Scope and Contents From the Collection: The manuscript and book auction catalogs were purchased for the sake of  those pursuing bilbiographic research on manuscripts and rare books who might find valuable sale and provenance information in the catalogs. They record auctions that took place mainly through Bloomsbury, Sotheby's and Christie's, spanning from the nineenth through the late twentieth centuries. Similary, the donation received of jewelry auction catalogs are intended for those purusing research on the history of jewelry...

Scope and Contents (Including the First Book from the Aldine Press [Venice: 1495]; important incunabula and early Greek printing from the collection formed in the eighteenth century by Sir George Shuckburgh; Cicero, Of Old Age, printed by William Caxton [Westminster: 1481]; first editions of Holbein's Dance of Death, (1538), Le Giroufflier aux Dames (ca. 1505); Milton's Of Education to Master Samuel Hartlib (1644); the Dutch edition of Blacu's Theatrum (1648-50); Horace, De arte poetica, manuscript on vellum...