Illuminated initial M from a Choirbook depicting a Prophet beneath an unfurling Scroll by the Master of the Archimboldi Missal (fl.1480–1500), on vellum, in Latin, (Italy, Milan), c.1500

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | First edition of the full score of “Così fan tutte”, and one other

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Richard Wagner | Autograph letter signed, to the poet Karl Beck, 22 November 1868

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Leonhart Fuchs | De historia stirpium, Basel, 1542, "perhaps the most celebrated and beautiful herbal ever published"

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Admiral Lord Nelson | Album of naval letters and orders, including four by Nelson, 1799-1802

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George Eliot | Middlemarch, Edinburgh and London, 1871, first edition in the original parts

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Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d'Urbervilles. A Pure Woman, 1891, first edition, first impression

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J.K. Rowling | Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, 1997, first edition, hardback issue, ex-library copy

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Robert Browning and Arthur Rackham | The Pied Piper of Hamelin, 1934, deluxe edition

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Giacomo Meyerbeer | Collection of forty-eight letters signed to various correspondents, including Jenny Lind, Adolphe Nourrit, and Dumas, 1826-1861

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Girolamo Cardano [Thomas Bedingfield, translator] | Cardanus comforte, 1576, rare second edition of the book held by Hamlet during his famous soliloquy

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Album Amicorum | Der Freundschaft gewidmet, 1779-1793, manuscript in German

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Christoph Willibald Gluck | Autograph manuscript of part of the celebrated air 'J’ai perdu mon Eurydice' from "Orphée et Eurydice", 1774

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[?Emily Bronte] | Pencil drawing of Trajan's Arch, Ancona, 1835

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Michael Servetus | A manuscript copy of De trinitatis erroribus. France, early eighteenth-century

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Andreas Cellarius | Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus, Amsterdam, 1708, contemporary hand-colouring

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Claude Debussy | Autograph manuscript of the song “Flots, palmes, sables”, signed, 1882

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Winston Churchill and Walter Sickert | Glass plate negatives used as guides for painting, 1927

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John Gould | A Century of Birds from the Himalayan Mountains, [1831-] 1832, second issue, subscriber's copy, the Earl of Egremont's copy

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Napoleon I's copy—Madgett | Histoire de Jean, duc de Marlborough, Paris, 1808

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Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari | Collection of autograph music manuscripts, c.1892-1946

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Aymard de Banville | Album photographique de la mission remplie en Égypte..., Paris, 1865, an exceptionally rare work from the earliest days of travel photography

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William Heath Robinson | "All but blind in his chambered hole...", original illustration for Walter de la Mare's Peacock Pie, 1916

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Illustrated fragment of Der Welsche Gast by Thomasin of Zerklaere, on vellum, in Middle High German, c.1300–50 (Southern? Germany)

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George Leigh Mallory | Series of c.140 letters to his mother and other family members including from Mount Everest, 1895-1924

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Giuseppe Verdi | Four autograph letters signed, including two to Clarina Maffei, 1869-1874

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Illuminated Manuscript—Initial ‘D’ from a choir book illuminated by Antonio Maria da Villafora, (North-Eastern Italy, Padua), last quarter 15th century

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A collection of five Italian leaves containing neumes, on vellum, in Latin, from the 12th century

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Christian Zervos I Pablo Picasso. Œuvres de 1895 à [1972], 1949-1978, 33 volumes in 34, a fine set of the Picasso catalogue raisonné

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Ian Fleming | The Centenary Edition, 2008, 18 volumes, one of 26 lettered sets (letter "M")

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Siegfried Sassoon | The Sherston Trilogy, first editions, signed

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Antonín Dvořák | Vocal score of the Requiem Mass inscribed by the composer to Karel Bendl

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Giuseppe Verdi. Six autograph letters signed to Antonio Gallo, 1854-1875

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William Wordsworth | Yarrow Revisited and other poems, 1839, a superb presentation copy

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Thomas More | Workes, 1557, eighteenth-century sprinkled calf gilt, the Chatsworth copy

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Raymond C. Booth | Hilly Habitat of Lilium Auratum, pencil drawing

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