Fine books and manuscripts of the greatest rarity and interest, including the further property of a prominent Pennsylvania collector

excessively rare sporting books by Alken, Egan, Cruikshank, &c.; sumptuously bound volumes by Roger Payne, Bedford, Padeloup; miniature illuminated manuscripts in elaborate bindings; desirable first editions, inscribed copies, manuscripts & letters of Clemens, Conrad, Dickens, Kipling, Landor, Shelley, Swinburne, Thackeray, Wilde and many others; first and later editions of Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam and other translations of the Rubaiyat; with numerous reproductions and facsimiles