Rare literature ...
Subtitle: public auction Tuesday and Wednesday May 16 and 17 [1961]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1961
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 95
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 440 lots.

"Sale number 2040"--Prelim.

Date of sale: May 16 and 17, 1961.

"Extremely scarce first issue, first edition of Cervantes, Don Quixote, Madrid, 1605-1615, Roger Bacon, Opus majus, Galileo, Dialogo, Halle, Chronicles, a Shakespeare second folio and others. Important Newton holograph group and other valuable autographs and mss on the physical and social sciences and literature, Limited Editions Club publications, standard sets and other books, belonging to the estates of the late Oscar B. Cintas sold by the order of the Chase Manhattan Bank, executor, Hiram J. Halle, New York, sold by the order of the trustees under his will, Lillian S. Whitemarsh, New York, sold by the order of the executors and other sources."

Place of sale: New York.