Printed books including bibliography, art reference, architecture, natural history and travel including many on Arctic and Anarctic exploration, Americana, English and American literature, fine bindings and sets, books on clocks and watches and a collection of sporting books
Publisher: Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 701 lots + addenda.

Sale number: 4926.

Cover title.

"Wednesday, September 22, 1982 ... Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., 1334 York Avenue (at 72nd Street), New York, N.Y. 10021"--Cover.

"Property of various owners, property from the estate of Russel Van Lee, property of the late G. Wrigth Arnold and others"--Cover.

Includes estimates.

Date of sale: September 22, 1982.

Price list and addenda tipped in.

The sale includes Samuel Daniell's African scenery and animals, [1804- 5]; Robert Boyle's Experiments...about the mechanical origine...of diverse particular qualities, 1676; Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, 1755; Philip Miller's Figures of the most...uncommon plants, [1755]-60; Thomson and Smith's Street life in London, [1877-78] and a collection of Gould plates. Auction held at York Avenue galleries.

Place of sale: New York.