Standard sets, autographs and general literature; property of the late Mrs. George Gordon King, sold by order of the executors ...
Subtitle: public sale March 27 and 28 [1940]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 606 lots.

"Sale number 185."

Date of sale: March 27 and 28, 1940.

"Early medical and other books collected by the late Charles L. Dana, M.D., sold by order of the present owner, Mrs. William T. Barlow; sets of standard authors and other property of the estate of the late Lillia Babbitt Hyde, sold by order of the executors, and also collected by the late Mrs. Charles M. Newcombe, Sr., sold by order of the present owner, Mrs. Charles Edmund Mitchell; with properties from other owners."

Cover title includes: Sporting books and prints collected by Miss Alice L. Cushing, Washington, D.C....Concluding portion of the Rowlandson drawings collected by the late Dickson Q. Brown, New York....An important collection of American maps; an extensive collection of books about engravings.

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

Place of sale: New York.