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 the S.V. Hoffman Collection of Books on the Astrolabe, the property of the New York Historical Society and a collection of books printed by Richard Pynson the property of Lord Kenyon, C.B.E., LL.D.)