Rare first editions of English and American authors, autograph letters and manuscripts; library sets, Americana, a richly extra-illustrated Irving's Life of Washington, books on birds, flowers, costume, and other colored plate books ...
Subtitle: public auction sale April 21 ... April 22 [1947]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1947
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 761 lots.

"Sale number 863"--Prelim.

Date of sale: April 21 and 22, 1947.

Bidding sheet tipped in.

" ... collected by H.A. Fortington, Poughquag, N.Y., sold by order of Mrs Forthington; Dudley Olcott, New york, sold by order Mrs Olcott; selection from the library of the late Frederick S. Peck, Barrington, R.I., given to Brown University to be sold for the benefit of the library; the Eliot Indian bible, Cambridge 1685-1680, property of the estate of Alice G. Vanderbilt; and property of other owners."

Place of sale: New York.