Rare books, autographs, manuscripts, drawings
Publisher: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries
Published: 1934
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Rare books, autographs, manuscripts, drawings ; including the autograph manuscript of "The Star-Spangled Banner" and many other properties of outstanding importance from distinguished sources
Notes: 497 lots.

Sale code: 4073.

The original manuscript of The Star-Spangled Banner; autograph letters & manuscripts by Thomas Jefferson; Ackermann's histories of Oxford & Cambridge in the original parts; second, third, and fourth Shakespeare folios; Brontë's Jane Eyre; presentation copies of Dickens' David Copperfield & American Notes; manuscript of My Friend the Count by William Alexander Fraser with corrections by Rudyard Kipling & a superb series of autograph letters from Kipling to Fraser; the Merle Johnson Wilsoniana collection; a fine series of Galsworthy first editions; superb watercolor drawings by Thomas Rowlandson; a remarkable collection of Christian Science literature including the copy of Science and Health presented to Daniel H. Spofford by Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy; a superb letter by Edgar Allan Poe about his family; drawings by Cruikshank & Alken; & other valuable properties.  To be sold by order of the various owners and estates.

Some of the more important properties consigned by: Henry Walters, H. P. Abbott, Mrs. Lawrence F. Abbott, Mrs. Theodore J. Pickett, Merle Johnson, O. O. Oliver, Miss Olivia Taylor, and C. Scheck.

McKay, 9572

Date of sale: January 4-5, 1934.

Place of sale: New York.