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 7983. Property from the Estate of Carol Koshland, San Francisco; a Westport, Connecticut Estate; a Pennsylvania Estate; for the benefit of the Cleveland Zoological Society; property of a Pittsburgh Steel family.

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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(A Ferrarese 15th Century Choir Book with Eight Illuminated Initials; A North French Book of Hours, bound by Doll; An attractive small Franco-Flemish Book of Hours of the Period of Borso d'Este's Bible; A Portulan Chart by Francisco Oliva of Messina.)