Fine books and manuscripts ...
Subtitle: public auction Saturday, March 13 [1971]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1971
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 385 lots.

"Sale number 3173."

Date of sale: March 13, 1971.

Price list tipped in.

" ... including modern books illustrated by Baskin, Braque, Calder, Chagall, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Grosz, Leger, Maillol, Modigliani, Picasso, Rouault, and a copy of Sonnets et eaux fortes, periodicals including Derrière le miroir, Minotaure, Verve, View and XXe siècle, English color plate and sporting books, including works of Alken, Leech, Rackham, Rowlandson, a large collection of works of George Cruikshank, and three drawings by Arthur Rackham, illuminated leaves from the 10th to the 15th centuries, illuminated manuscripts, Oriental manuscripts, Beau Brummel's manuscript History of costume, Eimmart's Celestial globe, early printed books, including  Gutenberg leaves, works on architecture, illustrated books, the editio princeps of Euclid, works on natural history and gardens, works in French including Margueritte de la Marguerite des princesses, the Kehl Voltaire bound by Bozerian jeune, (75 vols.), bindings including an American traveling library, and bindings with miniatures, fore-edge paintings, finely bound sets, press books including Morris' copy of the Kelmscott Golden legend, property of the estates of the late James B. Danovan, Michael Zagayski, and other owners."

Place of sale: New York.