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Catalogue of valuable printed books and a few manuscripts, autograph letters and historical documents, oriental manuscripts and miniatures, &c., comprising Hubbard's narrative of the troubles with the Indians in New England, Boston, 1677, and other valuable Americana from the library of Daniel Wray, deputy teller of the Exchange, presented to Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse in 1784 (sold by order of the governors); Honter's cosmography, 1534, with the rare woodcut map showing the American continent; an important collection of contemporary manuscripts relating to the foundation, early history and first proprietors of the province of Maryland; rare first editions, presentation and association copies, autograph letters, &c., of Sir J. M. Barrie, Robert Browning, John Galsworthy, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, G. Bernard Shaw, Lord Tennyson, Oscar Wilde; two fine letters and a song of ten verses on the hand of Robert Burns, the property of J. P. A. L. Thomson, Esq., of Dumfries; important Jacobite papers, the property of Cluny Macpherson of Cluny; a fine and extensive collection of bookplates, the property of the late William Henry Booth, Esq.; Persian and Turkish manuscripts with fine illuminations; &c., 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, 24th of June, 1929, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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