Catalogue of valuable printed books, music, autograph letters and historical documents

comprising autograph music of Sir Arthur Sullivan, including full scores of Cox and Box, Trial by jury, H.M.S. Pinafore, The pirates of Penzance, Patience, Princess Ida and The gondoliers; also his autograph diaries from 1881 to 1900; an unpublished letter of Beethoven; letters of Berlioz, Brahms, Gounod, Liszt, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Mozart, Rossini, Sullivan and Wagner; autograph music of Fauré, Gounod, Grieg and Mozart; English literature of the 17th century, including Killigrew's Four new plays, 1666, the author's copy with numerous autograph corrections; a collection of juvenile drama of the 19th century; books printed on the Continent; natural history and colour-plate books; letters of Voltaire, Richelieu, Voltaire and Napoleon; Henrietta Maria, Charles II, James II, Mary of Modena, William III, George I and queen Victoria; Sheridan, Fanny Kemble, Wordsworth, Browning, Dickens, Carlyle, Tennyson, Ruskin and Sir Walter Scott. Which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Sotheby & Co. ... at their large galleries, 34 & 35, New Bond Street, W.1; day of sale: Monday, 13th June, 1966

by Sotheby & Co. (London, England)