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Catalogue of valuable printed books, and a few manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents, etc., comprising a selection from the library at Moncreiffe House, Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, sold by order of the Moncreiffe family, including Boswell's Dorando, 1767; works of natural history and others with coloured plates; and a very extensive collection of English XVII century tracts; a small but choice collection of fine bindings, the property of a gentleman, including examples bound for Grolier, Maioli, Pier Luigi Farnese, Henri II and Diane de Poitiers, Henri III, Francis I, Count Mansfeld, Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, and Thomas Wotton, the majority from well-known libraries; an interesting series of printed and manuscripts material regarding the government of Spanish S. America, XVI-XVIII cent.; Smart's Song to David, 1763, the property of Captain Harrison-Broadley; a few rare American tracts, the property of J. H. Green, Esq.; a book inscribed by Robert Burns to Mrs. Dunlop, the property of Major A. Wallace Dunlop; original drawings of Canadian scenes in 1843-5, by General Sir H. J. Warre; etc., the autograph letters and manuscripts include the last three stanzas of Byron's "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"; interesting letters of George Washington and James Boswell; an extremely fine series of letters of S. T. Coleridge, the property of the grand-daughter to the addressee; and fine letters of W. M. Thackeray and Robert Burns, addressed or belonging to the late John Blackwood of "Blackwood's Magazine", 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, 9th of November, 1931, and following day, at one o'clock precisely

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