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...

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(Including Cardinal Bessarion's copy of the 1469 Sweynheym and Pannartz Apulcius, Scaliger's copy of the Aldine Aristotle, and other editiones principes of the classics from the collection of Bachelier, the Earls of Oxford, Paris de Meyzien, Brunck, Cracherode, Reina, Meerman, MacCarthy, Drury, Sykes, Heber, Hibbert, Larcher, Renouard and other bibliophiles; bound by Roger Payne, G.F. Krauss, Bradel Paine, Francis Bedford, and other areliers.)