Rare XV-XIX century continental literature ...
Subtitle: public auction sale October 29 ... October 30 and 31 [1951]
Publisher: Parke-Bernet Galleries
Published: 1951
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Catalogs; Library
Notes: 947 lots.

"Sale number 1278"--Prelim.

Date of sale: October 29-31, 1951.

" ... including illuminated and other manuscripts; Renaissance, armorial and association bindings; great Latin classics including rare incunabula; and a superb example of a twelth century Romanesque bookbinding from the Benedictine monastery at Admont in Styria; other great rarities.  Part III of the important library belonging to the estate of the late Lucius Wilmerding, sold by order of the executors."

Place of sale: New York.