Rare books & manuscripts; block book leaves; Persian miniatures ...
Subtitle: public auction sale Tuesday and Wednesday December 9 ... December 10 [1952]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Rare books and manuscripts, block book leaves, Persian miniatures
Notes: 755 lots.

Sale code: 1389.

Date of sale: December 9 and 10, 1952.

"The Declaration of Independance and the Constitution, illuminated by Nestore Leoni; autograph mss. including Dickens' Uncommercial traveller, and Napoleon's autobiographical novel; Edgar Allan Poe relics; Horman's Vulgaria with the rare Pynson device leaf L'Horticulture practicien; Toscanini's autograph ms. of his arrangement of the Star spangled banner, sold for the benefit of the Friend's fund of the Philharmonic Society of New York; and autograph music manuscripts by Johann Strauss, mainly from private collectors, including J.C. Cohn, Johannesburg, South Africa; Mrs. Elsie Simon, New York; Mrs. Walter Goodwin; Mrs. Wallace H. White; Harold Greenhill; estate of Mrs. George D. Sproul, N.J."

Place of sale: New York.