Catalogue of valuable autograph letters, manuscripts and printed books ...
Subtitle: which will be sold by auction ... on Wednesday, the 9th of June, 1920, and following day
Publisher: Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge
Published: 1920
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
Subjects: Art collections
Notes: 489 lots.

Date given as June 9, 1920 and following day.

" ... comprising a collection of autograph letters relating to the abolition of slavery in America, from the library of the late J.W. Pease, Esq. of Newcastle-on-Tyne; early Scotch charters, the property of the Right Hon. the Earl of Wharncliffe; interesting letters of Sir Walter Scott, a set of first editions of the Waverley novels, etc. the property of R. Richardson, Esq. The Firs, Tavistock; letters or manuscripts of Burns, Shelley, Keats, etc. the property of Miss M.R. Dunlop, The Toll, Buxted, Sussex; an extremely interesting manuscript by Abraham Lincoln, the property of Her Grace the Duchess of St. Albans; a holograph letters from Mary Queen of Scots to the King of France, the property of Madame la Comtesse de Miramon; a valuable collection of illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, fine bindings, etc. the property of T.W. Greene, Esq.; books illustrated by Kate Greenaway, the property of the Countess of Mayo; John Gould's works on ornithology ... the property of A.J. Bassett, Esq. Henley Manor, Crewkerne, Somerset, and other properties, including letters and manuscripts relating to the French Revolution and Napoleon Bonaparte; Indian and Persian drawings; books on ballooning and aeronautics; first editions of the works of Charles Dickens; French illustrated books of the eighteenth century, etc."

Date of sale: June 9-10, 1920.

Place of sale: London.