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These stamps, an encoded set from Thurn und Taxis and a set of creepy U.S. prints from Tristero, represent part of the provisional distribution of Lot 49.

A Jacobean revenge play, involving intrigues between the house of Thurn und Taxis and a mysterious entity called Tristero, two rival international postal companies. It includes conspiracies and conspiracy theories, along with a great deal of…

The most famous of the unrecorded cases of Sherlock Holmes. The Matilda Briggs associated with this case was not the lady in question, but the tramp steamer out of Indonesia that carried the eponymous rat. The story benefits from wonderful…

The second book of Aristotle’s Poetics, with a Latin translation and a commentary on the Greek text by Antonio Montecatini. The first book dealt with tragedy and epic poetry; this volume explained comedy. The two books together had an incalculable…