George Washington's copy of Chesterfield's letters (three volumes autographed, four with bookplates); superb copies in original boards of Keats' Poems and Lamia; other first editions, color plate and other books, property of a New York lady ...
Subtitle: public sale, April 2, 3 and 4 [1941]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1941
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 129
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 674 lots.

"Sale number 272"--Prelim.

Date of sale: April 2, 3, and 4, 1941.

"Historical autograph letters of the presidents of the United States and other important autographs, sold by order of Mrs Samuel Ross, Barrington, Illinois; standard sets in fine bindings, property of Bertrand I. Taylor, New York; Currier & Ives lithographs, whaling, New York and other prints, sporting and color plate books, property of Frank L. Crocker, New York; copy of Arnold's Trial, 1780, once owned and autographed by William Floyd, signer; also autograph letters of Floyd and his will, property of William Floyd, New York, the great-great grandson of the signer; selections from the library of John M. Geddes, Williamsport, Pa., including ornithological and illustrated books; with additions from other owners."

Place of sale: New York.