Catalogue of valuable printed books, Western & Oriental manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents, etc. : comprising a small library of books relatig to travel, navigation and cartography, the property of Professor C.R. Boxer, Conyate, Broadmayne, Dorchester; an interesting collection of natural history, chemistry, metallurgy and early science generally; travel, topography, classical texts, etc., the property of J. Arnold Foster, Esq., Salthrop House, Wilts.; a good binding by Roger Payne, and an inlaid Parisian binding with grotesque masks; a Robert Dudley binding, etc.; Gould's Trogons, Birds of paradise, Humming birds and Asia; important musical collections including first editions of Handel and a valuable series of manuscripts of J.C. Bach, the property of Gerald E. Coke, Esq.; and association and other interesting copies of the works of Richard Wagner, the property of Mrs. P.M. Beardmore; a collection of English 18th to 20th century literature (including many books with coloured plates), the property of J.N. Slade, Esq.; a well-illuminated manuscript of Laila and Majnun, the property of G.C.C. Atkinson, esq.; valuable decorative and text-manuscripts, religious and secular; a fine series of letters of 'George Eliot' and the ms. of Byron's Girl of Cadiz, the property of a lady of title, and other properties : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... on Monday, the 31st of March, 1952, and following day

"Catalogue of valuable printed books, Western & Oriental manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents, etc. : comprising a small library of books relatig to travel, navigation and cartography, the property of Professor C.R. Boxer, Conyate, Broadmayne, Dorchester; an interesting collection of natural history, chemistry, metallurgy and early science generally; travel, topography, classical texts, etc., the property of J. Arnold Foster, Esq., Salthrop House, Wilts.; a good binding by Roger Payne, and an inlaid Parisian binding with grotesque masks; a Robert Dudley binding, etc.; Gould's Trogons, Birds of paradise, Humming birds and Asia; important musical collections including first editions of Handel and a valuable series of manuscripts of J.C. Bach, the property of Gerald E. Coke, Esq.; and association and other interesting copies of the works of Richard Wagner, the property of Mrs. P.M. Beardmore; a collection of English 18th to 20th century literature (including many books with coloured plates), the property of J.N. Slade, Esq.; a well-illuminated manuscript of Laila and Majnun, the property of G.C.C. Atkinson, esq.; valuable decorative and text-manuscripts, religious and secular; a fine series of letters of 'George Eliot' and the ms. of Byron's Girl of Cadiz, the property of a lady of title, and other properties : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... on Monday, the 31st of March, 1952, and following day"