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 a fine illuminated Prayerbook made for Countess Dorothea von Mansfeld, Southern Germany, 1551; antiphonal from the workshop of Pellegrino di Mariano, Siena, ca. 1480; Armenian Hymnal illuminated by Hovhannes Lrwec'i, Awendanc', 1647; a rare example of Dutch Prototypography, Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, Utrecht? ca.1463-70; Francesco Colonna's Hypnerotomachia Polophili. Venice, Aldus Manutius, 1499; the first illustrated book printed in France, Speculum Humanae Salvationis,...