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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(John Lydgate, Siege of Troy, 15th Century MS.)

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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Beverley Hills, Sale 1573. Property from the Estates of Ella Fitzgerald; Cornel and Jean Wilde; Helen B. Hayselden, Honolulu; Ellen M. Koenig, sold for the Benefit of the Hawaii Community Foundation Center; Mrs. Reese H. Taylor; formerly from the Estate of Cecil B. DeMille; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, sold to Benefit Future Acquisitions; The Mary Morris Stein Trust.