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 many in contemporary bindings and with important provenances. Greek editiones principes, the first book from the Press 1495; Latin and Italian first editions, Bembo's De Actna 1496; Aldus's own exceedingly rare Latin grammar of 1501; one of two known copies on vellum of Ovid's Fasti 1503; and Lyonese counterfeits of Petrarch and Dante.)