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Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated & other manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents, etc. comprising a selection from the library at Castle Huntly, Forfarshire, the property of Charles J. E. Paterson, Esq., including the excessively rare first issue of Scott’s Tales of My Landlord, first series, in boards, uncut, with a good uncut series of his novels; Hardy, Desperate Remedies, original cloth, uncut, 1871; a fine copy of the Kelmscott Chaucer; and Shelley’s own copy of Queen Mab, 1813, with notes in his handwriting, the property of a nobleman; a series of desirable modern books in choice original condition, the property of a gentleman, including presentation and association books by the Brownings, Tennyson, and Thackeray; the very rare leaflet adverting the first number of the Pickwick Papers, etc., illustrated sporting books; second tour of Dr. Syntax, wrappers, uncut; drawings by Rowlandson for the Syntax Tours; a small collection of illuminated manuscripts, the property of Lawrence Slade, Esq., illuminations from manuscripts of good quality; a portion of a rare Block Book; early printed books; a collection of works of John and Charles Wesley; interesting personal relics of Napoleon I, formerly exhibited at the Musée de l’Armée, Paris; a very fine and important collection of letters, documents, etc., illustrative of Napoleon I, his family and contemporaries, including an exceptional holograph letter of the Emperor to Josephine, and a report of the post-mortem at Longwood, signed by the English doctors present; two long holograph letters from Mary Queen of Scots, one from Sheffield Castle, the property of C. H. Basson, Esq., an extremely fine letter of Samuel Johnson, in the year of his death, mentioning Boswell and other friends, a page of MS. by Charles Dickens, good letters of S. T. Coleridge, and of George Washington, 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 27th of April; 1931, and following day, at one o’clock precisely

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