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JUNG AT HEART Continental Books,Manuscripts and Science Thursday 8 June 2006,Sotheby’s London

Variety is the order of the day at Sotheby’s on 8 June, with material ranging from the first Icelandic Bible to newly-discovered manuscripts by Carl Gustav Jung. As well as the psychologist’s working papers on the concept of the collective unconscious (estimate £40,000-£60,000), the archive includes revealing letters to his lover Christiana Morgan, some of which are unpublished. The sale also includes a substantial collection of erotic literature, mostly 18th-century French works from the library of the author Roger Peyrefitte, some of which are in contemporary red morocco bindings. Other fine bindings in the sale include a rare backless 16th-century German binding and a fine 16th-century French strapwork binding on a copy of the editio princeps of Euripides, printed by Aldus Manutius in 1502 (est £25,000-£35,000).

A TASTE OF THE ORIENT Travel and Exploration:Asia Thursday 13 July 2006, Christie’s King Street

All things exotic come under the spotlight and, hopefully, the hammer at King Street in July. Highlight of the day looks set to be the Reeves Macao sketchbook, incuding approximately 200 sketches, study drawings and watercolours of Macao, from 1836-37. In its original sketchbook cover it is expected to achieve between £60,000£80,000.

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English Literature,Children’s & Modern Firsts Tuesday 13 June 2006, Dominic Winter Book Auctions

All the greats in the English language, from the time of Shakespeare onwards, take centre stage at Dominic Winter. With particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, the sale includes all of Jane Austen’s works in first editions, Dickens’ Christmas Carol (the first issue, in excellent original cloth), a complete set of firsts of Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series, all in dustjackets and with two signed; Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and a mint set of AA Milne’s evergreen Winnie-the-Pooh stories. Two important private collections complete the sale: an intriguing selection of books from the library of Lady Ottoline Morrell, the society hostess and lover of several significant figures in the Bloomsbury Group, and

beautifully bound works from the library of the Duke of Cumberland, fifth son of George III, known as the Black Sheep, who spent the greater part of his life in semi-exile in Germany.