Incunabula, standard sets, books on astronomy ...
Subtitle: public auction sale May 23 and 24 [1949]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1949
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Incunabula, standard sets, art & illustrated books, autograph letters, etc.
Notes: 538 lots.

Cover title: Incunabula, standard sets, art & illustrated books, autograph letters, etc.

"Sale number 1074"--Prelim.

Date of sale: May 23 and 24, 1949.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

"French & German illustrated books, autograph letters; Dudley's Arcana or Secrets of the sea, 1661; Thieme-Becker Lexicon, in 35 volumes; Seebohm's British birds, extra-illustrated.  Property of:  Cary W. Bok, Philadelphia; Mrs. S.V. Hoffman, Morristown, N.J., Henry W. Taft, New York, sold by their order; art reference books from the estate of the late Joseph Brummer, a separate alphabet, numbers 435 to 538, sold by order of the executors; property of other owners."

Place of sale: New York.