Rare books, autograph letters, illuminated & other mss ...
Subtitle: public auction sale December 5 ... and December 6 [1949]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 521 lots.

"Sale number 1103"--Prelim.

Date of sale: December 5 and 6, 1949.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

"Original drawings by Alken, Rowlandson and others; ornithological collectio; colored plates and extra-illustrated books; library sets; first editions; modern French illustrators; Cervantes Don Quixote 1605-15; 1757 French Boccaccio with ten original Gravelot drawings; Dumas-Soutzo romantic correspondence; Walpole's annotated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England; George Gissing correspondence and ms diary; property of Mrs. B.H. Homan, Sr. of Deal, N.J.; A.C. Gissing of Switzerland; Patrice Hennessy of New York; several European and American collectors & other owners; sold by their order."

Place of sale: New York.