Sets of standard authors, mainly in fine bindings; an important collection of ornithological works by Audubon, Elliot, Gould, Levaillant and others ...
Subtitle: public auction sale February 18 ... February 19 [1942]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 165
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Standard sets, ornithological books, first editions, rare Americana, autograph letters & manuscripts
Notes: 693 lots.

Cover title: Standard sets, ornithological books, first editions, rare Americana, autograph letters & manuscripts.

"Sale number 349"--Prelim.

Date of sale: February 18 and 19, 1942.

"American maps, extra-illustrated books, books on flowers, Napoleonic caricatures in color; the famous autograph letter of John Keats to Jane Reynolds, written in 1817; property of the estates of the late Emil Winter, Pittsburgh, Pa., sold by order of the executors; Mr & Mrs Eugene McVoy, Chicago, sold by order of the heirs; property of Dwight Winter, Pittsburgh, Pa.; Mrs John G.W. Husted, Bedford Hills, N.Y., sold by their order; Mrs Leslie Chaundy, London, England, sold by order of the liquidator, and other owners."

Place of sale: New York.