Lot 27

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The Countess of Hopetoun (1867–1937, wife of the seventh Earl of Hopetoun, Governor of Victoria and later first Governor-General of Australia), to whom presented by the author
Dr John M. Chapman (1928–2020), Melbourne (his bookplate)