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Catalogue of valuable autograph letters and historical documents, rare printed books, Western and Oriental manuscripts and miniatures, &c, comprising autograph letters and mss. of Bach, Beethoven, Byron, Chopin, Cowper, Benjamin Franklin, Heine, Jenner, Lamb, R. L. Stevenson, Wesley, etc.; the complete ms. of Thackeray's Dessein's (Roundabout Papers); a fine series of Dickens to Harrison Ainsworth, the property of E. A. Greswell, Esq.; superb letters of Lady Hamilton and Nelson, and of Robert Burns and "Clarinda," the property of Seymour Boothby, Esq.; and the property of Wilfred White Kershaw, Esq.; Izaak Walton's copies of Donne's Poems, 1650, and Essayes, 1651; Catherine Cotton's copy of The Complete Angler, 1661; Bellot's Booke of Thrift, 1589; Napier's Logarithms, 1614; Breydenbach's Peregrinationes, 1486, and other fine incunables; letterbook of the Hermandad de Riscattar Cautivos, 1670-1711; books on the Spanish Inquisition; fore-edge paintings; horn-book, etc.; superb impressions of Watteau's oeuvre and Goya's Los Caprichos, including the property of the Hon. Mrs. Pleydell-Bouverie; a fine copy of Boccaccio, Il Decamerone, 1757, in contemporary red morocco; Americana, presentation First Editions of P. T. Barnum and Mark Twain; Brigham Young's copy of The Book of Mormon, 1874; books and mss. relating to Canada, Jamaica, Peru, Philippine Islands, the slave trade, etc.; presentation copies of Dickens' Christmas Carol, Browning's Sordello, etc.; proofsheets of Lavengro, corrected by Borrow; an oil painting of Charles Dickens bowling at a cricket match at Gad's Hill Place; a fine black-and-white drawing, "The Waguerites", by Aubrey Beardsley; English books of the XVI-XVII centuries on science, agriculture, etc., including first editions of Descartes' Discourse of Reason, 1649, The Countryman's Recreation, 1640, Tusser's Five hundreth points, 1573, and Pope's Windsor Forest, 1713, the property of Miss M. T. Talbot; 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, 15th of February, 1932, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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