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Catalogue of valuable printed books, illuminated & other manuscripts, autograph letters and historical documents, etc., comprising books in fine bindings, travels, classics, early printing and a few interesting manuscripts, selected from the library at Leesthorpe Hall, Melton Mowbray, the property of Major J. W. Burns; French and Flemish illuminated horæ of good quality, with a fine XV century MS. Sallust in an interesting Bruges binding; Shakespeare folios, including the second folio inscribed by David Garrick to Thomas Backett; Modern books, including inscribed copies of Johnson's Dictionary and Boswell's Life, of Dickens' Bleak House (to Charles Knight) and pictures from Italy (to Hans Christian Andersen), Galsworthy's Villa Rubein (to Henry James), of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and of C. L. Dodgsen's works, with autographs poems by the author, and others from Lord Tennyson and G. B. Shaw, Meredith's Poems, 1859, with profuse autograph additions; First editions of Brontë, Jane Eyre, 1847, De Quincey, Confessions, 1822, Chesterfield's letters, 1774, Smollett, Humphrey Clinker, 1771, Fielding, Tom Jones, 1749, Sterne, Sentimental Journey, 1768, Johnson, Rasselas, 1759, and many others, Boswell's Life, 1791, with the very rare cancelled leaf, a very choice collection of books with fore-edge paintings, fine sets of Ackermann's Schools and Colleges, Heideloff's Galery of Fashion (with the 9th vol.), Surtees' sporting novels, and others coloured plates, etc.; The autograph letters, etc., include Poetical manuscripts of William Cowper and Robert Browning, extremely fine letters of Charles Lamb, S. T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, Dean Swift, Dr. Johnson, James Boswell, General Wolfe, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, The Russel Heraldic collections, and the final portion of the Melville Papers, the property of Violet, Viscountess Melville, 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 22nd of July, 1929, and two following days, at one o'clock precisely

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