stevenson's works, Edimburgh edition; and other valuable books, the property of T. J. Barratt, Esq., Bell Moor, Hampstead. With Audubon's birds of America and Ornithological Biography, 9 vols. 1827-39, and other important works of natural history; illuminated and other medieval manuscripts, both secular and religious; early printed books; fine bindings; french illustrated books of the XVIIIth century; english books with coloured plates; productions of the Kelmscott Press; holograph manuscripts of John and Roger Boyle, Earls of Orrery; York Missal, 1517; Milton's Paradise Lost, 1668-9; etc. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1) on Wednesday, 12th November, 1919, & two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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