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Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated and other manuscripts comprising a selection from the library at Arundel castle, sold by order of Her Grace the Duchess of Norfolk, and including Le Fevre, Recueil des Histoires Troyennes, 1494; Boccaccio, de Claris Mulieribus, 1487; Sarum Graduale, Paris, 1528; Paynell's translation of The Conspiracie of Lucius Catiline, 1541; Mirrour for Magistrates, 1563; Turberville (G.) Book of Faulconnerie and the Noble Arte of Venerie, 1575; Shakespeare, Third Folio, 1664; a series of the classis, bound for Huet, Bishop for Avranches (1630-1721); a collection of mezzotints (principally by J. Smith), in a fine XVIIIe century biding; important Greek, Latin and German Bibles; a manuscript with miniatures illustrating the History of the Nuns of Sheen; and other properties; a XIII century gradual; a XIV century History of the World, a XV century Speculum Christiani, partly in English verse; finely decorated Horae; and other secular and religious manuscripts; Dante, Divine Comedy, Florence, 1481; Congreve, The Impossible Thing, 1720; Boccaccio, Decameron, 1757-61, and La Fontaine, Contes, 1762; Combe, Dance of Death, 1814-16, in party with wrappers and advertisements, a long series of the Gad's Hill Gazette; Harington's translation of the Orlando Furioso, 1591, with plates in colours; colours of the Eilkon Basilike, and of the works of Isaac Watts; fine French bindings, and books with coloured plates; Stevenson (R. L.) The Thompson Class Club, 1883, the property of D'Arcy W. Thompson; a portrait of Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, by A. Dumbreck, and a drawing of Richard III, by Georges Vertue; etc., which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge (Sir Montague Barlow, K.B.E., LL.D., M.P., G. D. Hobson, M.A. & Major F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C.), auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the fine arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Monday, the 11th of June, 1923, at one o'clock precisely

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