Americana, autographs, library sets, first editions ...
Subtitle: to be sold by auction Wednesday & Thursday afternoons May twenty-fifth, twenty-sixth [1938]
Publisher: The Galleries
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 501 lots.

"Sale number 4400."

"... comprising scarce pamphlets on the American revolutionary period, & numbers of Rivington's "New York Gazateer" containing accounts of the battle of Lexington, Concord, & Bunker Hill; the first treaty between England & the United States; two important letters by William Blake; Franklin imprints, & an original pencil drawing of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin West; early music by Handel, & autographs of Debussy, Schumann, & Mendelssohn, including a manuscript score by Mendelssohn & many other desirable items; sold by order of the various owners & estates."

Cover title includes: From the libraries of the late Musa Bence Liggett, Boston, Mass.; the late John Wanamaker, Philadelphia, Pa.; & the late Willis Vickery, Cleveland, Ohio; with other properties.

Place of sale: New York.

Dates of sale: May 25 and 26, 1938.