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Catalogue of valuable printed books and a few manuscripts, autograph letters & historical documents, etc. : comprising a good copy of Milton's Lycidas, 1638; a set of the Atlantic Neptune; and a very fine copy of the first Aldine Aristotle, 1495, with other choice Aldines, from the library at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, the property of the Honble. Geoffrey Howard; a first edition of Evelina, 1778, and the well-known "Queen Elizabeth's bible," in a contemporary needlework binding; from the collections of the Duchess of Portand and of the duke of Sussex, the property of A.E.Y. Trestrail, Esq., D.S.O., M.A.; presentation copies of works by Sir J. Barrie and G. Bernard Shaw, including the property of Mrs. Violet Vanbrugh Bourchier; and of the Edinburgh Burns, 1787, the property of the late A. Douglas Ainslie, Esq., Delgaty Castle, Aberdeenshire; Eliot's Algonquin bible, 1685-80; Goldsmith, The vicat, 1766, and The good natur'd man, 1768; illuminated manuscripts; maps and atlases; fine bindings, etc. The autograph letters include fine letters of Robert Burns, the property of Robert Burns, Esq.; of P.B. Shelley, the property of Mrs. E. Walton; of Thomas Carlyle, the property of Daniel Gorrie, Esq.; of George Gissing, Charles Lamb, and others; interesting musical manuscripts and letters and documents connected with American history, and of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic periods; autograph mss. of Sir J. Barrie, including that of Walker, London; and the auto. ms. of two stanzas of Keats' poem "Isabella," the property of the late very Revd. G.W. Kitchin, F.S.A.... Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... on Monday, the 28th of July, 1930, and two following days

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