Library sets of standard authors from the collection of Percy R. Pyne, 2nd ...
Subtitle: public sale January 10 & 11 [1940]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1940
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 78
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 433 lots.

"Sale number 160."

Date of sale: January 10 and 11, 1940.

"First editions of English and American authors collected by Jacques Wallach, New York, sold by his order; a collection of early printed books, sold by order of Shearman & Sterling, attorneys, New York; Alken's Life of a sportsman, Surtees' Jorrocks's jaunts, Burton's Arabian nights and other books; selections from the libraries of Harold Palmer, Manchester, Massachusetts, N.N. Van Brunt, Longmeadow, Springfield, Mass.; an important fifteenth century French illuminated manuscript, property of a New York lady; and properties of other owners."

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

Place of sale: New York.