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Catalogue of valuable printed books, European & oriental miniatures & manuscripts, autographe letters and historical documents, comprising a choice collection of the works of Charles Dickens, Oliver Goldsmith, R. Kipling, Charles Lever, Sir W. Scott, and W. M. Thackeray, with the Kilmarnock Burns, 1786, and works by R. S. Surtees, in the original parts, the property of a gentleman; early printed books, and some rare English works, the property of Miss Lavinia Halswell (deceased); English tracts and pamphlets of the XVIII century, and a copy of the rare Erasmus, De Duplici Copia, London, 1556, from an old country house library; decorated manuscripts and incunabula (including Jenson's Eusebius de Evangelica, 1470), the property of Samuel Holliday, Esq. (deceased); a very interesting collection of illuminated initials and miniatures, the property of Lt.-Col. the Honble. George de Grey; rare French books, including a set of Gravelot and Cochin, Almanach iconologique, 1769-81, the property of Mrs. C. F. Young; elzevirs, hebraica, a fine set of the works of G. Piranesi, and a fine drawing by William Blake, English needlework bindings; and early English musical works of great rarity, also Persian manuscripts, Indian and Persian drawings, etc., including the property of Mrs. K. L. Rumbold, Yew Tree Hall, Forest Row; the autograph letters, etc., include interesting historical pieces, the property of the late Sir Evelyn Grant-Duff, K.C.M.G.; an extensive collection of Americana, correspondence of George Stephenson (relating to early railways), and of Lord Lytton, the novelist; etc., which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. (the Rt. Hon. Sir Montague Barlow, Bt., P.C., K.B.E., G. D. Hobson, M.V.O., F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C., C. G. Des Graz, B.A., Miss E. Barlow), auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the fine arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Wednesday, the 27th of April, 1927, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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