Fine first editions of American & English authors; colored plate books; fore-edge paintings ...
Subtitle: public auction catalog November 8 and 9 [1948]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1948
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 601 lots.

"Sale number 1003"--Prelim.

Date of sale: November 8 and 9, 1948.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

"The federalist, 2 vols., New York, 1788, in original boards, uncut; presidents' letters and documents written at the White House; an important early XVIII century Persian illuminated manuscript; collected by Mrs. G.J. Guthrie Nicholson, Newport, R.I.; sold by her order."

Place of sale: New York.