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 dedication copy of a humanist manuscript on vellum, written and illuminated for Pope Calixtus III (Zopello, ca. 1455-58); illuminated chronicles in French by Foissart and Monstrelet, printed on vellum by Verard; an important collection of illustrated incunabula from a European private library, including the Dutch Dialogus creaturarum, Schatzbehalter, Stultifera navis, La Mer des Histoires; fine early printed books, including the first edition of Hortus sanitatis with...