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 Cabinet du Roi 1727 in contemporary French citron morocco, a Collection of Piranesi's Works 1756-1807, 12 vols. Folio, Watteau's L'Oeuvre, 1735, and a magnificent illuminated manuscript being the Hours of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy and his wife, Margaret of York.)