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The Library contains many rare and outstanding books and objects. In a room next door is a reading room (below). The reading room also contains outstanding items, an overflow from the library.

Library Inventory: Entering left: !) Oriental cabinet: Top: Satoshi Nii lamp, Meiji Japanese sword holder, antique polo helmet Bottom: Many Japanese illustrated books - Edo - Meiji Display: Important ceramic Japanese vases, etc. Various antique Japanese items

Japanese Collection Catalogue

2) Bamboo desk, pair of Dresden/Meissen table lamps 3) On wall long tapestries with two important gold Japanese gold miniature paintings.

4) Display case with two Ottoman war helmets, 19th c. And inside a Koran by Usman with a 130 K. Columbian emerald necklace. In case is a silver coronation item of King Edward VII and other silver KE VII items including a fine Indian miniature of KE VII and his wife.

Above: ILLUMINATED QURAN MANUSCRIPT dated 1230 hijri written by Mohammad Usman

Usman book cover

Coronation box for King Edward VII which held some belingings for the coronation.

Milton shield created in 1866 by French artist Léonard Morel-Ladeuil for Elkington & Co. and showcased at the 1867 Paris Exhibition where it won first place in decorative arts

Hollywood uniform of an Austrian Diplomat for a movie about Napoleon

Original Important Painted Chalk Seated Black Boy Figure 20" Boy Fishing Terracotta Statue by Goldscheider 1890-1910. In corner Victorian Helmet Royal Guard. On wall, Durer print of the return of the prodigal son in frame.

Finely carved Cambodian red sandstone (Angkor Wat) carving 13th-15th century

Tintypes of women in the Civil War

Under table original drawings for Hodges. 100’s of comics, many first printings, golden & silver ages.

Top of cabinet Japanese drawers with over 400 English seals from 17th c. King Chas. II. Below Magazines of antiques (Connoisseur) & Art & Antiques.

Seal of Queen Elizabeth with her on horseback

Wax seal of King Henry VIII

Painted illustrations coats of arms, Habsburg monarchy

Durer Woodcut, 1483, printed 1516

John Martin Paradise Lost

Sampson Low, Son & Marston was a prominent publishing company established in 1848 in London, known for its diverse range of publications and contributions to the literary world. The company was founded by Sampson Low and his son, Sampson Low Jr., and it played a significant role in the publishing industry until it ceased operations in 1969

Bookcases 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,, top shelf William Blake First Edition The Grave,, Gustave Dore Paradise Lost, First Edition, the complete works of Rudyard Kipling

Book label of Madam Pomfret in her 1688 first illustrated edition of Paradise Lost. Madam Pomfrret was the Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Carolyn. In 1755 Henrietta Louisa Jeffreys, Countess of Pomfret, donated a substantial collection of Greco-Roman statuary to the University of Oxford.

First edition The Grave with William Blake Plates: Cromek, making his first venture into publication after giving up a career as an engraver, commissioned Blake for a series of illustrations for an edition of The Grave that he was to publish in 1808. He commissioned from Blake, in 1805, forty illustrations, a selected twenty of which were to be engraved for the book. Blake understood that he was also to do those engravings. However, Cromek gave that work to Luigi Schiavonetti.

Gift of John Geraghty, two volumes of three Boydell’s Milton: John Boydell (/ˈbɔɪdəl/ BOY-dəl; 19 January 1720 [O.S. 8 January 1719] – 12 December 1804) was an English publisher noted for his reproductions of engravings. He helped alter the trade imbalance between Britain and France in engravings and initiated an English tradition in the art form. A former engraver himself, Boydell promoted the interests of artists as well as patrons and as a result his business prospered.

Portrait of Fanny Forrester, one of America’s greatest Poets and a favorite of Edgar Allan Poe (as seen on Wikipedia)

Fanny Forrester Magazine about Gislebertus sculptures also in the library

Meissen & Dresden Porcelain Europa and the Bull, Hercules, Putti

Ornate lacquered Japanese jewel bon and an important Meissen porcelain of Apollo and Daphne

Document signed by Queen Victoria approving the sending of Hannah Smith to the “Lunatic Asylum”

Bookcase: Last will & testament of Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (née Smith; 29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) was a British noblewoman. She was the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth. The Paradise Lost Gold Folio of Terrance Lindall. The Gold Folio of Bienvenido Bones Banez, the greatest contemporary artist of the Philippines. The fat volume includes an extensive volume of news clippings about the British Monarchy collected over many years. Also includes a portfolio of personal documents of Terrance Lindall. An unsigned quarto of Lindall’s Paradise Lost illustrated.

Letter of thanks from Queen Elizabeth

Below are Pages from the gold folio of Bienvenido Bones Banez, the greatest artist of the Philippines. It is 13 x 19 inches on archival paper. It includes original drawings by Bienvenido and Terrance Lindall throughout.

9) Tin Toys, Record Player, Taxidermedy frogs playing music and drinking beer, 19th c.

Comic collections. Handwritten 19th. C. Musical Manuscripts of Wagner & Beetoven.

Handwritten 19th. C. Musical Manuscripts of Wagner & Beetoven

Last Will of Frances Dora Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (née Smith; 29 July 1832 – 5 February 1922) was a British noblewoman. She was the paternal grandmother of Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, and thus a great-grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.

Five fine 19th c. drawings, example: The Expulsion, pencil on paper, circa 1800, Unknown artist

Hand Painted Miniature Portrait Of Mughal Emperor King Shah-Jahan & Queen Mumtaz. Shah-Jahan built the Taj Mahal for love of her and It is regarded as one of the best examples of Mughal architecture and a symbol of Indian history.

