Selections from the library of Eustace Conway, including the famous "Ashbourne" portrait of Shakespeare; Kelmscott Press publications including the "Chaucer", from the library of Vicomte de Lantsheere; autograph letters by Keats, Shelley, Poe and others, property of the late Professor Edward Sandford Burgess
Publisher: The Galleries
Published: 1929
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Important & valuable books, autographs and relics; Important and valuable books, autographs and relics
Notes: 374 lots.

"Unrestricted public sale December 16th & 17th"--Cover.

Cover title: Important & valuable books, autographs and relics.

Year of sale information from McKay, 9207.

"Sale number 3800."

"A superlative Lincoln letter, property of Henry J. Raymond, Norfolk, Conn.  Other important items include the rocking chair occupied by Lincoln the night he was assassinated in Ford's Theatre; ms. of Washington's farewell orders to his army, 1783; three autograph letters by Poe and a ms. by him; a first editions of Hawthorne's "Fanshawe"; a lock of Keats' hair; XVII-XVIII century books and pamphlets from the library of an English nobleman."

McKay, 9207

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: December 16 and 17, 1929.