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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters, and Historical Documents. The Books Comprise Books from the Libraries at Lowther and Whitehaven Castles, the Property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Lonsdale; the Graver and the Pen, by R. L. Stevenson, the Property of Mr. G. A. Crerar; a Treatise on Agriculture from the Library of Robert Burns, the Property of P. Smyth Rolfe, Esq., Early Printed Books, Herbals, Etc., the Property of Allan F. Vigers, Esq., Deceased, and the Property of W. A. Howlett, Esq.; an Early Irish Illuminated Manuscript, the Property of E. Mitchel Crosse, Esq.; Decorated Horæ, Also Stuart Tracts, the Property of the Right Hon. Lord Berwick; Also Illuminated Manuscripts of Classical Authors, Important Works in English Literature, Books with Coloured Plates, French Illustrated Books of the XVIII Century, a Book of Hours Written for Jacqueline de Lalaing, 1532, Etc.. The Autograph Letters Comprise, the Representative Collection of Mrs. John Pearson, Including Fine Letters of Rev. R. H. Barham, R. Browning, Edmund Burke, C. Darwin, C. Dickens, B. Disraeli, David Garrick (with Verses on Hogarth and Goldsmith), David Hume, A. Pope, Samuel Richardson, the Rossettis, Lord Tennyson, W. M. Thackeray, J. A. M. Whistler, Etc., Also Letters of Nelson, Byron, Scott, and Horace Walpole, the Property of H. J. Stobart, Esq., the Autograph Manuscript of "John Inglesant", by J. H. Shorthouse, (sold by Order of the Executors of the Late J. W. Shorthouse, Esq.); Important Manuscripts by John Stuart Mill, and Letters to Him from Thomas Carlyle, Etc., the Property of the Late Miss M. Taylor

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Catalogue of Valuable Printed Books, Illuminated and Other Manuscripts and Autograph Letters. The Books Comprise Publications of the Doves Press, Many Printed on Vellum, the Property of the Late T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Esq.; Productions of the Kelmscott Press, the Property of the Late Howard H. Thomson, Esq., F.R.I.B.A.; Books in Fine Old Bindings, the Property of the Late Earl of Haddington, K.T.; Robert Burns, Poems, Kilmarnock Edition, 1786, the Property of W. Sheepshanks, Esq.; R. L. Stevenson, The Charity Bazar, 1868, the Property of Miss M. Moyes Black; Drawings by W. M. Thackeray, the Property of Mrs. Charles H. E. Brookfield; Books with Coloured Plates, the Property of a Gentleman; Shakespeare, Works, First Folio Edition, 1623, the Property of F. F. Urquhart, Esq.; and One of the Excessively Rare Harmonies of Little Gidding, the Property of the Late Mrs. Selina Gaussen; Also English Literature; Sporting Books; Americana; a Collection of Miniatures Cut from Illuminated Manuscripts; Incunabula; French XVIII Century Illustrated Books; a Portrait in Oils of Robert Burns by Nasmith; Decorated Horæ; Italian Antiphonaries, Etc. The Autograph Letters, Etc., Comprise the Bowes Family Papers, the Property of the Earl of Strathmore; Letters from Charlotte Brontë to Amelia Ringrose, and from J. A. M. Whistler to Mr. Marcus B. Huish; an Autograph Poem by Oscar Wilde; Letters and Manuscripts of Famous Musicians; a Document Signed by Edward Alleyn, 1626; Etc

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