English & American literature, incunabula, autograph letters & manuscripts, standard sets, press publications, French illustrated books ...
Subtitle: public auction sale March 5 ... March 6 [1945]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1945
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: English and American literature, incunabula, autograph letters & manuscripts, standard sets, press publications, French illustrated books
Notes: 707 lots.

"Sale number 643"--Prelim.

Date of sale: March 5 and 6, 1945.

"Frost's original drawings and text for "Stuff and nonsense", Lear's original ms and drawings for "A nonsense alphabet", a superb XV century antiphonal, folio plates from Audubon's "Birds"; property of a New York private collector, C.G. Littell, Chicago, sold by their order; and property collected by the late: Joseph S. Auerbach, New York, sold by order of the present owners, Mrs H.L.R. Emmet, Pa. and Lt. Com. John H. Auerbach, New York; and of Mrs Alexander D.B. Pratt, Arthur J. Neumark, Imrie de Vegh, New York, a Parisian collector, a Massachusetts lady, and other owners, sold by their order."

Rare Book copy: Cased with other catalogs from same auction house.

Place of sale: New York.