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Catalogue of valuable printed books and a few manuscripts, autograph letters and historical documents, etc. comprising a good copy of Milton's Lycidas, 1638; a set of the Atlantic Neptune; and a very fine copy of the first Aldine Aristotle, 1495, with other choice Aldines, from the library at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, the property of the Honble. Geoffrey Howard; a first edition of Evelina, 1778, and the well-known “Queen Elizabeth's bible,” in a contemporary needlework binding; from the collections of the Duchess of Portland and of the Duke of Sussex, the property of A. E. Y. Trestrail, Esq., D.S.O., M.A.; presentation copies of works by Sir J. Barrie and G. Bernard Shaw, including the property of Mrs. Violet Vanbrugh Bourchier; and of the Edinburgh Burns, 1787, the property of the late A. Douglas Ainslie, Esq., Delgaty Castle, Aberdeenshire; Eliot's Algonquin bible, 1685-80; Goldsmith, The Vicar, 1766, and the Good Natur'd Man, 1768; illuminated manuscripts; maps and atlases; fine bindings, etc. The autograph letters include fine letters of Robert Burns, the property of Robert Burns, Esq.; of P. B. Shelley, the property of Mrs. E. Walton; of Thomas Carlyle, the property of Daniel Borrie, Esq.; of George Gissing, Charles Lamb, and others; interesting musical manuscripts and letters and documents connected with American history, and of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic periods; autograph MSS. of Sir J. M. Barrie, including that of Walker, London; and the auto. MS. of two stanzas of Keats' poem “Isabella,” the property of the late Very Revd. B. M. Ritchin, F.S.A., 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, the 28th of July, 1930, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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