Leonardo Da Vinci's Library (Offprint From The Quarterly News-Letter Of The Book Club Of California)

Book Club Of California, 1949. First Separate Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4 Pp, Single Folded Sheet Of Fine Paper. Offprint. Per Wikipedia, Elmer Belt (April 10, 1893 - May 17, 1980) Was An Internationally Recognized Urologist, A Pioneer In Sex-Change Surgery, An Important Mover In The Founding Of The Ucla School Of Medicine, And A Book Collector Known For Assembling A Library Of Research Materials About Leonardo Da Vinci-The Elmer Belt Library Of Vinciana. Between 1961 And 1966, Belt Donated In Installments His Leonardo Da Vinci Collection To Ucla On The Condition That The University Maintain His Collection And Not Integrate It With The Rest Of The Library's Holdings. In 2002, Counter To The Terms Of The Gift, The Elmer Belt Library Of Vinciana Was Integrated Into Ucla Library Special Collections. Belt Also Collected Works By Upton Sinclair And, In 1934, Supported Sinclair's Campaign For Governor Of California. He Donated His Upton Sinclair Collection To Occidental College Library Including First Editions "Warmly Inscribed From Sinclair To Elmer Belt, Who Was His Physician. In 1950." In Addition, Belt Formed Collections Around Neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell And The Founder Of Modern Nursing, Florence Nightingale. He Donated Both Collections To The Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library At Ucla. In 2014 The Remainder Of Belt's Collection Was Sold At Auction Including An Illuminated Manuscript By Dante Gabriel Rossetti Of The Blessed Damozel By Alberto Sangorski; California Mission Etchings By Henry Ford (Illustrator); A Handwritten Manuscript By Bertrand Russell And A Signed Sierra Nevada: The John Muir Trail By Ansel Adams.