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Subtitle: public sale May 18 [1939]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1939
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 310 lots.

"Sale number 118"--Prelim.

"From the collections of the late Francis Smyth, New York, property of Mrs Francis Smyth, the present owner, sold by order of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, attorneys (with whom the late Mr Smyth was associated); Rev. & Mrs Alfred Duane Pell, New York, sold by order of the heirs; property of the estates of Samuel Bancroft, Jr, Inc, "Rockford", Wilmington, Del.; the late Edna M.A. Elliott, New York, sold by order of the executors, Saxe, Gerdes, Bacon & O'Shea, attorneys; and other owners."

Date of sale: May 18, 1939.

Rare book copy: Cased with other catalogs from same auction house.

Place of auction: New York.