Catalogue of music, valuable printed books and autograph letters comprising the property of the late Richard George Borden, Esq., ... His Grace the Duke of Fife, ... the Countess of Iddesleigh, ... Richard Neville, Esq
Subtitle: and including letters of Arne, Bellini, Berlioz, Brahms, dr. Burney, Cherubini, Dvorák, Elgar, W.S. Gilbert, Liszt, Mendelssohn, Pacchierotti, Rossini, Richard Strauss, Sullivan and Verdi; a fine letter of Mrs. Thrale about Dr. Burney; a letter of Mozart to his father; and autograph music of Beethoven, César Franck and Richard Strauss; English books of the 17th and 18th century, including scientific works by Boyle and Newton and an uncut copy of Goldsmith's The vicar of Wakefield, 1766; travel; an account of Spain prepared for Napoleon on his only visit there, in 1808; exceptionally fine drawings by Kate Greenaway; colour plate books, including McIan and Logan's Clans of the Scottish Highlands, Edwards's Natural history of birds and Thornton's Temple of Flora; letters of Queen Caroline, the elder and the younger Pitt, Clarendon, Thomas Grenville, Lady Hamilton, Admiral Hood, Voltaire, Disraeli, Dickens, General Gordon, Ruskin, Ouida and Sir Winston Churchill; an autograph manuscript of Crabbe; material relating to the Dreyfus Case; and the autograph manuscript of Shelley's lyric, I arise from dreams of thee, and the papers of Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855), surveyor-general of New South Wales and Australian explorer, the property of Mrs. M. Syme, including manuscript maps, and drawings by Conrad Martens, Sir Thomas Mitchell, Charles Rodius and others : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... on Monday, the 9th April, 1962, and the following day
Contributors: Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Gilbert and Sullivan (Harvard Theatre Collection)
Publisher: Messrs. Sotheby & Co.
Published: 1962
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
Subjects: Library; Auction catalogs
Notes: 534 lots.

Sale code: FIGARO.

Place of sale: London.