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 important early printed books, early and eighteenth-century French literature; history of science; English literature from the sixteenth to twentieth century; early and modern illustrated and private press books, illuminated medieval manuscripts; and an illuminated Haggadah manuscript. The property of the Lord Brownlow; the Earl of Iveagh; Viscount Parker; The Roman Catholic Diocese of Southwark; Wellington College; and other owners.)