Sets of standard authors, books on gardens; Linden's important work on orchids; selections from the Untermayer library, owned by the children of the late Samuel Untermayer, sold by their order ...
Subtitle: public sale May 8 and 9 [1940]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 99
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 598 lots.

"Sale number 199"--Prelim.

Date of sale: May 8 and 9, 1940.

"Art monographs, fine extra-illustrated and other books, selections from the library of Harold Palmer, Manchester, Mass.; important autographs of the founders of Providence and Rhode Island, including Roger Williams, property of the estate of the late Mrs. George Gordon King, New York, sold by order of the executor; books and prints relating to railroads collected by a deceased New Yorker; original drawings by William Roberts for Lawrence's "Seven pillars of wisdom"; with properties from other owners."

Place of sale: New York.