Finely bound sets, first editions, inscribed volumes, autographs, documents ...
Subtitle: public auction sale Tuesday and Wednesday October 27 and 28 [1953]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 75
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 544 lots.

"Sale number 1458"--Prelim.

Date of sale: October 27 and 28, 1953.

"A.L.s. by Simon Bolivar, D.s. and an A.L.s. by John Paul Jones, presentation copy from Carlyle to Browning of Cromwell's letters and speeches, La Fontaine's Contes et nouvelles en vers Fermiers Généraux edition, the Orchid album by Warner and others with hand-colored lithographic plates by J. Nugent - a complete set. Belonging to estate of the late Grace H. Mitchell, Bronxville, N.Y. (by order of the administratrix), Clarence McK. Lewis, Ringwood Borough, N.J., Mrs. William W. Carman, Summit, N.J. and other owners."

Place of sale: New York.