Illuminated manuscripts, press publications; books on flowers, furniture and ornithology, including complete copies of volume one of the folio edition of Audubon's Birds of America and the Bien reprint of this work ...
Subtitle: public auction sale November 11 ... and November 12 [1942]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1942
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Other titles: Illuminated manuscripts, fine sets, books on ornithology, flowers & furniture, press publications, first editions, drawings, prints
Notes: 377 lots.

Cover title: Illuminated manuscripts, fine sets, books on ornithology, flowers & furniture, press publications, first editions, drawings, prints.

"Sale number 405"--Prelim.

Date of sale: November 11 and 12, 1942.

"First editions including Omar Khayyam with letters by Fitzgerald, and Lawrence's Seven pillars wirh each portrait autographed; Washington's copy of the New York (1788) edition of Burns' Poems.  Property collected by the late B.T. & Philander Cable, Rhode Island, sold by order of the present owner, Mrs Stacy Barcroft Rankin; property of the estate of the late Charles M. Ayer, New York, sold by order of the administrator; Charles H.P. Yallalee, Montclair; a Connecticut lady; and of other owners and estates, sold by their owners, heirs and executors."

Rare Book copy: Cased with other catalogs from same auction house.

Place of sale: New York.