Rare Books

Catalogue of valuable printed books, autograph letters and historical documents : comprising books and pamphlets of the period of Queen Anne, the rare first edition of Sheridan's the School for Scandal, Dublin, 1780; Young's Night Thoughts with illustrations by William Blake, coloured by the artist including the property of Peter Smithers, Esq., M.D., a collection of books by, and relating to, William Wordsworth, the property of Mrs. H.V. Harrop, a collection of autograph mss., first editions and presentation copies of Rainer Maria Rilke, a fine Elizabethan needlework binding; Watteau's Figures de différents caractères; Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico; ornithological books with fine coloured plates by Mme. Knip and Levaillant; books from the library of the Duc de Chartres, grandson of Louis Philippe; early scientific books, etc. : also the important collection of printed books, autograph mss., early photographs; scientific apparatus and portraits, of Sir William Herschel (1738-182