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Map of the Val Leventina, 1681 (mounted)

'Descrittione geografica del contado Leopontico nel modo che si trova di presente con l'espressione delle sue anticaglie contestate da più celebri historici', [by] Giovanni Righolo; engraved by Cesare Laurentio. Printed map in a display mount (39.5 cm x 28.5 cm; mount 68.5 cm x 50.5 cm).

'The Woodman' by Thomas Gainsborough

Print of an engraving by Peter Simon, after the painting by Thomas Gainsborough. 'Engraved from the original Picture in the Collection of the Right Hon'ble the Earl of Gainsborough. Publish'd Augt. 1. 1791 by John & Josiah Boydell, Cheapside, & at the Shakspeare Gallery Pall Mall London.'

Storia e Guida del Sacro Monte di Varallo / di G. Bordiga (Varallo: F. Caligaris, 1830)

Bound volume, presented by Henry Festing Jones in 1928 and containing a detailed note by him, dated 26 October 1926, on the provenance of the volume. It formerly belonged to the art critic J[oseph] Beavington Atkinson (1822-86), whose annotations appear throughout. Samuel Butler never owned a copy of the book, but he refers to it in 'Ex Voto'.

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