Illuminated Miniatures in the Yuko Nii Foundation collection

Above is the “Harmless Innocence” page from the Yuko Nii Foundation Gold Elephant Folio. The center image is a giclee print and the borders are original illustrations with 24 k. Gold. It is also the cover for the Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost.

Paradise Lost Gold Folio on Youtube

Wagner Musical Manuscripts

Milton Shield, crushed marble, with 24 k. gold embellishment by Terrance Lindall. One of two copies. The other in the collection of the Robert Wickenheiser collection at the U. of South Carolina.

First editions of works by scholars about John Milton. First editions about Fanny Forrester. Tea Tins with pictures of Queen Elizabeth, et al. Terrance Lindall’s first edition of the synopsized Paradise Lost (the first synopsized edition in history).

Below: The Fairie Queen by Edmund Spenser, 1613

Collection Yuko Nii Foundation

"Extort from me never shall that Glory take, never Shall His wrath or might make me to bow and sue for grace." 1

The Acrostic Paradise Lost

The Acrostic Tarot Cards of Paradise Lost

The Yuko Nii Foundation owns a manuscript charter of the City of Hereford. It is an English manuscript in “round hand.” Hereford is an ancient city going back over 1000 years. The charter, first created by King Richard I, the Lionhearted, Crusader, famed in lore with Robin Hood, was executed on 9 October 1189. Richard l concedes to his citizens of Hereford in Wales the holding of the town in perpetuity at a rent of £40 paid annually at the Exchequer.

Henri Fuseli, engraved by A. Smith Published by Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1808 Yuko Nii Foundation Collection

Japanese screen, Lamp by Satoshi Nii, Japanese Jewel box, marble of John Milton, Violins by Steiner.

Miscellaneous first editions.

A Rumor of War The Witches of Eastwick, john Updike Berlin Diaries Bonfires of the vanities, Tom Wolfe The Davinci Code, Dan Brown The Queen of the Damned, Ann Rice Advise and Consent The White House Years, Eisenhower Catalina Emanations, I am Not a Number, Carter Kaplan Moonshot, Signed Alan Shepard Gone With the Wind

Bram Stoker, DRACULA, the movie edition with pictures

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F. Scott Fitzgerald or simply Scott Fitzgerald,[1] was an American novelist, essayist, and short story writer. He is most notable for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age, a term that he popularized in his short story collection Tales of the Jazz Age. He published four novels, four story collections, and 164 short stories. He achieved transient success and fortune in the 1920s, but did not receive critical acclaim until after his death. He is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century.

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 1879 – 7 June 1970) was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). Considered one of the most successful English novelists of the Edwardian era, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 22 separate years.[1][2] He declined a knighthood in 1949, though he received the Order of Merit upon his 90th birthday.[3] Forster was made a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1953, and in 1961 he was one of the first five authors named as a Companion of Literature by the Royal Society of Literature.

The magisterial Victorian "Imperial Edition" of the Bard's works, edited by Charles Knight, two folio volumes illustrated with 41 steel-engraved plates, including a frontispiece and additional engraved title page in each volume, beautifully bound. "From 1837 Knight had been occupied with what he himself probably regarded as his magnum opus. From the time of his boyish experience he had wished to edit Shakespeare… [his edition of Shakespeare was] 'the first in the country conceived in the right spirit,' and no future editor can afford to neglect it" (DNB). Includes all of the comedies, tragedies, histories, poems and sonnets, 13 other plays outside the canon ascribed to Shakespeare, Knight's notes on each drama, and indices. Illustrated with 41 steel-engraved plates capturing many of the most dramatic highlights from the Bard's work.

Aldous Huxley Meaning: "Moksha" is a Sanskrit word that means "liberation" or "freedom". Origin of Experiment: Huxley's exploration began in May 1953 when he ingested 0.4 grams of mescaline, an experience that fundamentally reshaped his view of the human mind. Core Theme: Huxley argued that psychedelic substances could help modern individuals break free from culture-conditioned prejudices and awaken a sense of the sacred. Contents: The collection features essays, letters, lectures, and excerpts from famous works like The Doors of Perception, Heaven and Hell, and his utopian novel Island.

Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe.[3] His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.

The largest folio of Paradise Lost in the world by Terrance Lindall

Page from Grand Elephant Folio

Made into opera

Uniforms, Stasi, Nazi U boat captain’s hat, British mess uniform.

Queen Elizabeth I, her speech on sedition a manuscript in YNF Collection, one of five existing copies, the others in the British Library

Irene is a Neoclassical tragedy written between 1726 and 1749 by Samuel Johnson. It has the distinction of being the work Johnson considered his greatest failure.[1] Since Johnson's death, critical consensus has been that he was right to think so

The journals of the House of Lords, particularly those compiled by Sir Simonds Dewes in 1682 (above), provide a detailed record of the proceedings, debates, and decisions made in the House during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. These journals are significant historical documents that offer insights into the legislative processes and political climate of the time.

Queen Elizabeth I's trenchant speech on sedition, delivered to Parliament in 1585, addressed the dangers of rebellion and the importance of loyalty to the crown. A remarkable manuscript in the collection of the Yuko Nii Foundation. She emphasized the need for unity and warned against the consequences of dissent. Within months her troops exercised the extermination of those who opposed her. This is one of five 16th c. copies, the others in the British Library.

Queen Elizabeth’s Speech on Sedition

Field note 4 x 6 inches laid paper

A comprehensive manuscript recounting the Battle of Waterloo

Large Indenture, King James 16th C.

African mask on top of a Takaezu ceramic

Edo period suit of armor

Uncho (the Michaelangelo of wood carving) lintel carving of dragon