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Subtitle: public auction sale February 7 ... February 8 [1944]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1944
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: Autograph letters, manuscripts and first editions of American and English authors; autographs of the presidents and other distinguished Americans, including a remarkable Lincoln autograph; original watercolor by John J. Audubon and a set in parts of the royal 8vo edition of his Birds of America; ornithological and other color plate books; extra-illustrated books, including a superb copy of Hamilton's Memoirs of count Grammont and a set of Motley's Works; fine French, English and American bindings.  Collected by:  a recently deceased Pennsylvania collector, sold by order of his daughters; the late Herbert Ten Broeck Jacquelin, sold by order of Mrs H.T.B. Jacquelin; the late Harry S. Durand, New York, sold by order of Mrs Mildred H. Durand. Together with property of the estates of the late Mrs Henry Walters, Baltimore, sold by order of H. Howard Babcock and Safe Deposit and Trust Company of Baltimore, executors; Clarence H. Clark, Philadelphia, sold by order of Mrs Eleanor T. Clark, executrix; and property of other owners, sold by their order.

"Sale number 527"--Prelim.

Date of sale: February 7 and 8, 1944.

Place of auction: New York.