Rare books, manuscripts, broadsides ...
Subtitle: public auction sale Tuesday, December 15 ... Wednesday, December 16 [1953]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1953
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 642 lots.

"Sale number 1478"--Prelim.

Date of sale: December 15 and 16, 1953.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

" ... including Flore d'Amérique by Etienne Denisse, Otho Brunfel's Herbarum with plates by Johann Weiditz, Levaillant's Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, note-book and album used by Elizabeth Barrett Browning with over seven thousand words in her autograph, Scott's Waverly novels, finely bound, and Oriental manuscripts, with many miniatures, seventy-six original watercolors for Kingsborough's Antiquities of Mexico, by Castañeda. Property of the estates of the late Paul L. Feiss, Cleveland, Ohio (by order of the executors), Samuel Katz, Port Chester, New York (by order of the excutors). A New York collector residing abroad and other owners."

Place of sale: New York.