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AUTOGRAPHS -- DONNADIEU, A(lcide). Catalogue of Highly Interesting and Valuable Autograph Letters and Historical Manuscripts. London: Puttick and Simpson, 1851. 4 o. 17 lithograph facsimiles. Contemporary blue half morocco, marbled sides (a little worn). Provenance : Donnadieu (his signature on front free endpaper); Puttick and Simpson's dedication to John Young; John Young (bookplate); G. Martini (bookplate). The Large Paper issue, "Printed for Private Distribution" and enriched with facsimiles, of the sale catalogue PRICES AND BUYERS' NAMES in contemporary hand ruled in red, of one of the most important autograph collections formed in the first half of the nineteenth century; it included "the very important assemblage of English Royal Letters, formed by the late William Upcott, Esq., the principal portion of which were originally collected by the celebrated John Evelyn - [ With: ] 21 others inclunding a Collection of Napoléon letters and autographs, 1935; the Alfred Morrison collection (4 vols.); and catalogues by Gilhofer & Ranschburg, V.A. Heck and Leo Liepmannssohn. (22)