Wilson's Ornithology, Boswell papers, other material collected by the late Ormond G. Smith, removed from his New York City home and sold by order of the heir, Gerald H. Smith ...
Subtitle: public sale February 23 & 24 [1939]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 85
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 414 lots.

"Sale number 94"--Prelim.

Place of sale: New York.

Date of sale: February 23 and 24, 1939.

"Selections from the library of the late Florence Mathews of New York, sold by order of United States Trust Company of New York and G. Forrest Butterworth, Jr, executors; Milton's 'Paradise lost', Goldsmith's 'Vicar of Wakefield' from the library of Adelaide B. Baylis, New York; illuminated and other manuscripts of the XIII-XVI centuries, Phillips' Ducks, Audubon's Birds of America, property of two mid-western private collectors; flower prints, Schoolcraft's 'Indian tribes', press publications, English and American first editions, Chippendale's & Sheraton's celebrated books on furniture, sets of standard authors; and other properties."