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 8234. Property from the Estate of Gloria Gurney; a San Francisco Estate; a Florida Trust; a New York Private Collector; formerly from the Collection of Joan Crawford.

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 Thirteenth-Century Bible from the Abbey of St. Martin d'Ainay in Lyons; A Psalter written by William Fairfax of Walton, 1464; A Book of Hours written and illuminated for Nicolas Beese of Ghent, 1502; A Bourges early Sixteeth-Century Horae; An important English Fifteenth-Century collection of rare Medical and Poetic Texts; also A sumptuous Book of Hours of the School of Bruges.)