Sets in fine bindings, first editions, colored plate and sporting books, autographs and prints
Subtitle: library sets from the collection of Mrs. Peter W. Rouss, removed from her former residence, 320 Garfield Place, Brooklyn, N.Y. ...
Publisher: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries
Published: 1937
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 584 lots.

Sale code: 4289.

"Colored plate and sporting books from the collection of Reginald Burbank, M.D., of New York, N.Y.; the superb extra-illustrated set of Francis' Old New York, from the Ogden Goelet collection; a splendid group of ornithological books by Gould, Elliot, Audubon, and others; a seven-page letter by George Washington, property of the estate of George Washington Biddle, Philadelphia, Pa.; a 1776 war letter by Washington, property of Miss Eleanor Gough, Piedmont, Cal.; coaching and sporting prints by Alken, Pollard, and others, collected by A. P. Kirkland, New York, N.Y.; and other properties."

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: January 13-14, 1937.