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Catalogue of valuables printed books, autograph letters and historical documents, etc. comprising inscribed presentation copies of works by Charles Dickens and by John Keats; a fine copy of Jane Eyre, 1847, the property of Mrs. W. F. Carter; good copies of Tom Jones, Tristan Shandy and the Vicar of Wakefield, the property of the Vicomte de Noailles; rare Hebrew manuscripts and incunables; French, Flemish and Italian decorated manuscripts and early continental printing; a very rare indulgence printed by Wynkyn de Worde in Caxton’s type 7, 1498, the property of Dr. Philip Nelson; the autograph letters etc. comprise interesting Americana, including one of the very few surviving copies of Robert E. Lee’s Farewell Order to the Army of Northern Virginia, bearing his signature, a remarkable series of early letters of Charles Dickens, addressed to the composer John P. Hullah, the property of Miss Annette Hullah; a very fine letter of P. B. Shelley, the property of J. N. West, Esq.; manuscripts from Frampton Court, Dorset, the property of A. F. B. Sheridan, Esq.; including portions of the autograph manuscripts of the Duenna and the critic, a magnificent letter of W. M. Thackeray, mentioning Vanity Fair, an extremely fine letter of S. T. Coleridge, etc., and other properties, which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. (G. D. Hobson, M.V.O., F. W. Warre, O.B.E., M.C., C. G. Des Graz, B.A., Miss E. Barlow, C. V. Pilkington, B.A.), auctioneers of literary property & works illustrative of the Fine Arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W. (1), on Monday, 30th of June, 1930, and two following days, at one o’clock precisely

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