First editions; incunabula; bibles; French illustrated books; armorial bindings; Americana; association volumes; music; birds and costume; other books; autographs; manuscripts ...
Subtitle: public auction sale January 29 ... January 30 [1952]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Rare and important books, autographs and manuscripts
Notes: 668 lots.

Cover title: Rare and important books, autographs and manuscripts.

"Sale number 1309"--Prelim.

Date of sale: January 29 and 30, 1952.

"Love letters of 'Sylvander' and 'Clarinda'; Keats' Endymion and Lamia; a remarkable Dickens collection of autograph letters; diary of Thackeray, 1853; first, third and fourth folios of Shakespeare and the Locker-Lampson, Hagen copy of his Poems; manuscripts by Mozart, Beethoven and Liszt; historic hispanic documents; letters of the presidents; Lincoln's second Inaugural address; Whitman manuscript By Emerson's grave, property of Jacob J. Podell, New York, sold by his order; estate of Mrs. Henry Ford, by order of the executors; Harold Greenhill, Chicago; other owners".

Place of sale: New York.