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Catalogue of valuable Books and Manuscripts comprising a Book from the Library of Dr. Dee, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Books, etc., the Property of the Hon. Lyulph Stanley ; First Editions of Samuel L. Clemens, Bret Harte, Rudyard Kipling, R. S. Surtees, etc., the Property of William J. B. Macaulay, Esq. ; Works on Ornithology, etc., the Property of the late Captain G. W. Dasent ; an Early Byzantine MS. with painted cover, Works on Mesmerism and Hypnotism, Early Eighteenth Century Pamphlets, Doves and Press Books in fine Bindings, John Eliot, The Christian Commonwealth, 1659, Mrs. E. Bury, Election of Hexandrian Plants, 1831-34, a handsome Binding, attributed to Boyet, The Wisdom of the Elders of Zion, annotated by Goering, etc., Busts of Milton and Scott, and a Statuette of W. M. Thackeray, autograph Letters, etc., comprising Letters of J. M. W. Turner and John Ruskin, the Property of W. G. Rawlinson, Esq. ; Collections of Letters relating to Napoleon, the Navy, Business in the Restoration Period, etc. ; Letters of Lord Nelson, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Rudyard Kipling, etc. Correspondence of William Upcott, etc. which will be sold by Auction by Messrs Sotheby & co. (G. D. Hobson, M. V. O. ; F. W. Wahre, O. B. E. M. C. ; C. G. Des Graz ; C. V. Pilkington ; P. C. Wilson), auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street W1, on Monday 18th March 1940, and Two Following Days at Eleven o'clock precisely each day

Catalogue de vente

Source: Cote de l'original : VP 1940/17 ; Cote du microfilm : Mfilm 35 1940 03 18 (bobine 622)

Note: William George Rawlinson (1840-1928) était un collectionneur anglais et historien de l'art spécialiste de Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851)

Related documents: Catalogue de vente de la collection de W. G. Rawlinson, 1er mars 1940

Original library: Bibliothèque de l'Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, collections Jacques Doucet

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