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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Valuable Collection of Books on Early Printing and Engraving: the Property of the late James Clark McGuire, Esq.

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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New York, Sale 5947. Property from the estaes of Lilian Bostwick Phipps; Ethel DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware; Jordan L. Mott V; Stuart S. Janney, Jr.; Lydia Morrison; A Long Island Estate; A Delaware Estate; A New Englad Collector; the Collection of Madame Jean Ravaud; a Collection formed by Roberto Polo, sold at the direction of the Internal Revenue Service.