Americana and books with maps ...
Subtitle: public auction Tuesday December 14 [1971]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Notes: 296 lots.

"Sale number 3283"--Prelim.

Date of sale: December 14, 1971.

Price list tipped in.

"A collection of editions of Ptolemy including the 1513, 1535, 1552, and later editions as well as Ben Johnson's copy of the 1618 edition. A selection of early Maryland imprints including the Articles of agreement on the Pennsylvania-Maryland boundary dispute printed by Benjamin Franklin, (1733), with the map. Increase Mather's An essay for the recording of illustrious providences, (Boston 1684), the first New England book on witchcraft and science. A series of Texas imprints of Samuel Bangs. Western Americana and Canadiana including a book printed by Canada's first printer, books on Indians, the property of several owners."

Place of sale: New York.