First editions....Property of the estate of Edward Hubert Litchfield, New York; sold by order of the executors
Subtitle: public auction sale Monday and Tuesday December 3 and 4 ... Wednesday, December 5 [151]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
Other titles: Edward Hubert Litchfield collection of first editions of English & American authors, incunabula and other rare early books
Notes: 1032 lots.

Cover title: Edward Hubert Litchfield collection of first editions of English & American authors, incunabula and other rare early books.

"Sale number 1292"--Prelim.

Date of sale: December 3, 4, and 5, 1951.

"Ascham, Bacon, the Brontës, Burns, Burton, Chapman, Coryate, Dana, Defoe, Dickens, Donne, Fielding, Gibbon, Goldsmith, Hakluyt, Herbert, Holinshead, Milton, Shakespeare, Shelley, Sterne, other English & American authors; rare bibles, including the coverdale, 1535, and the first authorized edition, 1611; incunabula, including Colonna, 1499, Homer, 1488/9 and à Kempis, ,De imitatione Christi' (1473); the Pynson Froissart, first English edition, 1523-1525."

Place of sale: New York.