Cloth. 181 nos. Illus. in b/w & colour. This collection of books and manuscripts represents over 600 years of Western thought and culture ranging chronologically from a Magna Carta of c. 1300-1800 to John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage of 1957.; 4to . hardcover
50 lots. 45pp. Plates in b/w. Wrs.The remarkable collection presented here consists of papers which Bougainville himself assembled towards the end of his life in the hope that they might be used by his friend Delambre as the basis of a biographical study. For some reason this project was never realised with the result that the collection has remained largely unpublished. . unknown
20augustus. 146 nos. 199pp. Illus. in b/w & colour. Wrs.No. 40 is the famous Life of St. Thomas Becket. It contains the only surviving leaves 4 from the only known medieval illustrated life of St. Thomas Becket the most important medieval Englishman and they certainly the finest English thirteenth-century drawings that were in private hands at the time of the sale. . unknown
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