Incunabula, Americana, association books, standard sets ...
Subtitle: public auction sale January 29 and 30 [1951]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 128
Notes: 649 lots.

"Sale number 1220"--Prelim.

Date of sale: January 29 and 30, 1951.

Invoices tipped in.

"Autographs and manuscripts; books on costume, birds, flowers; famous classics of science and other first editions; legal prints and caricatures; maps; fore-edge paintings; Taylor's Sermons, formerly owned by Charles Lamb; Pascal's Pensées, presented by Johnson to Boswell; the Kilmarnock Burns; the Hoe copy of Pepys' diary; the Planudean anthology, vellum, 1494; Gilbert's Magnet; Hooke's Micrographia; various private collectors and other owners."

Place of sale: New York.