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 edition in German of Historia Alexandri Magni, 1473; Antoninus Florentinus's Summa Theologia, 1477-79; a tall copy of Balbus's Catholicon, ca.1475, in a contemporary Augsburg binding; an illuminated copy of the ninth German Bible, 1483; the first edition of Jacobus de Theramo's Belial, 1472, and Knoblochtzer's edition of the German text, 1478; Schonsperger's 1498 edition of Plenarium, with contemporary hand-colouring, in a contemporary Augsburg binding; a finely coloured...