Library sets in fine bindings, association books, important incunabula, Doves Press publications ...
Subtitle: public auction sale November 23 ... November 24 [1943]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1943
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Standard sets, first editions, extra-illustrated books, Americana, incunabula, press books, original drawings, books about birds, color plate books, Oriental manuscripts & miniatures
Notes: 626 lots.

Cover title: Standard sets, first editions, extra-illustrated books, Americana, incunabula, press books, original drawings, books about birds, color plate books, Oriental manuscripts & miniatures.

"Sale number 502"--Prelim.

Date of sale: November 23 and 24, 1943.

"Original drawings by Dulac, Greenaway, Rackham and others; superbly extra-illustrated books including Battles and leaders of the Civil War, Irving's Life of Washington and others; American & English first editions including Hawthorne's Fanshawe and Blake's Songs of experience; autograph letters including examples by Gen. Nathanael Greene, and a remarkable series by B.H. Latrobe, architect of the capitol, Washington, D.C.; an important French & Indian War diary, log book of the frigate Constitution; comprising important selections from the libraries of Mrs. David Gage Joyce, Chicago; a Maryland lady, a mid-western collector, sold by their order; and property of other owners."

Place of sale: New York.